GPUs. Ribbon launched Acumen, a powerful new AIOps and automation platform designed to help service providers and enterprises navigate the complexities of today’s challenging operational environment and accelerate their transition to autonomous networks.

Compu Dynamics Modular has built two modular data center solutions engineered to overcome the toughest data center bottlenecks: ultra-high density, rapid deployment, and seamless scaling across edge to core. The CDM L Series is purpose-built and optimized for AI learning and training, as well as ultra-high-density workloads. The CDM I Series is an all-in-one solution designed for AI inference at the edge. Liquid AI and Brilliant Labs formed an agreement to integrate Liquid’s vision-language foundation models into Brilliant’s products. Under this agreement, Brilliant will be licensing the current and upcoming multimodal Liquid foundation models to enhance the general scene-understanding capability of their AI glasses.

Optimum has signed a multi-year agreement to extend and deepen its managed transformation initiative using Amdocs’ AI offerings. ServiceNow released the latest version of the Zurich platform. This release delivers breakthrough innovations with faster multi-agentic AI development, enterprise-wide AI platform security capabilities, and reimagined workflows. Omdia stated that the enterprise agentic AI software market is set to surge from $1.5 billion in 2025 to $41.8 billion by 2030, according to their latest Enterprise Agentic AI Software Market Forecast. This represents one of the fastest-growing segments in enterprise technology.

IoT and Innovation News

DE-CIX is expanding its vision of interconnection beyond terrestrial boundaries. Through its Space-IX initiative, DE-CIX is preparing for this future and already considering what the first orbital IX might look like. Rigetti was awarded a three-year, $5.8 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to advance superconducting quantum networking. Rigetti will be collaborating with QphoX on the project, a Dutch quantum technology startup developing leading frequency conversion systems for quantum applications. 

IonQ organized IonQ Federal, aimed at integrating IonQ’s proprietary technologies to serve the U.S. government and its allies. IonQ also shared a significant breakthrough in creating essential hardware for building large-scale quantum networks and clustered computing. 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.

Kothar Computing launched Kothar’s FORGE, a next-generation scientific computing platform that solves complex quantum many-body problems with extremely high performance. A hundred years after Werner Heisenberg’s paradigm-shifting first quantum mechanics paper, this marks the dawn of the age where quantum physicists no longer need to also be computer scientists or software engineers.

Security and Assurance News

iBASIS and XLSMART signed a Management Service Agreement designed to enhance the efficiency and security of Mobile Authentication traffic delivered into the XLSMART network. DataVisor upgraded its anti-money laundering platform with the launch of the industry’s first fully unified AI-powered Suspicious Activity Report solution.

CrowdStrike and Meta have created a new suite of benchmarks, CyberSOCEval, for evaluating how AI systems perform in real-world security operations. Built on Meta’s CyberSecEval framework and CrowdStrike’s leading threat intelligence and cybersecurity AI data expertise, this suite of open source benchmarks helps establish a new framework for testing, selecting, and leveraging large language models in the security operations center. CrowdStrike also unveiled a new agentic security workforce across the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. CrowdStrike is expanding agentic capabilities in two ways: mission-ready agents available in Falcon modules, and Charlotte AI AgentWorks, a new, no-code platform that makes every security team an AI builder. Together, these innovations deliver machine-speed capabilities to automate repetitive tasks, accelerate outcomes, and empower analysts to focus on the strategic decisions that strengthen security.

Belden launched several new products designed to enhance performance, security, and reliability across automation and smart infrastructure environments. NordVPN formed a strategic partnership with Noju, a leading provider of Direct Carrier Billing solutions, to make online privacy more accessible than ever. HP released its latest Threat Insights Report, revealing how age-old living-off-the-land and phishing techniques are evolving to bypass traditional detection-based security tools.