IT, AI & Telecommunications

Toronto – – September 24, 2026 -- PomeGran Inc. has launched The Fibre Files, a podcast series examining how fibre connectivity shapes economic development, entrepreneurship and education in rural and underserved Canadian communities.

PomeGran ties infrastructure rollout to community outcomes through new media platform

The series is hosted by broadcaster Sam Laprade and sponsored by PomeGran, a fibre-centric broadband infrastructure provider active in rural Quebec and Northern Ontario. Episodes will stream on Spotify and on YouTube via NIVO, PomeGran's consumer internet service provider brand, with distribution across both companies' digital channels.

Inaugural episode features strategy consultancy partner on rural entrepreneurship

The first episode, "Beyond Broadband: What Connectivity Means to Rural Communities,

San Jose, Calif. – September 24, 2026 -- Flatkey and Realset AI have raised $10 million in Series A funding after the AI infrastructure platform surpassed 10,000 developers in the two months since its July 2026 launch.

Flatkey consolidates over 100 AI models and 1,000 tools under one API key

The platform routes developer traffic to more than 100 official AI models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM, alongside image and video models such as Seedance. It also connects developers to more than 1,000 AI tools spanning search, browsing, data enrichment and media generation, all billed through a single balance and invoice.

New York – September 24, 2026 -- BlueVoyant has launched one of the first deployment solutions for Microsoft's newly announced Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) in Microsoft Defender, targeting enterprises running Microsoft 365 E5, E7 and Defender Suite licenses. The Microsoft Defender XDR ISOC Deployment Service is designed to help organizations merge SIEM and extended detection and response (XDR) functions inside the Defender portal, creating a shared data foundation for security teams and AI agents.

Montreal – September 24, 2026 -- Seventy-seven percent of organizations experienced at least one Microsoft 365 governance incident in the past year, even as two-thirds now run multiple AI tools against the same tenant content, according to the second annual State of M365 report released by ShareGate.

Three-quarters of organizations report Microsoft 365 governance incidents in the past year

The survey of nearly 1,800 IT professionals and leaders across nine countries found 38% left former employees or guests with access they should have lost, 35% hit an audit or compliance gap, and 26% had sensitive content reach the wrong people. A fifth incident category -- users unable to find content -- was reported by 41% but excluded from the headline figure, which would otherwise reach 82%.

San Jose, Calif. – September 23, 2026 -- Cisco and Omdia research finds that 95% of enterprises say their existing AIOps tools cannot keep pace with current network demands, while more than half have already shifted to AgenticOps, where AI agents act autonomously in production network environments.

Daily alert volumes have outpaced human capacity to respond

The average organization generates about 4,100 monitoring alerts and events daily, more than half of them network related. Clearing that backlog manually would require roughly 100 IT specialists. Nearly half of network alerts are closed without investigation, and a similar share of investigation time is spent chasing false positives.

New York – September 23, 2026 -- Noma Security has been named a Market Shaper in Gartner's Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security among startup vendors, placing it in the category Gartner defines as "Full-Spectrum, Context-Aware Agentic Security."

Gartner flags a new runtime risk as AI agents gain autonomy

The Gartner report states that vendors in this quadrant analyze the full spectrum of AI agent behaviors, including user intent, agent instructions, memory, tool use, data access, and system modification actions, comparing intended permissions against real-time behavior to flag deviations or misuse. Gartner notes security vendors are refining least-privilege enforcement and intent-drift detection as agents chain actions autonomously across long sessions without continuous permission verification.

Shanghai – September 23, 2026 -- Huawei used a dedicated session at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 to lay out a new architecture for wide area networks (WAN) built for AI-driven traffic, unveiling its Stellar AI Integrated Data WAN Solution and a jointly published white paper with GlobalData on intelligent WAN design for the agentic AI era.

Legacy WAN architecture cannot absorb AI's unpredictable traffic spikes, GlobalData warns

Dustin Kehoe, Head of AMEA Tech Research at GlobalData, told attendees that AI workloads generate massive, real-time data flows that conventional networks were never designed to handle. He said AI requires distributed, edge-enabled frameworks that process data closer to its source to cut latency and optimize bandwidth, alongside deterministic performance guarantees at a granular level.

Shenzhen, China – September 23, 2026 -- Tencent Cloud has launched Tencent Cloud DataBuddy, an agent-native Data + AI workbench that cuts model deployment time from 30 days to 7 and delivers 5x to 10x efficiency gains across enterprise data teams.

DataBuddy joins CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy as Tencent Cloud's third assistant-class product

The fully managed platform embeds intelligent agents directly into core operations, enabling them to understand business logic, execute tasks, and operate within a governed, auditable framework rather than as bolt-on tools.

Hong Kong – September 23, 2026 -- TECNO has demonstrated a tailored deployment of its mobile AI agent, EllaClaw, built in partnership with technology media outlet Digital Trends to automate workflows for content creators and journalists.

TECNO builds four customized AI workflows for content professionals

The collaboration produced four representative use cases addressing bottlenecks across the content creation cycle: News Background Research, Research-to-Script, Personal Writing Style, and Social Media Risk-Word Check. News Background Research allows EllaClaw to autonomously scan trusted sources, compile a structured brief with historical context and stakeholder perspectives, and save it to a phone's Notes app with an audio version for playback.

Singapore – September 23, 2026 -- Enterprise spending on AI tokens is outpacing the infrastructure built to manage it, with McKinsey reporting that enterprise LLM spending tripled over twelve months even as per-token costs fell sharply. Goldman Sachs projects token consumption will rise 24-fold by 2030, exposing a gap in how companies track and finance one of their fastest-growing cost lines.

Accels upgrades its routing platform to cover 150+ AI models

Singapore-based Accels is expanding its Accels Router product to provide access to 15 leading model providers and more than 150 AI models through a single API. The platform, which has served customers in recent years, delivers low-latency routing across large language models.