IT, AI & Telecommunications

Global – October 17, 2026 -- UKG has announced a headless AI vision that lets employees, managers and leaders start workforce activities from AI experiences including Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI and consumer voice assistants, while its Workforce Operating Platform keeps control of execution.

UKG separates the AI interface from the execution layer

Under the headless approach, the experience where a request begins is decoupled from the platform that carries it out. Through Model Context Protocol tools, pre-built connectors and related technologies, approved AI experiences can reach selected UKG capabilities and trigger workforce workflows.

The UKG platform continues to enforce permissions, policies, approvals and business logic. Customers can build on existing technology investments rather than adopt another standalone application.

Dubai – October 17, 2026 -- Robo.ai Inc. (Nasdaq: AIIO) will cut its Class B share count from 222,116,290 to 8,884,684 through a 1-for-25 reverse stock split effective October 17, 2026, subject to shareholder approval at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on October 26.

Class A count falls to 552,701 shares from 13,817,501

The split applies to all classes of ordinary shares. Adjusted trading of the publicly traded Class B shares begins at market open, U.S. Eastern time, on November 6 under the existing ticker "AIIO", with a new CUSIP number of G6693P130. The split takes effect at 9:30 am Eastern.

Robo.ai expects the Class B share price to rise proportionately but gives no assurance that it will reach 25 times the pre-split price. Par value per share rises from US$0.002 to US$0.05 for both classes.

Stockholm – October 17, 2026 -- ASSA ABLOY has agreed to sell HID's PKI business unit to Vista Equity Partners. The unit generated 2025 sales of MUSD 58 (approx. MSEK 570) with a strong operating margin.

Divested unit spans PKI SaaS, credential management and ZeroSSL

The Public Key Infrastructure unit provides digital trust, identity, authentication, encryption and certificate management solutions. The perimeter of the sale covers PKI SaaS, comprising IdenTrust and HydrantID, as well as credential management and ZeroSSL.

Closing is expected in the fourth quarter of 2026

The divestiture is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2026. ASSA ABLOY did not disclose the transaction price.

Las Vegas – October 17, 2026 -- Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS) is targeting a separate public listing of its AI subsidiary askROI, Inc. by the second or third quarter of 2027, via a reverse takeover (RTO), an initial public offering (IPO) or a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger.

The timing depends on which route the company ultimately selects. In an RTO, askROI would be sold to a public company that has not yet been identified, in the first half of 2027. Hyperscale Data would receive shares of that company as consideration and would then need to file a resale registration statement for them. The plan is subject to financial and regulatory requirements and to prevailing market conditions.

London – October 17, 2026 -- The global green data center market will grow from USD 26.71 billion in 2025 to USD 90.38 billion by 2035, a CAGR of 12.96%, according to a new DC Market Insights report. AI-driven rack density is raising the value of efficient power and cooling per MW, while water constraints, grid pressure and energy costs push operators toward liquid cooling, heat reuse, renewable power and facility retrofits.

AI halls carried USD 3.09 million of green content per MW in 2025

Green power and cooling content in AI halls reached approximately USD 3.09 million per MW in 2025. The report says this materially raises green infrastructure value per unit of IT capacity. The market stood at USD 7.25 billion in 2020.

San Francisco – October 16, 2026 -- Wink, the video and image editing platform of Meitu, has launched a browser-based HD Video Converter that exports enhanced footage at 1080p, 2K or 4K and processes multiple files in a single cloud job.

The tool targets creators, e-commerce sellers, social media teams and everyday users who reuse existing footage. According to the company, video from phones and cameras often passes through several stages before publication, including compressed copies made during transfer and versions downloaded from social platforms. By then, details can be softer, lighting uneven and compression artifacts more visible.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence says its oMAC photonic computing processor cuts on-chip latency to below one nanosecond by processing data with light instead of electricity.

oMAC targets Moore's Law limits with photonic linear compute units

The company positions oMAC as a route past the single-chip performance limits of Moore's Law. The processor uses photonic linear compute units to accelerate linear operations, which it says delivers advantages in low latency and high throughput.

The processor sits within Lightelligence's proprietary optoelectronic hybrid computing architecture. The company says the architecture exploits the low latency, low power consumption and high throughput of light. It says it continues to raise the computing power limit of a single card through large-scale optoelectronic integration.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- The Gazelle optical computing evaluation board performs 8×2 fundamental optical matrix computations and is described by its maker as the highest-precision optoelectronic computing device known to date.

Gazelle pairs a programmable optical matrix with an FPGA and a ready-made software stack

The research platform is built on optical principles. An onboard FPGA and an out-of-the-box software stack are meant to let developers start work without building their own tooling. The optical matrix is programmable, and the board supports a range of commonly used debugging interfaces.

Three target workloads span AI inference, scientific computing and combinatorial optimization

For neural networks, Gazelle targets inference of models used in image recognition and object detection. For scientific research, it is positioned to solve scientific computing problems more efficiently than classical paradigms.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence's PACE2 accelerator card combines a 128×128 optical matrix multiplier with more than 40,000 photonic devices, and the company rates both its optical and electronic cores at 32 TOPs peak performance.

Hybrid architecture pairs a photonic core with an electronic core

The card, released in 2025, uses a heterogeneous design. An optical tensor processing unit (PIC core) works alongside an electronic tensor acceleration unit and an optical computing control unit (EIC core). The chip runs at a 1GHz clock speed, and PIC latency is 200ps.

Lightelligence describes the 128×128 matrix as the largest optical computing matrix it has built. Matrix coefficients can be configured dynamically through APIs, so the card is programmable.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence, founded in 2017, reports 446 cumulative patents, with invention patents accounting for 80% of the portfolio, as it markets three optoelectronic computing products to AI and data center customers.

Lightelligence staffs 250+ employees, 170+ of them in R&D

The company counts more than 250 employees worldwide. R&D staff make up over 170 of them, roughly two-thirds of the workforce, which fits a patent-heavy, research-led business model.

PACE 2 accelerator card launched in 2025

PACE 2 is an optoelectronic accelerated computing card released by Lightelligence in 2025. The company lists high performance, programmability, versatility and advanced packaging technology as its key features.