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Come to Beijing Chaoyang for an Adventurous Encounter with Trendy Toys and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Sun, 17 May 2026 02:51:00 +0700

BEIJING, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 15 May 2026 - From May 15 to 24, 2026, Beijing Chaoyang Park will host a unique cultural event - the first China New Cultural and Creative Market & Trendy Toy Carnival.

This is not a traditional exhibition, but an urban carnival that seamlessly blends popular IPs, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) crafts, immersive performances, and top-tier cultural and creative products from across China. The fair brings together high-quality creative cultural products, time-honored ICH brands, and trendy toy labels. Covering a total area of approximately 66,000 square meters, it features both indoor and outdoor zones. Centered around two main themes - "New Oriental Aesthetics" and "The Rise of Guochao (Chinese trendy culture)" - the event showcases over 10,000 creative products.

In the "Rise of Guochao" zone, leading Chinese trendy toy brands present immersive installations. 52TOYS brings the "Panda Roll Playful Panda Forest," where dozens of lifelike, giant panda sculptures are scattered among the trees, creating perfect photo opportunities. Pop Mart hosts a special exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of its hit IP "MOLLY," featuring a giant castle inflatable and vending machines for blind boxes. Also making its offline debut as a themed zone, "The Emoji Clinic," the globally recognized emoji brand launches several exclusive items not yet available in stores.

The ICH section is equally impressive. Ten nationally recognized master artisans showcase their representative works at the "Oriental Showcase," presenting ten traditional crafts, including filigree inlay, Hepu horn carving, polished lacquerware, Longquan celadon, and Shui ethnic group's horsetail embroidery. Traditional ICH techniques are creatively combined with trendy toy designs - Peking silk figurines, cloisonn?, and Beijing embroidery are integrated into modern doll clothing and accessories, giving birth to a unique Oriental trend aesthetic. Additionally, over 40 other ICH items - such as jade carving, cloisonn?, Beijing embroidery, Miao embroidery, and carved lacquer - allow visitors to observe master artisans at work up close and participate in hands-on activities like seal carving, tie-dyeing, and clay sculpting.

Throughout the event, five major venues in Chaoyang Park will host over 100 performances, spanning street dance, traditional Chinese music, symphony, opera, and parades. The Shell Theater will present an ACG symphony concert and a symphony of Hong Kong film golden melodies. At the East Square of Chaoyang Planning Art Museum, the "New Oriental Aesthetics" pop-up stage will feature continuous performances of Jingxi Taiping Drum dance and classical umbrella dance. The East Square of Weibo IN will focus on trendy crossover acts, with breakdance battles and jazz quartets taking turns on stage.

And when night falls, even more intriguing adventures begin. A mecha parade weaves through the crowds - you might brush past Black Myth: Wukong and a troupe of mascots. On the Fangzhou Lake, lantern-lit flower boats set sail, their slow journey accompanied by ancient music and shimmering water, creating a moving Oriental painting. From daytime blind-box surprises to nighttime lantern-lit garden strolls, the park offers unexpected delights at every turn.

No tickets are required - just a sense of curiosity. Bring your camera, gather your friends, come to Beijing Chaoyang Park, become a "power player," and join this immersive carnival of trendy toys and intangible cultural heritage.

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Hashtags: #Chaoyang

Kanghong Pharmaceutical and Vanotech Announce Positive Phase 2b Results for KH607 in Major Depressive Disorder

Sun, 17 May 2026 02:46:00 +0700

Phase 2b Trial Met Primary Endpoint, Demonstrating Strong Efficacy and Favorable Safety Profile; Phase 3 Planned

CHENGDU, China and ROCKAWAY, N.J., May 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kanghong Pharmaceutical and Vanotech Ltd. today announced the successful completion of a Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating KH607 in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD).

HIGHLIGHTS

*Phase 2b trial successfully completed in adults with MDD

*Study met primary endpoint and demonstrated strong efficacy

*Rapid, robust, and sustained antidepressant effects observed

*Favorable safety and tolerability profile with no serious safety concerns

*Phase 3 clinical development planned

The Phase 2b study met its primary endpoint, with results demonstrating strong efficacy and a favorable safety profile. KH607 exhibited rapid, robust, and sustained antidepressant effects, reinforcing its potential as a promising new treatment option for patients with MDD.

KH607 was generally well tolerated, with no serious safety concerns identified during the trial. Its overall safety profile supports continued clinical development and advancement into later-stage studies.

"These results mark an important milestone for KH607 and provide strong validation of its therapeutic potential in MDD," said Avner Ingerman, MD, President and Chief Medical Officer of Vanotech, Ltd. "We are encouraged by the combination of efficacy and tolerability observed in this study."

Based on these positive outcomes, the companies plan to advance KH607 into Phase 3 development.

About KH607

KH607 is an investigational oral small molecule and positive allosteric modulator (PAM) of the GABAₐ receptor. It is designed to selectively target receptor subtypes implicated in mood regulation. KH607 is being developed for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) and other neuropsychiatric conditions.

About Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common and serious mental health condition affecting more than 280 million people worldwide. It is characterized by persistent low mood, loss of interest, and a range of cognitive and physical symptoms that impair daily functioning. Despite available therapies, many patients fail to achieve adequate response or remission, underscoring the need for new treatment options.

About Kanghong Pharmaceutical

Kanghong Pharmaceutical is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative therapies addressing unmet medical needs. The company maintains a diversified pipeline across multiple therapeutic areas, supported by integrated research, development, and manufacturing capabilities.

About Vanotech Ltd.

Vanotech Ltd. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company responsible for the global clinical development of KH607 and other pipeline assets. Headquartered in Rockaway, New Jersey, Vanotech collaborates with partners to advance novel therapies for central nervous system and other disorders.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the clinical development, therapeutic potential, and planned advancement of KH607. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The companies undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

Investor & Media Contacts

Kanghong Pharmaceutical

Corporate Planning Department

Email: qhb@cnkh.com

Phone: +86-136-2805-8888

Vanotech Ltd.

Matthew Schiller

Email: matt.schiller@cnkh.com

Phone: +1-617-510-9271

Green GSM partners with 75 Philippine transport companies to deploy up to 18,497 VinFast electric vehicles

Sun, 17 May 2026 02:40:00 +0700

HANOI, VIETNAM - Media OutReach Newswire - 15 May 2026 - Green GSM has signed a series of Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) and deposit agreements with transport companies and cooperatives in the Philippines, supporting the planned deployment of up to 18,497 VinFast electric vehicles for passenger transport operations across the Philippines.

The agreements represent the next phase of Green GSM's expansion strategy in the Philippines through a partnership model that combines Green GSM's technology platform and operational standards with local market expertise and deployment capabilities.

The agreements involve 75 transport companies and cooperatives operating across multiple provinces and cities in the Philippines, including Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro, Cavite, Pampanga, Bacolod, Batangas, Baguio, and Ozamiz. These markets continue to experience strong mobility demand alongside accelerating adoption of cleaner and more efficient urban transport solutions.

Under the partnership plan, the parties expect to deploy a fleet of 18,497 vehicles through a combination of direct investment and long-term leasing arrangements, including VinFast VF 5/Herio Green and Limo Green models optimized for ride-hailing and passenger transport operations.

The signing further expands Green GSM's standardized all-electric mobility platform across major urban markets in Southeast Asia.

Within this regional expansion strategy, the Philippines plays a key role. Green GSM is expanding through a partnership-led model that combines centralized operating standards with local execution capabilities. Following the initial deployment of 2,500 vehicles in collaboration with Xentro Group, the next phase is expected to significantly expand both fleet scale and geographic coverage.

The model combines Green GSM's standardized operating platform with locally-managed fleet operations and driver networks. This structure enables consistent service standards and scalable deployment while remaining adaptable to local market conditions. By leveraging existing transport networks, the model also creates a more practical pathway toward large-scale electric mobility adoption.

Mr. Gio Colmenares, CEO of Asia Prime Force Corporation, said: "This partnership reflects a broader shift underway across the transport industry, where scale, efficiency, and sustainability are becoming increasingly interconnected. Green GSM's platform provides a structured approach to deploying electric mobility, combining operational clarity with long-term growth potential. We see this not only as an opportunity in the Philippines, but as part of a wider transformation of urban mobility across Southeast Asia."

Ms. Dave Baldoza, Managing Director of Green EV Transport Corp and Green Fast Corporation, said: "For transport cooperatives, the transition to electric mobility is not only about technology, but also about long-term sustainability for our members. Green GSM's model enables us to modernize our fleets while maintaining operational stability and access to consistent demand. This creates a clear pathway for cooperatives to participate in the next phase of urban transport development."

Ms. Rachel Ann Villanueva, Chairwoman of Green Will Corporation, said: "Scaling electric mobility requires coordinated investment across vehicles, infrastructure, and operations. Partnership models like this demonstrate how different parts of the ecosystem can work together to enable deployment at scale. We see strong potential for this approach to accelerate adoption not only in the Philippines, but across emerging urban markets in the region."

Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh, Global CEO of GSM, said: "Electrifying transportation is no longer a future trend, but an ongoing transition already taking place across major urban centers worldwide. Southeast Asia stands out as one of the most dynamic regions for this shift. Scaling electric mobility requires more than technology. It requires operating models that can maintain consistency across markets while adapting to local conditions. Through its platform and partnership approach, Green GSM aims to advance electric mobility in a practical and sustainable way while maintaining unified service standards across the ecosystem."

Following the signing, partners are expected to complete vehicle orders and begin phased operations throughout 2026. The expansion further reinforces the transition toward large-scale electrification of urban transport networks in the Philippines, while enabling broader participation from transport companies and cooperatives in the country's evolving mobility sector. With deployment planned across multiple provinces and cities, Green GSM continues to expand a mobility model built on scalable operations, standardized service quality, and long-term sustainability objectives.

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

Hashtags: #GreenSM

Market Analysis: Dmitry Shubov Remarks on Bridging the $3B Gap Between U.S. Capital and S.E.A. Multilingual Legal AI

Sun, 17 May 2026 02:25:00 +0700

FREMONT, Calif., May 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global contract management space is expanding rapidly, with Grand View Research projecting the market to exceed $3 billion by 2030. However, as the sector grows, a significant operational bottleneck has emerged: the struggle for enterprises to efficiently review complex, multi-language contracts across borders.

Dmitry Shubov, founder of Dmitry Shubov Consulting, is addressing this gap by issuing a new industry brief on the surge of U.S. venture interest in Southeast Asian (S.E.A.) legal-tech. His analysis points to a "nuance crisis" where off-the-shelf AI models-while impressive in general settings-may not be equipped to handle the strict, culturally dependent intricacies of international legal work.

The Investor Differentiator: Contextual Intelligence

Citing recent industry data from Ironclad, the brief identifies a growing "nuance gap" where standard AI models can sometimes struggle with the subtle differences between U.S. and APAC regulations. According to Shubov's analysis, venture funds are beginning to prioritize startups that offer:

Linguistic Contextualization: Moving beyond word-for-word translation to recognize how legal clauses are interpreted under different regional legal systems (e.g., Asian civil law vs. U.S. common law).

Operational Proof of Concept: A requirement for data from stateside pilot programs that demonstrate reduced cross-border review times and administrative streamlining.

Supply Chain Resilience: The ability to organize and process complex vendor agreements for U.S. businesses operating throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Dynamic Language Processing: Instantly handling documents that bounce between two or more languages while maintaining 100% of the original formatting.

Navigating the Expansion Threshold

Through his advisory work at Dmitry Shubov Consulting, Shubov argues that for S.E.A. founders, technical superiority is only one part of the equation. Success in the American market requires a strategic framework that translates technical value into a language U.S. institutional investors can execute on.

"It's one thing to translate a document; it's another thing entirely to understand the liability inside it. The $3 billion gap we're seeing in contract management could be a gap in trust. Investors want to know that the tech can handle the heavy lifting of international law without a human having to double-check every idiom. That's where the real opportunity lies for S.E.A. founders today," says Dmitry Shubov.

As the S.E.A. legal-tech corridor continues to mature, partnering with a consulting firm can be a strategic move. For more information on entering the U.S. market, please visit Dmitry Shubov Consulting.

About Dmitry Shubov Consulting

At Dmitry Shubov Consulting, our mission is to connect accredited investors with groundbreaking legal technology startups, fostering innovation and growth across Southeast Asia and helping Asian businesses enter the U.S. market. For more information, please visit our website or contact us directly.

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Omantel Launches AI Centre of Excellence and AI Startups Program

Sat, 16 May 2026 15:20:00 +0700

MUSCAT, Oman, May 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Omantel has announced the launch of its AI Centre of Excellence, an integrated platform designed to accelerate the adoption of advanced artificial intelligence technologies and support the transformation of promising ideas and applications into scalable digital products across multiple sectors. The centre brings together advanced infrastructure, integrated data environments, operational expertise, and innovation capabilities to enable practical and scalable AI implementation across industries.

As one of the centre's key tracks, Omantel also launched the AI Startups Program, a strategic program focused on connecting technology startups with Omantel's internal teams and real operational environments to support the co-creation and scaling of commercially viable AI products and solutions.

The program forms part of Omantel's broader "Everyone AI" strategy, which aims to enable the practical and scalable adoption of artificial intelligence applications, while supporting the development of an advanced digital ecosystem and creating tangible impact for customers, business sectors, and technology startups.

The AI Startups Program currently engages startups accelerated through Omantel Innovation Labs, including Decoil, Remedy, ORKI, DeepAstra, and Wiya. Through the program, these startups contribute to the development and expansion of AI products within Omantel's operational and commercial ecosystem, supporting their transition from experimentation to growth and commercialization.

Commenting on the lunch, Aladdin Baitfadhil, Chief Executive Officer of Omantel, said: "Omantel's 'Everyone AI' strategy represents an ambitious vision to drive the practical and scalable adoption of artificial intelligence in a way that supports digital transformation and creates sustainable value. Through the AI Centre of Excellence and the AI Startups Program, we are building an integrated innovation ecosystem that brings together technology startups, operational expertise, and real-world implementation environments to accelerate the development of digital products capable of competing regionally and globally."

Participating startups will benefit from Omantel's advanced infrastructure, integrated data environments, specialized technical expertise, and regional and international partnerships, supporting product development and accelerating expansion into high-growth markets across sectors including telecommunications, financial services, energy, healthcare, and government services.

Through the AI Centre of Excellence and the AI Startups Program, Omantel continues to strengthen its innovation ecosystem and support technology entrepreneurship, while reinforcing its role in enabling digital transformation and advancing emerging technologies in line with Oman Vision 2040.

Omantel has succeeded, through the integration of its operations, processes, and extensive expertise in the field of communications and digital technology, in establishing its position as a leading telecommunications company within the Sultanate of Oman and beyond. The company's innovative approaches have contributed to providing state-of-the-art solutions to different consumer and business sectors. The company aims to deliver an unparalleled, exceptional experience to its customers and strives to always exceed their expectations. To achieve the objectives of Oman Vision 2040, Omantel invests in emerging technologies and provides cutting-edge ICT solutions, such as cloud solutions, AI, Smart solutions, cybersecurity, and much more, in addition to harnessing its technological capabilities to enhance innovation and leadership in new and advanced technologies.***

Omantel Launches AI Centre of Excellence and AI Startups Program

Sat, 16 May 2026 15:20:00 +0700

Valeura Announces Voting Results

Sat, 16 May 2026 14:58:00 +0700

SINGAPORE, May 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Valeura Energy Inc. (TSX:VLE, OTCQX:VLERF) ("Valeura" or the "Corporation") reports the voting results from its annual general and special meeting of shareholders held on 14 May 2026.

Shareholders voted on and approved the following proposals: (1) the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Singapore) as the auditors of the Corporation; (2) the election of the directors of the Corporation, (3) the allocation of unallocated options under the Corporation's stock option plan; and (4) the allocation of unallocated performance share units and restricted share units under the Corporation's performance and restricted share unit plan.

About the Company

Valeura Energy Inc. is a Canadian public company engaged in the exploration, development and production of petroleum and natural gas in Thailand and Turkiye. The Corporation is executing a growth-oriented strategy, reinvesting into its producing asset portfolio while deploying capital toward further organic and inorganic growth across Southeast Asia. Valeura is committed to delivering value-accretive growth for all stakeholders, underpinned by high standards of environmental, social and governance responsibility.***

Natural Diamonds Sparkle on The Red Carpet at The 2026 Met Gala Celebrating "Costume Art"

Sat, 16 May 2026 14:50:00 +0700

Today's biggest stars express individuality and confidence with natural diamonds

NEW YORK, US - Media OutReach Newswire - 15 May 2026 - The 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" took place May 4th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, bringing together leading figures from across the globe for an unforgettable evening. These tastemakers showcased the most classic, refined and distinctive diamond jewelry looks of the season. Below, A Diamond is Forever highlights the standout trends from the event.

Desert diamonds

Desert diamonds emerged as a striking throughline on the Met Gala carpet, with a range of hues in distinctive settings taking focus.

Rihanna led the trend in a pair of exceptionally rare old Moghul Golconda fancy brown-yellow diamond earrings by Glenn Spiro, featuring two pear-shaped natural diamonds totaling 51.9 carats. Doja Cat offset her all nude look with a pair of large Leviev Diamonds floral-shaped earrings while Paloma Elsesser made a statement in a 29.5-carat diamond necklace by Bernard James, centered around a 15-carat fancy light yellow pear-shaped natural diamond. Cara Delevingne wore a De Beers London Forces of Nature High Jewelry ring, featuring marquise yellow diamonds set as eyes, while Emma Chamberlain opted for yellow and white diamond earrings by Chopard, underscoring the continued allure of warm diamond hues.

Magnificent Diamond Earrings

A wide variety of captivating silhouettes defined the natural diamond earrings on the Met Gala carpet. Zo? Kravitz delivered a modern twist with oversized diamond flower earrings by Jessica McCormack. Chase Sui Wonders opted for Jean Schlumberger by Tiffany & Co. Sea Fan earrings, bringing an element of sculptural artistry to the look. Gracie Abrams selected gently dangling Chanel earrings, adding understated fluidity, while Connor Storrie selected simple hoop earrings from Tiffany & Co., reinforcing the clean and enduring appeal of natural diamonds.

Standout Diamond Moments

Natural diamonds appeared in personal, unconventional and eye-catching ways, offering moments of surprise and awe. Power couple Beyonc? and Jay-Z embodied this trend with Beyonc? wearing Chopard's Queen of Kalahari necklace, named after the rare 342-carat diamond that provided 23 stones for Chopard's Garden of Kalahari collection. Jay-Z contributed to the narrative with a vintage diamond brooch by Briony Raymond worn at the collar as an unexpected placement that underscored the piece's versatility. Isha Ambani made the styling of diamonds an art form in itself, wearing her own diamond jewelry featuring approximately 150 carats of old mine-cut diamonds, including a three-strand necklace and chandelier earrings, while also incorporating diamonds sewn directly into the bodice of her sari to represent significant moments in her life.

Together, these looks highlighted a shift toward natural diamonds as vessels of personal expression, styled with intention, individuality, and a sense of the unexpected.

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.***

nCino Announces Timing of its First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results Conference Call

Sat, 16 May 2026 13:39:00 +0700

WILMINGTON, N.C., May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), the platform for agentic AI banking, will report financial results for its first quarter ended April 30, 2026, after the market close on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. nCino will host a conference call and webcast that day at 4:30 p.m. ET to discuss its financial results.

Event: nCino's First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results Conference Call
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET

Webcast Link: https://investor.ncino.com/
Replay: A webcast replay will be available on the Investor Relations section of nCino's website following the call.

About nCino

nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO) is the platform for agentic AI banking. With over 2,700 customers worldwide - including community banks, credit unions, independent mortgage banks, and the largest financial entities globally - nCino offers a trusted, agentic platform purpose-built for financial services and regulated industries. By deploying AI agents alongside human teams, nCino's dual workforce enables institutions to eliminate inefficiencies, sharpen decision-making and deliver better outcomes for the customers they serve. For more information, visit www.ncino.com.

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Zymeworks Announces Share Repurchase Program of up to $125 Million of its Common Stock

Sat, 16 May 2026 13:27:00 +0700

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zymeworks Inc. (Nasdaq: ZYME), a biotechnology company managing a portfolio of licensed healthcare assets while developing a diverse pipeline of novel, multifunctional biotherapeutics, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a 2026 share repurchase program under which the Company may repurchase up to $125.0 million of its outstanding common stock, par value $0.00001 per share.

Concurrently, Zymeworks has terminated its existing 2025 share repurchase program under which the Company has repurchased 4,197,553 million shares of common stock for $102.3 million, representing an average purchase price of $24.36 per common share.

"The authorization of this 2026 share repurchase program reflects our continued focus on disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation," said Kenneth Galbraith, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Zymeworks. "We believe this program provides an efficient mechanism to return capital to stockholders, while preserving the flexibility to further invest in our R&D pipeline and pursue strategic opportunities."

As of May 13, 2026, the Company had approximately 73.0 million outstanding common shares.

The program will be funded through the Company's strong balance sheet, leveraging its financial capacity to repurchase shares. The shares may be repurchased from time to time in open market transactions, or other means in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and Rule 10b-18 of the Exchange Act. The timing, number of shares repurchased, and prices paid for the shares under this program will depend on general business and market conditions as well as corporate and regulatory limitations, prevailing stock prices, and other considerations. The 2026 share repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time and does not obligate the Company to acquire any amount of common stock.***

Huayan Robotics Memamerkan Solusi Pengelasan dan Otomatisasi di METALTECH & AUTOMEX 2026

Sat, 16 May 2026 13:17:00 +0700

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huayan Robotics, spesialis robotika kolaboratif cerdas yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Hong Kong (HKEX), akan memamerkan solusi otomatisasi terbarunya di METALTECH & AUTOMEX 2026 yang digelar pada tanggal 20--23 Mei di Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC), Kuala Lumpur.

Di Stan L2-7320, Hall 7, perusahaan ini akan menampilkan portofolio sistem robotik yang fleksibel, efisien, dan cerdas. Partisipasi ini mencerminkan komitmen kuat perusahaan terhadap pasar Malaysia dan Asia Tenggara secara lebih luas.

Di ajang terkemuka ini, Huayan Robotics akan menampilkan solusi untuk aplikasi pengelasan dan skenario industri berfrekuensi tinggi, termasuk:

Lini Robot Pengelasan Kolaboratif

Pengunjung akan dapat mempelajari dua model robot pengelasan kolaboratif:

* Cobot (robot kolaboratif) dengan jangkauan ekstra panjang 1,8 m, dirancang untuk menangani benda kerja berukuran besar dan kompleks;

* Model ringan yang dilengkapi dengan dudukan magnetik untuk penempatan fleksibel di berbagai stasiun kerja.

Robot ini dilengkapi dengan fitur pengajaran dengan cara memandu gerakan lengan robot berbasis kontrol gaya, pelacakan posisi sambungan las secara otomatis, dan koreksi lintasan adaptif, yang secara keseluruhan mengurangi upaya pemrograman sekaligus meningkatkan presisi dan konsistensi pengelasan. Dirancang untuk industri seperti perkapalan, fabrikasi baja struktural, dan fabrikasi logam, serta sektor lainnya, robot pengelasan ini memungkinkan peningkatan skala produksi dengan fleksibilitas yang lebih tinggi.

Solusi Otomatisasi Terintegrasi

Sorotan utama pada pameran ini adalah solusi otomatisasi canggih, termasuk robot untuk bongkar-muat CNC, robot paletisasi untuk beban berat, dan robot inspeksi visual 2,5D.

Dalam aplikasi CNC, Huayan Robotics menghadirkan kecepatan tinggi, presisi, dan pengoperasian yang stabil, didukung oleh kemitraan jangka panjang dengan produsen mesin perkakas terkemuka di dunia. Solusi paletisasi ini menawarkan kapasitas angkut beban hingga 60 kg, jangkauan hingga 2,2 m, dan kecepatan 8--13 siklus per menit, sehingga sesuai untuk industri dengan volume produksi tinggi seperti makanan & minuman, bahan kimia untuk kebutuhan sehari-hari, dan logistik. Sistem visual 2,5D yang ditingkatkan dengan AI menghadirkan kontrol kualitas yang lebih cerdas dan hemat biaya ke lini produksi sehingga meningkatkan akurasi dan efisiensi inspeksi.

Kunjungi Stan L2-7320 di MITEC untuk menelusuri berbagai solusi robot kolaboratif dan berdiskusi dengan tim mengenai peluang manufaktur cerdas di kawasan Asia Tenggara.**"

TestMu AI Introduces Test.md, an Agent-Native Test Framework for Kane CLI

Sat, 16 May 2026 13:03:00 +0700

The new framework enables replayable, human- and agent-readable tests, turning exploratory sessions into persistent, verifiable test coverage

SAN FRANCISCO and NOIDA, India, May 14, 2026 -- TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest), the world's first full-stack Agentic AI Quality Engineering platform, today announced the launch of Test.md, an agent-native test framework built into Kane CLI. The framework introduces a structured yet lightweight way to define, store, and replay tests, designed for both human developers and AI agents operating in modern, AI-accelerated development environments.

As software development increasingly shifts toward AI-generated code and agent-driven workflows, traditional testing frameworks are struggling to keep pace. Test.md addresses this gap by rethinking how tests are authored, executed, and maintained--eliminating the need for complex syntax, selectors, or framework-specific configurations.

At its core, Test.md enables engineering teams to convert real-time testing sessions into replayable test files using a simple markdown structure. Tests are defined as step-based objectives written in natural language, allowing them to function simultaneously as documentation and executable test cases.

"AI has fundamentally changed how software is built, but testing workflows have not evolved at the same pace," said Asad Khan, CEO & Co-Founder at TestMu AI. "Test.md is our approach to closing that gap. It creates a shared, durable test format that both humans and AI agents can read, write, and execute, without the overhead of traditional frameworks."

Unlike conventional approaches that rely on static scripts, Test.md introduces a replay-first execution model. Tests are authored once and then replayed deterministically, with Kane CLI intelligently deciding when to reuse recorded steps and when to re-author them based on changes in the application flow. This enables teams to scale testing without proportionally increasing effort, turning one-time validation into continuous regression coverage.

Key capabilities of Test.md include a markdown-native structure where each test is defined through step-level headings and plain English objectives, making tests inherently readable and maintainable. The framework supports modular test composition through @import, allowing teams to reuse common flows such as login, setup, and teardown across multiple tests without duplication. Configuration is embedded directly within the file using front matter, enabling environment-specific variables, runtime limits, and execution settings to be managed alongside test logic.

Test.md is designed for real-world engineering environments, with native support for CI/CD integration and agent-driven execution. Tests can run headlessly, in parallel, or in agent mode with structured outputs, making them suitable for automated pipelines. Each run generates a detailed result artifact, including step-level status, execution traces, and shareable evidence, ensuring reproducibility and traceability across environments.

A key innovation lies in its compatibility with AI-driven workflows. Test.md provides a persistent, version-controlled artifact that AI agents can generate, interpret, and reuse, enabling continuous validation of AI-generated code. This allows teams to move from "a human will verify it later" to a system where verification is built directly into the development loop.

By unifying exploratory testing, documentation, and automation into a single workflow, Test.md eliminates the traditional separation between manual and automated testing. Engineering teams can now build test suites organically as part of their existing workflows, rather than as a parallel effort. Test.md is available as part of Kane CLI and can be used across local, cloud, and CI/CD environments.***

Bitget UEX Report: Retail Investors Move Beyond Crypto as 52% Add Equities And 51% Use AI

Sat, 16 May 2026 12:54:00 +0700

VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has released the Bitget User Asset Allocation Report 2026 with data showing that retail investors are expanding beyond crypto into commodities, equities, and AI-assisted investing as portfolio construction becomes more diversified across global asset classes. The findings combine trading activity on Bitget with responses from more than 6,000 users globally.

Crypto remained the main source of trading activity in Q1 2026, with 86% of surveyed users holding crypto assets. Crypto accounted for nearly all trading volume in early January before stabilizing in a 60% to 80% range by March as participation broadened into other markets. Over the same period, trading in traditional assets led by gold rose from near zero to between 20% and 40% of total activity, marking the strongest quarterly increase recorded for non-crypto assets on Bitget.

The data highlighted that 52% of users globally now hold equities alongside crypto, while 35% hold gold or other precious metals, making commodities the most widely adopted non-crypto asset category among surveyed participants. AI and precious metals or crude oil emerged as the two themes users most closely associate with investment opportunities in 2026.

Among high-net-worth participants, diversification is accelerating further. Bitget users recorded an average annual return of 13% in 2025, while around 6% of VIP users achieved annual returns between 51% and 100%. Among surveyed high-value users, 74% said they plan to expand across crypto, equities, and commodities in 2026 to manage risk more actively.

Regional trading preferences continue to reflect local macro conditions. In East Asia, 60% of users ranked avoiding currency conversion as a key reason for using USDT settlement, while 48% prioritized avoiding traditional account-opening requirements. In Southeast Asia, 46% of users identified leverage access as a major reason for trading traditional assets. In Latin America, 78% said diversification and protection against inflation or currency depreciation are their main reasons for holding both crypto and traditional assets.

AI adoption is also becoming part of core trading behavior. 51% of surveyed users said they already use AI tools to support investment decisions. Bitget's AI products, including GetAgent, GetClaw, and Agent Hub, are increasingly used to interpret earnings releases, commodity price moves, macroeconomic developments, and onchain signals across asset classes.

Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, said: "Retail trading behavior is becoming more macro-aware. Users are moving capital across asset classes based on liquidity, volatility, and market access, and they increasingly expect one platform to support that efficiently. Stablecoin-based settlement is becoming a practical entry point for broader market participation. The stronger demand for commodities, equities, and AI tools shows that users are building portfolios around global signals, not around a single asset category."

Survey results also show a strong demand for the Universal Exchange model. 71% of users identified USDT settlement as the most important feature, while 65% ranked the fast switching across crypto, equities, forex, and commodities within one account as a top priority. Users consistently described the ideal trading platform as one that combines global asset access, stablecoin settlement, centralized liquidity, transparent reserve verification, and AI-assisted decision tools within one system.

For more information, please visit here.***

Infoblox and GoDaddy Support Open Standards for AI Agent Discovery, Identity and Verification

Sat, 16 May 2026 11:03:00 +0700

DNS Infrastructure Leaders Back Complementary, DNS-based Approaches to Help Add Transparency to AI Agents Across the Open Web

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and TEMPE, Ariz., May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Infoblox, a leader in hybrid, multi-cloud networking and preemptive security, and GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), a global leader in domain registration and internet infrastructure, today announced support for complementary open standards designed to help AI agents identify, discover and verify one another across the open web.

Infoblox is advancing DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID), an open, interoperable approach for agent discovery built on existing Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure. GoDaddy is helping develop Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard focused on agent identity, naming and verification using DNS and public key infrastructure (PKI). Both efforts are complementary and are being developed in community standards bodies with the explicit goal of enabling independent implementations and avoiding single- or concentrated-vendor control.

The companies share a belief that no single or small group of vendors, registries or platforms should control how AI agents are named, discovered or verified. As agents begin to act across websites, applications and enterprise environments, open standards will be essential to help people and systems know which agents they are interacting with and whether those agents are verified.

"Agents will only reach their full potential on the open web if people and systems can verify who they are interacting with," said Jared Sine, chief strategy and legal officer at GoDaddy. "Adopters of the Agent Name Service open standard leverages the only infrastructure that exists today that operates at the scale and speed of the global internet--Domain Name Service. We support Infoblox's work on DNS-AID and believe open standards for identity, discovery and verification will be critical as agents become part of everyday digital experiences."

"The lesson we learned from the 1970s to 1980s is simple: no single entity could or should run the phonebook of the internet for everyone," said Wei Chen, CLO, EVP, Regulatory Strategy at Infoblox. "DNS replaced it, not with another centralized list, but with an open, federated protocol that anyone could participate in. Forty years later, DNS remains the gold standard for digital trust and a scalable foundation where agents, Model Context Protocols, services and endpoints can be discovered and trusted through the same architecture that already powers the global economy."

What Is DNS-AID?

DNS-AID is an open standard, currently advancing as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) draft and open-source software, that defines how AI agents can publish discoverable metadata using existing DNS record types, including RFC 9460 Service Bindings (SVCB), DNS-SD service discovery, Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), and DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE). DNS-AID is not owned by any company; it is a community standard that any organization, platform, registry or agent framework can implement.

By advancing DNS-AID, Infoblox is helping establish a standards-based discovery layer for agents. GoDaddy supports the goal of open, DNS-based agent discovery and believes DNS-AID complements ANS by addressing a related but distinct need: helping agents and systems find the metadata needed to evaluate and connect with one another.

What Is the Agent Name Service?

Agent Name Service is an open standard and implementation for AI agent identity, naming and verification, built on DNS and PKI. GoDaddy is a co-author of the ANS IETF draft and a significant contributor to its open-source implementation.

ANS is designed to let agent operators use domain names they already own--without requiring a new registry or proprietary naming system. This helps make agents identifiable and addressable through the same established internet infrastructure that already supports websites and email.

Shared Principles

ANS is anchored on agent identity: giving agents unique names and the cryptographic proof to back them. DNS-AID focuses on agent discovery: defining how agents' capabilities and endpoints are published in DNS so other systems can find them. The two efforts share a DNS and PKI foundation and are being developed to fit alongside each other in DNS as complementary parts of an open agentic internet. Put simply: ANS answers who an agent is, and DNS-AID helps others find what it can do.

Infoblox and GoDaddy believe agent discovery and identity should be open and interoperable, not tied to proprietary protocols or closed registries. Agent deployers should retain control over their agents' identity, metadata, discoverability and policies, and trust decisions should be based on open, auditable, cryptographically verifiable signals rather than proprietary reputation scores controlled by a single vendor.

Why DNS?

DNS is already globally deployed, federated, extensible and supported by mature operational and security practices. Building agent identity and discovery on DNS means inheriting decades of operational experience, caching infrastructure, anycast resilience, governance process and an installed base that reaches every device on the internet. SVCB records provide an extensible record format that can support agent capabilities, endpoints and protocols.

An Open Invitation

Infoblox and GoDaddy recognize that it will take the industry to come together to define the future of the agentic internet alone. "We are calling on cloud providers, agent platform vendors, registrars, security companies and standards organizations to join us in open standards work," said Wei Chen. "We believe AI agents should be discovered and verified through open infrastructure that is fully federated and distributed."

To learn more about DNS-AID, visit www.dns-aid.org.

To learn more about ANS, visit www.ansinfo.ai.

Celebrate Industry Excellence - Nominations Open for 2026 Elevate Best of the Year Awards

Sat, 16 May 2026 10:50:00 +0700

Peer-Nominated Awards Recognize Outstanding Individual Contributions Across the Heavy Building Materials Industry

HILLIARD, Ohio, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Command Alkon, the global leader in software and platform technology for the heavy building materials industry, is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2026 Elevate Best of the Year Awards. These awards honor the individuals who go above and beyond in their roles to drive operational excellence, innovation, and industry advancement.

Nominations are open to Command Alkon systems users, partners, and industry peers who wish to recognize colleagues and professionals making a meaningful impact in their organizations and across the heavy building materials industry. Submissions will be accepted through September 9.

"The Elevate Awards are an opportunity to recognize the individuals who are pushing our industry forward every day," said Karli Langner, Public Relations Manager at Command Alkon. "From the field to the office, from technology and innovation to community involvement, these nominees represent the very best of what our industry has to offer."

Best of the Year Award winners are selected from peer nominations submitted across the industry. Winners will be notified ahead of the event, and announced during the Opening Keynote at the 2026 Elevate Conference in November.

Command Alkon invites nominations for the following 2026 Best of the Year categories:

* Dispatcher of the Year
* Plant Operator of the Year
* Technical Services/QC Personnel of the Year
* Sales Professional of the Year
* Driver of the Year
* Fleet Operations Champion of the Year
* Back Office of the Year
* IT Specialist of the Year
* Outstanding Woman in Heavy Building Materials Industry
* Everyday Hero
* AI Innovator of the Year
* Cloud Innovator of the Year
* CALMS eLearner of the Year

To nominate an employee, colleague, or industry partner, fill out the nomination form here.

For more information about the Elevate Conference and awards program, visit www.commandalkon.com/elevate/. ***

HERE unveils AI-powered last meter guidance solution to help delivery drivers complete the final handoff

Sat, 16 May 2026 10:36:00 +0700

Chicago - HERE Technologies, the leading mapping and location data platform, today announced HERE Last Meter Guidance, a location intelligence solution designed to help drivers finish deliveries more quickly, accurately and with less guesswork by providing AI-based guidance from the optimal parking location, through the final handover location. HERE will demo the solution, currently in beta, next week at Home Delivery World USA in Nashville, Tenn.

The last mile represents the shortest distance, yet it has become the most complex and expensive leg of the journey, now accounting for more than half of total supply chain costs. Today, it's no longer enough to deliver to an address. For many fleets, the biggest challenge begins after arrival.

Using AI, automated sensor data & positioning collection and a constant feedback loop of insights from successful real-world deliveries, HERE Last Meter Guidance will establish 'ground truth.' The solution will provide couriers with precise guidance on delivery parking, walking paths and the correct building entry point. The expected result is more efficient fuel consumption, more completed first-attempt deliveries and a better customer experience.

"We've come a long way in optimizing how drivers get to a destination, but it's now the last few meters, from arrival through delivery handoff, that present the biggest bottlenecks. Too often, drivers are working with poor, missing or confusing data right where precision matters most," said Bart Coppelmans, Senior Director of Product Management at HERE Technologies. "HERE Last Meter Guidance is designed to bring more certainty to that final handoff. With fuel price volatility, condensed delivery windows, delivery automation and heightened consumer expectations, the stakes have never been higher."

Across major cities, delivery volumes climb, while streets and curbs are constrained by congestion, making urban environments more complex to navigate. At the same time, retailers are compressing delivery timelines and expanding same-day and even one-hour delivery options. HERE's solution aims to help fleets operate in this new reality by providing precise, real-world guidance for a fast, accurate and successful final handoff.

HERE Last Meter Guidance will complement the company's existing tour planning and navigation capabilities to support end-to-end transport, from route planning and navigation through delivery completion at the door. HERE will showcase the latest in last mile logistics at Home Delivery World USA, booth #1316. Schedule time to meet with HERE or demo the solution.

HERE Last Meter Guidance is currently in beta and is expected to move toward general availability following this initial phase. For more on HERE Last Meter Guidance, visit here.com/contact.***

Tealium Launches Audience Discovery for Snowflake as a Native App to Power Real-Time Customer Activation

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:55:00 +0700

Joint customers can build, govern, and activate audiences in real time -- directly within Snowflake, without moving data

San Diego, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tealium today announced it has launched Tealium Audience Discovery for Snowflake. The solution, a Snowflake Native App, enables joint customers to build, govern, and activate audiences directly within their Snowflake environment -- eliminating data movement and accelerating time to insight.

Now, data teams can ensure more accurate, ready-to-activate audiences, so they can get their campaigns in front of customers quickly, without losing control over the underlying data or ripping or replacing their stack.

"The data cloud is the brain of your customer operations; Tealium is the nervous system," said Mike Anderson, CTO and Co-Founder of Tealium. "One of the most critical challenges for modern organizations in today's AI era is turning intelligence into action in the moments that matter. Unlike standard reverse-ETL vendors that stop at simply loading an audience into a destination after the fact, Tealium's customer data orchestration platform supercharges the entire data lifecycle. By fueling Snowflake with high-quality data collection, we enable the best of all worlds: fueling the customer data warehouse with the best data available, in-the-moment orchestration for real-time customer experiences, and efficient batch delivery via reverse-ETL leveraging the customer data warehouse."

Tealium and Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, are working together to help joint customers unify data activation and analytics in a single governed environment. By combining Snowflake's secure, scalable platform with Tealium's real-time orchestration capabilities, organizations can move from insight to action faster and deliver more personalized customer engagement at scale.

"Using applications natively in Snowflake can be transformative for organizations looking to activate their data in real time," said Luke Ambrosetti, Industry Principal, AI Solutions -- Marketing, Snowflake. "With Tealium's Audience Discovery for Snowflake, customers gain greater flexibility to create, manage, and operationalize audiences directly within their Snowflake environment, while maintaining their security and governance controls."

Historically, teams have been dependent on lengthy processes to extract and format data for campaigns, which can take days or weeks. Tealium Audience Discovery for Snowflake provides a self-service environment for all teams, all while maintaining robust governance controls.

Additional solution benefits include:

* Three Flexible Creation Paths: Empower every team member to build audiences using natural language via Snowflake Cortex; an intuitive point-and-click interface for marketers; or an AI-assisted SQL editor for complex data analysis.

* Built-In Precision & Validation: Before launching, teams can validate audiences using live histograms, dataset previews, and refresh history to ensure the "size and shape" of the data matches campaign goals.

* Dual Activation Modes: Users can choose the best path for their use case within a single platform. Use revers--ETL for scheduled batch updates or real-time orchestration when immediate customer engagement is required.

* Zero-Copy Governance: Because the app runs natively in Snowflake, data remains in place, allowing organizations to maintain control using Snowflake's native security, roles, and audit capabilities.

As a Snowflake Native App, Tealium Audience Discovery runs directly within the customer's Snowflake account, allowing organizations to bring activation closer to their data. By eliminating the need for data movement or duplication, teams can reduce operational overhead, improve data accuracy, and accelerate time to value.The Tealium Audience Discovery for Snowflake app will be available globally on the Snowflake Marketplace in Q2.

Snowflake Marketplace helps companies expand what's possible with data and AI through third-party data, apps and AI products. With on-platform purchasing and immediate access to data products, Snowflake Marketplace lowers integration costs and streamlines procurement processes. By delivering data, apps and AI products directly to the customers' data, providers deliver a superior customer experience and see accelerated revenue growth and increased margins. To learn more about Snowflake Marketplace and how to find, try and buy third-party products to accelerate your analytics, app development and AI initiatives, click here.

The Snowflake Native App Framework enables developers to build applications using Snowflake's core functionalities, distribute them globally on Snowflake Marketplace, and deploy them within a customer's Snowflake account. To learn more about the Snowflake Native App Framework and how to become a Snowflake partner, click here.***

Fogo de Chao Accelerates Global Growth with New Lease Agreement for Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:37:00 +0700

Internationally renowned restaurant expands footprint with its 10th Brazil location

DALLAS, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fogo de Chao, the internationally renowned restaurant founded in Brazil over 46 years ago and known for its elevated churrasco dining experience, today announced it has signed a new lease agreement for a location in Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Expected to open in 2027, the restaurant will be Fogo's third in Rio and tenth in its home country, marking a significant milestone in the brand's continued growth.

Set in the heart of Ipanema, an upscale, world-famous beachfront neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro known for its vibrant culture, stunning coastline, and sophisticated dining scene, the new restaurant will be part of the Jardim de Alah development, a thoughtfully designed public space that fosters connection and brings the community together while honoring the city's rich cultural heritage. The restaurant will blend timeless design with the inviting warmth of Brazilian hospitality, reinforcing Fogo's deep commitment to its authentic origins.

"Expanding into Ipanema represents an important step in our global growth strategy to bring the Culinary Art of Churrasco to the world," said Barry McGowan, CEO of Fogo de Chao. "As one of Rio de Janeiro's most iconic and internationally recognized neighborhoods, Ipanema provides a strategic location for strengthening our presence in Brazil while continuing to elevate the Fogo experience worldwide. With growing momentum in key international markets like Chile and the United Kingdom, each new opening in Brazil reflects our deep roots in the culture that defines who we are."

Fogo continues to grow organically across key domestic markets including Sao Paulo, Bras?lia, Rio de Janeiro, and soon Belo Horizonte, while simultaneously expanding its presence in major capital cities around the world such as Santiago, Chile; Manila, Philippines; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Quito, Ecuador; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Mexico City, Mexico.

"We're proud to welcome Fogo de Chao to Jardim de Alah," said Cassio Lopes, Commercial Director of Jardim de Alah. "Our vision has always been to reintroduce this area as a vibrant, open, and community‑oriented destination. Fogo's Brazilian heritage and its lively, celebratory dining experience make it an ideal partner as we bring new energy and connection to the neighborhood."

With this latest opening, Fogo continues to strengthen its presence in Brazil while advancing its broader international growth strategy across key global markets, with a particular focus on establishing restaurants in leading capital city destinations.

"Ipanema represents a powerful opportunity to deepen our connection with guests in our home country in one of Brazil's most influential and internationally recognized neighborhoods," said Paulo Antunes, Brazil Country Manager of Fogo de Chao. "As Fogo continues to expand around the world, strengthening our presence in key Brazilian markets remains essential to our long-term strategy. This new location allows us to honor our heritage while delivering an elevated experience that reflects the global evolution of our brand."

The newly developed and remodeled restaurants will showcase Fogo's enhanced design and innovation platforms, offering a warm, timeless and approachable setting where guests enjoy a 360-degree view of an open Churrasco grill and can watch Gaucho Chefs butcher, hand carve and grill high-quality cuts of protein over an open flame.

For more information about Fogo de Chao, visit fogo.com.***

HYCU Wakes up Backup with aiR; Launch Adds New AI Capabilities Across Protected Systems of Record Within Its Market-leading R-Cloud Resilience Platform

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:18:00 +0700

A Single Question, Asked Across Every Protected Workload, Returns Answers at Cost Never Before Available to Midmarket Enterprises

Boston, Massachusetts, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HYCU, Inc., the #1 AI Resilience company, today announced HYCU aiR (AI Resilience), an AI-native solution that turns backup data across dozens of applications into a live and actionable intelligence for security, compliance, and IT teams. aiR lets organizations search, query, and run purpose-built agents to surface insider risk, sensitive data exposure, identity drift, and AI agent activity, using their backup data. Every backup is a timestamped record of what happened inside an organization's applications.

HYCU aiR is the first solution built to read it.

AI activity has outpaced human-scale oversight. Atlassian, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, GitHub, and other applications and platforms are no longer playgrounds, but rapidly evolving systems of record where AI agents and copilots do most of their work. The conventional response is to buy more visibility: DSPM for sensitive data, insider risk platforms, identity governance, behavioral analytics. Each is useful, narrow in scope, and priced for enterprises that can afford a dedicated team to run it. Stack the categories together and the visibility bill alone exceeds what most midmarket organizations spend on their entire security stack.

Most organizations cannot make that math work. The applications their people work in, including Salesforce, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Box, and Okta, remain unclassified and unmonitored. The questions never get asked. Is there PCI data in Confluence? Is there PHI in Salesforce? Is there a user systematically exporting critical data in Box? The tools built to answer them are priced for the Fortune 500, not the midmarket healthcare and financial services firms where the gap is widest.

"For two decades, security tools watched what happened inside applications and backup tools stored the record of it. The two never spoke," said Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO, HYCU, Inc. "That worked when data changed slowly, and humans were the only ones touching it. Neither is true anymore. Between SaaS sprawl and AI agents acting at machine speed, most companies can't tell you what they have, let alone what changed in the last hour. Resilience now means knowing what you had, what changed, who changed it, what data was impacted, and recovering immediately. aiR delivers intelligence. R-Cloud delivers recovery. That's what resilience looks like."

HOW HYCU aiR WORKS

HYCU aiR adds significant capabilities to HYCU R-Cloud.

* Natural language search across backups. Organizations can ask plain-language questions of their backup data: "Show me all files containing passport numbers across our Salesforce and Microsoft 365 backups." "Flag every permission change in our Okta environment over the last 90 days." "Identify which AI agents accessed customer records in the past month." With the information already contained in HYCU backups, aiR makes it queryable, from the first snapshot, with no configuration required.

* An Agent Garden of purpose-built agents. Each agent reads the same backup data and answers a different question. Regulated Data and IP finds PII, PHI, financial records, and intellectual property scattered across protected applications. Insider Risk detects unusual access patterns and behavioral anomalies. Configuration Drift compares snapshots over time to identify settings that changed without authorization. IAM Posture Management tracks identity drift and access policy violations. Anomaly Detection spots unusual data patterns that signal compromise. Agent Governance monitors AI agent activity across the protected estate. Customers extend the garden by building and publishing their own templates, creating agents that ask the questions specific to their compliance regime, their industry, and the way their organization actually works.

Every agent reads from the same source: data the organization was already protecting. Because every query runs across every protected application at once, HYCU can surface thousands of cross-application insights no point tool could produce. The intelligence was always there. HYCU is the first to treat backups as a memory rather than as insurance.

"AHMC Healthcare backups are very important to our ability to respond safely and efficiently in an event that requires us to recover quickly," said Ash Shehata, CIO, AHMC Healthcare, Inc. "With HYCU aiR it will provide us the first way to read what our backups already know. This capability offers us a complete, time-stamped record of every file touched and every configuration adjusted, empowering AHMC to ask our backups in plain English for quick and efficient understanding of the data landscape. Prior to this it would take days or weeks to review logs and significant manpower. With aiR it's a game changer and it puts the power back in our hands! I feel that CIOs can sleep better now knowing their backups are AI-enabled and are safeguarding their data."

COVERAGE THAT COMPOUNDS INTELLIGENCE

The value of backup intelligence scales directly with what you back up. A vendor protecting virtual machines and Microsoft 365 can surface insights only from those two environments. HYCU protects more than 100 unique workloads, including on-premises infrastructure, every major cloud, SaaS systems of record, DevOps toolchains, identity platforms, collaboration tools, databases, and AI workloads such as vector databases and data pipelines.

That breadth is what makes aiR's economics work. Insights from 100 protected applications are not ten times the insights from ten. They reveal cross-application patterns no single-workload tool can surface:

* An identity change in Okta that quietly cascades into Salesforce and GitHub permissions
* An AI agent that read customer records in Confluence and wrote output to SharePoint
* Regulated data that left a sanctioned application six months ago and now lives in three places no compliance team has mapped

"HYCU built the broadest protection coverage in data protection precisely because the organizations they serve cannot afford gaps," said Enrique Salem, Partner, Bain Capital Ventures. "aiR turns that coverage into a security intelligence advantage that purpose-built visibility tools spend years and hundreds of millions in customer budgets trying to replicate. The economics here are fundamentally different, and that matters enormously to the midmarket organizations that make up the largest underserved segment in security."

AVAILABILITY
HYCU is opening an early access waitlist for aiR today. Organizations joining the waitlist enter the early adopter program alongside existing HYCU customers currently testing the capability.

For more information on HYCU aiR and becoming an early adopter, visit: www.hycu.com/air, follow us on X (formerly Twitter), connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, and YouTube. ***

Acronis Appoints Jim Tedesco as Chief Revenue Officer

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:00:00 +0700

Experienced revenue and customer success leader joins Acronis to scale global sales execution and accelerate partner-led growth

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced the appointment of Jim Tedesco as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this role, Jim will lead Acronis' global sales and go-to-market execution, overseeing Global Sales, go-to-market strategy, Professional Services, and Solution Engineering.

"Jim's experience scaling global partner-driven revenue organizations makes him a strong addition to the Acronis leadership team," said Jan-Jaap Jager, CEO of Acronis. "Our next phase of growth is about scaling the business through partners at a much higher level, signing more MSPs globally, helping existing partners grow faster, and building a more predictable and scalable revenue engine around that motion. We see a significant opportunity to scale Acronis beyond $1 billion in revenue, and achieving that requires strong execution, operational discipline, and deep alignment with our partner ecosystem. Jim brings the leadership and experience to help us accelerate that growth globally."

Jim Tedesco_Acronis CRO

Jim will be responsible for driving consistent global revenue attainment, strengthening MSP-led growth and upsell execution, and deepening partner relationships globally. He will also focus on accelerating revenue growth through disciplined operational execution, strengthening partner engagement, and building a more scalable and predictable commercial engine across regions.

Jim brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience across sales, operations, and customer success roles. Most recently, he served as GM and SVP of Customer Success at a leading backup and replication software company, where he successfully grew the company's ARR from hundreds of millions to billions in revenue, while overseeing global customer lifecycle initiatives and growth programs. Jim's prior experiences include senior leadership positions at other technology companies, building high-performing teams, and driving ARR growth across global markets.

"I'm excited to join Acronis at such an important stage of the company's growth," said Jim Tedesco. "Acronis has built a strong market position with its natively integrated platform, combining more than 20 protection, automation, and management scenarios and 25+ AI-powered capabilities into a single solution. Combined with its deeply partner-centric approach, supporting more than 21,000 MSP partners, 750,000 customers, and 50+ data centers globally, Acronis is uniquely positioned for continued growth. I look forward to working with the team to strengthen execution, scale globally, and help partners and customers succeed."

Jim's appointment builds directly on the recent addition of Christiaan Franken as VP Revenue Operations. Together, Jim and Christiaan will form a tightly aligned commercial leadership foundation focused on improving forecasting accuracy, operational visibility, execution discipline, and scalable growth.

For more information about Acronis' leadership team, visit: https://www.acronis.com/en/company/leadership/