Delray Beach – October 12, 2026 -- The global terahertz technology market is estimated at USD 1.07 billion in 2026 and is projected to reach USD 2.62 billion by 2032, a CAGR of 16.0%, according to MarketsandMarkets.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Cisco and NVIDIA plan to develop an open industry specification for a 400Gb/s-per-lane pluggable optical module that is expected to deliver 4x the bandwidth density of 200Gb/s-per-lane optics. The companies announced the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP) at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2026.

Cisco also said the first systems powered by its 102.4T Silicon One G300 are shipping to customers. Its 51.2T P200-based systems are running in production at hyperscalers, including Microsoft and Alibaba.

Taipei – October 12, 2026 -- ASRock Rack Inc. is displaying a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack platform, which it says will be available for deployment in the near future, at booth D37 of the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California. The event runs October 12 to 15.

ASRock Rack pairs NVIDIA Vera CPUs and HGX Rubin NVL8 with liquid cooling

The 2UXGM-VERA2 carries two NVIDIA Vera CPUs. ASRock Rack built it for agentic AI workloads, citing complex data pipelines and multi-step reasoning.

Seoul – October 12, 2026 -- Lunit (KRX: 328130) has partnered with Discovery Life Sciences, a lab that supports more than 350 active clinical trial programs, to roll out the Lunit SCOPE suite across biopharmaceutical research.

The AI-powered pathology platform will run inside Discovery's biomarker and tissue analysis workflows. Both companies will tailor it to each client program's design, working directly with pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers.

Macon, Ga. – October 12, 2026 -- KaMin and CADAM will raise prices on their kaolin products by up to 9.5% effective December 1, 2026, with the size of the increase depending on grade and region.

Inflation across mining, materials and labor outpaces cost savings

The companies cite broad inflationary pressure across mining, purchased raw materials and labor. Significant increases in energy costs are also hitting the business, they said.

Tracy, California – October 12, 2026 -- MachineryMax will sell more than 700 lots of late-model cabinet manufacturing equipment from Volumetric Building Companies' (VBC) Tracy facility in a two-day online auction, with bidding closing October 28 and 29.

VBC releases equipment as it expands modular manufacturing capacity

VBC is selling the assets as it expands its modular manufacturing capacity. MachineryMax is running the sale with Holland Industrial Group. Targeted buyers are cabinet makers, millwork shops, furniture manufacturers and panel processors.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Texas Instruments (Nasdaq: TXN) unveiled the ADC34DSO75, a 3 gigasamples-per-second analog-to-digital converter that it says enables 24/7, low-power, event-based remote monitoring at nanosecond resolution, thousands of times faster than current solutions.

The company debuted the device at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit alongside two other analog products aimed at AI data center power instability, inadequate real-time monitoring and signal degradation. TI says these problems can lead to costly downtime.

New York – October 12, 2026 -- Canyon Partners, a $30 billion global alternative investment manager, has appointed Chris Hansen as Partner and Chief Information Officer, tasking him with integrating artificial intelligence and alternative data across its investment platform.

Hansen takes charge of technology strategy and infrastructure from New York

Hansen oversees the firm's technology strategy and infrastructure. His remit covers information technology, business technology, engineering, data architecture, and the integration of AI and alternative data.

Santa Clara – October 12, 2026 -- HCLTech has signed a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic and will set up a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit with a Center of Excellence (CoE) to speed enterprise deployments of Claude, with a focus on safety, cybersecurity and governance in Agentic AI.

Alpharetta – October 12, 2026 -- Arclin has launched Kevlar® EXOTM XP E480, a soft armor material that it says enables body armor up to 25% lighter while meeting NIJ Level IIIA/HG2 protection requirements.