MintNeuro raises $5 million to scale purpose-built chip platform for neural devices and brain-computer interfaces

Funding from European and US investors will accelerate product launch,

partner adoption and international expansion

LONDON, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MintNeuro, a semiconductor company building specialised chips for neural devices from implants to wearables, today announces a $5 million investment round to drive its commercial scale-up. MintNeuro's chips give device developers better performance than generic components, with less risk, lower cost and a faster route to market than custom chip design. The funding will accelerate product launch, expand delivery of pre-release silicon to partners and grow the company's international presence.

The round was led by Odyssey Ventures, with participation from 33East, JSK Investments and Alumni Ventures, and returning investment from Empirical Ventures, Jumpspace Ventures and early investors. Bringing together deep tech, medtech and early-stage investors across Europe and the US, the round reflects global demand for the hardware needed to scale neurotechnology.

MintNeuro has already delivered working silicon and reached key integration milestones with research and development partners, including Motif Neurotech and Amber Therapeutics. Earlier this year, MintNeuro announced a partnership and multi-year commercial chip supply agreement with Motif, supporting the development of Motif's minimally invasive neurostimulator initially targeting treatment-resistant depression. A growing number of neural device companies are now evaluating or integrating MintNeuro's technology, alongside research teams building implantable systems that connect directly to the brain and nervous system.

MintNeuro will use the investment to grow its engineering and commercial teams, bring its products to market, support customers as they adopt its chips and strengthen its presence in the US alongside its UK and European base.

Neural devices are opening new ways to understand and treat conditions across neurology, mental health and beyond, from Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and depression to hearing loss and inflammatory disease. These technologies include brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), neuromodulation systems, sensory prostheses and bioelectronic medicines. Until now, progress across the industry has been held back by the lack of standard chips designed specifically for the extreme power, size, safety and signal-quality demands of these devices.

MintNeuro is closing that gap with a modular semiconductor platform purpose-built for core functions like neural sensing, signal processing and stimulation: listening to the body's nerve signals, interpreting them, and delivering precise electrical pulses to treat disease or restore function. Instead of adapting generic components or funding years of custom chip design, developers can build on MintNeuro's chips to create smaller, lower-power neural devices and move from research to clinical use sooner.

MintNeuro's modular architecture provides the building blocks to combine sensing, processing and stimulation efficiently at the system level, supporting more integrated closed-loop interfaces with the nervous system.

Commenting on the investment, Dorian Haci, Co-Founder and CEO of MintNeuro, said: "Every neural device depends on the chips inside it. Today, most device and therapy developers still have to choose between generic components that were never designed for the body and years of custom chip development. We are building the chips that end that trade-off. This funding moves us from technology validation to commercial scale-up, with more customer programmes, faster product launches and our chips in the hands of many more developers. Our ambition is clear: to make MintNeuro the semiconductor platform the global neurotechnology industry builds on."

Michelle Robson, Founding Partner at Odyssey Ventures, said: "Neural devices such as BCIs represent one of the most exciting frontier technology opportunities today, and significant value will accrue to those solving the foundational infrastructure challenges that stand between innovation and widespread adoption. MintNeuro has the technology, market pull and ambition to become a globally important semiconductor company, and we are backing this exceptional team as it scales from the UK into global markets, including Silicon Valley."

Yiannis Eftychiou, Co-Founder and Partner at 33East, said: "What stood out to us is the sheer breadth of the hardware opportunity. MintNeuro is solving critical needs for neural implants today, with technology that can extend into wearables and beyond."

Johnathan Matlock, Co-Founder and General Partner at Empirical Ventures, said: "We invested before the chips were in hand, and we are reinvesting now that MintNeuro has working silicon, deep customer traction and a clear path to becoming a category-defining semiconductor business."

Professor Tim Denison, Chair of MintNeuro, added: "Neurotechnology is entering a phase where specialised hardware will determine how far, and how fast, the field can go. MintNeuro's semiconductor technology is well-placed to remove the key obstacle to industry scale, which could dramatically accelerate the pace of innovation."

About MintNeuro (www.mintneuro.com)

Founded as a spinout from Imperial College London, MintNeuro is building the semiconductor foundation for the next generation of neurotechnology. The company develops specialised chips that enable devices to connect with the brain and nervous system, helping innovators create new therapies for neurological and mental health conditions.

As neurotechnology moves from research labs into clinical and commercial deployment, MintNeuro is addressing one of the sector's most critical challenges: providing a scalable semiconductor platform designed specifically for neural devices. By removing the need for custom chip development or adapted generic components, MintNeuro aims to accelerate innovation, reduce development barriers and help bring transformative neurotechnology products to market faster.

The company works with leading developers, researchers and medical device companies, with a long-term vision to become the industry-standard semiconductor platform powering the future of brain-computer interfaces, bioelectronic medicine and other technologies that connect humans and machines.

MintNeuro's immediate focus is medical applications, where size, power, reliability and safety are critical. The same core technology has the potential to become the chip layer for any device that connects to the brain and nervous system, providing the interface between human biology and the digital world.

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LONDON, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cerillion (AIM: CER), a leading provider of composable BSS/OSS solutions to the telecoms industry, today announced that it has been named in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CSP AI-Enabled Marketing and Sales Solutions*.

The report evaluates commercial off-the-shelf solutions that use AI to support CSP marketing and sales operations, including capabilities embedded within BSS platforms as well as horizontal marketing and sales applications.

Cerillion believes its inclusion reflects the continued development of its AI-enabled BSS/OSS capabilities and its product-led approach to embedding AI directly within operational workflows. Cerillion's AI strategy combines embedded assistants and agents with a model-agnostic architecture, enabling communications services providers (CSPs) to apply AI across the systems used to create, sell, fulfil, charge and bill for products and services.

Key elements of Cerillion's AI architecture include its AI Management Centre, providing centralised governance and control of AI model usage; its MCP Server, enabling governed access to BSS/OSS capabilities through Progressive Discovery; and Agent2Agent support, enabling controlled collaboration between Cerillion, CSP-built and third-party agents.

"We are delighted to be included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for CSP AI-Enabled Marketing and Sales Solutions," commented Louis Hall, CEO, Cerillion. "We believe this reflects the significant investment we have made in embedding AI directly into our BSS/OSS product suite and connecting it to the operational systems that CSPs depend on every day."

"Our focus is on helping customers move beyond standalone AI experiments towards practical, governed use cases that can deliver real business outcomes," added Brian Coombs, Chief Product Officer, Cerillion. "By combining embedded AI, model choice, open standards and strong governance, we are enabling CSPs to adopt AI at their own pace while maintaining control over their business rules, data and operational processes."

Cerillion is also included in Gartner's accompanying Critical Capabilities for CSP AI-Enabled Marketing and Sales Solutions**, which evaluates vendors across four CSP marketing and sales use cases.

* Gartner Magic Quadrant for CSP AI-Enabled Marketing and Sales Solutions, Pulkit Pandey, Khurram Shahzad, 15 September 2026.

** Gartner Critical Capabilities for CSP AI-Enabled Marketing and Sales Solutions, Khurram Shahzad, Pulkit Pandey, 15 September 2026.

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About Cerillion

Cerillion has a 27-year track record in providing mission-critical software for billing, charging and customer relationship management ("CRM"), primarily to the telecommunications sector. The Company has a global customer base with c. 70 customer installations across c. 45 countries.

Headquartered in London, Cerillion also has operations in India and Bulgaria as well as a sales presence in Continental Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia. Find out more at: www.cerillion.com

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MediaTek Demos 5G-Advanced FWA Platform at Network X 2026

MediaTek T930 modem integrates 8Rx/3Tx, Edge AI and Wi-Fi 8, delivering more than 70% higher uplink throughput and more than 40% higher downlink

HSINCHU, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MediaTek and its subsidiary Airoha Technology are jointly showcasing next-generation fixed and wireless broadband connectivity at Network X 2026. Featuring a comprehensive connectivity portfolio spanning Wi-Fi, 5G CPE and PON, the companies are bringing emerging AI applications and services to home, office and on-the-go users. At the event, MediaTek is showcasing its next-generation Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) platform. Integrating 5G-Advanced connectivity, Edge AI capabilities, and Wi-Fi 8 technology, the solution combines the MediaTek T930 and Filogic 8800 with advanced RF technologies to deliver over 70% increase in uplink throughput and over 40% increase in downlink throughput, maximizing channel utilization. Furthermore, the platform has also been shortlisted for the Network X Awards 2026 "Best FWA Solution of the Year."

Evan Su, Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Communications Business Unit at MediaTek, said: "In order to further expand FWA market adoption, mobile network capacity, CPE efficiency and the actual in-home connectivity experience must all be improved simultaneously. Through stronger uplink and downlink capabilities and intelligent traffic management, we help telecom operators increase the number of subscribers they can serve and improve network efficiency while controlling network upgrade costs, continuously enhancing the commercial value of FWA. We also work closely with Airoha, fully supporting global telecom customers in playing a critical role in advancing network infrastructure and enabling AI to scale and become broadly accessible."

Enabling AI Applications with High Bidirectional Bandwidth and Ultra-Low Latency

AI, cloud gaming and real-time cloud services continue to raise network access requirements for Gigabit bandwidth and ultra-low latency. For telecom operators, further expanding FWA commercial deployment requires not only higher wireless access performance, but also increased capacity and service quality while keeping core network upgrade costs under control. MediaTek T930 moves more intelligence and performance optimization capabilities to the CPE edge, integrating AI-AQM, the world's first 8Rx 3CC, 3Tx 5L, HPUE PC1 33 dBm and Wi-Fi 8, enabling telecom operators to further enhance FWA service capabilities through CPE innovation.

Through 8Rx 3CC, T930 can improve network downlink throughput by more than 40% while extending network coverage. At the same time, the combination of HPUE PC1 and 3Tx 5L increases transmission power by 5 dB, improving network uplink throughput by more than 70%. The resulting increase in overall capacity can help reduce the cost to serve each household and improve network investment efficiency.

MediaTek AI-AQM (Active Queue Management) brings intelligent queue management to the CPE edge. It's validated AI-AQM technology can provide cloud gaming users with up to a 10x improvement in network latency, enabling operators to further improve user experience for latency-sensitive applications such as cloud gaming without requiring major changes to the core network.

Exhibition: MediaTek + Airoha @ Booth K35

Network X 2026: 13-15 October 2026 @ Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria

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Linux Foundation Launches OpenGrid to Build Open, Shared Infrastructure for the World's Electric Grid

New open source initiative integrates and builds a data platform and tools to accelerate grid planning and energy infrastructure deployments worldwide

- The Linux Foundation launched OpenGrid, a new open source initiative to modernize power grid planning and help accelerate energy infrastructure deployment worldwide.

- OpenGrid aims to give every country access to high-quality grid planning tools by 2030 to deliver infrastructure faster.

- The OpenGrid ecosystem establishes the shared software architecture and interoperability standards that allow diverse tools to work together and scale globally, including open standards and schemas, APIs and integrations, a data hub and more.

PRAGUE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Source Summit Europe – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the launch of OpenGrid, a new initiative building open source infrastructure to modernize power grid planning worldwide. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, OpenGrid creates a neutral, interoperable foundation that allows planners to work across the commercial and open source software they already use, helping reduce the time, cost and technical barriers involved in planning the infrastructure needed to meet rapidly growing electricity demand.

Grid planning has become a critical bottleneck as electricity demand grows, new data center and industrial loads come online and more generation and storage seek connection. More than 2,500 gigawatts of generation, storage and large-load projects are currently pending in grid connection queues worldwide, while annual grid investment needs to roughly double to more than $600 billion by 2030. Meeting long-term energy needs will require adding or replacing 80 million kilometers of power lines by 2040, yet planning remains constrained by fragmented data, incompatible software and modeling capabilities that are inaccessible to many institutions and countries.

"Open source has repeatedly shown that shared architecture and interoperability accelerate innovation across entire industries," said Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation. "OpenGrid will bring the proven model of open collaboration to grid planning for faster and more reliable deployment. The Linux Foundation's neutral governance will ensure durability, longevity and usability of the technologies that support essential public-interest infrastructure."

OpenGrid is not developing a single replacement for existing grid planning software. Instead, it provides a shared data and interoperability layer that allows existing commercial and open source tools to work together. Its foundational efforts will include open standards and schemas, programmatic APIs and a centralized Data Hub for validated, model-ready datasets. Its first lighthouse application, the OpenGrid Translator, is in development for release in 2027 and will enable data and models to move between widely used commercial platforms and open source tools.

Access to modern planning capabilities is particularly uneven in fast-growing markets. At the same time, emerging economies are expected to account for nearly 80% of global electricity demand growth through 2030. OpenGrid aims to give planning teams everywhere access to high-quality modeling capabilities, while enabling regulators, advocates and other stakeholders to inspect the models and data informing major infrastructure decisions.

"Reliable electricity supports healthier lives, stronger communities and economic opportunity, but delivering it requires credible plans. Today, too many plans rely on data others cannot verify and tools much of the world cannot afford," said Alice Yake, vice president of BE-GRIDS and chair of the OpenGrid Management Committee. "OpenGrid changes that: open data, open standards and access to planning tools that any utility, regulator or country can inspect and use."

Over time, the OpenGrid ecosystem plans to expand to include open solvers, no-code graphical interfaces, standardized planning workflows and integrations that use AI to support data preparation. By providing transparent, repeatable and accessible planning infrastructure, OpenGrid aims to help planners, infrastructure owners, regulators and communities work from a common technical foundation and make infrastructure decisions with greater confidence faster.

OpenGrid launches with support from Breakthrough Energy GRIDS, Global Grid Catalyst, Connected Grid Initiative and Google.org, with technical delivery partners including Open Energy Transition, Tapestry, TransitionZero and QXT Energy.

Organizations, researchers, regulators and community members interested in contributing to OpenGrid or learning more are encouraged to visit https://www.opengrid.org.

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"Electricity systems are going through some pretty radical changes, with many new variable producers, storage and consumers connecting to the grid. OpenGrid supports the infrastructure we need to get quick consensus on how the energy transition should proceed, and to foster the innovation we need to drive it forward faster."

– Tom Brown, Professor of Digital Transformation in Energy Systems, TU Berlin and Managing Director, PyPSA Labs

"Planners shouldn't have to choose between the tools they already use and the open ones now emerging. Building enterprise-grade, open modeling software with Scenario Builder showed us how much time is lost moving data and models between formats. OpenGrid's shared standards and translators tackle that directly, and we're glad to help build them, so that planners anywhere can pick up a model, inspect it, use it and make decisions that cut the time it takes to build clean energy at scale."

– Matt Gray, Co-Founder and CEO, TransitionZero

"Accelerating scientific progress requires turning foundational research and open data into real-world solutions. Power grids are among humanity's most complex engineering systems, yet modeling them is too often limited by fragmented tools and closed data. OpenGrid will provide the shared digital foundation needed to make faster, more evidence-based decisions and ultimately strengthen our global grid infrastructure."

– Joseph Hassine, Scaled Impact Lead, Google.org

"OpenGrid is the catalyst that the power and energy industry needs to drive new software innovations that ultimately will produce better and faster decision making for the power grid. We keep hearing that these times are unprecedented and yet we have seen very few changes in the power software space. OpenGrid's ambitions to demonstrate that open source can be the driver for much needed innovation is something that QXT Energy is enthusiastic to support."

– José Daniel Lara, Co-Founder and CTO, QXT Energy

"The accelerating complexity of the modern power system demands better integration of economic and reliability planning tools, as well as coordinated planning across the transmission and distribution networks. OpenGrid is tackling this ambitious challenge by enabling these diverse tools, whether open source or commercial, to work together and by providing validated datasets. This has the potential to revolutionize grid planning across the globe."

– Debbie Lew, Executive Director, Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG)

"At OpenET, we make water use data open and accessible, so I've seen firsthand how a shared baseline builds trust among diverse stakeholders. That experience convinces me that open data infrastructure is essential to sound resource management. By giving planners, regulators and communities a common ground truth they can all inspect and understand, OpenGrid will help them make the decisions the energy transition demands."

– Luis Villa, Board Chair, OpenET, Inc.

"Transparent and neutral governance ensures that all interested users have access to the tools in this initiative. It allows users to decide what is best for their purposes, and it keeps the door open for new tool development to foster innovation and avoid lock-in. Transparency in decision-making creates community buy-in. When parties come together on shared infrastructure, working toward common objectives and the methods and results can be vetted by many parties, this builds the trust and sense of fairness and legitimacy that will be necessary for OpenGrid to be successful."

– Karin Wadsack, Executive Director, Global Power System Transformation Consortium

About the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects, including Linux, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenChain, OpenSearch, OpenSSF, OpenStack, PyTorch, Ray, RISC-V, SPDX and Zephyr, provide the foundation for global infrastructure. The Linux Foundation is focused on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

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SKF to showcase new technologies for energy-efficient and reliable cooling at Chillventa 2026

New MBx magnetic bearing series and ceramic precision technologies target high-speed chillers for data centers, heat pumps and other demanding HVAC applications.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF will present technologies for more energy-efficient and reliable cooling and heat-pump systems at Chillventa 2026. Leading the Group's presence will be its new MBx active magnetic bearing series for high-speed chillers.

Around 20 percent of the world's energy consumption is used to overcome friction, and the core of SKF's business is to reduce friction in rotating systems. As data center capacity expands, cooling is placing increasing demands on energy systems. Chiller and compressor manufacturers must therefore increase cooling capacity while limiting energy use, maintenance and system complexity.

"Cooling systems are becoming increasingly critical to reliability and energy efficiency of industrial and digital infrastructure. At Chillventa, we will show how our solutions support this, for example how our ceramic and magnetic technologies can help customers develop more reliable and more efficient high-speed systems for data center cooling systems, heat pumps and other demanding applications," says Thomas Grubbauer, Global Fluid Machinery Industry Manager.

SKF offers a complete portfolio of high-speed motors levitated with magnetic bearing technology, active magnetic bearings, digital controllers, variable-speed drives, condition monitoring and engineering services. This integrated offering enables compact, oil-free drive solutions for centrifugal chillers and other high-speed applications, reducing wear, maintenance and unplanned downtime, with energy efficiency improvements of up to 30–40% compared with conventional technologies.

The new MBx magnetic bearing is designed to optimize cost while maintaining performance through innovations including automatic winding. Its modular design enables semi-automated production and faster assembly, helping reduce lead times and expand SKF high-speed motors' production capacity to meet growing demand from the data center chiller market.

SKF will also showcase hybrid ceramic bearings, including the new optimized CeraDrive bearing series, for chillers, heat pumps, steam compressors, motors, fans and pumps. Ceramic rolling elements provide electrical insulation and support high-speed operation under demanding lubrication conditions.

Completing the offer is SKF's new Extreme super-precision bearings platform for high-speed centrifugal compressors in chillers, heat pumps and mechanical vapour recompression systems. The offer is a flexible bearing platform that can be optimized to meet extreme application demands, for example speeds up to 120'000 rpm, 2,4 Mndm, ring contact pressure up to 2,8 Gpa and turbine side temperatures up to 200C; opening new possibilities in compressor design.

Meet SKF at Chillventa 2026

Date: 13–15 October 2026

Location: Nuremberg, Germany

Booth: 1-510

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Financial technology executive brings more than 25 years of global leadership experience to strengthen Devexperts' product portfolio across the investment and trade lifecycle.

DUBLIN, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Devexperts today announced the appointment of Rainer Fuchsluger as Global Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. The privately held global financial technology company provides solutions used by more than 20 million traders worldwide every day.

Fuchsluger joins as Devexperts approaches its 25th anniversary in 2027. The company has more than 800 employees across 10 offices globally, with deep technical domain expertise in capital markets, serving hundreds of clients worldwide. His mandate is to extend Devexperts' value chain across the full investment and trade lifecycle and deliver greater value to clients through advanced technologies such as cloud computing and AI across its portfolio. He will also accelerate the company's international growth strategy.

The appointment follows the departure of Ben Hurley, who has decided to leave Devexperts to pursue new opportunities. Ben spent more than four years with the company, including the past two as CEO.

Fuchsluger's global leadership experience spans financial software, market data, exchange technology and critical market infrastructure, alongside extensive expertise in AI. His career includes senior leadership roles at LSEG, Wolters Kluwer, SS&C and Thomson Reuters. In addition, he served on the Group's Global Sustainability Governance Board at Wolters Kluwer. He has lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Switzerland during his 25 years in the industry.

"Devexperts has always been built on exceptional engineering, advanced technology and long-standing, trusted client relationships. I would like to thank Ben for his leadership and commitment over the past four years and welcome Rainer at an important time for the company," said Michael Babushkin, Founder of Devexperts. "His deep knowledge of global financial markets, combined with a proven track record of scaling technology businesses across major financial centres, will help us build on our strengths and realise our ambitions for international growth."

"Devexperts has built something very special over nearly 25 years, combining deep capital markets expertise, advanced technology and exceptional people with strong client relationships, including banks, brokerages, exchanges and wealth managers," said Rainer Fuchsluger, Global Group CEO of Devexperts. "I'm grateful to Michael and the Board for their confidence in me and excited to build on the company's achievements."

With AI already embedded in more than half of its software development pipeline, Devexperts will build on these and many other capabilities under Fuchsluger's leadership to accelerate product development and deliver greater value to clients.

"Capital markets are evolving rapidly, driven by demand for trusted data and analytics, resilient market infrastructure and the accelerating adoption of cloud computing and AI," Fuchsluger added. "My priority is to stay close to our clients, understand their evolving needs and bring our capabilities closer together across the investment and trade lifecycle. By combining our expertise with continued investment in advanced technologies, we can strengthen our offering and help clients navigate increasingly complex markets without compromising on performance or resilience."

Next year, Devexperts will mark its quarter century with a global programme led by Fuchsluger, recognising the people, clients and technology that have shaped the company while setting out its vision for the future.

About Devexperts

Founded in 2002, Devexperts is a global financial technology company providing trading platforms, market data, exchange connectivity, analytics and critical market infrastructure to the capital markets. With more than 800 employees across 10 offices worldwide, the company serves hundreds of clients, including banks, brokerages, exchanges and wealth management firms. Its technology is used by more than 20 million traders every day.

Its portfolio includes DXtrade, a multi-asset trading and brokerage platform; dxFeed, its global market data and exchange connectivity business; and Devexa, an AI-powered client engagement platform. Together with its market analytics, exchange technology and infrastructure solutions, these capabilities support clients across the investment and trade lifecycle.

Devexperts combines deep capital markets expertise with advanced technology, including AI and cloud computing, to help clients grow, innovate and respond to evolving market demands.

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About Rainer Fuchsluger

Rainer Fuchsluger is a senior executive with more than 25 years of experience leading FinTech, data and software businesses across global financial markets. He has deep expertise in capital markets, risk and regulatory technology, SaaS platforms, enterprise data and workflow solutions, developed through senior roles at LSEG, Wolters Kluwer, SS&C and Thomson Reuters. In addition to his business responsibilities, he has served on a Global Sustainability Governance Board. He has lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Switzerland and currently resides in Dublin.

At a glance:

- London Stock Exchange Group: Commercial leadership, Data & Feeds.

- Wolters Kluwer: Global Head of Strategic Planning & Business Development. Previously CEO / Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting.

- SS&C Technologies, ICE and Thomson Reuters: Senior and regional commercial leadership roles across Asia Pacific.

- Education: MBA, Vienna University of Economics and Business. Executive programmes at MIT (AI: Implications for Business Strategy) and the University of Oxford (Leading Sustainable Corporations).

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SciBase: Recalculation of warrants of series TO 2 following rights issue

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In accordance with the terms and conditions for warrants of series TO 2, which were issued in connection with the capital raise announced in April 2024, the number of shares that each warrant entitles the holder to subscribe for and the subscription price shall be recalculated following rights issues. Accordingly, SciBase Holding AB (the "Company" or "SciBase") has carried out a recalculation of warrants of series T0 2 due to the rights issue of shares that the board of directors resolved upon on September 3, 2026 (the "Rights Issue").

Following the completed recalculation, SciBase can announce that the number of shares that each warrant of series TO 2 entitles to subscribe for and the subscription price per share has changed in accordance with the following. Following the recalculation, one (1) warrant of series TO 2 entitles the holder to subscribe for 0.01 shares at a subscription price of SEK 37.47 per share.

Following the recalculation, one (1) warrant of series TO 2 entitles the holder to subscribe for 0.01 new shares in the Company during the period from and including on 3 April 2029, until and including 17 April 2029.

The terms and conditions for the warrants, including potential adjustments due to future share issues, are available on the Company's website.

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About SciBase:

SciBase is a global medical technology company, specializing in early detection and prevention in dermatology. SciBase develops, manufactures, and commercializes Nevisense, a unique point-of-care platform that combines AI and advanced EIS technology to elevate diagnostic accuracy, ensuring proactive skin health management.

Our commitment is to minimize patient suffering, allowing clinicians to improve and save lives through timely detection and intervention and reduce healthcare costs.

Built on more than 20 years of research at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, SciBase is a leader in dermatological advancements.

The company has been on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market exchange since June 2, 2015 and the company's Certified Adviser is DNB Carnegie Investment Bank AB (publ). Learn more at www.scibase.com. For press releases and financial reports visit: http://investors.scibase.se/en/pressreleases

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Beyond Now launches agentic platform to power CSPs growth in the agentic economy

The Beyond Now Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration Platform brings revenue, multi-party ecosystems and agentic AI together across the entire revenue lifecycle — helping CSPs and technology providers turn AI disruption into growth.

DUBLIN, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond Now launched its Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration Platform, enabling Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and technology providers to create, sell and monetize their own, partner and AI-powered services. The platform uses native agents to maximize revenue from their core business, grow through ecosystems, and succeed in a world of AI and increasingly agent-to-agent interactions.

AI is transforming CSPs' and technology providers' revenue lifecycle, creating new growth opportunities — from sovereign AI and GPU-as-a-service to AI applications, services and agents — and new ways to monetize them through usage, tokens and outcomes. But capturing these opportunities requires a new operating model. As agents increasingly work alongside people and systems, CSPs and technology companies need to expose and package their own assets, partner capabilities, AI services and models into intent-based propositions. These must be discoverable, assembled, sold, fulfilled and monetized at speed by people and increasingly by agents.

"AI is creating enormous growth opportunities, yet CSPs have so far captured just 2% of AI revenue. What's holding them back isn't a lack of opportunity, it's the lack of a commercial platform to execute on it and turn AI into real revenue growth," said Angus Ward, CEO of Beyond Now. "While much of the market is focused on building agent environments, agent platforms and agent orchestration models, we believe the bigger opportunity is leveraging agentic AI to grow the business you have today and capture what comes next. That's the thinking behind our new Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration Platform: bringing revenue and ecosystems together in a native agentic environment, so CSPs and technology providers can compete for a greater share of the fast-growing agentic economy."

The platform connects capabilities traditionally fragmented across siloed IT and BSS environments and makes them available for people, systems and AI agents to act on through one commercial foundation. Its headless architecture, shared catalog, single data model and centralized commercial rules connect customers, products, partners, pricing, orders and services, giving people and agents the context to turn customer intent into personalized propositions, execute across the revenue lifecycle and increasingly transact agent-to-agent. For CSPs, this means moving from product to quote, order, fulfillment and cash faster, and automating more work with governed agent autonomy and human oversight. It also means making better use of existing assets and partner capabilities to respond to customer and market opportunities at greater speed and scale.

The platform is composable, modular, multi-tenant and event-driven, with open APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. Organizations can deploy capabilities alongside existing technology and expand over time, providing a path to agentic transformation without requiring wholesale replacement of core IT and BSS systems.

The platform is designed around three connected growth priorities:

- Maximize revenue: Turn customer intent into revenue faster by connecting discovery, selling, fulfillment and monetization, supporting everything from dynamic bundling, subscriptions and usage to outcomes, AI consumption and tokens.

- Multiply ecosystems: Combine first-party assets, partner capabilities and AI services into multi-party propositions, co-create and co-sell with solution and channel partners, and scale B2B2X models. Orchestrate orders, fulfillment, monetization and settlement across the multi-party ecosystem.

- Accelerate with agentic AI: Agentic AI is native to the platform, putting role-based agents to work across the revenue lifecycle alongside people and systems. Organizations can also build or bring their own agents and models, with the orchestration, business context and governance needed for agents to act individually or together.

Beyond Now works with CSPs and technology companies around the world, including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, NTT and Verizon. The platform supports B2C, B2B and B2B2X business models.

More information about the Beyond Now Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration Platform is available at: https://www.beyondnow.com/platform

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United Nations Spotlight Initiative launches Sync or Storm, a new interactive game to help prevent violence against women and girls before it starts

Built on Equimundo: Center for Masculinity & Social Justice's research into boyhood and masculinity, the game aims to raise awareness among young people about the attitudes and behaviours that contribute towards violence against women and girls.

NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Nations Spotlight Initiative has introduced Sync or Storm, an immersive adventure game for young people, as part of the #WithHer digital advocacy campaign to build awareness, encourage positive intervention, and advance efforts to end violence against women and girls.

With nearly one in three women experiencing violence during their lifetime, the need for prevention is critical. As digital spaces become an increasingly important part of young people's lives, Sync or Storm reaches kids where they already spend their time, using interactive gameplay to encourage positive behaviours and collaborative problem-solving.

"Gaming has become an important space where young people connect, interact and shape how they see the world," said Koye Adeboye, Head of Communications for the United Nations Spotlight Initiative. "Through this campaign, we aim to reach some of the estimated 43 million Roblox users under the age of 13 who play every day. If we are serious about preventing violence before it starts, we need to engage young people in the spaces where they spend their time."

Developed by Bad Ape in collaboration with Equimundo and Spotlight Initiative, the interactive game encourages young players to reflect on how their actions affect others.

The game's foundation is informed by Equimundo's Man Box research in the US, UK and Mexico, which found that those with the most rigid views of manhood were up to five times more likely to bully or sexually harass others, and were also more likely to report depression and suicidal thoughts (Hill et al., 2020). The Global Early Adolescent Study also surveyed 10–14-year-olds globally and showed that gender norms are already entrenched by early adolescence.

Caroline Hayes, Senior Technical Specialist, Digital Strategies at Equimundo, said: "Boys don't form harmful ideas about manhood in isolation; they absorb them from the culture around them, including the games they play. Sync or Storm shows boys at a formative age that respect and cooperation are expressions of strength. That's exactly the kind of prevention work we need more of."

Sync or Storm is now available on Roblox.

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Linux Foundation Europe Report Finds Digital Sovereignty Drives European Tech Strategy, but Governance and AI Strain Present Major Hurdles

European organizations report strong returns from open source as AI adoption, regulation and technology sovereignty reshape software strategy

PRAGUE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Source Summit Europe – The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation enabling mass innovation through open source, today released the 2026 State of Open Source in Europe report in collaboration with LF Europe, LF Research and NeoNephos. The fifth annual report revealed that digital sovereignty is now firmly embedded in European technology strategy. Ninety-four percent of organizations say digital sovereignty is important, including 61% that consider it very important, while organizations with advanced open source governance report an average return of more than 4x their investment, compared with 3.6x among organizations without formal governance.

The findings point to a critical next step: European organizations seeking greater control over their technology supply chains must move beyond simply consuming open source software and participate in the openly governed ecosystems that develop and sustain it. European developers account for nearly 40% of contributions to foundational infrastructure projects including Kubernetes and OpenStack. At the same time, 94% of organizations are using or piloting generative AI coding tools, 48% maintain private forks of open source projects and 63% have increased investment in open source dependency management in response to regulatory pressure.

"Europe has clearly heard the message on digital sovereignty. The next step is participation," said Thierry Carrez, general manager, Linux Foundation Europe. "Open source gives organizations a way to reduce dependence on any single vendor or country, but consuming open source alone doesn't give you effective control over the technology. By contributing upstream and participating in open governance, European organizations can achieve greater autonomy, efficiently leveraging the global open source technology commons."

Additional findings from the 2026 report include:

- Governance remains uneven: 31% of European organizations still lack a formal open source governance framework, highlighting a gap between widespread adoption and strategic management of open source.

- AI is increasing the value of open source: 76% say generative AI coding tools increase the value they receive from open source, while 48% have increased their open source usage as a result.

- Private forks carry significant maintenance costs: Organizations maintaining private forks spend an average of 311 hours per release cycle patching 9.5 forks, while 28% cannot track those costs at all.

- Open source strengthens technical talent: 76% say open source involvement improves engineering skills and 53% say it supports recruitment and retention.

"Five years of research confirms how critical open source is to Europe's tech landscape," said Hilary Carter, senior vice president of research, Linux Foundation. "With the 2026 Tech Sovereignty Package expected to spur €2 billion in digital infrastructure investment, realizing that value requires more than adopting software – it demands strong governance and active community contribution."

The full 2026 State of Open Source in Europe report is now available. To learn more about membership to the Linux Foundation Europe, visit https://linuxfoundation.eu/en/join. For information about how to contribute to open source projects, review the Linux Foundation Open Source Guide book.

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