Ft. Lauderdale – September 13, 2026 -- Z Squared Inc. (Nasdaq: ZSQR) closed its all-stock acquisition of Paradox Data, LLC, gaining an energized computing campus in El Dorado, Arkansas, with an existing 8.0 MW electric service arrangement and a phased target of 150+ MW of AI-ready capacity.

Riyadh – September 13, 2026 -- NourNet, a Saudi digital services provider, closed its participation at LEAP 2026 by unveiling a beta AI Agent Platform and expanding its flagship data center to 10 MW and up to 750 racks.

Chandler – September 13, 2026 -- VIAVI Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAV) will present a full-stack data center test portfolio at booth 1001 during ECOC 2026, running September 21-23 at the FYCMA exhibition center in Malaga, Spain.

Düsseldorf/Prague – September 12, 2026 -- Polarise, a European sovereign AI cloud provider, has signed a cooperation agreement with Czech infrastructure operator Ceske Radiokomunikace (CRA) to secure 15 MW of capacity at CRA's new "Prague Gateway" data center in Jiloviste near Prague, along with exclusive rights for further expansion at the site.

Zurich – September 12, 2026 -- ABB has published a report with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) arguing that direct current (DC) technology is shifting from a niche application to a central component of industrial, commercial and digital power infrastructure, with decisions made over the next two to three years determining which market players lead the transition.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt's Agentic AI platform Niya-X has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the 'Best AI-driven Product' category at the 23rd Annual International Business Awards, beating out competition from over 3,400 nominations submitted across 82 nations and territories.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-driven Product" category at the 23rd Annual International Business Awards for its agentic AI platform Niya-X.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt's agentic AI platform Niya-X has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-based Solution" category at the 23rd annual International Business Awards (IBA), selected from over 3,400 entries submitted by organizations across 82 countries and territories.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt's agentic AI platform Niya-X has won a bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-Powered Product" category at the 23rd International Business Awards (IBAs), the company announced. The 2026 IBAs drew more than 3,400 nominations from 82 countries and territories, with winners scored by over 200 business professionals across specialized judging committees during an independent evaluation process in June and July.

Beijing – September 12, 2026 -- ModelBest, a Chinese AI startup, has released MiniCPM5-2B, a 2-billion-parameter open-source language model that ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index among open-source models under 4 billion parameters. The model, built in collaboration with the OpenBMB open-source community, also scored 20 on the Agentic Index, a metric measuring autonomous task-execution capability, outpacing peers in its size category.