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Huawei Releases an AIFW Technical White Paper to Facilitate Firewall Upgrade

SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On September 17 at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei released the Huawei AIFW Technical White Paper during the session themed “Solidifying Network Security Foundations to Safeguard Industrial Intelligence Implementation.” The White Paper systematically presents the architectural concept and key technologies of next-generation AI firewalls (AIFW) tailored for the AI era. Richard Wu, President of the Security Product Domain of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, and Jeff Wang, President of Huawei Cyber Security & Privacy Dept, jointly attended the launch ceremony.

From Rule-Driven to Intent-Aware: Reshaping Security Defense Logic

As LLMs, AI agents, and compute clusters scale across industries, the cyber threat landscape is fundamentally shifting. Confronted with emerging risks like prompt injection, sensitive data leakage, and compute misuse, traditional rule-matching systems fall short due to delayed rule updates and limited semantic understanding.

According to the White Paper, AIFW integrates AI-native hardware, LLMs, and intelligence and security knowledge bases to shift defense focus from traffic protection to behavior governance. Leveraging full-spectrum awareness, semantic understanding, risk reasoning, and intent recognition, AIFW accurately pinpoints AI-specific risks such as DGA domains, prompt injection, and unauthorized content exfiltration. This marks a transition from rule-driven to intelligence-driven and from static policies to policy autonomy to protect AI computing centers, enterprise AI agents, and LLM operations.

AI-Native Hardware Foundation: Building Native Security Resilience with High Reliability

The White Paper details the AIFW’s native hardware architecture. Leveraging hardware-software synergy, performance across post-quantum cryptography, rule matching, and AI inference achieves order-of-magnitude improvements. Featuring 99.999% carrier-grade reliability, the product utilizes hardware decoupling, software isolation, and an engine-level root of trust to deliver robust survivability and rapid recovery. By preventing vulnerability exploitation and establishing native security immunity, it ensures uninterrupted core operations during extreme network attacks or failures.

Policy Autonomy and Intelligent Operations: Advancing Toward Human-Like Closed-Loop Defense

Addressing traditional security operation pain points—such as outdated rules, insufficient synergy, and complex management—AIFW achieves policy autonomy through unified security semantics and intelligent reasoning. The AIFW automatically identifies and remediates policy gaps and dynamically optimizes policies alongside service shifts. This establishes a human-like closed loop across awareness, decision-making, and response, significantly easing the operational burden on enterprises.

Moving forward, Huawei will continue collaborating with customers and partners to build an intelligent, efficient, autonomous, and trustworthy next-generation network security ecosystem.

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AVIXA Signs MoU with SNDT Women’s University to Bridge Industry-Academia Gap and Empower Women in India’s Growing AV Sector

This Collaboration Supports Skills Development as India’s AV Market is Projected to Reach USD 14 Billion by 2030

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AVIXA (Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association) and SNDT Women’s University today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen academic collaboration, by paving more opportunities for students to explore careers in the global audiovisual industry.

The partnership brings forth the initiatives taken by SNDT Women’s University on women’s education and empowerment, and with AVIXA’s global expertise this strategic collaboration will work towards imparting industry knowledge, emerging AV trends and practical learning opportunities to students. This agreement also provides a prospect to look at AV as more than just a technology-driven sector.

From designing immersive experiences and enabling hybrid collaboration to managing complex AV systems and shaping the future of digital experiences, the industry offers a wide range of career paths and possibilities.

This collaboration will help students explore initiatives across skill development, training, workshops, expert interactions, and knowledge exchange and industry exposure by providing placement opportunity with leading organizations in AV System Integration and Manufacturing, based in the region.

AVIXA and SNDTWU will also curate a curriculum to help students gain industry knowledge, organize mentorship programs, industrial visits, and hands-on training opportunities, with different educational events aligned with evolving industry requirements.

Speaking on the initiative, Dr. Sachin Laddha, Director – Innovation, Incubation and Linkages, SNDTWU, said: “Education becomes truly meaningful when students can connect with reality and keep a check what they learn in the classroom with the world outside it. We are glad to have this memorandum signed with AVIXA. More so, this initiative will help us create strong and greater opportunities for our students who aspire to further strengthen their career in the field of technology.”

AVIXA will also provide an ecosystem and equip our students to remain relevant as technology advances. This MoU also represents a shared commitment to building globally competitive talent from India, while creating greater visibility for the diverse career opportunities available within the AV industry.

Speaking on the collaboration, Pang Yee Loy, Senior Director, Asia Pacific at AVIXA, said, “The AV industry has evolved significantly over the years, creating new opportunities and career paths. We want young professionals to understand the possibilities within this dynamic industry and have access to the knowledge, skills and exposure that can help them prepare for the future. Our collaboration with SNDT Women’s University is a step toward strengthening the bridge between the classroom and the industry, while encouraging more women to look at AV not simply as a technology field, but as a space where they can innovate, create and build meaningful careers.”

The holistic approach will foster entrepreneurial thinking of the students. Additionally, SNDT Women’s University and AVIXA will collaborate in disseminating knowledge through publications, research outcomes, and innovation success stories to keep AV students updated with the ground knowledge.

About SNDT Women’s University

SNDT Women’s University, which is one of the public universities in Maharashtra, India, is the first women’s university in India as well as in South-East Asia. The University was founded by Maharshi Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve in 1916 for the noble cause of women’s education. The first five women graduated in 1921 from this University. The University headquarters is at the Churchgate Campus, Mumbai, and the other three campuses of this University are at Juhu, Mumbai and Karve Road, Pune and Ballarpur, Chandrapur District of Maharashtra.

About AVIXA

AVIXA is the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association, producer of InfoComm trade shows around the world, co-owner of Integrated Systems Europe, and the international trade association representing the audiovisual industry. Established in 1939, AVIXA has more than 3,000 enterprise members representing over 20,000 AV professionals, including manufacturers, systems integrators, dealers and distributors, consultants, programmers, live events companies, technology managers, content producers, and multimedia professionals from more than 80 countries. AVIXA members create integrated AV experiences that deliver outcomes for end users. AVIXA is a hub for professional collaboration, information, and community, and is the leading resource for AV standards, certification, training, market intelligence, and thought leadership. Visit www.avixa.org.

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Deakin University GIFT City Campus Launches Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence (Professional) for Indian students

GANDHINAGAR, India, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Deakin University GIFT City Campus has announced the launch of its Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence (Professional), a new postgraduate programme designed to prepare the next generation of AI professionals, innovators and technology leaders in India for an increasingly AI-driven world.

The programme will commence next year, with applications now open for the inaugural July 2027 intake. Delivered on campus and recognised at Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Level 9, the programme further strengthens Deakin’s commitment to building globally relevant, future-focused talent in India.

The launch also marks a significant milestone in the continued growth of Deakin’s GIFT City Campus and reflects the University’s focus on emerging fields reshaping industries, economies, and societies worldwide.

Bringing Global AI Expertise to GIFT City

The Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence (Professional) extends Deakin’s established academic expertise in artificial intelligence to students in India, providing access to the same academic and admissions framework as the University’s equivalent programme in Australia.

Students will develop advanced capabilities across a broad spectrum of AI disciplines, including machine learning, deep learning, AI engineering, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, speech processing, reinforcement learning and human-aligned AI. The programme combines rigorous technical foundations with industry-focused learning and opportunities for professional practice, team-based projects and research.

Professionally accredited by the Australian Computer Society (ACS), the programme equips graduates with globally recognised credentials and practical skills relevant to contemporary industry needs.

Ravneet Pawha, Vice President (Global Engagement) and CEO South Asia, Deakin University, said, “As artificial intelligence reshapes industries and careers, Deakin is bringing world-class AI education to GIFT City to develop the specialised talent and expertise needed for the future global workforce. This programme reflects our long-term commitment to India and our belief in the country’s growing leadership in technology and innovation.”

Expanding Access to AI Careers

Applicants can be considered through two broad routes:

• Graduates with a bachelor’s degree or higher in a related discipline, including Information Technology and related fields; or
• Graduates from any discipline with at least two years of relevant work experience, or part-time equivalent, subject to Deakin’s admissions requirements.

This structure creates an opportunity not only for IT and computing graduates, but also for professionals from other academic backgrounds who have built relevant industry experience and are looking to develop specialist capabilities in AI.

Graduates of the programme will be prepared for opportunities spanning machine learning engineering, AI solutions development, AI architecture, natural language processing, AI product management, intelligent automation and AI-led innovation.

Prof. (Dr.) Deepak Bajaj, Academic and Campus Director, Deakin University GIFT City Campus, said, “AI is no longer a niche specialisation. It is becoming a foundational capability across business, technology and society. This programme combines advanced technical knowledge with practical application, preparing graduates to solve complex challenges and contribute meaningfully to the future of innovation. Its launch further strengthens Deakin GIFT City’s role in developing industry-ready talent for India and the global economy.”

The Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence (Professional) joins Deakin’s growing suite of postgraduate offerings at GIFT City, which includes the Master of Business Analytics and Master of Cyber Security (Professional).

Together, these programmes reflect Deakin’s strategic focus on disciplines at the intersection of technology, business, data, cybersecurity and digital transformation.

To ensure a high-quality student experience, the programme will commence with a limited intake, enabling strong academic engagement, industry connection and personalised learning opportunities.

Applications are now open for the July 2027 intake. To find out more about the programme, eligibility, application and more, please visit Deakin University GIFT City Campus Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence (Professional)

About Deakin University GIFT City Campus

Deakin University GIFT City Campus is Deakin University’s international campus in Gujarat and forms part of the University’s long-standing engagement with India. The campus delivers Deakin postgraduate degrees within GIFT City, combining Deakin’s international academic standards with the opportunities presented by India’s emerging international financial and technology ecosystem.

The campus currently offers postgraduate programmes in Business Analytics, Cyber Security and Applied Artificial Intelligence, with its programmes designed to respond to the evolving needs of students, employers and the Indian economy. To know more, please visit Deakin University GIFT City Campus India

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Supporting PM Modi’s call, IIFL Finance’s Mayank Sharma believes recycling household gold is the fastest way to cut import bill

Opinion Piece by Mayank Sharma, President and Head, Gold Loans, IIFL Finance: Supporting the Prime Minister’s call through gold recycling, reuse and financialisation

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — India’s household gold stock, built over generations through weddings, inheritance and savings, holds the real answer to the country’s import dependence on the metal, according to Mayank Sharma, President and Head, Gold Loans, IIFL Finance, who said “circulation” rather than “abstinence” should be the guiding principle of the country’s gold economy.

Mayank Sharma, President and Head, Gold Loans, IIFL Finance said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent appeal to Indians to hold off on buying new gold for a year, framed as a measure to ease pressure on foreign exchange reserves, points to a more structural opportunity — recycling and reusing the gold Indians already own rather than importing more.

Gold remains India’s second-largest import item by value, a trend that puts pressure on the rupee, widens the current account deficit and consumes foreign exchange needed for other national priorities, Sharma said, adding that the country is estimated to hold tens of thousands of tonnes of gold in private hands, most of which does not currently circulate through the formal economy in an organised, transparent manner.

He noted that industry, rather than mandate, is beginning to drive this shift. A leading gold jeweller has said close to 80 per cent of its gold demand is now met through customers exchanging old stock, reflecting how deeply recycling has embedded itself in retail gold buying. A newer generation of buyers is also increasingly seeking clarity on the provenance of their gold, signalling that responsible sourcing is fast becoming a mainstream expectation rather than a niche concern.

The World Gold Council has separately argued at the policy level that responsible domestic mining, combined with organised recycling, can meaningfully cut India’s reliance on gold imports over time.

Sharma said that gold loans have emerged as one of the most efficient ways to keep gold liquid and productive without removing it from the economy. When a household pledges gold for credit instead of selling it, the gold stays within the country’s stock while the credit unlocked supports working capital for small businesses, medical emergencies, education or farm input costs, he said, adding that this model has become a particularly dependable bridge to credit for MSMEs that often lack formal collateral.

He also pointed to the financialisaton of gold through ETFs and digital gold products, which allow Indians to hold gold’s value without holding the physical metal, reducing physical import demand at the margin while preserving gold’s traditional role as a hedge and store of value.

Taken together — organised recycling, responsible sourcing, credit against existing stock and financialisaton — these trends point to a gold economy that draws more on India’s existing reserves than on fresh imports, Sharma said. He described this not as a call to stop buying gold but as a case for buying and using it differently, whether through exchanging old jewellery, borrowing against family gold instead of making a fresh purchase, or opting for digital gold.

While the Prime Minister’s appeal addressed a real and urgent macroeconomic concern, the more durable solution to India’s gold dependency lies in building the transparency, trust and infrastructure needed to treat the country’s existing gold stock as a national resource that can be recycled, financed and circulated for years to come, Sharma said.

About IIFL Finance Limited

IIFL Finance is one of India’s leading financial services companies, offering a comprehensive suite of products, including gold loans, business loans, home loans, microfinance, and other secured lending solutions. With a strong presence across urban and rural India, IIFL is committed to empowering individuals and businesses through accessible and affordable credit solutions.

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JEEVMEDIA Launches EYDIT, a Specialised Post-Production Agency for the Creator Economy

Sep 21: JEEVMEDIA, a global creator management and influencer marketing agency, announces the launch of EYDIT, a dedicated post-production agency designed to solve the critical “editing bottleneck” facing influencers and technology brands. Operating as a specialised vertical of JEEVMEDIA, EYDIT aims to change post-production from a final logistical step into a measurable performance function.

In the current creator economy, influencers often find themselves capped by production capacity; a single operator who can shoot content but cannot scale output without professional editing support. Simultaneously, brands in AI and technology struggle to find post-production partners who understand their specific requirements, such as screen recordings, UI walkthroughs and prompt-to-output sequences. EYDIT is created to address this disconnect, providing professional-grade editing that prioritises retention, pacing and visual storytelling.

EYDIT focuses on four core areas of expertise, emphasising data-driven editing that aligns with platform-specific retention curves. These include high-retention short-form content for Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts, where the agency specialises in hooks and the critical first three seconds. The agency also provides narrative-driven editing for long-form YouTube documentaries and video essays, expert-led editing for AI product and technology content, and advanced motion graphics and multi-format repurposing.

“The creator economy solved distribution years ago, but it never solved production,” said Prafulla Kumar Jha, Founder and CEO of EYDIT and JEEVMEDIA. “Every brand can find a creator in ten minutes, but getting content that actually holds attention still comes down to the edit, a part of the chain that nobody really owns. We built EYDIT because we needed it ourselves. Running campaigns across 90 countries, we kept seeing good creators and good budgets undone by weak post-production, so rather than patching it with freelancers, we built the company we wished existed.”

The editing team at EYDIT is led by Chief Operating Officer Sharbajit Nath, who brings six years of industry experience and Founding Video Editor Niloy Roy, a specialist in AI-native editing workflows. The agency currently scales with a growing team of ten editors, all hired on the basis of their ability to predict and maintain viewer attention.

Interested influencers and brands can learn more and book a consultation at eydit.com.

ASMAX at CIMAMotor 2026: Rethinking What a Motorcycle Intercom Should Be

CHONGQING, China, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ASMAX signaled a new era of motorcycle communication at CIMAMotor 2026, unveiling RoamX, the world’s first screen-equipped motorcycle intercom headset, and officially launching ASMAX Racing Program with international racer Valentin Debise and Chinese performance motorcycle brand ZXMOTO. Together, they mark a new chapter for ASMAX—from making advanced communication technology accessible to rethinking what the motorcycle intercom can become.

BORN TO RIDE: Rethinking the Motorcycle Intercom

On September 20, ASMAX held its “BORN TO RIDE” technology launch event, introducing RoamX after three years of full-chain R&D. Built with industrial-grade technology, RoamX takes a pioneering approach to intercom form, interaction, and personalization.

RoamX features 32-rider Mesh communication, an industry-first 53mm ultra-large speakerunit, and professional-grade audio tuning. Its customizable display and personalized themes make the headset an extension of the rider’s identity, while intuitive controls and smart connectivity simplify group communication.

Rather than competing only on range or specifications, RoamX responds to what riders increasingly expect: better sound, easier interaction, greater personalization, and a more intuitive experience. It marks ASMAX’s evolution from proving advanced technology could be made accessible to exploring a new direction for motorcycle communication.

RoamX debuted as a technology preview at CIMAMotor 2026, with product details and availability to follow.

ASMAX Racing Program: From the Racetrack to the Riding World

The event also marked the official launch of ASMAX The Racing Program. Two collaborative editions debuted at CIMAMotor: the DEBISE Racing Edition, developed with ASMAX Global Brand Ambassador and professional racer Valentin Debise, and the ZXMOTO Ride Edition, created with Chinese performance motorcycle brand ZXMOTO.

Together, they represent different expressions of the rider spirit—focus, passion, performance, and shared experience. From professional racetracks to everyday riding, the collaborations bring ASMAX communication technology into demanding riding environments.

ASMAX at CIMAMotor 2026

Held in Chongqing from September 19–22, CIMAMotor 2026 brings together the global motorcycle community. At Hall N4, Booth 4T45, ASMAX presents its latest riding communication technologies and a broader vision for the category—moving from function toward experience, personalization, and expression.

About ASMAX

ASMAX is a global outdoor communication technology brand focused on smart riding, IoT connectivity, and intelligent communication solutions, developing technology that connects riders and enhances outdoor experiences.

For more information, visit: www.asmaxconnect.com

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Apurva.ai Evolves Apurva LENS from an Organisational Product to a Platform for the Development Ecosystem

• Rohini and Nandan Nilekani-supported Apurva.ai evolves Apurva LENS from a knowledge workspace into a platform for cross-organisational learning and collaboration
• Apurva LENS is open for practitioners and organisations to explore and experience its capabilities firsthand

BENGALURU, India, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Apurva.ai, an AI-enabled public-good digital infrastructure working with over 50 global organisations, today announced a new platform model for Apurva LENS, extending it from a product that helps individual organisations work with their knowledge to a platform that enables knowledge to travel across the wider development ecosystem. Apurva LENS is already being used and tested by organisations addressing complex social challenges across the Global South and beyond.

Apurva.ai is a unit of C4EC Foundation, co-founded by Nilekani Philanthropies to support change leaders working to respond to complex social challenges with speed, at scale, and sustainably.

As social and development challenges grow in scale and complexity, no single organisation has all the knowledge or answers needed to respond effectively. There is a growing need for ways to bring together what different actors and communities know, make sense of it collectively, and respond at scale.

Apurva LENS, part of a suite of AI-enabled products, was designed to help actors across the development ecosystem, including funders, governments, NGOs and change leaders, make sense of knowledge that often remains siloed across research, evaluations, programme experience and conversations. At its core are the voices and lived experiences of communities, so that those closest to a problem can help shape what happens next. Today, Apurva LENS has helped surface more than half a million voices and perspectives from across the development ecosystem in the Global South.

The new platform model transforms Apurva LENS from an organisation-level product into a platform for cross-organisational learning and collaboration. Multiple actors across an ecosystem can now learn from knowledge made available by each other, while retaining control over what they keep private and what they choose to share. This allows learning generated in one part of an ecosystem to become useful elsewhere, without losing its context or ownership.

The shift reflects a larger premise behind Apurva LENS: as AI makes more knowledge available, the challenge is no longer simply accessing information but making sense of it. By bringing together research, evidence, and organisational learning with the voices and lived experiences of communities from the outset, Apurva LENS enables a more bottom-up approach where those closest to a problem help shape how it is understood and how solutions are designed. This approach is already being explored across different development contexts.

• SELCO Foundation initially used Apurva LENS to bring together organisational knowledge spanning archival information, everyday conversations and sector-focused assets, enabling teams to query it, surface patterns and synthesise insights. The collaboration has since extended beyond SELCO Foundation through the Platform for Collective Wisdom (PCW), an initiative enabled by Apurva.ai. PCW brings together community voices, practitioner perspectives and institutional knowledge across the development sector, allowing knowledge that would otherwise remain siloed to be connected and built upon across the wider ecosystem.
• Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA) used Apurva LENS to organise, analyse and synthesise community dialogues and research across Kenya, Uganda, Sierra Leone and South Africa, spanning climate resilience, health, livelihoods, food systems, gender, governance and financing. The work helped surface themes across countries while reinforcing an important principle: AI-assisted analysis was most useful when combined with human contextual judgment grounded in local realities, political economy and systems dynamics.
• In Brazil, Museu da Pessoa, one of the world’s earliest virtual museums, has built an archive of 20,000 life stories and approximately 11,000 hours of recorded material, capturing experiences across generations, regions and communities. Using Apurva LENS, the team prototyped a subset of voices to explore experiences around longevity, surfacing patterns and differences across individual life stories. The work points to a larger opportunity: turning a vast archive into living, accessible knowledge, that enables insights rooted in local experience to travel across languages and geographies and inform understanding far beyond where those stories originated.
• Rare’s Fish Forever works with fishers, local leaders, governments, funders and NGOs across Central and South America, Africa and Asia-Pacific to restore coastal fisheries and enable communities to manage them sustainably. As the programme expanded, knowledge accumulated across reports, presentations, field notes, chats and informal conversations. Fish Forever brought in Apurva LENS to help organise this collective knowledge, enabling teams to connect what they know with what they are learning and how conditions are changing. Its longer-term ambition is a living knowledge ecosystem where new insights from communities can continually inform learning across the programme.

Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director, Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), said, “Working across countries, communities and interconnected development challenges, we see firsthand how knowledge can remain fragmented across programmes, partners and contexts. Our work with Apurva LENS has shown the value of bringing community voices together with research and systems knowledge to see connections that would otherwise be difficult to surface. The opportunity of a platform approach is to take this further, enabling learning to travel across actors and ecosystems while retaining the local context that gives it meaning. AI can help make those connections, but human judgment remains essential to understanding and acting on them.”

Dr. Harish Hande, CEO, SELCO Foundation, said, “Some of the most valuable learning comes from communities and practitioners solving real problems every day, yet those experiences rarely travel far enough. When they can be connected across organisations and geographies, we can build on what has already been learned rather than repeatedly starting from scratch. Our work with Apurva.ai is about creating that possibility at scale, while ensuring that community knowledge and lived experience remain at the heart of how solutions are shaped.”

Nandan Nilekani, Co-Founder and Chairman, Infosys and Chairman of EkStep Foundation, said, “AI’s real opportunity is to make intelligence useful at scale, across varied societal contexts. India has shown how open infrastructure can enable ecosystems whose impact can extend far beyond its borders. Apurva.ai is bringing that thinking to knowledge – connecting research, organisational learning and community experience so that insights can travel across organisations and geographies. I hope more organisations will join us to explore what we can build together.”

Anand Rajan, Co-Founder and Mission Leader, Apurva.ai, said, “The development sector does not lack knowledge. It already exists across organisations, research, programmes and, importantly, within communities themselves. The challenge is turning all of this into understanding that people can act on. With Apurva LENS becoming a platform, we are moving from helping individual organisations make their knowledge work for them to asking what becomes possible when that knowledge can travel across an ecosystem. AI can help us make sense of this complexity at a scale that was not possible before. But judgment, context and action remain fundamentally human.”

Apurva LENS is open for practitioners and organisations to explore and experience its capabilities firsthand. The experience brings to life a question at the heart of Apurva.ai’s approach: What if communities were not simply the recipients of solutions, but helped shape them from the start?

About Apurva.ai

Apurva.ai is a public-good, sense-making infrastructure for systems change. Through its AI-powered suite of products, it enables change leaders and organisations to unlock the collective wisdom within their networks by connecting community voices and lived experiences with knowledge from across the wider ecosystem. With communities at the centre, Apurva.ai helps surface connections, build shared understanding and enable more contextually relevant action on complex social challenges. Its suite of products supports a continuous cycle of listening, learning and acting, helping ecosystems move from fragmented knowledge towards collective understanding and systemic change. Apurva.ai is a unit of C4EC Foundation. 

For more on Apurva.ai visit: https://apurva.ai/about-us/

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Huawei Upgrades Stellar AI WAN Solution to Drive All Intelligence Across Industries

SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei unveiled its upgraded Stellar AI WAN Solution. Centered on ultimate computing efficiency and multi-dimensional security, this solution addresses cross-region computing challenges in efficiency, cost, and security, driving all intelligence across industries in the AI era.

Stellar AI WAN for Intelligent Connectivity

Amid the rapid expansion of AI computing power, deploying new compute infrastructure in the West has made remote invocation the new norm. However, traditional networks face three critical issues relating to cross-region computing.

• Severe efficiency loss: Invoking computing power across 1,000 km can incur a 37% efficiency loss from a mere 0.073% packet loss.
• High on-premise costs: Local compute deployment costs from 1 million RMB per branch.
• Expensive private lines: Enterprises spend around 1.2 million RMB annually on 10G private lines.

To address this, Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, introduced the Stellar AI WAN Solution, enabling lossless delivery of computing power over 1,000 km for a local-like remote computing experience. The XH computing-network appliance uses a unique layerwise model partitioning algorithm to run the initial and final layers of inference locally while offloading intermediate layers to remote infrastructure. With the network transmitting only high-dimensional vectors, raw data remains on-premises. The appliance requires just two xPUs to match a traditional 8-xPU setup, slashing xPU costs by 75%. The updated Starnet lossless algorithm cuts bandwidth idle time by over 80% and reduces required bandwidth fivefold, further lowering cross-region computing costs.

Stellar AI WAN for Security

As global security threats intensify, novel vectors like APTs and HNDL attacks continue to emerge. To address these, Huawei provides a three-layer defense for WANs.

• Device layer: Intrinsic security boards detect and block intrusions in real time, tracing threats within minutes at over 95% accuracy.
• Link layer: Built-in QKD delivers robust quantum security without extra devices or fibers, slashing costs by over 60%. An adaptive noise suppression algorithm extends QKD transmission past 80 km.
• Network layer: APN6-based data fencing enables network-wide control over traffic paths, ensuring data travels exclusively within secure networks with intrinsic security and quantum encryption deployed.

Looking ahead, Huawei will continually upgrade the Stellar AI WAN Solution, deepening its computing-network synergy and multi-dimensional security. Together with partners, Huawei aims to reinforce the intelligent network foundation and accelerate all intelligence across enterprises.

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Demand for services rising faster than charities can respond, CAF research finds

LONDON, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — New research from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) finds that charities around the world are facing ever-increasing demand for their services and many are finding it difficult to cope.

CAF’s World Giving Report: Charity Insights explores the trends and challenges facing charities, using research with more than 5,000 charity leaders in 33 countries. The report is being launched at a side event at the United Nations General Assembly and follows the publication earlier this year of the World Giving Report: Donor Insights on global generosity trends.

In the past year, demand has increased for more than two thirds of charities (67%). Nearly half (47%) are finding it hard to cope and the majority expect the demand to increase even further. Those in lower-income countries are the hardest-hit. Many charities have responded by prioritising services based on the severity of need, with one in five (18%) organisations creating a waitlist.

When asked about the key challenges they face, 61% of charities said their primary concern is achieving financial sustainability. To respond to this, 37% of charities have diversified their income, but a third of charities (33%) have used their savings or reserves to cover income shortfalls and a quarter (25%) have reduced employee numbers or downsized.

Fewer than two in five (37%) charities feel financially and operationally set up for success over the next three years. Larger charities feel more confident, while organisations that provide crucial services are among the most pessimistic.

Mark Greer, Managing Director at the Charities Aid Foundation said:  

“Around the world, charities are striving to support those in need but facing an extremely challenging operating environment. With escalating conflicts and the effects of climate change, many charities are struggling to cope with the numbers of people who need support from them.

“It’s important that funders consider how to better support charities with flexible and reliable funding, including to help with resilience, particularly as organisations manage reductions in government aid and development spending. We encourage charities to invest time in building their long-term resilience and take inspiration from others have done this, including those in this report.

“When charities are strained, it’s crucial that policymakers and those of us in the sector champion and advocate for the vital role that they play in communities around the world.”

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Vipin Sharma Earns Global Recognition as Kamathipura Express Wins 2026 Bronze Student Academy Award

Sep 21: Vipin Sharma continues to make his mark on the international stage with Kamathipura Express, a Warsaw Film School production directed by Leon Korzyński, which has won the 2026 Bronze Student Academy Award in the Narrative category. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named the film among the winners of the 53rd Student Academy Awards, selected from 2,972 entries submitted by 894 colleges and universities worldwide. The Student Academy Awards ceremony was held for the first time in association with the Toronto International Film Festival.

The win also makes Kamathipura Express eligible to compete in the Live Action Short Film category at the 99th Academy Awards, giving the film a pathway into Oscar consideration. Vipin Sharma plays a pivotal antagonist in the film, adding another distinctive performance to his growing body of international work.

For Sharma, the recognition comes at an important point in a career that has steadily moved between Indian cinema and international productions. Known for his performances in films and series including Taare Zameen Par, Gangs of Wasseypur, Maharani and Dhadak 2, the actor gained international attention with Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man.

Speaking about his association with Kamathipura Express, Vipin Sharma says,

“I am a huge Polish cinema fan. I think it was they who invented the idea of pitching a film in one sentence. So, when I was offered a role in a film from Warsaw Film School, I immediately met the director, Leon Korzyński. I loved the idea behind the film and said yes to it right away! I have also been supporting young filmmakers who are starting their careers. Their enthusiasm and passion are inspiring, and they bravely experiment!”

Sharma has also recently wrapped shooting with Dev Patel again in The Peasant, an upcoming A24-backed medieval revenge-action thriller. The film follows a 14th-century shepherd who sets out to avenge the destruction of his community by a group of mercenaries. The project marks A24’s first production to be filmed in India and features an international ensemble including Christian Friedel, Sebastian Bull, Vipin Sharma and Anasuya Sengupta.

From the marginalised communities depicted in Monkey Man to the period world of The Peasant and the urgent social concerns explored in Korzyński’s award-winning short, Sharma’s recent work reflects the range of stories and characters he continues to take on across Indian and international cinema.

With Kamathipura Express now recognised at the Student Academy Awards and eligible for consideration at the 99th Academy Awards, the film adds another significant milestone to Vipin Sharma’s growing international profile.