San Jose – October 18, 2026 -- Linktel Technologies says its 1.6T Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) 2DR4 module runs at power consumption as low as 10W. The company presented the module to data center architects at the 2026 OCP Global Summit as a way to ease power and cooling loads in AI networks.

Dubai – October 16, 2026 -- Robo.ai Inc. (Nasdaq: AIIO) will cut its Class B share count from 222,116,290 to 8,884,684 through a 1-for-25 reverse stock split effective November 6, 2026, subject to shareholder approval at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on October 26.

Las Vegas – October 16, 2026 -- Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS) is targeting a separate public listing of its AI subsidiary askROI, Inc. by the second or third quarter of 2027, via a reverse takeover (RTO), an initial public offering (IPO) or a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger.

London – October 16, 2026 -- The global green data center market will grow from USD 26.71 billion in 2025 to USD 90.38 billion by 2035, a CAGR of 12.96%, according to a new DC Market Insights report. AI-driven rack density is raising the value of efficient power and cooling per MW, while water constraints, grid pressure and energy costs push operators toward liquid cooling, heat reuse, renewable power and facility retrofits.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence says its oMAC photonic computing processor cuts on-chip latency to below one nanosecond by processing data with light instead of electricity.

oMAC targets Moore's Law limits with photonic linear compute units

The company positions oMAC as a route past the single-chip performance limits of Moore's Law. The processor uses photonic linear compute units to accelerate linear operations, which it says delivers advantages in low latency and high throughput.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- The Gazelle optical computing evaluation board performs 8×2 fundamental optical matrix computations and is described by its maker as the highest-precision optoelectronic computing device known to date.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence's PACE2 accelerator card combines a 128×128 optical matrix multiplier with more than 40,000 photonic devices, and the company rates both its optical and electronic cores at 32 TOPs peak performance.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence, founded in 2017, reports 446 cumulative patents, with invention patents accounting for 80% of the portfolio, as it markets three optoelectronic computing products to AI and data center customers.

Lightelligence staffs 250+ employees, 170+ of them in R&D

The company counts more than 250 employees worldwide. R&D staff make up over 170 of them, roughly two-thirds of the workforce, which fits a patent-heavy, research-led business model.

San Antonio – October 15, 2026 -- Singtel Digital InfraCo has received Frost & Sullivan's 2026 Southeast Asia Transformational Innovation Leadership Recognition in AI infrastructure, backed by a portfolio of 26 internationally granted patents and early deployments of four successive NVIDIA GPU platforms.

San Jose – October 15, 2026 -- LITEON Technology (2301.tw) demonstrated 800 VDC rack power architectures scaling from 330kW to 1.2MW at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, targeting the megawatt-scale AI data centers its partner NVIDIA is building around.