IT, AI & Telecommunications

Redmond – November 06, 2026 -- Halfpricesoft.com has released ez1099 2026 with built-in direct filing through the IRS Information Returns Intake System (IRIS), removing the need for businesses to obtain an IRS Transmitter Control Code (TCC) before e-filing 1099s.

Halfpricesoft transmits returns on the filer's behalf, bypassing what the company describes as a weeks-long IRS application and verification cycle. The release comes as the IRS FIRE system is set to be retired on December 31, 2026.

ez1099 2026 adds Form 1099-DA support for digital asset reporting

The version is available for the 2027 tax season. It supports Form 1099-DA reporting of digital asset transactions, crypto sales and broker exchanges under IRS rules. Direct transmission carries forward, so forms are submitted from the software without external portal uploads.

Dubai – November 06, 2026 -- Robo.ai Inc. (Nasdaq: AIIO) generated more than US$280 million in revenue from June through September and is targeting about US$600 million for full-year 2026, CEO Benjamin Zhai told shareholders in an open letter. The company also said it does not intend to enter new equity-linked, variable-price financing arrangements for a period following the letter's date.

Robo.ai pledges to tie every dollar of capital to operating plans

The financing pledge covers arrangements in which the issuance or conversion price is tied to the future market price of Robo.ai's shares. Zhai said the decision rests on the company's current operating position and funding arrangements. Robo.ai will keep honoring obligations and retain its rights under previously disclosed agreements.

SHENZHEN – November 06, 2026 -- Tencent Cloud Enterprise (TCE) has launched a private cloud that starts at eight servers for full-stack deployments and three servers for AI-only entry, aimed at regulated industries that want to run agentic AI inside their own boundaries. The company announced the Full-Stack Intelligent AI Suite and Lite Deployment at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, alongside joint research with Gartner and Omdia.

Four-layer AI suite keeps data, model weights and inference traffic inside the customer boundary

The suite spans a converged compute, storage and networking foundation; a model service layer built on TokenHub, a private MaaS platform for LLM services; an agent runtime layer with a cloud-native sandbox, egress control and identity credentials; and an agent application layer. Customers can enter at any layer and expand upward.

Stamford – November 06, 2026 -- Charter Communications is targeting $2 billion in annualized run-rate operating expense savings over the next 18 months, on top of more than $1 billion in anticipated Cox Transactions synergies, after third-quarter pro forma Internet customers fell by 233,000 and a $6.3 billion franchise impairment pushed the company to a loss.

Charter rebuilds its operating model around Internet growth and cost discipline

The company is reformulating its go-to-market approach for core Internet, marketing and distribution, while leaning on its mobile and video products to lift revenue per passing. The savings program will eliminate nonessential activities, simplify organizational structures and extract efficiencies through vendor partnerships. Charter expects the effort to support significantly higher free cash flow over time.

CEO Chris Winfrey called the moves "decisive steps to unlock our full potential."

Vancouver – November 06, 2026 -- TELUS Corporation reported a third-quarter 2026 net loss of $660 million after an $800 million non-cash goodwill impairment on TELUS Health, and launched an efficiency program targeting about $900 million in annualized cash savings exiting 2028.

TELUS earmarks 80 percent of $900 million savings for core Telecom

The multi-year program draws on operational cost and margin improvements and capital expenditure efficiencies. About 80 per cent of the savings will come from core Telecom and the balance from Global Platform Businesses. In Telecom, the levers are customer care, revenue per product, the balance between physical and digital channels, procurement, and network and field force efficiency.

SAN FRANCISCO – November 06, 2026 -- Atomicwork has launched an AI Coworker Marketplace offering six pre-built, certified AI Coworkers for enterprise IT and security teams, with customer data showing access requests that need no approval clear in a median 18 seconds.

The initial lineup covers cloud infrastructure, access management, security, network and device operations. It comprises Atom (employee support operations), Cloud Ops Engineer, Access Ops Manager, Network Ops Engineer, Sec Ops Manager and Device Ops Engineer. The roles work across systems including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Okta, Active Directory, Splunk and Datadog.

San Francisco – November 06, 2026 -- ExpertCrowd, Toptal's AI model training platform, and Y Combinator-backed HUD have released ExpertCrowd-SWE, a software engineering benchmark that evaluates frontier-grade large language models (LLMs) and coding agents.

Toptal engineers wrote the tasks and grading rubrics

Engineers from Toptal's network of domain experts authored the benchmark's tasks and grading rubrics. HUD's infrastructure then hosted the task-run environments and verified the benchmarks through its internal quality assurance pipelines.

HUD and Toptal AI research teams reviewed the methodology and results. The teams include more than a dozen PhDs and researchers with academic or professional experience at Harvard, EPFL, the University of Liège, DeepMind, Qwen and ByteDance.

DELRAY BEACH – – November 06, 2026 -- The employee experience management market will grow from USD 9.17 billion in 2026 to USD 15.87 billion by 2032, a 9.6% compound annual growth rate, according to MarketsandMarkets. The forecast implies USD 6.70 billion in added market value over six years. The market stood at USD 8.31 billion in 2025.

Asia Pacific is forecast to grow fastest at 11.3% a year

Asia Pacific is projected to post the highest regional CAGR, at 11.3% through 2032. MarketsandMarkets cites rapid digital transformation, wider adoption of cloud-based HR technologies and a growing focus on engagement and retention. China, India, Japan, Australia and South Korea are seeing rising investment in digital HR platforms, employee feedback tools, recognition and rewards programs, and workforce analytics.

San Francisco – November 06, 2026 -- Constructive has released Safegres, an open-source verifier that grades which roles can reach which rows in a live PostgreSQL database, after recent scans found 24,664 of 159,041 Lovable-built projects serving records to anonymous visitors.

Safegres audits row-level security (RLS) policies and grants in read-only mode. It never touches application data or changes anything, so teams can run it against a production copy or automatically on every database change.

Scans found thousands of AI-built apps exposing Postgres data

On Nov. 2, Hamburg security firm Crissy Field and the German newspaper Handelsblatt scanned 159,041 projects built with AI app builder Lovable. They found 24,664 sites whose Postgres databases served records to anonymous visitors, 7,403 of them exposing email addresses.

LONDON – November 06, 2026 -- Dragonpass, the travel and lifestyle benefits platform with more than 45 million members, has acquired iCoupon, a digital vouchering business whose network spans 200 airlines, over 400 airports and more than 4,000 retail units across 56 countries. The deal is meant to accelerate Dragonpass' build-out of a global loyalty-as-a-service platform. The source does not disclose financial terms.

iCoupon brings a network already issuing £100 million in vouchers a year

iCoupon issued over £100 million in digital vouchers in 2025, including 12 million food and beverage entitlements. It has expanded into 13 technology modules covering passenger care, retail and other travel services. Its network supports more than one billion passengers.