IT, AI & Telecommunications

San Francisco – October 29, 2026 -- Kong Inc. has become a founding member of the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance, an ecosystem of AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance, value measurement and token metering companies that will work with ServiceNow on enterprise AI adoption at scale.

Alliance centers on ServiceNow's Super Intelligence Control Tower

The alliance is built around the ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower, a centralized control plane to discover, secure, govern, observe and measure enterprise AI. Kong will work with ServiceNow and the other founding members to extend security and governance to the models, tools and agents that AI applications depend on.

Kong CEO and co-founder Augusto Marietti said "AI governance depends on enforcing what agents can access and do."

MILWAUKEE – October 29, 2026 -- SoftwareOne Holding AG (SIX: SWON) has been named the Global Channel Sales winner in the 2026 GitHub Services and Channel Partner of the Year Awards.

SoftwareOne expands GitHub offering across four service lines

The company has built out its GitHub capabilities across advisory, implementation, managed services and specialized delivery. SoftwareOne says its global delivery network lets customers roll out GitHub solutions at scale and tie software development to business goals. Its stated customer benefits are more productive developers, stronger DevOps practices and faster digital transformation.

Services director describes a shift from internal initiative to strategic partnership

Kiril Izov, Global Services Director at SoftwareOne, said the GitHub work began as a focused initiative driven by colleagues and has become a strategic partnership.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Reindeer, an enterprise agentic AI company, has made its platform available on Microsoft Marketplace, letting Azure customers buy it against existing Azure Consumption Commitments and run its AI agents in a single-tenant Azure environment. The company also joined the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program.

Eligible purchases count toward Azure Consumption Commitments

Enterprise buyers can purchase Reindeer through their existing Azure account and receive one consolidated bill. Eligible purchases count toward the customer's Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment.

Reindeer runs as a managed, single-tenant application in Microsoft Azure, with Azure Private Link available. Co-CEO Yoav Naveh said security and procurement teams can buy "through the account they already have" and deploy agents where their data already sits.

LONDON – October 29, 2026 -- Inspired Thinking Group's (ITG) Storyteq platform has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Asset Management for the third consecutive year. The report, authored by Rene Cizio, Tia Zervas and Karen Lee, is dated Oct. 26, 2026.

Storyteq pairs Halo Intelligence with AgentConsole to govern AI agents

Halo Intelligence recommends the most relevant marketing assets for each target audience and scenario. It also tells marketers which assets are working, why, and how to adapt them for ROI across channels.

AgentConsole lets brands deploy and control AI agents in a single governed system. Coordinated, brand-safe teams of agents handle compliance checking, workflow orchestration and real-time visual verification of brand guidelines.

Norwalk – October 27, 2026 -- Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.025 per share on its common stock, payable on October 30, 2026, to shareholders of record on September 30, 2026.

Xerox board sets $0.10 annualized common payout at $0.025 per quarter

The common dividend of $0.025 per share equals $0.10 on an annual basis if maintained across four quarters. Shareholders must be on the register by September 30, 2026, to receive the October 30 payment.

Xerox Series A preferred holders receive $20.00 per share on October 1, 2026

The board also declared a quarterly dividend of $20.00 per share on the outstanding Xerox Holdings Series A Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock. The preferred payout is due on October 1, 2026, to holders of record on September 15, 2026.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- Node.js issued security releases across all supported lines to fix CVE-2026-111497, a high-severity out-of-bounds write in its bundled Brotli decoder that can lead to remote code execution. A Node.js process that decompresses attacker-controlled Brotli data, including Brotli-encoded HTTP responses it fetches, can be driven to write past the end of its buffer. The result is leaked memory or code execution with the process's privileges.

Ordinary traffic can reach the vulnerable decoder

Node.js bundles Google's Brotli library to back its built-in zlib support. That covers zlib.brotliDecompress(), brotliDecompressSync(), streaming Brotli and transparent decoding of HTTP bodies sent with Content-Encoding: br. Because decompressing untrusted Brotli is common, the bug is reachable across a wide range of services. A web application firewall does not mitigate it.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- A malicious version of LiteLLM, version 1.107.0, was published to PyPI on October 29, 2026. It bundles a credential-stealing infostealer with a remote access trojan (RAT), according to OX Security. It is the second hijacking of the AI gateway this year, and PyPI has since quarantined the release.

Malware hides in the wheel package, not the source repository

The attacker injected the code only into the wheel package, so a review of the repository or the clean source would show nothing wrong. Stolen data goes to litellm[.]dev, a domain the attacker bought that can pass for a legitimate LiteLLM address. In March, versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 were compromised in the TeamPCP campaign, but this attack used different tooling and infrastructure.

Darmstadt – October 29, 2026 -- Only 30% of German companies have governance structures suited to agentic AI, according to figures cited by Gregor von Jagow, Senior Director and Country Manager Germany at Red Hat. He argues that open technology, not new vendor dependencies, is the route out of the pilot phase.

Von Jagow says building AI agents is no longer the main hurdle. The challenge is deploying them productively: integrating them reliably into existing business processes, limiting their access to defined areas and meeting security requirements.

Missing exit strategies restrict service access at 57% of firms

Many companies struggle to move agents beyond pilot projects. Scaling requires clear access rights, defined responsibilities and the ability to prevent unwanted agent behavior. The cited data also shows that 57% of companies face restricted access to some services because they lack an exit strategy for switching providers.

San Francisco – September 10, 2026 -- Innventure, Inc. (NASDAQ: INV) shares plunged 55% on August 14, 2026, after the company pulled its DarkNX data-center project from 2026 forecasts and suspended revenue guidance, triggering a securities class action investigation by Hagens Berman.

Stock lost 74% of value amid unraveling data-center claims

Between May 27, 2026 and August 14, 2026, Innventure shares fell $4.795, or 74%, as scrutiny mounted over its subsidiary Accelsius' purported agreement with DarkNX. The deal, which Innventure had described as "the largest two-phase, direct-to-chip deployment to date," involved deploying Accelsius' NeuCool cooling technology across a 300MW AI data center campus in Ontario, Canada.

New York City – September 10, 2026 -- Innventure, Inc. (NASDAQ:INV) faces a securities fraud class action after its stock collapsed 55% on August 14, 2026, following disclosures that its subsidiary Accelsius had pulled a marquee data center project from its bookings.

Innventure allegedly overstated the viability of Accelsius' DarkNX cooling contract

Law firm Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, captioned Labed v. Innventure, Inc. et al., No. 26-cv-07377. The suit alleges Innventure and senior executives misrepresented an agreement between Accelsius and DarkNX to deploy NeuCool direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology across a proposed 300MW AI data center campus in Ontario, Canada. Innventure had cited the deal to project Accelsius reaching cash flow positivity by year-end 2026 and to support revenue growth forecasts.