Latest release enables faster, more confident design decisions at scale with accelerated simulation, AI-powered, real-time feedback, and GPU-accelerated reduced order modeling

Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence and now part of leading technology company, Siemens, announced the latest updates to HyperWorks 2026 software. With significant advances in AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and multiphysics integration, HyperWorks 2026 enables engineering teams to accelerate innovation and improve product performance across industries using comprehensive computer-aided engineering (CAE) design and simulation.

“HyperWorks 2026 exemplifies how Altair and Siemens are driving the future of simulation and empowering engineers to design smarter, faster, and with greater confidence in real-world outcomes by bringing AI, automation, and multiphysics into a unified ecosystem,” said Sam Mahalingam, chief technology officer, Altair, and executive vice president, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Following the acquisition by Siemens earlier this year, our commitment is to create the world’s most complete AI-powered portfolio of product lifecycle intelligence software and further enhance the most comprehensive digital twin.”

HyperWorks in use at JetZero

JetZero, a pioneering aviation startup building the future of ultra-efficient air travel, is collaborating with Siemens on the development and production of JetZero’s revolutionary blended wing aircraft. The innovative all-wing design aims to improve fuel efficiency by up to 50 percent, reduce noise, and advance the industry toward zero carbon emissions. Key to the fast pace of its development schedule is gaining engineering insights faster than using conventional high fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with FlightStream, part of the HyperWorks suite.

As John Vassberg, chief design officer at JetZero explains, “JetZero is pioneering the next step change in the aerospace industry and, to accomplish that at the scale the industry is demanding, means we need a toolset that allows us to work at pace and gain accurate insights early in design – which FlightStream does. It is easy for our engineering team to use, does not require the traditional high-performance computing resources of high-fidelity CFD, and gets us answers fast and without heavy resource demands. This is critical for companies like JetZero that need to iterate faster than ever before.”

HyperWorks 2026 delivers six key innovations

AI-powered design and simulation
Geometric deep learning and generative algorithms and GPU-accelerated reduced order modeling (ROM) enable near-real-time predictions and faster validation. Physics-based AI models can be deployed in secure, browser-based environments, producing results up to 1,000x faster than traditional solver simulations. Expanded support for vectors and smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) broadens domain coverage.

Enterprise-scale pre-processing and model assembly
Engineers can now simulate large, complex assemblies with speed and fluidity, shortening build and validation cycles. Enhanced navigation, batch meshing, and connector management streamline pre-processing while direct data management integration helps to ensure consistency across teams.

Integrated multiphysics simulation
Unified solvers and domain coupling allow engineers to analyze complex interactions – such as thermal-fluid or electromagnetic-structural systems – with greater fidelity. New workflows support e-motor optimization, battery safety studies, and high-temperature analysis, while co-simulation standards enhance digital continuity. Electromagnetic simulations run up to 40 percent faster and propagation modeling up to 20x faster with radar and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) analysis expanded for next-generation applications.

Automation, collaboration and connectivity
Expanded Python and API support, intuitive no-code workflow tools, and cloud integration promote digital continuity. Enhanced visualization and plotting tools simplify result interpretation and sharing, while seamless interoperability with third-party software strengthens digital twin fidelity.

Realistic particle, fluid, and material behavior
New modeling approaches capture bulk flow, impact behavior, and high-temperature effects with greater realism. Python-based automation accelerates discrete element method (DEM) workflows and coupled solvers enable advanced studies of battery safety and material response.

Intuitive design and motion exploration
A more unified workspace transforms how engineers explore motion and refine geometry. Real-time updates across multi-window views reduce setup time, while flexible implicit modeling and direct surface editing remove geometry barriers to creativity. With clear side-by-side comparisons, teams can make faster, more confident decisions.

Altair HyperWorks 2026 is available now. To learn more, visit https://altair.com/hyperworks-2026

About Altair

Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair is part of Siemens Digital Industries Software. To learn more, please visit altair.com or sw.siemens.com.

Delivering VCF expertise and measurable ROI for cloud and data center modernization

RapidScale, a Cox Business company and leading provider of enterprise managed and professional services for public, private, and hybrid cloud environments and a VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) Pinnacle partner, today introduced its Accelerated VMware Adoption Program. This program is designed to help customers maximize the value of their current VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) investments in a consumption-based service delivery model, while enabling better compliance and modern enterprise IT readiness.

As the VMware Cloud Foundation platform reshapes the cloud industry, RapidScale is working in collaboration with Broadcom to provide additional guidance and help enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) move forward with confidence. In a time of accelerated industry transformation and uncertainty, RapidScale is at the forefront of shaping best practices and helping organizations adapt—not only as a trusted Broadcom partner, but as a leader in guiding businesses through the changing multi-cloud environment.

“Change should feel like progress and possibility,” said Maureen Power Sweeny, Chief Revenue Officer at RapidScale. “Our focus is on delivering actionable strategies that drive meaningful business outcomes. We work as a true partner, anticipating needs, and helping clients unlock new opportunities. Our clients receive more than a transactional vendor—they gain a partner who sees around corners and helps them master growth. We’re proud to be part of the next chapter of VMware software at Broadcom and even prouder to help our clients write theirs.”

RapidScale’s approach combines strategic foresight, deep engineering expertise, and a client-first mindset to deliver hybrid-cloud ready architecture, flexibility, and enterprise-grade support. RapidScale provides tailored solutions to meet every need. As clients transition from basic data center virtualization to a modern private cloud, they can deploy on premises, in RapidScale hosted environments, or across leading hyperscalers. As a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner—and a certified AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud provider—RapidScale leverages nearly two decades of VMware experience to help organizations confidently navigate complex transitions.

RapidScale’s Accelerated VMware Adoption Program offers:

Immediate Access to VCF Subscriptions for Faster ROI:
Clients gain immediate access to the latest VCF technology under RapidScale’s ‘Ready-to-Contract’ path, minimizing downtime and accelerating time-to-market.

Subscription Portability to Maximize Financial Efficiency:
Through RapidScale’s VMware Factory, enterprises can port existing VCF subscriptions to RapidScale hosted environments, preserving previous investments while optimizing cost and entitlement under the new structure. This helps ensure clients maximize subscription utilization.

Seamless Asset Migration for Operational Resilience:
RapidScale streamlines VMware asset migration and acquisition—covering servers, storage, and networking—while maintaining compliance and minimizing disruption. Using a “walk-in takeover” model, RapidScale bridges physical and contractual gaps for data center clients, delivering operational continuity and resilience through seamless platform transitions.

Flexible Subscription Models for Strategic Decision Making:
RapidScale provides choice and flexibility with our VCF service options. This allows organizations to right-size their usage and build a hybrid strategy that aligns with long-term business goals.

Full-Stack VMware Expertise + Managed Services for Competitive Advantage:
RapidScale offers a streamlined VMware-as-a-Service solution, including private cloud, multi-tenant infrastructure, managed security, DRaaS, and hybrid networking. With enterprise-grade infrastructure, expert managed services, and 24/7/365 U.S.-based support, we enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, protect assets, and achieve business growth while reducing complexity and optimizing costs.

Frictionless Partner Ecosystem support to ensure Business Continuity

RapidScale is ready to support non-renewing VCSP partners as a retained partner by seamlessly transitioning impacted customers to ensure zero disruption to their existing customers. RapidScale accelerates partner transitions, providing a clear path to ongoing VMware value and operational continuity through a pre-approved compliance framework, reducing onboarding time from months to weeks.

“Broadcom’s goal is to cultivate an environment where capable and highly trained partners such as RapidScale can deliver exceptional value and a superior experience to customers,” said Ricky Cooper, general manager of Global Cloud Service Providers and OEMs, Broadcom. “Together, we’re empowering customers to modernize faster, scale smarter, and unlock the full value of their digital transformation through managed VCF-based private cloud services that reduce our mutual customers’ costs, IT complexity, and risk.”

RapidScale’s Accelerated VMware Adoption Program is available immediately for VMware customers, managed service providers, and partners seeking a compliant, low-risk path forward.

About RapidScale

RapidScale empowers business innovation through secure, scalable cloud solutions—driven by exceptional talent. We deliver managed, professional, and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid environments, enabling mid-market and enterprise organizations to extend their technology reach, activate change, and accelerate growth. Whether hosted, on-premises, or hybrid, our solutions are designed to meet the needs of our clients’ business outcomes—not just their infrastructure needs—ensuring each solution is bespoke, unbiased, and precisely aligned with client goals.

As a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner, AWS Premier Partner, Microsoft Azure Expert MSP, and certified Google Cloud Partner, RapidScale transforms complexity into agility. Our services span the full cloud lifecycle—from strategy to execution—with embedded cyber resiliency and AI-powered data insights that protect today’s operations and enable tomorrow’s competitive edge.

Through RapidScale, Cox Business, Segra and Hospitality Network, Cox Communications provides a broad commercial solutions portfolio including advanced cloud and managed IT solutions and fiber-based network solutions that create connected environments, unique hospitality experiences and support diverse applications for nearly 370,000 businesses nationwide.

This release advances Prowler’s mission to make cloud security proactive, enabling teams to understand, prioritize, and eliminate real-world attack routes

Prowler, the leader in open cloud security, today announced the release of Attack Path Visualization, a major enhancement to the Prowler platform that reveals how threats move across multi-cloud environments and identifies the most impactful routes attackers could exploit.

The launch builds on the momentum following Lighthouse AI and MCP Server and further establishes Prowler as the world’s most widely adopted open cloud-security platform that delivers cloud security for ANY cloud at AI speed.

A Knowledge Graph for Cloud Security

DevSecOps teams continue to face overwhelming volumes of disconnected alerts that provide little understanding of how risks relate to one another. Traditional scanners identify thousands of issues but rarely show how misconfigurations, permissions, identities, and data access combine to form real attack paths. What’s missing is a relationship-aware, connected view of the cloud, one that turns fragmented findings into meaningful insights and highlights the risks that actually matter.

Attack Path Visualization introduces a unified knowledge graph that maps all cloud resources along with the relationships that link them. Unique to Prowler, any findings related to resources are also linked in the graph for faster traversal and contextual analysis.

By analyzing these dependencies, Prowler exposes the precise paths an attacker could use to escalate privileges, move laterally, or reach sensitive systems.

Security teams gain an immediate understanding of how individual misconfigurations or exposed resources contribute to larger, multi-step risks. Instead of isolated alerts, they now see the full chain of impact.

Lighthouse AI Integrates Deep Security Context

The new knowledge graph will also serve as a core data source for Lighthouse AI, Prowler’s autonomous security assistant. Lighthouse AI now reasons directly over this connected graph to:

• Identify high-impact attack paths and the earliest point of compromise
• Prioritize findings based on real attackability rather than static severity
• Generate accurate, environment-aware remediation steps
• Automate fixes through MCP-powered workflows inside developer tools

By combining deep graph context with agentic AI decision-making, Lighthouse AI dramatically accelerates risk understanding and shrinks the gap between detection and remediation. Cloud environments continue to expand in scale and complexity, making it harder for teams to understand how risks interact. Attack Path Visualization transforms this complexity into clarity by presenting the full chain of potential compromise and highlighting the earliest point where action will have the greatest impact.

“Our mission has always been to bring clarity and autonomy to cloud security,” said Toni de la Fuente, founder & CEO of Prowler. “Attack Path Visualization gives teams the complete picture of how risks connect, and Lighthouse AI turns that understanding into instant, actionable decisions. It’s another step toward a future where security isn’t just faster, it’s fundamentally more intelligent.”

The launch builds on the momentum following Lighthouse AI and MCP Server and further establishes Prowler as the world’s most widely adopted open cloud-security platform that delivers cloud security for ANY cloud at AI speed.

Meet Prowler at AWS re:Invent

Attack Path Visualization is available in preview today within Prowler Cloud and integrates automatically with Lighthouse AI and the MCP Server. Demonstrations and hands-on walkthroughs are available this week at AWS re:Invent. Meet the Prowler team at booth 1238 on the expo floor.

To learn more or get started, visit www.prowler.com or sign up for Prowler Cloud at https://cloud.prowler.com.

About Prowler

Prowler is the world’s most widely used open-source cloud-security platform, automating security and compliance across any cloud environment. Backed by thousands of contributors and a vibrant global community, Prowler leads the open-source security movement with transparent, customizable, and easy-to-use solutions that secure AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, Kubernetes, GitHub, and Microsoft 365.

By leveraging the innovation and cost-efficiency of open source, Prowler makes cloud security 10× more cost-effective and accessible than alternatives.

As organizations strive to boost productivity in a challenging economy, new research from TeamViewer, a global leader in digital workplace solutions, highlights concerns about dysfunctional technology. The study reveals that dysfunctional technology is quietly eroding business performance and limiting productivity gains across industries.

The financial, operational, and human impacts are significant with employees stating they are losing on average 1.3 days per month due to digital friction. According to the research, 80% of employees lose productive time every month due to digital friction — everyday technology breakdowns that prevent people from doing their jobs efficiently.

The impact extends well beyond inconvenience: 42% of respondents say their organization has suffered revenue loss due to digital friction, while 69% believe it has contributed to employee turnover. Further, 47% say technology frustration reduces job satisfaction, and 28% have considered quitting because of it.

The report, “The Impact of Digital Friction: Understanding How Dysfunctional Technology Drains Productivity, Performance & People,” draws on insights from 4,200 employees and managers across nine countries and multiple industries.

“Given the number of challenges business leaders are navigating today, it’s understandable that IT issues can go unnoticed – but when they do, the financial impact is significant,” said Oliver Steil, CEO, TeamViewer. “Technology sits at the core of every modern organization. When it underperforms, the cost is immediate – in efficiency, customer satisfaction, and ultimately in competitiveness.”

AI’s role in resolving dysfunction

Encouragingly, the research highlights a clear path forward. Nearly half of respondents (48%) believe AI can help reduce digital friction in their organization. Meanwhile half (50%) are open to AI taking over routine IT tasks such as troubleshooting and password resets.

These insights suggest a growing readiness among businesses to embrace AI as a force multiplier for productivity and efficiency, helping teams work smarter and faster while reducing everyday hurdles.

“Technology should empower people, not hold them back” said Andrew Hewitt, VP of Strategic Technology, TeamViewer. “With productivity such a huge focus for businesses right now, there’s a real opportunity to turn everyday tech frustrations into progress. Our findings show that reducing digital friction can have an enormous impact on both performance and morale. When organizations embrace AI-powered workplace solutions, they can remove barriers, give people back valuable time, and create a smoother, more rewarding work experience.”

About the Report: The study was conducted by Sapio Research on behalf of TeamViewer in August–September 2025 across nine markets: the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Japan, India, and Australia. Respondents included an even split of managers and employees across industries and company sizes. The full report is available here: https://www.teamviewer.com/en/resources/reports/impact-of-digital-friction/

About TeamViewer

TeamViewer provides a Digital Workplace platform that connects people with technology—enabling, improving and automating digital processes to make work work better.

In 2005, TeamViewer started with software to connect to computers from anywhere to eliminate travel and enhance productivity. It rapidly became the de facto standard for remote access and support and the preferred solution for hundreds of millions of users across the world to help others with IT issues. Today, more than 645,000 customers across industries rely on TeamViewer to optimize their digital workplaces—from small to medium sized businesses to the world’s largest enterprises—empowering both desk-based employees and frontline workers.

Organizations use TeamViewer’s solutions to prevent and resolve disruptions with digital endpoints of any kind, securely manage complex IT and industrial device landscapes, and enhance processes with augmented reality powered workflows and assistance—leveraging AI and integrating seamlessly with leading tech partners. Against the backdrop of global digital transformation and challenges like shortage of skilled labor, hybrid working, accelerated data analysis, and the rise of new technologies, TeamViewer’s solutions offer a clear value add by increasing productivity, reducing machine downtime, speeding up talent onboarding, and improving customer and employee satisfaction.

The company is headquartered in Göppingen, Germany, and employs around 1,900 people globally. In 2024, TeamViewer achieved a revenue of around EUR 671 million. TeamViewer SE (TMV) is listed at Frankfurt Stock Exchange and belongs to the MDAX. Further information can be found at www.teamviewer.com.

AI-driven solution delivers enterprise Kubernetes management with automated policy-as-code for security, compliance, and governance

Nirmata, creator of Kyverno and leader in policy-as-code innovation, today announced the general availability of its AI Platform Engineering Assistant, an AI-powered solution that automates Kubernetes security, compliance, and workflow management across Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and hybrid-cloud environments.

As organizations accelerate AI-assisted software development, platform teams must keep pace with increasingly complex infrastructure. Industry data shows a 30x acceleration in software creation and over $350 billion in AI infrastructure investment, yet nearly half of enterprises cite critical platform engineering skill gaps. Nirmata’s AI assistant empowers platform teams by automating the time-intensive tasks of Kubernetes policy management and securing infrastructure, enabling them to scale.

“Platform engineering has become both the bottleneck and the enabler of the AI future,” said Ritesh Patel, Vice President of Product at Nirmata. “Without scalable governance, innovation stalls under complexity and risk. With AI-powered governance, Nirmata transforms policy-as-code into a continuous, intelligent system that enforces compliance without slowing teams down.”

Built on the proven Kyverno policy-as-code engine—the CNCF-incubating project for Kubernetes, IaC, and cloud—the assistant uses a multi-agent architecture to automate policy authoring, detection, and remediation, creating a system for continuous Kubernetes governance and compliance that keeps humans in the loop while automating the most time-consuming tasks.

Key capabilities include:

• Copilot interface: Conversational AI that turns hours-long investigation cycles into minutes. Engineers use natural language to instantly pull detailed insights, data, and reports about their infrastructure and generate enforcement actions.
• Policy-as-Code Agent: Transforms natural language rules into validated Kyverno policy-as-code for Kubernetes and IaC, ensuring each rule aligns with security and compliance standards. This streamlines policy creation and eliminates common syntax errors while helping platform teams standardize governance across clusters and pipelines.
• Remediation Agent: Detects misconfigurations and policy violations, then generates and validates secure fixes with human verification in the loop. This drastically reduces the time engineers spend diagnosing and correcting issues while ensuring every change remains compliant and secure.

Together, these agents deliver AI-powered Kubernetes security through a collaborative, intelligent system that continuously strengthens security, compliance, and operational trust while freeing engineers to focus on higher-value innovation. The AI Platform Engineering Assistant supports all common Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD systems, with native support for multi-cluster Kubernetes management and seamless integration with existing developer workflows.

Availability

The Nirmata AI Platform Engineering Assistant is now available to enterprise customers. Live demonstrations will be featured at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 and KyvernoCon.
To learn more or request a demo, visit nirmata.com.

About Nirmata

Nirmata is the creator of Kyverno, the CNCF policy engine for Kubernetes security and governance. With 2.5B+ downloads, Nirmata’s AI-powered policy-as-code solutions help enterprises automate Kubernetes compliance, prevent misconfigurations, and deliver enterprise Kubernetes management at scale across regulated industries. For more information, visit www.nirmata.com.

Built for investment bankers and valuation experts, ExelenceAI automates LBO, M&A, and DCF models, bringing generative AI precision to the core of financial analysis

GenerativeX today announced the U.S. launch of ExelenceAI , an AI-powered Excel add-in that brings generative intelligence directly into spreadsheets. Built by former investment bankers and consultants, ExelenceAI enables financial professionals to automate financial modeling, data analysis, and project management — all within the familiar Excel environment.

ExelenceAI operates as a native Excel add-in, allowing users to automate tasks, generate insights, and refine results simply through natural language instructions. From complex LBO and M&A models to DCF valuations, deal schedules, WBS charts, and performance dashboards, the AI agent handles advanced workflows seamlessly.

“ExelenceAI bridges the gap between traditional spreadsheets and generative AI,” said Rei Araki, CEO of GenerativeX. “We’re empowering investment bankers, private equity professionals, and finance teams to model deals, run valuations, and analyze outcomes smarter, faster, and with greater precision — without ever leaving Excel.”

Key Features

• Deal-Level Modeling AI Agent: Automates financial workflows across LBO, M&A, and DCF models, as well as business plans and complex transaction analyses.
• Natural Language Prompting : Describe your task in plain English — from formatting to complex model builds.
• Runs Directly Inside Excel: No upload, no download, no copy-paste. ExelenceAI operates natively with 100% Excel compatibility, maintaining your firm’s formulas, macros, and formatting.
• Advanced Data Functions: Extract and standardize data from web pages, PDFs, and documents into clean, model-ready Excel sheets.
• Dynamic Workflow: Generate, refine, and iterate on outputs in real time.
• Enterprise-Grade Security: All processing runs on Microsoft Azure with end-to-end encryption and zero data leakage.
• Full Audit Trail: Track every change, roll back instantly, and maintain transparent version history.

For Financial and Business Professionals

Designed for analysts, accountants, and consultants, ExelenceAI accelerates workflows such as LBO and DCF modeling, credit memo generation, and KPI dashboarding. Early adopters report reducing model build time by over 70%.

Quick Setup

1. Install the ExelenceAI add-in from Microsoft Office Add-ins Store.
2. Sign up and retrieve an access token from https://app.excelence.ai .
3. Connect via Excel ribbon and start typing commands.

GenerativeX builds AI agents that help financial institutions transform how they analyze, operate, and make decisions. With offices in New York and San Francisco, the company enables banks, investment firms, and insurers to harness generative AI across critical workflows, from modeling and valuation to reporting and risk management. With a proven record of delivering secure, enterprise-grade AI solutions, GenerativeX integrates AI agents into daily financial operations with precision, reliability, and measurable impact.

https://generativex.com

iBusiness, a pioneer in banking and lending technology, today announced the launch of iBuild, a patent-pending AI-powered, code development platform that takes vibe coding to the next level.

While most “vibe coding” platforms stop at writing code with AI, iBuild goes further—enabling banks, credit unions, and any financial services company to deploy that AI-generated code directly into a secure, compliant cloud environment. This breakthrough transforms AI-assisted coding from a sandbox experiment into a production-ready capability designed specifically for financial institutions. With the iBuild solution, financial institutions can overcome the innovation constraints caused by limited product and technology resources—empowering every business user to act as a product builder and drive continuous improvement.

“Vibe coding is an amazing development—seeing AI code and bring software to life in real time is a tremendous leap forward. But for non-developers, it often ends at the code stage—you still need engineers to fix bugs, harden security, and push it into production,” said Justin Levy, CEO and Founder of iBusiness. “With iBuild, you can go from idea to live deployment inside a secure infrastructure in minutes, with full banking level security built in.”

A New Era: From Code Generation to Code Deployment

iBuild allows both technical and non-technical users to describe an app, workflow, or automation in natural language—and then see it built, tested, and deployed securely within an already security-hardened SOC 2 Type II-compliant infrastructure.

Key Capabilities

• AI-Driven App Creation: Describe what you need—iBuild writes the code, builds the UI, and deploys to your own app store available for your organization.
• Bank-Grade Security: Deploy AI-generated applications directly into your enterprise-approved secure live cloud environment.
• Rapid Integration and Prototyping: Go back to any app or chat history to edit or expand previous ideas or code.
• Native Financial Applications: Integrate pre-built apps like OCR, e-sign, and financial spreading to design workflows for Lending, Payments, and beyond.
• Instant Time-to-Value: Move from idea to production in minutes instead of months all within an isolated runtime environment.

Since starting its AI development journey in 2022 with a patent filing for agentic AI, iBusiness’s launch of iBuild marks its second major AI-powered innovation in 2025. Earlier this year, the company launched Lendsey—a first-of-its-kind agentic lending AI solution—along with a $100 million commitment toward AI. iBusiness announced earlier this year integrations with large technology firms such as Intuit and BizBuySell, as well as deployments of its flagship LenderAI platform for many financial institutions, including several top 100 banks.

iBuild is now available to banks, lenders, and fintech organizations. Live demos will be available during Money20/20 2025 at the iBusiness booth.

To learn more about iBusiness and its solutions, visit www.iBusiness.ai or www.iBuild.ai

About iBusiness

iBusiness is a leading financial technology company transforming the way banks, credit unions, and lenders innovate. As a pioneer in secure AI, automation, and AI software development, iBusiness builds infrastructure and platforms that empower financial institutions to modernize faster—without sacrificing compliance or security. Its technology helps enable seamless digital transformation across lending, banking, and customer experience systems, giving institutions the tools to compete and innovate at enterprise scale.

iBusiness develops and operates several advanced platforms utilized by its sister brand iBusiness Funding, LLC, which focuses on empowering banks and lenders through specialized lending solutions. As one of the most experienced SMB technology and processing support providers in the country, iBusiness Funding has helped lenders process over $11 billion in SBA and conventional loans and assists with the handling of more than 1,200 applications daily, powering lenders of all sizes to scale their business lending operations with confidence and compliance.

Empowering enterprises to run loyalty like a performance engine—transforming insight into impact and speed into strategic advantage through accountable Agentic AI.

Loyalty Juggernaut, Inc. (LJI), a global leader in enterprise loyalty-tech innovation, today announced the launch of GRAVTY Agentic AI Compass, the first-ever multi-agent intelligence suite engineered to transform how loyalty programs are run by augmenting human analysts with always-on, decision-ready intelligence.

Built on Amazon Bedrock and powered by GRAVTY’s patented data fabric, Compass marks a new era in loyalty operations. It enables brands to go beyond static dashboards, delivering proactive, explainable, and actionable insights at machine scale.

A 24×7 Loyalty Analyst—Powered by Agentic AI

Compass operates as a collective of specialized AI agents that function like a team of expert analysts. Each agent serves a distinct purpose—from program performance and strategic recommendations to sentiment analysis, anomaly detection, benchmarking, and offer testing. Working in harmony, they deliver proactive guidance, predictive insights, and prescriptive actions across engagement, economics, and experience—enabling loyalty teams to shift from manual analysis to strategic action.

“Loyalty leaders don’t need more dashboards—they need defensible decisions they can act on in real time,” said Dave Andreadakis, Chief Commercial Officer at Loyalty Juggernaut. “Compass closes the gap between ‘we think’ and ‘we took action.'”

Compass performs parallel investigations, blending quantitative KPIs with qualitative sentiment signals. It simulates outcomes before execution, de-risking decisions and ensuring every recommendation is explainable, auditable, and aligned with enterprise governance.

“GRAVTY Compass redefines how enterprises manage loyalty—by augmenting teams with autonomous intelligence that learns, reasons, and acts in real time,” said Kalpak Shah, Co-Founder and CTO at Loyalty Juggernaut. “It replaces static reporting with dynamic, agent-driven insight—empowering loyalty teams to move from observation to optimized action with unprecedented speed and confidence.”

AWS Endorses the Launch of GRAVTY Compass

“AWS is excited to support the launch of GRAVTY Compass, a groundbreaking multi-agent AI system for loyalty management. Built on the secure and scalable foundation of Amazon Bedrock, Loyalty Juggernaut’s specialized agents, from sentiment analysis to program benchmarking—are redefining how loyalty programs are managed. GRAVTY Compass delivers a truly intelligent Loyalty Analyst that transforms the day-to-day experience of loyalty teams by automating routine analysis, surfacing real-time opportunities, and providing on-demand, context-aware recommendations across engagement, economics, and experience,” said Jordan Alsop, Head of Commercial Data & AI at AWS.

About Loyalty Juggernaut, Inc. (LJI)

Loyalty Juggernaut, Inc. (LJI) is the company behind GRAVTY, a patented, AI-first loyalty platform that powers next-generation programs and ecosystems for global enterprises. With deployments across some of the world’s most iconic brands in airlines, hospitality, retail, CPG, BFSI, and telecom, LJI continues to redefine loyalty through Agentic AI, first-party data innovation, and real-time decisioning. Its clients include WestJet, Viva Aerobus, VietJet, Global Hotel Alliance, FEMSA, Majid Al Futtaim, Emirates and Deutsche Telekom.

www.lji.io

AI-powered intelligence helps prevent phishing, impersonations, rogue apps, and credential theft – protecting executives and preserving trust

Bitsight, the global leader in cyber risk intelligence, today announced Bitsight Brand Intelligence, a new module in its cyber threat intelligence application, to empower security and risk teams to detect, triage, and take down brand and executive threats across social media and the open, deep, and dark web.

Impersonation and social engineering attacks – like phishing and similar techniques – are more pervasive than ever. Fueled by AI, cybercriminals are increasingly posing as trusted brands and executives across email, social media, and chat. More than half (51%)1 of all browser phishing attempts now involve brand impersonation, underscoring how attackers deceive customers, steal credentials, and initiate fraudulent transactions.

Traditional tools struggle to keep pace – offering limited automation and leaving security teams bogged down with slow, manual triage and delayed response to detections. This inefficiency creates dangerous visibility gaps and allows threats to persist longer than they should.

Bitsight Brand Intelligence eliminates this bottleneck with AI-powered triage, contextual intelligence, and automated takedown workflows – helping security teams cut through the noise and act decisively before damage occurs.

“Most solutions stop at detection. Bitsight goes further – bringing together enriched intelligence, context, triage and proven takedown workflows,” said Gabi Reish, VP Product Management at Bitsight. “With Bitsight Brand Intelligence, security teams don’t just see threats, they stop them before reputational or financial damage occurs.”

Key features and benefits of Bitsight Brand Intelligence include:

• Brand & VIP Impersonation Protection: Unified, continuously updated visibility into your most targeted assets – brands and executives – to detect phishing campaigns, rogue apps, fake social profiles, and leaked credentials across the open, deep, and dark web and social media sites including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube and more.
• Rogue Application Detection: Identify and eliminate fraudulent or malicious mobile apps that mimic legitimate brands in global app stores.
• Faster, Smarter Response: AI-driven triage and contextual intelligence reduce time-to-action, helping lean security teams prioritize and resolve threats efficiently.
• Proven Takedown Mitigation: With an 85% success rate, including in difficult regions, organizations can act with confidence to eliminate brand abuse at scale.
• The Four Ts: Tailor, Track, Triage, Takedown – a proven framework to focus monitoring, continuously detect threats, prioritize with AI, and execute takedowns at scale.

“As security leaders, we’re inundated with isolated alerts that don’t tell the full story,” said Bryan Perkola, Senior Vice President of Information Security, First Community Credit Union. “What stands out with Bitsight is how threat intelligence is connected into our broader risk context – real-time external exposure, vendor risk posture, and insights across the open, deep and dark web. That context helps us move beyond chasing incidents to making proactive, business-driven security decisions.”

Further underscoring its leadership in threat intelligence innovation, Bitsight was named “Threat Detection Solution Provider of the Year” in the 2025 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards, a program that recognizes the world’s top information security companies, products, and professionals.

About Bitsight

Bitsight is the global leader in cyber risk intelligence, leveraging advanced AI to empower organizations with precise insights derived from the industry’s most extensive external cybersecurity dataset. With more than 3,500 customers and over 68,000 organizations active on its platform, Bitsight delivers real-time visibility into cyber risk and threat exposure, enabling teams to rapidly identify vulnerabilities, detect emerging threats, prioritize remediation, and mitigate risks across their extended attack surface.

Bitsight proactively uncovers security gaps across infrastructure, cloud environments, digital identities, and third- and fourth-party ecosystems. From security operations and governance teams to executive boardrooms, Bitsight provides the unified intelligence backbone required to confidently manage cyber risk and address exposures before they impact performance.

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New AI-powered assistant, VERA, helps organizations recover more, waste less, and automate compliance.

Diversys Software, a leader in digital innovation for waste and resource management, announced the launch of Diversys.ai, an advanced suite of artificial intelligence tools that empowers organizations to manage recovery systems with speed, accuracy, and confidence.

Built for producers, stewards, haulers, regulators, and governments, Diversys.ai combines the company’s proven waste data platform with next-generation AI to address persistent challenges in traceability, compliance, and operational performance.

“Diversys.ai isn’t just an upgrade, it’s a turning point for the industry,” said Roger Barlow, CEO of Diversys. “With VERA and AI-backed insights, our partners can uncover hidden inefficiencies, and reduce risk.”

At the core of Diversys.ai is VERA, the Virtual Environmental Recovery Assistant, an intelligent, always-on AI companion designed to support operational teams and decision-makers across the circular economy.

VERA helps users:

• Forecast material volumes and optimize resource allocation
• Identify anomalies, fraud, and confirmation bias in human-collected data
• Eliminate compliance risk through automated audit trail generation
• Generate smart, real-time reports that are regulator- and board-ready

Whether used to manage a national EPR program or a regional hauling operation, VERA empowers users to move faster, reduce manual effort, and make evidence-based decisions at every level.

Test deployments of Diversys.ai have shown transformative results:

● Improvement in operational efficiency within 90 days
● Reduction in unplanned downtime
● Automated regulatory compliance and real-time audit readiness
● New monetization models including:

• Performance-as-a-Service: SLA-backed efficiency and recovery guarantees
• Insight Monetization: Licensed market intelligence for manufacturers and policymakers
• Ecosystem Orchestration: Real-time coordination across multi-party recovery networks
• Precision Marketing: Data-driven packaging and collection strategy optimization

About Diversys

Diversys is a technology-driven leader in waste and resource management software. Its powerful platform helps businesses, governments, and stewardship organizations manage complex recycling and recovery systems with clarity and confidence. By making waste data visible, actionable, and trustworthy, Diversys enables the scalable, circular infrastructure needed to reduce environmental impact and meet evolving compliance standards.

Learn more at www.diversys.com.