IT, AI & Telecommunications

Navi Mumbai – September 24, 2026 -- Fuel Cycle, a US-based AI-powered consumer insights and market research platform, has opened a Global Capability Center (GCC) in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, with an initial planned capacity of 50 employees and room to scale over coming quarters.

New hub targets engineering, AI and product development functions

The Navi Mumbai center will serve as a strategic hub for Engineering, AI and Product Development, working closely with teams across the US and other global markets. Fuel Cycle said it plans to invest in scaling the center, positioning it as a key part of its global product and technology organization.

New York and Amsterdam – September 24, 2026 -- AI communications infrastructure company Bird.com has closed a $450 million debt financing led by J.P. Morgan, Capital One and Citi, pairing the raise with the launch of a revamped platform that lets AI agents send messages, place calls and manage email without human intervention.

Bird structures $450 million facility as dividend recapitalization

The financing comprises a $400 million term loan and a $50 million revolving credit facility, arranged across a syndicate of seven banks. J.P. Morgan served as joint lead arranger, joint bookrunner and administrative agent, with Capital One and Citi as joint lead arrangers and bookrunners; Silicon Valley Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Flagstar and Huntington round out the lender group. The deal is structured as a dividend recapitalization, providing liquidity to existing shareholders, including current and former employees holding equity.

Washington – September 24, 2026 -- Grain Management has appointed Amran Hussein, a 23-year veteran of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, as General Counsel to lead its legal and governance functions and join the digital infrastructure investment firm's leadership team.

Hussein exits 23-year Paul Weiss tenure to join Grain leadership team

Based in New York, Hussein spent more than two decades at Paul, Weiss advising sponsors of private investment funds on formation, governance, secondary transactions, joint ventures, and investment management M&A. She has worked with Grain for more than a decade as outside counsel prior to this internal appointment.

Sunnyvale, Calif. – September 24, 2026 -- FlashGrid Inc. has released version 26.05 of FlashGrid Cluster and FlashGrid Server with support for Oracle AI Database 26ai, Oracle's next long-term support release, enabling enterprises to run the AI-native database platform on Oracle RAC across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Oracle AI Database 26ai brings over 300 new capabilities to enterprise workloads

Oracle AI Database 26ai integrates AI functions directly into the database engine, adding more than 300 new capabilities spanning artificial intelligence, developer productivity, performance, and mission-critical availability. Oracle designed the release to let organizations build AI-powered applications while retaining the security, governance, and transactional consistency standards of Oracle Database.

North America – September 24, 2026 -- EZ Texting has launched Rich Communication Services (RCS) Business Messaging across its platform, giving its base of more than 230,000 small and mid-sized business customers access to branded sender identities, verified badges and interactive chat tools previously limited to large enterprises.

RCS replaces anonymous numbers with verified brand identities

The upgrade allows businesses to swap generic phone numbers for branded sender profiles carrying verification badges, a shift aimed at increasing customer trust and message deliverability compared with standard SMS.

Interactive carousels let customers browse products inside the chat window

The platform supports up to 10 high-definition cards per carousel, enabling in-chat product browsing designed to cut friction in the sales process. HD media support extends to images and video files up to 100MB, exceeding the size limits of traditional MMS.

Montréal – September 24, 2026 -- CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) has entered a strategic go-to-market partnership with D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) to embed quantum computing into enterprise operations across logistics, transportation and retail.

CGI to integrate D-Wave's Advantage2 quantum computer into its technology services portfolio

Under the agreement, CGI will add D-Wave's Advantage2 quantum computer and hybrid solvers to its advanced technology services, giving clients direct access to quantum-enhanced tools for industrial production planning, energy grid optimization and asset maintenance scheduling. The partnership builds on more than a year of prior collaboration between the two companies to develop enterprise quantum use cases.

El Mirage, Arizona – September 24, 2026 -- Compass Datacenters is funding a 98-foot-by-60-foot permanent shade structure over the outdoor basketball court at the Northwest Valley Family YMCA, addressing the top-ranked amenity request in the City of El Mirage's 2025 Parks and Recreation Master Plan Community Survey.

City council approved the contract with vendor Shade N' Net on June 16, with construction set for completion by year-end

The structure covers a hard-surface court that Arizona summer heat renders unusable for months at a time, forcing coaches to push youth practices into evening hours and keeping preschool programs indoors. Shade N' Net has already completed six other shade structures across El Mirage's park system, and the City will maintain the new unit as part of its management of the YMCA facility.

São Paulo – September 24, 2026 -- FICER Technology will exhibit its full portfolio of high-performance fiber optic components at Futurecom 2026, held at São Paulo Expo from October 6 to 8, targeting OEM/ODM clients, system integrators and internet service providers across Brazil and South America.

FICER showcases 800G and 400G transceivers for AI-driven data center demand

The company will present its 800G and 400G core optical transceivers as building blocks for high-density server environments, positioning the modules to help regional server manufacturers meet enterprise-grade performance requirements for intensive computational workloads.

Cambridge, England – September 24, 2026 -- Kigen has become the first company to achieve GSMA eUICC Security Assurance (eSA) certification for an automotive eSIM supporting SGP.32 v1.3, GSMA's latest IoT eSIM specification, giving connected-vehicle manufacturers a standards-current security platform for fleets requiring decade-plus service life.

The certification pairs Kigen's eSIM OS with Infineon's TEGRION SLI22 automotive security controller. It extends Kigen's certified portfolio across the TEGRION SLx22 chip family into three products: Automotive (SLI22), Consumer (SLC22, supporting SGP.22 v2.7), and Industrial IoT (SLM22, supporting SGP.32 v1.3). All three share a common OS, hardware platform, development tools and management stack, letting OEMs apply one security architecture across infotainment, telematics and headless vehicle systems.

Dallas – September 24, 2026 -- LeoSight has partnered with Axis Communications to natively integrate Axis video management and body-worn camera systems into LeoCommand, its situational awareness platform for public safety agencies.

Axis video feeds now merge with officer and vehicle data on a single operational map

The integration pulls live video, metadata, and sensor intelligence from AXIS Camera Station Pro, Axis IP cameras, and Axis body-worn solutions directly into LeoCommand. This visual data joins officer locations, vehicle telemetry, drone feeds, and other connected public safety systems on one unified operational map, according to the companies.