IT, AI & Telecommunications

Washington – November 03, 2026 -- Evoke Security will integrate its agent detection and response platform with Claude Cowork, extending monitoring to AI agents that keep working in the cloud after employees close their laptops. The company announced the plan as Anthropic expands security integrations for Claude Enterprise. The integration is scheduled for a future release, and no date was given.

Agents move work off the endpoint, where security teams built a decade of visibility

Employees now hand AI agents real tasks: reading files, calling tools and handling sensitive data on their behalf. As that work shifts to the cloud, it leaves the endpoint, where security teams have spent a decade building visibility.

An agent can complete a legitimate task and still take an unexpected action along the way. Without a full record of what the agent did, security teams cannot tell routine agent work from the opening move of an incident.

Singapore – November 03, 2026 -- Airbrush has upgraded its web-based AI Image Enhancer with output resolutions of up to 16K and batch processing of up to 50 images in a single session.

Browser tool now outputs images at up to 16K resolution

Users can select output options of up to 16K when enhancing images. The tool improves clarity, detail and colour while raising resolution. Airbrush targets product photography, marketing materials and social media content, as well as other high-resolution visuals.

Batch mode replaces file-by-file processing with 50-image sessions

Users can upload and enhance up to 50 images at once instead of handling files individually. Airbrush says this cuts repetitive steps for e-commerce teams preparing product catalogues, photographers managing large collections, social media teams building campaign assets and creators editing several images before publishing.

Washington, D.C. – November 02, 2026 -- ChurnZero CEO YouMon Tsang says any AI-native rival would have to build at least 60% of what his customer success platform (CSP) already offers before AI could add value, reversing his first fear that ChatGPT would make the product obsolete.

Tsang saw ChatGPT as a threat in November 2022

After testing OpenAI's early ChatGPT demo, Tsang concluded his company would become obsolete and he would have to start over. He described the reaction on the Binary to Billions podcast, hosted by Rob Scott.

A thought experiment showed the platform's data layer is the moat

Tsang then imagined building an AI-based CSP to compete directly with ChurnZero. He concluded the new product would need data integrations, health scoring and customer surveying, with AI applied on top. By his estimate, that is "at least 60%" of ChurnZero's current build.

GURUGRAM – November 01, 2026 -- Affle 3i Limited has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Nasdaq- and TASE-listed Perion Network Limited for US$ 11.70 per share in cash, implying an equity value of about US$ 420 million. The buyer is Affle's Israel-based step-down subsidiary, Affle 3iL Ltd.

Perion enters the deal with no debt and about US$ 228 million in cash

Perion has no financial debt and held a cash balance of about US$ 228 million as of September 30, 2026. The offer covers 100% of issued and outstanding shares, including unvested equity awards under their vesting schedule.

Affle plans to fund the purchase with committed bank financing and available cash. Citibank is the financing bank, LUMA Partners LLC is financial advisor, and Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. is legal advisor. Because Perion is publicly held, Affle will record transaction costs and related expenses in its opening balance sheet.

SINGAPORE – November 01, 2026 -- Creator videos linking TikTok users to Codashop have drawn 1 billion views since the mid-June 2026 launch of a partnership between digital content distributor Coda and TikTok Gaming, with click-through averaging above 5% and about 5% of clicks converting to purchases.

Direct purchase links go live in five Southeast Asian markets

TikTok users in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines can now link directly to Codashop to buy game top-ups, gift cards and other digital goods. Creators can feature Codashop-listed content in livestreams and short-form videos. Publishers gain a route to consumers at the point where they discover games.

Japan – November 02, 2026 -- NTT, Inc. repurchased 157,536,600 shares of its common stock for 27,287,079,070 yen in October 2026, according to a company notice on the status of its buyback program. The figures imply an average price of roughly 173 yen per share.

NTT bought all October shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

The repurchases covered October 1 to October 31, 2026, on a contract basis. NTT executed all acquisitions on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The buyback is conducted under Article 156 of the Companies Act of Japan, as applied through Paragraph 3, Article 165, and under NTT's Articles of Incorporation.

Cumulative buybacks reach 104.9 billion yen, about 52% of the ceiling

As of October 31, 2026, NTT had repurchased 649,107,600 shares for 104,875,609,980 yen under the resolution its Board of Directors approved on May 8, 2026. That is about 52% of the 200 billion yen cap. It leaves roughly 95.1 billion yen of capacity.

Ulanqab – – November 02, 2026 -- Envision has put the world's first commercial integrated 800V DC power system into service at a large-scale AI data center, powering live computing workloads at its Galaxy campus in Ulanqab, China. The system delivers power end to end, from medium-voltage AC grid input to the server rack.

Envision's system combines solid-state transformers, batteries and AI controls

The deployment integrates solid-state transformers (SST), battery energy storage (BESS) and equipment that adjusts DC voltage for computing hardware. Envision's Dubhe Controller, supported by the Dubhe Energy Foundation Model, coordinates transformers and batteries in real time to match supply with computing demand and absorb sudden load swings.

STOCKHOLM – – November 02, 2026 -- Ericsson's treasury holding stands at 130,915,894 Class B shares after the company repurchased more of its own stock between October 26 and October 30, 2026.

Buyback program runs to March 2027 with a SEK 15 billion ceiling

The purchases are part of a program of up to SEK 15,000,000,000 that Ericsson announced on April 16, 2026. The program runs from April 23, 2026, and ends no later than March 31, 2027.

Board plans to propose cancelling repurchased shares at the 2027 AGM

The Board of Directors intends to ask the 2027 Annual General Meeting to cancel the repurchased shares. Shares used to fulfil obligations under Ericsson's share-related incentive programs are excluded from the proposed cancellation.

Düsseldorf – November 02, 2026 -- Ericsson will begin commercial pilots of its new Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) system with selected customers in 2027, with broader deployments from 2028. The system adds sensing functions to existing 5G networks so they can detect and track low-flying drones, including ones not connected to the network.

The rollout is phased. The 2027 pilots will be smaller and focus purely on sensing. Integrated communication functions are to follow as the solution evolves toward 6G. Target customers are operators of critical infrastructure and players in defense and public safety.

Hamburg – November 02, 2026 -- Two-thirds of companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland move fewer than a quarter of their AI pilot projects into regular operations, according to a study by Lünendonk & Hossenfelder in cooperation with Sopra Steria. Only 1% have integrated AI agents across more than one core business process.

Sopra Steria concludes that strict internal governance, data quality and compliance structures, often seen as brakes on innovation, are what allow AI agents to scale.

Only 19% run AI agents productively in individual task areas

Of the 141 companies that answered the question, 66% bring fewer than 25% of AI pilots into production. Some 58% still test AI agents in pilot projects and 18% are exploring the technology. Another 19% use agents productively in individual task areas, 1% run them across several central business processes, and 4% have not addressed the topic.