IT, AI & Telecommunications

REDWOOD CITY – October 29, 2026 -- Equinix raised its full-year 2026 guidance for the third consecutive quarter after record annualized gross bookings of $533 million, up 35% year over year, and third-quarter revenue of $2.571 billion.

Revenue rises 11% as profit measures grow faster

Revenue increased 11% year over year as reported and 12% on a normalized and constant currency basis. Operating income climbed 27% to $600 million. Net income attributable to common stockholders rose 31% to $489 million, or $4.93 per share, up 29%. The result includes a non-recurring fee earned in connection with the atNorth joint venture investment.

Hoboken – October 29, 2026 -- Xyte reported its largest quarter ever for new annual recurring revenue (ARR) in the three months ended September 30, with enterprise and enterprise-led activity accounting for 90% of new business.

Xyte's ARR rose 122% in the fiscal year ended June 30

The record September quarter followed a fiscal year in which the AI cloud platform's ARR grew 122% year over year. Xyte manages multi-vendor audiovisual (AV) and workplace devices. It said organizations are turning to the platform to run workplace technology across vendors and sites.

More system integrators than ever have also launched branded managed service platforms powered by Xyte. The company did not disclose absolute revenue figures or the number of dealers.

XIAMEN – October 29, 2026 -- Winners of Yeastar's Yeahs Awards 2026 report measurable gains from the vendor's API-driven UC platforms, including a 91% cut in quality-assurance effort and an eightfold cloud expansion at a French hosting partner.

Hosting partners shorten migrations and automate inquiries

Rezzo Telecom (France) expanded its cloud footprint eightfold after migrating from Vodia to Yeastar. Vela Networks (UK) built tools that cut UC migrations from days to minutes, automating data mapping and configuration transfer across four platforms.

Telex S.r.l. (Italy) combined voice, messaging, workflows and AI in its Konversa product. It uses Gemini and OpenAI models to automate up to 70% of first-level inquiries.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- Only 5% of enterprises say their data is ready to support AI, although 97% are running active AI initiatives, according to figures cited in Snowflake's new ebook "Break the Sequence."

The ebook targets what Snowflake calls the biggest brake on enterprise AI: the belief that data transformation must be complete before AI work can begin. Snowflake argues that "finished" is an impossible standard, because new applications, regulatory changes, acquisitions and evolving AI models continually reshape the data estate.

Eden Prairie – October 29, 2026 -- Arctic Wolf has been named a Leader in the Q4 2026 QKS SPARK Matrix for AI SOC Automation, with QKS Group also rating it the highest vendor overall for customer service excellence, ease of deployment and use, and proven record.

The company's Aurora Agentic SOC conducts more than 200,000 investigations weekly. Arctic Wolf sells it as a managed service, so customers do not have to build agentic security capabilities in-house.

Swarm of Experts resolves more than 60% of investigations autonomously

The Aurora Agentic SOC runs on the Aurora Superintelligence Platform and coordinates Arctic Wolf's patent-pending Swarm of Experts framework. The framework pairs specialized AI agents with Arctic Wolf security analysts and replaces traditional tiered security workflows.

HONG KONG – October 29, 2026 -- Meitu, Inc. (1357.HK) reported 19.83 million global paying subscribers as of September 2026, adding 1.39 million in the quarter, its largest quarterly net increase in four quarters. Management disclosed the figures at the company's Investor Day on October 26.

Core product revenue rises 28.2% to RMB1.0 billion in Q3

Unaudited third-quarter revenue from Meitu's core photo, video and design products reached RMB1.0 billion, up 28.2% year-on-year. Paying subscribers of its productivity applications grew 18.3% year-on-year to 2.39 million.

Annual recurring revenue (ARR) for AI-driven productivity applications reached RMB655 million, up 40.1% year-on-year.

Wilmington – October 29, 2026 -- Brand Engagement Network (NASDAQ: BNAI) Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Patrick Nunally, who holds more than 160 patents, will speak at a Vatican City discussion on artificial intelligence on Friday, Nov. 20, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.

Three-speaker panel responds to Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical

The session, titled "Artificial Intelligence & the Human Spirit," will address faith, technology and the reflections on AI in Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. Nunally will appear alongside Jonathan Pageau, an Orthodox thinker, artist and commentator, and Dr. Hank Wuh, a surgeon, inventor, investor and World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.

Robert Moynihan, founder and editor-in-chief of Inside the Vatican magazine, extended the invitation. The panel closes three days of gatherings in Rome, Nov. 18 to 20, of AI pioneers, entrepreneurs and thinkers. International media are expected to attend.

CUPERTINO – – October 29, 2026 -- Constellation Research named seven winners of its 16th annual SuperNova Awards, with ABB Ltd, Lumen Technologies and Picarro, Inc. among the honorees for technology-led business results.

Winners span seven enterprise technology categories

The awards were revealed at Connected Enterprise, Constellation Research's flagship executive conference. The winners by category:

SAN FRANCISCO – – October 29, 2026 -- Pave, the Agentic Compensation Management platform, has formed a strategic alliance with Levels.fyi that gives mutual customers access to Levels.fyi pay data inside Pave Agent and the Market Pricing tool, alongside real-time intelligence from more than 9,000 companies.

Pave extends its data-partner network beyond Croner, Korn Ferry and WTW

The deal builds on Pave's existing partnerships with The Croner Company, Korn Ferry and WTW. Pave says it will keep adding data partners so compensation teams no longer have to stitch sources together by hand or choose between them.

ARLINGTON, Va. – October 29, 2026 -- AWS Glue posted the highest Net Emotional Footprint (NEF) score, +94, among six vendors named champions in Infotech's 2026 Data Integration Emotional Footprint Report.

Six vendors score between +85 and +94 on user sentiment

Flowgear followed AWS Glue with +91 and was rated highly for transparency. Zapier scored +90 for enabling productivity, and Microsoft SQL Server scored +89 for reliability. Boomi recorded +86 for trustworthiness, and Azure Data Factory recorded +85 for friendly negotiations. AWS Glue was rated highly for being altruistic.