IT, AI & Telecommunications

Florence, Italy – October 19, 2026 -- Huawei introduced its upgraded Stellar Intelligent Ultra-Resilient Fabric for the European market at the Huawei Network Summit 2026 Europe (HNS 2026), targeting data center networks that must stay online as scale and complexity grow.

Huawei builds the fabric on StarryWing Digital Map 2.0 and Rock-Solid Architecture 2.0

Johnny Cheng, Vice President of Data Center Network Domain at Huawei Data Communication Product Line, said exponential growth in data center scale and complexity is straining operational efficiency and uptime. Huawei says the solution creates an intelligent, open network fabric that eliminates single points of failure and safeguards critical workloads.

The company cites enhanced intelligence, performance and reliability as the upgrade's core attributes. It pitches the product at enterprises building open data center networks in Europe.

Bali – October 19, 2026 -- ICANN87, the first ICANN public meeting held in Indonesia, opened with more than 200 working sessions on DNS Abuse mitigation, Domain Name System security and the New gTLD Program.

The six-day meeting is co-hosted by the Indonesian Internet Domain Name Registry (PANDI). Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs and the Bali Provincial Government are supporting it. Attendees include government representatives, businesses, technical experts and civil society.

ICANN leadership pushes for tighter links between strategy and execution

ICANN President and CEO Kurtis Lindqvist said the organization must connect strategy, prioritization, budgeting and implementation more clearly. He said ICANN org "must turn those solutions into effective action" developed by the community.

Global – October 19, 2026 -- Lightelligence has presented dOCS, an optical circuit switching (OCS) interconnect module that it says is built on the world's first silicon photonic OCS chip, aimed at AI clusters, GPU superclusters and high-performance computing (HPC) systems.

dOCS integrates optical switching into a QSFP-DD module

The module embeds switching directly in the interconnect. Signals can be routed through external optical ports or through internal cross-connections.

Lightelligence built the chip with its proprietary integrated photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology. The built-in switching function links xPUs in a QSFP-DD form factor, which the company describes as deployment-friendly.

Riyadh – October 19, 2026 -- stc group has published its AI Native Core Network White Paper at Network X 2026, setting 2030 as the target for evolving into an AI-native telecom network. The paper explains how the Saudi operator plans to embed AI directly into network design and operations to support emerging digital services and improve reliability.

stc group is upgrading its core network to resolve issues with less manual intervention

The group is upgrading its core network, which manages user connections and delivers communications services. Integrating AI deeply into that layer is meant to help the network adapt to changing service requirements and resolve issues with less manual intervention.

Boston – October 19, 2026 -- TraceLink has set up separate global Commercial, Research & Development (R&D) and Services organizations for each of its two businesses, Track & Trace Compliance and Supply Chain Agentic Business Process (ABP).

Each business line now has its own specialists for product innovation, customer engagement and education, implementation, and ongoing customer success. Both lines continue to run on the OPUS Platform and the Integrate-OnceTM Agentic Business Network.

Track & Trace gets a dedicated Customer Account Management organization

The new account managers will help customers get more from existing investments, improve compliance outcomes, and track changing regulation. TraceLink's multinational compliance roadmap covers emerging requirements in Egypt and Ethiopia and the FDA's move to a uniform 12-digit National Drug Code.

Stockholm – October 19, 2026 -- Ericsson now holds 129,915,894 Class B shares in treasury after repurchases made between October 12 and October 16, 2026, under its SEK 15 billion buyback program.

Ericsson runs the SEK 15 billion program through March 2027

The program was announced on April 16, 2026. It runs from April 23, 2026, until March 31, 2027, at the latest. The weekly disclosure covers purchases of Class B shares (ISIN: SE0000108656). The source text does not include the volumes or prices for the week, which are given in an attached breakdown.

Goldman Sachs Bank Europe executes all trades on Nasdaq Stockholm

Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE carried out all acquisitions on Nasdaq Stockholm on behalf of Ericsson. The program follows Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on market abuse and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052, known as the Safe Harbour Regulation.

Tokyo – October 19, 2026 -- Trend Micro (TSE: 4704) plans to make available up to ¥10 billion in TrendAI Flex licensing credits under a new Japan Cyber Resilience Initiative, as publicly disclosed cyber incidents in Japan hit 607 in the first nine months of 2026, already above the 594 recorded for all of 2025.

The incident tally comes from TrendAI threat research and is current as of October 9, 2026. Trend Micro notes the figure may change as incidents are disclosed retroactively and further cases are added.

Hong Kong – October 19, 2026 -- The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Global Cybersecurity Alliance (GCSA) have jointly established the Centre for AI and Cybersecurity Research, with four defined research directions spanning large language model security, automated threat defence, frontier-technology risk and global AI security standards.

Professor Ho Chen, Chair of Cybersecurity at the HKU School of Computing and Data Science, will serve as Acting Director. The Centre will bring together researchers from HKU, GCSA and international partner institutions. It will also engage experts in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and technology governance for research and advisory roles.

Stockholm – October 19, 2026 -- Truecaller expects third-quarter 2026 net sales of SEK 464 million (468), a 3% rise in constant currencies year over year and an 18% increase on the second quarter, according to preliminary unaudited figures.

Ad revenue falls 12% year over year but rebounds 23% on the quarter

Ad revenues are expected at SEK 245.6 million (290.2), down 12% in constant currencies from the third quarter of 2025 and up 23% from the previous quarter. CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwalam said the company is moving to its own ad platform and auction process, and revenue improved gradually during the quarter.

Premium revenue jumps 32% to SEK 127.1 million

Premium revenues are expected at SEK 127.1 million (96.4), up 32% in constant currencies year over year. Truecaller for Business is expected to bring in SEK 85.1 million (79.9), up 14% in constant currencies year over year and 15% on the previous quarter.

Shenzhen – October 19, 2026 -- More than half of cloud data center capital expenditure is expected to go to memory and storage, excluding HBM, by 2027, according to a projection by Morgan Stanley's Daniel Yen presented at the 5th GMIF Innovation Summit. The forum, themed "The Future Built on AI Memory and Storage," was co-hosted by the Shenzhen Memory Industry Association (SMIA) and Peking University's School of Integrated Circuits at the Renaissance Shenzhen Bay Hotel.

Yen said global data center capex will stay strong in the coming years. He named six paths to overcome the "memory wall": process migration, design changes, advanced packaging, memory peripherals, PIM/CIM and new materials.