IT, AI & Telecommunications

Riverside, Calif. – October 28, 2026 -- EDGE Sound Research has raised an additional $2 million led by Stormbreaker Ventures, bringing its total funding to $9 million as it extends sensor technology proven in live sports into physical AI, robotics and autonomous systems.

Fresh capital funds sports deployments and a push into physical AI

The company will use the money to continue deployments with live sports broadcasters, leagues and venues. It will also expand its proprietary multimodal sensor data and develop applications for robotics, autonomous systems and intelligent environments.

TORONTO – October 28, 2026 -- Synteq has opened its first Canadian location in Toronto, its sixth site overall, through a partnership with Telehouse Canada. The GPU cloud provider cited growing customer demand for Northeast and Canadian capacity.

Toronto joins five existing Synteq sites in the US and Bulgaria

The new location follows Spokane, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Valley Forge and Sofia, Bulgaria. CEO Eric Yingling said the move was driven by "organic demand from our client base." He added that Toronto offers the power density current GPUs need, plus connectivity suited to Northeast US and Canada-focused workloads.

Frisco, Texas – October 28, 2026 -- HITRUST has launched IRIDX, an information risk ratings company whose comparative review showed median analyst review time falling 89%, from 5.3 hours to 35 minutes, and median time from evidence submission to completed risk determination falling 99.8%, from 14 days to 35 minutes.

IRIDX sets and governs standardized methods for measuring residual information risk and estimating related financial exposure. It targets enterprises, boards, underwriters and regulators that hold large volumes of assessments, certifications, questionnaires, telemetry and external risk signals but have no consistent way to compare them at scale.

PARIS – October 28, 2026 -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) has opened its first Cyber Defense Operations Center in Europe, merging network, security and operational intelligence into a single operating model in Paris.

Paris center correlates network, security and AI-enabled operations

The center joins network operations, cybersecurity operations and AI-enabled intelligence. Kyndryl says separating these functions limits visibility, slows response times and raises operational risk. Its unified model relies on shared intelligence, monitoring and coordinated incident response.

Kyndryl Bridge, the company's AI-powered, open-integration digital business platform, sits at the core of the center. It combines operational data, AI and automation in one control plane to flag anomalies earlier and prioritize risks. More than a dozen technology alliances cover threat detection, vulnerability management, security automation, incident response and network monitoring.

ORLANDO – October 28, 2026 -- GigaOm has named iboss a Leader in its Radar for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), placing the vendor in the Enduring Innovators quadrant for unified policies and visibility with AI insights.

The Radar evaluates how ZTNA offerings broker application access based on identity and context. GigaOm's assessment of iboss highlights three points: one policy plane across public and private resources, Policy Tracing that shows the policy and security-engine logic behind each access event, and ZTNA delivered inside the iboss Zero Trust SASE Platform.

Leesburg, Va. – October 28, 2026 -- Omnilert has introduced a dual-AI gun detection platform that pairs its primary firearm detection neural network with a secondary Contextual AI, letting customers configure how each detection is evaluated and handled.

Contextual AI keeps customer data private and leaves the detection model unchanged

The Primary Detection AI identifies visible firearms in compatible live camera feeds. The Contextual AI applies industry- and customer-specific context without altering that model. It analyzes video captured before and after a detection to assess the surrounding scene and activity.

Omnilert says both AIs draw on its 100% organic approach to training and its large operational customer base. Unlike many large-scale AIs, the Contextual AI keeps all data private to the customer, which Omnilert describes as a key requirement for many organizations.

St. Louis – October 28, 2026 -- Forty-four percent of U.S. consumers who use AI tools for customer service say the AI has contradicted a company representative or its policies, according to a new survey of 1,000 consumers from support automation vendor Capacity.

The Agentic Consumer Report finds that 55% of respondents have used an AI tool, such as an agent or large language model, to help with a service request. Consumers are equally likely to trust the AI or the company representative when the two give conflicting information.

Gen Z and Millennials drive adoption of personal AI agents

Overall, 35% of respondents have used an AI agent to handle a customer service request at least once. Among Gen Z and Millennials, the figure is 49%.

Household makeup also matters. Among respondents with children aged 25 or younger at home, 46% have used a personal AI agent, against 29% of those without children at home.

Moraga – October 28, 2026 -- Atombeam has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination of the operations, systems and managed services behind its Neurpac data-compression solution, with independent firm MJD Advisors testing controls over a five-month audit window.

Audit covers April 1 to August 31, 2026 across three trust criteria

The report evaluates the Security, Availability and Confidentiality Trust Services Criteria. MJD Advisors assessed both the design suitability and the operating effectiveness of Atombeam's controls throughout the period. Unlike a Type 1 report, a Type 2 audit tests whether controls work over time, not only whether they are properly designed.

The result follows Atombeam's SOC 2 Type 1 audit, completed earlier this year.

Chandler – October 28, 2026 -- Vensure Employer Solutions has launched AI Orchestrator, a Digital Capital Management (DCM) platform with more than 500 out-of-the-box integrations, to help small and mid-size businesses build, test, orchestrate and govern AI agents alongside their human workforce.

Platform covers the full agent lifecycle from build to audit

Users can build agents natively using no-code and low-code tooling. They can test them before deployment through built-in simulation, scenario validation and performance benchmarking.

The platform orchestrates multi-agent workflows in which agents collaborate, escalate and complete end-to-end business processes autonomously. Governance features include policy controls, audit trails, compliance monitoring and performance analytics.

DALLAS – October 28, 2026 -- Captello has launched The $0 Show, a program that removes registration and attendee-app costs, valued at $20,000 to $25,000, from the organizer's budget when the organizer names Captello the official lead capture solution for an event.

Qualifying organizers must deliver 75 exhibitors on Captello

New organizers receive EventGen registration and the core-license EventNexus attendee app at no cost. To qualify, an organizer must make Captello the official and exclusive lead capture solution, have at least 75 exhibitors using it as their default, and book a meeting with the Captello team to confirm the offer.

EventGen covers branded registration forms, free or paid ticket types, attendance tiers, group registration and real-time dashboards. EventNexus provides a branded app with agendas, sessions, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and on-demand badge QR codes.