Global – October 27, 2026 -- Ninety-three percent of 350 senior telecom decision-makers surveyed globally by ST Engineering iDirect expect satellite to play a bigger role in their networks, and 88% plan to increase investment over the next five years.

Around 94% already classify satellite as essential or important to network strategy, and 85% highlight the importance of partnerships with satellite providers, according to the research cited by Shravan K Gaddam, VP Engineering in the company's CTO Office.

GLOBAL – October 27, 2026 -- Foresight, a network operations platform, lets satellite operators add AI-driven management without replacing the infrastructure they have already invested in, according to a recent Via Satellite webinar.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- ST Engineering iDirect expects its new Foresight AI platform to cut network operations center (NOC) workload by up to 60% and shrink mean time to repair from hours to minutes, according to the company's input to the World Teleport Association (WTA) report "The AI-Driven Teleport."

Columbus – October 27, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) has introduced Vertiv SmartIT, a factory-validated AI infrastructure platform built on NVIDIA MGX and OCP ORV3 architectures, available now for global deployments.

NEW YORK – October 27, 2026 -- The Power Hour and the Power Play Impact Fund have started a 365-day countdown to a Guinness World Records attempt in October 2027, aiming to synchronize 60 minutes of physical movement across countries, communities and companies.

LONDON – October 27, 2026 -- China holds the highest electrification deployment score among 16 countries assessed in a new index, while the US risks losing momentum and several large European economies have yet to turn policy into delivery.

MARRAKECH – October 27, 2026 -- The International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA), which counts more than 190 member anti-corruption authorities worldwide, will hold its 2026 annual conference in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 25, marking the organisation's 20th anniversary.

North America – October 27, 2026 -- Snowflake's product data science team cut the time from pipeline incident to a tested, reviewable fix to under 16 minutes using its CoCo agentic AI assistant. Before CoCo, diagnosis took a skilled engineer about 30 minutes per case. The result comes from a four-part framework that Snowflake built to measure AI value beyond license counts and prompt volumes.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Snowflake's sales finance team has cut its monthly forecast and variance analysis from more than a week to a few hours. It did so by giving its CoCo AI standing context about company data, terminology and workflows.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- 76% of data analysts still rely on manual, spreadsheet-based work for data preparation, despite near-universal adoption of AI tools, according to the 2025 State of Data Analysts survey published by Alteryx.