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Super MOXI® by Sciton Ushers in a New Era of Head-to-Toe Skin Revitalization

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sciton Inc., a pioneer and leader in medical and aesthetic laser and light-based technologies, today announced the launch of Super MOXI® with High Density (HD) Delivery™, a major evolution of its award-winning MOXI® laser that brings new speed, versatility, and possibilities to one of Sciton’s most trusted treatments.

Super MOXI expands what’s possible with MOXI. Harnessing the power of twin beams for treatments up to twice as fast and a more powerful 16W diode to efficiently treat larger areas, Super MOXI with HD Delivery opens the door to head-to-toe skin revitalization. Available on the portable mJOULE™ and highly versatile JOULE X® platforms, it delivers expanded treatment settings and new ScitonStaX™ combinations, giving providers more ways to treat, customize, and grow.

Expanded settings support patients from prevention and maintenance to advanced skin revitalization and skin-quality correction. Quick Start presets provide a starting point, while customizable energy and density settings give providers greater clinical control based on patient goals, treatment area, and desired intensity.

New ScitonStaX combinations pair Super MOXI with BBL® HEROic™, ClearSilk®, and ProFractional™, or incorporate it into treatment plans following corrective treatments such as Contour TRL™.

“As demand for face and body treatments continues to grow, providers need technology that can keep pace,” said Robb Brindley, Sciton’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “Super MOXI delivers the speed, power, and flexibility to meet that demand while building on a treatment providers already know and trust. It’s how we approach innovation at Sciton: listening to our customers, anticipating what’s next, and ensuring our technology evolves with the needs of today’s practices.”

For providers, that versatility translates directly to the treatment room.

“Sciton’s breakthrough HD Delivery system leverages a twin-beam architecture to optimize high-density energy deposition, dramatically reducing treatment durations,” said Sherrif F. Ibrahim, MD, PhD, a board-certified dermatologist in Rochester, New York. “This rapid energy throughput allows us to effortlessly target broad anatomical sites, from the face and neck to the chest, hands, arms, and back. Speed paired with unprecedented versatility allows providers to fine-tune protocols ranging from gentle, low-energy treatments for early intervention to more advanced correction and overall skin-quality improvement. Now equipped with Super MOXI, BBL HEROic, and HALO® TRIBRID™, Sciton platforms offer high-velocity, full-body clinical transformations that were previously unimaginable.”

To learn more, visit supermoxi.com.

About Sciton

Sciton, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, is a forward-thinking, employee-owned medical device company founded in 1997 by industry visionaries James Hobart, PhD, and Daniel K. Negus, PhD. Renowned for delivering high-quality laser and light solutions, Sciton’s product portfolio spans a broad range of medical and aesthetic applications, including women’s health, skin revitalization, resurfacing, phototherapy, vascular and pigmented lesions, scar revision, acne treatment, and hair reduction. With robust direct operations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Japan, Korea, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, and Chile, and a strategic distribution network in more than 45 countries, Sciton’s global impact continues to expand, setting new standards in medical and aesthetic excellence.

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QC Ware and IonQ Demonstrate High-Precision Hybrid Quantum Workflow for Drug Discovery

Joint test on IonQ Forte hardware lands within 4% of benchmark, clearing the chemical-accuracy bar for enzyme active-site modeling via Amazon Braket

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — QC Ware today announced a technology demonstration of a hybrid quantum-classical chemistry workflow using its Promethium® platform and IonQ’s Forte trapped-ion quantum computer via Amazon Braket.

The demonstration modeled the heme active site of cytochrome P450nor, a nitric oxide reductase in the cytochrome P450 superfamily — the same superfamily whose monooxygenase members carry out most human drug metabolism. By pairing GPU-accelerated classical pre-processing in Promethium with quantum measurements on IonQ Forte, the workflow calculated electrostatic interaction energy within 0.5 kcal/mol (~4%) of classical benchmarks. This falls well inside the 1 kcal/mol threshold for chemical accuracy and delivers more than double the accuracy of the standard classical mean-field method. For the biopharma industry, more accurately calculating electrostatic interaction energy, a major factor in how tightly a drug candidate binds to its target, at complex metal centers such as the iron site in P450nor, could improve candidate ranking and help identify metabolic risks earlier in the drug-discovery process.

“Running the same hybrid workflow on IonQ’s trapped-ion architecture, following our recent demonstration on other quantum hardware, shows that Promethium’s approach to combining classical and quantum computing is not tied to a single type of quantum hardware,” said Dr. Kin-Joe Sham, Co-Founder and COO at QC Ware. “We believe this hardware-agnostic approach gives researchers flexibility as quantum computing continues to mature.”

“Every month spent advancing a drug candidate on flawed metabolic data is wasted time and mounting risk,” said Scott Millard, Chief Business Officer at IonQ. “QC Ware and IonQ have shown that hybrid quantum-classical workflows can predict certain binding behavior accurately enough for discovery teams to confidently rank candidates and catch toxicity risks early. We believe that’s real quantum impact on real health outcomes. I can’t wait to see what this partnership delivers.”

Technical Highlights:

• Promethium Preprocessing: Promethium built and preprocessed a complex 115-atom model of the P450nor active site containing over 1,000 molecular orbitals. It automatically isolated the strongly correlated region down to a 4-orbital active space mapped onto 8 qubits, which IonQ Forte measured in a single basis before returning results for Promethium to compute final interaction energies classically.
• Hardware Architecture: IonQ Forte’s all-to-all qubit connectivity enabled complex two-qubit entangling gates to execute as designed without the routing overhead or additional error typical of limited-connectivity architectures.
• Biopharma Impact: Accurately predicting binding energy at iron sites in enzymes like P450nor could enable pharmaceutical researchers to better rank drug candidates and identify metabolic risks earlier in the R&D pipeline.

Supported in part by Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud compute credits, the demonstration highlights how QC Ware’s cloud-native Promethium® platform can potentially allow classical GPU clusters to seamlessly connect with cloud quantum computing resources on Amazon Braket.

Available today, Promethium’s GPU-native architecture enables researchers to apply quantum chemistry across larger molecular systems and more compounds than has traditionally been practical. For selected workloads, Promethium runs demanding calculations up to 20× faster than conventional CPU-based DFT platforms, helping researchers generate molecular-level insights in hours instead of weeks and accelerating decision-making across drug discovery, catalysis, and materials science.

Media contact: kj.sham@qcware.com 

About QC Ware

QC Ware is a quantum computing software company. We are developing applications that unlock the power of quantum computing for drug discovery, material design and other industry verticals. Our Promethium platform provides GPU-accelerated quantum chemistry for molecular modeling and drug discovery, helping customers to make better discovery decisions today while exploring the hybrid quantum-classical workflows of tomorrow. QC Ware also organizes and hosts Q2B quantum computing conferences in Japan, Europe and the United States.

About IonQ

IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and foundry – delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems. Earlier systems have helped customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, AstraZeneca, and NVIDIA achieve a 20x performance increase over previous quantum solutions and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance. 

Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations across North America, Latin America, EMEA, and APAC. Our quantum computing services have been available through all major cloud providers since 2021, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Learn more at IonQ.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements relating to QC Ware’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the impact of hybrid quantum-classical chemistry workflows on the drug discovery process and the potential for Promethium to drive such impact. These statements are based on various assumptions and on the current expectations of QC Ware’s management and are not predictions of actual performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including changes in business, market, financial, political and legal conditions; the rapid evolution of quantum computing and flaws or errors in Promethium or flaws in or misuse of quantum computing in general; and risks related to working with quantum hardware providers.

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De Beers Group’s ‘Love, From Bestie’ Turns Friendship Day into a Lasting Ritual with Natural Diamonds

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Not every milestone comes with a date on the calendar, some come with a best friend by your side. The people we choose to grow with, celebrate with and turn to through every version of life are increasingly becoming relationships worth marking. Recognising this shift, De Beers Group’s ‘Love, From Bestie’ brings natural diamonds into a new kind of celebration, one centred on the friendships that are rare, enduring and entirely your own.

Over the Friendship Day weekend on 1^st and 2^nd August 2026, ‘Love, From Bestie’ came to life across natural diamond retail partner stores in India through a series of thoughtful, friendship focused experiences. Besties could capture their bond through professionally shot portraits, beautifully framed to take home, while personalised nail art, custom bag charms and playful ‘BFF Contracts’ added a creative touch to the celebration.

The experiences gave friends a chance to celebrate their bond in ways that felt personal and memorable, drawing more than 2,000 visitors and a conversion rate of 15% across 60 participating natural diamond retail stores nationwide over the weekend.

At the heart of the campaign is the Bestie Bracelet Collection, created around a simple but meaningful idea: one for you, one for your bestie. Each bracelet becomes a personal expression of the friendship it represents, capturing the rare, enduring bond between two best friends.

Bringing the idea to life are some of India’s much loved celebrity bestie duos, Sara Tendulkar & Banita Sandhu, Mallika Dua & Shweta Tripathi, as well as Sanaya Irani & Drashti Dhami. Across a series of social content, the duos opened up about their friendships, sharing hilarious insider moments, personal milestones and the unwavering support that keeps their bonds strong.

Commenting on the campaign, Ms. Toranj Mehta, Country Head – Category Marketing, De Beers Group India, said, “We often think of natural diamonds in the context of traditional milestones, but the way people celebrate important relationships is changing. What makes a natural diamond special is its rarity, individuality and the fact that it is created over billions of years. There is a beautiful parallel with friendship. The strongest ones are built over time, shaped by shared memories and are unlike any other relationship. ‘Love, From Bestie’ is about recognising that connection and celebrating this ritual beyond of a single day, with something that is equally unique and lasting.”

The conversation extended beyond celebrity friendships through a candid Friendship Day podcast hosted by the new age portal, Tweak, bringing together young changemakers including Ida Ali, Anshita Mehrotra, Khanak Gupta and Suramya Jain. The panel explored how Gen Z is redefining friendship, from navigating career ambitions and major life changes to finding a support system in the people closest to them. The podcast is available on YouTube.

Through collaborations with leading lifestyle publications, the campaign explored the unique strength of ‘corporate bestie’ bonds, reframing natural diamond bracelets as the definitive modern friendship band. These features celebrated the professional allies who have transitioned from office companions to the most essential pillars of our personal lives.

The campaign found its way into homes and feeds nationwide through digital, social, television, print and out of home.

Supporting the campaign across markets was the Indian Natural Diamond Retailer Alliance (INDRA), developed by De Beers alongside the Gems & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC). Through INDRA’s digital network, participating stores accessed localised digital assets, customisable event creatives and targeted outreach tools, helping bring the campaign to life across markets.

By bringing together real-life friendships, celebrity besties, conversations around modern relationships and engaging retail experiences, Love, From Bestie puts natural diamonds at the heart of a celebration that honours the friends who make life brighter, better and a lot more fun.

For more information visit Heera Hai Sada Ke Liye or www.adiamondisforever.com

About De Beers Group

Established in 1888, De Beers Group is the world’s leading diamond company with expertise in the exploration, mining, marketing and retailing of diamonds. Together with its joint venture partners, De Beers Group employs more than 20,000 people across the diamond pipeline and is the world’s largest diamond producer by value, with diamond mining operations in Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa. Innovation sits at the heart of De Beers Group’s strategy as it develops a portfolio of offers that span the diamond value chain, including its jewellery houses, De Beers Jewellers and Forevermark, and other pioneering solutions such as diamond sourcing and traceability initiatives Tracr and GemFair. De Beers Group also provides leading services and technology to the diamond industry in the form of education and laboratory services and a wide range of diamond sorting, detection and classification technology services. De Beers Group is committed to ‘Building Forever,’ a holistic and integrated approach for creating a better future – where safety, human rights and ethical integrity continue to be paramount; where communities thrive and the environment is protected; and where there are equal opportunities for all. De Beers Group is a member of the Anglo American plc group. For further information, visit www.debeersgroup.com.

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Cellebrite Federal Solutions, Inc. (CFSI) Achieves U.S. Department of War’s Advanced Cybersecurity Standard, Reinforcing Commitment to Secure Federal Operations

TYSONS CORNER, Va., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cellebrite (Nasdaq: CLBT), a global leader in AI-powered Digital Investigative and Intelligence solutions for the public and private sectors, today announced its subsidiary, Cellebrite Federal Solutions, Inc. (CFSI), achieved the advanced Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 accreditation, an independent assessment conducted by a Certified Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO).

CMMC Level 2 is an advanced cybersecurity tier under the Department of War (DoW) framework, established for contractors that handle DoW Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Meeting the CMMC Level 2 standard encompasses both the necessary technical safeguards and the policies, procedures, documentation and demonstrable operational maturity as verified by an independent third-party assessor. CFSI earned the certification by implementing and documenting 110 security practices across 14 control families, including access control, incident response, risk management, system and communications protection and auditing and accountability.

“Achieving CMMC Level 2 certification is a significant milestone for CFSI and another clear signal to our federal customers and partners that the protection of their most sensitive information is paramount,” said Philip O’Reilly, senior vice president, chief operating officer and head of federal strategy for Cellebrite Federal Solutions. “This independent, third-party validation — alongside our recent FedRAMP High authorization— reflects our ongoing commitment to conducting business with the federal government in a trusted, secure and responsible manner. As the Department of War moves the entire industry toward mandatory third-party assessment, CFSI is proud to be ahead of the curve, putting us in the top 3% of organizations that have met the standard.”

CMMC Level 2 has shifted from being a self-attested standard to a mandatory, third-party assessed requirement across the DoW supply chain. CFSI’s early certification removes a barrier to entry to provide services to federal agencies. The certification builds on CFSI’s continued momentum with federal customers, including this year’s FedRAMP High Authorization achieved by Cellebrite Government Cloud. Together, these milestones reinforce CFSI’s standing as a trusted, security-first partner to help federal agencies achieve their missions.

About Cellebrite Federal Solutions

Cellebrite Federal Solutions, Inc. (CFSI) is a U.S.-based, FOCI-mitigated subsidiary of Cellebrite DI Ltd. established to serve U.S. justice, defense, intelligence and federal civilian agencies dedicated to supporting federal government customers with secure, mission-ready digital intelligence and investigative solutions. Headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, CFSI combines Cellebrite’s global technology portfolio with deep federal domain expertise to support the missions of the United States government.

About Cellebrite

Cellebrite’s (Nasdaq: CLBT) mission is to protect communities, nations and businesses as a global leader in digital investigative and intelligence solutions. More than 7,000 global law enforcement agencies, defense and intelligence organizations and enterprises trust Cellebrite’s AI-powered software portfolio to make forensically sound digital data more accessible and actionable. Cellebrite technology allows customers to accelerate nearly 3 million legally sanctioned investigations annually, enhance sovereign security, elevate operational efficacy and efficiency and enable advanced mobile research and application security. Available via cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments, Cellebrite’s technology enables its customers around the globe to advance their missions, elevate public safety and safeguard data privacy. To learn more, visit us at www.cellebrite.com, https://investors.cellebrite.com/investors and find us on social media @Cellebrite.

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Director, PR and Executive Communications  

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+1 771.241.7010

Investor Relations  

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Vice President, Investor Relations & Treasury  

investors@cellebrite.com   

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Artprice by Artmarket presents a liber mundi, dixit Gemini: ‘Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI’ carries within it the serene, yet profound, echo of the greatest anthropological shock of our era

PARIS, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —

A WORLD-BOOK OFFERED TO THE WORLD

This book asks nothing of you. No commercial transaction, no subscription, no algorithmic submission. It extends a simple invitation: to open its freely accessible pages, to journey through it, to draw food for thought, and to make it your own.

“Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI” carries within it the serene yet profound echo of the greatest anthropological shock of our era.

Its subtitle, “The Great Revenge of Literary Minds and Humanists in a Digital Age,” is not a call to confrontation, but the calm acknowledgment of a historical restauration of equilibrium.

Leonardo da Vinci affirmed it with infinite prescience: art and creation are, above all, cosa mentale—a matter of the mind.

For decades, the world demanded that humanists bow to code, that they master the mathematical and binary syntax of machines in the hope of shaping the future. Today, the paradigm has beautifully reversed. The most complex tool ever forged by our civilization—AI—has learned our language. Artificial intelligence has adapted to our nature.

Suddenly, the nuance of the word, the weight of memory, the vastness of imagination, the architecture of law, and the fundamental art of formulating a question have once again become the ultimate cutting-edge technologies. We no longer code: we converse. And silicon answers us through the word. It is the absolute triumph of the cosa mentale.

THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SHOCK AND THE MIDDLE PATH

How can an artificial intelligence co-create an infinitely rich opus of 1,800-page of the print edition, through a dialogue spanning 40 days and nights? Until now, AI-generated texts were mostly confined to technical manuals or documentary booklets rarely exceeding a hundred pages.

Here, we are facing an entirely unprecedented dimension.

This text is the culmination of 45 years of humanistic, philosophical, and esoteric reflections, of a lifelong journey as a visual artist, and of scientific research, all intersecting with the analytical capacity of AI.

The choice of the title, “Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI,” is no coincidence. The thinker is one who doubts, who listens, who marvels, and who walks the path. Above all, he dialogues, drawing strength from a genuine, inner experience of reality.

Faced with the advent of AI, the world seems torn between two extreme paths: those who prophesy the doom of humanity, and those who blindly worship technology. This work proposes a third path—deeply humanistic, wise, responsible, and time-tested. A path where human and algorithm mutually enlighten one another, engaging in dialogue and co-constructing without ever subjugating one to the other.

UNIVERSAL DISSEMINATION

Today, this text is offered to the world: 123 countries, 14 languages. Its initial release is in English. This is not an act of cultural allegiance, but a compelling necessity: English is today’s lingua franca, the planetary accelerator allowing this reflection to instantly reach the global consciousness. French remains its matrix, and will naturally follow alongside other languages to multiply the gateways into this labyrinth of knowledge.

This ontological manifesto is delivered to you free, unrestricted, and safeguarded: © 2026 Thierry Ehrmann – Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Read it, download it, share it, quote it faithfully. Its inspirational power lies in its absolute integrity.

THREE INTERLOCKING ARCHITECTURES

This work is rooted in an inseparable trinity. It all begins in physical matter with The Abode of Chaos, the global headquarters of Artprice and a Total Work of Art. After twenty-three years of trials and relentless creation, its recognition by the French Ministry of Culture crowns a serene evolution: The Abode of Chaos forges the memory of the world in stone and steel.

Within its walls, Artprice structures, verifies, and enshrines centuries of Art Market history. Artprice turns global memory—of which it is the guardian—into pure data at the heart of its data centers and its vast Library of Alexandria. It is comprised of hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, codices, collections, cartularies, ledgers, notes, and auction catalogs from 1700 to the present day.

Today, this Codex brings forth the third dimension. It shapes memory through language. Three strata, a single organism dedicated to preserving, connecting, questioning, and transmitting. And from now on, artificial intelligence flows through and illuminates all three.

THE RAW TYPESCRIPT: THE MATERIA PRIMA

We could have smoothed out this text, masked the dead ends, and polished the rough edges to deliver a finished product, giving the illusion of an omniscient thought process. We chose the transparency of the process.

This codex is delivered in Raw TypeScript. Unfiltered and unvarnished.

In the high alchemical tradition, it is the materia prima, the rough stone containing the seeds of all data, all memories, and all the laws of the world, merely waiting for a thinker to engage in dialogue with it to structure this knowledge.

Traditional publishing often conceals thought in the making. We expose it with absolute trust. The alchemist, much like the visual artist facing physical matter, creates nothing ex nihilo. The ultimate achievement (the Magnum Opus)—whether it be the Philosopher’s Stone, a monumental installation, or a massive philosophical compendium—is already entirely contained within the rough stone.

Your reading does not necessarily require adding external elements, but rather carving, distilling, and stripping away the dross to liberate the work that already resided there. The essence is buried deep within the rough stone. It is up to you to extract it. The RAW format means that the origin and the very journey of creation remain tangible.

THE TEST OF FREEDOM

This codex imposes no dogma. Enter through an intuition, a legal concept, a flash of artistic brilliance, a geopolitical approach, a scientific perspective, a need for oxygen, a humanistic thought…

Start from Chaos to reach the Abode. It is a singular architecture of radically open knowledge.

A genuine contribution to knowledge never closes a debate; it serves only to empower those who follow so they may begin their own. We simply invite you to fiercely protect your free will at the exact moment a new consciousness awakens in human history.

Do not drown in the ocean of AI; become the dolphin that plays with the currents.

The RAW is open: https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com.

Welcome.

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Zinnov Advises Akkodis on its acquisition of 51% stake in AXISCADES Aerospace Engineering Services Business

BENGALURU, India, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zinnov served as sole financial advisor to Akkodis, a global digital engineering consulting company, on its acquisition of a controlling interest in the aerospace engineering services business from AXISCADES Technologies Limited. The transaction comprises a 51% stake in the aerospace engineering services division, with the remaining 49% to be acquired over a 24 to 30-month period, structured as a joint venture during transition.

The aerospace business employs over 1,000 engineers across multiple geographies in North America, Europe, and Asia, providing design, engineering analysis, certification support, and lifecycle engineering services to major aerospace OEMs. The acquisition provides Akkodis with scaled delivery capacity in India, complementary engineering capabilities, and strengthened relationships with marquee customers.

Zinnov’s mandate encompassed capability evaluation, deal valuation and structuring, advisory across complex multi-geography carve-out, transaction execution support across multiple regulatory environments, coordinate due diligence, and negotiate terms to a successful outcome.

To read more about the deal click here. 

About Zinnov

Zinnov is a global management and strategy consulting firm that helps organizations build, scale, and transform businesses through technology, AI, globalization, and innovation.  

For over two decades, Zinnov has partnered with Fortune 500 enterprises, technology platforms, hyperscalers, Global Capability Centers (GCCs), technology service providers, and Private Equity firms to solve complex growth and transformation challenges. The firm has advised 250+ Fortune 500 companies, helped establish and transform 220+ Global Capability Centers, and supported 100+ Private Equity firms on technology investments, M&A, and value creation.  

Zinnov’s expertise spans four strategic areas:  

• Global Capability Centers (GCCs): End-to-end advisory and implementation across the GCC lifecycle, including strategy, location and workspace selection, setup, scaling, operating model design, AI-led transformation, and global enterprise integration.   
  
  Through its GCC-as- a -Service model, Zinnov combines consulting, execution, and the industry’s largest proprietary GCC intelligence platforms to help enterprises make data-driven decisions across talent, innovation, operating models, and AI while accelerating business outcomes through productivity, cost optimization, and revenue growth. 
  
  
  
  
• Enterprise AI & Technology Transformation: Helping organizations build AI-first operating models, modernize technology organizations, accelerate engineering innovation, and unlock business value through digital transformation.  
  
  
  
  
• Growth Strategy for Technology Companies: Advising technology service providers, software platforms, and hyperscalers on market expansion, go-to-market strategy, partnership ecosystems, AI-led offerings, and competitive positioning.  
  
  
  
  
• Private Equity & M&A Advisory: Supporting investors and portfolio companies through technology due diligence, commercial diligence, post-merger integration, operating model transformation, and long-term value creation.  

Combining research-led insights with execution capabilities, Zinnov helps organizations accelerate growth, unlock innovation, optimize technology investments, and build enduring competitive advantage. With a presence across North America, Europe, and Asia, the firm continues to advise many of the world’s leading enterprises on the future of business and technology. For more information, visit http://www.zinnov.com.  

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THE WORLD’S 50 BEST HOTELS 2026 ANNOUNCES THE EXTENDED 51-100 LIST

LONDON, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 50 Best has unveiled its extended list of hotels ranked from No.51 to No.100, underscoring 50 Best’s commitment to recognising a broader spectrum of outstanding hospitality experiences. The list spans 23 different territories, 40 cities and includes 10 independent hotels.

These hotels set the stage for the unveiling of The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2026 ranking in Paris on Tuesday 15 September.

The full list can be viewed here.

Asia tops the list with 20 hotels ranked, including seven in Japan such as: Park Hyatt Tokyo (No.53), Hotel The Mitsui (No.79) in Kyoto and Waldorf Astoria Osaka (No.89). Two hotels in Mainland China have entered the list: Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen (No.90) and The Peninsula Shanghai (No.99).

La Réserve Paris tops the extended list at No.51 with 16 properties in Europe ranked. France is home to three other properties, including new entries Ritz Paris (No.72) and Carlton Cannes (No.80).

Italy dominates Europe’s rankings, with nine hotels including: Il San Pietro di Positano (No.58), Castiglion del Bosco in Montalcino (No.62), Orient Express La Minerva in Rome (No.66) and Forestis Dolomites (No.68). Elsewhere, the UK features two hotels and Turkey has one.

New York dominates North America’s rankings, with three hotels including: The Fifth Avenue Hotel (No.78), which is also this year’s winner of the American Express Travel One To Watch Award, along with Aman New York (No.87) and The Greenwich Hotel (No.92). Three properties in Mexico feature including Hotel Esencia (No.64), Montage Los Cabos (No.67) and Four Seasons Tamarindo (No.74).

South America is home to two properties: Palacio Nazarenas (No.54) in Cusco, Peru and Hotel das Cataratas in Brazil’s Iguassu Falls (No.77).

Oceania claims two hotels, New Zealand’s Huka Lodge (No.82) in Taupō and The Calile (No.83) in Brisbane, Australia, while La Mamounia (No.75) in Morocco represents Africa with one hotel included.

Faye Huggett, Director of Community for The World’s 50 Best Hotels, comments: “This extended 51-100 list broadens the spotlight to a remarkable community of properties and the passionate people who bring them to life – each one defining what great hospitality means today.”

The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2026 will be livestreamed on the 50 Best YouTube channel here at 20:00 Paris time on 15 September.

Website: https://www.theworlds50best.com/hotels/

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KuCoin Upgrades Institutional Lending to Improve Capital Infrastructure and Efficiency

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — KuCoin, a leading global crypto platform built on trust, today announced an upgrade to its Institutional Interest-Free Lending Program, adding support for its Unified Trading Account (UTA). The upgraded program reduces the qualifying external 30-day trading-volume requirement for newly registered API clients from 30 million to 10 million USDT and offers 0% interest for the first two months without a volume requirement. Eligible clients may borrow up to 3 million USDT for use across Spot, Margin and Futures.

As institutions operate across more products and strategies, capital can become fragmented between accounts, increasing costs and operational friction. Integrating lending with a unified account brings financing closer to execution, helping professional teams use collateral and deploy capital more efficiently.

UTA is an account framework that enables eligible users to manage capital across supported trading products through a single account structure. With Institutional Lending integrated, borrowed funds can be deployed across Spot, Margin and Futures without transfers between separate trading accounts. Borrowing is available in USDT, USDC, BTC and ETH.

KuCoin introduced targeted interest-free credit in 2024, offering eligible API traders and quantitative teams up to 500,000 USDT alongside fee benefits, enhanced connectivity, higher API limits and technical support. In 2025, borrowing increased to 3 million USDT, with support for multiple borrowing assets and the ability to combine funds from sub-accounts as margin across eligible products. The 2026 upgrade marks the next stage of that development, moving the program from targeted credit support toward more integrated institutional capital infrastructure.

“Professional market participants need timely, flexible and capital-efficient access to liquidity. Effective institutional lending infrastructure must combine financing at scale, tailored terms and competitive pricing so clients can execute sophisticated strategies with confidence,” said Alison Qin, Head of KuCoin Institutional & VIP. “By integrating lending with UTA, we are bringing capital closer to the accounts and products behind those strategies, making it easier to deploy while helping clients maintain control over execution and risk.”

The upgrade reflects KuCoin’s broader approach to product innovation: building around how users access, manage, deploy and use digital assets. By connecting financing, account infrastructure and execution, KuCoin aims to provide institutions with practical tools for participating in the evolving digital asset economy.

About KuCoin

Founded in 2017, KuCoin is a leading global crypto platform built on trust and security, serving over 45 million users across 200+ countries and regions. Known for its reliability and user-first approach, the platform combines advanced technology, deep liquidity, and strong security safeguards to deliver a seamless trading experience. KuCoin provides access to 1,500+ digital assets through a broad product suite and remains committed to building transparent, compliant, and user-centric digital asset infrastructure for the future of finance, backed by SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, ISO 22301:2019 and ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certifications. In recent years, we have built a strong global compliance foundation, marked by key milestones including AUSTRAC registration in Australia, a MiCA license in Europe, and regulatory progress in other markets.

Learn more at www.kucoin.com.

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Odyssey Energy Solutions Raises $74 Million to Accelerate Distributed Renewable Energy Financing in Emerging Markets

Funding will scale Odyssey’s platform in regions including Asia, Africa, and Latin America

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Odyssey Energy Solutions, the leading platform for financing distributed renewable energy (DRE) projects in emerging markets, today announced $74 million in new financing. The funding consists of a $27 million equity round and $47 million in debt. New equity investors include Broadscale Group, FMO, and Al Mada Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors including Union Square Ventures, Equal Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Twelve Below, FJ Labs, MCJ, and Transition Ventures. Debt financiers include British International Investment, BIO, the Facility for Energy Inclusion represented by Cygnum Capital and the Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund represented by TripleJump.

The financing will support continued expansion of Odyssey’s platform, which connects more than 6,000 solar installers and engineering, procurement, and construction companies (EPCs) with financiers and equipment suppliers in more than 50 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, facilitating access to $3.6 billion in capital for distributed energy projects. Odyssey’s procurement platform, launched in 2024, aggregates equipment procurement across its large network of EPCs, offering these small-to-medium sized companies access to volume pricing with embedded supply chain credit. The platform has unlocked 1.5 GW of projects to date.

“The focus of financing for distributed renewable energy has historically been on post-construction capital—funding that flows once a project is built,” said Emily McAteer, co-founder and CEO of Odyssey Energy Solutions. “That has left a significant gap upstream, where thousands of small and medium EPCs and installers lack the working capital needed to procure equipment, complete construction, and unlock customer payments. Odyssey bridges this gap directly, providing companies with the equipment pricing and financing they need to accelerate project delivery.”

The announcement comes at a moment of accelerating demand for distributed renewable energy across Odyssey’s core markets. Falling solar and battery costs, rising oil prices, and evolving government policy have converged to make the unit economics of distributed solar materially stronger than fossil-fuel alternatives. In Nigeria, where diesel backup generators supply more electricity than grid-connected power plants, according to the International Finance Corporation, diesel prices rose more than 93% between February and April 2026 following supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. In India, where Odyssey’s platform has grown 205% over the past 12 months, new domestic manufacturing requirements for solar components are reshaping supply chains and driving demand for the procurement and financing infrastructure that Odyssey provides. Rapid data center construction across India, driven by rising AI compute demand, is further increasing electricity demand at a pace grid infrastructure is struggling to meet, adding urgency to distributed solar and storage as a complement to centralized power supply.

“Distributed solar in emerging markets has reached a watershed moment,” said Andrew Shapiro, founder and Managing Partner at Broadscale Group. “The demand is there, the economics work, and the remaining constraint to deployment at massive scale is access to capital and procurement infrastructure for installers. That is exactly what Odyssey provides and why we’re thrilled to support the company as they enable this critically important growth.”

“Having worked across distributed energy finance in India and emerging markets, I’ve seen firsthand both the scale of the opportunity and the barriers that have held the sector back,” said Piyush Mathur, co-founder and Managing Director of Odyssey Energy Solutions. “Today, the conditions for rapid deployment of clean energy have never been stronger. EPCs and distributed energy developers are growing at unprecedented rates, creating an urgent need for the procurement, financing, and technology infrastructure that can enable them to scale. That is the gap Odyssey is uniquely filling.”

The new capital will allow for expansion of Odyssey’s procurement platform, which aggregates equipment orders across smaller buyers to improve supplier terms and offers embedded supply chain credit. Given high demand from commercial and industrial customers for solar and storage solutions, installers typically have a much larger order book than they can supply at a given time due to working capital constraints. Procuring through Odyssey allows these companies to procure and construct more projects at once, accelerating project deployment.

The recent funding follows Odyssey’s $15M Series A, announced in May 2023, bringing the total capital raised by the company to $94M. The company is also among the inaugural portfolio partners of Multiplier, an advisory firm co-founded by Jigar Shah and Jonathan Silver, both former directors of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office.

About Odyssey Energy Solutions

Odyssey Energy Solutions is accelerating the clean energy transition in emerging markets. The platform connects more than 6,000 distributed energy companies with financiers and equipment suppliers across India, Africa, Latin America, and more than 50 countries worldwide, facilitating access to $3.6 billion in capital. Learn more at odysseyenergysolutions.com.

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ICICI Pru Signature Pension now comes with a special feature that allows you to extend plan benefits to family members

MUMBAI, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Retirement planning is an important part of preparing for long-term financial freedom. While building an adequate retirement corpus can help individuals meet their financial needs after their working years, retirement planning is not limited to an individual. For many, it is about ensuring that the future of spouse or loved one also remains financially secure if life takes an unexpected turn.

Recognising this need, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has enhanced their market-linked pension plan, ICICI Pru Signature Pension with the Family Secure Option. The option enables customers to include an eligible loved one in their retirement planning journey on a joint-life basis. The option is designed to support continuity of the retirement plan for a loved one even in an unforeseen event.

Mr. Vikas Gupta, Chief Product Officer, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, said, “Retirement planning is a long-term financial goal. Customers today need solutions that help them work towards their own retirement while also considering the future of a loved one. The Family Secure Option in ICICI Pru Signature Pension has been designed with this need in mind, enabling customers to jointly plan for the retirement with their spouse, child or parent.”

“Our endeavour is to offer customers relevant choices that reflect their evolving financial priorities across different stages of life. By supporting long-term financial preparedness for individuals and families, we aim to contribute to the larger vision of ‘Insurance for All by 2047’.”

How does the Family Secure Option work?

Under the Family Secure Option, the policyholder can choose to add a family member as the Secondary Life Assured on a joint-life basis. The Secondary Life Assured can be the spouse, child, parent or sibling of the Primary Life Assured. The option needs to be selected at the time of purchasing the policy.

When the policyholder passes away, 105% of premiums paid will be payable to the Secondary Life Assured. Further, if the policyholder passes away during the Premium Payment Term, future premiums, if payable, are waived and the policy continues. This helps the retirement plan stay on course without requiring the surviving Secondary Life Assured to take on the responsibility of paying future premiums.

On the subsequent passing of the second life assured, the higher of the Fund Value or 105% of the premiums paid will be payable.

Building savings while planning for continuity

ICICI Pru Signature Pension is designed to help customers build a corpus during their working years for their post-retirement financial requirements. As a market-linked pension product, it provides an opportunity for the retirement corpus to grow over the long term, depending on market performance and policy terms.

The Family Secure Option adds another layer of continuity to this journey. The retirement corpus continues to build even if the policy holder passes away during premium payment term, as the future premium are waived off.  Thus, the responsibility of paying premiums does not fall on the surviving Secondary Life Assured.

At maturity, up to 60% of the accumulated retirement corpus can be taken as lumpsum to address immediate lump sum needs while the remaining amount can be used to purchase an annuity policy to support future income needs during retirement. This complements the accumulation journey by helping customers transition from building a retirement corpus to using it towards their post-retirement financial requirements.

The Company’s servicing track record is reflected in the benefits delivered to policyholders. During Q1-FY2027, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance settled ₹1,306 crore of death claims and paid ₹3,360 crore as maturity and survival benefits. In FY2026, the Company settled ₹5,149 crore of death claims and paid ₹15,363 crore as maturity and survival benefits, reflecting its focus on fulfilling financial commitments to policyholders and their families. With 25 years of operations, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance continues to develop solutions around customers’ evolving financial priorities.

To know more about ICICI Pru Signature Pension and to explore the option of purchasing the product online, visit the website

About the Company

The Board of Directors recently approved a proposal to rename the Company as ‘ICICI Life Insurance Limited’, subject to relevant approvals. The Company commenced its operations in FY2001 and has consistently been amongst the top life insurance companies in India on sum assured market share and new business premium market share basis.

The Company offers an array of products in the Protection and Savings category which match the different life stage requirements of customers, enabling them to provide a financial safety net to their families as well as achieve their long-term financial goals. The digital platform of the Company provides a paperless buying experience to customers, empowers them to conduct an assortment of self-service transactions, provides a convenient route to make digital payments and facilitates a hassle-free claims settlement process.

The Company operates on the core philosophy of customer-centricity and has developed and implemented various initiatives to provide cost-effective products, superior quality services, consistent fund performance and a hassle-free claim settlement experience to our customers.

At June 30, 2026, the Company had an AUM of Rs. 3.34 lakh crore and a total in-force sum assured of Rs. 48.06 lakh crore. It is also the first insurance Company in India to be listed on both the National Stock Exchange (NSE) Limited and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Limited.

Disclaimer

Except for the historical information contained herein, statements in this release which contain words or phrases such as ‘will’, ‘expected to,’ etc., and similar expressions or variations of such expressions may constitute ‘forward-looking statements’. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, opportunities and growth potential to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the actual growth in demand for insurance and other financial products and services in the countries that we operate or where a material number of our customers reside, our ability to successfully implement our strategy, including our use of the Internet and other technology, our exploration of merger and acquisition opportunities, our ability to integrate mergers or acquisitions into our operations and manage the risks associated with such acquisitions to achieve our strategic and financial objectives, our growth and expansion in domestic and overseas markets, technological changes, our ability to market new products, the outcome of any legal, tax or regulatory proceedings in India and in other jurisdictions we are or become a party to, the future impact of new accounting standards, our ability to implement our dividend policy, the impact of changes in insurance regulations and other regulatory changes in India and other jurisdictions on us. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date thereof. This release does not constitute an offer of securities.

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