Digital Transformation

Kyndryl Opens First U.S. AI Lab in Dallas, Plans 300 Jobs

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Kyndryl Opens First U.S. AI Lab in Dallas, Plans 300 Jobs

New York – October 01, 2026 -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) has opened its first U.S. AI Innovation Lab in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, an investment expected to create up to 300 jobs in AI, technology consulting and design engineering over the next four years.

Kyndryl ties the Dallas lab to a four-phase model for enterprise AI deployment

The facility runs on the company's Agentic AI Framework combined with Kyndryl Consult, AI and infrastructure services, and the Kyndryl Vital design practice. Customers move through customer immersion, co-design, build and roadmap stages, using workshops and rapid prototyping to turn AI use cases into working prototypes within days and a defined path to production deployment.

Nexa Launches Creator Marketplace, Lets Creators Keep 100% of Rates

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Nexa Launches Creator Marketplace, Lets Creators Keep 100% of Rates

Detroit Lakes – October 01, 2026 -- Nexa has launched a creator marketplace that lets UGC creators and influencers keep 100% of their self-set rates, generating revenue instead through a brand-side platform fee.

Nexa connects brands and creators without subscription fees

Businesses can join Nexa for free, browse creator profiles with rates listed upfront, and secure promotional content deals directly without needing a subscription to access the marketplace.

Platform targets startups and e-commerce brands seeking faster UGC deals

Nexa is built for startups, e-commerce companies and established brands seeking UGC, social media promotions and creator-led campaigns without lengthy agency processes or fragmented outreach across social platforms.

Sharon AI Secures $356M GPU-Backed Debt Facility at 9.95%

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Sharon AI Secures $356M GPU-Backed Debt Facility at 9.95%

New York – October 01, 2026 -- Sharon AI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SHAZ) has closed its inaugural US$356 million committed senior secured, GPU-backed SPV debt facility, priced at a fixed rate of 9.95% excluding fees.

Facility backs GPU deployment for customer contracts

The debt is secured against the Company's GPUs and associated cash flows, funding the deployment of compute infrastructure dedicated to signed customer contracts. The facility supports Sharon AI's plan to build out more than 68,000 NVIDIA GPUs by mid-2027 and is the first in an expected series of GPU financings.

Goldman Sachs and private credit funds join syndicate

The facility drew marquee Australian, Asian and global investors, including Goldman Sachs and select large private credit funds. Jarden Australia acted as sole financial advisor and arranger on the transaction.

HoneyNaps Gains CRO Status, Expands AI Sleep Data Services for Pharma

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HoneyNaps Gains CRO Status, Expands AI Sleep Data Services for Pharma

Boston – October 01, 2026 -- HoneyNaps, an AI-based sleep health technology company, has completed registration as a clinical research organization (CRO) with South Korea's National Enterprise for Clinical Trials (KoNECT), broadening its role in pharmaceutical and medical device trials worldwide.

HoneyNaps secures CRO registration with KoNECT, expanding multicenter trial capacity

The company has supported clinical trials involving more than 10,000 participants and can now operate multicenter, multidisciplinary studies under its new CRO status. The registration formalizes HoneyNaps' position as a provider of standardized sleep data analysis for pharmaceutical companies, medical device developers, and research organizations.

AppZen's ZenLM Plus Beats Frontier Models on Expense Audits

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AppZen's ZenLM Plus Beats Frontier Models on Expense Audits

San Jose, Calif. – October 01, 2026 -- AppZen has launched ZenLM Plus, a family of finance-specialized large language models that outperformed seven frontier AI models on expense audit accuracy while cutting inference costs, the company announced.

LandGate Maps 2,100+ European Data Centers After Wood Mackenzie Deal

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LandGate Maps 2,100+ European Data Centers After Wood Mackenzie Deal

Denver – October 01, 2026 -- LandGate has expanded its spatial intelligence platform to track more than 2,100 data center facilities across 10 European markets, adding site-level power, permitting and connectivity data to its existing U.S. coverage.

The expansion follows LandGate's acquisition by Wood Mackenzie in June 2026 and positions the company as a supplier of site-selection intelligence for hyperscale and AI-driven data center developers operating across Europe.

UK leads European coverage with 500+ facilities amid 70 GW of pending connection requests

The United Kingdom dominates LandGate's European dataset with more than 500 tracked facilities concentrated in the London and Slough corridor, where power connection requests now exceed 70 GW. Germany follows with 450+ facilities centered in Frankfurt, where the EnEfG Act will require new builds to hit a PUE of 1.2 or lower from July 2026 and shift to 100% renewable electricity by 2027.

Beyond Rolls Out Owner Hub, AI API Access in 40+ Updates

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Beyond Rolls Out Owner Hub, AI API Access in 40+ Updates

San Francisco -- October 01, 2026 -- Beyond, a short-term rental revenue management platform, has launched three major features, Owner Hub, Advanced Connectivity, and Performance Manager, bundled with more than 40 additional product updates in its October 2026 Horizons release.

Owner Hub cuts owner-reporting time from 20 minutes to 2 minutes per report

Owner Hub consolidates three existing tools, Owner Projections, Listing Lens, and Owner Reports, into a single workflow for property managers. Running a revenue projection for one listing now takes 1 minute instead of 60, reviewing a listing via Listing Lens drops from 30 minutes to 1 minute, and building an owner report falls from 20 minutes to 2 minutes. Owner Projections generates three scenario-based revenue forecasts from any address or listing URL without a PMS connection, while Owner Reports delivers owner-ready summaries with market context and an editable AI narrative.

Vieworks to Unveil 100 Gbps CoaXPress-over-Fiber at VISION 2026

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Vieworks to Unveil 100 Gbps CoaXPress-over-Fiber at VISION 2026

Anyang, South Korea – October 01, 2026 -- Vieworks will exhibit a complete CoaXPress-over-Fiber machine vision system supporting data transmission speeds of up to 100 Gbps per channel over distances of up to 10 km at VISION 2026 in Stuttgart, Germany, running October 6 to 8.

Vieworks integrates camera, fiber cable, transceivers and frame grabber into one high-speed setup

The South Korea-based industrial imaging supplier will present the full CoaXPress-over-Fiber configuration as a single-source package at Hall 10, booth 10E30. The company positions the bundled offering as a way to simplify system integration for high-speed machine vision deployments.

Area scan camera lineup spans 0.4 to 1152 megapixels

Vieworks' VZ Series area scan cameras, built on GigE, 2.5GigE and USB 3.0 interfaces, will be shown alongside the VL Series line scan cameras, which cover 2k to 16k resolutions over 5GigE and 10GigE interfaces.

Infrastructure AI Launches Agentic Asset Valuation Tool via GAOS

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Infrastructure AI Launches Agentic Asset Valuation Tool via GAOS

Somerset, N.J. – October 01, 2026 -- Infrastructure AI has introduced Agentic Asset Valuation, a new capability of its Galaxy Agentic Operating System (GAOS) designed to convert real-time building and infrastructure operating data into financial-grade intelligence for underwriting, insurance, and investment decisions.

Platform shifts valuation from periodic snapshots to continuous monitoring

Commercial buildings have traditionally been valued through periodic appraisals, comparable transactions, and engineering reports that capture a single point in time. GAOS instead uses governed AI agents to interpret operational data from HVAC equipment, pumps, elevators, electrical systems, and energy-management technologies, which Infrastructure AI says can reveal equipment condition, maintenance quality, reliability, and future capital needs.

Teciem Names New CTO, CCO to Drive Cloud and AI Push

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Teciem Names New CTO, CCO to Drive Cloud and AI Push

London – October 01, 2026 -- Teciem, a global provider of front-to-back treasury and capital markets software, has appointed Stefano Maestri as Chief Technology Officer and Strath Lanyon as Chief Customer Officer, both based in London and reporting directly to CEO Wissam Khoury.

Teciem expands leadership six months after company launch

The appointments come just over six months after Teciem's launch, as the firm builds out its executive team to support cloud-native deployment and AI-enabled product development for financial institutions managing increasingly complex transformation programs.