IT, AI & Telecommunications

Dallas – October 15, 2026 -- HighLevel, the AI-powered operating system for businesses, agencies and founders, has appointed Grubhub founder and former CEO Matt Maloney to its Board of Directors, adding a leader who spent 17 years scaling a technology marketplace.

Maloney led Grubhub from startup through its merger with Seamless and its multibillion-dollar acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway.com in 2021. He brings more than 20 years of experience building and scaling technology-enabled businesses.

HighLevel's three founders back Maloney's operating record

HighLevel's founding triumvirate of Shaun Clark, Varun Vairavan and Robin Alex said in a joint statement that Maloney's founder instinct and operating experience will be valuable as the company builds its technology and ecosystem. Maloney said he sees the same opportunity at HighLevel that Grubhub offered independent restaurants, but on a broader scale.

Boston – October 15, 2026 -- Aura Business, the business division of Aura (ASX: AXQ), has signed a distribution partnership with Climb that gives Climb's network of resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) access to Aura Business's new identity-centric BYOD security solution.

Climb is a global specialty technology distributor focused on security, data management, connectivity, cloud and software. Its customers can access Aura Business immediately through the Climb marketplace.

Omdia data shows 55% of MSPs have had a BYOD-related security incident in 24 months

Aura cited Omdia research to frame the opportunity. According to the figures, 65% of MSPs are seeing demand for BYOD management, yet only 24% monitor employee-owned devices. Some 55% have experienced a BYOD-related security incident in the past 24 months.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – October 15, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) and the Deloitte Center for Integrated Research have introduced a collaboration built around a guide that sorts enterprise AI workloads into six archetypes and maps each to one of four physical infrastructure models.

The Vertiv Designing Infrastructure for Enterprise AI Guide was developed by Vertiv and STL Partners, a digital infrastructure research firm. It is aimed at business, IT and facilities leaders who must decide where AI workloads should run and whether available infrastructure can support them before they commit to an infrastructure plan.

Redwood City – October 15, 2026 -- The worldwide Data Center Physical Infrastructure (DCPI) market grew 27% year-over-year to $14 billion in manufacturer revenue in the second quarter of 2026, according to Dell'Oro Group. Growth has now run above 20% for consecutive quarters as demand for AI data center capacity outpaces supply. Dell'Oro attributes the modest slowdown from 1Q 2026 to a tougher comparison base, not weaker demand.

The research firm now ranks siting and permitting as the most serious near-term brake on the market. "The quieter and more consequential one is whether it will be permitted," said Alex Cordovil, Research Director at Dell'Oro, contrasting the issue with the louder debate over project cancellations. He said power availability, long-lead equipment and community opposition are stretching project timelines. He added that the timing of permits and grid interconnections is harder to forecast than the demand behind them.

New York – October 15, 2026 -- Blackbird.AI has launched RAV3N Radar, an agent-driven service that delivers continuous narrative-threat alerts directly into Slack, as Gartner forecasts that enterprise spending on fighting misinformation and disinformation will surpass $30 billion by 2028.

RAV3N Radar provides 24/7 monitoring of the digital landscape. It covers landscape insights, threat actors, velocity signals, topics and escalation detection. The service runs on RAV3N Agent, Blackbird.AI's context-aware narrative intelligence agent, and delivers briefs to Slack or email.

Each alert documents six data points on a narrative

Every brief or real-time alert records:

Austin – October 15, 2026 -- Oracle NetSuite launched NetSuite QuickStart, a free AI-first financial platform for early-stage technology startups in the United States, with setup that takes less than 10 minutes.

Founders can connect a bank account, create a first invoice and begin viewing financials within that window, according to the company. The platform skips the traditional implementation process in favor of AI-powered self-service setup.

QuickStart automates core finance functions with embedded AI agents

Embedded AI and teams of AI agents handle accounting, banking, accounts receivable, accounts payable and subscription management. The system imports, matches, categorizes and reconciles transactions from connected bank and credit card accounts.

Denver – October 15, 2026 -- Spinnaker Support, the third-party software support provider with more than 1,300 global clients, has promoted Mark Fetches to Global Chief Technology Officer and consolidated its regional CTOs, solution consulting and technical account management under him in a single global organization.

Fetches reports to CRO Pete Castello and joins the go-to-market leadership team

Fetches will report to Chief Revenue Officer Pete Castello and sit on Spinnaker's Go-to-Market Leadership Team. The company says the placement tightens the link between customer business priorities and its technical sales and advisory work.

San Francisco – October 14, 2026 -- Atomicwork has tripled its customer base in the past year and appointed Oksana Patel as Head of Marketing to lead its global strategy as it pushes deeper into the enterprise market.

Patel will build the category around what the ITSM and ESM platform vendor calls AI coworkers, software agents designed to take on IT roles and workflows end to end.

Customer base triples to include Replit, Skydio and BlackLine

The company's customers now include high-growth and enterprise names such as Replit, Skydio, BlackLine and Members Choice Credit Union. Atomicwork did not disclose absolute customer numbers or revenue.

Vienna – – October 14, 2026 -- GSMA Intelligence presented its white paper "a target architecture for telecoms cybersecurity" for the first time globally at the Net5.5G Intelligent IP Network Summit, held during the Global Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF) 2026. At the same event, ITU-T SG13 and WBBA launched a joint initiative urging carriers to build secure, resilient networks as AI reshapes both threats and revenue models.

GSMA Intelligence names native security and in-depth defense as the two core pillars

The white paper calls for security to be embedded in network elements across design, production, deployment and operation ("Native Security"). Its second pillar, in-depth defense, provides multi-layered, domain-based protection against complex and persistent threats.

Chicago – October 14, 2026 -- Oversight and rework consume more than a quarter of expected productivity gains for 45% of B2B organizations running AI agents, according to G2's 2026 AI Agents Report, "Crossing the Agentic Chasm." The survey of 1,019 B2B decision-makers shows 86% of software buyers purchased AI agent software or services in the past year, up 25% from 69% a year earlier.

G2 calls the cost of operating agents under constrained trust the "Distrust Tax." Some 31% of buyers say employees spend at least 6 hours a week overseeing agent work, and 46% report higher-than-expected agent operating costs.