IT, AI & Telecommunications

Vancouver – November 06, 2026 -- TELUS Corporation reported a third-quarter 2026 net loss of $660 million after an $800 million non-cash goodwill impairment on TELUS Health, and launched an efficiency program targeting about $900 million in annualized cash savings exiting 2028.

TELUS earmarks 80 percent of $900 million savings for core Telecom

The multi-year program draws on operational cost and margin improvements and capital expenditure efficiencies. About 80 per cent of the savings will come from core Telecom and the balance from Global Platform Businesses. In Telecom, the levers are customer care, revenue per product, the balance between physical and digital channels, procurement, and network and field force efficiency.

SAN FRANCISCO – November 06, 2026 -- Atomicwork has launched an AI Coworker Marketplace offering six pre-built, certified AI Coworkers for enterprise IT and security teams, with customer data showing access requests that need no approval clear in a median 18 seconds.

The initial lineup covers cloud infrastructure, access management, security, network and device operations. It comprises Atom (employee support operations), Cloud Ops Engineer, Access Ops Manager, Network Ops Engineer, Sec Ops Manager and Device Ops Engineer. The roles work across systems including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Okta, Active Directory, Splunk and Datadog.

San Francisco – November 06, 2026 -- ExpertCrowd, Toptal's AI model training platform, and Y Combinator-backed HUD have released ExpertCrowd-SWE, a software engineering benchmark that evaluates frontier-grade large language models (LLMs) and coding agents.

Toptal engineers wrote the tasks and grading rubrics

Engineers from Toptal's network of domain experts authored the benchmark's tasks and grading rubrics. HUD's infrastructure then hosted the task-run environments and verified the benchmarks through its internal quality assurance pipelines.

HUD and Toptal AI research teams reviewed the methodology and results. The teams include more than a dozen PhDs and researchers with academic or professional experience at Harvard, EPFL, the University of Liège, DeepMind, Qwen and ByteDance.

DELRAY BEACH – – November 06, 2026 -- The employee experience management market will grow from USD 9.17 billion in 2026 to USD 15.87 billion by 2032, a 9.6% compound annual growth rate, according to MarketsandMarkets. The forecast implies USD 6.70 billion in added market value over six years. The market stood at USD 8.31 billion in 2025.

Asia Pacific is forecast to grow fastest at 11.3% a year

Asia Pacific is projected to post the highest regional CAGR, at 11.3% through 2032. MarketsandMarkets cites rapid digital transformation, wider adoption of cloud-based HR technologies and a growing focus on engagement and retention. China, India, Japan, Australia and South Korea are seeing rising investment in digital HR platforms, employee feedback tools, recognition and rewards programs, and workforce analytics.

San Francisco – November 06, 2026 -- Constructive has released Safegres, an open-source verifier that grades which roles can reach which rows in a live PostgreSQL database, after recent scans found 24,664 of 159,041 Lovable-built projects serving records to anonymous visitors.

Safegres audits row-level security (RLS) policies and grants in read-only mode. It never touches application data or changes anything, so teams can run it against a production copy or automatically on every database change.

Scans found thousands of AI-built apps exposing Postgres data

On Nov. 2, Hamburg security firm Crissy Field and the German newspaper Handelsblatt scanned 159,041 projects built with AI app builder Lovable. They found 24,664 sites whose Postgres databases served records to anonymous visitors, 7,403 of them exposing email addresses.

LONDON – November 06, 2026 -- Dragonpass, the travel and lifestyle benefits platform with more than 45 million members, has acquired iCoupon, a digital vouchering business whose network spans 200 airlines, over 400 airports and more than 4,000 retail units across 56 countries. The deal is meant to accelerate Dragonpass' build-out of a global loyalty-as-a-service platform. The source does not disclose financial terms.

iCoupon brings a network already issuing £100 million in vouchers a year

iCoupon issued over £100 million in digital vouchers in 2025, including 12 million food and beverage entitlements. It has expanded into 13 technology modules covering passenger care, retail and other travel services. Its network supports more than one billion passengers.

CAPE CORAL – November 06, 2026 -- IDP (ID Privacy AI) launched its Agent-Native System of Action, an enterprise platform that lets employees and AI agents share customer data and execute tasks across existing systems, backed by a dealer-reported 12% appointment conversion rate versus roughly 6% for traditional business development center (BDC) operations.

Red Rock Auto Group reports conversion doubled against BDC benchmark

Josh Worthington, Vice President of Operations at Tim Dahle and Red Rock Auto Group, said the dealer group's appointment conversion reached 12%, against approximately 6% through its traditional BDC. The figures are customer-reported and have not been independently verified.

Worthington said his previous AI platform could not schedule appointments or generate tasks, so employees had to review every interaction manually.

New York – November 06, 2026 -- TEN Holdings (Nasdaq: XHLD) grew third-quarter revenue 17.9% year over year to $640,000, but a $1.8 million write-off and about $0.5 million in litigation costs widened its net loss to $3.7 million as it shifts from managed services to a SaaS model.

Net loss widens 87.9% on one-time charges

Net loss for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $3,734,000, up $1,747,000 from $1,987,000 a year earlier. Loss per share fell to $0.31 from $0.84, because weighted average shares rose to 11,999,366 from 2,359,622. Prior-period per-share figures reflect a 1-for-15 reverse split effective December 1, 2025.

LAS VEGAS – November 06, 2026 -- CleanSpark, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLSK), which controls a portfolio of more than 1.8 GW of power, land and data centers across the United States, announced its participation in upcoming investor conferences.

The company said live webcasts, replay information and updated presentations will be available on its investor relations page, where applicable. The announcement did not name the conferences or give dates.

CleanSpark describes itself as a data center developer built on low-cost energy

CleanSpark calls itself a market-leading data center developer. It says its infrastructure runs on globally competitive energy prices and sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship. The company says it monetizes low-cost, high-reliability energy by producing compute.

Berlin – November 06, 2026 -- Shares of companies tied to the artificial intelligence boom fell on the Nasdaq and on major Asian and European exchanges after the US midterm elections, and South Korea temporarily suspended stock trading because of the losses, according to a commentary in German daily nd.DerTag.

Korea's state-backed AI buildout meets a trading halt

South Korea's government is betting heavily on expanding AI infrastructure. The sell-off there was severe enough to interrupt exchange trading.

Investors bet Democratic win will slow AI expansion

The commentary says investors are speculating that the Democratic victory will halt the AI buildout, and it questions whether that is realistic. It attributes the sharp reaction mainly to nervousness after steep tech-sector price gains in recent months.