JOHNNIE WALKER AND SABRINA CARPENTER SHARE HER ‘KEEP WALKING’ STORY IN NEW FILM DIRECTED BY DAMIEN CHAZELLE

The latest chapter in the Johnnie Walker x Sabrina Carpenter collaboration celebrates progress, confidence and creative self-expression through a cinematic new film

LONDON, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Johnnie Walker, the world’s No. 1 Scotch Whisky*, today unveils a new film created as part of its ongoing global partnership with two-time GRAMMY® Award and Emmy Award-winning, record-breaking global superstar Sabrina Carpenter. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle and produced by Superprime Films, the film captures Sabrina’s ‘Keep Walking’ story, celebrating her evolution as an artist, her confident signature style and the next chapter in her journey.

Drawing inspiration from the effortless cool and rebellious spirit of French New Wave cinema, the film blends sophisticated cinematic style with spontaneity, freedom and playful rule breaking. Inspired by the spirit of personal progress at the heart of the iconic Johnnie Walker Keep Walking platform, it captures Sabrina in main-character mode as the world shifts around her, alive with celebrations, festivities and unexpected moments. Her confidence, playful irreverence and instinct to do things differently shine through, bringing a fresh, distinctly Sabrina interpretation to Keep Walking.

Sabrina Carpenter said: “Working with Johnnie Walker and Damien was such a creative adventure. We wanted to create a true cinematic experience that was playful, unexpected, and full of personality. I’m a long time fan of Damien’s work – so it was exciting to bring this visual world to life alongside him. This film felt like the perfect way to tell the Keep Walking story and capture the energy of this next chapter.”

The film is directed by Damien Chazelle, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker behind La La Land, Whiplash, First Man and Babylon. Known for his visually ambitious storytelling, dynamic musical sequences and exploration of ambition, creativity and the pursuit of greatness, Chazelle brings his signature cinematic style to Sabrina’s story of movement, self-expression and progress.

It continues Johnnie Walker and Sabrina Carpenter’s multi-year partnership, following the launch of her signature Go Go Highball and limited edition Johnnie Walker Black Label bottle inspired by her style, rolling out in Europe, Australia and North America now with more markets to follow in the coming months. It marks the next chapter in the collaboration, bringing Sabrina’s distinctive energy and the spirit of Keep Walking to life.

The collaboration forms part of the broader Johnnie Walker global music platform, which champions artists who push creative boundaries and bring their own perspective to culture.

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*Source: IWSR 2025.

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Feedzai Appoints Joost van Mook as Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Global Expansion

Former Backbase and SAP commercial leader brings a customer-first, cross-functional scaling playbook to the AI-native financial crime prevention market leader

NEW YORK and LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Feedzai, the market-defining, AI-native platform preventing fraud, money laundering, and financial crime in real time, today announced the appointment of Joost van Mook as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

Van Mook joins Feedzai following a standout tenure as Chief Commercial Officer at banking technology scale-up Backbase, where he led global go-to-market functions through rapid international growth. Prior to Backbase, he spent over a decade at SAP, rising through enterprise sales and regional leadership to oversee commercial operations across EMEA. Over his 20-year career, van Mook has built a reputation for dismantling commercial silos, championing rigorous sales enablement, and aligning product innovation directly with measurable customer outcomes.

In his new role, van Mook will lead Feedzai’s global revenue organization, unifying direct enterprise sales, revenue operations, commercial partnerships, and market expansion across key countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific.

“Modern financial institutions are managing two parallel pressures: sophisticated, AI-generated fraud schemes and the demand for zero-friction digital transactions,” said Nuno Sebastião, CEO and Co-Founder of Feedzai. “Joost has repeatedly proven how to translate complex, mission-critical enterprise tech into long-term strategic partnerships. His operational discipline and customer-centric approach will be instrumental as we scale our global footprint and safeguard the future of digital finance.”

Van Mook’s leadership approach emphasizes breaking down barriers between technical engineering and client-facing teams, ensuring product development and commercial execution move in lockstep.

“Feedzai has led the industry’s transformation to AI-native processes,” said Joost van Mook, Chief Revenue Officer at Feedzai. “I’m excited to bring this innovation to the world’s top banks and payment networks, along with deep alignment and collaboration to stop financial crime.”

Today, Feedzai protects more than 1 billion consumers across hundreds of financial institutions worldwide, analyzing 140 billion transactions and processing $19 trillion in payment value annually.

About Feedzai

Feedzai powers trust in global finance. As the leader in AI-native financial crime prevention, Feedzai protects people, payments, and institutions against fraud and money laundering in real time. Founded in 2011 by data scientists and aerospace engineers, the company’s enterprise cloud platform safeguards the world’s largest banking networks and merchant acquirers so digital money moves safely. Learn more at feedzai.com.

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From Space to Storytelling: Crayola Announces Global Creativity Week with Talent Inspiring More Than 20MM Students

Free week-long educational activities led by Jordin Sparks, William Shatner, Marissa Bode, Taylen Biggs, Pierce Brosnan, Randall Park, Maneet Chauhan, and NASA experts engage children in colorful possibilities.

EASTON, Pa., Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Crayola Creativity Week, the annual free, global celebration of children’s creativity and its role in learning, returns January 25–31, 2027. This year’s theme, Creativity Around the World, will spotlight how children across countries and cultures imagine, explore, and express themselves through creativity.

Since launching in 2022, Crayola Creativity Week has grown into one of the largest creativity-in-education movements in the world. Last year, the program came alive in classrooms, libraries, youth centers, and homes in 142 countries and reached more than 20 million students and 1.3 million educators.

Crayola infuses creativity into literacy, STEAM, and social-emotional learning experiences as it brings together inspiring actors, artists, musicians, scientists, athletes, culinary artists, and storytellers who help children see how creativity is essential in every career and is expressed in every culture. The standards-aligned, hands-on learning activities help children use their creativity to discover new ways of imagining the future and exploring the world.

This year’s themes and talent lineup include:

• Monday, Jan. 25: Bridging Sounds with singer-songwriter/actress Jordin Sparks. Features the book And There Was Music, written and illustrated by Marta Pantaleo.
• Tuesday, Jan. 26: Exploring Space with NASA experts and actor William Shatner. Features the book Tiny Voyager, Mighty Mission, written by Alastair Chisholm and illustrated by Shane Tolentino.
• Wednesday, Jan. 27: Seeing in New Ways with actress Marissa Bode. Features the book A Little Like Magic, written and illustrated by Sarah Kurpiel.
• Thursday, Jan. 28: Wondering Out Loud with Correspondent and Fashion Tastemaker Taylen Biggs. Features the book Wonder Walkers, written and illustrated by Micha Archer.
• Friday, Jan. 29: Diving Deep with actor Pierce Brosnan. Features the book Sail, written and illustrated by Dorien Brouwers.
• Saturday, Jan. 30: Connecting Emotions with actor Randall Park. Features the book The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth, written by Bruce Handy and illustrated by Hyewon Yum.
• Sunday, Jan. 31: Trying New Foods with chef Maneet Chauhan. Features the book Every Night Is Pizza Night, written by J. Kenji López-Alt and illustrated by Gianna Ruggiero.

The week builds to a collective global celebration on Friday, Jan. 29, at 1 p.m. ET, when Crayola hosts a free, livestreamed Virtual School Assembly. The assembly will bring schools around the world together to celebrate creativity and share students’ artwork. The event will feature music, dancing, and appearances from actress Jennifer Love Hewitt (9-1-1, Ghost Whisperer), designer Carson Kressley, actress Antonia Gentry (Ginny & Georgia), actress Lexi Minetree (Elle), Paralympic athlete and children’s author Blake Leeper (Why Not Me?), actor and producer Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary) and more.

“Every child creates in unique ways, shaped by their imagination, culture, and experiences. Creativity Week helps teachers and parents nurture children’s imagination and boost their creative confidence,” said Cheri Sterman, Senior Director of Education at Crayola. “Creativity Around the World shows students that whether they’re asking big questions, pondering the universe, telling a story, or seeing in new ways, they’re part of a global movement that celebrates and inspires creativity.”

Crayola’s Global School Ambassador Program also returns in 2027, inviting schools around the world to become ambassadors and share their Creativity Week experiences to inspire educators worldwide to bring creativity to life in their own classrooms.

Crayola Creativity Week is completely free to join and requires no special supplies. Registered educators and participants get access to easy-to-use planning guides, daily activity videos, downloadable Thinking Sheets, and resources that are translated into multiple languages and aligned to educational standards in the U.S. and 15 other countries—all designed to help students put their imagination into action.

Registration Is Now Open

Educators and parents can sign up now at Crayola.com/CreativityWeek. Everyone who registers is automatically entered to win Crayola products and a Creativity Week swag pack for their school. Educators also have opportunities throughout the week to win prizes from Crayola’s partners by sharing student creations using #CrayolaCreativityWeek. This year’s program is sponsored by Horace Mann, the largest financial services company focused on helping America’s educators and others who serve the community.

About Crayola

Crayola LLC, a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, based in Easton, PA, is a global leader in creative experiences. Through its innovative portfolio of products, content, and experiences, the iconic brand has unleashed imaginations and inspired colorful self-expression for more than 120 years. Crayola is committed to nurturing creativity as a lifelong journey. From sparking a child’s first artistic adventure and helping parents and educators raise creatively alive children, to inspiring adults to embrace their imaginations, the brand empowers individuals of all ages to explore, discover, celebrate, and connect through creative moments. Through initiatives like Crayola Creativity Week, Crayola works to elevate creativity as an essential skill for childhood development and lifelong success. For more information, visit Crayola.com/Learning or join the conversation at Facebook.com/CrayolaLearning.

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GIGABYTE Expands Its Local AI Portfolio with the Launch of AI TOP AERO Powered by NVIDIA RTX SPARK™

Featuring local AI and RTX-accelerated creation on Windows 11, up to 128GB of unified memory, and GIGABYTE cooling design in a compact Personal AI Studio

TAIPEI, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — GIGABYTE today announced the launch of AI TOP AERO, a new AI desktop powered by the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform. Positioned as a Personal AI Studio, AI TOP AERO combines an NVIDIA Blackwell architecture GPU, up to 128GB of unified system memory, and GIGABYTE’s cooling and compact chassis design. The new desktop expands GIGABYTE’s AI PC lineup, bringing local AI development, content creation and gaming to personal workspaces.    

NVIDIA RTX Spark unites NVIDIA AI, RTX graphics, and unified memory in one slim, powerful Windows PC. Designed to run larger AI models locally—without cloud dependency—and move between creative work, development, and immersive gaming without missing a beat. Connect apps, tools, and workflows into one seamless experience. Private by default. RTX Spark brings NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform, ready for the AI workloads of today and whatever comes next. Delivered on the familiar, trusted Windows platform.

Bringing Local AI to Everyday Work

As generative AI expands beyond conversational assistants into AI agents, content generation and workflow automation, users are seeking more options for personal AI computing. Running models, processing data and testing applications on their own devices gives users the flexibility to choose how they work based on data privacy, responsiveness and usage costs. AI TOP AERO addresses these needs with a local computing platform for developers, creators and AI users, bringing AI closer to their everyday tools, personal data and workflows.

An NVIDIA Grace CPU and NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU for Windows AI Computing

AI TOP AERO features the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X Superchip, integrating a 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU with an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU. The platform combines a high-performance, power-efficient CPU with NVIDIA’s AI acceleration technologies. Configurations offer up to 128GB of LPDDR5x unified system memory and up to a 4TB PCIe Gen5 SSD, providing computing and storage resources for local models, AI applications and creative assets.

Users can work in a familiar Windows environment while taking advantage of NVIDIA RTX acceleration and compatible AI tools. From model development and content creation to everyday productivity and supported games, AI TOP AERO brings work and entertainment together in a Personal AI Studio.

GIGABYTE Cooling Design Supports Sustained AI and Creative Workloads

AI inference, content generation and professional creative applications can keep a system under heavy load for extended periods. GIGABYTE integrates its cooling design into AI TOP AERO’s compact chassis of approximately one liter, providing thermal headroom to help sustain performance over time and support demanding local AI and professional workloads.

Drawing on GIGABYTE’s hardware design and system integration experience, AI TOP AERO balances a small desktop footprint with the needs of sustained computing. It fits into personal workspaces, creative studios and offices, with USB Type-C, 10GbE Ethernet and Wi-Fi 7 connectivity for peripherals, data transfers and network access, allowing users to build an AI workspace that suits their needs.

Expanding Local AI Applications with NVIDIA Nemotron and Developer Tools

The NVIDIA RTX Spark platform brings an ecosystem of models, frameworks and accelerated tools to AI TOP AERO. Developers can build, prototype, fine-tune and run the latest open models locally on the NVIDIA CUDA platform. They can use supported NVIDIA Nemotron models and CUDA-accelerated tools to explore local inference, model testing and agentic AI applications. Compatible tools such as LM Studio and Ollama provide additional options for building a local AI environment tailored to individual needs.

From testing model responses and connecting tools to building automated workflows, AI TOP AERO brings computing resources for development and execution onto the personal desktop, keeping long-running agents accessible around the clock, with data and inference staying on the device. With NVIDIA PAIR (Personal AI Router), users can also incorporate AI TOP AERO into a local network inference environment, distributing inference tasks to available devices and extending local AI use across homes and studios.

AI-Assisted Content Creation and DLSS 5 Gaming

For content creation, AI TOP AERO can work with compatible tools such as ComfyUI to build generative AI workflows. NVIDIA Broadcast and RTX Video technologies help enhance audio and video quality and expand options for video processing and content production. From AI-generated assets to post-production, creators can choose the tools that fit their workflows and incorporate AI into everyday production.

AI TOP AERO also supports gaming alongside development and creative work. Its NVIDIA Blackwell architecture GPU and NVIDIA DLSS 5 bring neural rendering to supported games, delivering more detailed lighting and materials. Users can move between AI tasks, content creation and gaming on the same desktop, extending the versatility of their Personal AI Studio.

Building on GIGABYTE’s existing AI portfolio, AI TOP AERO combines the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform and GIGABYTE’s hardware integration expertise. The new desktop offers another choice for local AI development, content creation and gaming, further strengthening GIGABYTE’s personal AI computing lineup.

GIGABYTE AI TOP AERO launches on November 10, 2026. Please refer to local GIGABYTE announcements for regional product configurations, pricing and availability.

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Excelra’s GOSTAR™ Powers Boltz’s AI Models for Drug Discovery

BoltzMol-1’s ADMET models are trained on curated ADME data from Excelra’s GOSTAR ™.

HYDERABAD, India and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Boltz PBC has partnered with Excelra to power its AI drug discovery models with GOSTAR™ data. Curated GOSTAR™ measurements of kinetic solubility, lipophilicity and Caco-2 permeability train the ADMET models in BoltzMol-1, which act as an early triage layer, filtering out unfavorable compounds before purchase or synthesis.

In a recent technical report, Boltz prospectively tested ten challenging targets, most absent from its affinity training data, and confirmed binders or active compounds for six, using just 28–96 compounds per target, versus thousands to millions in conventional high-throughput screens, where hit rates are often below 0.15%. Its GOSTAR™-trained ADMET models matched or exceeded the leading open-source ADMET package on strictly out-of-distribution chemistry, with the largest gains in solubility and permeability.

“GOSTAR™ dataset’s scale helps us build models that generalize to chemistry far outside typical training data. It’s become an important input across our modeling work at Boltz, letting us save a significant amount of time,” said Gabriele Corso, Co-founder and CEO, Boltz PBC.

“We’re proud to support Boltz as they push the frontier of AI-driven drug discovery. Curated and solubility data at this scale is exactly what public sources lack, and what GOSTAR ™ was built to provide: a foundation for models that hold up on prospective data, not just retrospective benchmarks,” said Anandbir Brar, CEO, Excelra.

About Excelra and GOSTAR™

Excelra is a leading data science and AI partner to the world’s top life science organizations, making drug discovery and development smarter and faster. Its GOSTAR™ database offers a curated, ISO 9001-certified view of over 11 million small molecules and their biological properties, available as an application, via APIs, or as a downloadable dataset for machine learning. Learn more at excelra.com/databases/gostar

About Boltz

Boltz PBC is an applied AI research lab and public benefit corporation behind the Boltz family of open and proprietary models for protein structure prediction, protein design, and small-molecule hit discovery. Boltz’s vision is to make biology programmable and accelerate discovery by keeping frontier capabilities broadly accessible. Learn more at https://boltz.bio/

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Excelra: Prashant Sharma | contact@excelra.com

Boltz PBC: contact@boltz.bio

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IBM and Microsoft Announce a New AI Agent Platform Designed for Industry-Specific Transformation

• IBM Consulting brings more than 6,000 pre-built AI agents and assets, the experience building them, and industry expertise, while Microsoft provides AI, cloud, and security technologies
  
  
  
  
• New platform comes with forward-deployed engineering support from both Microsoft and IBM Consulting
  
  
  
  
• SEI’s enterprise transformation illustrates the types of business needs that agentic AI can help address

ARMONK, N.Y. and REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced Imagine Enterprise, an agentic platform designed to help enterprises build, run, and govern AI agents that help people execute industry-specific processes. IBM Consulting and Microsoft have combined their technologies and expertise with forward-deployed engineering support for qualifying engagements to help enterprises accelerate AI deployment.

Imagine Enterprise aims to help organizations—especially in regulated industries—combine human expertise with AI agents and connect them to unique enterprise data and daily processes. The platform is built to help organizations govern AI agents with controls, observability, and AI-compliance support designed to help secure industry-specific AI deployment.

IBM Consulting brings AI transformation expertise and a fleet of more than 6,000 AI agents and assets built on IBM Consulting Advantage, the company’s AI-powered delivery platform. Microsoft provides the AI, data, cloud, and security foundation that is designed to help the agents operate securely across the enterprise, while forward-deployed engineers from both companies can help customers move from experimentation to production.

Instead of organizations having to start from scratch, replace the platforms they already depend on, or spend months assembling the pieces themselves, Imagine Enterprise is designed around three simple advantages:

• Instant Expertise: More than 6,000 AI agents and assets
  
  Starting with pre-built AI agents, assets, and deep industry expertise from day one. Organizations can begin with capabilities already built for their industry and adapt them to the unique needs of their business.

• Fits the Enterprise: A platform that adapts
  
  Imagine Enterprise is designed to connect with an organization’s existing data, processes, systems, and technology environment. Enterprises can start where they are, build on what they already have, and scale over time, with enterprise security, identity, AI governance, and control built into the experience.

• Intelligence Multiplier: Puts the knowledge of the business behind people and AI agents
  
  Imagine Enterprise brings IBM Consulting’s hands-on experience building and running more than 6,000 AI agents together with the Microsoft technologies to connect enterprise knowledge, data, and context across the organization. People and agents can operate with richer enterprise knowledge and context behind them, helping put what they already know to work across people and agents.

Supporting these advantages, Microsoft and GitHub technologies including Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft Copilot Studio help coordinate AI agents and enterprise systems, while Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365 infrastructure, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Azure provide the data, identity, AI governance, security, and cloud foundation. IBM Consulting Advantage’s Process Studio, Context Studio, and Advantage Core help organizations design, deploy, and govern tailored AI agents.

From Emerging Technology to Business Opportunity

SEI, a leading global provider of financial technology, operations, and asset management services within the financial services industry, is looking to advance its enterprise transformation by exploring emerging and agentic technologies with IBM Consulting, with the support of Microsoft, and is leveraging other technologies from IBM Consulting and Microsoft to help improve how the company operates and enhance the experiences it delivers to employees and clients, supporting SEI’s commitment to sustainable growth.

“AI is evolving quickly, and our focus at SEI is on applying it with intention in ways that strengthen trust, enhance human decision-making, and create meaningful value across our business,” said Sneha Shah, Chief AI Strategist and Head of SEI Next. “Our work with IBM Consulting and Microsoft is helping us explore how emerging capabilities could support critical processes and be responsibly scaled over time, with the goal to create better experiences for our employees and clients. By combining emerging technology with SEI’s deep industry and operational expertise, we can move faster, scale more effectively, and create new opportunities for growth.”

“Clients are no longer looking for AI that simply helps people do the same work a little faster. They want to build an agentic business,” said Mohamad Ali, Senior Vice President and Head of IBM Consulting. “Microsoft and IBM are helping organizations bring human expertise and digital labor together in a way that can scale across the enterprise, to turn AI from a productivity aid into a real competitive advantage.”

“Enterprise AI will be won by organizations that can turn their data, industry expertise, and AI into action,” said Rodrigo Kede Lima, President, Microsoft Frontier Company. “Together, Microsoft and IBM Consulting are bringing the best of our technology and expertise, to help customers move from AI ambition to business impact faster and with confidence.”

Imagine Enterprise’s industry-specific frameworks initially include financial services, insurance, and retail, and are designed to establish a repeatable blueprint for potential additional industries such as manufacturing, energy, public sector, mobility and more in the future.

Imagine Enterprise is available to clients by engaging IBM Consulting to deploy and operate the platform on the client’s behalf or co-innovating with IBM Consulting on enterprise-scale implementations. Self-management options are also available.

To learn more, visit: https://www.ibm.com/consulting/imagine-enterprise.

Statements regarding IBM and Microsoft’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.

About IBM

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud, AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs, and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of governments and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently, and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions, and consulting deliver open and flexible options to clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service.

About Microsoft

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft delivers cloud platforms, AI capabilities, productivity tools, and business applications that help organizations innovate, improve agility, and drive meaningful outcomes at scale.

About SEI

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) is a leading global provider of financial technology, operations, and asset management services within the financial services industry. SEI tailors its solutions and services to help clients more effectively deploy their capital—whether that’s money, time, or talent—so they can better serve their clients and achieve their growth objectives. As of Sept. 30, 2026, SEI manages, advises, or administers approximately $2 trillion in assets. For more information, visit seic.com.

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Alicia Rudd, SEI

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Utility Global to Enter Indian Market with Showcase at ISA Steel Conclave 2026

CEO Parker Meeks to speak on the main stage and join a keynote panel, and Chief Commercial Officer Dr. Vladimir Novak to present on economic low-carbon steel

HOUSTON, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Utility Global, Inc. (“Utility Global”), an international company enabling economic industrial decarbonization with a key focus on the steel industry, today announced its participation in ISA Steel Conclave 2026, hosted by the Indian Steel Association at Le Meridien Hotel in New Delhi. Utility Global will present its proprietary H2Gen^® technology on the main stage and in a technical session. The company will also welcome attendees at Booth #16.

“India’s steel industry is growing and modernizing, and the opportunity is to make every tonne count,” said Utility CEO Parker Meeks. “H2Gen^® lets steel producers and refiners add value to the assets they already run, and we look forward to sharing that with this community in New Delhi.”

Utility Global Speaking Sessions at ISA Steel Conclave 2026: (click here for the latest agenda details)

• Main Stage Presentation in Sovereign Hall: Parker Meeks, CEO & President, presents “Decarbonizing Heavy Industry Economically: How H2Gen^® Adds Value to Steel and Refining Assets” on Tuesday, November 17^th from 2:00 to 2:15 PM.
• Main Stage Keynote Panel in Sovereign Hall: Parker Meeks joins the keynote panel “Accelerating Green Steel Through Clean Technologies: CCUS, Hydrogen and Low Carbon Technologies” on Tuesday, November 17^th from 2:15 to 3:15 PM. The session opens with a keynote by Shri Manohar Lal Khattar, Honorable Union Minister, Ministry of Power and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, and is moderated by Rajat Gupta, Senior Partner, McKinsey. Panelists include Shashank Misra, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India; Gurdeep Singh, Chairman & Managing Director, NTPC; Rajiv Mangal, Vice President, Safety, Health & Sustainability, Tata Steel; Naveen Ahlawat, Head, Power to X, Green Hydrogen, Green Steel & CCSU and Head Marketing, Coal to Chemicals, Jindal Steel Ltd.; Parker Meeks, CEO & President, Utility Global and Abhishek Jha, Chief of Staff, Urjanova Pvt. Ltd.
• Technical Session in Desire Hall: Dr. Vladimir Novak, Chief Commercial Officer, presents “H2Gen^® Technology Enables Economic Low-Carbon Steel” in the session “Reinventing the Blast Furnace: Breakthrough Technologies for Efficiency, Productivity & Lower Emissions” on November 17^th from 1:30 to 2:45 PM. LR Singh, Chief Operations Officer, JSW Steel, moderates, and additional panelists include Samik Nag, Head, Ironmaking Research Group, Tata Steel; Ritesh Mishra, General Manager, Blast Furnace Operations, Jindal Steel; and a senior official from Steel Authority of India Ltd.

“Blast furnace operators ask one question first: what does it do for my economics? Our technical session will answer that with engineering detail, and our booth is the place to compare notes with India’s top steel producers,” stated Dr. Vladimir Novak, Chief Commercial Officer of Utility Global.

H2Gen^® is built for the rigorous demands of industrial operations and is commercially deploying globally. It enables economic decarbonization of existing industrial assets without the need to replace them, which is the focus of Utility Global’s sessions in New Delhi.

Joining Parker Meeks and Dr. Vladimir Novak, Utility’s Chief Financial Officer Robert Lane and members of the company’s business development team who will be available for in-person meetings and extended networking in an on-site private setting throughout the event.

About Utility Global

Utility Global is an economic industrial decarbonization company. Our proprietary H2Gen® technology converts water into pure hydrogen (H₂) on-site without electricity and industrial off-gases into concentrated carbon dioxide (CO₂) significantly reducing the cost of carbon capture. This way Utility creates value by enabling economic decarbonization of existing industrial assets and products without the need for replacing them. H2Gen® is commercially deploying globally and ready for the rigorous demands of industrial operations. Utility combines deep technical innovation with a culture of curiosity, collaboration and purpose. 

Utility is a portfolio company of Ara Partners, a global private equity and infrastructure firm decarbonizing the industrial economy. 

For more information on Utility’s solutions and services, visit www.utilityglobal.com.

About Ara Partners

Founded in 2017, Ara Partners is a global private markets firm focused on decarbonizing the industrial economy. The firm invests in the middle market across three strategies: Private Equity, Infrastructure, and Energy. Ara scales commercially demonstrated decarbonization solutions, supports the businesses and infrastructure that enable their adoption, and reduces emissions at the source across the conventional energy value chain. Ara operates from Houston, Boston, Dublin and Washington D.C., and as of June 30, 2026, had approximately $10.6 billion in assets under management.

For more information, visit www.arapartners.com.

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TriNetX Launches Human-Validated Fact Extraction from Clinical Notes Data Researchers Can Trust

New NLP-extracted clinical facts are confidence-scored, tested against human-annotated notes, and linked to structured EHR data for the same de-identified patients 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As artificial intelligence (AI) makes extracting information from clinical notes easier than ever, the harder question for researchers is whether those data can be trusted for real-world evidence. TriNetX®, the world’s leading federated health data network, today announced NLP-extracted Facts from Clinical Notes, now available in the TriNetX LIVE™ platform and in downloadable datasets. The capability gives researchers analysis-ready data points drawn from over 800 million clinical notes and reports, a base expected to reach about 1 billion by the end of 2026.

Clinical notes hold details such as disease stage, performance status, and biomarker results that complement the structured record, but are hard to extract reliably. TriNetX pairs AI with deep clinical and informatics expertise to build human-in-the-loop pipelines trained on a large corpus of annotated gold standard notes. Unlike approaches that stop at extraction, TriNetX tests every pipeline against human-annotated notes, attaches a confidence score to every fact, and links notes-derived data to structured electronic health record (EHR) data for the same de-identified patients, so researchers can expand cohorts and construct nuanced, clinically meaningful phenotypes.

Three safeguards support every fact:

Human oversight. Clinical experts review and correct what the AI tags, and models are retrained on those corrections. Each module must reach a precision of 0.90 or higher against human-annotated notes.

Clinical corroboration. Extracted facts are tested against expected clinical patterns, not just model metrics. For example, survival curves based on extracted Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status showed worse survival for patients scoring 2 and higher.

Continuous monitoring. TriNetX monitors model performance as new healthcare organizations participate in the clinical notes program, and new note types arrive, refining models as variation appears.

Early results show notes-derived facts increased smoking status coverage from 22% to 67%, delivered 6x more patients than structured data alone in a lung cancer cohort study, and surfaced ECOG and Karnofsky performance status for 292,000 oncology patients with none in structured fields.

“Pointing AI at a chart is easy. What sets TriNetX apart is how we do it: with scientific discipline and human expertise across a global federated network where data stay within the institutions that generated them,” said August Calhoun, CEO, TriNetX. “That means clinical notes can inform evidence that stands up to scrutiny as AI becomes part of everyday research.”

“There’s no system that can extract every detail from clinical notes in a way that’s both accurate and meaningful. It’s a limitation inherent to the nature of clinical language,” said Matvey Palchuk, MD, MS, FAMIA, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, TriNetX. “That’s why validation matters. Our goal is to extract the facts that can be trusted for evidence generation.”

NLP-extracted Facts from Clinical Notes currently cover social history (smoking and alcohol status), cardiology, pulmonology, general oncology and biomarkers, liver disease, and more, and are available now to TriNetX network members. Learn more at trinetx.com/data/clinical-notes.

About TriNetX, LLC

TriNetX® is The Global Truth Engine for Better Human Health®. Powered by a secure, connected network across more than 14,200 clinical sites in 20+ countries, TriNetX delivers trustworthy evidence that stands up to the world’s most rigorous scientific scrutiny. By combining global data, relentless integrity, and a rare fusion of AI and human intelligence, TriNetX accelerates discovery and drives better health outcomes worldwide. Visit trinetx.com or follow TriNetX on LinkedIn to learn more.

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Poppi Founders Launch Hydration Brand jetty: NYSE Content Update

NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today’s NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins. 

Kristen Scholer delivers the pre-market update on November 10th

• Stephen + Allison Ellsworth aiming to disrupt $13 billion industry
  • jetty is an electrolyte drink with five flavors in bottles and powders.
  • The Ellsworths sold Poppi for $1.95 billion in May 2025.
  • Stephen Ellsworth to join NYSE Live to discuss the appeal of jetty
• Boomi acquires Elementary Data to bring trusted data to the AI era
  • CEO Steve Lucas will join NYSE Live to discuss how the acquisition reflects the growing demand for enterprise AI.
  • Boomi research shows that AI adoption is outpacing trust, resulting in an ‘AI Agent Trust Gap.’ 
• The S&P 500 looks to build off its best day since April 8
  • The Global X NYSE 100 ETF, which tracks innovative companies, began the week with gains of nearly 3.5%.
  • The October CPI report was expected to show that headline inflation rose by 0.3% month-over-month.

Opening Bell

The Bob Woodruff Foundation celebrates 20 years of supporting veterans and military families

Closing Bell

Stepan (NYSE: SCL) celebrates 30 years of being listed on the NYSE

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