FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- The executive director of Brief Strategic Family Therapy Institute, Joan A. Muir, PhD, has been honored by Marquis Who’s Who for her distinguished career as a clinical psychologist and her leadership in expanding access to evidence-based mental healthcare. 

Dr. Muir has served as executive director of the Brief Strategic Family Therapy Institute at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine since 2007 and has been a licensed psychologist since 1996.

Developing a Notable Dissemination Model for Brief Strategic Family Therapy

Dr. Muir developed the dissemination model for Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), an intervention developed by a team of researchers at the University of Miami designed for families of adolescents with substance use and delinquent behavior. The dissemination model lays out requirements for municipalities and community agency executives on engaging families and the selection and training of therapists to build successful BSFT programs. 

Under her leadership, the BSFT Institute has implemented the model across 35 states, as well as abroad in Sweden, Puerto Rico, and Hong Kong. Dr. Muir’s achievements include establishing three BSFT programs in Sweden, starting with the city of Stockholm, and nine programs across New York City funded by the New York City Administration for Children's Services.

Advancing the Field of Evidence-Based Therapy

In her role at the Brief Strategic Family Therapy Institute, Dr. Muir has watched the field shift substantially since she began her career three decades ago, toward specialized, evidence-based psychotherapies developed for specific populations and problems. As examples, she points to Brief Strategic Family Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan and her team at the University of Washington for their groundbreaking approaches that have driven measurably better outcomes in mental health treatment.

"Each began the same way: a small group of psychologists identified a problem in their community and pursued research to solve it, without knowing how far the work would eventually reach," said Dr. Muir.

For Brief Strategic Family Therapy, the research was inspired by a group of Cuban psychologists at the University of Miami, led by Dr. Jose Szapoznik, to address challenges experienced by Cuban immigrant and refugee families arriving in Miami. That intervention expanded to African American and Caucasian families over 40 years of research. In 2024, Dr. Muir led the BSFT Institute through a major transition, its acquisition by Empower Community Care, an emerging leader in the global dissemination of evidence-based therapies.Education and Professional Affiliations

Dr. Muir earned a Master of Arts in clinical psychology from Fordham University in 1989 and a Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology from the same institution in 1995. She completed a predoctoral fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine in 1993 and postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute in 1995.

Dr. Muir remains actively involved with the Association of Black Psychologists, where she served as secretary of the national association and president of the South Florida chapter, which awarded her the chapter's Healing through Leadership Award in 2025. In addition, she has been the recipient of a research fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health. She has been a member of the American Psychological Association since 1990.

Making an Impact on Clinical Psychology

Dr. Muir retired as executive director of the BSFT Institute in December 2025. Looking ahead, she intends to continue expanding her work to reach families from diverse backgrounds while ensuring her services remain accessible to those who can afford them and those who cannot. She maintains a private practice in Plantation, Florida.

About Joan A. Muir

Joan A. Muir, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience advancing evidence-based mental healthcare. From 2007 through 2025, she served as executive director of the Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, developing the dissemination model that expanded the intervention across 35 states, Sweden, Puerto Rico, and Hong Kong. Dr. Muir is actively involved with the Association of Black Psychologists, where she has served as national secretary and president of the South Florida chapter, and is a longtime member of the American Psychological Association. She holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Fordham University, completed fellowships at Yale and Columbia universities, and maintains a private practice in Plantation, Florida.

About Marquis Who's Who

Since 1899, when A. N. Marquis printed the First Edition of Who’s Who in America®, Marquis Who’s Who® has chronicled the lives of the most accomplished individuals and innovators from every significant field of endeavor, including politics, business, medicine, law, education, art, religion and entertainment. Who’s Who in America® remains an essential biographical source for thousands of researchers, journalists, librarians and executive search firms around the world. The suite of Marquis® publications can be viewed at the official Marquis Who’s Who® website, marquiswhoswho.com.

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PHILADELPHIA, PA, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Soundview, Inc., the company behind Summary.com, today announced the launch of EDGE AI, a new feature that brings the insights of Executive Book Summaries® to the challenges professionals face at work every day. Users ask a specific business question and receive a focused answer drawn exclusively from Soundview’s library of Executive Book Summaries.

Built for managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals, EDGE AI brings together relevant ideas from several Executive Book Summaries tailored to the user’s challenge. Questions can range from rebuilding trust within a team and delivering difficult feedback to leading a turnaround or maintaining momentum through uncertainty.

Sample questions include:

• “How do I rebuild trust on my team?”
• “How do I give feedback that actually lands?”
• “How do I lead through uncertainty?”
• “How do I run a one-on-one that isn’t just a status update?”
• “How do I build a culture that holds up as we grow?”

The result is a complete response that connects business concepts to the challenge at hand.

EDGE AI draws on the frameworks, strategies, and concepts from a library of more than 1,500 Executive Book Summaries. A question such as “How do I turn a failure into a lesson my team remembers?” brings together relevant thinking from multiple summaries into one focused answer, with links to each source summary for deeper exploration. Responses can be read online or downloaded as PDFs.

“Executive Book Summaries have always been about getting busy professionals to the ideas that matter,” said Josh Clement, President of Soundview. “EDGE AI changes the starting point. Instead of picking a book, you start with the challenge in front of you, and the answer comes straight from summaries our own editors have written and vetted.”

Built on Human Expertise

Every Executive Book Summary continues to be written, edited, and narrated by Soundview’s team of professionals. That work provides the foundation for EDGE AI.

For professionals balancing the challenges of today’s complex business environment, EDGE AI offers another way to put Soundview’s business learning resources to work: start with a current challenge and receive an answer grounded in the books that define modern business thinking.

EDGE AI is available now and included with a Summary.com subscription. To learn more and ask a business question, visit summary.com/edge-ai.

About Soundview, Inc. (Summary.com)

For nearly 50 years, Soundview has worked with authors and publishers to bring the ideas in leading business books to busy professionals around the world. Through Summary.com, the company offers Executive Book Summaries and business learning resources covering leadership, management, strategy, and professional development. Learn more at summary.com.

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Summary.com
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BERLIN, Germany, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Ojin, the Human AI Company, today announced the launch of Human+ by Ojin, an AI roleplay training platform for corporate learning and development. Human+ lets employees rehearse difficult workplace conversations live, out loud, with AI characters that have a real face and voice, then certifies who is ready and measures the results.

Most corporate training ends at a completion record. Employees finish an e-learning course, but leaders cannot tell who can actually handle the objection, the de-escalation, or the difficult feedback conversation. Live roleplay with trainers or actors is expensive and hard to schedule, and manager-led practice varies from one manager to the next.

The gap shows up wherever the conversation matters. A sales rep can complete product training and still lose the deal on the first objection. A manager can finish a leadership course and still avoid a difficult feedback conversation. A new hire can clear onboarding and still not be ready to speak to a customer. In regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals and financial services, companies need to show that employees can apply the rules in a live conversation, not just that they finished a module. A completion record proves attendance, not competence, which leaves organizations exposed when a rep misstates a product claim or mishandles a complaint.

Closing that gap the traditional way is expensive. Live workshops need trainers or actors, venues, and often travel, and they pull employees away from their work. Manager-led coaching takes hours from senior staff for every new hire. Because these programs are hard to scale, most employees get only a handful of practice sessions before they face the real conversation.

With Human+, Ojin closes those gaps through on-demand practice and assessment that every employee gets in the same way.

How Human+ Works

Human+ is built around four modules that take an employee from learning to verified skill.

1. Learn: An AI coach teaches from the company's own onboarding material, product specifications, and policies.
2. Roleplay: Employees practice spoken conversations with full-body AI avatars rather than talking heads. The avatars detect fine details of conversational delivery in real-time and respond to how each learner engages, pushing back or opening up as the conversation unfolds.
3. Assessment: Unscripted certification scenarios test whether an employee is ready before they speak to a customer, patient, or direct report. This is designed for regulated, high-stakes roles.
4. Real-time analytics: Fully customizable analytics track per-person and team-level performance as employees practice, showing skill progress rather than course completion and guiding what each employee works on next.

Companies can build any learning, roleplay, or certification session they need, trained on their own data and shaped to their own standards and skill philosophy. Use cases include cold calls, objection handling, customer service de-escalation, negotiation, feedback, manager conversations, new-hire onboarding, compliance, and certification. Human+ runs in more than 70 languages, so global teams train in the language they work in.

Beyond Sales Training

Many AI roleplay tools focus only on sales calls. Human+ is designed for the full range of conversations employees struggle with, from sales and customer service to leadership coaching, management, and compliance. It serves enterprise L&D, sales enablement, HR, and risk teams, including in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals and financial services. Ojin also offers Human+ to universities and private school groups.

Practice-Based Training Drives Results

Ojin designed Human+ around the four outcomes training leaders are measured on: pipeline influenced by better-prepared sales teams, shorter time to productivity for new hires, lower spend on live workshops, and less manager time spent on routine coaching. In real-world deployments, practice-based training delivers more than $120 million in pipeline influenced, 60% shorter time to productivity, €800,000 in annual training costs avoided, and $700,000 in manager time returned.

Built With European Enterprise Requirements in Mind

Headquartered in Berlin, Ojin built Human+ to be SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, aligned with the EU AI Act, and compliant with Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL). Customers can choose dedicated infrastructure for data sovereignty, including dedicated model hosting.

Ojin owns its entire technology stack, so customers can deploy, configure, and modularize Human+ around their own needs. Human+ integrates with a customer's existing data sources, follows the customer's own compliance and security policies, and keeps customer data inside the customer's environment if desired.

That stack is Ojin's real-time Human AI Agent technology, which already powers interactive AI characters for global enterprise brands. It produces lifelike avatars that hold a real-time, natural spoken conversation rather than playing back recorded video.

"Companies spend a fortune on training, and most of it stops at a completion record," said Christian Mio Loclair, founder and CEO of Ojin. "Nobody learns a hard conversation by watching a video about it. You learn it by having it, getting it wrong in a safe place, and trying again. Human+ gives every employee that practice in their own language and gives leaders proof of who is ready before the real conversation happens."

"We spent years building AI characters that can hold a real-time conversation with a face and a voice," Loclair added. "Training is where that matters most, because the point is to feel like you are talking to a real person."

Availability

Human+ by Ojin is available now to enterprises and academic institutions worldwide. Organizations can book a demo at ojin.ai/human-plus.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is AI roleplay training, and how is it different from e-learning or an LMS?

AI roleplay training lets employees practice a conversation out loud with an AI character that responds in real time. With e-learning, they read or watch content and click through. Human+ by Ojin is an AI roleplay platform: employees talk live with a lifelike character that has a face and voice, can be interrupted, and pushes back. An LMS tracks who finished a course. Human+ shows who can actually handle the conversation.

Is Human+ only for sales training?

No. Human+ covers sales calls, objection handling, customer service de-escalation, negotiation, feedback, manager conversations, onboarding, and compliance. It also comes with ready-made coaches for onboarding, compliance, and manager skills from day one.

How do we certify every rep can handle an objection before they speak to a customer?

With Human+, reps take an Assessment session: an unscripted spoken exam against an AI customer, with no coaching and no human assessor. Each session is scored on skills, with the transcript behind every score. Managers can see who is certified and where each rep is weak before that rep talks to a real customer.

Can Human+ be used for compliance training in regulated industries like pharma and financial services?

Yes. Companies can build certification scenarios from their own rules. Examples are a pharma rep presenting a new indication, or a financial adviser explaining a product within regulatory limits. Each certification is backed by a scored, transcribed record of the conversation, not just a completion record.

What security and compliance standards does Human+ meet?

Human+ is SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant with a DPA available, aligned with the EU AI Act, and compliant with Saudi Arabia's PDPL. It is built by Berlin-based Ojin.

Can AI roleplay platforms run in our own cloud or on-premise?

Human+ can. Its sovereign deployment runs on dedicated infrastructure with model hosting and a stack customized to the customer’s compliance and security policies. It connects to the customer’s own infrastructure and keeps their data inside their environment.

How many languages does Human+ support?

More than 70, so global teams can train in the language they work in.

Can we build scenarios from our own content and policies?

Yes. Companies can build any learning, roleplay, or certification session from their own data, shaped to their standards and skill philosophy.

How do we measure whether training improved performance?

Human+ tracks skill progress per person and per team as employees practice, not just course completion. Ojin reports a 60% reduction in time to productivity in real-world use.

Who is behind Human+?

Human+ is built by Ojin, the Human AI Company, founded by CEO Christian Mio Loclair and based in Berlin. It runs on the same real-time Human AI Agent technology that powers Ojin's interactive characters for enterprise brands.

About Ojin

Ojin makes Human+, where employees practice hard workplace conversations live with AI characters that have a real face and voice. It runs on Ojin's real-time Human AI Agent technology. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Ojin (formerly Journee) is operated by Journee Technologies GmbH and led by founder and CEO Christian Mio Loclair. Its products include Human+, Human Agents, the Human Presence and Human Portrait face models, and the Ojin Model API. Learn more at ojin.ai.

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Neil Coleman
COO, Ojin
neil.coleman@ojin.ai

DALLAS, TX, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Shalaan Umar has been named America’s Top Young Innovator 2026, earning one of the highest distinctions in the annual innovation competition that recognizes exceptional young minds developing original solutions to real-world challenges.

Umar earned the prestigious title for his outstanding portfolio of scientific research and multiple patent-pending inventions, particularly his Automated Water Spigot Sanitization System, an innovative solution addressing hygiene, water scarcity, and public health challenges. His achievement exemplifies the competition’s mission to recognize young inventors whose creativity, scientific ingenuity, and technological contributions demonstrate the potential for meaningful societal impact.

Organized by the International Academy of Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship (IAIRE), America's Top Young Innovators has emerged as an international platform celebrating outstanding student-led innovation, bringing together promising young researchers, inventors, and entrepreneurs working to address some of the world's most pressing challenges.

America's Top Young Innovator 2026: Category Winners

Five additional prestigious awards recognized outstanding achievements across emerging scientific and technological disciplines.

Siddhi Pareek, Maryam Bhat, and Giaa Warikoo received the Best Innovation in AI in Healthcare Award, recognizing their exceptional application of artificial intelligence to advance intelligent healthcare solutions.

Rishi Sai Poola, Ismael Zaidi, and Qasim Ahmad earned the Best Innovation in Genetics & Healthcare Award for their pioneering scientific research and innovative applications of genetics and biotechnology to address critical healthcare challenges.

Suhani Sharma received the Best Innovation in Sustainability & Engineering Design Award, recognizing her exceptional design thinking, user-centered engineering, and development of sustainable solutions.

Ansh Pathak, Ansh Gandhi, and Eashaan Dispenza were honored with the Best Innovation in Aerospace Award for developing an innovative solution aimed at removing space debris from Earth's orbit, contributing toward safer and more sustainable space exploration.

Zahra Fatima Khan earned the Best Innovation in Mental Health Award for her human-centered innovation addressing critical challenges in mental well-being.

UAE's Top Young Innovator 2026: International Excellence

The competition's growing international reach was further demonstrated through UAE's Top Young Innovators 2025–26, the UAE edition of the initiative, which recognizes exceptional young inventors and provides a pathway to the global finals of America's Top Young Innovators. 

The winners were determined through a rigorous, two-stage evaluation process, beginning with independent assessments by the distinguished international judging panel, followed by public voting that attracted over 28,000 voters from across the UAE. Combining expert scientific evaluation with extraordinary public participation, the competition celebrated not only exceptional technological innovation but also the growing enthusiasm for young inventors and scientific excellence across the nation.

Danell Koshy Gijo and Habel Jacob Gijo, representing GEMS Legacy School and Our Own Indian School, emerged as the UAE's Top Young Innovators 2026 for EyesON, an AI-powered assistive technology designed to help visually impaired individuals navigate independently using intelligent object detection and real-time guidance.

Other distinguished category winners included Maanya Lalithraj, Chloe Jreije, and Noah Choucair of Dubai American Academy for PathoScan, an innovation advancing early colorectal cancer detection, and Rianna Chaudhui and Arham Kidwai of GEMS Modern Academy for NeuroPen, an AI-enabled approach to early detection of neurodegenerative diseases.

UAE Schools Recognized for Innovation Excellence

The UAE competition also honored educational institutions demonstrating exceptional leadership in cultivating young innovators, advancing future-ready education, and fostering a culture of scientific creativity and technological excellence.

GEMS Legacy School, Dubai, and Our Own Indian School, Dubai, received the prestigious Innovation Excellence Award for nurturing the winners of UAE's Top Young Innovator 2026, demonstrating their outstanding institutional commitment to developing exceptional young inventors and researchers.

GEMS Legacy School, Dubai, earned two additional distinctions: the Innovation Spirit Award for recording the highest student participation in the competition, and the Leading School for Girl Innovators Award for achieving the highest number of entries submitted by female students, reflecting its exceptional commitment to inclusive innovation.

Delhi Private School, Sharjah, received the AI/ML Trailblazer Award for submitting the highest number of innovations focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, demonstrating leadership in emerging technologies.

Al Ain British Academy, GEMS Our Own English High School, and Habitat School – Al Jurf were honored with the Sustainability Champion Award for their outstanding contributions to innovations aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), highlighting their commitment to nurturing environmentally conscious young innovators.

Together, these institutional honors recognize schools that are transforming education by empowering students to become creators of technology, pioneers of scientific discovery, and innovators capable of addressing global challenges.

Evaluated by a Distinguished International Judging Panel

The competition brought together an eminent judging panel featuring internationally recognized experts from NASA, the World Health Organization, the United States Air Force, and the artificial intelligence industry. Chaired by Dr. Hashima Hasan, NASA Astrophysicist and Program Scientist, the panel included Dr. Peter Guida, Radiation biologist at NASA; Dr. Zisis Kozlakidis, Head of Laboratory Services and Biobanking at WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer; Omar Syed, AI, Blockchain and technology expert from NASA Glenn Research Center; Sage J. Phoenix, former U.S. Air Force combat mission commander; and Ben Gold, AI strategist and founder of AI Academy for All.

The distinguished panel evaluated innovations for originality, scientific rigor, technical merit, and real-world impact, with final UAE results determined through a combination of expert evaluation and public voting.

Inspiring the Next Generation of Global Innovators

Through America's Top Young Innovators and its international editions, DiscoverSTEM Foundation and International Academy of Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship continue to champion a powerful vision: empowering young people to move beyond conventional classroom learning and become inventors, researchers, and problem-solvers capable of shaping the future.

About DiscoverSTEM

DiscoverSTEM is a Texas-based research and innovation organization dedicated to nurturing young inventors, scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs through hands-on scientific research, innovation development, and intellectual property creation. For more information, visit discoverstem.info.

WASHINGTON, DC, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- WheelMetrics, an educational and stock-screening platform founded by quantitative investor Adrian Rosebrock, has launched a free online resource identifying stocks and options setups for investors using the Wheel Strategy.

The new "Best Stocks for the Wheel Strategy" page publishes a regularly updated list of companies that pass Rosebrock's fundamental screening process, alongside specific cash-secured put contracts that meet his trading criteria. The page refreshes every Monday and is available to the public without registration or a paid subscription.

The Wheel Strategy involves selling cash-secured puts on stocks an investor is willing to own, accepting shares if assigned, and potentially selling covered calls against those holdings. Although the mechanics are relatively straightforward, selecting suitable underlying companies remains a challenge, particularly when attractive option premiums encourage traders to overlook weaknesses in the businesses themselves.

WheelMetrics approaches the process by evaluating stock quality before examining available options. Each week, Rosebrock's algorithms screen more than 4,000 publicly traded companies across six fundamental factors: valuation, growth, profitability, debt, cash conversion, and dividend quality.

Only companies that satisfy the fundamental criteria advance to the options screening stage, where contracts are evaluated based on delta, time to expiration, annualized yield, open interest, return on capital, and earnings timing.

“When the Wheel Strategy goes wrong, it almost always goes wrong at the stock level, not the options level," said Rosebrock, founder of WheelMetrics. “Get assigned and you own the company. And if you’re assigned on the wrong company with no fundamental floor, it can quickly drop, leaving you holding the bag. Every Monday I start by asking which businesses I’d actually want to hold for six to twelve months, and only then look at the premiums.”

The resource features two screening boards. One focuses on options with 30 to 52 days until expiration, Rosebrock's preferred timeframe, while the other covers weekly contracts and incorporates momentum indicators to provide additional context for trade timing.

The screening system also excludes put contracts scheduled to expire after the underlying company's next earnings report, helping traders avoid positions exposed to scheduled earnings announcements. During periods when few opportunities meet the screening requirements, the published boards may intentionally contain only a limited number of qualifying setups.

Rosebrock developed the system following a career in software engineering and artificial intelligence. He earned a PhD in computer science in 2014, founded the computer vision education platform PyImageSearch, and sold the business in 2021. He subsequently spent five years studying quantitative investing and developing systematic trading methods before founding WheelMetrics.

The newly launched page publishes the output of the same screening process he uses to trade his own capital. Additional research tools, including hourly rescreening during market hours, are available through WheelMetrics Pro.

Rosebrock also maintains a public, real-money Wheel Strategy portfolio established on January 1, 2026. An independent certified public accountant has examined its initial trading results against brokerage records, with findings published in the company's first independent performance verification report.

The review covered January through May 2026 and used agreed-upon procedures to check reported trading figures. It was not an audit or an endorsement of the strategy. Rosebrock has committed to publishing updated CPA verification reports every six months, regardless of whether the portfolio records gains or losses. Under his reporting methodology, put assignments are counted as losses even when the original premium is retained.

About WheelMetrics.io

WheelMetrics is an educational and stock-screening platform founded by Adrian Rosebrock, PhD, to help self-directed investors approach the Wheel Strategy with a systematic process. The platform provides stock selection research, options analysis, and position management resources through free educational content and its WheelMetrics Pro membership. Its screening methodology evaluates company fundamentals before identifying qualifying options contracts. WheelMetrics provides educational and informational resources only, not individualized investment advice. Options trading involves substantial risk, including the potential loss of capital. Past performance does not guarantee future results. For more information, visit wheelmetrics.io.

Disclaimer

The information provided in this release and on WheelMetrics.io is strictly for educational and informational purposes and does not constitute investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, nor a recommendation to buy or sell any security or options contract. WheelMetrics is not a registered broker-dealer or investment adviser. Options trading involves substantial risk, is not suitable for all investors, and can result in the loss of all or more than the initial investment; investors should review the "Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options (ODD)" at optionsclearing.com before trading. Past performance, real-money portfolio results, and CPA-verified agreed-upon procedures do not guarantee future returns, and individual results will vary based on market conditions, timing, fees, and execution.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Sift, the ML-native fraud prevention platform serving more than 700 global brands, including Patreon, Turo, and Remitly, now offers the Sift Fraud Attack Defense Suite. The suite is a centralized system of three agents, one for each stage of an attack: Attack Detection Agent, Attack Investigation Agent, and Attack Response Agent.

The suite builds on AI that Sift customers already use. The Sift Score and Workflows decide on every event in real time, the Risk Activity Agent helps analysts investigate account takeover, and the Sift MCP Server (read-only) lets teams connect their own AI tools to Sift data. The Fraud Attack Defense Suite adds the layer that watches for the attack itself.

A fraud attack doesn’t send a warning. It looks like a batch of stolen cards tested with small charges, a wave of fake accounts overnight, or chargebacks that creep up over a weekend. Attack Detection Agent learns what normal looks like for each business, including time-of-day and day-of-week patterns, and alerts the team when traffic breaks from that baseline, so fraud teams are the first to know instead of the last. In its first month, it caught a multi-hour 20x transaction spike at a travel customer and a 13-hour card-testing surge at a retail customer.

Facts & Figures

• What it is: The Sift Fraud Attack Defense Suite, a centralized system of three agents: Attack Detection Agent, Attack Investigation Agent, and Attack Response Agent.
• What it does: Detects a fraud attack as it emerges, shows the accounts and transactions behind it, and pairs every alert with a playbook of next steps.
• Availability: Attack Detection Agent is generally available and included in the core Sift platform. All three stages are available at a foundational level today. Investigate opens the events behind an alert, and Respond provides playbooks and alert tracking. Automated response is planned.
• Control: Your team sets alert sensitivity, moves every alert through its lifecycle, and will choose which responses to automate as they become available.
• Heritage: Part of a platform that has applied machine learning to fraud since 2011, alongside the Sift Score, Workflows, the Risk Activity Agent, and the Sift MCP Server.
• Setup: Runs on the event data customers already send to Sift. No new install, no new fields, no integration work.
• Starter alerts: Five, live from day one: BIN transaction velocity, BIN user velocity, chargebacks, low-value transaction surges, and registration velocity.
• Early results: In its first month, Attack Detection Agent caught a multi-hour 20x transaction spike at a travel customer and a 13-hour card-testing surge at a retail customer.

Why attacks need a first responder

Coordinated fraud attacks are fast, organized, and expensive in analyst time. In Sift’s view, too many teams still meet them with dashboards checked by hand, exports to a business intelligence tool, or a colleague who happens to notice a number that looks off. By then, the attack is already underway.

How the Fraud Attack Defense Suite works

Detect. Attack Detection Agent monitors a business’s traffic continuously and alerts the team when key patterns change against the baselines and rules the team has set. Related detections group into one alert, so a coordinated attack doesn’t flood the queue. Teams can tune each alert’s sensitivity and preview how a setting would have performed against their own traffic. Alerts arrive in the Console, and critical alerts can also go to email.

Investigate. From any alert, one click opens the events behind it, including the accounts, transactions, and attributes that tie them together. Analysts start with a picture of the attack instead of a number that changed.

Respond. Every alert pairs with a playbook of investigation steps and recommended actions. A person moves each alert through a clear lifecycle, from open to acknowledged to resolved or marked a false positive. Every alert stays in a searchable history for audit and post-incident review. The team keeps the decision. Sift does the legwork of surfacing the evidence and the next steps.

Built on the Sift Global Data Network

The suite is built on the Sift Global Data Network, which is powered by more than 1 trillion annual events and signals from 34,000 sites and apps. It learns from activity across merchants and industries. The five starter alerts ship with defaults informed by industry benchmarks, so they are useful on day one. From there, Attack Detection Agent measures each business against its own history, because a threshold built from someone else’s traffic wouldn’t fit. The suite works alongside Sift’s decisioning engine, where the Sift Score and Workflows act on every event in less than 150 ms.

For teams that used to learn about attacks from a downstream number, catching one while it is still underway reduces what it costs. “Attacks need a first responder, not a police report. Your team should never be the last to know, so we built something to sound the alarm as soon as traffic breaks from normal,” said Raj Jain, Chief Product Officer at Sift.

Jain was equally direct about the technology. “Detection today runs on statistical methods, not generative AI, and we won’t dress it up as something else. What makes it an agent is that it does the work for you.”

Attack Detection Agent is generally available now and included in the core Sift platform. Attack Investigation Agent and Attack Response Agent are available at a foundational level today. Sift plans to add reasoning, recommendation, and automation to both, so analysts can start with an investigation already underway and choose to have responses put in place for the attack patterns they trust.

Learn more about the Fraud Attack Defense Suite at sift.com/platform/ai or see it in action at sift.com/demo.

About Sift

Founded in 2011, Sift is the industry-leading fraud prevention platform helping digital brands deliver trust at scale and move business forward with confidence. Backed by a global data network of more than 1 trillion annual events and direct access to fraud experts, Sift helps more than 700 global brands stop fraud, approve more customers, and scale without compromise. Brands including Patreon, Turo, and Remitly rely on Sift to unlock growth and deliver seamless, secure customer experiences. Visit sift.com and follow Sift on LinkedIn.

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Arwen Heredia
Sr. Director, Corporate Marketing
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BAAR, Switzerland, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Done, a group of companies providing logistics, supply chain management, and financing solutions since 2011, has opened operations in Türkiye and named Filiz Ünal as CEO of Done Türkiye. The move makes Türkiye the group's fourth market alongside Switzerland, Poland, and Ukraine, extending a footprint that already serves more than 400 SME distributors across Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region.

A Market That Banks Aren't Fully Reaching

Türkiye imported about $365.4 billion of goods in 2025. From 2023–2025, 41.8% of Turkish SMEs reported being partially or fully credit-constrained, compared with between 9.5% and 25.2% in the Western Balkan economies covered by the OECD's SME Policy Index: Western Balkans and Türkiye 2026. The report also notes that Türkiye stands out among the economies it covers for SMEs' growing use of capital markets, amid robust growth in private equity and venture capital. Globally, the Asian Development Bank estimates the trade finance gap at $2.5 trillion in 2025, unchanged from 2023 and equivalent to about 10% of global trade, with 80% of banks surveyed expecting demand to keep rising as companies diversify supply chains.

"Despite having one of the region's most developed non-bank financial infrastructures, import-driven SME demand has outgrown what collateral-based lending can absorb. This is the setting Done was built for," saidDmitrii Rivkin, founder of Done, the group of companies, adding that the company works directly with the underlying trade transaction — buying goods from factories on behalf of SME importers — which gives lending partners visibility and risk control over deals that typically fall outside conventional lending criteria.

Leadership in Türkiye

Filiz Ünal will lead Done Türkiye’s operations. She has more than 30 years of experience in Türkiye’s factoring and financial services sector, including serving as Deputy Secretary General of the Association of Financial Institutions, as Secretary General of the Turkish Factoring Association, and as Executive Vice President at Garanti Factoring. At Done Türkiye, she developed the market-entry strategy and operating model and is responsible for partner relations and business development.

How the Model Works

Rather than lending against inventory, Done Switzerland buys goods directly from manufacturers in Europe and Asia on agreed-upon payment terms, stores them in licensed and insured partner-operated warehouses, and releases them to the client only after payment is received. Clients can take a full shipment and pay on arrival, or draw down inventory gradually — an approach Rivkin said reflects the reality that “demand is rarely linear, and inventory does not always move at a predictable pace.” Before placing an order, the company screens each supplier's legal standing, ownership and reputation through due-diligence platforms including AsiaVerify and World-Check from the London Stock Exchange Group, and keeps a time-stamped record of every item in storage that can serve as an independent, auditable trail should a dispute with a supplier reach a court.

A Group Built on Trade, Not Lending

With 15 years of operating experience in logistics, Done, according to company data, completed more than 4,000 transactions in 2025 with 1,808 supplier factories for 417 clients, with an average deal size of $50,000, and posted $315 million in annual turnover. The company says it has recorded no non-payments since it began operating. Done employed more than 250 people across its offices in 2025. Türkiye is the latest addition to a group that already operates in Switzerland, Poland, and Ukraine; the company says it is scoping three further market entries over the next year as it builds out its presence across Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region.

About Done

Done is a global group of companies that has provided logistics, supply chain management, and financing solutions since 2011 and is headquartered in Switzerland. Done offers services to more than 400 SME distributors with operations in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea area (Switzerland, Poland, Türkiye, Ukraine). The founder of the group is Dmitrii Rivkin. Its Turkish business is led by CEO Filiz Ünal, with Anton Skorobogatov, a member of the board of Done Türkiye. The group has run more than 4,000 trade transactions in 2025 with 1,808 suppliers for 417 clients and manufacturers across the globe. For more information, visit done.swiss.

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Tetiana Kazanzhy
marketing@done.partners

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s historic gateway to the Red Sea, is preparing to host the inaugural Red Sea Yacht Show from Oct. 14–17, 2027, at Jeddah Yacht Club & Marina. The event represents a significant step in positioning the city on the global map of luxury yachting and marine tourism, while bringing leading international brands, yacht owners, investors, and industry specialists to one of the world’s most distinctive emerging destinations.

The project’s international journey began in Monaco in Sept. 2026, where Tahaluf and Sela signed an agreement to develop and deliver the new show. The signing was attended by His Royal Highness Prince Saud bin Mishal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Governor of the Makkah Region, who will serve as Chairman of the Red Sea Yacht Show Host Committee.

Under the partnership, Tahaluf and Sela are drawing on international expertise associated with the Monaco Yacht Show while creating a distinctly Saudi experience shaped by Jeddah’s character, hospitality, and maritime heritage. The collaboration is designed to connect the global yachting industry with Saudi businesses and introduce international owners and visitors to the expanding network of marine and tourism destinations across the Red Sea.

Mike Champion, Chief Executive Officer of Tahaluf, said: “The ambition extends far beyond organising a traditional yacht exhibition. The Red Sea Yacht Show is being developed as an international platform connecting the global yachting community with Saudi Arabia’s growing luxury tourism and marine services sectors, opening opportunities for local companies and strengthening the potential for long-term commercial and investment partnerships."

Champion added: “The choice of Jeddah reflects the city’s strategic position on the Red Sea, its established role as an international gateway, and the strength of its marine, tourism, and hospitality offering. Together with continuing investment in infrastructure and destinations across the Red Sea region, these advantages position Jeddah to attract yacht owners, industry leaders, and international visitors."

For Tahaluf, the opportunity also lies in building a sustainable economic ecosystem around the show. Mohaned Mahjoub, Vice President of Tahaluf, said: "The event will connect international companies operating across the yacht sector with Saudi businesses, supporting cooperation, knowledge transfer and investment in maintenance, fuelling, logistics and other specialised marine services."

“The real opportunity lies in building an integrated ecosystem around the yachts themselves by connecting international operators with local companies working in maintenance, fuelling, logistics and other services. This will enable Saudi companies to participate in a market with significant long-term growth potential," said Mahjoub.

That integrated approach will take the Red Sea Yacht Show beyond the concept of a temporary event. By bringing together yacht owners, builders, brokers, operators, luxury brands, and Saudi companies, the show aims to encourage lasting commercial partnerships and expand the participation of local businesses in the value chains supporting the global marine industry.

The visitor experience is also intended to extend beyond the yachts themselves. Subject to final participation agreements, the show will bring together luxury automobiles, collectible art, fine jewellery, haute couture, and private aviation, creating a carefully curated platform at the intersection of business, tourism, and luxury lifestyle.

Jeddah’s appeal as the host city extends well beyond its marina. The Red Sea’s coral reefs, diving sites, natural landscapes, and maritime heritage offer yacht owners and international visitors experiences beyond a conventional marina stay. This combination of a connected city, a distinctive marine environment, and Saudi hospitality provides the show with an identity rooted in its destination.

Existing infrastructure is supporting that ambition. Jeddah Yacht Club & Marina offers more than 95 berths, while new marina developments along Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea are adding capacity for large yachts. Alongside the growth of tourism destinations, hospitality facilities, and specialised services, these developments are strengthening the region’s appeal as part of international cruising itineraries.

Mahjoub said: “The timing of the show reflects the progress being made across Jeddah and the wider Red Sea region. Infrastructure and tourism projects are creating opportunities that were not available to the same extent only a few years ago, providing a foundation for stronger links between Saudi Arabia and the global yacht industry."

The economic opportunity is expected to extend across tourism, hospitality, transport, marine services, and luxury retail as partnerships develop and international brands and participants prepare for the inaugural edition. Tahaluf’s ambition is to establish a sustainable annual platform that attracts visitors and companies, supports the growth of luxury marine tourism and creates enduring commercial opportunities for Saudi businesses.

Mahjoub stressed: “The show’s success will not be measured solely by attendance during the event. Its longer-term value will be determined by the partnerships it establishes, the opportunities it creates for local companies, and its ability to encourage more international yacht owners to discover Jeddah and the Red Sea as a distinctive global destination."

With its inaugural edition scheduled for Oct. 2027, the Red Sea Yacht Show is now entering a critical development phase. The period ahead will allow the organisers to finalise partnerships, confirm participating brands, and create an experience that reflects Jeddah’s international ambitions and the rapid transformation of Saudi Arabia’s tourism and marine sectors.

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Ema Linaker
ema@brandlinksme.com

ISTANBUL, Türkiye, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- ASMED Surgical Medical Center announced that its founder and medical director, Dr. Koray Erdoğan, will speak at the 10th World FUE Institute Workshop, scheduled for April 21–24, 2027, in Lima, Peru.

The four-day event will bring together hair-restoration professionals for scientific exchange and hands-on learning, according to the organizer's announcement. It will be the institute's tenth workshop edition.

The World FUE Institute (WFI) is an international organization focused on education and knowledge exchange in follicular unit extraction, or FUE. Its activities include research, practical workshops, and educational programs, bringing physicians together to share experience in hair-restoration surgery.

Erdoğan founded ASMED in 2001 and has performed follicular unit extraction, or FUE, since 2004. His professional profile at the International Alliance of Hair Restoration Surgeons records that he co-founded the World FUE Institute in 2016, initially serving as vice president and later as president. He remains listed among the institute's founding members.

The workshop series began in Tenerife, Spain, in November 2016. Subsequent editions have included Istanbul in 2022 and São Paulo, Brazil, in 2025, followed by Limassol, Cyprus, in 2026. The Lima event will continue the series in South America.

Erdoğan attended the ninth workshop in Limassol on May 13–16, 2026. The institute's official photo archive documents that meeting, with galleries from the four workshop days. His speaking engagement in Lima will continue his participation in the institute's international events.

At ASMED in Istanbul, Erdoğan's approach to natural-looking hair transplant results considers hairline design, donor supply, and possible future hair loss together before treatment.

For patients comparing hair transplant clinics and surgeons in Türkiye, ASMED's hair transplant approach explains how individual hair characteristics inform a proposed graft count and coverage plan. It also describes Erdoğan's personal role in consultation, surgical planning, and recipient-site creation.

About ASMED

ASMED Surgical Medical Center is a hair-transplant clinic in Istanbul, Türkiye, founded by Dr. Koray Erdoğan. Its approach aims to achieve natural-looking hair transplant results while considering donor capacity, individualized hairline design, and possible future hair loss. For more information, visit hairtransplantfue.org.

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Eren Tatar
Reputo Digital
info@reputodigital.com

NEW YORK, NY, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, female-owned and led agency YARD NYC is hijacking one of the internet’s most familiar requests, "Send Nudes," asking women to take topless selfies — for themselves. The purpose? To track visual changes in the breasts, which can be an early indicator of breast cancer. YARD NYC is on a mission to empower a new generation of women with awareness and resources at a time when breast cancer is more commonly affecting women under the age of 50.

Based on research published in the World Journal of Clinical Oncology showing that 62.6% of women are not confident they would notice a change in their breasts, the grassroots campaign is asking women to "Send Nudes" to themselves every six months as a reference for any visual changes and hopefully early detection. 

"We know every line on our face, every gray hair on our heads, every squish on our bellies," said Ruth Bernstein, CEO of YARD NYC. "Culturally, we're obsessed with all these other bodily changes, but we don't even notice our own tits. So what if we turned the familiar language of sending nudes into a reminder to know your own boobs?"

American Cancer Society research shows that breast cancer rates are rising twice as fast among women under 50 than women aged 50 and older, and research from the American Public Health Association found that 80%–85% of women diagnosed have no family history of breast cancer. Furthermore, women in their 30s tend to think of breast cancer as an "older" woman's problem. But as breast cancer rates rise, YARD NYC is calling on women to save some topless pics, and pay closer attention.

"Breast cancer awareness has a long history of telling women what to worry about. We wanted to give them something to actually do. And to reach a younger generation in a language that feels relevant to them, not like another health warning," said Caroline Seklir, Head of Strategy at YARD NYC. "The idea is that we're normalizing this for a new generation of women that are coming of age in a selfie-driven world, and giving them the power of awareness on their own terms — long before they're of age for a mammogram."

The eye-catching campaign centers on wild postings throughout NYC, which plasters "SEND NUDES" and a QR code on busy intersections like North 7th and Bedford in Williamsburg and near Dimes Square in the Lower East Side. The QR code leads to a campaign landing page at sendnudestoyourself.com that reveals the real recipient of the nudes: yourself, and links to breast health resources for visible signs and symptoms such as unexplained change in size or shape, dimpling anywhere on the breast, and discharge from the nipple, among other signs.

"Send Nudes" is live now through the end of October. In addition to OOH and a dedicated website, YARD NYC is taking to social media to drive online support and is launching limited-edition stickers and merch that mimic dating culture's "You Up?", "Pic?", and more as prompts for women to Send Nudes.

About YARD NYC

YARD NYC is an independent, female-led, creative company that turns brands into beacons of change that move people, businesses, and the world. 

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Lindsey Schreiber
Toni Lee Communications
lindsey@tonileepr.com

NEW YORK, NY, October 26, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Lucra, the leading social competition platform, today announced a partnership with Devilfish, the skill-based competition platform where every player faces the same challenge, highest score wins. Through Lucra’s plug-and-play SDK, Devilfish will add real-money peer-vs-peer matches and real-money tournaments to the mini-games already live on its platform. Devilfish’s community of more than 30,000 customers will be able to compete for cash prizes across the United States.

CRWN, the mobile games studio Lucra invested in earlier this year, builds the 90-second, skill-based mini-games in Devilfish’s free-to-play library. With Lucra’s SDK, those same games will support real-money play, and Lucra handles the identity verification, payments, compliance, fraud prevention, and settlement behind it.

Devilfish has built its platform around identity and progression. Players build custom avatars from more than 100 backgrounds, outfits, and traits, then take them into skill competitions. Their avatars appear on the platform’s live plays feed and leaderboards. Players can also join clubs, and Devilfish’s Discord community has grown past 11,000 members.

The Lucra integration introduces two real-money formats on top of that foundation. In peer-vs-peer play, two players go head-to-head on the same CRWN game, and the higher score takes the prize. In tournaments, players enter a shared field, climb a live leaderboard, and compete for a prize pool paid out to the top finishers. Free-to-play competition remains open to every Devilfish player.

“Devilfish did the hard part. They brought CRWN’s games to a community that shows up to compete and cares about where they rank,” said Dylan Robbins, Founder and CEO of Lucra. “Adding real-money play is a short path when the games are running on the platform. Players get to put something behind the scores they’re chasing, and Devilfish gets a monetization layer built for the games its community loves. That’s the advantage of building the content and the competition infrastructure together.”

“We built Devilfish around a simple idea: everyone plays the same challenge, and the highest score wins,” said JJ Williams, Founder and CEO of Devilfish. “Our players already love the skill-based games and push each other up the leaderboards every day. Lucra lets us put real-money infrastructure behind that competition, head-to-head or in tournaments, without changing the games our community already plays. We get to stay focused on the player experience, from the avatars they build to the clubs they compete with, while Lucra handles everything behind the scenes.”

The partnership extends Lucra’s mini-games momentum across digital platforms and shows how partners running CRWN titles can move from free-to-play to real-money competition. Real-money peer-vs-peer matches and tournaments will be available on Devilfish in the U.S. where permitted by law this winter, with a mobile app under development.

About Lucra

Lucra powers competitive loyalty through a plug-and-play SDK, which integrates into apps or websites and enables tournaments, mini-games, and peer-vs-peer competitions, with real-money or rewards. It handles compliance, payments, fraud prevention, and settlement out of the box, so partners can instantly offer gamified experiences without building or managing complex infrastructure themselves. Top entertainment, hospitality, and consumer brands, including Five Iron Golf, Backyard Sports, ChessKings, TouchTunes, and more, use Lucra's white-label technology to power tournaments and challenges, build loyalty, and drive new revenue. Learn more at playlucra.com.

About Devilfish

Devilfish is a skill-based competition platform where every player faces the same challenge, and the highest score wins. Players build custom avatars from more than 100 items, join clubs, and compete on live leaderboards. Devilfish’s community includes more than 30,000 customers and over 11,000 Discord members. Learn more at www.devilfish.com.

Disclaimer

Real-money matches, tournaments, and cash prize competitions powered by Lucra are available only to eligible participants who are at least 18 years of age (or the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction) and residing in U.S. states where skill-based cash contests are permitted by law. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. Lucra handles identity verification, age gating, geolocation compliance, and payment processing to ensure adherence to applicable state and federal regulations.

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WUHU, China, October 24, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Chery is embracing artificial intelligence to fundamentally transform its business. As outlined in its long-term vision: "By 2035, Chery will evolve from a traditional automaker into a high-tech extensive ecosystem cluster, and we hope this transformation will, in turn, help change the world."

On Oct. 23, at the theme conference of the 2026 Chery International User Summit, Chery set out the implementation path for its Globalisation 3.0 phase to more than 2,000 users and partners from around the world. The strategy centers on restructuring its organisation, moving its focus forward, and integrating into local markets. Supported by verifiable green and intelligent technologies and a full-lifecycle model of user co-creation, Chery aims to become an integral part of local communities and deliver future living experiences tailored to the diverse needs of global markets.

From Global Product Presence to Deep Global Integration: Chery Strengthens Its Roots in Local Markets

AI is driving Chery into the era of Globalisation 3.0, marking not only a technology-driven business transformation but also a fundamental shift in its global organisational structure and development philosophy. Guided by the principle of looking at the world from China and looking at China from host countries, Chery seeks to better understand and serve diverse markets by embracing local customs, cultures, lifestyles, and practical needs. As Chery advocates, "In somewhere, for somewhere, be somewhere." Globalisation 3.0 is not only about selling products worldwide, but about taking root in and integrating into local markets.

Building on its product and service network spanning more than 130 countries and regions, Chery continues to advance local R&D, manufacturing, and procurement, actively participating in local economic development by creating jobs and contributing tax revenue. From bringing products into markets to integrating its organisation deeply into local markets, Chery hopes to become a corporate citizen and brand respected by local society, building long-term mutual trust with local users, partners, and communities and sharing the fruits of development.

Building the Greener Future with Global Partners

As global climate change and advances in digital technology continue to reshape the industrial landscape, Chery is integrating the philosophy of sustainable development into its global business footprint. During the summit, Chery showcased its sustainability practices and explorations while further encouraging global ecosystem partners to take part in sustainability action. Representatives of partners from Spain, the United Kingdom, Türkiye, South Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, Canada, and other countries and regions jointly launched the "One Nature, One Future" initiative, calling on others to join Chery in focusing on five nature conservation themes — people, land, water, oceans, and climate — and turning shared commitments to nature into concrete action.

Turning Sustainability Commitments into Action with UNICEF and IUCN

In addition, during the summit, Ariela Ann McDonald, regional communications lead for Asia at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), shared the story of the global "Cherish the Nature" partnership between IUCN and Chery since 2024. Silvia Danailov, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) representative in Vietnam, shared progress on the children's education programmes that UNICEF has carried out with the support of Chery Group in multiple countries, including Vietnam. UNICEF does not endorse any company, brand, product, or service.

With nature conservation and empowerment through education as the respective focal points of these partnerships, Chery is actively addressing long-term environmental protection and community development needs while serving users worldwide.

Expanding Global User Co-Creation Through Open Ecosystem Collaboration

Chery has long been committed to respecting its users and has won their trust. Chery currently has more than 20 million users worldwide and is extending users' role from people who experience its products to ecosystem co-creation partners. For key opinion leaders (KOLs), key opinion consumers (KOCs), and a wide range of ecosystem partners, Chery is actively exploring new models for opening up ecosystem resources and business collaboration, turning high-tech innovations into practical products that meet user needs. This approach enables more partners to participate in improving product experiences, content communication, and ecosystem value creation. By opening up channels for collaboration, Chery hopes to ensure that technological innovation not only drives product upgrades but also creates new business development opportunities for its partners.

In 2027, Chery will celebrate its 30th anniversary. Standing at this new stage of development, Chery looks forward to working with global partners to embrace the opportunities presented by AI, explore new possibilities for collaboration through innovative thinking, combine technological development with user needs, create new growth opportunities through ecosystem collaboration, and enable technology to better serve people's future lives.

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wangxingchen1@mychery.com

KYIV, Ukraine, October 23, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has commissioned Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) to register information concerning a complaint filed on behalf of Alona Shevtsova, a financial technology executive and CEO of Sends. The decision states the procedural steps required for the complaint to be entered into the formal investigative process, according to media reports from UA.NEWS.

Court Decision and Procedural Requirements

According to public court records, Investigative Judge Oleksiy Sokolov granted the application following a complaint submitted electronically on March 19, 2026.

The court directed the SBI to enter the relevant information into Ukraine’s Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations and provide the complainant with an official extract confirming registration. The decision took effect upon announcement and was reported as final and not subject to appeal.

Understanding the Registration Process

Ukraine’s Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations is the official statutory database for recording information concerning reported criminal offenses and procedural filings.

Registration represents a formal administrative step under Ukrainian law that enables competent investigative authorities to examine submitted information. The court’s decision addresses the registration obligation of the SBI and does not constitute a determination regarding the substance, merits, or validity of the information submitted. Any further examination of the circumstances described in the complaint falls strictly within the authority of relevant law enforcement bodies.

About Sends

Sends is a global payments and financial infrastructure platform offering multi-currency accounts, digital wallet support, and cross-border payment solutions for businesses and individuals. For more information, visit sends.co.

Disclaimer

Legal & Procedural Notice: This press release is issued for informational purposes regarding a procedural matter within the judicial system of Ukraine. The direction to register a complaint in Ukraine’s Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations is a standard statutory procedure under Ukrainian law and does not constitute a judicial ruling, legal finding, determination of guilt or innocence, exoneration, or confirmation of the validity or substance of any allegations. All individuals and entities mentioned retain the presumption of innocence under applicable law unless proven otherwise in a court of law. This release reflects information reported from public court records and third-party media sources; readers and news organizations are advised to independently verify official filings directly through public judicial records.

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press@sends.co

IVGID, NV, October 23, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Coco Coders, the education technology company that has taught coding to more than 25,000 children and counting, is announcing the launch of AI Adventurers, a six-week standalone course taught live online in small groups that carries its coding curriculum into AI literacy. Enrollment is currently open through the Coco Coders enrollment page.

Children now encounter AI in their homework apps, search results, games, and voice assistants often long before they develop the wherewithal to understand how those systems generate answers or why those answers can be wrong. A 2025 study by Google and Livity found that 88% of teens ages 13 to 15 already use AI tools for learning and creative tasks at least a couple of times a week, and 63% of respondents to the European Commission's 2025 Flash Eurobarometer survey agreed that everyone will need to be AI literate by 2030, according to the AI Literacy Framework developed by the European Commission and the OECD. 

Coco Coders was created around the idea that coding is the foundation of AI literacy, and by learning how to code, children are better prepared to enter a society and work with AI tools responsibly and intelligently. The AI Adventurers class focuses on demystifying how AI systems work: how the models learn, why they can sound confident while being mistaken, and how to push back on what they produce.

Elizabeth Tweedale, founder and CEO of Coco Coders, describes the course as "the next evolutionary step" for a company she calls "a domain expert in teaching kids how to code." She explains that the team's experience teaching children to code is foundational to understanding AI, and that the course gives kids the grounding to interact with the AI tools all around them, including knowing what to trust, what not to trust, and how to question those tools and eventually build their own. 

"Our aim is for students to leave with the skills to use AI tools safely, confidently and effectively, as we believe this is a core skill they'll need for the future of school, work, and life," said Tweedale. 

Across six weekly one-hour sessions that are highly interactive and project-based, students use a kid-safe chatbot to create stories and comics, train their own classification model using machine learning, and build a portfolio showcasing both what they made and the core AI literacy concepts they have learned along the way. The course covers what AI is and how it works in general terms, how to use it safely and effectively, and how to evaluate and improve its outputs through prompting. Each week, students guide their work with a four-step mantra that shares the company's name:

• C: Choose your goal (Decide what you are trying to make, solve, or discover).
• O: Observe the output (Check what the AI produced, whether it followed instructions, and what seems surprising, useful, or wrong).
• C: Challenge the output (Ask whether it is true, fair, safe, and appropriate to use or share, and whether any information is private).
• O: Own the work (Make the final decisions, adding your own thinking, changing what you do not like, and being honest about where AI helped).

About Coco Coders

Coco Coders is a live online coding and AI literacy program for children ages 6–14, serving students across all 50 states, the U.K., and more than 10 countries. The program offers rotating, themed modules that connect coding and AI to real-world industries and careers, with a curriculum designed to accommodate all learning styles. For more information, visit cococoders.com.

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elizabeth@cococoders.com

RALEIGH, NC, October 23, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- BrandBossHQ founder and CEO Bill Harper has been named No. 12 on Favikon’s "Top 20 Branding Experts in the United States (2026)," placing ahead of David Aaker — the academic widely regarded as the father of modern branding. The recognition comes as McKinsey’s "State of Marketing 2026," a survey of 500 senior marketers, ranks brand investment as the number one priority out of 20 measured areas, marking a broad industry correction away from performance-heavy strategies toward long-term brand fundamentals.

Harper has spent more than a decade arguing that most businesses are solving the wrong problem. His Raleigh-based consultancy, BrandBossHQ, leads every client engagement with customer research and brand strategy before any creative or tactical work begins. But it was not a whitepaper or a conference keynote that first put his thinking in front of a national audience. It was a story about a tow truck.

The premise is simple. A driver is stranded on the side of the road, running late, stressed, and dependent on a stranger for help. Two tow truck drivers respond. The first says: “We have more than 25 years of experience, extensive training, and proprietary equipment.” The second says: “Our motto is to get you back on the road in 15 minutes or less. We know you have things to do.”

Same truck. Same expertise. A completely different experience.

Harper developed the parable as a teaching device for client presentations, most notably a session with the leadership team at BlueCross NC, where a room full of senior executives went quiet as they recognized they had been communicating from entirely the wrong side of the transaction. When he later posted the story on TikTok under @brandbosshq, it drew more than 21,000 likes, prompted requests for translated versions from viewers as far as Germany, and was picked up by marketers and business educators across the United States as one of the clearest single explanations of the difference between advertising and branding available.

“Nobody cares if you have the best product,” Harper said. “The story behind your product will always be what sells it more than what it actually is. Most businesses describe what they do in the language that makes sense inside their own building — and their customer is standing on the side of the road, not listening.”

The tow truck story is not just a piece of content. It is the clearest expression of the principle that underpins everything BrandBossHQ does: that the gap between how a brand sees itself and how a customer actually experiences their own problem is where most marketing fails and where the right story wins.

BrandBossHQ’s flagship Brand Story Development engagement runs for three months and delivers customer research, a defined target audience profile, brand language, and two full creative campaign options. Research and strategy precede every creative decision a sequence that Harper describes as non-negotiable.

“Most businesses don’t have a marketing problem,” Harper said. “They have a positioning problem. They skip research, skip strategy, and go straight to tactics and then wonder why they’re spending more every quarter for the same result.”

Harper’s Favikon ranking and the broader market data both point to the same conclusion. WARC’s "Multiplier Playbook" (May 2026) found that while 67% of marketers say their CEO considers brand important, only 19% of C-suites can routinely connect brand equity to measurable business outcomes. The stranded motorist in Harper’s parable already understood what the data is now confirming: credentials do not close the distance between a brand and its customer. The right story does.

BrandBossHQ is currently accepting new client engagements for Q1 2027.

About BrandBossHQ

BrandBossHQ is a brand strategy and advertising consultancy founded by Bill Harper. The agency specializes in research-first brand development for companies at growth inflection points, delivering customer research, strategic positioning, brand language, and creative campaign development. For more information, visit brandbosshq.com.

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Bill Harper
bill.harper@brandbosshq.com

SHENZHEN, China, October 23, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- At the recent RISC-V Summit China 2026, SpacemiT introduced the V100, a 46-core RISC‑V server CPU designed for general-purpose data center computing, AI agent infrastructure, and AI acceleration. Announced at RISC‑V Summit China 2026, the processor launches alongside three server platforms for compute, AI, and storage workloads.

Speaking at the summit, RISC‑V International CEO Andrea Gallo highlighted the architecture’s growing role in AI computing and data centers. “RISC‑V supports AI training and inference in data centers,” he said. “RISC‑V is the architecture for intelligent computing.”

According to SpacemiT, V100 is the industry’s first general-purpose processor to fully comply with the RISC‑V server specifications, with native support for mainstream server operating systems and virtualization stacks. Its implementation covers the RVA23 Profile, the RISC‑V Server SoC and Server Platform specifications, Boot and Runtime Services (BRS), and the RISC‑V Security Model. The company says V100 has passed all BRS compliance tests and allows users to install, boot, and run mainstream Linux distributions directly on V100 systems.

“V100 is an important step for SpacemiT as we expand from devices to the cloud,” said Zhijian Chen, the company’s founder and CEO. “It also reflects RISC‑V’s progress toward real-world data center deployments at scale.”

Server hardware and system options

Introduced jointly by SpacemiT and the XiangShan team, V100 combines six XiangShan Kunminghu V2R2 cores with 40 of SpacemiT’s own X100 cores. The heterogeneous 46-core design supports clock speeds of up to 2.4 GHz, while a cache-coherent interconnect enables dual-socket configurations with up to 92 cores.

Each processor supports eight DDR5 memory channels and 52 PCIe 5.0 lanes for connecting AI accelerators, high-speed network adapters, and storage devices.

V100 provides hardware-assisted CPU, interrupt, and I/O virtualization. SpacemiT says the platform works with upstream Linux KVM without requiring a custom kernel. The chip also includes a hardware root of trust and server-class reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features.

The accompanying systems are the C2201 computing server, G5201 intelligent computing server, and S5236 storage server, targeting general-purpose computing, AI acceleration, and large-scale data storage, respectively.

The G5201 accommodates eight full-height, full-length, double-width accelerator cards. SpacemiT says it has validated the system with accelerators from Kunlunxin and other vendors. The server also supports RDMA (remote direct memory access) networking for high-speed clusters.

SpacemiT is supplying server motherboard reference designs, firmware, baseboard management controller (BMC) support, and hardware design documentation to help system builders develop servers under their own brands.

Software support and global developer access

SpacemiT says Ubuntu 26.10 officially supports V100. Its work on processor support and toolchain optimization has also been merged into upstream open-source projects, including the Linux kernel and LLVM.

The company is working with Canonical, the RISE Project, and Scaleway to give open-source developers access to RVA23-compatible hardware, contributing K3 compute clusters to shared development infrastructure.

SpacemiT also sponsored DebConf26 in Argentina, supported Debian community testing on the K3 platform, and co-organized the Physical AI Hackathon in Hong Kong for developers worldwide.

Partners including DeepComputing and Banana Pi are bringing K3-based products to international markets. These include mainboards for Framework modular laptops, development boards and compute modules. SpacemiT says international customers have placed orders for both K3 chips and K3-based cluster servers.

In 2026, the company has participated in Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference North America; Ubuntu Summit in London; RISC‑V Summit Europe in Italy; and Linux Plumbers Conference and Open Source Summit Europe in Prague. Its presentations and demonstrations have covered high-performance RISC‑V computing, operating system support, on-device AI and upstream open-source development.

At the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, SpacemiT’s Emotional Companion Robot was featured in the Innovate for Impact collection of case studies. The company also demonstrated K3-based on-device AI applications at the Global Innovation Show (GIS) in Hong Kong.

With K1, K3 and now V100, SpacemiT is extending its product family across devices, edge systems and data centers. Its longer-term strategy brings together processor design, system software, complete systems and international partnerships to build a business around open-architecture computing.

About SpacemiT Technology Co., Ltd.

SpacemiT designs general-purpose processors based on the RISC‑V instruction set architecture. Headquartered in Beijing, the company has R&D centers in Hangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Zhuhai. Its team has extensive experience in CPU architecture, chip development and high-volume production and delivery. The company’s K1, K3 and V100 processor lineup spans devices, edge systems and data centers. SpacemiT develops processors, system software and complete hardware platforms to bring RISC‑V products into volume deployment. It also invests in operating system support, virtualization, compiler toolchains, and open-source software, working with developers and industry partners worldwide to make the open RISC‑V ISA a foundation for future digital infrastructure.

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JINGDEZHEN, China, October 23, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- China News Service (CNS) has released a new report highlighting how Jingdezhen, China’s historic "porcelain capital," is leveraging its millennia-old heritage to power a modern, high-tech industrial cluster and foster a global community of international creators.

The announcement comes following the 2026 Jingdezhen Forum, which opened on Oct. 18, and the concurrent 2026 China Jingdezhen International Ceramic Expo. The events mark the city's first major international gathering since the "Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites" were officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in July 2026 as China’s 61st World Heritage property.

Global Cultural Exchange and Creative Ecosystem

The 2026 Expo convened more than 2,500 guests from over 90 countries and regions, featuring 450 domestic and international companies, 40 international brands, and direct trade matchmaking between nearly 100 overseas buyers and 150 domestic suppliers.

"I cannot think of a more creative city than Jingdezhen," said Tim Winter, Professor at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, noting that the city has successfully fused tradition, innovation, and porcelain-making into a continuous development narrative.

Wang Guangyao, Senior Researcher at the Palace Museum and Executive Director of the Chinese Archaeological Society, emphasized during the forum that Chinese ceramics historically served as a two-way cultural bridge — absorbing raw materials and decorative techniques from abroad while exporting production methods worldwide.

Today, that tradition manifests in a thriving community of over 60,000 migrant artisans ("jingpiao"), including an estimated peak of 5,000 international creators ("yang jingpiao"). Institutions such as the Sanbao International Ceramic Village have hosted more than 20,000 international artists and practitioners over the past two decades.

Key creative highlights from the 2026 Expo included:

• Cross-Cultural Collaborations: International exhibitors, such as Iranian artisan Abed Hashemi, introduced fusion concepts pairing Iranian handcrafted "Mina" enamel ware with Chinese porcelain techniques.
• Next-Gen Design & Tech Integration: Contemporary designers demonstrated plush-toy elements integrated with traditional blue-and-white porcelain, supported by artificial intelligence tools.
• AI & 3D Ceramic Printing: Advanced equipment manufacturers showcased prompt-to-model AI workflows that generate ceramic blanks for traditional kiln firing directly from text or image uploads.

Historic Milestone: Over 100 Billion Yuan Industrial Output

Alongside its cultural expansion, Jingdezhen has undergone a major industrial shift toward advanced ceramics. In 2025, the city's ceramic industry achieved a total output exceeding 102.7 billion yuan (approximately $14.4 billion), becoming China's first single ceramic industrial cluster to cross the 100-billion-yuan threshold.

Advanced ceramics — utilizing synthetic oxide, nitride, and carbide powders for high-precision applications in electronics, equipment manufacturing, new energy, and biomedicine — now account for 34 percent of the city's total output, up from under 10 percent five years ago.

The city’s advanced ceramic enterprise ecosystem has expanded from 86 to 208 active companies, with key high-tech materials like high-purity nano alumina and zirconia ceramic substrates meeting top domestic standards.

Watch the video report: China News Service Coverage

About China News Service (CNS)

CNS is a comprehensive state news agency reporting on major economic, cultural, and industrial developments across China and worldwide.

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KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait, October 23, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Development Holding Company (DH), a Kuwait-based diversified investment group and public holding company focused on building and scaling high-potential businesses, has entered into a binding agreement to acquire a majority 70% shareholding in A23 Football Group Limited, the ownership company of Slough Town Football Club, marking a significant step in DH’s international expansion and its growing interest in the global sports sector.

The partnership brings together DH’s investment and commercial expertise with the ambitions of Slough Town FC, one of English non-league football’s historic community clubs, as it looks to strengthen its sporting foundations, expand its community reach, and build for long-term sustainable growth.

The acquisition will take place through a phased transaction over three years, with DH's shareholding increasing progressively to 70%. The transaction has received all applicable regulatory and football authority approvals.

Founded in 1890 and widely known as "The Rebels," Slough Town has a long history in English football. The club has competed at the highest level of the non-league game, enjoyed memorable FA Cup campaigns and appeared at Wembley Stadium in the 1973 FA Amateur Cup Final.

Under its current leadership, the club has been pursuing a strategy centred on four key pillars — sustainability, talent, fan experience, and community — including strengthening its academy and player development pathways and expanding women’s, youth, and community football.

“Football has always been a personal passion of mine, and I strongly believe in the extraordinary potential of the global sports industry,” said Talal Al Ajmi, founder and Chairman of Development Holding Company.

“As DH continues to diversify its portfolio and expand its international presence, we see Slough Town Football Club as a highly compelling opportunity. It is a historic club with a loyal supporter base, a strong community identity and an ambitious vision for the future, located in a dynamic UK town with considerable economic and social potential.”

Al Ajmi said DH’s approach would focus on responsible, long-term development while preserving the identity and heritage of the club.

“We have great confidence in the team’s capabilities and in the direction established by the club’s leadership. Any future involvement from DH would be guided by a long-term commitment to responsible growth, with the club’s heritage, supporters, and community remaining at the heart of its journey.”

Ashley Smith, CEO of Slough Town FC, said the club had made significant progress since the group took over in 2023, including improvements to its sporting venue, community presence, and academy structure.

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, October 22, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- barq has won the Money20/20 Global Growth Grid award, a new milestone that reflects the company’s rapid growth since its launch and underscores the rising global presence of Saudi fintech companies. The award crowns barq’s exceptional journey, which has placed it among the fastest-growing fintech companies worldwide.

Since launching its services in August 2024, barq has achieved record growth rates. It attracted 1 million users within three weeks and 7 million users by the end of its first year, before its user base exceeded 15 million in just two years. The total value of funds transacted through its platform has surpassed SAR 440 billion, equivalent to approximately USD 120 billion.

barq’s achievements have also extended to investment. The company raised USD 329.5 million in its Series A funding round at a valuation of USD 1.85 billion, marking one of the largest funding rounds in the fintech sector. With this, barq joined the ranks of unicorn companies less than two years after launching its services.

barq continues to strengthen its digital financial ecosystem and expand its services for individuals and businesses. It recently launched its business banking services and received initial approval from the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) to add financing to its activities, a step that supports its drive to offer integrated digital financial solutions that meet the needs of different customer segments.

Looking ahead, barq aims to expand into GCC and regional markets, starting with Pakistan. Its revenues are expected to exceed half a billion U.S. dollars in 2027, and it is targeting IPO readiness by the end of 2028. These goals reflect the company’s ambition to strengthen its regional and global presence and to contribute to Saudi Vision 2030 targets for developing the financial sector and the digital economy.

About barq

barq is a Saudi Arabian financial technology (fintech) and digital wallet service launched by Barraq Finance Company, led by founder and former STC Pay CEO Ahmed Alenazi. Barraq Finance Company is a closed joint-stock company established under the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and registered in the Commercial Register in Riyadh under unified number 7029786717.

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HOUSTON, TX, October 22, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Houston-based personal injury law firm Zehl & Associates announced today that it has surpassed 5,000 clients, representing workers, individuals, and families across the United States and recovering billions of dollars for accident victims. Since its founding in 2002, the firm has remained undefeated in the courtroom while securing many of the largest verdicts and settlements in Texas and U.S. history.

Its disciplined approach has also earned national recognition, with Zehl & Associates repeatedly honored among the nation's leading personal injury law firms and founder and trial lawyer Ryan Zehl consistently recognized by his peers as one of the country's top trial lawyers.

"People call us on the worst day of their lives," said Zehl. "They're grieving, they're frightened about how they'll pay the bills, and companies or insurance adjusters are often pressuring them before they’ve had the chance to understand their rights or speak with a lawyer."

Few people ever imagine walking into a trial lawyer's office. Yet behind every case is a larger question about responsibility, accountability, and whether preventable harm will lead to meaningful change. That's the question Zehl set out to answer when he founded Zehl & Associates in 2002. He believes injured families deserve the same level of preparation, resources, and advocacy as the corporations and insurance companies on the other side of the courtroom.

"I wanted to build a firm that could go toe to toe with the largest corporations in the world and never be outspent, outworked, or outlasted," said Zehl. "I wanted to build the counterweight."

It's why Zehl & Associates carefully selects cases involving preventable negligence. When staffing cases, the firm invests in the experts and science that will allow clients to receive the answers and justice they deserve.

"Cases are won in the documents, the depositions, and the science," Zehl explained. "By the time we walk into trial, the outcome has usually already been earned."

Consequential Behavior

For Zehl, another purpose of civil litigation is to ensure preventable harm does not end with a single verdict. In many cases, he believes the civil justice system is one of the few mechanisms capable of requiring powerful companies and organizations to answer publicly for the decisions they make. Accountability, he believes, should encourage safer practices, better decisions, and a greater commitment to protecting others.

As Zehl put it, "When companies know they'll be held responsible for cutting corners, they're far more likely to invest in doing things the right way."

For all the complexity of high-stakes litigation, Zehl never loses sight of the families who turn to his firm for straightforward answers, honest guidance, and an advocate willing to shoulder the legal burden while they focus on healing. For him, the true measure of every case extends well beyond the verdict to what it allows a family to rebuild in the years that follow.

"Ordinary people are far stronger than they get credit for," Zehl concluded. "I've watched clients lose a spouse, a child, their health, and livelihood — and still find a way to rebuild. They don’t want pity, charity, or a windfall. They want the truth and justice they need and deserve to move forward with their lives."

About Zehl & Associates

Founded in 2002, Zehl & Associates is an undefeated personal injury law firm with offices in Houston, Midland, Dallas, and San Antonio that has earned a reputation for recovering record-breaking verdicts and settlements for its clients. The firm's practice areas include truck and 18-wheeler accidents, oilfield, maritime and refinery accidents, and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. Zehl & Associates has won billions for accident victims across Texas and the United States. For more information, visit zehllaw.com.

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