Digital Transformation

Pune – September 22, 2026 -- Bitwise has earned more than 130 Databricks Delivery Expert badges, securing recognition among the top partners in a credentialing program that launched in May 2026 to identify firms with deep migration and modernization expertise across the Databricks ecosystem.

Bitwise Certifications Surpass 330 Across Its Engineering Organization

The Chicago-headquartered engineering firm, which operates delivery centers in Pune, India, has accumulated over 330 Databricks certifications organization-wide. The company also holds Databricks Silver Partner status and was previously named a Databricks Genie GTM Partner for conversational, AI-powered enterprise data access.

Las Vegas – September 22, 2026 -- GMA Consulting has appointed Alisa Mirabal and David Robins as Senior Advisors, adding operational expertise in casino marketing technology and hospitality management to its client-advisory bench spanning public gaming companies, tribal operators, banks and government agencies.

San Jose, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- Eighty-three percent of organizations now run or plan to run AI workloads, a figure that climbs above 90% among large enterprises, according to The 2026 Open Data Infrastructure Report released by the OpenSearch Software Foundation and Linux Foundation Research.

AI adoption pushes organizations toward vendor-neutral data platforms

The study found that 71% of organizations now treat vendor-independent infrastructure deployment as a strategic priority, while 78% call cross-vendor, cross-tool interoperability critical when evaluating data infrastructure. Total cost of ownership (80%) and security and compliance (79%) rank as the top decision-making factors for IT leaders selecting AI infrastructure platforms.

San Jose, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- The OpenSearch Software Foundation has recorded a 140% year-over-year jump in global project downloads, surpassing 2.4 billion total, as the vendor-neutral search and analytics platform expands its enterprise backing.

Intel, Adelean and Sidecar join as General Members strengthening technical direction

The Foundation announced three new General Members -- Adelean, Intel, and Sidecar -- who will now engage with working groups and help guide technical initiatives. Intel's membership extends its existing open source contributions to OpenSearch, which have focused on hardware-level acceleration to optimize performance.

New York – September 22, 2026 -- Ande, an AI-native network for corporate entertainment, emerged from stealth with more than $52 million in seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Duration Ventures, and Sierra Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures.

Enterprises spend an estimated $325 billion annually on entertainment, yet booking and expense tracking remain fragmented.

Client dinners, team outings, catering, sporting events, and gifting are currently managed across credit cards, accounts payable systems, and consumer apps, creating a manual reconciliation burden for corporate finance teams.

San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- Lumos has released MCP Governance, a new capability that checks an AI agent's permissions at the exact moment it attempts an action and blocks it if policy does not allow it, starting with support for Claude Code and Codex.

Lumos measured over 450,000 agent actions in a single week among its own staff of fewer than 200 employees

"We spent twenty years learning to govern humans, and we still have not finished," said Andrej Safundzic, CEO and co-founder of Lumos. "Now we have agents doing the same work ten times faster. That kind of scale is impossible to track with old methods."

An AI agent inherits the permissions of the employee who launched it but then operates at machine speed, meaning an error that might cause a human to delete one Salesforce record could see an agent delete a thousand records in seconds.

San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- Hotel Nikko San Francisco has partnered with guest technology provider SONIFI to install a new in-room interactive TV system across the Union Square property, deepening the hotel's push toward integrated luxury tech.

SONIFI's casting technology removes need for extra in-room hardware

The system embeds SONIFI's patented casting solution directly into guest room TVs, giving access to more than 5,000 streaming apps without additional devices. The platform also delivers international programming, premium sports packages, and still-in-theater and early-release movies on demand.

Amsterdam – September 22, 2026 -- Telit Cinterion demonstrated an integrated cellular-GNSS positioning system achieving 1-2 centimeter average precision, using cellular-delivered correction data instead of dedicated satellite hardware. The IoT solutions provider is showcasing the technology at Booth M6 during The Things Conference 2026, running Sept. 22-23 at De Kromhouthal in Amsterdam.

Cellular module delivers centimeter-level GNSS corrections over standard network connections

The demonstration runs on a CMB100 development kit built around Telit Cinterion's CMB100 LTE Cat 1 bis module. Using AT commands processed through the kit's onboard ST microcontroller, the module establishes a network connection via a Telit Cinterion NExT SIM and downloads Skylark Nx RTK MSM5 GNSS correction data from Swift Navigation through NTRIP (Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol).

Wilmington – September 22, 2026 -- U.S. Bank ranked first overall among 17 leading U.S. retail banks in Keynova Group's Q3 2026 Mobile Banker Scorecard, topping both mobile app and mobile web experience categories.

U.S. Bank and Bank of America lead the only banks offering native voice-enabled virtual assistants

Keynova found that only U.S. Bank's Smart Assistant and Bank of America's Erica currently support native in-app voice interactions for tasks including bill payment scheduling, transfers, card controls and credit score display. Erica additionally handles Zelle transaction display and P2P payment initiation via vocal commands. Across the broader panel, 35% of Scorecard banks now offer advanced text-based virtual assistants using natural language processing, though voice capability remains rare.

Dallas – September 22, 2026 -- Integrity, LLC, a Dallas-based distributor of life and health insurance and wealth management solutions, has partnered with Mint Health Insurance Agency, a Southern California independent marketing organization led by Miriam and Albert Vega. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Mint gains access to Integrity's AI-powered IntegrityCONNECT platform

The partnership gives Mint's agents access to IntegrityCONNECT, which provides on-demand leads, instant quoting, application and enrollment tools, and ongoing plan management. Integrity also offers its voice-activated digital assistant, Ask Integrity, which delivers real-time coverage recommendations and policy lifecycle reminders.