IT, AI & Telecommunications

NEW YORK – November 02, 2026 -- SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SHAZ) will release its third quarter 2026 financial results after the market closes on Monday, November 16, 2026. The Australian Neocloud provider will hold a conference call and webcast at 4:30 p.m. ET the same day to discuss the figures.

Sharon AI opens U.S. and international dial-in lines for the 4:30 p.m. ET call

Investors can join the call using conference ID 479447. The U.S. dial-in is 877-545-0320, and international callers can use +1 973-528-0002. A webcast replay will be available on the company's investor relations site after the event.

SHANGHAI – November 02, 2026 -- The9 Limited (Nasdaq: NCTY) will hold its annual general meeting in Hong Kong on December 4, 2026, with no proposals submitted for shareholder approval.

The9 schedules 2 p.m. open forum at Three Pacific Place in Wanchai

The meeting will take place at 2 p.m. Hong Kong time at the BNY Mellon Office, Room No. 2602, 26/F Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Wanchai. Instead of resolutions, the session will serve as an open forum where shareholders and beneficial owners of the company's American depositary shares (ADSs) can discuss company affairs with management.

ABU DHABI – November 01, 2026 -- Context Labs B.V. has secured a strategic equity investment from 22/x, the Abu Dhabi-based AI-native investment and incubation platform established by the Nowais family, and will open its regional headquarters in Abu Dhabi. The two companies also signed a long-term agreement to expand Context Labs across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The announcement did not specify the investment amount.

Agreement covers regional deployment of sovereign AI infrastructure

The headquarters will serve customers and partners across the GCC and wider MENA region. The agreement also provides for regional deployment of Context Labs' AI Data Infrastructure, including the AI Distillery for sovereign AI. The Distillery lets organizations run frontier and open-weight AI models inside their own data centers, on their own verified data.

Austin – October 31, 2026 -- Sabey Data Centers is piloting hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as the primary fuel in backup generators at its Sabey Data Center Austin (SDC Austin) campus, targeting one of the hardest-to-reduce sources of Scope 1 emissions in data center operations.

HVO runs in existing diesel generators without engine modifications

HVO is a renewable diesel made by hydrotreating vegetable oils and waste fats, including used cooking oil. Because it works as a drop-in replacement, operators can avoid retrofitting backup fleets. The pilot will determine whether the fuel can maintain mission-critical reliability under real-world operating conditions.

ATLANTA – October 31, 2026 -- Heritage Werks Group (HWG) has made NetX AuthorityAI commercially available, an "Authority Layer" for enterprise AI that grounds answers in an organization's proprietary knowledge and claims up to 4X greater inference energy efficiency.

Platform builds a governed knowledge network with cited answers

NetX AuthorityAI connects proprietary knowledge, archives, digital assets, enterprise data and verified external sources into a single governed network. It ranks, scores and validates information, then returns fully cited answers traceable to their original sources. It also surfaces related photographs, documents and videos.

HWG positions the product against general-purpose platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, which it says draw on internet-scale data where fact, opinion and misinformation coexist.

RESTON, Va. – October 31, 2026 -- Leidos Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LDOS) raised its quarterly cash dividend by 4.7% to $0.45 per outstanding share of common stock, up $0.02 from the prior quarterly payout of $0.43.

Board declares $0.45 payout, lifting the annualized rate to $1.80

The board of directors approved the increase. At the new quarterly rate, the annualized dividend comes to $1.80 per share, against $1.72 under the previous rate.

Leidos reported $17.2 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue

The company, which serves government and commercial customers, reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. It employs approximately 50,000 people worldwide.

Dividend is payable December 31 to holders of record on December 15

Stockholders of record at the close of business on December 15, 2026, will receive the payment on December 31, 2026.

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – October 31, 2026 -- Glance Networks released "The Human Edge in AI Customer Service," a guide aimed at the AI-to-human handoff gap, as 76% of consumers say they get frustrated by repeating themselves when switching channels.

The Glance 2026 Customer Experience Trends Report found that 44% of consumers almost always have to repeat themselves when switching channels. Only 7% say they rarely or never do. Respondents described being stuck in an "endless loop" with AI when they needed a human.

Guide gives CX leaders a framework for dividing work between AI and human experts

The guide is aimed at leaders in customer experience, customer support and digital product. It sets out where AI should handle the work, where human experts should step in, and how to connect the two without forcing customers to start over.

San Francisco – October 31, 2026 -- Fibre Channel networking sales grew 6% in calendar-year 2025, according to Crehan Research, extending a strong 2024 and lifting cumulative sales by more than 20% over two years. Both switches and Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) contributed to the increase.

Crehan Research said the 2025 results exceeded its own forecast for a growth year. Seamus Crehan, the firm's president, said enterprises continue to rely on the products for their most important applications.

64Gbps products now account for about half of Fibre Channel shipments

Customer adoption of 64Gbps Fibre Channel was the main driver of market growth. The speed now makes up about half of combined switch and HBA shipments.

Switch buyers move toward 128Gbps while HBA buyers lag on 64Gbps

Many switch customers have already moved to 64Gbps. They are expected to begin upgrading soon to 128Gbps switches, which recently reached the market.

SAN FRANCISCO – October 31, 2026 -- Server-class Ethernet NIC revenues more than doubled in two years, rising from less than $6 billion in 2023 to more than $13 billion in 2025, according to Crehan Research.

2025 delivers record revenue and record growth

The report says 2025 produced both the highest revenue and the fastest revenue growth the market has recorded. Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research, said the market has followed "nearly a vertical straight line" since the initial release of ChatGPT.

200GbE and 400GbE NIC sales more than triple in one year

Sales of 200 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 400GbE NICs more than tripled over the past year, as customers rapidly deployed high-speed NICs in generative AI networks. These speeds now account for more than half of total market revenues.

SAN FRANCISCO – October 31, 2026 -- Cumulative data center Ethernet switch sales will surpass $250 billion over the next five years, according to Crehan Research's latest Data Center Switch Long-Range Forecast Report. The firm attributes the figure to a steep ramp of scale-up Ethernet deployments in AI rack systems, added to existing hypergrowth in scale-out and scale-across networks.

Crehan projects 15-fold growth in total market bandwidth within five years

Scale-up will have an even larger effect on bandwidth than on revenue, according to Crehan. The report projects a 15-fold increase in total market bandwidth over the same five-year period.

Scale-up Ethernet switching bandwidth alone is forecast to grow 200-fold. Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research, said bandwidth demand for scale-up Ethernet in AI racks is about an order of magnitude greater than for scale-out, and that the gap is likely to widen.