Seaspan Becomes First International Ship Owner and Operator to Access China’s Panda Bond Market

SINGAPORE, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Seaspan Corporation Pte. Ltd. (“Seaspan”), a leading independent maritime asset owner and operator, is pleased to announce the successful issuance of a RMB 1.5 billion Panda Bond in China’s domestic bond market.

The three-year private placement note was issued on July 15, 2026, with a coupon rate of 2.50% per annum. The offering was oversubscribed by Chinese onshore and international investors with a book coverage ratio of 2.3 times.

The transaction is a significant milestone for Seaspan as the first international ship owner and operator to successfully access the Panda Bond market.

Beyond establishing a new funding channel, the transaction supports Seaspan’s strategy to diversify its sources of capital and broaden its access to unsecured debt, strengthening the company’s ability to invest in its fleet, pursue growth opportunities, and create long-term value for customers and stakeholders.

“The issuance demonstrates the confidence that investors have in Seaspan’s credit quality, business model, strong financial profile, and sustainable growth strategy,” said Andreas Brauch, Chief Financial Officer. “Expanding our access to China’s domestic capital markets further diversifies our funding sources and improves our access to cost-efficient capital, enhancing our long-term growth objectives to support our customers with one of the world’s largest and most modern fleets.”

The Panda Bond issuance marks an important highpoint in Seaspan’s participation in Chinese capital markets, where the company has strategic partnerships across the maritime ecosystem, including chartering, shipbuilding, financing, and maritime services.

About Seaspan Corporation Pte. Ltd.

Seaspan is the world’s leading maritime asset-owner and operator focused on long-term, fixed-rate leases to the world’s most prominent shipping lines. As of June 30, 2026, Seaspan’s operating fleet consisted of 247 vessels, pro forma for undelivered newbuilds (including four Pure Car, Truck Carriers, five Very Large Ethane Carriers and four Open Hatch Gantry Crane vessels), with a total fleet capacity of approximately 2.5 million TEU on a fully delivered basis. 

Media Contact: Cailey Murphy, Head of Corporate Communications, Seaspan Corporation Pte. Ltd., communications@seaspancorp.com

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Solidion Technology Achieves Dramatic Balance Sheet Improvement, Increased Revenues

Private Placement Eliminates Balance Sheet Overhang and Alleviates Previously Disclosed Going Concern Doubt

DALLAS, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Solidion Technology Inc. (“Solidion” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: STI), an advanced battery technology solutions provider, today has released Second Quarter 2026 Financial and Operating Results. The condensed consolidated financial statements of Solidion and additional information can be found in Solidion’s Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, August 6, 2026 (the “Form 10-Q”). This earnings release should be read together with the information contained in the Form 10-Q.

Previously Announced Recent Business Highlights   

Business Development

• Successful demonstration of a high-power 9.5Ah pouch cell designed for industrial and military drone applications. The prototype delivered exceptional power stability, retaining approximately 95% of its capacity at a 10C discharge rate, a significant improvement over typical market pouch cells, which average 78% retention at 5C. Solidion expects to make the pouch cell commercially available in Q2 2026. Solidion is working toward commercial availability of the pouch cell and will provide updates as development progresses.

• The Company unveiled its new PEAK Series, an advanced UPS battery system engineered specifically for AI data centers, leveraging the Company’s high-performance 5500 silicon-carbon anode cell. The system delivers up to 30% space savings, significantly lower total cost of ownership, and up to three times longer life than conventional backup solutions. Commercial availability is expected in 2026, with Solidion currently working with select data center partners on early integration and testing.

Technological Advancements, Business Development and Corporate Updates:

• $35 Million Private Placement (June 7, 2026): Solidion announced a securities purchase agreement with a new institutional investor for 750,000 shares of common stock and pre-funded warrants to purchase 1,583,000 shares in a private placement priced above market under Nasdaq rules, generating $35 million in gross proceeds and closing on June 9, 2026. Net proceeds are earmarked to accelerate commercialization of the Company’s patented Extreme-Climate Battery technology, fulfill customer demand, expand inventory, advance prototype development, and support general working capital needs, with Titan Partners, a division of American Capital Partners, serving as sole placement agent.

• Gen-ECB / Space Battery Technology (June 4, 2026): Solidion unveiled its patented Generation Extreme-Climate Battery (Gen-ECB) platform, engineered to power satellites, LEO-based AI data centers, crewed spacecraft, and future lunar infrastructure as commercial space activity accelerates. The technology leverages graphene’s thermal conductivity and radiation resistance to actively manage cell temperature, enabling reliable operation from −80°C to +60°C and demonstrating over 500 charge cycles at −40°C — a key durability benchmark for missions like NASA’s Artemis program. Paired with the Company’s silicon-rich solid-state, anode-less lithium metal, and lithium-sulfur chemistries (targeting 380+ Wh/kg), the platform positions Solidion — backed by its 385+ patent portfolio — to supply high-reliability, domestically sourced power storage for satellites, Starship operations, and lunar surface systems, diversifying its revenue opportunity alongside its existing EV and AI data center UPS markets.

• The Company previously announced that it has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with an entity that manufactures and distributes energy storage systems.

• The Company has been awarded a grant to advance research and development of Electrochemical Manufacturing of High-Performance Graphite Based on Biomass-Derived Carbon. This award is one of the projects funded by ARPA-E, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, from their highly competitive OPEN program.

• The Company has been awarded a grant to scale up the synthesis of a carbon-nanosphere material that will be used as an anti-corrosive additive in molten-salts-based heat transfer fluids for advanced molten salt nuclear reactors from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

• The Company has been awarded a grant to develop an advanced fiber-based electronic battery system built on a coaxial carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn architecture from the U.S. Department of War/Army STTR Program.

• Solidion Technology completed a major restructuring of its August 2024 equity financing, eliminating all Series C and D Pre-Funded Warrants, along with the corresponding derivative liability, significantly strengthening the balance sheet and reducing future dilution risk. Long-term investors Madison Bond LLC and Bayside Project LLC converted their entire warrant allocation into common stock, and agreed to lock-up restrictions on those shares, subject to certain exceptions, which supports shareholder alignment and Solidion’s long-term growth strategy.

CEO Statement:

“Solidion’s much improved balance sheet reflects the commitment of long term shareholders and reaffirms the strategy of building an organization that can compete revenue wise,” said Jaymes Winters, Chief Executive Officer of Solidion Technology.

Q2 2026 Financial Highlights

• $27.7 million in cash and cash equivalents at June 30, 2026, compared to $0.2 million at December 31, 2025. Following the completion of the private placement, the substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern previously disclosed has been alleviated.

• $124,914 in revenue from government grants and delivery of Solidion’s proprietary silicon anode products.

• $1.4 million loss from continuing operations, reflecting decreased spending on professional services and other public company expenses.

• Net Loss of $2.9 million, or $0.35 per basic share, including a non-cash loss of $0.9 million related to change in fair value of derivatives.

See below for additional information on Solidion’s operational results:

Summary of Statements of Operations for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 and 2025

Net Sales

Net sales increased by $120,914 for the three months ended June 30, 2026, to $124,914, compared to $4,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2025. The increase was primarily attributable to government grant revenue recognized during the period.

Operating Expenses

Operating expenses decreased by $296,546 for the three months ended June 30, 2026. This decrease was primarily driven by lower general and administrative costs, including reduced personnel and professional services expenses. Additionally, there were decreased research and development costs, including personnel expenses associated with the commercialization of our battery cell products and third-party validation testing of our proprietary silicon anode.

Other Income (Expense)

Other expense increased by $1,192,684 for the three months ended June 30, 2026. This increase was largely driven by a loss of $917,780 due to a change in the fair value of derivative liabilities related to the Forward Purchase Agreement and warrants related to the March private placement financing, compared to a loss of $216,150 in the three months ended June 30, 2025. Other expense for the quarter also included a $549,915 non-cash write-off of deferred offering costs associated with a registration statement the Company withdrew in June 2026, and interest expense of $153,597 primarily related to the Company’s short-term notes.

About Solidion Technology, Inc.

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas with pilot production facilities in Dayton, Ohio, Solidion’s (NASDAQ: STI) core business includes manufacturing of battery materials and components, as well as development and production of next-generation batteries for energy storage systems, including UPS systems serving the artificial intelligence (AI) data center market and electric vehicles for ground, aerospace, and sea transportation. Solidion holds a portfolio of over 385 patents, covering innovations such as high-capacity, silane gas free and graphene-enabled silicon anodes, biomass-based graphite, advanced lithium-sulfur and lithium-metal technologies.

For more information, please visit www.solidiontech.com or contact Investor Relations.

Forward-Looking Statements 

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FP Markets Analysis: Japanese Yen at a Crossroads as Markets Weigh Next Move

The yen has been here before — will history repeat itself, or is this time genuinely different?

LIMASSOL, Cyprus, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Japanese yen remains a widely discussed currency following a coordinated, record-setting US-Japan intervention that began on 30 July. Before the intervention, USD/JPY was trading near ¥164 – a 40-year low for the yen.

The initial intervention weighed on USD/JPY, triggering losses of more than 400 pips (-2.4%) in a single day, with further intervention on 31 July prompting another 200-pip decline. Despite a tentative recovery from ¥155 to approximately ¥158 – the underside of the pair’s 200-day SMA – market participants are understandably on edge, as both US and Japanese officials have said they are prepared to intervene again if needed.

Japan has intervened on several occasions since 2022, but coordinated action with the US has been rare, most notably in the late 1990s and again in 2011. Both prior joint interventions marked turning points in the USD/JPY trend.

The question is why the US and Japan joined forces now. The US involvement was primarily to prevent a destabilising spike in domestic bond yields. As the largest foreign holder of US government debt, Japan typically finances interventions by selling Treasury holdings. To shield the bond market from a sell-off, the US Treasury financed its share by selling euros from reserves to buy yen.

FP Markets Chief Market Analyst Aaron Hill commented: ‘To prevent the yen from weakening further, intervention alone is unlikely to be sufficient. The BoJ would need to get involved, increasing the policy rate a few more times to send a serious signal to the market. But to keep the JPY structurally bid, it would also likely need an exogenous catalyst that incentivises repatriation back into the yen to put this capital to work on home soil. Without this, USD/JPY dip-buyers could emerge and target pre-intervention levels in the not-so-distant future’.

With volatility expected to remain elevated, access to reliable pricing, 24/7 customer support, fast execution, and an experienced customer support team is key. FP Markets offers competitive spreads, a wide range of FX currency pairs, including an extensive selection of JPY pairs, award-winning trading platforms, and timely market commentary to support traders in responding to fast-moving events such as currency interventions.

About FP Markets:

FP Markets is a global, multi-regulated, award-winning broker established in Sydney, Australia in 2005. The broker offers 10,000+ CFD instruments across seven asset classes, available on industry-leading platforms including MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, TradingView, and cTrader.

FP Markets’ regulatory presence includes the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the Seychelles, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) of South Africa, and the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of Kenya.

For more information, visit www.fpmarkets.com 

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Cyble Says the Future of Endpoint Security Goes Beyond Detection, Unveils the Next Evolution of Titan at Black Hat USA 2026

New release combines silicon-rooted attestation, AI-native threat intelligence, BlazeAI-powered attack reconstruction and autonomous response into a unified endpoint security platform for the AI era.

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cyble today unveiled the next evolution of Cyble Titan at Black Hat USA 2026, introducing silicon-rooted attestation alongside AI-native threat intelligence, BlazeAI-powered attack reconstruction, exposure management and autonomous response in a unified endpoint security platform. Titan helps security teams establish trusted evidence, understand attacks faster and respond with greater confidence.

Cyberattacks have evolved beyond the endpoint. They move across identities, cloud infrastructure, vulnerabilities, external threat ecosystems and increasingly leverage AI. Yet defenders still investigate fragmented telemetry across disconnected tools before understanding the full scope of an attack.

Titan was built for this new reality.

Unlike traditional EDR platforms that begin with operating system telemetry, Titan establishes trust through silicon-rooted attestation, then correlates endpoint activity with Cyble’s AI-native threat intelligence, behavioral analytics, attack path context and BlazeAI-powered attack reconstruction to create a complete Indicator of Attack. Instead of piecing together isolated alerts, analysts receive a unified understanding of the attack and can investigate, prioritize and respond from a single platform.

“EDR changed cybersecurity by helping organizations detect attacks. The next generation of endpoint security will be defined by how quickly security teams can understand those attacks and act with confidence,” said Beenu Arora, Co-Founder and CEO of Cyble. “Titan brings together trusted evidence, intelligence, context and response into one platform, giving defenders the clarity to stay ahead of sophisticated threats.”

The latest release also expands Titan with device controls, exposure management, AI-native threat intelligence and autonomous, auditable response, bringing together capabilities delivered through multiple security products into a single workflow.

Visitors to Booth 6032 can experience Titan live at Black Hat USA 2026, including demonstrations of silicon-rooted attestation, BlazeAI-powered attack reconstruction, AI-native threat intelligence and autonomous response across the attack lifecycle.

Cyble Titan is available today. Sign up at https://titan.cyble.com.

About Cyble

Cyble is an AI-native cybersecurity company delivering unified risk intelligence and decision support to enterprises and government organizations worldwide. Its platform combines threat intelligence, digital risk protection and security operations to provide real-time visibility and actionable insights. By leveraging advanced analytics and automation, Cyble enables organizations to proactively manage risk and strengthen security posture.

Media Contacts:

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Child Care Aware of Missouri Names Director of Scholarships

Dr. Greg Cicotte brings nearly 30 years of early childhood and elementary education experience to the nonprofit.

(St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 6, 2026) Child Care Aware of Missouri (CCAMO) has hired Dr. Greg Cicotte as Director of TEACH Early Childhood Missouri Scholarships. In this role, he will lead scholarship initiatives that strengthen Missouri’s early childhood workforce. Dr. Cicotte will provide strategic leadership and daily oversight for the TEACH Early Childhood Missouri Scholarship Program and the Child Development Associate (CDA) Scholarship Project, including planning, directing, and managing all scholarship operations to ensure high-quality service delivery and full compliance with contract requirements.

Dr. Cicotte brings nearly 30 years of experience in early childhood and elementary education to this position. Prior to joining CCAMO, he served as Director of Early Childhood for the Pattonville School District. Dr. Cicotte has also worked as a principal at both the Parkway and Fort Zumwalt School Districts. He holds a Doctor of Education in Educational Administration and a Master of Arts in Educational Administration from Lindenwood University, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Missouri State University.

TEACH Missouri Scholarships are designed for educators who want to continue their education while remaining employed in the field and is a statewide program aimed at increasing quality child care through education, compensation, and commitment. The CDA Scholarship Project is a nationally recognized credential and often the first step into the early childhood workforce.

“Greg is an educational leader who brings deep experience in both classroom settings and district administration,” said Beth Ann Lang, Deputy CEO of Child Care Aware of Missouri. “His leadership will allow Child Care Aware of Missouri to expand access to scholarships, support more early educators in earning credentials and degrees, and ultimately improve the quality of child care for children and families across our state.”

Founded in 1999, CCAMO is a statewide nonprofit that focuses on a comprehensive early childhood education experience through impactful programs and partnerships. The organization’s services include workforce development, child care business supports, advocacy and policy work, and Child Care Keeps Missouri Working, a regional campaign offering concierge solutions to businesses undergoing employee recruitment and retention challenges due to the overwhelming shortage of quality child care options. For more information, call (314) 535-1458 or visit www.mochildcareaware.org.

AXA XL to acquire S-RM, a global corporate intelligence and cyber security consultancy

LONDON, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AXA XL, which currently holds approximately 49% of S-RM, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining shares of the company. S-RM is a specialist corporate intelligence and cyber security consultancy.

Founded in 2005 and supporting clients in 140 countries, S-RM helps global businesses and investors navigate complex risks through intelligence, cyber security, and crisis response services. Its expertise includes cyber risk assessment, managed detection and incident response, specialist investigations, geopolitical intelligence, and integrity and reputational due diligence.

Building on the long-standing partnership between the two organizations, the acquisition of S-RM will support AXA XL’s strategy to expand its prevention offering. S-RM is expected to continue to deliver services to its global client base as part of AXA XL Risk Advisory, AXA XL’s newly created business unit dedicated to prevention.

Scott Gunter, CEO of AXA XL, commented: “The acquisition of S-RM marks an important step in the buildout of AXA XL Risk Advisory and in our continued efforts to go beyond traditional insurance coverage. Clients are looking for data-driven insights and expert guidance to help them anticipate emerging threats, mitigate risk, and respond quickly when events occur. S-RM’s specialist expertise will help us accelerate that support.”

Libby Benet, CEO of AXA XL Risk Advisory, added: “S-RM brings highly complementary expertise that will strengthen our advisory capabilities and broaden our offering. By bringing together our risk consulting teams, S-RM’s geopolitical intelligence and crisis response expertise, and the technology-enabled solutions of the AXA Digital Commercial Platform, we will be able to help clients build deeper resilience across a wider spectrum of risks.”

Heyrick Bond Gunning, CEO of S-RM, added: “S-RM has worked closely with AXA XL for over 15 years, both as a client and as an investor. This transaction will allow us to continue investing in our prevention services for existing clients, while expanding the reach of those capabilities.”

Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals, and is expected to take place by end of September 2026.

About S-RM

Founded in 2005, S-RM is a specialist in corporate intelligence and cyber security. The firm provides intelligence, resilience and response services to global businesses and investors, helping clients navigate complex risks, strengthen cyber resilience, and respond to crises. S-RM operates across six continents with nine international offices and supports clients in more than 140 countries.

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ABOUT AXA XL

AXA XL, the property & casualty and specialty risk division of AXA, provides insurance and risk management products and services for mid-sized companies through to large multinationals, and reinsurance solutions to insurance companies globally. We partner with those who move the world forward. To learn more, visit www.axaxl.com.

ABOUT AXA XL INSURANCE

AXA XL Insurance offers property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty insurance solutions to mid-sized companies through to large multinationals globally. We partner with those who move the world forward. To learn more, visit www.axaxl.com.

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HTX Launches TradFi Trade to Earn #2: Trade TradFi Assets with Negative Fee Rates and Share an $80,000 Prize Pool

APIA, Samoa, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On August 5, HTX officially launched the second phase of its TradFi Trade to Earn campaign. The event brings together 28 selected TradFi perpetual futures trading pairs across four major asset categories: stocks, indices, commodities, and precious metals. Through a dual-track incentive structure, users can trade with negative fee rates and support $HTX buybacks. With a total prize pool of $80,000, the event allows users to trade popular global TradFi assets while earning substantial rewards.

For full event details, please visit: https://www.htx.com.hr/en-us/support/45040173530399/

Trade U.S. Stock Perps on HTX with Negative Fee Rates

From now until August 15, 11:59 (UTC), users who complete event registration and trade the designated TradFi futures pairs will receive $HTX rewards, calculated as the actual trading fees multiplied by an order reward ratio: 110% for Maker orders and 105% for Taker orders. This means users can trade popular TradFi assets at negative fee rates — the higher the trading volume, the greater the rewards. For high-frequency traders in particular, the trading cost structure and overall trading experience can be significantly improved.

HTX debuted its first TradFi Trade to Earn campaign in July. The campaign received a strong market response and achieved great success, generating over 63 million USDT in trading volume across selected pairs and distributing over 23,000 USDT in rewards within 10 days. To give back to global users, TradFi Trade to Earn #2 further expands the prize pool, offering daily rewards of up to $8,000 equivalent $HTX rewards.

Notably, all fee revenue generated by users on designated TradFi futures pairs during the event period will be used for $HTX buybacks. The repurchased tokens will be burned as part of the quarterly $HTX burn, supporting the stable, long-term appreciation of $HTX.

A Curated Selection of High-Quality Assets

HTX’s TradFi zone brings global core assets into the crypto exchange framework, freeing users from the trading hours and geographical restrictions of traditional markets. Users can now participate in TradFi asset trading 24/7, seizing opportunities from global macro events, industry catalysts, and price movements to achieve more efficient asset allocation and risk management. This phase of the campaign features 28 high-liquidity trading pairs across four asset categories: Precious metals: XAU, XAUT, XAG, PAXG. Commodities: USOIL, BRENTOIL. Indices: SPX500, QQQ, SOXL, EWY. Stocks: SNDK, SKHYNIX, SPCX, MU, SKHY, TSLAX, GOOGL, AAPL, APP, INTCX, NVDA, ZHIPU, MSTRX, AMD, MSFT, CXMT, MRVL, CRCLX.

Closing Thoughts

As one of the early pioneers expanding into the crypto-TradFi intersection, HTX continues to deepen its strategic focus on this sector through ongoing Trade to Earn initiatives and ongoing token listings. Building on its TradFi strategy, HTX plans to introduce more asset classes, advanced trading instruments, and targeted user campaigns, giving users worldwide richer investment options and a seamless one-stop trading experience.

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TraceLink Leads the Industry With the First Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower With Reasoning

TraceLink’s Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower transforms operational data into trusted business understanding through reasoning, analytics, active monitoring, and observability, enabling people and governed OPUS Agents to collaborate on intelligent decisions

BOSTON, August 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TraceLink, the world’s largest Agentic Business Network for the life sciences and healthcare supply chain, today introduced the first truly Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower, an operational intelligence platform that combines analytics, reasoning, active monitoring, and observability to power the Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model.

Traditional control towers were designed for visibility. Today’s multienterprise supply networks require operational intelligence that understands business context, enables reasoning, and coordinates work across people, enterprise systems, trading partners, and governed OPUS Agents. The Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower transforms business activity into the trusted operational understanding needed for faster decisions, coordinated execution, and continuous adaptation across the enterprise and partner network.

Built on the Agentic Supply Chain Operating System and powered by the world’s largest Agentic Business Network—linking more than 315,000 authenticated entities and supporting hundreds of billions of annual supply chain exchanges—the Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower enables organizations to coordinate work across people, enterprise systems, trading partners, and governed OPUS Agents with greater speed, resilience, and confidence.

“The role of the supply chain control tower is fundamentally changing,” said Shabbir Dahod, President and CEO of TraceLink. “Traditional control towers helped organizations monitor operations. As AI becomes an active participant in supply chain work, organizations need operational intelligence that provides trusted business context, enables reasoning, and coordinates work across people, enterprise systems, trading partners, and governed OPUS Agents. The Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model requires an Agentic Control Tower to power the transformation.”

The First Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower

The Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower redefines the traditional control tower as the intelligence layer for the Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model. It brings together foundational OPUS Platform capabilities that transform operational data into trusted business understanding, enabling people and governed OPUS Agents to collaborate on intelligent decisions across the end-to-end supply network.

• Scalable Analytics
  
  Built on a redesigned analytics architecture that supports enterprise-scale workloads, OPUS Reports and Dashboards (ORD) moves analytics beyond the scalability and performance limits of traditional reporting environments, enabling organizations to analyze dramatically larger volumes of operational data. Recent enhancements deliver at least 30% faster reporting while extending analytics from thousands of rows to datasets containing millions of rows. Organizations can transform growing volumes of operational data into trusted business understanding that accelerates decision-making, strengthens operational resilience, and improves execution across the end-to-end supply network.

• Agentic Reasoning
  
  OPUS Brain—TraceLink’s agentic reasoning engine—uses reasoning artifacts, semantic search, short-term memory, and object metadata to guide OPUS Agents to perform work consistently without hallucinations. Rather than simply presenting information, it enables organizations to make more deterministic decisions, reduce dependence on manual interpretation, and confidently scale AI-assisted work under appropriate governance and human oversight.

• Event-Driven Intelligence
  
  Object Events and Object Action Scripts continuously observe conditions and initiate governed responses as transactions and workflows progress. By sensing meaningful supply chain events as they occur, organizations can reduce response times, improve exception management, and shift from reactive issue management to proactive coordination.

• Semantic Business Context
  
  Semantic models, canonical objects, and enhanced reference data capabilities ensure information is interpreted consistently across systems, trading partners, and processes. This shared understanding creates a common language that increases confidence in automation, AI-driven recommendations, and standardized execution.

• Continuous Observability
  
  OPUS Metrics and Lakehouse capabilities measure performance, system activity, transaction processing, agent utilization, and outcomes to create a continuous feedback loop for improvement. With greater insight into both execution and agent performance, organizations can identify bottlenecks, optimize processes, and continuously improve supply chain performance over time.

At FutureLink Barcelona, attendees will see how the Agentic Supply Chain Control Tower enables the Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model by combining operational intelligence, reasoning, and governed collaboration between people and OPUS Agents to transform how work is performed across the end-to-end supply network.

About TraceLink

TraceLink powers the transformation to an Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model for life sciences and healthcare by combining human expertise with agentic work across the end-to-end supply network.

Through Agentic Business Processes, Agentic Control Towers, the Integrate-Once™ Agentic Business Network, and governed OPUS Agents, TraceLink enables companies to significantly improve productivity, service, inventory, working capital, cost, compliance, quality, resilience, and revenue performance.

Powered by the OPUS Platform and the world’s largest Agentic Business Network, which links more than 315,000 authenticated business entities and hundreds of billions of annual supply chain transactions, TraceLink enables companies to digitalize business transactions, create trusted operational context, and perform work across multienterprise supply chain processes with greater speed, intelligence, control, and accountability.

Learn more at www.tracelink.com.

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GLG’s AI-Moderated Calls Unlock Expert Insights at New Speed and Scale

Clients can engage trusted experts with conversational AI agent, capturing qualitative depth and quantitative data in 10 languages

NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — GLG, the world’s leading platform for trusted human expertise, today announced its enhanced AI-Moderated Calls offering, enabling clients globally to engage experts through autonomously conducted calls in 10 languages. The AI Moderator is purpose-built to guide structured calls with nuanced conversational capabilities, gathering qualitative and quantitative insights with greater speed and scale.

“Trusted human expertise has never been more valuable – and our AI-Moderated Calls help make access to it more scalable than ever for our clients, letting them conduct critical research on any timeline,” said GLG CEO Gemma Postlethwaite. “This tool is another step toward the future we’re building, where our clients can harness the power of our network together with AI to get more out of every expert interaction, without sacrificing nuance, depth, or trust.”    

GLG is continuing to roll out innovative capabilities that power the research experience for clients, experts, and service professionals alike. The enhanced AI Moderator is agentic, multi-modal, and compliant – emulating a human researcher that operates within the industry’s most trusted environment. It probes for nuance and follows up on experts’ answers, while adhering closely to client-set discussion guides and keeping each conversation on track. Clients can also program the AI Moderator to garner quantitative feedback through multiple choice, scale, and matrix-style questions – with data exported directly to Excel so clients can focus on uncovering insights rather than extracting metrics.

With no need for calendar coordination, AI-Moderated Calls can occur simultaneously across time zones. Experts have the flexibility to complete these engagements at their convenience – removing barriers to gathering insights from hard-to-reach experts. After calls conclude, clients can synthesize transcripts with a single click to surface key, actionable themes – with all outputs traceable to named experts and timestamps.

“We design all our products to empower GLG clients and experts to do their best work within a frictionless experience – so we partnered with them directly to build and enhance a tool that understands how a great research conversation unfolds,” said GLG Chief Product Officer John Londono. “So far, experts tell us it’s easy to use with the Moderator conducting a natural and engaging conversation, and clients say it accelerates time-to-insight to just hours. We’re excited to continue developing this offering alongside our broader suite of AI-powered capabilities.”

AI-Moderated Calls can be conducted in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin, all under GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework. Learn more about GLG’s AI-Moderated Calls here, and reach out to your GLG service representative for a demo.

About GLG

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