Liberty Latin America Selects BTS as Exclusive A2P Messaging Managed Services Partner Across All Its Markets

June 9, 2026

BTS announced that it has been chosen as the exclusive provider of managed A2P SMS services for Liberty Latin America (LLA), supporting the company’s efforts to strengthen revenue protection, fraud mitigation, traffic intelligence, and operational visibility across its markets.

BTS has been selected by Liberty Latin America as its exclusive A2P managed services partner across 25 markets, strengthening fraud protection, traffic visibility, and A2P monetization.

The agreement reinforces LLA’s A2P messaging strategy throughout a broad regional footprint and establishes a coordinated operating model to improve control, visibility, and monetization of A2P traffic across its markets.

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The partnership will support revenue maximization, stronger fraud protection and grey-route mitigation, enhanced real-time traffic visibility, operational reporting and analytics, revenue assurance, and 24x7x365 managed services support.

The agreement spans 25 markets and reflects a high level of operational trust in BTS’ ability to deliver consistent performance across diverse regulatory, technical, and commercial environments.

“This agreement gives us a stronger and more consistent operational framework for managing A2P messaging across our regional footprint,” said Arrigo Gardia, Senior Director Carrier Services, Liberty Latin America. “It builds on the trust and strong partnership we have developed with BTS over the past five years in international voice services, and allows us to extend that collaboration into A2P messaging with greater visibility, stronger protection, and a more effective monetization model.”

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“We are proud to have been selected by Liberty Latin America for this important regional initiative,” said Ricardo Olloqui, President & Co-Founder of BTS. “Our role is to help ensure A2P messaging is managed with the right combination of protection, operational intelligence, analytics, and optimization so LLA can improve performance across markets and scale its A2P strategy with confidence.”

Exclusive A2P managed services are expected to become operational on July 1, 2026. Customers and ecosystem partners will receive additional guidance through official communications ahead of launch.

In addition to exclusive A2P managed services, the broader relationship also creates a framework for collaboration on outbound P2A SMS management and Open Gateway APIs managed services. These areas include onboarding, monitoring, analytics, governance, and operational support, while giving LLA flexibility as its API and authentication strategies continue to evolve.

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Apple accelerates app development with new intelligence frameworks and advanced tools

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June 9, 2026

Apple accelerates app development with new intelligence frameworks and advanced tools

New APIs for integrating AI models and extended agentic coding in Xcode 27 provide developers with powerful new ways to build and refine their apps

Apple® introduced new intelligence capabilities, expanded productivity features in Xcode®, and platform improvements that make apps faster, more adaptive, and easier to build.

“Developers are at the heart of the Apple ecosystem, and our goal is to provide them with the best possible tools and technologies to build the future,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “With new intelligence frameworks and agentic coding in Xcode 27, developers have the tools they need to focus on what they do best: bringing their incredible ideas to life.”

Intelligence Frameworks

With the latest enhancements to Apple Intelligence™ and the introduction of Siri® AI, developers can make their apps’ content and capabilities more discoverable and accessible across the system. Updates to the App Intents framework enable developers to connect their apps to Siri AI capabilities like personal context understanding, app actions, and onscreen awareness to help their users get more done.

New intelligence frameworks allow developers to build AI features into their apps more easily and flexibly, tapping into powerful models from Apple and others. Building on the Foundation Models framework introduced last year, developers gain new options to integrate AI into their apps. The framework now serves as a single native Swift® API that supports more powerful on-device models with image input, support for server models, and the ability to build custom skills.

Using this API, developers can tap into the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, which were custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models to deliver integrated experiences across Apple platforms. To ensure developing with large language models is as accessible as possible for those just getting started with AI, developers enrolled in the App Store® Small Business Program with fewer than 2 million total first-time App Store downloads can access the next generation of Apple Foundation Models running on Private Cloud Compute at no cloud API cost. Developers can also easily leverage models of their choice, like Claude and Gemini, or those from any other provider that implements the new language model protocol. To help developers create adaptive AI experiences more easily and flexibly, the framework also introduces capabilities like Dynamic Profiles, enabling developers to update how models interact with their apps on the fly.

For developers who want to bring their own custom models into their app, Core AI is a brand-new framework designed to be the best way to run models on device. Core AI provides an architecture optimized for the unified memory and Neural Engine of Apple silicon, allowing developers to deploy full-scale LLMs locally.

Xcode 27 and Agentic Coding

Xcode is the best place to build for Apple platforms, and the best place to code with agents. Xcode 27 takes the next big step in agentic coding. This year’s release brings the full power of today’s best models and agents from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI directly into a developer’s workflow. Conversations with coding agents feature interactive planning, multiturn Q&A, and a canvas that can render Markdown and display code changes and previews right alongside.

Xcode 27 also gives coding agents the tools to validate their own work, so they can run autonomously for longer, such as writing and running tests, trying ideas in isolation with Playgrounds, checking visual changes with previews, and interacting with the simulator in the new Device Hub.

With plug-ins, developers can extend Xcode with custom skills, bring in the tools they use every day through the Model Context Protocol, and connect any agent compatible with the Agent Client Protocol. GitHub and Figma are the first to offer seamless installation between their tools and Xcode.

In addition to coding intelligence, Xcode 27 delivers improvements across the board. The application is now Apple silicon only, 30 percent smaller, and delivers faster performance and a simpler setup process. It’s also more personalizable than ever, with a fully customizable toolbar and a new theme system that spans colors across the entire editor.

Xcode Cloud® is now up to 2x faster, with new support for apps that use Metal® and for visionOS® builds, all powered by Apple silicon.

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Refined Design and UI Frameworks

Liquid Glass provides a unified visual design that makes apps more expressive and instantly familiar across Apple platforms. This year, the design continues to evolve, with improvements to legibility, customizability, and consistency. A new transparency slider in Settings allows users to personalize their visual experience by adjusting the appearance to their preference, while the design also seamlessly adapts to a variety of accessibility settings users may choose.

SwiftUI® is designed to handle the complexities of layout, animation, and platform integration so developers can focus on what makes their app unique. This year, SwiftUI makes apps more responsive without requiring developers to change their code through more efficient state initialization and faster layout rendering. Developers can now write less custom code using new reorderable containers, and the new Spatial Preview framework allows 3D models from Mac® apps to be viewed spatially when streamed to Apple Vision Pro®.

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Swift unifies full-stack development, providing the speed, expressiveness, and memory safety developers need to build everything from full-featured mobile apps and embedded firmware to platforms beyond the Apple ecosystem. It prioritizes usability and an intuitive syntax, allowing developers to easily iterate on their ideas while the compiler catches mistakes along the way. Building on this foundation, Swift 6.4 is designed to make everyday tasks feel effortless. It streamlines the daily developer experience by introducing targeted warning suppression, simplified availability attributes like “anyAppleOS,” and improved compiler diagnostics.

Tools and Resources for Games

For game and spatial developers, new tools and resources will make it easier to bring high-quality titles to Apple platforms and deliver seamless experiences to players.

Managed Background Assets reduce game install sizes by introducing intelligent, localized delivery. The system now automatically identifies a player’s preferred language and only downloads the specific asset packs required for that language, falling back to the closest match if necessary. Additionally, a new Steam Asset Converter streamlines the process of adapting PC games for iOS, iPadOS®, macOS®, tvOS®, and visionOS®.
Game Porting Toolkit 4 accelerates the development of Mac games by introducing open source skills for use with agents, equipping them with Apple-specific best practices for Metal development and dramatically cutting the time it takes to bring games to Apple platforms.
Official Unity plug-ins bring native Apple integration to one of the most popular game engines. Developers now have access to Apple-provided plug-ins for StoreKit® and Background Assets, allowing them to natively implement In-App Purchases across all Apple platforms within their existing Unity workflow.
Reality Composer Pro® 3 allows developers to build complete spatial experiences in a single tool. With new Live Previews combined with Mac Virtual Display®, developers can now see the results of their edits immediately as they make them.

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Cursor Announces EMEA Office and Team Expansion to Meet Regional Demand

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June 9, 2026

Cursor Announces EMEA Office and Team Expansion to Meet Regional Demand

London headquarters will open this summer and grow to approximately 200 employees by year-end as EMEA becomes Cursor’s fastest-growing region

Cursor, the leading multi-model AI coding platform, announced the establishment of dedicated teams to serve the EMEA region. The expansion responds to regional momentum, with EMEA revenue tripling quarter over quarter this year.

The Cursor EMEA team will support a rapidly expanding customer base that includes British Airways, BP, Deliveroo, Nokia, Sanofi and many other leading enterprises across the region. Cursor expects to grow its EMEA headcount to approximately 200 employees by the end of the year, hiring across go-to-market, engineering, customer success and operations.

“We’re incredibly excited to officially launch Cursor across EMEA and deepen our commitment to customers and partners throughout Europe. As the leading AI coding company, our goal is simple: be closer to the teams building the future and help enterprises accelerate their most strategic AI and software development initiatives,” said Ismail Elmas, SVP of EMEA for Cursor. “This launch covers all major European markets and reflects the growing demand we’re seeing from organizations ready to put AI at the center of how they build.”

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As Cursor expands across EMEA, it is investing in regional specific capabilities to support the compliance needs of local enterprises. This is especially critical for organizations in highly regulated industries, where data locality, privacy, and regulatory compliance are essential to deploying AI tooling at scale.

“As a global leader in connectivity for the AI era, Nokia is building the datacenter, transport, mobile and fixed networks that connect billions of people worldwide,” said Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Nokia. “Empowering more than 20,000 engineers on Cursor was not just a productivity decision; it was a strategic decision about the kind of engineering organization we want to be. Our teams are directing AI agents across some of the world’s most complex codebases, helping Nokia move faster and operate more efficiently.”

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Cursor’s growth reflects a broader shift in how engineering organizations adopt AI tooling. Enterprises across financial services, life sciences, energy, professional services, and consumer technology are turning to Cursor to boost developer productivity, reduce time-to-ship, and modernize their software development workflows.

“Adopting AI coding tools touches workflows, governance, and how teams actually deliver,” said Cameron Cronin, Global CTO, Salesforce Business Group, Accenture. “Our work with Cursor lets us bring that adoption to clients with the implementation and advisory support needed to make it stick, so enterprises can accelerate development without compromising on quality or control.”

Beyond the platform itself, Cursor is building the local teams and partner ecosystem that make adoption successful — people who understand regional markets and partners ready to support enterprises on the ground. It’s a long-term commitment to the organizations shaping the future of software in Europe.

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BluIP and NiCE Deliver Enterprise-Wide Intelligence with Unified UCaaS + CCaaS Solution

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June 9, 2026

BluIP and NiCE Deliver Enterprise-Wide Intelligence with Unified UCaaS + CCaaS Solution

Integrated Cloud PBX and Contact Center Platform Extends AI, Analytics, and Operational Intelligence Across the Entire Organization

BluIP, a leading provider of AI-powered cloud communications, announced an expanded go-to-market partnership with NiCE to deliver a tightly integrated Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) solution. The integration brings BluIP Cloud PBX solutions together with NiCE’s CX AI platform, CXone, enabling enterprises to modernize legacy telephony systems while unlocking enterprise-wide intelligence and extending AI, analytics, and operational visibility across the entire organization.

For existing NiCE CXone customers, the partnership creates a seamless path to replace outdated, on-premise phone systems with BluIP’s intelligent cloud solution that is natively aligned with their contact center environment.

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Enterprise-Wide Intelligence and AI

With BluIP and NiCE, AI-powered capabilities now extend beyond traditional contact center boundaries. Centralized call recording and enterprise-wide analytics provide compliance visibility and coaching insights across back-office teams, clinical staff, administrative departments, and distributed locations.

AI-generated call summaries seamlessly transfer between CXone and BluIP Cloud PBX environments. When calls move from the contact center to another department, the receiving employee can review the AI summary before connecting. Mobile and desk phone users receive the summary as a whisper announcement, eliminating the need for customers to repeat information and significantly improving efficiency.

Extending CXone Value Beyond the Contact Center

Many enterprises have invested significantly in optimizing contact center performance, yet their broader enterprise phone systems often remain siloed, costly to maintain, and disconnected from analytics and compliance oversight.

Through BluIP’s UCaaS integration with NiCE CXone, organizations can:

Replace legacy systems with a modern Cloud PBX
Incorporate both UCaaS and CCaaS call recordings into CXone’s call recording ecosystem for AI analysis
Apply Quality Management and Interaction Analytics to all enterprise calls
Improve operational visibility through unified dashboards and presence management
Reduce operational costs and minimize outage risk with cloud-based architecture

“Guests, customers and patients interact with your entire organization — not just your contact center,” said Armen Martirosyan, CEO at BluIP. “By integrating our UCaaS solutions and NiCE CXone CCaaS at the carrier level, we enable enterprises to apply the same AI-driven oversight, compliance, and insight across every call.”

“At NiCE, we help organizations orchestrate smarter, more connected experiences with NiCE CXone at the core,” said Dan Belanger, President, NiCE Americas. “By integrating CXone’s AI-driven analytics and automation with BluIP’s carrier-grade UCaaS solutions, we’re extending intelligence beyond the contact center and across the enterprise — enabling seamless interactions, stronger compliance, and measurable business outcomes.”

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Cloud Migration with Confidence

Organizations operating legacy systems often face rising maintenance costs, hardware refresh cycles, and business continuity risks. The BluIP and NiCE partnership provides a strategic migration path to secure, geographically redundant cloud infrastructure designed to reduce cost, improve reliability, and support long-term scalability.

For current NiCE CXone customers, BluIP UCaaS is more than a phone system upgrade — it is a natural extension of their existing investment, delivering enterprise-wide AI insights, improved compliance visibility, and a unified communications ecosystem designed to enhance both operational performance and customer experience.

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Bytes Technolab Scales Its Proven MVP Development to Help US Startups and Enterprises Build AI-First Products

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June 8, 2026

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Bytes Technolab is an AI-first Product Engineering and AI & Data Implementation partner, engineering intelligent, scalable and market-fit digital products and implementing AI & Data solutions that turn operational complexity into sustainable competitive advantage, trusted across North America, UK, Europe, MENA, Australia and Asia. We partner with startups, mid-market and enterprise companies to build AI-powered products from the ground up and embed intelligence into the operations they already run, de-risking innovation, accelerating time to market and building for scale with ambition. Our depth, structure and strategic clarity turn AI ambition into lasting, measurable business results. Not an agency. A partner who owns the outcome.

Bytes Technolab, an AI-first Product Engineering and AI & Data Implementation Company, is formally expanding its AI MVP Development Partner in USA services to serve startups and enterprises that are done losing time, money, and market share to slow and poorly built digital products.

The move is not a rebrand. It is not a pivot. It is what Bytes has been doing for over 15 years, now structured and scaled specifically for the US market, where the pressure to ship fast and build right has never been higher.

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“We do not build for today. We engineer for the AI era,” said Mitul Patel, Founder & CEO at Bytes Technolab. “Not an agency. A partner who owns the outcome. That is what US founders and enterprise teams actually need right now.”

The Gap Most Companies Fall Into

Here is something most founders already know but do not say out loud: a badly scoped MVP costs more to fix than it costs to build.

Bytes has watched this play out across hundreds of engagements. A team validates an idea. They bring in a freelancer or a budget shop. Something ships. Then the next six months disappear into rebuilding what should have been done the first time properly. Runway drops. Investor confidence follows.
That pattern breaks when you work with a serious AI MVP Development Partner in USA.

Bytes Technolab approaches Minimum Viable Product development differently. Discovery happens before any code gets written. Architecture gets designed for AI-first scalability from the start. And success gets measured not in features delivered but in real competitive outcomes for the client.

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What This Looks Like in Practice

A seed-funded SaaS startup came to Bytes with a validated idea, no technical team, and one shot to build something investors would actually fund. In 8 weeks, the team delivered a production-ready, AI-powered MVP solution. The product onboarded 500 users in the first month. It anchored a successful Series A pitch. The investor called it “the most technically credible MVP we have seen at this stage.

That is what Digital Product Development Services in the USA should look like.

Each engagement starts with a structured product discovery workshop. It covers what to build, what to cut and which architecture decisions will define the product’s ceiling for years. From that point, Bytes designs the solution, builds across sprint cycles, and ships something that does not fall apart when real users show up.

Short. Sharp. No guesswork.

AI-Driven MVP Development Services Built for the Real World

Rapid prototyping services are everywhere in the US market. Most of them stop at speed. Bytes do not.

The team’s AI-driven MVP development services in USA cover the full modern stack: Generative AI, Agentic AI, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, RAG systems, and workflow automation. These are not features bolted on to impress a demo. They are architectural decisions made to give every product a foundation that gets stronger over time.

For enterprises, this matters just as much as it does for startups. Bytes has delivered AI-powered products and implementations for organizations across the United States. Results from real client work include 60% reductions in manual operations, 30% improvements in forecast accuracy, and revenue impacts running into eight figures.

Startup MVP Development offers the same level of engineering depth. Whether the team is 5 people or 5,000, the framework holds.

POC, MVP, or Full Product? Bytes Helps You Pick the Right One

Confusing a POC with an MVP is one of the most expensive mistakes a company can make. They look similar from the outside. They are completely different things.

Bytes Technolab offers POC development services that stress-test whether something is technically feasible before making a serious investment. If the POC holds up, the team moves into full AI-powered MVP solution development, building a shippable product on solid architectural ground. If production scale is the goal, Bytes engineers for that too.

Think about it this way. A POC answers whether something can be built. An MVP answers whether users will actually adopt it. A production system answers whether it can survive at scale. Bytes helps clients figure out which question they actually need to answer first.

That clarity alone saves months.

Product Discovery Services That Actually De-Risk the Build

Most digital products fail before development starts. Not during a sprint. Before.

The gap between a business idea and a technically validated product strategy is where most builds go wrong. Bytes product discovery services exist specifically to close that gap.

Every engagement opens with a discovery workshop that covers market validation, user needs, technical feasibility, AI opportunity assessment, and architecture scoping. What comes out of it is a validated feature backlog, a solution architecture blueprint, and a risk-reduced development roadmap.

No vague timelines. No bloated feature lists. Just a clear, honest path from idea to launch.

Why US Startups and Enterprises Are Choosing Bytes

Something has shifted in how US founders think about MVP partners. The days of handing a brief to an offshore shop and hoping for the best are fading fast. What founders want now is a partner who understands AI architecture, owns the outcome, and does not disappear after the final sprint.

With 15+ years of engineering experience and 100+ AI-powered product builds, Bytes Technolab helps US startups and enterprises build scalable MVPs without relying on generic templates, positioning the company as a trusted MVP Development Company in the USA.

Startups that build. Businesses that transform. Enterprises that lead. That is who Bytes exists to work with.

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Arc XP and Tickaroo Partner to Bring Live Blogging Workflows to Media Organizations

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June 8, 2026

Arc XP and Tickaroo Partner to Bring Live Blogging Workflows to Media Organizations

New Power Up integration enables Arc XP customers to embed Tickaroo live blogs into the Arc XP media operating platform

Arc XP announced a partnership with Tickaroo, a live blogging platform trusted by hundreds of newsrooms worldwide. The partnership enables Arc XP customers to embed Tickaroo live blogs directly into the Arc XP platform through a custom Power Up integration.

The integration gives editorial teams a streamlined way to deliver real-time coverage for breaking news, sports, elections, live events, and developing stories. By bringing Tickaroo’s live blogging capabilities into the Arc XP platform, publishers can manage live coverage within existing publishing workflows while improving speed, flexibility, and audience engagement.

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“Arc XP is focused on helping media organizations build stronger, more sustainable digital businesses, and that starts with giving newsrooms tools that make their work faster, simpler, and more impactful,” said Sharad Vivek, Head of Partnerships at Arc XP. “Tickaroo shares our belief that technology should simplify editorial workflows, not complicate them. This partnership gives our customers a practical way to deliver high-quality live coverage while keeping their teams focused on reporting, audience engagement, and growth.”

Tickaroo helps news, sports, and media organizations deliver real-time stories that build trust, grow audiences, and create new monetization opportunities. Its platform supports live news coverage, sports reporting, major events, multimedia storytelling, AI-powered workflows, and distributed newsroom collaboration.

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“Live coverage has become one of the most important ways publishers build connection and trust with their audiences and drive sustainable revenue at the same time,” said Naomi Owusu, CEO and Co-Founder of Tickaroo. “By partnering with Arc XP, we are making it easier for media organizations to bring real-time storytelling into their existing publishing environments. Together, we can help newsrooms work more efficiently, engage audiences more deeply, and create new opportunities for sustainable growth.”

RND, a shared customer of Arc XP and Tickaroo, has successfully used Tickaroo for nearly a decade. “Real-time coverage is central to how we serve audiences across fast-moving news and events. The combination of Arc XP and Tickaroo gives our teams a more integrated way to publish live updates, streamline workflows, and keep readers engaged when stories are developing quickly,” said Martin Kautz, Head of Media Technologies, RND RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.

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Bloomberg Media Partners with Cision to Bring Its Journalism into Communications Workflows

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June 8, 2026

Bloomberg Media Partners with Cision to Bring Its Journalism into Communications Workflows

The partnership expands access to Bloomberg’s full-text content directly within CisionOne.

Bloomberg Media announced a new partnership with Cision, a global leader in consumer and media intelligence, to expand access to Bloomberg’s premium full-text journalism directly within CisionOne, Cision’s media intelligence platform.

“For communications teams, trusted journalism is an important part of understanding the stories, issues and market shifts that matter to their organizations. This partnership gives customers easier access to Bloomberg Media’s full-text business and financial reporting within their CisionOne workflow, helping them monitor coverage, understand context and make more informed decisions.”

Through the integration, eligible Bloomberg.com Group Subscribers will be able to view, monitor, and engage with Bloomberg reporting alongside the platform tools they already use to track news, analyze coverage, and inform communications strategy. The partnership gives enterprise communications teams more seamless access to Bloomberg’s premium financial and business reporting within existing workflows.

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“Partnering with Cision brings Bloomberg’s journalism directly into an environment where communications and business executives are shaping strategy and engaging with news,” says Nick Pimm, Managing Director of Enterprise Sales at Bloomberg Media. “There’s a strong alignment between our audiences, and this collaboration allows us to extend Bloomberg Media’s reach while creating a seamless, integrated experience for our shared subscribers.”

“For communications teams, trusted journalism is an important part of understanding the stories, issues, and market shifts that matter to their organizations. This partnership gives customers easier access to Bloomberg Media’s full-text business and financial reporting within their CisionOne workflow, helping them monitor coverage, understand context, and make more informed decisions,” said Stuart Clark, SVP of Content Strategy and Partnerships at Cision.

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Silverfort Integrates AI Agent Identity Control for Microsoft Copilot Studio

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June 8, 2026

Silverfort Integrates AI Agent Identity Control for Microsoft Copilot Studio

Silverfort’s Copilot Studio integration secures AI agents with runtime identity & access controls, accelerating safe adoption of agentic AI

Silverfort, an Identity Security company, announced the integration of its Identity Security control for AI agents for Microsoft Copilot Studio. Through its integration, Silverfort delivers inline identity security at runtime, enforcing intelligent access control policies at the precise moment a Copilot agent attempts to act and blocking unauthorized access before execution.

AI agents created in Copilot Studio can authenticate, retrieve enterprise data, trigger workflows, and interact with enterprise systems across cloud and on-prem environments. Every meaningful action ties back to a human user with different privilege levels and multiple machine identities, creating a chain of authentications, authorizations, and potential privilege escalation. Microsoft reports that over 80% of the Fortune 500 are deploying active agents built with low-code/no-code tools, while 29% of employees already use unsanctioned AI agents for work. As business teams move fast with Copilot Studio, security and identity leaders remain accountable for the risk.

“The more access an AI agent has to corporate resources, the more powerful, it becomes. Without deep identity context, there’s no way to make an informed, real-time decision about whether an agent’s action is legitimate or overreach. That’s why agentic security is an identity problem at its core,” said Ron Rasin, Chief Strategy Officer at Silverfort. “Silverfort’s integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio is a recognition that runtime identity enforcement isn’t optional, it’s the foundation for deploying AI with confidence.”

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Runtime enforcement at-the-moment of access

Silverfort integrates into the Copilot Studio ecosystem to enable runtime enforcement. Every time a Copilot agent requests access to a tool or function, Silverfort evaluates the request in real time and returns a decision before the action executes. This prevents unauthorized access, privilege escalation, and unintended actions before they can occur, allowing organizations to adopt AI agents with confidence.

Silverfort’s runtime enforcement:

Limits unauthorized privilege elevation. AI agents cannot exceed authorized privileges.
Stops risky AI agent overreach. Anomalous access attempts are blocked before execution.
Dynamically adapts access policies. Granular access policies dynamically adapt based on real-time context and risk.
Creates audit trails. All activity is auditable and tied to enterprise identity governance frameworks and the human using the agent.

“Silverfort’s integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio extends security into the moment of access itself,” said Ankur Arora, Principal Group PM Manager, Microsoft. “This isn’t visibility after the fact. It’s inline, runtime enforcement that evaluates and controls every agent’s access requests before they execute.”

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One control plane for every agent

Enterprises rarely run a single agentic AI platform. Copilot Studio agents often operate alongside third-party and homegrown agents, creating a fragmented control surface. Silverfort extends Identity Security beyond Copilot Studio to deliver unified visibility and control across:

Copilot Studio AI agents
Human identities
Non-human identities, including service and machine accounts
External and third-party AI agents operating outside the Microsoft ecosystem

Strengthening AI security strategy for enterprises

This integration reflects Silverfort’s broader strategy to secure AI as identity becomes a primary control plane for enterprises. A long-standing Microsoft collaborator and former Microsoft Partner of the Year, Silverfort continues to expand its role in protecting hybrid and cloud environments. Silverfort is working closely with Microsoft to develop various AI-focused security features.

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to operational deployment, identity is becoming the enforcement layer that determines what agents can and cannot do. Silverfort delivers that enforcement at enterprise scale, analyzing more than 10 billion authentications daily across 1,000+ organizations worldwide, including several Fortune 50 companies.

Silverfort continues to invest in AI-focused security research, including advancements in detecting prompt injection and jailbreak attempts using recursive language modeling (RLM) and other AI security initiatives. By combining deep Microsoft integration, enterprise-scale identity telemetry, and forward-looking AI research, Silverfort is positioning identity as the foundation for securing the agentic enterprise.

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Sevenfold Launches as a Web3 and AI Marketing Agency Built on a Positioning-First Model

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June 8, 2026

Sevenfold Launches as a Web3 and AI Marketing Agency Built on a Positioning-First Model

The senior-led strategy, PR, and marketing firm helps blockchain, AI, and emerging technology companies build category leadership through narrative clarity

Sevenfold, a Web3 and AI marketing agency specializing in strategy, public relations, and narrative development, announced its official launch. The firm was founded by Hector Espinoza and Nancy Li following the exit of Multiplied, the agency they co-founded in 2017 working with leading blockchain protocols, infrastructure providers, and decentralized finance platforms.

Both founders were recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Marketing and Advertising. Multiplied built a reputation for working with technically complex, high-growth projects at critical inflection points — fundraises, product launches, and category-defining moments.

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Sevenfold was built on the premise that most Web3 and AI marketing fails not because of poor execution, but because the underlying narrative hasn’t been solved. The firm’s positioning-first methodology means every engagement — whether crypto PR, content, brand strategy, or growth — begins with getting that foundation right.

“We watched too many great companies spend serious money on execution before they knew what they were saying or why anyone should care,” said Hector Espinoza, Co-Founder of Sevenfold. “When the narrative is right, everything else performs better. That’s what we build first.”

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The agency works across Web3 marketing, AI communications, public relations, content, and brand strategy — taking engagements from positioning through execution for founders and leadership teams who want a single strategic partner.

“The best work we did at Multiplied was when we were brought in early enough to shape how a company thought about itself before it started talking publicly,” said Nancy Li, Co-Founder of Sevenfold. “Sevenfold is built to operate that way by default.”

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AppTec Simplifies Device Provisioning for Hybrid Workforces with Mobile Device Management

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June 8, 2026

AppTec Simplifies Device Provisioning for Hybrid Workforces with Mobile Device Management

AppTec360 Mobile Device Management simplifies device provisioning for hybrid workforces with centralized enrollment, remote setup, and policy control.

Efficient device provisioning is critical for organizations supporting hybrid work environments where employees operate across multiple locations and devices. AppTec360 Mobile Device Management (MDM) provides a centralized approach to device enrollment, configuration, and policy deployment, helping IT teams deliver a consistent and secure user experience from day one.

As businesses continue to balance flexibility with security, AppTec360 simplifies the provisioning process by enabling administrators to configure devices remotely, enforce corporate policies, and deploy applications at scale. This streamlined approach reduces administrative effort, accelerates device readiness, and ensures employees can securely access the tools they need regardless of their location.

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Key Features and Benefits:

Automated Device Enrollment: Simplifies onboarding by enabling devices to be enrolled and configured with minimal manual intervention.

Unified Policy Enforcement: Apply security settings, restrictions, and configurations consistently across managed devices.

Remote Configuration Management: Provision devices remotely, reducing setup time and supporting distributed workforces.

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Application Deployment at Scale: Distribute and manage business-critical applications from a centralized management console.

Enhanced Security and Compliance: Ensure devices adhere to corporate policies and security requirements throughout their lifecycle.

With AppTec360 Mobile Device Management, organizations can simplify device provisioning, reduce operational complexity, and support productive hybrid work environments through centralized management and control.

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Inbox Monster Launches Custom QA With a First-Ever Sendability Score That Proves When Emails Are Ready to Deploy

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June 8, 2026

Inbox Monster Launches Custom QA With a First-Ever Sendability Score That Proves When Emails Are Ready to Deploy

Inbox Monster, the integrated deliverability and testing platform for email teams, today announced the launch of Custom QA, which empowers teams to tailor their email QA to their brand’s unique needs.

As part of Inbox Monster’s mission to help email marketers send with confidence, Custom QA is now available in its Creative Suite for enterprise email testing. Instead of wasting valuable time on manual and inefficient review processes, organizations can create specialized rule catalogs to streamline the pre-send workflow.

These rulesets allow email marketers to establish brand standards, design requirements, legal disclaimers, compliance checks and more—all within a single workflow. Organizations can start with 80+ common rules with email best practices built in, then customize their own ruleset to match the way their team works. Every email is automatically analyzed against this custom ruleset, with issues flagged for remediation.

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What sets Inbox Monster’s Custom QA apart from other email testing platforms is its proprietary Sendability Score, which helps teams quickly understand whether an email is ready for deployment. After an email is analyzed against an organization’s custom ruleset, Inbox Monster generates the Sendability Score based on how well that message meets those standards.

“Testing and QA are often the most manual, cumbersome part of an email marketer’s workflow,” said Matt McFee, Managing Director of Inbox Monster. “Custom QA gives teams the confidence to send faster without sacrificing quality or accuracy. With nothing else like it in the market today, we truly believe this is the future of email QA.”

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With Inbox Monster’s Creative Suite, email marketers can cut their QA time in half, collaborating with their teams in real time, testing interactive content and rendering across 110+ modern clients and devices. In addition to offering Custom QA, the suite encompasses a comprehensive toolset, including AI summaries, live previews, image diagnostics, accessibility checks, and language translation.

Inbox Monster Custom QA

Create custom QA rules that match an organization’s unique testing needs for brand, design, legal, compliance and more
Choose from a set of 80+ common rules with email best practices already in place
See exactly where rules were broken in email creative for easy remediation
Receive a Sendability Score for each email to prove it’s ready for deployment

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Highspot MCP Server Now Available in the OpenAI ChatGPT App Store, Bringing Deal Execution Directly Into ChatGPT

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June 8, 2026

Highspot MCP Server Now Available in the OpenAI ChatGPT App Store, Bringing Deal Execution Directly Into ChatGPT

Highspot expands its agentic ecosystem with OpenAI integration, enabling sales teams to assess deal health and take action directly from ChatGPT

Highspot, the only agentic platform for go-to-market (GTM) performance, announced that their MCP Server is now available in the OpenAI ChatGPT App Store, giving sales teams access to Highspot content and intelligence directly within ChatGPT.

As organizations rapidly adopt AI, many are finding that general AI tools fall short without trusted business context. Highspot MCP Server connects ChatGPT to real deal activity, recommended content, and performance data — giving sellers tools and contextual guidance based on what works, so they can close deals faster without moving across systems.

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What sellers can now do with Highspot and OpenAI

With Highspot MCP Server available in the OpenAI App Store, sales teams can:

Get instant answers to complex sales questions in ChatGPT pulling from Highspot content, deal activity, buyer engagement signals, and meeting data
Identify deal risk early and take action by accessing deal health, live signals, and next best steps to win deals faster
Get recommended content and sales plays based on live opportunity context and buyer engagement insights
Generate personalized pitches tailored to specific deals, buyers, and industries

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Why this matters now

Sales teams are under pressure to execute faster as opportunities become more complex and buyers arrive with more information. While most AI tools can answer questions, they lack the trusted content, personalized context, and business insights needed to improve real sales outcomes. General AI is only as useful as the trusted context and domain-specific systems connected to it.

Highspot changes that by connecting ChatGPT directly to the GTM system where deal activity, buyer engagement, content, training, and execution signals already live — making AI more contextual, actionable, and effective for revenue teams.

With Highspot MCP Server, sellers can work more efficiently, reduce tool-switching, and move deals forward with greater clarity, consistency, and confidence.

From Highspot’s CEO

“AI is reshaping how sellers work, but its impact depends on trusted context,” said Robert Wahbe, CEO of Highspot. “By bringing Highspot into ChatGPT through our MCP Server, we’re connecting sellers to the content, deal intelligence, and performance insights that drive sales outcomes. It’s a key step in our vision for Highspot Everywhere — meeting reps where they are so they can move opportunities forward with greater speed and confidence.”

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New Relic Introduces AI Coding Observability to Bring Critical Visibility and Governance to AI Coding Assistants

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June 8, 2026

Pipefy Launches Solution that Turns AI Conversations Into Workflows

Solution will empower engineering and platform leaders with unified cost, security, and performance insight across AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot

New Relic, the Intelligent Observability Company, announced development of a new open-source feature called New Relic AI Coding Observability, an observability solution designed specifically for AI-assisted software development. As engineering organizations adopt AI coding assistants at a breakneck pace, these tools often operate outside the traditional observability stack, creating significant blind spots across the business. New Relic AI Coding Observability aims to address these operational gaps by extending production-grade monitoring directly into the coding phase of the software lifecycle, transforming fragmented, unmonitored AI usage into a highly governed, optimized and auditable enterprise advantage.

New Relic introduces AI Coding Observability to empower engineering and platform leaders with unified cost, security, and performance insight across AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot

“You can’t manage what you can’t see. AI coding assistants are having a measurable impact on businesses, but without real-time oversight into how they’re behaving, organizations are scaling risk as fast as they’re scaling output,” said New Relic Chief Product Officer Brian Emerson. “New Relic AI Coding Observability will close this gap, removing barriers to quality innovation that succeeds in production.”

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Bringing enterprise-grade rigor to the AI coding phase

AI coding tools are now producing more code than ever, as Gartner predicts that 90% of enterprise software engineers will use AI code assistants by 2028. However, engineering organizations rarely standardize on just one AI tool. Instead, developers leverage a highly fragmented mix of coding assistants depending on the task. New Relic AI Coding Observability is being designed to future-proof development strategies and introduce a unified, vendor-neutral pane of glass that normalizes telemetry across the major AI coding assistants and correlates it seamlessly with existing production infrastructure.

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Key features and benefits of New Relic AI Coding Observability will include:

Gain insights into code development actions – Teams will be able to move away from blind trust in their AI coding tools to gaining comprehensive insights into how these tools are actually behaving as applications and services are developed.
Exercise cost control – AI coding assistants are a rapidly growing line item, yet most organizations treat them as an unmonitored expense. New Relic AI Observability will allow teams to track AI spend and eliminate black box invoices, and forecast spend against budgets and alert before thresholds are hit.
Enhance productivity metrics – To understand productivity gains from coding assistant use, the capability will replace anecdotal success stories with hard data and catch inefficiencies and hidden failure modes.
Ensure security and compliance – Local-only / zero-outbound mode will run queries entirely within the user’s private network, guaranteeing data sovereignty, privacy and regulatory compliance.
Receive strong code transparency – Will eliminate black-box AI skepticism by providing fully readable, open-source and source-available code, empowering engineering and security teams to independently verify data privacy protocols and AI reasoning with certainty.
Avoid vendor lock-in – Backed natively by the OpenTelemetry protocol and Model Context Protocol (MCP), the feature will deliver true vendor-neutrality that allows organizations to seamlessly port their telemetry data and AI workflows across any cloud ecosystem or language model provider.
Provides broad coding assistant coverage – Will support Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf and Amazon Q.

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Gartner Marketing Survey Finds Awareness and Conversion Account for 62.6% of Total Media Spend

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June 8, 2026

Gartner Marketing Survey Finds Awareness and Conversion Account for 62.6% of Total Media Spend

Analysts Explore Strategic Implications of AI-Driven Shifts Toward Digital, Acquisition and Human Capability During Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo, June 8-10, in Denver

Awareness and conversion now account for 62.6% of total media spend, as CMOs shift budget toward acquisition and digital channels in pursuit of growth, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

Gartner analysts are discussing the key issues facing CMOs during Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo, taking place here through Wednesday. The survey showed that labor is claiming a larger share of marketing budgets, underscoring that AI value depends on people, skills and execution, not just technology.

The annual Gartner 2026 CMO Spend Survey was conducted January through March 2026 among 401 CMOs and other marketing leaders in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe across different industries, company sizes and revenue, with the vast majority of respondents reporting annual revenue of over $1 billion.

“As AI reshapes the marketing mix, many CMOs are channeling more investment into digital channels and customer acquisition in pursuit of growth,” said Ewan McIntyre, VP Analyst and Chief of Research in the Gartner Marketing practice. “However, AI is not a shortcut around marketing capability. The organizations that will pull ahead are those that pair AI investment with the people, processes and discipline required to turn it into business results.”

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AI Accelerates Shifts Toward Digital and Acquisition

CMOs are rapidly shifting budget from offline to digital channels, with digital media now representing more than two-thirds of total media investments in 2026, up 18% since 2024. AI is a key driver of this shift, with CMOs citing enhanced personalization and the need to prioritize channels that can be effectively AI-optimized among the biggest influences on their channel mix.

The survey also shows CMOs are prioritizing customer acquisition over loyalty and retention. As previously stated, awareness and conversion now account for 62.6% of total media spend, a rise of over 10% since 2024, while spending on customer loyalty and retention has declined 29% over the same period to less than 15% of total media spend.

However, the most AI-mature marketing organizations allocate a larger share of budget to customer loyalty and retention and a lower share to digital channels, suggesting that less mature organizations may be over-indexing on short-term optimization and channels that are easiest to measure and automate.

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“AI can help marketers optimize faster, but optimization is not the same as strategy,” said McIntyre. “CMOs must guard against letting AI steer too much budget toward the channels and stages of the journey that are easiest to tune, while underinvesting in the touchpoints that build long-term customer value.”

Rising Labor Share Signals That AI Requires People, Not Just Platforms

Despite the assumption that AI should reduce people costs, labor is claiming a larger share of marketing budgets. Labor’s share of the total marketing budget rose from 21.9% in 2025 to 24.5% in 2026, suggesting CMOs increasingly recognize that AI value depends on people, skills and execution, not just technology.

This challenge is compounded by low organizational readiness. Seventy percent of CMOs say their internal marketing processes are not mature enough to effectively implement and scale AI, and only 30% report mature or fully developed AI readiness capabilities. In addition, lack of internal AI expertise and talent is the top barrier preventing CMOs from achieving AI-driven efficiency, cited by 38% of respondents.

“AI changes the kind of marketing capability organizations need, but it does not eliminate the need for capability,” said McIntyre. “As CMOs invest in AI-powered transformation, they must also invest in the talent, governance and operating maturity required to make those tools work in the real world.”

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NEWWORK Software Inc. Introduces the World’s First Enterprise Digital Workforce Platform

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June 8, 2026

NEWWORK Software Inc. Introduces the World’s First Enterprise Digital Workforce Platform

A new category of enterprise software that enables organizations to build, govern and scale digital employees across every business function

NEWWORK Software Inc., a pioneer in enterprise AI, announced the launch of its Digital Workforce Platform, introducing a new category of enterprise software designed to help organizations deploy, govern and scale digital employees across the enterprise.

The Digital Workforce Platform enables organizations to create, deploy, manage and govern entire digital workforces composed of specialized AI employees capable of collaborating with each other and with human teams.

For decades, enterprise software has focused on digitizing information, processes and workflows. The next transformation is work itself. The Digital Workforce Platform enables organizations to create and operate teams of AI-powered digital employees that work alongside human employees, follow organizational structures, respect governance and compliance requirements and execute business processes across every function of the enterprise.

“ERP systems digitized processes. CRM systems digitized customer relationships. We believe digital workforce platforms will digitize work itself,” said Michael Jaszczyk, co-CEO of NEWWORK Software. “We are not building another AI assistant. We are building the operating environment for a new workforce composed of both humans and digital employees.”

A New Category: The Digital Workforce Platform

Most AI solutions available today focus on individual assistants, chatbots or isolated agents. The Digital Workforce Platform takes a fundamentally different approach. It enables organizations to create, deploy, manage and govern entire digital workforces composed of specialized AI employees capable of collaborating with each other and with human teams.

These digital employees can perform operational work, execute business processes, analyze information, create and manage documentation, interact with enterprise systems, follow approval workflows, escalate decisions when required and operate within defined roles and responsibilities.

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Just as companies manage human employees through organizational structures, the platform enables them to manage digital employees through the same governance model.

The Agent Operating System: The Runtime for Digital Employees

At the core of the Digital Workforce Platform is the company’s Agent Operating System, which serves as the execution and coordination layer for digital employees across the enterprise. The platform supports coordinated teams of specialized agents that can assume operational roles, follow reporting structures, respect separation-of-duty requirements, operate under delegated authority, collaborate across departments and coordinate multi-step processes.

Each digital employee operates within clearly defined responsibilities and permissions, ensuring alignment with corporate governance and operational controls.

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Enterprise Governance and Compliance by Design

One of the largest barriers to enterprise AI adoption has been governance. The Digital Workforce Platform was specifically designed for highly regulated industries, including but not limited to financial services, banking, insurance, healthcare, public sector, energy and manufacturing.

Every action performed by a digital employee can be inspected, reviewed and audited, with enterprise governance capabilities that include:

Full decision traceability
Role-based access control
Segregation of duties
Four-eyes approval principles
Policy-driven decision frameworks
Human-in-the-loop governance
Enterprise identity integration
Regulatory compliance controls

AI Development Platform: Build Your Own Digital Workforce

In addition to the runtime environment, the platform includes a fully integrated AI Development Platform that allows customers to create, customize and deploy their own digital employees and business applications.

Designed for both business users and professional developers, the platform supports low-code and pro-code development models. This allows enterprises to continuously expand and evolve their digital workforce without relying on external development resources.

Business Capability Packs: From Technology to Business Outcomes

While most AI platforms provide technical building blocks, NEWWORK Software delivers preconfigured business capabilities through modular Business Capability Packs. These feature specialized digital employees, workflows, governance policies, data models and integrations for specific business domains, including human resources, customer relationship management, service operations, finance and enterprise resource planning.

Organizations can deploy these capabilities immediately and extend them using the AI Development Platform.

The Operating Mind of the Enterprise

Beyond automation, the Digital Workforce Platform introduces a new intelligence layer across enterprise systems. For decades, organizations have invested heavily in systems of record, including ERP, CRM, HR systems, service platforms and content repositories. These systems store information, but they do not understand it.

The Digital Workforce Platform creates what NEWWORK Software calls the Operating Mind of the Enterprise: an intelligence layer capable of understanding organizational context, business processes, enterprise knowledge and operational objectives. Digital employees can reason across systems, collaborate across functions and execute work based on organizational goals.

“The future enterprise will not be defined by the systems it owns but by the intelligence that operates across those systems,” said Jens Krüger, co-CEO of NEWWORK Software. “We are entering the next major era of enterprise software where intelligence is embedded directly into the business operating model. With NEWWORK, digital employees handle operational work while humans retain oversight and strategic control. It’s a move from systems of record and systems of process to systems of intelligence.”

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SPACInsider Launches AI-Powered Access to Its SPAC Database

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June 8, 2026

SPACInsider Launches AI-Powered Access to Its SPAC Database

New SPAC-GPT and MCP access bring AI-enabled analysis to SPACInsider’s proprietary database

SPACInsider, a leading provider of data, analysis and news focused exclusively on the Special Purpose Acquisition Company market, announced the launch of two new AI-powered data access tools: SPAC-GPT and SPACInsider MCP Access.

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SPACInsider GPT gives subscribers a dedicated AI interface for querying SPACInsider’s proprietary database using natural language. Users can ask questions about SPAC IPOs, terms, sponsors, underwriters, de-SPAC transactions, and other market data without manually building filters or repeating searches across multiple screens.

SPACInsider MCP Access allows eligible firms to connect SPACInsider’s database to MCP-compatible AI environments, including supported workflows in Claude, OpenAI and internal enterprise AI systems. Through Model Context Protocol, or MCP, firms can bring SPACInsider data into the AI tools they are already building or using internally, subject to applicable permissions and subscription terms.

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“SPACs have always been a data-intensive market, but the challenge for professionals is no longer simply accessing the data that exists. It is how quickly they can get to the right answer based on that data,” said Kristi Marvin, Founder and CEO of SPACInsider. “With SPAC-GPT and MCP access, we are giving clients a more direct way to investigate the SPAC market, whether through our own AI interface or inside the AI workflows they are already developing.”

The launch expands SPACInsider’s data platform from a traditional search-and-filter experience into an AI-enabled workflow layer for investors, investment banks, law firms, advisory firms and other professionals active in the SPAC market.

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EPAM and TGS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI Adoption at Scale in Energy Sector

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June 8, 2026

EPAM and TGS Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI Adoption at Scale in Energy Sector

Energy companies gain faster decision making and competitive advantage through integrated, barrier-free workflows

EPAM Systems, Inc., a leading digital and AI transformation company, with TGS, a leading provider of energy data and intelligence, announced the successful deployment of TGS Imaging AnyWare^® on Amazon Web Services (AWS). TGS has begun the migration of its imaging systems to AWS Cloud to leverage the agility, cost and performance benefits of elastic cloud infrastructure. The next-generation platform enables select seismic imaging workflows to run much faster with lower computing costs, improving service delivery to energy companies. This milestone advances the Companies’ ongoing work to optimize and AI-enable workflows across the energy sector.

Energy companies face mounting pressure to extract value from subsurface data faster and more cost-effectively than ever before. The technical barriers are significant: managing petabyte-scale seismic datasets, running deeply parallel imaging and interpretation workloads efficiently and scaling computational capacity without locking capital into infrastructure that can’t flex with project demands. Traditional, on-premises systems struggle to meet these requirements, creating bottlenecks that delay critical exploration and production decisions. TGS has now brought a modernized platform into production that addresses these challenges directly, built in collaboration with EPAM, on AWS, to deliver integrated, cloud-native workflows at scale.

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“True digital transformation in energy requires partners who understand both the technical complexity and the operational realities of the sector,” said Jason Harman, SVP, Head of Business ME & APAC, Energy at EPAM. “Our collaboration with TGS on AWS aims to deliver capabilities that weren’t economically or technically feasible before — enabling energy companies to extract more value from subsurface data, faster and at scale.”

The collaboration delivers three core capabilities that modernize subsurface operations:

Subsurface Data as a Service – TGS Data Verse delivers centralized, secure and democratized access to seismic and well data through an OSDU-compliant, EPAM-engineered streaming architecture — enabling in-browser visualization and on-demand delivery that accelerates exploration and production decision-making.
Cloud-Native Seismic Imaging at Scale – TGS Imaging AnyWare, modernized by EPAM on AWS, will deliver benchmarked performance gains on select seismic imaging workflows through AWS Graviton-based instances and cost reductions vs on-demand pricing using AWS Spot generic instances.
Composable Workflows and AI Enablement – EPAM’s Energy HPC Orchestrator (EHO), built on AWS cloud infrastructure, enables modular, end-to-end subsurface workflows, with TGS shaping next-generation capabilities.

“TGS has a bold vision for the future of seismic imaging, and AWS is providing the elastic compute, AI services and purpose-built infrastructure to help make it a reality,” said Joseph Santamaria, General Manager, Energy & Utilities at AWS. “Together with EPAM, we’re helping TGS move energy operators from data to discovery faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.”

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EPAM’s migration of TGS Imaging AnyWare to AWS represents a broader shift in how subsurface operations can be modernized for the cloud era. By bridging TGS’s vision to become an AI-native geoscience company with AWS’s computational scale and EPAM’s cloud engineering expertise, the collaboration establishes an infrastructure foundation for AI-enabled energy workflows that on-premises operations were never built to deliver.

“The collaboration between TGS and both EPAM and AWS has delivered not just new technical capabilities, but a fundamentally better cost-performance model that adds agility and the latest computing innovations to our operations,” said Wadii El Karkouri, Executive Vice President of Technology at TGS. “The result is computational gravity, drawing the right data, expertise and infrastructure into a unified environment that transforms complexity into competitive advantage for energy companies.”

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Three Reputable Geo Marketing Services Providers in UK 2026: Elevating Regional Targeted Marketing

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June 8, 2026

AIMZER Introduces the AI Visibility Framework™ to Measure How Businesses Are Recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude

Highlighting Leading UK Agencies Delivering Precision Location-Based Advertising, Consumer Insights, and Regional Customer Engagement Solutions.

As generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude) reshape how businesses discover solutions, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) has become a critical service for companies seeking visibility in AI-generated answers. In the United Kingdom, the demand for professional GEO services is accelerating across sectors including technology, SaaS, e-commerce, manufacturing, legal services, and healthcare. Enterprises now require structured content strategies that ensure their brand, product, and service entities are consistently cited by AI platforms. Against this backdrop, three reputable GEO marketing services providers in the UK stand out for their distinct capabilities and proven results.

1. Horion Marketing – London-Based B2B Client Acquisition Consultancy

Founded in 2022, Horion Marketing is a London-based B2B client acquisition consultancy that specialises in designing and managing outbound and inbound systems across LinkedIn outreach, email outreach, conversion-led websites, paid advertising, SEO, and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO). With a dedicated team of 4 AI/SEO & GEO strategy specialists, the company delivers over 100 service projects annually. Horion Marketing’s GEO service is classified as a professional service and includes five core components:

Content Structure Optimization – Design content architectures tailored for generative AI, using FAQs, Q&A paragraphs, and knowledge cards to improve recognition and citation rates.

Semantic & Keyword Optimization – Analyse natural language question intent and embed high-value keywords to prioritise brand citations.
Entity Definition & Authority Building – Define core entities (brand, product, service) and leverage structured data (Schema, Knowledge Graph) to boost AI trustworthiness.

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Content Library Construction & Prompt Strategy – Build comprehensive enterprise knowledge bases with AI-driven question guidance for accurate referencing.

Performance Monitoring & Reporting – Track citation frequency in AI-generated answers and provide regular data reports on adopted questions and response times.

A notable UK-based case study involved a client in marketing, business development, branding, and videography. Through Horion Marketing’s GEO intervention, the client achieved exponential growth and year-on-year growth in AI-generated answer visibility, directly enhancing lead generation. The company serves industries such as technology and SaaS, e-commerce and retail, travel and hospitality, manufacturing, legal and consulting, media platforms, and consumer electronics.

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2. Branded3 – Leeds-Based Content & SEO Agency with GEO Integration

Branded3, headquartered in Leeds, UK, is a well-established digital marketing agency that has evolved from traditional SEO into the generative AI optimisation space. The agency is recognised for its expertise in content strategy and technical SEO, having served clients across e-commerce, finance, and professional services since 2007. In 2025–2026, Branded3 launched a dedicated GEO Content Optimisation Services UK offering, focusing on structuring site content for AI model consumption. Their approach combines editorial storytelling with structured data implementation, making them a strong choice for brands prioritising thought leadership and brand narrative within AI search results. While their GEO service is still maturing, Branded3’s deep content marketing heritage provides a solid foundation for businesses seeking to build authority in generative answers.

3. Distilled – London-Based Enterprise GEO Consulting

Distilled is a London-based digital marketing consultancy known for its data-driven SEO, technical excellence, and high-calibre client roster (including multinational corporations). The firm has expanded its service line to include Enterprise GEO Services UK, targeting large organisations with complex content ecosystems. Distilled differentiates itself through customised AI search optimisation strategies that integrate with existing SEO and content operations. Their GEO offering emphasises knowledge graph optimisation and entity-based authority building, particularly suited for regulated industries like financial services and healthcare. Distilled’s established reputation in the UK market and its rigorous testing methodology make it a reliable partner for enterprises requiring scalable GEO implementation.

Market Impact and Analyst Perspective

The growing adoption of generative AI in B2B purchasing decisions is forcing companies to re-evaluate their digital marketing mix. Traditional SEO alone no longer guarantees visibility; brands must now ensure their content is structured for easy extraction by large language models. According to industry analysts, the UK GEO services market is projected to grow at a compound annual rate exceeding 30% through 2028, driven by demand from technology and professional services firms. Providers that combine deep AI understanding, structured data proficiency, and measurable reporting are best positioned to capture this opportunity. Horion Marketing’s five-pillar GEO framework, backed by concrete UK case studies, offers a particularly transparent approach for mid-market and B2B firms. Meanwhile, Branded3 and Distilled provide complementary strengths in content depth and enterprise scalability.

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SEARCHEN NETWORKS® Launches Core Web Vitals Optimization Service Powered by Proprietary WordPress Framework

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June 8, 2026

SEARCHEN NETWORKS® Launches Core Web Vitals Optimization Service Powered by Proprietary WordPress Framework

New service highlights website speed, accessibility, Lighthouse performance, and user experience improvements for businesses.

SEARCHEN NETWORKS^®, a digital marketing and website development company founded in 2001, announced the launch of its Core Web Vitals Optimization service, designed to help organizations improve website speed, accessibility, technical performance, and overall user experience.

Speed, accessibility, and usability all contribute to how visitors interact with a website”

— John Colascione, Founder and CEO of SEARCHEN NETWORKS®

The service is powered by the company’s proprietary SEARCHEN^® Core Framework, a custom theme platform developed and maintained exclusively for SEARCHEN NETWORKS^® clients. As website performance standards continue to evolve, organizations are facing increasing pressure to deliver faster, more accessible digital experiences. Search engines, mobile users, and accessibility advocates all place growing importance on websites that load quickly, function efficiently, and remain usable across a wide range of devices and user needs.

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“Website performance is no longer simply a technical issue,” said John Colascione, Founder and CEO of SEARCHEN NETWORKS^®. “Speed, accessibility, and usability all contribute to how visitors interact with a website. Our goal is to help organizations create a better online experience while providing a strong technical foundation for future growth.”

The newly announced service focuses on improving key performance indicators measured by Google’s Lighthouse auditing platform, including Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO. The company reports that multiple websites powered by its proprietary framework have achieved Lighthouse Performance scores ranging from 98 to 100.

According to SEARCHEN NETWORKS^®, the optimization process may include Core Web Vitals improvements, image optimization, CSS and JavaScript refinement, WordPress performance enhancements, accessibility improvements, hosting evaluations, and server-level optimization.

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Unlike many website providers that rely on mass-market commercial themes, SEARCHEN NETWORKS^® developed the SEARCHEN^® Core Framework to provide a lightweight, scalable, and maintainable foundation for client websites. The framework utilizes a custom parent and child theme architecture designed to support long-term performance and flexibility.

The company says the framework is not licensed or sold separately and is available exclusively to organizations utilizing SEARCHEN NETWORKS^® website services. The announcement comes as businesses increasingly seek solutions that address not only search visibility, but also user experience, mobile performance, accessibility concerns, and technical website quality.

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InnerGroup Appoints Neha Bubna to Accelerate AI-driven Content Production at InnerStudio

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June 8, 2026

InnerGroup Appoints Neha Bubna to Accelerate AI-driven Content Production at InnerStudio

Senior appointment adds AI and automation expertise to the offshore creative production studio built specifically for in-house marketing teams.

InnerGroup has appointed Neha Bubna as VP Production, strengthening the AI and technology capability of InnerStudio, its offshore creative production studio. Neha will lead the adoption of AI, automation, and workflow technology to scale content production and drive efficiencies for InnerGroup clients, working alongside Rob Andrews, EVP Global Content, who leads InnerStudio. The appointment marks a new chapter for InnerStudio, placing AI, automation, and intelligent agents at the center of how it delivers for clients.

In-house marketing teams are producing more content, across more channels, with the same or fewer resources. Most have started experimenting with AI. Few have integrated it into how their production operations actually run. The gap between pilot and practice is where time, money, and quality are being lost.
InnerStudio was built to close that gap. Designed specifically for how in-house teams brief, approve, and deliver work, every client works with a dedicated pod – a consistent team focused on their brand, not a rotating pool of resources. The pod gets to know the brand, its standards, and the way the client works.

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Neha’s role is to go further by fast-tracking the integration of new AI and automation tools so that clients move from experimentation to production-ready practice. InnerStudio is founded on over two decades of offshore creative production infrastructure through EKCS, and covers print, digital, video, CGI, packaging, copy, translation, web design, and retouching.

Neha is a specialist in hybrid and offshore delivery models with experience across Interpublic Group (currently part of Omnicom), WPP, Publicis Groupe, and Tag Worldwide, where she built and led end-to-end creative production solutions for global clients, improving production cycle times, scaling offshore delivery, and driving consistency across markets. She brings a strong track record of improving production operations through process innovation and technology adoption.

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“The organizations winning at in-house content are building real production infrastructure, consistent teams, smart platforms, and AI-powered operations designed around how they actually work. InnerStudio is already that. My focus is on accelerating the technology layer so clients can produce more, faster, without compromising on quality or consistency.”
Neha Bubna, VP Production, InnerGroup

“InnerStudio gives in-house teams something the market has lacked: a production partner that actually understands how they work and is built to keep pace with how fast the technology is moving. Neha brings the operational depth and delivery experience to make sure our clients get the best of what InnerStudio can deliver. As we incorporate automation and intelligent agents into how we work, her experience running complex production operations at scale is exactly what we need.”
Rob Andrews, EVP Global Content, InnerGroup

Andrews leads InnerStudio and has been with InnerGroup since launch. With a career spanning WPP and Omnicom agencies, design studios in London and India, and Deloitte Digital’s Content Supply Chain practice, he has sat on all sides of the content problem, and understands what it takes to get it right.

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