IT, AI & Telecommunications

Oxford – November 03, 2026 -- The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), a UK public R&D funding body, will deploy Lumai's Iris inference servers as the first optical inference platform in its Scaling Inference Lab. The deployment will test whether optical compute can cut data center power consumption by 90% in a commercial environment.

Lumai claims one-tenth total cost of ownership versus GPUs

The Scaling Inference Lab is run by CommonAI CIC, a non-profit focused on collaborative AI development. Researchers will use the Iris servers to evaluate optical compute under standard power, cooling and rack integration. Lumai says the servers could cut total cost of ownership to around one-tenth of conventional GPU architectures. The headline claims for the technology also include processing speeds up to 50x higher.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – November 03, 2026 -- Avature has launched Cortex, a cognitive layer that plans and coordinates work across AI agents, applications and people, and made it available to select customers as a native Avature solution.

Cortex draws on customers' existing business context so users can direct work and track agent activity and outcomes. IT teams retain control and visibility over execution.

Cortex splits work into tasks and routes them to agents, people or fixed workflows

Cortex takes instructions through Avature Copilot or connected workplace messaging tools. It can also start work from an event or an existing process. It breaks work into tasks, identifies dependencies and routes steps to specialized agents, people or deterministic application workflows where the path must stay fixed. It tracks handoffs and reports progress, obstacles and uncertainty. Users can refine instructions in natural language.

Fairfield, N.J. – November 03, 2026 -- Corporate Technologies, a managed IT and cybersecurity provider for businesses with 10 to 200 employees, is offering free 30-minute IT and cybersecurity assessments to small and mid-sized businesses in New Jersey, with a specialist callback the same business day.

Assessment covers current IT setup, security gaps and flat per-user pricing

Each review is run by a Corporate Technologies IT services specialist. It maps what the business runs today, identifies security and compliance gaps, and prices fully managed IT at a flat per-user, per-month rate. Onboarding and any hardware appear on the same proposal. There is no obligation.

The offer is run from the company's Fairfield office at 55 Lane Road. That office serves Fairfield, Newark, Paterson, Wayne, Parsippany, Morristown, Clifton, Montclair, Livingston, Caldwell, Hackensack and Jersey City.

ORLANDO – November 03, 2026 -- iboss has announced AI DLP, a data loss prevention product that uses AI/ML to read content in real time and block sensitive data without relying on data labels, with private preview scheduled for December 2026.

The product targets data headed to AI platforms and tools, cloud apps and other cloud destinations. iboss says legacy DLP built on regex, pattern matching and labels only finds data that fits a pre-written pattern or carries the right label.

AI DLP classifies mislabeled and unlabeled files by inspecting content

Much leaked data has no fixed format, so rules searching for an account number or ID string let it pass. A file that is mislabeled or never labeled falls outside label-based policy and can leak.

New York – – November 03, 2026 -- Egan-Jones Ratings warns that free open-source software and artificial intelligence are weakening software incumbents' staying power, and that some credit models overstate how secure incumbency is. The commentary is addressed to institutional investors and risk managers holding software and platform credit.

Free substitutes cap what incumbents can charge

Egan-Jones finds that open-source products need not dominate a market to constrain pricing. A free alternative limits what an incumbent can charge before it loses significant share. Linux has gained significant share among personal computer operating systems over the past five years, and open-source software holds virtually the entire enterprise supercomputer market.

NOIDA – November 03, 2026 -- Appy Pie has launched its Agentic AI App Builder, which uses four specialised AI agents to plan, design, build and test iOS and Android apps with backend services, a database, user accounts and hosting included.

Users submit a written or spoken brief, approve a development plan and refine the app through conversation. CEO Abhinav Girdhar called the launch Appy Pie's "biggest product announcement in a decade."

Bad Friedrichshall – November 03, 2026 -- Bull and Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of Schwarz Group, have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a European AI and cloud infrastructure stack covering servers, software platform and integrated system solutions.

The partners target regulated and strategic sectors. Their aim is for customers in these sectors to develop, deploy and scale AI and enterprise computing while sensitive data, infrastructure and operations stay under European jurisdiction and control.

Servers to be built at Bull's Angers plant with liquid cooling

The servers will be manufactured at Bull's Angers facility, using European production capacity for scalable AI infrastructure. Bull contributes Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) expertise and experience implementing large-scale AI systems. Schwarz Digits supplies secure cloud infrastructure through its STACKIT brand.

Austin – November 03, 2026 -- Schoox, the learning and growth platform for frontline enterprises, is adding an intelligence dashboard that turns the questions employees ask during work into capability gaps with a dollar value attached to each. The company also gave its Learning-In-Action Assistant (LINA) agentic capabilities for administrators and introduced FlexCourses, a tool that builds one course for delivery in multiple formats and languages.

The additions join the Learning Impact Suite, introduced in November 2025. Together they form what Schoox calls a continuous loop linking frontline questions, training and business results.

LONDON – November 03, 2026 -- Logicalis has become the first Cisco global partner to achieve Cisco's Secure Networking Specialisation in five countries, and plans to double the number of accredited countries within six months.

Logicalis earns Cisco Secure Networking Specialisation in the US, Germany, Brazil, China and Indonesia

The accreditation covers the United States, Germany, Brazil, China and Indonesia. It validates Logicalis' expertise in designing, implementing and managing secure network environments, and extends its global managed services capabilities across networking and security.

Customers gain access to validated Cisco expertise through a global delivery model. That model is backed by local market knowledge and regional Network Operations Centres and Security Operations Centres.

Hamburg – November 03, 2026 -- Hamburg data strategist Ole Albers has launched the "Data Fitness Check," a three-minute anonymous online survey of how German companies and institutions manage their data, with first results due in the Data Fitness Report 2026.

The survey is the first wave of a multi-year research series. Albers plans to track changes in data management over several years and to repeat selected questions regularly to show which organizational and technical problems persist.

Seven core questions test data sources, ownership and quality controls

The questionnaire asks whether key data sources are known, responsibilities are clearly assigned, KPIs are defined transparently and data-quality measures are in place. Supplementary questions cover day-to-day difficulties. Respondents can also use the survey to gauge their own organization's standing.