IT, AI & Telecommunications

Dubai – October 29, 2026 -- Flytxt's agentic AI platform Niya-X has won a bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-Powered Product" category at the 23rd International Business Awards (IBAs), the company announced. The 2026 IBAs drew more than 3,400 nominations from 82 countries and territories, with winners scored by over 200 business professionals across specialized judging committees during an independent evaluation process in June and July.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt's agentic AI platform Niya-X has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-based Solution" category at the 23rd annual International Business Awards (IBA), selected from over 3,400 entries submitted by organizations across 82 countries and territories.

Niya-X positions itself as an "AI Expertforce" beyond copilots and task-based agents

Flytxt describes Niya-X as moving past AI copilots that assist users and task-focused agents that automate work. The platform deploys domain-specialized AI experts designed to understand enterprise goals, formulate strategies, make decisions, coordinate actions and continuously learn from outcomes.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-driven Product" category at the 23rd Annual International Business Awards for its agentic AI platform Niya-X.

Niya-X moves beyond task automation to autonomous decision-making

Unlike AI co-pilots that assist humans or task-oriented agents that automate workflows, Niya-X deploys domain-specific "AI Experts" capable of understanding business goals, formulating strategies, making decisions, coordinating actions and learning continuously from outcomes. The platform relies on causal learning and counterfactual modeling to simulate and evaluate alternative market scenarios before selecting the course of action most likely to achieve a desired result, while operating within defined corporate governance and data-privacy constraints.

Tempe – October 09, 2026 -- Gen Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GEN) will release its fiscal 2027 second-quarter financial results on Wednesday, October 29, 2026, after the market close.

Gen management hosts a 5 p.m. ET call after the release

Management will hold a conference call and webcast at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET, following the earnings press release. The live webcast will be available through the company's investor relations website.

The report covers the quarter of fiscal 2027 that is the second in Gen's fiscal calendar. The source material did not provide guidance, revenue figures or other financial data ahead of the release.

Plano, Texas – October 13, 2026 -- Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN) will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results after the market close on Tuesday, October 29, 2026.

Ribbon schedules 4:30 p.m. ET call with financial community

Management will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET on the day of the release to discuss the quarter's results with the financial community.

Participants in the U.S. can join via the domestic dial-in number 877-407-2991, while international callers can use 201-389-0925. The company also offers Instant Telephone Access through its Call meTM service.

Listen-only webcast available through investor relations site

A live, listen-only webcast will be available on the company's Investor Relations website.

The source material contains no preliminary financial figures, guidance or other quantitative details ahead of the October 27 release.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- Alteryx argues that unpredictable output, not token cost, is the main barrier to scaling AI agents in the enterprise: the same request to a large language model can return a different answer each time.

Token burn rises with agent complexity, but variance is the bigger problem

Agents must reason through business logic, infer context, read results and choose the next action, sometimes several times in a single instance. Restarting a process or re-deriving business logic adds to token costs. Alteryx says the larger obstacle is that LLMs generate outputs from a probability distribution. In its words, "you cannot scale a business on randomness."

Global – October 29, 2026 -- Akana 2026 introduces API Ops, a command-line feature that lets teams promote API products to production in a fully automated manner and plug the process into CI/CD tools such as Jenkins. Solutions engineer Olaf Van Gorp demonstrated the feature in a video for the Akana API Platform.

API Ops splits promotion duties between product and DevOps teams

The API product team typically handles export and import actions. The DevOps team reviews and approves changes, then pushes approved updates to a designated repository branch from which they can be imported.

Import process adjusts environment-specific settings

API endpoint hostnames, OAuth domains and policy configurations may need to change between source and target environments. API Ops applies these modifications during import to keep the process consistent.

United States – October 29, 2026 -- Eagleview's 2D-to-3D pitch editor is now available directly inside Xactimate®, letting roofers and property claims adjusters build 3D roof sketches from a single entered pitch without leaving their estimating platform.

Single pitch input generates a full 3D roof sketch

Users add pitch information to a 2D roof diagram and convert it into a 3D sketch. Only one roof pitch must be entered. The tool calculates additional pitches automatically to complete the model.

Eagleview introduced the pitch editor for cases where a roof exists as a 2D diagram but the estimate requires a 3D sketch.

Louisville – – October 29, 2026 -- Eagleview will run its Futureview customer conference as two flagship events, starting with Futureview East on September 22–25, 2026, at the Louisville Marriott Downtown.

Futureview West follows in Fort Worth, Texas, on April 12–15, 2027. The split replaces the single-event format with two regional conferences.

Event targets government, GIS and infrastructure users

Futureview East is aimed at government, GIS, assessment, public safety, public works and infrastructure professionals. Eagleview lists assessment and appraisal staff, GIS leaders, emergency response teams, IT and data leaders, department heads and agency executives among intended attendees.

The program centers on expert-led training, product deep dives, workflow innovation, and customer and sponsor presentations, according to Eagleview's March 2026 announcement. Sessions focus on practical use of imagery, software and geospatial data.

United States – October 29, 2026 -- Eagleview's aerial-derived property data now runs in more than 500 live integrations, with developers using it for online quoting, lead enrichment and pre-inspection tools across roofing, solar, building materials and property & casualty insurance.

A single address lookup or API call can return roof geometry, pitch and area, material type, condition score, age estimate, solar panel presence, structural characteristics, and risk scores for hazards such as hail and wildfire.

Aletheia Digital's QuickQuote for Roofs reports 26% bid-to-close rate for one contractor

Aletheia Digital built QuickQuote for Roofs on Eagleview data to give homeowners instant, data-backed roof estimates online. It replaces generic square-footage assumptions, which produce quotes that fail once a field team inspects the property.