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Datatonic Taps Industry Leader to Accelerate AI & Data Expansion Across the Americas

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Datatonic Taps Industry Leader to Accelerate AI & Data Expansion Across the Americas

Datatonic has appointed Stephen Charko as Head of Sales, Americas, where he will lead transformational data and AI growth across key verticals and deepen strategic enterprise relationships. Charko brings decades of experience scaling data and analytics businesses at Gartner, Telemetry, and most recently KPMG, where he more than doubled the Deal Advisory Analytics practice.

Datatonic, a ten-time Google Cloud Partner of the Year data and AI consultancy that works with leading, global enterprises such as the United Football League, Wizards of the Coast, and premier streaming service Cineverse, has announced the appointment of Stephen Charko as Head of Sales, Americas, effective November 3, 2025. Based in Toronto, Charko will lead the company’s regional AI, data, and analytics sales strategy across key enterprise verticals including Telco, Media & Entertainment, Agency, Retail, and Financial Services and Insurance (FSI).

After making its mark on the North American market in the past two years, Datatonic enters its next phase of acceleration in the region. Charko leads the expansion of Datatonic’s commercial footprint, deepening strategic enterprise relationships, and driving ROI-positive AI adoption across the region.

“As we enter a new chapter of growth in the Americas, Stephen’s leadership will be key to uniting our sales vision across the AI continuum and doubling down on delivering measurable business value for our clients,” Cyril Marques, Managing Director, Americas, said.

Charko joins Datatonic at a pivotal moment for enterprise AI. As demand accelerates for trustworthy, revenue-generating solutions, he brings his considerable experience in scaling high-performing analytics organizations. At KPMG Canada, Charko more than doubled the Deal Advisory Analytics practice, exceeding 50% year-over-year gains in the most recent fiscal cycle. His earlier leadership roles at Gartner and data-science startup Telemetry further solidify his record of building complex analytics programs that deliver measurable business outcomes. He holds an MBA from McMaster University.

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“When looking at where AI is heading, it was clear Datatonic held the definitive position,” said Charko. “They don’t just build solutions; they engineer business advantage. By harnessing the full power of the Google Cloud ecosystem, Datatonic helps clients move from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide profitability.”

Expertise to Prove AI’s ROI

According to Gartner surveys, 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, citing unclear business value as a top reason. (1) Organizations frequently cite proliferating data environments, unclear use cases, and the absence of scalable deployment frameworks as barriers to success. This environment has created heightened demand for partners capable of operationalizing AI at scale, especially those with deep hyperscale alignment.

“AI has reached the point where experimentation isn’t enough,” said Charko. “Datatonic is uniquely built for this moment because we take clients into production and drive adoption through rapid upskilling, enablement, and change support.”

Driving Value Across Core Industries

Datatonic’s data and AI solutions are already deployed across some of the most data-intensive sectors in the Americas. Under Charko’s leadership, the company will continue accelerating high-value, production-ready AI that delivers measurable business impact, including:

  • Accelerating Cloud Modernization: With Datatonic’s Gemini-powered Migration Accelerator, clients have reduced complex dashboard load times by 80% and cut time-to-data by 75%, enabling faster, more confident analysis of ERP data.
  • Reducing Operational Costs at Scale: By Deploying an invoice processing solution, Datatonic create a system capable of reducing invoice costs for each invoice as much as 70% and improved customer satisfaction.
  • Transforming and Enriching Data: Datatonic standardizes, cleanses, and enriches fragmented datasets across platforms to ensure accuracy, completeness, and readiness for AI and analytics workloads.
  • Revolutionizing Media Stream Searches: Reduced content search and discovery times by 90% compared to traditional streaming service search times. Trimmed customer churn by 15% with user search upgrades.
  • Detecting Fraud in Real Time: Built a fraud-detection model that operates at 90%+ accuracy with <6% false positives, representing ~$100M in fraudulent transactions per year. Improved serving latency of ~20ms, preserving seamless customer experience.

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“Datatonic is the premier Google Partner not just because of their technical expertise, but because they cut through the hype,” said Charko. “Their mission is to turn AI from a roadmap item into a quantifiable ROI driver – and that execution focus is what truly sets them apart.”

A Strategic Step in Datatonic’s Global Expansion

Datatonic’s momentum is fueled by its award-winning engineering teams, expanding global client base, and leadership in Google Cloud innovation. The company is highly regarded for its production-grade data and AI deployments. Charko’s appointment signals a strategic acceleration of Datatonic’s Americas expansion at a time when enterprise AI moves into a new era defined by maturity, urgency, and measurable outcomes.

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Context Joins Brandi AI’s Global Agency Partnership Program to Help Clients Strengthen Trust, Recognition and Visibility Across Generative AI Platforms

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Context Joins Brandi AI's Global Agency Partnership Program to Help Clients Strengthen Trust, Recognition and Visibility Across Generative AI Platforms

New partnership enables Context to deliver greater client value by helping brands understand, measure and improve how they appear in AI-generated answers on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity

Context Public Relations, a full-service communications and marketing agency, and Brandi AI™, the industry’s most comprehensive, intelligence-driven platform for enterprise AI visibility and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), have jointly announced a new partnership. Context has joined the Brandi Agency Partnership Program, a global initiative empowering agencies to help clients strengthen their presence and authority in AI-generated answers.

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As generative AI reshapes how audiences discover and evaluate brands, agencies have a new responsibility: ensuring their clients are visible and trusted where decisions now begin. Through its partnership with Brandi AI, Context will help clients uncover how their brands are represented across AI platforms, identify opportunities to strengthen credibility and translate that insight into lasting market trust.

“With Brandi AI, we can finally show clients how they appear inside AI-generated answers and just as importantly, why they do or don’t show up,” said Jenni Livesley, managing director at Context. “Brandi AI reveals what’s influencing visibility across tools like ChatGPT and Claude —from missing context to weak trust signals — so we can take clear, data-backed action. It’s giving brands visibility and control in the AI discovery layer where buying decisions increasingly start but have been impossible to measure.”

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“Agencies partnering with Brandi AI are changing the game for how brands create value in the AI era,” said Leah Nurik, co-founder and CEO of Brandi AI. “Together, we’re helping clients to truly understand how their brands are seen, cited and trusted by AI—and to turn those insights into stronger, more authentic visibility in AI-driven discovery.”

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Streann Media Partners with World Legends Padel Tour for AI-Powered Digital Production at Miami Finals

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Streann Media Partners with World Legends Padel Tour for AI-Powered Digital Production at Miami Finals

Streann Media to Enhance Digital Experience for World Legends Padel Tour with Advanced AI and Streaming Technologies

The World Legends Padel Tour (WLPT), an international sporting circuit featuring former global football stars, has selected Miami-based technology company Streann Media as its official digital partner for the 2025 Miami Finals. The event, scheduled for November 29–30 at the Ultra Padel Club, marks the closing stage of the tour’s expanding global calendar.

Recognized as the first global padel circuit centered around former sports legends, the World Legends Padel Tour has rapidly expanded its international presence. The 2025 season includes stops in major cities such as London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Amsterdam, Istanbul, and New York, culminating in Miami for the Finals.

The Miami Finals will showcase an exceptional lineup of former international football stars, including Francesco Totti, Christian Vieri, Fernando Llorente, Vincent Candela, Luca Toni, Andriy Shevchenko, Xabi Prieto, Luca Ceccarelli, Diego Perotti, Germán Denis, Tommaso Locatelli, and Marco Materazzi. Their participation continues to elevate WLPT as a unique convergence of elite sport and global football heritage.

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As part of the collaboration, Streann Media will oversee all digital aspects of the Miami event. This includes a multi-camera production system for match coverage and the awards gala, real-time video feeds for the venue’s large-format screens, and the full management of social media content through an on-site production team. The Finals will be streamed through a newly created World Legends Padel Tour channel on StreannStudio.ai, the company’s AI-powered video platform designed for creators, brands, and communities.

StreannStudio.ai will serve as the central hub for all digital content related to the Miami Finals. The platform integrates live studio capabilities, on-demand video hosting, highlight generation, and channel programming tools within a single environment. Fans will have access to live match broadcasts, replays, behind-the-scenes content, interviews, and AI-generated short-form clips throughout the event.

In addition to live and on-demand content, official social media coverage for the Miami Finals will be produced using SocialCap.ai, Streann’s artificial intelligence tool for automated captions, post text, and short-form content creation. World Legends Padel is expected to release regular updates during the tournament weekend across its social channels.

“The Miami Finals are a key moment for the World Legends Padel Tour, and partnering with Streann allows us to elevate the digital experience for our fans worldwide,” said Alessandro Moggi, President of World Legends Padel Tour. “Streann’s production capabilities and AI-powered platforms will help us deliver high-quality coverage across every channel.”

“This partnership reflects the convergence of sports, technology and global entertainment,” said Giovanni ‘Gio’ Punzo, CEO of Streann. “With StreannStudio.ai and SocialCap.ai, we are introducing advanced video and AI workflows that will enhance the way fans engage with the World Legends Padel Tour Finals.”

The collaboration aims to expand the tour’s digital reach by combining Streann’s video production and AI technologies with the growing international interest in padel, one of the world’s fastest-developing sports. With centralized streaming, AI-assisted content creation, and continuous social distribution, the Miami Finals will represent the most digitally integrated stage of the 2025 World Legends Padel Tour season.

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Brandfuel Launches AI-Native Product Experience Management Platform, Unifying the eCommerce Content Lifecycle from Creation to Conversion

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Brandfuel Launches AI-Native Product Experience Management Platform, Unifying the eCommerce Content Lifecycle from Creation to Conversion

After completing a successful beta program, Brandfuel announced the general availability (GA) of its AI-native Product Experience Managment (PXM) Platform, built to help small to mid-size eCommerce brands and agencies centralize, optimize, and scale their product content operations.

Brandfuel brings together the tools and intelligence required to manage every stage of the content lifecycle—from onboarding, to enrichment and scoring to testing, publishing, and performance tracking—within a single unified platform.

“Brandfuel was built to solve one of the most persistent challenges in eCommerce: haphazard product onboarding leading to fragmented, inconsistent, and underperforming product content,” said Andy Lloyd, CEO of Brandfuel. “By combining AI automation with brand intelligence, we’re giving teams the ability to continually improve product performance and customer experience to provide a more contextual and relevant Shopify store—without adding headcount.”

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A Unified Platform for Product Content Excellence

Built as a comprehensive product experience management platform (PXM), Brandfuel provides a customizable and extensible platform that helps digital commerce teams improve conversion rates, enhance customer experience, and eliminate content chaos through a tightly integrated suite of AI-driven capabilities:

  • Company Brand Profile Training: Captures each brand’s unique DNA—personas, competitors, and SEO keywords—to guide personalized content creation.
  • Product Data Enrichment: Automates image analysis, ALT tags, per-product competitors and personas, and keyword/GEO targeting.
  • Product Content Scoring: Evaluates content across SEO/GEO, grammar, localization, and brand voice consistency. The extensible platform allows brands and agencies to create an unlimited number of criteria to meet their specific needs.
  • Multi-Language, Multi-channel Support: Enables global scalability with automated content localization and translation and support for tailored content for all the major marketplaces.
  • A/B Content Testing: Automatically and continuously identifies the lower-performing product content variations and creates new versions, automatically publishing to the relevant sales channels.
  • Publishing & Approval Workflows: Simplifies collaboration and governance across distributed content teams while tracking all variations and providing integrated brand feedback.
  • ROI Dashboard: Quantifies the impact of content improvements on engagement and conversion metrics.
  • Klaviyo & Meta Campaign Integrations: Extends optimization into marketing campaigns for performance feedback loops to increase the Return on Ad Spend (ROAS).

Early Customer Results

Early adopters have already seen measurable benefits from Brandfuel’s unified approach to product content.

“Brandfuel has transformed how our agency delivers eCommerce content at scale,” said Anthony Severo, Founder of Inclined Agency. “Our clients are now seeing faster time-to-market, consistent brand voice, and measurable gains in conversion—without expanding their teams.”

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Comviva unveils its AI vision for MarTech with GenAI-Driven MobiLytix® Real Time Marketingthe platform

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Comviva unveils its AI vision for MarTech with GenAI-Driven MobiLytix® Real Time Marketingthe platform

Comviva, a global leader in digital transformation solutions across customer experience management, data monetization, and digital financial services, announced the unveiling of its GenAI driven MobiLytix® Real Time Marketing (RTM) with advanced AI capabilities designed to help enterprise marketers drive higher conversion, retention, and customer lifetime value.

The new MobiLytix platform introduces powerful GenAI capabilities that significantly reduce manual interventions empowering marketers to design smarter faster and high engagement campaigns across customer journeys. Marketers can instantly generate message variations, tailor content for different segments, and surface actionable insights through conversational prompts that simplify reporting and analytics—translating complex performance data into clear guidance marketers can use immediately. This accelerates campaign creation, improves content quality, and leads to higher-performing engagements.

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The platform gives marketing teams a new level of agility, making them largely self-sufficient in campaign planning and execution by leveraging AI-driven decisioning and a library of proven, pre-defined templates for common high-impact use cases—enabling concept-to-launch of even the most complex campaigns in quick time.

With the new release, Comviva has also laid the AI foundation for a new wave of autonomous AI agents. These agentic capabilities are designed to continuously learn from campaign performance, optimize creative, offers and timing in real time, and operate under marketer-defined governance and approvals—evolving toward self-optimizing marketing orchestration.

Speaking on the launch Manish Singhal, Head – MarTech Solutions at Comviva said, “Tomorrow’s marketing teams won’t just run campaigns; they will command an intelligent ecosystem of AI agents that plan, optimize and execute in real time. With the new GenAI driven MobiLytix Real Time Marketing, that future starts now. We are moving from marketing automation to marketing autonomy—where AI agents continuously learn, optimize and orchestrate, while marketers stay firmly in control. Marketing functions can now actively improve campaign performance, lift conversion rates, strengthen customer retention, and deliver sustained business growth leveraging the platform.”

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With an intuitive new UI, modular architecture, and enterprise-grade scale, MobiLytix RTM is engineered to power the next wave of growth for digital-first businesses. At its core, the platform combines more than 120 advanced predictive and prescriptive AI models with a modern AI decisioning engine to personalize every interaction using a live 360° customer profile across multiple lines of business and channels in real time. Its enhanced journey orchestration workspace and modern UI give marketers a faster, more intuitive way to build journeys, collaborate across teams, and optimize programs in real time.

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UNICEPTA Launches Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot to Simplify Reputation Intelligence

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UNICEPTA Launches Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot to Simplify Reputation Intelligence

The integration empowers stakeholders to act on insights instantly, reducing complexity and accelerating reputation management.

UNICEPTA, a global media intelligence provider within The Marketing Cloud, part of Stagwell announced the launch of an integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot to make its reputation and media intelligence capabilities directly accessible within Copilot. The collaboration enables communications and reputation leaders to access, analyze, and act on real-time insights without leaving their core Microsoft environment – eliminating friction, reducing tool complexity, and improving decision speed.

In an era where communications teams face rising data volumes and unprecedented speed of change, fragmented dashboards and disconnected systems have become a major obstacle to strategic work. The integration directly addresses this challenge: instead of forcing teams to adopt yet another platform, it brings intelligence to the tools they already use every day.

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“AI should make complex work feel simple – not the other way around. By embedding UNICEPTA directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot, we’re turning everyday workspaces into intelligent command centers for communicators. Teams can ask questions in plain language, get instant insights, and make reputation-critical decisions in the moment. This is what the future of communications looks like: intelligence that’s always on, right where the work happens,” said Martin Schulze, Head of Product at UNICEPTA.

Chantrelle Nielsen, Director of Product Management for Microsoft 365 Copilot at Microsoft added, “UNICEPTA’s deep expertise in media intelligence and its ability to simplify complexity make it possible to turn reputation data into clear, actionable insights within Microsoft 365 Copilot. This integration enables communicators to move from static reporting to real-time, AI-powered reputation management — right where their work happens.”

Through the integration, UNICEPTA’s AI Agent connects securely to its proprietary, LLM-powered data layer via Microsoft connectors within the client’s environment. Clients maintain complete control over how the integration between the agent and connector is deployed across their organization – no information is shared with Microsoft. Access can be configured for specific user groups, and the agent can be embedded directly within Teams, Word, or PowerPoint. This architecture is designed to scale seamlessly across industries and enterprise environments.

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A real-world example illustrates the impact. A communications team working on a campaign can ask Copilot in Teams about “the tonal sentiment of current media coverage.” The UNICEPTA AI Agent instantly connects with the relevant media intelligence data and provides information on sentiment, reach, and key topics, and provides relevant insights on the latest developments in media. Everything can directly be integrated in Word or into a PowerPoint presentation. What once required hours of manual work now happens in seconds – giving teams more time to act strategically.

For users, the benefits are clear: less tool overhead, faster decision-making, and full data control in an environment they already trust. In a landscape where speed, clarity, and reputation protection are paramount, the integration with Copilot represents a powerful step toward making AI truly work for communications.

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Matador AI Named Nissan USA Preferred Partner in first AI Category

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Matador AI Named Nissan USA Preferred Partner in first AI Category

Matador AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and automation solutions for the automotive industry, is now an Official Preferred Partner of Nissan USA in its new AI Lead Nurturing category. Since first working with Nissan dealers in 2020, Matador AI has helped hundreds of Nissan retailers modernize lead follow-up, increase showroom appointments, and convert more shoppers into lifelong customers.

“We’re proud to be recognized in Nissan USA’s first-ever AI Lead Nurturing category as an official Preferred Partner,” said Nick Cossette, co-founder and CEO of Matador AI. “AI is no longer a ‘nice to have’. it’s becoming the engine of modern retailing. When every customer gets an instant, intelligent response, dealers unlock higher engagement, more appointments, and a smoother buying journey for both customers and staff.”

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Consideration for the designation included multiple rounds of product evaluations, performance reviews and capability assessments. The Nissan team evaluates how each platform handles lead nurturing, AI-driven messaging, compliance, reporting, and integration readiness. Matador AI received the approval only four months after completing its application.

Matador AI is automotive’s #1 ranked conversational AI platform, built to fully automate sales and service conversations for dealerships. Its AI sales and AI service agents help dealers follow up with customers, schedule and confirm appointments, and keep customers engaged throughout the ownership lifecycle. Matador also powers dealership-branded chat AI and voice AI that answer questions, qualify shoppers, and capture more opportunities, 24/7, whether customers connect online, by text, on a website, or by phone.

“Developed by people who have deep experience operating dealerships, Matador is built for the realities of automotive retail,” said Kevin Esmezyan, Chief Product Officer at Matador AI. “It helps dealers capture more of the opportunities they already pay for and move shoppers from first contact to appointment and sale. On average, our clients see a 25% lift in overall pipeline conversion after rolling out Matador.”

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Since its founding, Matador AI has been at the forefront of bringing practical, dealership-ready AI to both sales and service. Instead of forcing stores into generic workflows, Matador builds custom, dealership-specific models that mirror each rooftop’s own processes — which is what truly sets the platform apart. A growing library of revenue-driving automations addresses real dealer challenges across the business, from sales follow-up and vehicle exchange campaigns to service retention and customer lifecycle outreach. All of this is delivered through a simple, user-friendly dashboard and integrates with leading automotive CRMs and DMSs, including Elead, VinSolutions, DealerSocket, Reynolds, CDK, Dealertrack and many more.

Founded in 2019 by automotive industry leaders, Matador AI now employs more than 100 people who collectively serve more than 1,000 dealerships across North America., including a broad mix of domestic and import brands.

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BlockHorizon Launches Advanced Bitcoin On-Chain Analytics Platform Delivering Institutional-Grade Insights to All Users

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BlockHorizon introduces a unified Bitcoin-only analytics platform delivering deep on-chain insights, proprietary metrics, and research-grade tools to all users.

BlockHorizon, a next-generation provider of Bitcoin on-chain data, announced the official launch of its advanced analytics platform designed to make professional-grade blockchain insights accessible to traders, researchers, institutions, and BTC enthusiasts worldwide. By combining proprietary metrics, deep-dive analytics, and an intuitive interface, BlockHorizon aims to simplify the complexity of Bitcoin data and eliminate the fragmentation that has long challenged the industry.

For years, meaningful Bitcoin analytics have remained behind steep paywalls, complicated interfaces, and institutional-only tools – forcing analysts to navigate multiple sources, inconsistent metrics, and time-consuming manual work. BlockHorizon eliminates these barriers with a unified platform that provides over 100 real-time and historical BTC charts, one-click data exports, and on-chain insights previously available only to expert quant teams.

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“At a time when Bitcoin plays an increasingly central role in global finance, reliable data should be both accessible and understandable,” said a BlockHorizon spokesperson. “We built BlockHorizon to remove unnecessary complexity and provide a clean, powerful environment where anyone – from first-time analysts to institutional investors – can generate insights that truly matter.”

A Comprehensive, Bitcoin-Only Approach

Unlike multi-chain analytics platforms that spread their focus thin, BlockHorizon is dedicated exclusively to Bitcoin. This single-asset philosophy enables a depth of analysis rarely found in broader tools, offering clarity for users who want to understand BTC at a granular level.

The platform includes:

• 100+ Bitcoin charts, updated daily and tailored for traders, researchers, and long-term investors
• Proprietary on-chain metrics unavailable on competing dashboards
• Historical data for identifying long-term patterns and market cycles
• One-click downloads in CSV, JSON, and Excel (Pro plan)
• Access to Plan B’s full suite of Stock-to-Flow charts
• Real-time fundamentals such as total transactions, circulating supply, market cap, issuance, blocks mined, and realized cap

These tools allow users to analyze everything from miner behavior and liquidity flows to accumulation patterns and macro Bitcoin cycles.

Designed for Every Skill Level

While the underlying analytics are sophisticated, BlockHorizon’s interface is built for clarity and usability. A sleek dashboard allows users to move seamlessly between charts, compare metrics, track trends, and export data without requiring advanced technical knowledge.

This combination of power and simplicity addresses one of the biggest problems in the blockchain data industry: platforms that are either too basic or overwhelmingly complex.

“Great decisions come from great data – but only if people can actually work with that data,” the spokesperson said. “We built BlockHorizon so that deep analysis is achievable for everyone, not just for quants with specialized tools.”

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Knowlesys Announces OSINT 2.0 Era: AI-Powered Cross-Modal Analysis Forges a Digital Shield for National Security

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Knowlesys, a global leader in intelligent intelligence solutions, announced a revolutionary breakthrough in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), officially ushering in the OSINT 2.0 Era. This next-generation, AI-driven platform delivers unprecedented speed and accuracy in extracting, correlating, and analyzing critical information from massive volumes of public data, fundamentally enhancing the threat perception and response capabilities of governments and security agencies worldwide.

Mr. Bear, CEO of Knowlesys, stated: “In the volatile global security landscape, information is power. Our platform moves beyond mere data aggregation, making a leap from the ‘ocean of data’ to ‘precise insight,’ revolutionizing the intelligence domain. Traditional OSINT relied on manual screening and disparate tools, which simply cannot keep pace with the explosion of information. Our new platform elevates data acquisition, AI processing, and intelligence fusion to new heights, transforming intelligence work from a ‘needle in a haystack’ search to ‘precision guidance’.”

Foundational Strength: Comprehensive Data Acquisition and Pre-processing
The new Knowlesys platform first tackles the perennial challenges of OSINT—data coverage and data hygiene—by employing advanced techniques. We have developed adaptive crawlers and deep network probing technologies, enabling the comprehensive and lawful harvesting of information across the clear web, the deep web, and specific dark web forums. The platform utilizes powerful pre-processing engines to perform real-time data cleansing, including the elimination of redundancies, time and geographical normalization (Georeferencing), and the application of noise reduction algorithms to remove extraneous web ‘noise,’ establishing a reliable foundation for subsequent AI analysis.

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Technological Core: AI-Driven Cross-Modal Deep Analysis Engine
The critical breakthrough lies in our Multi-Modal Fusion Intelligence Analysis Engine, which enables seamless, parallel processing of textual, visual, and video intelligence.

Our Textual Intelligence Analysis (NLP/NLU Engine) features Deep Semantic Understanding (NLU) models that grasp subtle meanings beyond literal text, penetrating complex expressions like sarcasm, innuendo, and code words used by extremist or criminal organizations. The system conducts Real-Time Trend Analysis and Anomaly Detection, using time-series models to predict potential social unrest, cyber-attack spikes, or flashpoints of threats to critical infrastructure based on dynamic shifts in online sentiment. Furthermore, its Entity Relationship Extraction (ERE) automatically identifies and connects people, organizations, and places (Named Entities) from unstructured text, building clear relationship maps vital for criminal network analysis.

The platform’s advanced Visual Intelligence Analysis (CV Engine) is specifically optimized for Law Enforcement requirements. It achieves High-Precision Object and Contraband Recognition, accurately identifying and classifying critical items—including various weapons (knives, firearms), controlled substances (e.g., specific packaging, pills), and tools—even in low-resolution or cluttered images. It integrates cutting-edge All-Environment Facial Recognition and Comparison technology, allowing for high-efficiency identity confirmation against police databases, even when faces are partially obscured or viewed at difficult angles. Moreover, the Vehicle Information Automated Extraction (ANPR Plus) goes beyond simple Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) by recognizing a vehicle’s make, model, color, and unique identifying marks (like stickers or damage), drastically improving the efficiency of tracking and intercepting suspect vehicles. Finally, the system includes Scene Behavior Analysis and Pattern Recognition to identify and flag suspicious patterns, such as unusual quick exchanges of items in non-commercial zones or unwarranted vehicle loitering, providing early warnings for patrol intervention.

For long-form media, the Video Intelligence Analysis capability automatically segments lengthy videos into critical events, constructing complete time/event chains like “subject enters -> object exchange -> subject exits.” It conducts Anomaly Behavior and Movement Trajectory Analysis, monitoring video streams for unusual activities (e.g., abandoned packages, rapid assembly) and tracking the complete paths of multiple targets—essential for counter-terrorism, border security, and critical facility surveillance.

Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Decision Support
The ultimate value of the Knowlesys platform is transforming fragmented OSINT into Actionable Intelligence. The AI engine aggregates all extracted entities and relationships into a unified, Dynamic Knowledge Graph. This allows analysts, via an intuitive interface, to instantly visualize and discover hidden connections, financial flows, or secret communication networks that span different data sources and are impossible to find using traditional methods. Crucially, the platform incorporates an Intelligence Grading and Confidence Assessment Model, which assigns a confidence score to every piece of intelligence based on source reliability and analytical accuracy. This ensures decision-makers immediately focus on the most reliable and urgent critical information.

Core Strategic Value for National Security
The Knowlesys OSINT 2.0 platform offers key strategic advantages to global security agencies. It provides Preemptive Warning Capabilities, shifting security posture from reactive to proactive by enabling intervention before threats transition from the digital space to physical action. It serves as a vital tool against Hybrid Warfare, quickly dissecting the sources and spread of mass disinformation campaigns and foreign interference. By achieving high-precision, automated analysis, it ensures the Optimal Allocation of Resources, reducing the human effort spent on tedious data filtering and allowing high-value analysts to focus on strategic planning and high-level decision-making.

“OSINT 2.0 is not merely a set of tools; it is the digital foundation of a modern national security apparatus. Knowlesys is committed to providing our partners with the clearest global visibility possible,” concluded Mr. Bear.

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Advantech Partners with D3 Embedded to Supercharge AMRs with Integrated Sense and Compute Package

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Advantech Partners with D3 Embedded to Supercharge AMRs with Integrated Sense and Compute Package

The robust package leverages Advantech’s Intel Core Ultra solutions, RealSense™ Depth GMSL2 Cameras, and DesignCore® Discovery PRO Series GMSL2 Cameras to enhance AI-powered sense and compute capabilities for AMRs in industrial applications.

Advantech, a global leader in AIoT and Edge Computing announced its collaboration with D3 Embedded, a leading global end-to-end edge AI solution provider for performance-critical applications. This collaboration leverages Advantech’s AFE-R360/R760 solutions based on Intel Core Ultra, RealSense™ Depth D457 GMSL2 Cameras, and D3 Embedded’s customizable DesignCore® Discovery ISX031 PRO Series GMSL2 Cameras to enhance AI-powered object sensing and recognition capabilities, expanding visual applications for Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs). This advanced AMR solution targets key industrial applications including manufacturing, warehouse, and retail automation.

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Next-Generation End-To-End Machine Vision Platform for AMRs

AMR platforms rely heavily on vision sensor accuracy and computing performance in order to run real-time object detection, thereby achieving full robotic autonomy. Paired with the AFE-R360 and AFE-R760, D3 Embedded’s DesignCore Discovery PRO Series Cameras contain the proven Sony® ISX031 sensor, IP67 ingress protection, and features High Dynamic Range (HDR) and LED Flicker Mitigation (LFM) for high performance in dynamic lighting conditions. Additionally, the RealSense Depth D457 Cameras enable high bandwidth stereo depth vision.

Advantech AFE-R360, a 3.5″ SBC supports up to 8 MIPI-CSI lanes for low-latency visible camera inputs, and 3 x LAN & 3 x USB-C for depth and LiDAR sensors. Through an Advantech custom-designed camera I/O card, AFE-R360 can support 6 x GMSL cameras concurrently, which enables the streaming of 360° panoramic views. Its sister system with a chassis, AFE-R760, supports 4 x GMSL cameras. To facilitate the onboarding process, Advantech allows developers to collect MIPI and GMSL camera data from custom ROS Nodes in Advantech’s Robotic Suite, a software development resource provided by Advantech.

Both the AFE-R360 and AFE-R760 are built on the Intel Core™ Ultra (code name: Meteor Lake-H/U) platform, which has an integrated GPU that delivers up to 32 TOPs of AI performance. Additionally, they can connect with external MXM-type GPUs, e.g. Intel Arc or NVIDIA’s Quadro series.

“D3 Embedded is committed to providing developers with the specialized tools they require to create next-generation AI sense and compute solutions for industrial use cases.” said Scott Reardon, CEO at D3 Embedded. “By collaborating with Advantech on this AMR package, D3 Embedded can help customers get their unique products to market faster and deploy edge solutions at scale.”

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D3 Embedded accelerates advanced perception for autonomous machines by offering end-to-end solutions integrating camera and radar sensors, connectivity, custom embedded electronics, and AI. Their software and hardware design services, off-the-shelf and customizable products, and AI development capabilities can be customized for use cases in the automotive, industrial, robotics, medical, aerospace, and defense (ITAR) markets.

“At Advantech, we are devoted to enabling more robots in more scenarios. Our collaboration with D3 Embedded brings together cutting-edge compute and sensing technologies to empower AMRs with the vision and performance needed for true autonomy.” said Sandy Chen, Senior Director of Advantech North America. “This partnership exemplifies our mission to enable an intelligent planet through innovation and strategic collaboration.”

Advantech vows to make AI-powered autonomous robots more available by offering integrated sensing, compute, and software development resources, as well as camera, IMU, LiDAR, motor controllers, wireless communication modules, and industrial display panels. Its integrated controllers for robotic and autonomous systems offer a seamless development environment for ROS and Autoware.

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Mobile Ads Lead Black Friday Shoppers to Buy! New Salesfuel® Audiencescan Data Shows 51.8% Interact with Mobile Ads, and 40.2% Purchase After Seeing Them

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Mobile Ads Lead Black Friday Shoppers to Buy! New SalesFuel® AudienceSCAN Data Shows 51.8% interact with mobile ads, and 40.2% purchase after seeing them. Retailers heading into Black Friday have a major opportunity to connect with ready-to-buy consumers through mobile. New AudienceSCAN® data from SalesFuel reveals that 51.8% of Black Friday Shoppers responded to a mobile ad — the highest influence rate among all tracked media formats.

Retailers heading into Black Friday have a major opportunity to connect with ready-to-buy consumers through mobile. New AudienceSCAN® data from SalesFuel reveals that 51.8% of Black Friday Shoppers responded to a mobile ad — the highest influence rate among all tracked media formats.

These shoppers are also highly receptive to mobile messaging. They are 53% more likely than the average U.S. adult to say that advertising on mobile apps is useful to them.

And the impact goes beyond awareness:

  • 45% click through after seeing a mobile ad
  • 40.2% purchase the product or service advertised

“These insights show how critical mobile strategy is during the biggest shopping weekend of the year,” said Kathy Crosett, Senior Vice President of Research at SalesFuel. “Retailers who prioritize mobile ads — especially early in the holiday cycle — can drive both in-store and online conversions.”

AudienceSCAN data indicates that nearly 25% of U.S. adults plan to shop on Black Friday this year, and many of them are also active in-store shoppers. Nearly one-fourth visit malls or retail locations twice a week, increasing the likelihood of impulse purchases and same-day fulfillment.

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Black Friday Shoppers are also heavy influencers: 24% call themselves trendsetters, meaning they often recommend products, brands and retailers to others. Their spending extends well beyond Black Friday — they significantly over-index for additional holiday shopping on Super Saturday and Christmas Eve.

Powered by the responses of 20,022+ U.S. adults, AudienceSCAN offers 1,350+ consumer personas with psychographic detail ranging from purchase intent to media influence. The data is used by sales and marketing professionals to identify the right audiences, understand what drives them, and craft campaigns that convert.

To explore additional Black Friday Shopper insights or access AudienceSCAN intelligence, visit AdMall® and SalesFuel.

Additionally, the exclusive purchase intent data in AudienceSCAN is of help to businesses seeking a reliable, accurate predictor of consumer purchases of products and/or services in the next 12 months.

AudienceSCAN digital market segmentation is available through the SalesFuel API and AdMall for Media and Agencies. Contact us here for more information.

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Vodacom Announces Multi-Year Strategic Collaboration with Google Cloud to Boost Africa’s AI Advancement

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Vodacom Announces Multi-Year Strategic Collaboration with Google Cloud to Boost Africa's AI Advancement

Vodacom Group, a leading pan-African telecommunications and technology company, announced a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate its digital transformation using Google Cloud’s advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) product portfolio. The collaboration will enhance Vodacom core solutions and establish a powerful platform for creating new, disruptive products and services specifically tailored for the African market.

Under the terms of the collaboration, Vodacom will harness the capabilities of Google Cloud’s secure, scalable infrastructure to unify its vast data assets – and then apply generative AI models, including Gemini, Veo, and Imagen, across its business. This will result in improved operational efficiencies for Vodacom and also deliver new AI-powered services for African consumers.

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“This collaboration is more than a technology upgrade; it is a deep commitment to Africa’s digital revolution,” said Shameel Joosub, CEO of Vodacom. “Integrating Google Cloud’s data and AI solutions into our business will modernise our infrastructure and fundamentally shift our operational paradigm. This collaboration is essential for us to build and deploy solutions that address the unique challenges and opportunities of the continent, ensuring the transformative power of AI is accessible to millions of customers and businesses across Africa.”

Maureen Costello, Vice President, UKI and SSA, Google Cloud said, “Google Cloud is proud to support Vodacom in accelerating AI across Africa. By providing access to our most advanced generative AI models from Gemini and our leading data infrastructure, we are supporting Vodacom’s ambitious vision to build technology solutions that improve the lives of Africans.”

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The primary goals of the collaboration are centered on three strategic pillars:

  • Data modernisation and unification: Vodacom will migrate and unify its critical data platforms onto Google Cloud’s data cloud, including BigQuery. This enables Vodacom to achieve real-time insights, enhanced data governance, and a single, secure source of truth for business decisions. This foundation is essential for deploying large-scale AI models.
  • Accelerated AI adoption in Africa: Vodacom will harness Google Cloud’s AI capabilities, like Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform and Google’s Gemini models, to rapidly integrate intelligent services into its offerings. This includes optimising network performance, enhancing customer service with AI-powered personalised care, and combating fraud through advanced machine learning models – effectively bringing powerful AI capabilities closer to African consumers.
  • Product innovation for the future: By using Google Cloud’s AI capabilities, Vodacom will focus on developing cutting-edge solutions for the African market. Initial focus areas include creating new fintech services for greater financial inclusion, developing enterprise solutions, and designing consumer experiences to improve content accessibility and education.

The collaboration announced today builds on the existing strategic relationship between Vodacom Group’s parent company, Vodafone, and Google Cloud, demonstrating a commitment to scaling digital innovation and providing enterprise-grade security and reliability across all markets.

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Semantic Intelligence: Fuelling Contextual’s Programmatic Comeback

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The outcome of Google’s long-running antitrust trial has sent a clear message to the ad tech world: The open web cannot rely on regulation to rebalance competition. Instead, it needs more advanced solutions that deliver better performance, transparency, and scale.

Enter semantic intelligence, an important evolution to contextual advertising. By lending more nuance and flexibility to advertisers’ programmatic tool kits, semantic data opens up real-time, scalable conversations between brands and their audiences, all on the open web.

Why contextual is back in focus

Contextual targeting has long appealed to businesses that want a privacy-safe, brand-safe, and scalable option across the open internet. For years, this has meant matching ads to keywords or broad site categories, such as “sports,” “finance,” “lifestyle,” or “news.”

While in some cases useful, this approach was blunt. A keyword match for “apple,” for example, might place an ad for consumer electronics next to a recipe for pie. Domain-level targeting also ignored the nuance of individual pages or placements.

With the decline of third-party identifiers and continued concerns around brand safety, contextual targeting has resurfaced as a key part of the ad tech conversation. Yet to meet modern performance expectations and rival the options on offer from Google, Meta, and other walled gardens, it too needs to evolve.

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What semantic data adds to contextual

Semantic data is one such evolution. This data is best thought of as the next generation of contextual targeting: Instead of looking only at keywords, semantic models use machine learning and knowledge graphs to understand the meaning of a page, the relationships between concepts, and even the sentiment of the content.

This renders targeting more accurate and more flexible. Consider a sneaker brand that wants to reach people interested in fitness. While legacy contextual tools might focus narrowly on running blogs or sports pages, semantic targeting can identify additional inventory opportunities alongside wellness content, local news about marathons, or an article describing how to recover from an injury.

The power of semantic algorithms

Semantic data algorithms analyze the core contextual content of webpages, disregarding unrelated editorial information. Algorithmic scoring happens for both prominence (text that appears more prominently on web pages) and relevance (the relationship of words to their related entities). This scoring system ranks the overall relevance of web pages on a live basis, enhancing and improving the results of content topic searches.

This technology increases the scale of traditional contextual advertising beyond the limited scope of domain lists. Campaigns that leverage semantic data can connect with relevant consumers wherever they are consuming relevant topics across the open internet, including on general news, entertainment, and lifestyle sites. This new approach makes marketing budgets go further and work harder, unlocking contextual access to content across the diversity of high-quality open internet publishers that would otherwise be missed.

Why semantic intelligence matters in a post-antitrust environment

Semantic data gives advertisers and publishers a practical alternative to Google: a programmatic tool that drives results without relying on closed ecosystems.

For advertisers, semantic data enables:

  • Adaptive reach: capturing audiences as their interests shift across topics and contexts.
  • Stronger efficiency: fewer wasted impressions, cleaner supply paths, and campaigns that align more closely with goals like CTR or conversions.
  • Privacy-safe precision: brand-suitable targeting without reliance on identifiers or opaque black-box systems.

For publishers, semantic intelligence delivers:

  • Better monetization: surfacing the true value of quality content that might be overlooked by keyword-based tools.
  • More relevant demand: attracting buyers whose ads fit contextually, improving performance for both sides.

These benefits make semantic data for contextual targeting a practical way to strengthen the open internet at a time when regulatory solutions are falling short.

Marketing Technology News: Why Southeast Asia’s Advertising Growth Demands Better Measurement

Why Southeast Asia’s Advertising Growth Demands Better Measurement

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Audiences across Southeast Asia now have more ways to watch content than ever before. They stream on mobile devices during commutes, watch on smart TVs at home, and move between platforms throughout the day.

For advertisers, this obviously creates a massive opportunity to reach engaged viewers, but it also introduces a persistent challenge: measuring who you’re actually reaching and which touchpoints drive results. The numbers tell an interesting story about where this is heading.

A recent study conducted by Nexxen on Navigating the Future of OTT marketing in Singapore identified that Southeast Asia’s advertising landscape continues to experience interesting changes, driven by substantial OTT and Connected TV adoption.

In fact, in Singapore alone, OTT video users are projected to reach 4.5 million by 2029, with user penetration expected to rise from 68.3% in 2025 to 72.8% by 2029. This data suggests a meaningful shift in how audiences consume content and engage with the ads they see while enjoying it.

The expansion of ad-supported streaming has accelerated this change. Our survey suggested that some 60% of viewers identify cost as a key factor in their platform choices, and as a result, ad-supported content has become quite attractive.

The engagement levels support this trend: 51% of viewers watch ad-supported content multiple times a week, while 35% watch daily. For advertisers, this marks a great opportunity to reach viewers, but it also introduces complexity that traditional measurement methods struggle to address.

The multi-screen reality

While Southeast Asia remains mobile-first, the big screen is growing alongside it. In Singapore, 77% of viewers stream on mobile devices, but 64% also use smart TVs, making it the second most preferred platform.

Computers follow at 51%, with tablets at 42%. This multi-screen consumption pattern means audiences move fluidly between devices throughout the day, watching the same content across different screens or engaging with different platforms depending on context. This fragmentation creates a fundamental measurement challenge. Each touchpoint generates data, but connecting those data points to understand actual reach and attribution has proven difficult. Traditional impression-based metrics, built for a simpler media environment, tell advertisers how many times an ad was served but not how many unique people actually saw it.

In households where multiple family members watch TV together, impression counts can understate true reach as co-viewing isn’t taken into account. 10,000 impressions might come from just a few thousand individuals encountering the ad on CTV – assuming they watch TV on their own – leading to deflated audience estimates when viewed purely through impression-based metrics.

Without considering co-viewing, budget allocation decisions rest on deflated numbers that don’t reflect actual audience exposure and ultimately devalues CTV investments.

The attribution challenge compounds this issue. Even when advertisers know their ads are being delivered, understanding which touchpoints drive action remains unclear. When someone visits a website after exposure to a CTV ad, mobile display campaign and audio spot, determining which channel or combination of channels influenced that action becomes guesswork without proper cross-channel attribution.

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What accurate measurement enables

The impact of improved measurement extends beyond fixing data inaccuracies. It changes what advertisers can achieve with their campaigns and how effectively they can allocate resources.

OTT advertising already demonstrates its effectiveness when measured properly. In Singapore, 36% of viewers research a product online after watching an ad, while 33% visit the brand’s website. These actions represent tangible outcomes, but connecting them to specific media exposures requires measurement capabilities that track across channels and devices.

True Reach measurement addresses the undercounting problem by attributing ad exposure with co-viewership, rather than device-level impressions. When advertisers can determine that a campaign reached 500,000 people, compared to just 300,000 when co-viewing isn’t considered, they gain a more accurate cost per reach, a clearer view of true audience penetration and the ability to determine the real value CTV is driving.

This matters particularly in markets with high ad-supported streaming engagement, where repeated exposure should reflect the true reach of individuals within households, not just accumulated impressions.

Cross-channel attribution solves the second challenge by connecting ad exposure to measurable outcomes. By tracking when someone sees an ad across television, digital, audio or out-of-home and linking that exposure to subsequent actions like website visits, advertisers can identify which touchpoints actually drive engagement. This visibility enables budget shifts towards channels and devices that deliver results, rather than distributing spend based on assumptions about contribution.

The combination of accurate reach measurement and attribution creates a complete view of campaign effectiveness. Advertisers can quantify how many people they’re reaching, understand which media investments drive outcomes, and optimise accordingly. In Southeast Asia’s mobile-first, multi-screen landscape, where audiences engage frequently with ad-supported content across various platforms, this level of precision becomes essential for competitive advantage.

Preparing for continued growth

As OTT and CTV consumption continues expanding across the region, measurement complexity will increase rather than diminish. More platforms, more devices and more sophisticated audience behaviours will widen the gap between impression-based metrics and actual business outcomes.

The industry requires measurement solutions built for this environment, not retrofitted from methods designed for different markets or older media landscapes. Solutions must account for regional viewing patterns, household structures and the specific ways audiences move between screens. They need to work with locally calibrated data that reflects actual consumption behaviours rather than relying on aggregated estimates or third-party proxies.

For advertisers, access to this level of measurement changes the proposition. Instead of navigating the region’s complexity with limited visibility, they gain the insights needed to make informed decisions about reach, attribution and optimisation. For the industry, it establishes what accurate, actionable measurement should deliver as the market continues developing.

The growth in ad-supported streaming, the expansion of smart TV adoption alongside mobile dominance, and the increasing sophistication of audience behaviours all point towards continued change. The measurement challenge is solvable, but it requires capabilities specifically designed for how people in this region actually watch, engage with and respond to advertising across their screens.

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YourSecret Updates Launch Timeline and Reveals Redesigned Anonymous Social Platform

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YourSecret Updates Launch Timeline and Reveals Redesigned Anonymous Social Platform

YourSecret, a new anonymous social platform focused on emotional safety and AI-supported communication, announced an updated public launch window. The platform, originally planned for late 2025, is now scheduled to debut in February–March 2026 as the team completes its redesigned user experience and integrates advanced AI-driven features.

YourSecret aims to redefine how people share their inner thoughts by offering a private, judgment-free space powered by modern emotional intelligence tools and a calm, minimal interface.

“We are building a platform where people can finally express what they truly feel – safely, anonymously, and without identity pressure,” said Artyom Mitisov, Founder of YourSecret. “To deliver this experience at the highest level, we made a strategic decision to expand our timeline. The most meaningful updates will be revealed in February 2026.”

Today, the company shared the first official preview of the redesigned UX, presenting five screens that illustrate the platform’s visual direction and core user journey.

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Onboarding: Welcome, Brainwave, Connecting Anonymously

“A first look at YourSecret’s redesigned onboarding flow — guiding users from emotional unmasking, to ‘Brainwave’ resonance matching, to fully anonymous communication. The visuals set the tone for a platform built around authenticity, safety, and thought-driven interaction.” – said Artyom Mitisov.

Test Introduction & Self-Reflection Questions

“YourSecret’s personalization begins with a short reflective test that helps users identify their current life priorities — from career growth to relationships and personal balance. These insights shape the emotional profile that powers matching and mask creation.” – said Artyom Mitisov.

Personalized Emotion Masks

“A preview of YourSecret’s emotion-based masks — symbolic, data-driven avatars generated from each user’s psychological patterns and priorities. The mask system offers anonymity without losing identity, turning inner values into a unique visual expression.” – said Artyom Mitisov.

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Anonymous Chat & Search Interface

“A clean, distraction-free anonymous chat experience, designed for emotional comfort and safety. Users can save meaningful conversations, explore invitations, or search by topic or keyword — shifting the focus from identity to ideas.” – said Artyom Mitisov.

Welcome Screen + Work-in-Progress Transparency Screen

“YourSecret’s minimal welcome screen introduces a space for honest inner expression. The ‘Ooops…’ server illustration reflects the platform’s transparent development approach – openly showing that the product is still evolving as the team finalizes core infrastructure for its 2026 launch.” – said Artyom Mitisov.

A Platform Built With AI at Its Core

While full feature details will be revealed in early 2026, YourSecret confirms that the entire system – from emotional matching to safety layers – is being built with AI-powered analysis, moderation, and personalization tools. These capabilities are designed to protect user anonymity while helping people discover meaningful thought-based connections.

The company emphasizes that February 2026 will bring major announcements, including the completed feature set, updated AI engine, expanded UX, and the official launch roadmap.

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MineOS Completes Strategic Sale of Consumer Privacy Business, Accelerating the Shift to Autonomous Privacy for Enterprises

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MineOS Completes Strategic Sale of Consumer Privacy Business, Accelerating the Shift to Autonomous Privacy for Enterprises

Strategic move enables MineOS to focus exclusively on leading the next generation of enterprise privacy, risk management & AI governance

MineOS, a global leader in data privacy operations and risk management, announced the completion of the sale of its consumer privacy business to McAfee.

Mine’s consumer application enables millions of individuals to discover where their personal data is exposed online, understand their digital footprint, and take proactive steps to protect their privacy. The product has been recognized for its simplicity, transparency, and strong user trust – helping users continuously monitor and control their personal data across hundreds of online platforms.

The transaction marks a major milestone for MineOS, reflecting its successful evolution from consumer roots to enterprise leadership. Following the sale, the company will focus entirely on expanding its AI-powered, autonomous platform that enables organizations to manage privacy, risk, and AI governance with greater speed and intelligence.

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Powered by a network of autonomous AI Agents, MineOS transforms how enterprises run privacy operations – from data mapping and DSR automation to vendor risk, AI governance, and consent. Each agent observes, decides, and acts, delivering continuous compliance that runs itself.

As data volumes surge and global regulations evolve, MineOS is helping enterprises redefine what compliance means in the era of automation. By combining AI-driven execution with human accountability, the platform empowers global organizations to move faster, reduce risk, and build lasting trust, turning privacy from a maintenance function into a driver of resilience and brand confidence.

“This is an exciting next chapter for consumer privacy, as our solution helped redefine what personal data control could and should look like,” said Kobi Nissan, CEO of MineOS. “For MineOS, this move allows us to focus entirely on our enterprise mission – transforming how organizations manage privacy, risk, and AI governance through intelligent automation. By embedding AI agents and advancing toward autonomous operations, we’re helping privacy leaders elevate their impact and focus on what truly matters.”

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MineOS will continue building on its strong enterprise momentum, helping global organizations replace manual privacy processes with continuous, agentic compliance – bridging privacy, risk management, and governance in one unified platform. The company will use the proceeds from the transaction to accelerate product innovation and expand its AI and automation capabilities across the MineOS platform. This continued focus aims to help privacy, legal, and compliance teams operate with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence, positioning MineOS at the forefront of the shift toward autonomous privacy and governance.

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Stagwell Partners with Harvard’s OpenDP to Guarantee Customer Privacy, Beginning with its Partnership with Palantir for the Future of Marketing

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Stagwell Partners with Harvard's OpenDP to Guarantee Customer Privacy, Beginning with its Partnership with Palantir for the Future of Marketing

Stagwell announced new details on the privacy protective technology that will power its groundbreaking, industry-first AI and data platform. Through Stagwell’s partnership with Harvard University’s OpenDP, Stagwell and Palantir will implement novel differential privacy technologies to ensure privacy for all customers.

As announced in early November 2025, the new Palantir-Stagwell solution offers Stagwell clients access to a central hub for marketing that enables a wide range of use cases, including agentic-led audience enablement optimization and campaign management. The platform, powered by AI, allows large enterprises to sift through tens of millions of records to identify, segment, and better understand audiences in minutes — helping improve brand performance strategies and maximize overall ROI before launching campaigns.

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“We believe privacy must be built into our products and solutions from the start – not something you bolt on later,” said Mark Penn, Chairman and CEO of Stagwell. “That’s why we’ve teamed up with Harvard’s OpenDP to uphold rigorous protection at every step.”

“We are excited to bring OpenDP’s differential privacy technology to Stagwell’s business and customers,” said Gary King, Weatherhead University Professor and co-director of OpenDP at Harvard. “This collaboration will create real value for Stagwell’s product for the future of marketing and should also help improve our privacy-protective methods available to all.”

Harvard University’s OpenDP project provides a rigorously engineered suite of differential privacy technologies — a mathematical framework that adds controlled statistical noise to data, ensuring that individual-level information remains unidentifiable while still enabling accurate aggregate analysis. This is the same foundational technology used by the U.S. Census Bureau and has been validated in high-stakes legal and policy contexts, including by the U.S. Supreme Court. Stagwell and Palantir’s adoption of OpenDP on this partnership underscores both companies’ commitment to transparent, academically validated privacy standards, marking a significant advancement in the responsible and scalable use of sensitive data for individuals and brands.

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“During my nearly four decades working at Microsoft and IBM, we recognized privacy was a critical feature that all customers deserve. At Stagwell, it’s no different. We appreciate that privacy done right adds value to customers and allows us to maintain trust with shareholders and employees alike,” shared John Kahan, Chief AI Officer of Stagwell. “Data privacy is core to our DNA.”

The Palantir-Stagwell partnership is already seeing client adoption of its early MVP model in the United States.

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Blackbaud Showcases AI-Powered Innovation and Intelligent Workflows at Bi-annual Product Update Briefings

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Blackbaud Showcases AI-Powered Innovation and Intelligent Workflows at Bi-annual Product Update Briefings

New Features and Future Roadmaps Reveal How Blackbaud is Reshaping Nonprofit Technology with Purpose-built AI

Blackbaud, the leader in AI for social impact, kicked off its bi-annual Product Update Briefings last week, highlighting recent innovation and future roadmap direction for Blackbaud’s suite of solutions.

“We’re moving beyond systems of record to systems of intelligent action,” said Sudip Datta, Chief Product Officer at Blackbaud. “Our product roadmaps build on the goodness of the past, while investing in the future. The responsible inclusion of artificial intelligence is essential to that strategy, and these product update briefings show how that vision is becoming reality across our portfolio.”

Built specifically for fundraising, nonprofit financial management, digital giving, grantmaking, corporate social responsibility and education management, Blackbaud’s essential software fuels impact through unmatched expertise and powerful data intelligence. During the Product Update Briefings, Blackbaud showcased its latest innovations featured at bbcon 2025, including the Development Agent – the very first of the company’s Agents for Good™ – which will operate proactively to manage donor portfolios, communicate with supporters, follow through on outreach, and enable organizations to reach prospective donors they couldn’t reach before. Attendees explored product roadmaps, got early previews of upcoming features, and heard directly from Blackbaud experts about long-term development priorities.

Additional highlights from the Product Update Briefings included:

Donor Management & Fundraising

  • Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®: Blackbaud is committed to the full UX modernization of its flagship product and shared major updates on that progress. The modernization includes the depth and richness of Raiser’s Edge NXT. It is also expanding AI capabilities in Raiser’s Edge NXT with powerful new features that streamline fundraising workflows and deepen donor engagement. Chat for Blackbaud AI enables users to interact with donor data using natural language, summarizing histories, generating personalized outreach, and identifying high-value prospects. Integrated with Prospect Insights Pro, the new Cultivation Assistant will automate major gift cultivation by guiding users through opportunity creation and action scheduling. Looking ahead, other intelligent assistants will help retain and expand revenue by automating stewardship for at-risk donors, boost sustainer conversions, and support leadership in setting strategic goals. Additionally, new AI-assisted Recognition Programs will simplify the process of honoring donor impact—automating qualification, generating dynamic donor lists, and enhancing stewardship across lifetime giving, annual contributions, and loyalty milestones.
  • Blackbaud Enterprise Fundraising CRM™: Blackbaud continues to modernize and innovate its Enterprise Fundraising CRM with powerful new capabilities designed to improve usability, intelligence, and integration. Through Blackbaud’s Cloud Operations Framework, Blackbaud CRM users soon gain deeper insights into donor behavior, built with Blackbaud’s leading enhanced proprietary philanthropic datasets, which enable smarter engagement strategies that foster stronger relationships and long-term loyalty. All customers will have a modernized user interface powered by SKY UX, which delivers a dynamic and intuitive experience, featuring streamlined navigation, faster workflows, customizable dashboards, and responsive design for seamless access across devices. Additionally, ongoing Cloud Portal enhancements are equipping IT teams with advanced tools to manage hosted environments more efficiently—accelerating recurring processes, simplifying administration, and speeding up the user development cycle.
  • Online Giving: Blackbaud continues to evolve its Optimized Donation Forms to help organizations raise more effectively. The latest updates prioritize recurring gifts, expand SKY add-in support, and offer greater flexibility with designations, communications consent, and tribute collection. For Canadian organizations, direct debit payments are now processed automatically, simplifying PAD mandate creation and enabling timely donor reminders. Looking ahead, Chat for Blackbaud AI will provide access to even more intelligent automation in Online Giving, helping users summarize donation form performance, activate new fundraising features, automate form creation and branding, and apply best practices based on peer benchmarks.

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Financial Management & Grantmaking

  • Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®: Blackbaud is transforming nonprofit finance with new AI-powered capabilities in Financial Edge NXT. Document Intelligence, now available through the Early Adopter Program, automates invoice management by extracting key details, summarizing content, and identifying inconsistencies—eliminating manual data entry and improving accuracy. Native with Expense Management and Payment Assistant™, this feature streamlines accounts payable workflows and frees up time for mission-critical work. Financial Edge NXT is also evolving into an intelligent command center, with innovations like smart reconciliation, AI-powered record summaries, and virtual agents. Enhancements such as the Closing Assistant, Smart Mapping, and GL Reconciliation Tracker support a connected ecosystem that addresses industry challenges like fraud prevention, accounting shortages, and the growing demand for predictive insights.
  • Blackbaud Integrated Payments™: Blackbaud is enhancing its Integrated Payments experience with new tools that simplify transactions and improve flexibility. Organizations in the U.S. can now accept in-person, contactless payments using only an iPhone and the Blackbaud MobilePay Terminal app—no additional hardware required. Supporters can pay using contactless cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and other digital wallets. A new, modern checkout experience is also available across Luminate Online, TeamRaiser, Online Giving, and Raiser’s Edge NXT Registration Forms, offering expanded payment methods, recurring wallet support, and zero downtime during releases. Coming soon, Chat for Blackbaud AI will allow users to generate and filter transaction lists using natural language, streamlining reporting and analysis.

K-12 Solutions

  • Blackbaud Tuition Management™: Blackbaud is introducing new features that simplify tuition operations and improve flexibility for schools and families. A forthcoming setup page will allow administrators to automatically generate Truth in Lending Statements, accessible to both payers and staff via the admin portal and parent site. Schools will also be able to issue direct refunds within the platform, eliminating the need for manual checks or fee offsets. Additionally, a new payment scheduler enables families to set up future payments from multiple accounts, offering greater convenience for households with varied payment needs.
  • Blackbaud Billing Management™: Blackbaud is introducing new automation features to simplify school billing and improve payment reliability. The new auto-pay for incidentals allows payers to automatically cover charges not included in their standard payment plans, with schools able to make enrollment optional or required. Coming soon, the Collections Assistant will leverage Blackbaud AI to generate tailored follow-up emails for past due accounts, with communications recorded directly in student billing profiles—streamlining collections and improving engagement.
  • Blackbaud Financial Aid Management™: Blackbaud is streamlining the aid application process through deeper integration and automation. The application is now embedded within the Blackbaud Enrollment Management™ workflow and accessible via single sign-on (SSO) on the Resource Board. Additionally, by connecting to the IRS API, the system can automatically retrieve 1040 and W2 data—eliminating manual uploads and accelerating review times for families and administrators.
  • Blackbaud Student Information System™: Blackbaud is introducing new tools to help schools manage grading and student success more effectively. The new Grading Hub provides a centralized location for updating Grade Plan Dates and editing formulas in bulk—an enhancement highly requested by the community. Meanwhile, Student Success Insights empowers educators to proactively support students by identifying those in need, managing personalized support plans, and organizing documentation to streamline interventions and keep teams aligned.
  • Blackbaud Learning Management System™: Blackbaud is enhancing the online learning experience with new tools that support secure assessments, personalized feedback, and improved communication. The optional Lockdown Browser helps maintain academic integrity during high-stakes exams by preventing access to external resources. Teachers can now use generative AI to easily provide richer, more personalized feedback through a simple, intuitive interface. Additionally, Parent Initiated Attendance allows families to submit attendance directly, increasing flexibility and engagement.
  • Blackbaud Enrollment Management System™: Blackbaud is introducing new checklist enhancements that give schools greater control over the candidate experience. Soon, administrators will be able to set conditions tied to milestones, allowing checklist steps to appear dynamically based on each applicant’s progress—streamlining workflows and improving personalization.
  • Blackbaud Award Management™: Blackbaud is streamlining the scholarship and award process with new tools that improve visibility, efficiency, and integration. The new Award Cycle Manager Dashboard centralizes key analytics for tracking performance and fund utilization, while the redesigned Applicant Centric Awarding interface offers real-time updates in a dynamic, modernized view. Enhanced integration with Ellucian Ethos, Raiser’s Edge NXT, and Financial Edge NXT supports seamless data exchange, helping institutions operate more efficiently within a unified technology ecosystem.

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Corporate Impact

  • Blackbaud is delivering powerful new tools to help corporate impact professionals measure and communicate program outcomes more effectively. Blackbaud Impact Edge™ now features expanded AI capabilities, including new dashboards for tracking custom KPIs and a Charity Discovery Tool that integrates data from True Impact® and Candid to support strategic, outcome-driven investments. YourCause® GrantsConnect® has launched its first phase of Form Intelligence, using AI to help grant managers craft impactful applications, along with expanded translation capabilities for global reach. Meanwhile, YourCause® CSRconnect® is advancing corporate giving with updates to its Expedited Giving pilot, a forthcoming Processing Portal, and modernized employee giving options. Looking ahead to 2026, Blackbaud is focused on enhancing the volunteering experience for CSR admins, employees, and nonprofits alike.

Data Intelligence

  • Blackbaud is strengthening data intelligence capabilities with Persistent Key (U.S.), a powerful tool for master data management across systems. By assigning unique individual and household keys using Blackbaud’s referential dataset, organizations can match and link records across locations with greater accuracy. These keys are now accessible via Blackbaud SKY API, enabling seamless integration and improved data consistency for large-scale operations.

Luminate Online® and TeamRaiser® 

  • Blackbaud is enhancing Luminate Online and TeamRaiser with new features that improve fundraising efficiency and donor experience. Organizations can now eliminate or offset transaction fees with Donor Cover & Complete Cover™, ensuring more of each gift goes directly to the mission. A new Gen AI Content Writer & Tone Enhancer helps teams craft engaging, on-brand coaching emails in seconds, while an updated WYSIWYG Content Editor offers a more modern and accessible authoring experience. Coming soon, these AI tools will expand to additional editors, alongside a high-performing Optimized Donation Form Template, a redesigned Participant Center 4, and new payment options including Amazon Pay, DAF Pay, and Donor Cover Plus for greater flexibility.

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Numa Introduces the First Voice AI with a Smart Inbox That Understands Every Customer Conversation for Dealerships

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Numa Introduces the First Voice AI with a Smart Inbox That Understands Every Customer Conversation for Dealerships

Unlike basic appointment bots, Numa’s Voice AI is connected to an AI-powered inbox that knows customer history, coordinates teams, and brings humans in when needed—ensuring faster responses, higher CSI, and no missed customers.

Numa, the leading AI platform for dealership customer operations, announced the launch of the industry’s first Voice AI-powered Smart Inbox. This breakthrough enables dealership teams to understand every customer call and message with contextual history while allowing Voice AI Agents to collaborate with service advisors, business development center (BDC) representatives, and parts teams in real time.

While other “voice AI” products handle calls in isolation, Numa’s Smart Inbox uses Voice AI Agents to analyze conversations within a shared inbox containing customer history, prior messages, service updates, and team notes. This allows the system to understand the purpose of every call, respond with intelligence, and seamlessly loop in the right human team member  at the right moment.

“A phone-only AI solution is incomplete,” said Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO and Co-Founder of Numa. “Dealerships don’t just need calls answered, they need context, coordination, and accountability across service advisors, BDC, and parts. Numa’s Smart Inbox makes Voice AI actually useful inside the dealership.”

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That impact is reflected in how dealership leaders describe the day-to-day value of Numa in their operations. For leaders like Sherry Thomas, HR and Shared Services Director at New Century Autos, Numa’s Voice AI-Powered Smart Inbox turns day-to-day operations and crucial customer communications into clear, actionable context for her team.

“With Numa, we can effortlessly categorize conversations into different groups such as escalations, needs a reply, status updates, and more, streamlining my ability to navigate through conversations,” said Thomas. “As a manager, I no longer need to delve into the entirety of a conversation to understand the nature of a complaint or customer inquiry. A quick scan through the auto-labeled conversation and reading the AI-generated summary provides me with a concise overview of the call. It’s a significant time saver and simplifies the coaching process for my team.”

How Numa’s Voice AI with Smart Inbox Works

Understands the Customer:

Sees the full customer story — call history, text threads, RO and DMS context, prior advisor notes, and appointment details — so AI knows why the customer is reaching out and what needs to happen next.

Coordinates Across Multiple Teams:

Assigns follow-ups, routes tasks, and connects Service Advisors, BDC, and Parts inside one shared Inbox so everyone works from the same real-time customer thread.

Brings Humans in When Needed:

Flags emotion, detects heat cases, and alerts advisors or managers immediately when a complex or sensitive situation requires a human touch.

Provides Manager Visibility:

Shows real-time responsiveness, tone, sentiment, escalations, and follow-up accountability so leaders can coach and intervene before CSI or customer experience is at risk.

Empowers the Entire Team Through Mobile:

Numa’s full-featured mobile app gives service advisors, BDC reps, parts staff, and managers the exact same Smart Inbox and AI capabilities on their phones — letting them respond, update, and manage conversations from the lane, the shop floor, or anywhere in the dealership.

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This eliminates missed calls, delayed callbacks, and “I’ll get to it when I’m back at my desk” bottlenecks, dramatically improving speed, efficiency, and CSI.

With Numa, dealerships see:

  • 100% call coverage
  • Faster customer replies
  • Reduced service department chaos
  • Higher CSI and retention
  • Less workload stress on service advisors

Numa already powers customer and operation communication at 1,000+ dealerships, including partners and approved vendor integrations with Stellantis, GM, BMW, and more.

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Kyndryl Launches Agentic AI Framework and Services for the Mainframe

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Kyndryl Launches Agentic AI Framework and Services for the Mainframe

AI-powered capabilities enhance managed services delivery for IBM Z customers

Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, announced new AI-powered services that combine the Company’s deep mainframe expertise with agentic AI and hybrid IT computing capabilities to accelerate application and solutions development, increase operational agility and unlock new business insights by expanding customers’ AI usage on the platform.

Kyndryl’s agentic AI mainframe services are designed to enable IBM z/OS customers to embrace innovative technology, expertise and AI-infused delivery of services, speeding decision making and simplifying complex processes across application and infrastructure management.

“Kyndryl is leading the way in providing world-class agentic AI-enabled delivery services to customers that will instill confidence in the mainframe’s role as an engine of innovation for global enterprises,” said Hassan Zamat, Global Practice Leader for Core Enterprise & zCloud at Kyndryl. “We are committed to combining the power of our skilled delivery practitioners with agentic AI to provide differentiated experiences and outcomes to help drive growth for our customers.”

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The new agentic mainframe services can be combined with the agentic ingestion capabilities of Kyndryl’s Agentic AI Framework to enable seamless orchestration of agents and workflows. Customers will benefit from:

  • Smarter decision-making and faster, proactive issue resolution.
  • Improved reliability and smoother software lifecycle compliance.
  • Access to deep expertise and AI to overcome skills gaps, while utilizing their internal organizational knowledge.
  • Quicker response to emerging opportunities and threats, reducing risk and enabling more resilient, modernized IT environments.

Kyndryl’s AI-powered mainframe services are integrated with the Kyndryl Bridge open integration platform to deliver intelligent automation, predictive analytics and insights across mainframe infrastructure and applications. To further drive transformation of mainframe delivery for customers, Kyndryl is deploying IBM watsonx Assistant for Z and other AI ecosystem platforms that can enable intelligent automation, orchestration and lifecycle management.

“Through our collaboration with Kyndryl, we’re helping enterprises bring powerful AI capabilities to the core systems that run their business,” said Skyla Loomis, General Manager of IBM Z Software. “Kyndryl’s newest AI services empower clients to deploy advanced AI on the mainframes that form the backbone of their operations to accelerate decision-making and drive operational agility.”

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Kyndryl’s new agentic AI-powered mainframe delivery services include Kyndryl AI Assistant for Z, an AI-powered knowledge base of Kyndryl’s decades of mainframe experience, which is integrated within Kyndryl Bridge and helps to address customer challenges with skills development and retention. Collectively, the new capabilities can proactively prompt and accelerate execution of platform management.

Kyndryl’s approach also taps into the Company’s intellectual property and deep expertise in mainframe transformation with complementary technologies from the cloud hyperscalers and other global partners to unlock innovation for customers.

With decades of mainframe services know-how and new solution designs that bring AI inferencing closer to mainframe data, Kyndryl can help customers speed and scale AI processing capabilities across their mainframe environments. Doing so reduces latency, enhances performance in applications like real-time fraud detection, insurance claim processing and end-customer buying patterns, while improving the overall customer experience.

According to Kyndryl’s 2025 State of Mainframe Modernization Survey, 88% of respondents have implemented or plan to implement AI, including agentic and generative AI, in their mainframe environment. They state that the use of AI on the mainframe will increase business agility (37%), create faster, repeatable operational actions less prone to human error (32%), and save money (31%). However, 70% have difficulties finding the right multi-skilled talents within their organization. The study shows AI is expected to drive $12.7B in cost savings and $19.5B of increased revenues over the next 3 years, with the top use cases including enhanced performance and resource allocation, fraud detection and security and threat assessment/detection.

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