Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

Miami – September 15, 2026 -- Qtonic Quantum has appointed Gina Fratarcangeli, a former Google Managing Director who oversaw an $8 billion Global Strategic Integrator ecosystem, as Senior Advisor for AI Transformation and Global Alliances. The move brings three decades of enterprise leadership from Google, Accenture, IBM and Genpact to a quantum cyber risk company scaling its post-quantum readiness business.

Fratarcangeli drove 89% year-over-year growth leading Google's North America systems integrator business

At Google, Fratarcangeli managed profit-and-loss portfolios of up to $5 billion and guided enterprise modernization programs for Fortune 1000 companies. Her joint AI go-to-market strategies with global systems integrators delivered 89% year-over-year growth, according to the company.

San Francisco – – September 14, 2026 -- The Globee Awards has opened nominations for its 14th Annual Globee Awards for Leadership, calling on organizations and professionals worldwide to submit cybersecurity leadership achievements for evaluation.

Program accepts entries spanning individual, team, and organizational cybersecurity work

The awards welcome measurable achievements by individual professionals, teams, departments, and entire organizations that strengthen security, protect operations, manage risk, or improve resilience. Eligible categories include cybersecurity strategy, cloud security, identity and access management, data protection, governance risk and compliance, incident response, threat management, and artificial intelligence applications in cybersecurity.

Teaneck, N.J. – September 14, 2026 -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) has been named to TIME's World's Best Companies 2026 list for the third consecutive year, placing it among 1,000 global companies ranked for employee satisfaction, revenue growth and sustainability transparency.

TIME and Statista scored companies on three measurable dimensions

The ranking, compiled by TIME and Statista, drew on survey data from more than 200,000 employees worldwide to assess satisfaction through direct recommendations and peer evaluations. Revenue growth criteria required companies to show three-year top-line growth with revenues exceeding $100 million. Sustainability transparency was measured across environmental impact, social responsibility and governance practices.

Chicago – September 13, 2026 -- A new leadership framework aimed at C-suite executives argues that workforce judgment, not additional software, is the strongest defense against AI-generated fraud, including cloned voices and deepfake video. The book, "H.I.V.E. Human Intelligence for Vigilant Enterprise: A Leadership Framework for Cyber Readiness in the Age of AI-Enabled Deception" (ISBN: 979-8234193643), by technology executive Rockwell L. Scott, will be released worldwide on October 1, 2026, in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook formats through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other major retailers.

Provo, Utah – September 13, 2026 -- Qualtrics has introduced its XM Data & AI Platform, a system designed to close what the company calls the "Experience Gap" -- a divide between customer expectations and delivery that it estimates puts close to $3 trillion in sales at risk globally.

Qualtrics builds new platform on data from 18,000 organizations and 41,000 healthcare facilities

The platform consolidates more than two decades of Qualtrics experience data across 18,000 organizations with four decades of healthcare experience data from Press Ganey, spanning over 41,000 facilities. Qualtrics acquired Press Ganey Forsta in May 2026 for $6.75 billion, a deal the company says added regulatory-grade governance and anonymized health data to its experience dataset.

Reston, Va. – September 12, 2026 -- Silent Push has launched version 6.1 of its preemptive cyber defense platform, introducing a fully automated Brand and Infrastructure Impersonation engine that continuously hunts look-alike domains before they are weaponized in phishing campaigns.

Rebuilt engine scores and clusters look-alike domains for automated takedown

The new engine scores look-alike domains by risk, enriches them with registrar and hosting context, clusters them by threat actor, and exports the results as takedown evidence. Once configured, the system runs on an ongoing basis, reporting newly discovered impersonation infrastructure to security teams without manual re-scanning.

Berlin – September 12, 2026 -- Nearly 77 percent of businesses ranking in Google's top 10 results are completely invisible when customers query AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity, according to a new report from German directory operator Gelbe Seiten.

AI assistants cite fewer than five businesses per query, sidelining most Google top performers

The Gelbe Seiten AI Visibility Report 2026, based on 10,000 searches across 10 industries, found that AI assistants recommend an average of just 4.8 businesses per search -- a fraction of the traditional search results list. As a result, 76.9 percent of companies that rank in Google's top 10 are omitted entirely from AI-generated answers, breaking the long-standing link between search engine ranking and customer discovery.

Düsseldorf – September 12, 2026 -- More than half of German industrial companies have assigned internal teams to prepare their connected products for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), while over 60 percent are also turning to external specialists, according to the new "IoT & OT Cybersecurity Report 2026" from Düsseldorf-based cybersecurity firm ONEKEY. The findings are based on a survey of 200 German industrial companies regarding CRA readiness.

One-fifth of firms have launched full internal CRA teams

Twenty percent of surveyed companies have set up a dedicated internal team to adapt their product range to CRA requirements, while another third have partially assigned staff to the task. Team size varies sharply: 28 percent have assembled groups of up to ten people, and 22 percent have staffed even larger teams. Sixteen percent manage with three or fewer specialists, and 19 percent have assigned no one at all to the issue.

Menlo Park, Calif. – – September 12, 2026 -- A new report from the Ethical AI Governance Group (EAIGG) and Draup argues that national AI advantage depends on strategic interdependence rather than complete technological self-sufficiency, challenging a core assumption driving global AI policy.

Report introduces scorecard ranking five national AI ecosystems

The AI Sovereignty Paradox: Why AI Advantage Depends on Interdependence unveils the Global AI Adoption Scorecard, a framework assessing national AI readiness across talent, infrastructure, data ecosystems, innovation, capital formation, and policy. The inaugural study benchmarks five ecosystems—the United States, Israel, France, India, and Japan—to determine how AI capability converts into economic and strategic advantage.

Tel Aviv – September 12, 2026 -- Qedma Quantum Computing and Denmark's HQC2 consortium have achieved a 30 to 50-fold improvement in quantum chemistry accuracy on a live quantum processor, using error mitigation software to tackle one of the field's most persistent barriers to commercial adoption.

Researchers modeled a water molecule's potential energy surface on IBM's Aachen quantum processor

The study applied an orbital-optimized variational ansatz combined with Qedma's QESEM error reduction software, running on IBM's Aachen quantum processor. The work was led by Prof. Stephan P. A. Sauer and postdoctoral researcher Renato Olarte Hernandez at the University of Copenhagen, alongside Prof. Sonia Coriani and postdoctoral researcher Emanuele Rossi at the Technical University of Denmark. The project falls under Q-CHEMION, part of the Eureka open call for applied quantum technologies.