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| IonQ Appoints New CFO and COO IonQ announced the appointment of Inder M. Singh as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. Singh succeeds Thomas Kramer, who will remain at IonQ in an advisory capacity for up to 60 days to ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities. In connection with his appointment as CFO and COO, Singh has stepped down from IonQ’s Board of Directors. |
| IonQ Announces Hardware Breakthrough IonQ announced a significant breakthrough in creating essential hardware for building large-scale quantum networks and clustered compute. In collaboration with Element Six, a De Beers Group company specializing in synthetic diamond materials for industrial applications, the team has developed high-quality, quantum-grade diamond films. These films allow diamond-based devices to be made using standard semiconductor manufacturing techniques. |
| NEC Participates in Locked Shields NEC announced that it participated in Locked Shields 2025, an international cyber defence exercise organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. NEC also supported design and construction of the exercise environment for the team from Japan, including its network and analysis infrastructure. |
| Oracle Hospitality OPERA Cloud Selected by Accor Oracle announced that Accor is currently moving its global properties to Oracle OPERA Cloud PMS to streamline and enhance its hotel operations. With a common, secure PMS platform, Accor can standardize information across individual properties or its entire portfolio to monitor performance, inform business decisions, and better tailor guest experiences no matter where they stay. |
| NVIDIA Pledges AI Education Funding NVIDIA announced new AI education support for K-12 programs at a White House event to celebrate public-private partnerships that advance artificial intelligence education for America’s youth. |
| Nokia Selected by the City of Superior Nokia announced that it has been selected by the City of Superior to provide its fiber and IP solutions as part of ConnectSuperior, the city’s plan to reach every home and business with fiber-optic infrastructure that can be used to deliver broadband access. |
| Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA Unlocks Enterprise Data Cisco announced a solution for building AI infrastructure designed to support workload data fabrics, further enabling enterprises to securely use their data for agentic AI at enterprise-scale. With this new solution, the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA expands to new use cases, including the acceleration of retrieval-augmented generation pipelines with faster data extraction and retrieval. |
| Palo Alto Networks Unveils Protection for Highly Evasive Threats Palo Alto Networks announced Prisma SASE 4.0, the industry's most advanced AI-driven secure access service edge solution. It sets a new standard with innovations in Prisma Browser that neutralize sophisticated web threats in real-time directly within the browser, where legacy solutions have critical blind spots. It's designed to intercept and neutralize encrypted, evasive attacks that assemble inside the browser and bypass traditional secure web gateways. |
| GSA and ServiceNow Strike Landmark OneGov Deal The U.S. General Services Administration announced a OneGov agreement with ServiceNow to power AI-first modernization for a new era of government. The ServiceNow AI Platform could boost workflow efficiencies by up to 30% based on projections, using AI to streamline a wide range of business processes. |
| Universal Robots Announces Technicon as Global Certified Solution Partner Universal Robots announced that long-time partner Technicon has now officially evolved into a UR global Certified Solution Provider for the pharmaceutical industry. |
| Fivetran Acquires Tobiko Data Fivetran announced it has acquired Tobiko Data, the open source transformation company behind SQLMesh and SQLGlot. With the acquisition, Fivetran strengthens its position as the only fully managed, end-to-end platform that combines data movement, transformation, and activation, making it easier for customers to deliver governed, AI-ready data with speed and scale. |
| CoreWeave to Acquire OpenPipe CoreWeave announced a definitive agreement to acquire OpenPipe Inc, a leading platform for training AI agents with reinforcement learning. |
| Singtel and Tencent Games to Launch Honor of Kings Singtel and Tencent Games announced the launch of Honor of Kings Cloud using Singtel’s 5G network slicing technology. This world-first deployment employs Singtel’s advanced 5G network to deliver dedicated, low-latency capabilities to enable smoother, more competitive game play for players at home or on the move. |
| Rohde & Schwarz Announces MVG Integrations Rohde & Schwarz announced that MVG has integrated the full WLAN signaling test functionality including Wi-Fi 7 of the CMX500 One-Box Tester into its WaveStudio software. This allows manufacturers to conduct comprehensive 4G, 5G, and WLAN Over-the-Air testing within a single antenna measurement system. |
| Siemens and Snowflake Enable IT/OT Convergence Across Cloud Snowflake announced that it is collaborating with Siemens to help manufacturers unlock new levels of operational efficiency, scale and AI-driven insights. The collaboration enables mutual customers across the globe to connect their operational technology data from the shop floor with information technology data, such as supply chain management and financial data. |
| NEC To Begin PoC Earthquake Detection in Colombia NEC announced that it will begin a proof of concept for introducing an Earthquake Early Warning System in Colombia. This follows NEC’s selection to undertake the Project for Conducting a Feasibility Study on the Introduction of ICT-Based Early Earthquake Detection and Analysis Technology in the Republic of Colombia, for which Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications had issued a public solicitation for proposals. |
| ZTE and MTN Pioneer 5G-Advanced Sensing Trials ZTE and MTN announced South Africa's first deployment of a 5G-Advanced Integrated Sensing and Communication solution in Hout Bay. This was based on mmWave technology as part of the 5G New Radio interface and ZTE's cutting-edge intelligence capability. |
| Snowflake Appoints New CFO Snowflake announced that Brian Robins is joining the company as Chief Financial Officer, effective September 22. In this role, Mr. Robins will be responsible for shaping Snowflake’s financial strategies to support its growth and long-term health, and will lead the global finance organization, including planning, treasury, tax, reporting, and investor relations. Snowflake also announced that Mike Scarpelli is retiring as Chief Financial Officer, effective September 22. |
| Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team Shifts into High Gear with SAP Cloud ERP SAP announced that the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team is leveraging intelligent enterprise solutions from SAP to drive operational excellence, innovation, and regulatory compliance as the sport prepares for the new 2026 FIA financial regulations. |
| Granite State Communications Deploys CHR Solutions Product CHR Solutions announced that Granite State Communications has successfully deployed CHR’s Omnia360e BSS/OSS platform to enhance customer service, simplify operations and expand digital offerings. |
| Ericsson and Drei Austria Launch Strategic Partnership Ericsson and Drei Austria announced that they have entered a multi-year strategic partnership to modernize the operator’s Core Network. This collaboration lays the foundation for faster, more secure, and energy-efficient connectivity while enabling the next wave of 5G capabilities. |
| Lightyear Releases Bulk Network Procurement Capability Lightyear announced its most comprehensive set of product updates of 2025. With this release, Lightyear users will now be able to create RFPs for hundreds of network services with ease, more effectively evaluate circuit diversity options, better track static IP address information, and more. |
| Circet USA Completes its Acquisition of Blue Streak and CCU Circet announced the completion of its acquisition of Gemini Communications and its subsidiaries, Blue Streak and CCU, leading providers of outside plant construction, maintenance, repair and event-related restoration services for top-tier U.S. communications operators. |
| Nokia Study Reveals Surge of ROI and AI-Enabled Use Cases Nokia announced the release of the 2025 Industrial Digitalization Report developed with GlobalData, which highlights that 87% of on-premise edge and private network adopters are seeing a return on investment in just one year while enabling AI-driven use cases. Additionally, 81% of industrial enterprises found setup costs lower, with over half saving at least 11%. Ongoing costs also dropped for 86% of companies, with 60% reporting savings of at least 11%. |
| DE-CIX Launches First Fully-Integrated AI-IX DE-CIX announced that its global ecosystem of exchanges is AI-ready, with the implementation of Phase 1 of their AI Internet Exchange to enable high-performance AI inference. |
