Digital Transformation

Seoul – September 20, 2026 -- SK hynix Inc. has launched a new corporate venture capital brand, SK hynix Ventures, to expand strategic investments across the global AI ecosystem, the company announced at the inaugural 'SK hynix Ventures Day' held in Silicon Valley.

CEO Kwak Noh-Jung leads executive delegation at Silicon Valley launch event

CEO Kwak Noh-Jung and senior SK hynix executives met with representatives from global venture capital firms and leading startups to outline investment strategies targeting AI data centers and optical-based systems. The event brought together startups from the U.S. AI computing and data center sectors to discuss memory, computing and system software innovations tied to advanced AI models.

Beijing – September 20, 2026 -- iQIYI's smart TV application, QIYIGuo TV, recorded 141 million monthly active devices in June 2026, leading China's connected-TV market as long-form video consumption shifts decisively to the big screen.

China's smart TV base expands to 302 million active devices

QuestMobile data shows active smart TV devices in China reached 302 million in June 2026, up 12.04 million year-over-year. QIYIGuo TV posted 50.42 million daily active devices that month, edging past the 45.14 million daily active users on iQIYI's mobile app.

Cross-screen data implies 130 million daily viewers on TV

Television is a shared device: Gozen Data estimates each smart TV averages 2.6 viewers, implying iQIYI's big-screen content reaches roughly 130 million individual viewers daily -- nearly three times its mobile daily active user count.

Singapore – September 20, 2026 -- Trip.Biz, the business travel arm of Trip.com Group, unveiled Agent ONE, an AI suite that cuts average trip booking time from 45 minutes to 2 minutes and reduces approval wait times from over an hour to under 3 seconds.

The announcement came at Transform 2026, a half-day summit held at the Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, that drew 200 senior leaders from travel, procurement, finance and HR functions across multinational corporations.

Dubai – September 20, 2026 -- Crypto derivatives trading is undergoing a structural shift toward options, with notional open interest in options rising from roughly 25% to nearly 50% of the crypto-native Bitcoin derivatives market, according to a new report from digital assets data provider Glassnode, produced in partnership with Bybit.

Options gain share across four of five market regimes since 2019

The State of Crypto Derivatives report found options growth was fastest during the prolonged bear market, indicating the trend is not simply a function of rising prices or speculative activity. Dated futures volume has fallen roughly 97% below 2021 levels, while options volume now runs more than three times higher than it did in 2021, as leverage moved into perpetual contracts and risk pricing moved into options.

Amsterdam – September 20, 2026 -- ABOSS, the Amsterdam-based operating system for live music, said roughly $1 billion in deal value is moving through its platform this year, while artist-owned records account for just 4% of that volume.

Booking agencies still run deals through email and spreadsheets, ABOSS founder says

"After all those years, deals are still made on relationships, and they're still being executed in chaos," said Arvid Silos, founder of ABOSS. "If your data lives in inboxes and spreadsheets, you're leaving margins on the table."

ABOSS has spent a decade building infrastructure to connect booking agencies, artists, managers and crews on a single structured record, covering contracts, financial tracking, planning and pre-production.

Englewood, Colo. – September 20, 2026 -- Mission Telecom has become an approved vendor on The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS), eliminating the need for schools, libraries, higher education institutions, and nonprofits to run separate bidding processes before purchasing its wireless broadband services.

Formal bidding requirements can delay school and library connectivity by months

Public sector entities are typically required to complete a multi-step competitive bidding process before procuring new telecom services, a requirement that strains districts with limited administrative staff and can take months to complete. Mission Telecom's addition to the TIPS vendor list means it has already cleared this vetting process, giving institutions direct purchasing access without initiating their own bid.

Wilmington, Del. – September 20, 2026 -- Brand Engagement Network Inc. (Nasdaq: BNAI) has filed a Form 8-K/A with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing audited financials for Cataneo GmbH, the Munich-based advertising infrastructure software provider it acquired on September 20, 2026.

Cataneo's operating cash flow more than doubled to $1.85 million in fiscal 2025

The figure rose from $848,000 in fiscal 2024, according to the audited financial statements included in the filing. Operating income also more than doubled year over year, reaching $726,065 in fiscal 2025 versus $345,725 in fiscal 2024, on revenue of $9.6 million.

Pasadena, Calif. – September 20, 2026 -- PrismML has released Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-compressed version of a 27-billion-parameter multimodal model that runs at just 5.9 GB while retaining 98.2% of its full-precision counterpart's benchmark performance.

Ternary compression shrinks memory footprint by more than 9x

Built on Qwen3.8 27B, Bonsai 2 27B reduces the model's memory requirement to 5.9 GB, a reduction of over nine times compared with the full-precision original. The model contains 27.8 billion parameters and was trained using Google v5 TPUs.

Atlanta – September 20, 2026 -- Dunamis Woman Enterprise, ranked No. 3,465 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list after posting 82% three-year revenue growth, is launching a streaming television network built around an original docuseries and podcast slate targeting its 125,000-member global audience.

New streaming network centralizes original programming across faith, healing and leadership content

The Dunamis Woman TV Network will house original television and podcast programming spanning healing, faith, identity, relationships and leadership. The initial slate includes four titles: Dunamis Woman Today (premiering October 5), the flagship docuseries House of Healing (October 10), The Professor Ari Podcast and The Dr. Dunamis Dee Podcast (both October 11).

Chicago – September 20, 2026 -- Relativity has integrated its Relativity aiR legal AI platform with OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing legal teams to manage case operations through natural language commands.

Legal teams can now stand up matters directly from ChatGPT Enterprise

The integration lets users create new matters, align workspaces to existing data structures, and manage access and workflows in Relativity aiR without leaving ChatGPT Enterprise. Relativity says the connection preserves the security and permissions of existing legal workflows while keeping substantive data analysis inside its own platform.