IT, AI & Telecommunications

SAN FRANCISCO – October 29, 2026 -- Raven Resonance opened pre-orders for Raven Prism, a standalone Linux computer built into prescription-style eyewear, with a fully refundable $49 deposit and first shipments to early adopters expected in January 2027.

The company is billing the device as the first "Ambient Computer." Pre-orders follow its public debut and demos at Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2026. Raven Prism targets creative professionals, makers, developers and enterprise users.

Raven Prism runs native Linux on a quad-core ARM chip without a smartphone

The device runs RavenOS, the company's Linux-based operating system, on a quad-core 64-bit ARM processor. It supports native Linux applications, SSH access and developer customization, and gives low-level access to the operating system. More than 25 applications ship through its own app store.

Redwood City – October 29, 2026 -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $5.16 per share on its common stock, following a decision by its Board of Directors.

Equinix will pay the $5.16 dividend on December 16, 2026

The payment goes to common stockholders of record on November 18, 2026. The record date falls 28 days before the payout date.

Board approval covers common stock only

The declaration applies to the company's common stock. The announcement gives no details on payout ratio, funds from operations or changes to the dividend policy.

Equinix noted that statements related to the quarterly cash dividend are forward-looking and carry risks and uncertainties. It referred investors to its recent and upcoming quarterly and annual reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

San Francisco – October 29, 2026 -- Generative audio company Sonilo has partnered with Canadian rights technology firm Musical AI to measure how licensed recordings and compositions contribute to each piece of music its models generate.

Musical AI will analyze every Sonilo output

Sonilo generates music and sound effects from video footage, text, or both, using models built around licensed source material. Musical AI's technology will analyze those outputs and quantify the contribution of individual licensed works to each one.

The resulting reports will give Sonilo's licensing partners the data to account for usage and support compensation for songwriters, artists, and rights holders.

VANCOUVER – – October 29, 2026 -- BTQ Technologies (Nasdaq: BTQ; Cboe CA: BTQ) has made MIMIQ, its large-scale quantum emulator, available to more than 35,000 developers on the qBraid platform through qBraid's managed API. MIMIQ was developed by BTQ's wholly owned subsidiary QPerfect and can simulate up to thousands of qubits and millions of gates.

MPS techniques sidestep the memory wall of state-vector simulators

Standard state-vector simulators hit a memory limit at a few dozen qubits, because memory requirements double with every added qubit. MIMIQ combines optimized state-vector emulation with Matrix Product State (MPS) techniques, a compressed representation of quantum states. The approach works only for circuits whose entanglement stays limited.

SUNNYVALE – October 29, 2026 -- Cresta, the AI operating system for customer experience, has opened end-to-end self-service to developers building customer-facing AI agents in-house or for clients, with enterprise developers already moving from first requirements to production in as little as one week.

Cresta Conductor routes agent builds through customers' own repos and CI/CD pipelines

Developers build agents through their own repository and CI/CD pipeline, while Cresta supplies the runtime infrastructure. That includes controlled releases, access control, and visibility into AI usage and cost. Cresta targets teams that want to treat AI agents like any other production software, subject to code review, testing, and release processes, rather than keeping them in a separate visual interface or building guardrails and release tooling from scratch on raw models.

BOSTON – October 29, 2026 -- IANS has made its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Microsoft Copilot generally available, giving security teams access to peer decision data, vendor assessments and practitioner insight inside Copilot Chat and Copilot Cowork.

IANS Agent delivers cited answers across three Copilot entry points

In Copilot Chat, users can select IANS as a source for a prompt and receive answers with citations linking to the underlying IANS material. In Copilot Cowork, IANS runs as a plugin for multi-step tasks. The IANS Agent offers a dedicated conversation powered solely by IANS intelligence.

A Microsoft 365 administrator enables IANS in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Each user's access follows the organization's IANS subscription.

DENVER – October 29, 2026 -- Pathlock has been named an Overall Leader in KuppingerCole Analysts' 2026 Leadership Compass for Lean Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), the highest distinction in the report.

Pathlock rates as a Leader in all three evaluation categories

The report assesses identity lifecycle management and access governance solutions, with a focus on the requirements of midsize enterprises. Pathlock was rated a Leader across the Product, Innovation, and Market categories.

KuppingerCole attributed the Overall Leader placement to five capabilities: a unified policy, risk, and audit layer; ERP and non-human identity (NHI) governance; Connector Studio; transactional segregation-of-duties (SoD) enforcement; and conversational AI.

Southborough – October 29, 2026 -- Virtusa Corporation has moved into the Challengers quadrant of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Custom Software Development Services, advancing from its previous positioning in the report.

Virtusa attributes the move to AI-native product and platform engineering

The company says its AI-Driven Lifecycle (AIDLC) approach helps global enterprises shift from ad hoc technology implementation to full-scale modernization. Div Prakash, Head of Practice at Virtusa, said the move validates the company's strategy and execution rigor, adding that enterprises want partners who can compress delivery cycles and simplify legacy environments.

San Francisco – October 29, 2026 -- Arango, a graph-native data platform provider, has opened an expanded office in Cologne to host customer training and architecture workshops, and it convened its first Customer Advisory Board there with 12 customers on October 22.

The office is located at the Deichmannhaus, Bahnhofsvorplatz 1. It extends Arango's presence in Germany and the DACH region and gives customers and partners across EMEA direct access to the company's engineering and technical teams.

Arango targets two production bottlenecks for AI agents and graph workloads

The workshops address two problems the company says enterprises face when moving to production. AI agents struggle when answers depend on connected, current data across multiple sources, and can miss context without the relationships, freshness and supporting evidence that tie data together.

Eschenburg – October 29, 2026 -- Software Partners Group (SPG) has rebranded as Emerion, a platform that combines companies with more than 330 employees and roughly 10,000 customers across the DACH region's mid-market.

Emerion bundles four software and services disciplines under one brand

The group covers ERP, ECM, HCM & Payroll and Managed IT, with AI as a cross-cutting technology. It operates from 22 locations and is headquartered in Eschenburg. Its stated aim is to become a leading platform for business-critical software, services and AI among DACH mid-sized companies.

The name draws on the concept of emergence: combining entrepreneurial strength, specialist expertise and technology to create more than the sum of the individual parts.