IT, AI & Telecommunications

Santa Clara – October 13, 2026 -- HCLTech has signed a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic and will set up a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit with a Center of Excellence (CoE) to speed enterprise deployments of Claude, with a focus on safety, cybersecurity and governance in Agentic AI.

HCLTech's new unit will offer sandbox environments for Claude deployments

The unit will build Agentic AI solutions and provide secure sandbox environments for enterprise Claude deployments through FDEs. HCLTech's services teams will also build industry solutions and offerings powered by Claude, Cowork and Claude Code.

HCLTech will help clients adopt AI-native engineering practices, train their workforces and build the organizational capabilities needed to run Agentic AI safely at scale.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- Cablenet Communication Systems plc, the second largest fixed network operator in Cyprus, is modernizing its DOCSIS broadband access network with Harmonic's cOS virtualized broadband platform, Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) announced. The deployment is designed to strengthen gigabit service capability, simplify operations and lower operating expenses.

Distributed access architecture with Oyster nodes underpins higher speed tiers

Cablenet is deploying cOS in a distributed access architecture (DAA) with low-power Oyster nodes. The operator can introduce significantly higher speeds across its footprint and scale services as subscriber demand grows. The software-based platform also preserves flexibility for Cablenet's longer-term multi-technology network strategy.

Palo Alto – October 13, 2026 -- insidepacket has announced the AI Access Platform, which connects enterprises to GPU and neocloud providers through private network paths that can be activated in minutes. The platform is planned for introduction in Europe, first with Zayo Europe.

Platform comes in two models for GPU clouds and operators

The first model is a dedicated on-ramp that a GPU cloud sells under its own brand. The second is an operator layer that exposes many GPU clouds to the operator's enterprise customers. The underlying NaaS platform has been in production in the US since September 2025 and in Europe since mid 2026.

NEW YORK – October 12, 2026 -- Driven Tech, Inc. has been named a 2026 Triple Crown Award winner by CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, after placing on three CRN rankings in the same year. The AI and cloud-native platform systems integrator also reported a combined Net Promoter Score of 92.7 and a Customer Satisfaction score of 93.4.

Three CRN lists qualify Driven for the Triple Crown

The award goes to solution providers that appear on all three of CRN's annual lists in a single year.

• The Solution Provider 500 ranks the largest IT solution providers in North America by revenue.
• The Fast Growth 150 spotlights the fastest-growing solution providers.
• The Tech Elite 250 recognizes companies that hold the highest-level certifications from leading technology vendors.

Driven's placement on all three covers scale, growth rate and vendor-certified technical depth.

Stockholm – October 12, 2026 -- Ericsson's treasury stock stands at 125,805,951 Class B shares after repurchases made on Nasdaq Stockholm between October 5 and October 9, 2026, under its SEK 15 billion buyback program.

Buyback program runs to March 31, 2027

Ericsson announced the program of up to SEK 15,000,000,000 on April 16, 2026. Repurchases started on April 23, 2026, and can continue until March 31, 2027 at the latest.

Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE carries out all acquisitions on Ericsson's behalf. The program follows the EU Market Abuse Regulation (No 596/2014) and the Safe Harbour Regulation (Delegated Regulation 2016/1052).

Board plans to propose cancellation of repurchased shares at 2027 AGM

The Board of Directors intends to ask the 2027 Annual General Meeting to cancel the repurchased shares. Shares used to fulfil obligations under Ericsson's share-related incentive programs are excluded from that proposal.

Austin – October 12, 2026 -- NVIDIA introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open source platform and reference design that applies multi-layered security controls across the software, runtime and infrastructure where AI agents operate, with CrowdStrike collaborating on the effort.

NVIDIA Sentry enforces policy from BlueField-4 DPUs and can quarantine agents in milliseconds

At the software layer, NVIDIA OpenShell provides an open source secure runtime that governs how agents execute, what they can access and where inference occurs. NVIDIA Sentry adds an independent watchdog running on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs. It uses NVIDIA DOCA for out-of-band, in-silicon monitoring of agent activity and policy enforcement.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Incidents involving fake CAPTCHA lures rose 563% in 2025, according to the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report, as adversaries including STARDUST CHOLLIMA and VOODOO BEAR adopted the social engineering technique known as ClickFix.

ClickFix turns the victim into the execution mechanism

The attack shows a fake error, CAPTCHA or system message and tells the user to copy a command into the Windows Run dialog, PowerShell or Terminal. In some variants, malicious JavaScript places the command on the clipboard directly.

The pasted command can launch PowerShell, VBScript or another legitimate interpreter to fetch further payloads. CrowdStrike observations show follow-on activity including malware deployment, credential theft, persistence, command and control, and data theft.

United States – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike's Falcon Next-Gen SIEM has been added to CISA's SIEM-as-a-service (SIEMaaS) technology stack, giving eligible federal agencies a path to modernize security operations without using their own program funding.

DEFEND F mechanism acquires SKUs on behalf of agencies

The offering runs through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defense (DEFEND) Group F shared service. It is delivered via CGI Federal's CDM DEFEND F SIEMaaS service. Eligibility is limited to federal civilian agencies that participate in CISA's Persistent Access Capability program and already use CrowdStrike endpoint detection and response (EDR) modules.

CISA has described SIEMaaS as "the Rosetta Stone" for visibility.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike is adding third-party application insights and AI-enhanced remediation to Falcon Cloud Security, so security teams can identify which cloud-native applications are exposed when an external provider is compromised.

Application code analysis maps vendor dependencies and API operations

Cloud-native applications increasingly rely on third-party and SaaS services for critical business functions. Without dependency visibility, assessing exposure after a provider compromise can mean manually searching code and application inventories.

Global – – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has made Falcon Data Security for SaaS generally available, starting with Microsoft 365 coverage across SharePoint, OneDrive and Copilot, with plans to add more SaaS applications over time.

Platform classifies PII, PHI and payment card data as files change

The product continuously discovers and classifies sensitive data as files are accessed, modified and shared. Out-of-the-box patterns cover personally identifiable information, protected health information and payment card data, and custom patterns can be added for business-specific content. A classification engine shared across SaaS, endpoint and cloud is meant to close policy gaps between disconnected tools.