Interoperability stories

DTCC will tokenise US Treasuries on the Canton Network with Digital Asset, aiming for an MVP in 2026 as part of a multi-year roadmap.

LF Energy brings Apple, Microsoft and Shell onto its board as membership surges and event attendance hits records across three continents.

Isle of Man opens 2026 Innovation Challenge to global health tech teams, offering a testbed to trial tools for care at home and in communities.

Australian tech leaders tip 2026 as the year AI hype cools, privacy platforms surge and digital health reshapes everyday care.

Criteo says agentic AI will add a powerful new eCommerce layer, reshaping search, retail assistants and LLM ad models without replacing shops.

SEC greenlights DTCC unit to tokenise US blue-chip stocks, ETFs and Treasuries, paving way for mainstream blockchain-based securities.

Anthropic donates its Model Context Protocol to the new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to standardise agentic AI tools.

RingQ and Snom have sealed a global cloud telephony partnership to streamline IP phone provisioning and unified communications for businesses.

Quintauris teams with SiFive to embed RISC-V cores at the heart of standardised automotive zonal and ADAS control platforms.

AI, data and ‘governance intelligence’ set to transform private markets as regulators, LPs and retail investors demand real-time transparency.

Vespertec has struck a channel deal with Celestica to deliver open, software-defined data centre networking and storage across the UK.

The global digital economy is forecast to hit USD $28 trillion by 2026, growing nearly three times faster than overall world output.

Enreach and Cataleya team up to launch a white-label UCaaS platform for APAC service providers, targeting booming cloud comms demand.

Linux Foundation unites Anthropic, Block and OpenAI in new Agentic AI hub to standardise tools and protocols for autonomous AI agents.

SUSE and evroc ally to build an end-to-end sovereign European cloud stack, promising EU-only control of data, infrastructure and support.

Samsung has unveiled an AI-powered Home Companion, linking Bespoke AI appliances, TVs and mobiles in a unified SmartThings ecosystem.

Affinidi is piloting a digital hiring passport for India-Singapore, turning background checks into reusable, cryptographically secure credentials.

Hisense debuts AI-powered ConnectLife overhaul at CES 2026, unifying smart fridges, dishwashers and climate control for ANZ homes.

Siemens and nVent launch a joint liquid cooling and power blueprint to speed hyperscale NVIDIA AI data centre buildouts and cut energy use.

Squareroot8 and VIAVI sign Asia-Pacific pact to embed quantum-safe security into critical telecom and government networks at the fibre layer.