Lynk Global and Omnispace announce their merger to deliver next-generation global Direct-to-Device connectivity
SES, a global leader in space solutions, will continue as a key strategic partner to accelerate the delivery of powerful, cost-effective global D2D services
Lynk Global and Omnispace today announced plans to merge to deliver a comprehensive direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity solution, bridging the gap between today's satellite and terrestrial networks. Following the merger, SES will become a major strategic shareholder, facilitating a robust deployment of D2D and IoT services for mobile network operator (MNO), enterprise and government customers as part of a multi-orbit, multi-spectrum network architecture.
The combined entity will leverage Omnispace's 60 MHz of globally coordinated S-band spectrum and its high-priority filings with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), optimized for D2D services. Omnispace's licensed mobile satellite spectrum is compliant with 3GPP standards for non-terrestrial networks (NTN), and adheres to national regulatory frameworks. It includes the largest S-band market access footprint, reaching over 1 billion people across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. This foundation enables accelerated global deployment and scalable service delivery.
The combination will benefit from Lynk's patented, proven, low-cost, multi-spectrum satellite technology platform. Lynk's technology enables backward compatible satellite-delivered mobile voice and messaging services to more than 7 billion smartphones and IoT devices and will leverage the S-band to offer a step-change in its data, voice and messaging services to new smart phones and IoT devices, including automotive platforms. Lynk's relationships with over 50 MNO customers across more than 50 countries will see significant benefit from the enhanced D2D offering.
"We now have the right mix of technology, spectrum and leadership to extend mobile connectivity where and when it's needed most," said Ramu Potarazu, CEO, Lynk. "This merger will enable us to accelerate our efforts in delivering seamless, reliable messaging, voice and data services – serving MNOs, as well as consumer, commercial and industrial vehicles, and government and utility sectors worldwide."
"This merger unlocks the full potential of our global S-band spectrum assets and positions us at the forefront of D2D," said Ram Viswanathan, President and CEO, Omnispace. "By combining Omnispace's spectrum portfolio with Lynk's innovative technology, we're creating a powerful platform for scalable, cost-effective global D2D that will serve the immediate connectivity needs of customers and has the spectrum to enhance capacity over time."
SES, a current investor in both companies, will deepen its partnership profile following the merger, providing access to its multi-orbit network and globally deployed ground infrastructure. SES will also support the engineering, operations and regulatory needs of the combined entity. The partnership will enable SES to enhance current services for its customers around the world, including those in the mobile telecom, automotive and government sectors.
"We see enormous opportunities in D2D and IoT connectivity," said Adel Al-Saleh, CEO, SES. "The planned combination of Lynk and Omnispace will offer SES access to new LEO capabilities that align with our strategy to diversify into this high-growth segment. This merger pairs an industry-leading global spectrum portfolio with a disruptive cost-effective satellite technology platform – accelerating deployment and delivering significant value to our commercial and government customers."
The transaction is expected to close late this year or early next year, subject to customary approvals and closing conditions. Upon closing, Ramu Potarazu will serve as the Chief Executive Officer and Ram Viswanathan will serve as the Chief Strategy Officer of the new entity.
About Lynk
Lynk is a patented, proven, and commercially-licensed satellite-direct-to-standard-mobile-phone system. Lynk's technology enables MNOs to provide their subscribers with connections from space for their unmodified mobile devices, enabling messaging, voice and data services designed for both commercial and government applications. Lynk's technology has been tested and proven on all seven continents, and the Company is partnered with over 50 MNOs and has commercial contracts to deliver services to over 50 countries.
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Learn more at: www.lynk.world
About Omnispace, LLC
Headquartered in the Washington D.C. area, and founded by veteran telecommunications and satellite industry executives, Omnispace is redefining mobile connectivity for the 21st century. By leveraging 5G technologies, the company is combining the global footprint of a non-geostationary satellite constellation with the mobile networks of the world's leading telecom companies to bring an interoperable "one network" connectivity to users and IoT devices anywhere on the globe.
Omnispace Media: Marie Knowles, mknowles@omnispace.com
Learn more at: www.omnispace.com
About SES
At SES, we believe that space has the power to make a difference. That's why we design space solutions that help governments protect, businesses grow, and people stay connected—no matter where they are. With integrated multi-orbit satellites and our global terrestrial network, we deliver resilient, seamless connectivity and the highest quality video content to those shaping what's next. Following our Intelsat acquisition, we now offer more than 100 years of combined global industry leadership—backed by a track record of bringing innovation "firsts" to market. As a trusted partner to customers and the global space ecosystem, SES is driving impact that goes far beyond coverage. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg and listed on Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges (Ticker: SESG).
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Learn more at: www.ses.com
Groq and IBM partner to accelerate enterprise AI deployment and workflows with speed and scale
Partnership aims to deliver faster agentic AI capabilities through IBM watsonx Orchestrate and Groq technology, enabling enterprise clients to take immediate action on complex workflows
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Groq today announced a strategic go-to-market and technology partnership designed to give clients immediate access to Groq's inference technology, GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate – providing clients high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate and enhance RedHat open source vLLM technology with Groq's LPU architecture. IBM Granite models are also planned to be supported on GroqCloud for IBM clients.
Enterprises moving AI agents from pilot to production still face challenges with speed, cost, and reliability, especially in mission-critical sectors like healthcare, finance, government, retail, and manufacturing. This partnership combines Groq's inference speed, cost efficiency, and access to the latest open-source models with IBM's agentic AI orchestration to deliver the infrastructure needed to help enterprises scale.
Powered by its custom LPU, GroqCloud delivers over 5X faster and more cost-efficient inference than traditional GPU systems. The result is consistently low latency and dependable performance, even as workloads scale globally. This is especially powerful for agentic AI in regulated industries.
For example, IBM's healthcare clients receive thousands of complex patient questions simultaneously. With Groq, IBM's AI agents can analyze information in real-time and deliver accurate answers immediately to enhance customer experiences and allow organizations to make faster, smarter decisions.
This technology is also being applied in non-regulated industries. IBM clients across retail and consumer packaged goods are using Groq for HR agents to help enhance automation of HR processes and increase employee productivity.
"Many large enterprise organizations have a range of options with AI inferencing when they're experimenting, but when they want to go into production, they must ensure complex workflows can be deployed successfully to ensure high-quality experiences," said Rob Thomas, SVP, Software and Chief Commercial Officer at IBM. "Our partnership with Groq underscores IBM's commitment to providing clients with the most advanced technologies to achieve AI deployment and drive business value."
"With Groq's speed and IBM's enterprise expertise, we're making agentic AI real for business. Together, we're enabling organizations to unlock the full potential of AI-driven responses with the performance needed to scale," said Jonathan Ross, CEO & Founder at Groq. "Beyond speed and resilience, this partnership is about transforming how enterprises work with AI, moving from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption with confidence, and opening the door to new patterns where AI can act instantly and learn continuously."
IBM will offer access to GroqCloud's capabilities starting immediately and the joint teams will focus on delivering the following capabilities to IBM clients, including:
- High speed and high-performance inference that unlocks the full potential of AI models and agentic AI, powering use cases such as customer care, employee support and productivity enhancement.
- Security and privacy-focused AI deployment designed to support the most stringent regulatory and security requirements, enabling effective execution of complex workflows.
- Seamless integration with IBM's agentic product, watsonx Orchestrate, providing clients flexibility to adopt purpose-built agentic patterns tailored to diverse use cases.
The partnership also plans to integrate and enhance RedHat open source vLLM technology with Groq's LPU architecture to offer different approaches to common AI challenges developers face during inference. The solution is expected to enable watsonx to leverage capabilities in a familiar way and let customers stay in their preferred tools while accelerating inference with GroqCloud. This integration will address key AI developer needs, including inference orchestration, load balancing, and hardware acceleration, ultimately streamlining the inference process.
Together, IBM and Groq provide enhanced access to the full potential of enterprise AI, one that is fast, intelligent, and built for real-world impact.
Statements regarding IBM's and Groq'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 and 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 a 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 our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information.
About Groq
Groq is the inference infrastructure powering AI with the speed and cost it requires. Founded in 2016, Groq developed the LPU and GroqCloud to make compute faster and more affordable. Today, Groq is trusted by over two million developers and teams worldwide and is a core part of the American AI Stack.
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Elizabeth Brophy
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Introducing AlphaSense AI's new Financial Data suite of tools for integrated quantitative and qualitative market intelligence
Unified research platform combines premium qualitative content, comprehensive quantitative datasets, and domain-specific generative AI
AlphaSense, the AI platform redefining market intelligence for the business and financial world, today announced the launch of Financial Data, its newest innovation that provides financial and corporate professionals with a unified view of both quantitative analysis and qualitative research insights.
Announced at AlphaSummit, the company’s inaugural customer conference, Financial Data is a suite of structured datasets and purpose-built tools, orchestrated by domain-specific AI to meet the accuracy and trust requirements of high-stakes financial and business workflows. AlphaSense applies more than a decade of expertise in financial language and workflows to deliver AI that is precise, transparent, and decision-ready. According to Gartner®, “By 2027, 35% of agentic AI will succeed in scaling because of investment in domain-specific reasoning, up from 0% in 2024.”
Financial Data eliminates frequent pain points in market intelligence among private equity and venture capital firms and corporate teams by unifying every major market perspective in one platform. It also enables entirely new agentic workflows that accelerate deal sourcing, sector analysis, valuation modeling, and investment decisions. AlphaSense now returns more complete, trusted answers in Generative Search and Deep Research by blending structured financials, company KPIs, and transactions data with proprietary qualitative content such as expert transcripts, broker research, corporate filings, news, valuations, and funding rounds.
By uniting structured financial information with unstructured proprietary business content in a single workflow, customers gain more complete answers and make faster, better-informed decisions. Simple natural language prompts allow users to move at market speed, providing a 360-degree analysis of a company and surfacing insights before the competition.
“AlphaSense is the first domain-specific GenAI platform for quantitative and qualitative market intelligence, which delivers a huge advantage to our customers,” said Jack Kokko, Founder and CEO at AlphaSense. “With Financial Data, everything a finance or corporate professional needs to understand about a company lives seamlessly in one place, ready to discover the instant you type your prompt or a company name you want to research.”
With AlphaSense's intuitive interface led by Generative Search, users get structured, auditable financial data as part of their natural language queries. Critically, as with all AlphaSense research, every insight remains fully source-linked, ensuring transparency and confident decision making.
“The ability to rapidly synthesize financial data with market intelligence will ultimately help strengthen our decision-making processes,” said Rajeev Samuel, Director of Corporate Strategy and Operations at NetApp. “Starting with verified, trusted intelligence helps us quickly and thoroughly evaluate markets, emerging technologies, and strategic opportunities. The AlphaSense platform helps us meet our research needs more easily, through an integrated experience.”
Financial professionals can quickly create:
- AI investment memos: one-click company profiles, investment thesis development, and market analysis essential for investment capital preparation and limited partner updates
- Deal flow dashboard: track funding activity, valuation trends, and strategic developments across investment focus areas
- Public and private company intelligence: complete financial statements, valuation multiples, funding rounds, M&A history, and workforce data presented in a single, clean framework for public companies, and hard-to-find revenue metrics, funding rounds, and expert perspectives for unparalleled visibility into private companies
- Specialized deep-dive views: dedicated interfaces for expert transcripts, broker research, and SEC filings
Core Financial Data components include:
- Workflow-native design: built by industry insiders for specific research workflows like company and deal screening, comp tables, and due diligence
- Canalyst models: 4,500+ ready-to-use models with detailed financials, operating metrics, and segment breakdowns
- Integrated workflows: move seamlessly from screening to deep qualitative research across 300M+ documents
- Industry comps: 115+ pre-built sector comp sets with KPIs curated by equity analysts for instant benchmarking
- Historical financials and consensus: coverage across 17,000+ companies with citations to take users to Company Profile Financials for verification
- Company-specific KPIs: 4,000+ companies with sector-specific metrics like unit economics, margins, and average revenue per user. KPIs become answerable in Gen Search and auditable via Company Profiles
- M&A transactions: 950,000+ deals accessible with a Deal Intelligence Agent capable of producing one-click, rationale-rich summaries from citations
- Funding rounds: 685,000 private funding rounds used to enrich company backgrounds, peer sets, and market maps
- Market data: global equities with intraday pricing for quick context in Gen Search answers
- Workforce data: data on hiring velocity and role mix add context to private company and international signals in cases in which financials are sparse
Click here to learn more about Financial Data, and sign up for a free trial here.
About AlphaSense
AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com.
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Lendflow Launches New AI Automation Suite for Embedded Lending
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Lendflow's Automate, a powerful suite of AI-driven operational agents designed to help lenders scale without the growing pains.
From 24/7 customer engagement to instant document analysis and automated risk scoring, our agents work alongside your team like high-performing digital colleagues, streamlining workflows, lowering costs, and accelerating decision-making.
With over 50 specialized AI agents already in production, we’re helping lenders:
✅ Maximize conversion
✅ Reduce operational overhead
✅ Accelerate time-to-funding
'Lendflow Automate' to power the future of lending with AI-driven operational agents.
Lendflow, a leader in embedded lending infrastructure, announced the official launch of Lendflow Automate, a suite of AI-powered agents designed to optimize workforce efficiency and transform how lending operations are executed.
The announcement was made at Ai4, America’s largest AI event. Lendflow founder and CEO, Jon Fry, will join leaders from Chime, Mastercard, and Deloitte for a live panel, “Leveraging AI to Drive Value,” on August 12 at the event.
By combining automation with advanced AI, Lendflow Automate provides partners with an always-on, digital workforce to streamline operations, lower costs, and accelerate decision-making, helping them “do more with less.”
“Lendflow Automate is about enabling scale without the growing pains,” said Fry. “These AI agents operate like high-performing assistants to your top team members. Automate will make teams more productive with agents that are highly specialized and built to move deals forward - augmenting teams and making them more productive.”
At the heart of this initiative is a new class of AI Operational Agents that engage with customers across voice, text, email, and chat. It provides lenders with a fully autonomous, 24/7 digital workforce that maximizes conversion, accelerates time-to-funding, and reduces cost per lead. Lendflow has also integrated these tools internally to optimize team communications, currently saving over 500 hours of talk-time per week.
Many of Lendflow’s customers have already adopted Lendflow Automate, and have been able to increase conversions while simultaneously lowering costs.
Always-On Engagement: Lendflow’s AI Operational Agents
Lendflow’s communication-focused agents are configurable, multi-channel, and designed to support every stage of the lending lifecycle. Each agent follows a precise cadence of outreach using voice calls, SMS, and email to increase applicant engagement, reduce drop-off, and re-engage dormant leads. What truly sets these agents apart is their evolving nature: with every interaction, they absorb new insights and refine their behavior. This continual learning loop fuels more accurate context handling and sharpens their responsiveness.
Key agents include:
- Application Walkthrough Assistant
Reconnects with users who abandoned applications to help them complete the process, upload documents, and answer questions.
- Schedule Meeting Assistant
Schedules meetings between applicants and funding managers via a mix of personalized voice calls, emails, and text messages engaging users 47 times across 8 days.
- Document Collection Assistant
Collects required documentation from applicants with consistent, supportive communication ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
- Dead Deal Assistant
Revives declined or inactive applicants with a long-term strategy to keep funding opportunities alive.
- Renewal Outreach Assistant
Proactively reconnects with funded merchants to explore add-on deals or new financing - executing a year-long, personalized follow-up strategy.
These agents operate autonomously, scale infinitely, and free up human teams to focus on higher-value work - delivering real operational ROI for lenders and fintech partners.
Supporting Agents for Data & Risk Intelligence
In addition to its communication suite, Lendflow Automate includes several specialized AI agents to handle classification, document processing, and risk scoring:
- Industry Map Agent
Instantly classifies businesses with accurate NAICS and SIC codes to streamline risk segmentation. It supports bulk uploads and has delivered up to 100% accuracy for lenders.
- Doc Analyzer
Extracts structured data from financial documents - like bank statements, debt forms and tax returns - cutting manual effort by up to 70%, removing errors and accelerating underwriting.
- Inbox Automation Agent
With a hosted inbox, AI will automatically identify email senders, classify emails, download attachments, create deals and remove manual workflows.
Lendflow Automate: AI-Powered Workforce Optimization
With more than 50 context-aware AI agents in production, Lendflow Automate serves as an intelligent execution layer that removes manual bottlenecks and drives operational efficiency at scale. Each agent is purpose-built to deliver real business outcomes from faster time-to-close to lower operational costs.
To explore the full Lendflow Automate suite, visit www.lendflow.com.
About Lendflow
Lendflow powers embedded lending infrastructure for fintechs, SaaS platforms, and lenders. With APIs, orchestration tools, and AI automation, Lendflow helps companies launch and scale lending products while streamlining underwriting, compliance, and operations.
Contacts
Media Contact:
Sarah Weaver
pr@lendflow.com
Capstack Technologies’ partnership with Jack Henry serving more than 3,000 banks and credit unions
Announcing Capstack Technologies’ partnership with Jack Henry 🚨, a leading provider of technology solutions, serving more than 3,000 banks and credit unions. Together, we’re bringing the Capstack loan marketplace, analytics, and loan servicing to Jack Henry community banks and credit unions nationwide.
This is a major step forward for community and regional banking.
In less than a year, Capstack has grown to more than $1B in loans currently available on the marketplace, with 200+ banks and credit unions connected directly and over $300 million in loans in active negotiations.
Capstack has proven that loan sales don’t have to take weeks of broker calls, cost margin, or risk borrower relationships. With Capstack, banks and credit unions moving faster, unlocking capital, and keeping lending strong together on one platform.
Now, with Jack Henry, that same opportunity is reaching thousands more banks and credit unions. Jack Henry powers the core banking systems that community banks depend on every day.
By combining their scale and trusted infrastructure with Capstack’s marketplace, analytics, and servicing, we’re helping banks diversify portfolios and unlock capital without leaving the systems they already rely on.
As part of the partnership, all Jack Henry customers will receive three months of complimentary access to Capstack Analytics, to evaluate counterparties and benchmark performance against similar banks for board and regulatory reviews
Airspace Link Receives FAA NTAP Approval as UTM Provider for BVLOS Strategic Deconfliction Services
FAA Near-Term Approval Process (NTAP) Positions Cities, Federal Installations, and Commercial Operators for Proposed Part 108 Implementation
Airspace Link, a leading FAA-approved UAS Service Supplier of LAANC and B4UFLY services, today announced it has received formal approval of its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) services through the FAA Near-Term Approval Process (NTAP). The Letter of Acceptance (LOA), issued September 23, 2025, confirms that the FAA has evaluated Airspace Link's UTM strategic deconfliction service and found it effectively mitigates the safety risk of drone-to-drone collision.
This milestone positions Airspace Link's AirHub® Portal as the leading Drone Operations Management System (DOMS) for enterprise that unifies flight planning, fleet management, FAA B4UFLY safety checks, LAANC authorization, risk assessment, and BVLOS strategic deconfliction within a single platform—delivering the comprehensive digital infrastructure commercial operators, cities, and federal installations will need as the FAA's proposed Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) rules are expected to take effect in 2026.
The approval comes at a critical moment for organizations preparing for the drone economy. Under executive orders mandating pathways to routine BVLOS operations and the comprehensive Part 108 regulations proposed on August 5, 2025, state and local governments, federal agencies, and commercial operators face an urgent need to establish drone operation frameworks and technology infrastructure. In most urban and suburban areas, BVLOS operations conducted under the proposed Part 108 rules will require operators to use an FAA-approved Automated Data Service Provider (ADSP) for strategic deconfliction.
"UTM is the digital infrastructure that will let drones scale safely and predictably in our communities," said Michael Healander, Co-Founder and CEO of Airspace Link. "Completing NTAP approval is a major step forward for our customers and partners. This means that AirHub® Portal can exchange drone operations flight intent across a collaborative digital network, so drone deliveries, inspections, and public safety missions can launch faster, avoid conflict, and earn public trust. We're ready for what's next under Part 108 and Part 146 and already delivering it today."
"AirHub® Portal brings UTM seamlessly into your existing workflow," said Tyler Dicks, Head of Product at Airspace Link. "Operators can plan BVLOS missions, assess risk, coordinate with nearby flights, and monitor live activity, bringing together drone operations, weather, ADS-B data, drone detection, local constraints, and your own GIS information into a single pane of glass. With this U.S. Shared Airspace onboarding, coordination now extends across all participating operators, not just within a single platform, positioning you for Part 108 and Part 146 compliance from day one."
Strategic Positioning Under Proposed Part 108 Rules
The proposed Part 108 rules will introduce operational permits for smaller operators and operational certificates for larger-scale missions, with both pathways requiring integration with FAA-approved ADSP/UTM services for strategic deconfliction in most populated areas. Organizations that establish comprehensive drone frameworks early will be positioned to leverage federal funding opportunities and implement advanced emergency response, infrastructure inspection, and delivery services as the rules take effect in 2026.
Comprehensive Platform for the Drone Economy
Airspace Link's AirHub® Portal manages over 100,000 monthly users across 6,000 unique businesses, municipalities, and federal agencies across multiple jurisdictions. AirHub® Portal delivers strategic insight and situational awareness into all drone operations, whether coordinating multiple emergency response teams, monitoring delivery operations, or tracking airspace activity near sensitive facilities.
About Airspace Link
Founded in 2018, Airspace Link is a Detroit-based drone software company empowering governments, enterprises, and public safety agencies to plan, manage, and scale drone operations safely. As an FAA-approved B4UFLY, LAANC, US UTM provider, and Esri technology partner, Airspace Link's AirHub® Portal serves as a Drone Operations Management System (DOMS) that unifies flight planning, risk assessment, UTM coordination, and real-time situational awareness. By connecting national airspace data with local GIS, policies, and real-time inputs, Airspace Link helps communities and operators integrate drones into everyday life with confidence. Learn more at airspacelink.com.
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Rich Fahle, Vice President of Marketing
Samantha Stewart Gacaferi, Marketing Manager
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sam.stewart@airspacelink.com
Leading crypto payments network Mesh launches Mesh AI Wallet
With Connectivity To Over 300 Wallets And Exchanges, Mesh AI Wallet Enables the First AI Agent Buying Physical Goods with Stablecoins
- A user connects an existing crypto wallet to Mesh's system.
- The user provides a simple prompt, such as "buy a bag of dog food from this retailer," to their Mesh AI (MAI) agent.
- The AI agent uses Mesh's underlying technology to execute the purchase by converting funds from the user's wallet into stablecoins for a quick checkout.
- Mesh's infrastructure handles the complex backend process of connecting and orchestrating payments across over 300 different wallets, exchanges, and merchants.
- The wallet supports Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), a framework for enabling secure AI-driven transactions.
- Simplify transactions: It removes complexity from crypto payments by handling the process from start to finish based on a simple user command.
- Enable new uses: The technology allows for the creation of autonomous transactions and commerce, expanding the potential uses of digital assets.
- Make crypto more accessible: The platform is designed to make crypto payments feel as seamless and secure as using traditional payment systems.
Mesh, the leading crypto payments network, today unveiled the future of agentic commerce during a live demo at TOKEN2049, demonstrating an AI agent completing a crypto transaction. The demonstration highlighted how an AI agent can seamlessly complete a real world ecommerce purchase using stablecoins, in this case finishing a purchase of dog food from a retailer.
This end-to-end flow - from account funding to stablecoin checkout - underscores Mesh's role as the connective layer powering programmable payments. By integrating wallets, exchanges, and merchants into a single experience and intelligently orchestrating payments across all parties, Mesh enables AI agents to securely transact on behalf of users without human intervention.
Mesh's infrastructure eliminates the complexity of agent-driven transactions. Now, users can simply connect their wallet to Mesh AI (MAI), and with a simple prompt, leverage Mesh's proprietary technology to complete a crypto transaction. Mesh also provides the ability to spin up new wallets programmatically, expanding the scope of what agents can do beyond the demo shown at TOKEN2049.
"Agentic commerce is no longer a thought experiment – it's here," said Bam Azizi, Co-Founder and CEO at Mesh. "This is the first step toward a world where transactions are intelligent, borderless, seamless, and secure. Our technology is the unifying infrastructure that will empower agents to harness the power of this new financial model."
This new offering follows Mesh's support of Google's new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), a framework for enabling AI agents to securely transact on behalf of users. By powering intelligent payment orchestration across more than 300 platforms, Mesh unlocks access to the digital asset market, enabling agentic commerce to tap into this massive, growing opportunity. Compared to legacy financial systems, crypto is the most ideal use case for programmable commerce, enabling autonomous agents to initiate, authorize, and complete transactions with speed and flexibility.
For more information about Mesh, visit https://meshconnect.com/.
About Mesh
Founded in 2020, Mesh is building the first global crypto payments network, connecting hundreds of exchanges, wallets, and financial services platforms to enable seamless digital asset payments and conversions. By unifying these platforms into a single network, Mesh is pioneering an open, connected, and secure ecosystem for digital finance. For more information, visit https://www.meshconnect.com/.
Contact: mesh@missionnorth.com
AI Super Intelligence cloud Lambda achieves NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud performance validation
Lambda is one of the first cloud providers to achieve NVIDIA validation for mission-critical AI training workloads at scale
Lambda, the Super Intelligence Cloud, today announced it has achieved NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud Status, becoming one of the first GPU cloud providers worldwide to receive performance validation from NVIDIA.
This validates Lambda’s ability to deliver consistent performance on NVIDIA H100 GPUs at scale. Lambda's infrastructure meets NVIDIA's requirements for real-world workload performance and reliability, with transparent, workload-specific benchmark results demonstrating performance within 5% of NVIDIA's published baselines for large-scale training workloads.
“NVIDIA validates what our customers already know: Lambda delivers the infrastructure and operations that leading AI labs and enterprises trust for their most critical AI workloads,” said Paul Zhao, Head of Product at Lambda. “Our 13-year focus on AI and co-engineering partnership with NVIDIA has fostered the expertise to operate at the scale and reliability the superintelligence race demands.”
As part of the NVIDIA ecosystem, Lambda is providing AI-optimized infrastructure to support the DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace to power AI training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads.
“The NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud achievement is a testament to Lambda’s unwavering commitment to delivering world-class AI infrastructure,” said Warren Barkley, Vice President of Product Management at NVIDIA. “The Exemplar Clouds initiative sets a transparent standard for performance and resiliency, and we congratulate Lambda for embracing a high standard of workload performance in their infrastructure. This accomplishment means that developers and enterprises can now deploy their most demanding AI workloads with absolute confidence, knowing they are running on a platform validated for superior performance, reliability, and total cost of ownership.”
Lambda currently serves over 200,000 AI developers and teams worldwide. Over the past decade, Lambda has earned six NVIDIA awards, and now with Exemplar Cloud, further affirms its position as one of NVIDIA’s most trusted partners.
About Lambda
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, builds gigawatt-scale AI factories for training and inference. From prototyping to serving billions of users in production, we build the underlying infrastructure that powers AI. Lambda was founded in 2012 by published AI engineers.
Lambda’s mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give every person access to artificial intelligence. One person, one GPU.
Contacts
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pr@lambdal.com
Aerospace innovator Odys Aviation close Series A Funding to Accelerate Full-Scale Flight Testing and Global Operational Launches
Odys Aviation, a dual-use aviation company building hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, today announced the closing of its $26M Series A funding round. Led by Nova Threshold and with investment from Tuchen Ventures and key insiders, the capital will be used to accelerate U.S. full-scale aircraft flight testing of its Laila aircraft and to expand the team as the company prepares for its first international global launch operations, launching in Q1 2026.
Building on major technical milestones achieved in 2024 and 2025, Odys is entering the next phase of execution, proving that advanced air mobility is not just about aircraft in isolation, but about building the operational ecosystem that will connect regions, economies and ultimately communities in entirely new ways.
“This funding marks a critical inflection point for Odys,” said James Dorris, CEO of Odys Aviation. “We’ve already proven the technology and performance potential of hybrid-electric VTOL. Now, our focus shifts to scaling operations, bringing together the right people, systems and partners to demonstrate what a full AAM ecosystem looks like in practice, not theory.”
"Odys is positioned to meet strong customer demand for longer-range, high-efficiency regional mobility,” said Justin Hamilton, Managing Director of Nova Threshold. “Their innovative aircraft and hybrid-electric propulsion system have demonstrated outstanding performance and reliability. By targeting unmanned cargo and defense applications within existing U.S. and international regulations, Odys is creating a faster, more credible path to market readiness and long-term profitability, setting the stage for future manned operations.”
The Series A follows successful integration and testing of Odys Aviation’s hybrid propulsion system and the completion of key design and certification milestones under the JARUS/SORA 2.5 framework. The company’s ongoing U.S. flight test campaign will validate full-scale flight performance and autonomy systems, laying the foundation for a seamless transition to commercial demonstration in Q1 of 2026.
Odys Aviation’s global Proof of Concept programs will represent the world’s first end-to-end operational demonstrations of a dual-use VTOL system, linking civil, commercial, and defense applications in a single scalable model. The project will showcase how the company’s hybrid architecture enables both sustainable and practical deployment at long range and high payload capacity, bridging the gap between conventional aviation and emerging AAM services. These programs will build on the company’s already-proven track record with the United States Department of Defense, helping to support gaps in UAV availability, affordability and scalability with 14 awarded contracts across three branches awarded to date valued at over $11M.
“What sets Odys apart is our ability to execute beyond a single aircraft or flight,” said Andy Apple, VP of Strategy for Odys Aviation. “We’re developing the infrastructure, autonomy and operational frameworks needed to integrate AAM into real-world airspace and regulatory environments. This funding ensures we can deliver on that vision for our customers and partners.”
With this new capital, Odys will make strategic hires across engineering, certification, and operations, expanding its U.S. and international presence as it scales. The company continues to attract interest from both commercial airlines and government partners seeking sustainable long- range connectivity and dual-use logistics capabilities.
About Odys Aviation
Odys Aviation designs, develops and manufactures long-range, technologically advanced dual-use VTOL aircraft that solve global challenges across defense, logistics, and passenger travel. The company is pioneering the next generation of VTOL aircraft which use hybrid-electric propulsion systems to deliver the optimal balance between range and payload.
Based in Long Beach, CA, Odys Aviation was founded in 2022 and is led by seasoned engineers and strategists from SpaceX, Gulfstream, Airbus, Tesla and the U.S. Department of Defense. The company has secured $11B+ in signed LOIs to date. Visit www.odysaviation.com for more information.
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Media Contact: Louise@odysaviation.com
AI business intelligence leader AlphaSense acquires Carousel to power AI-driven Excel modeling
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Acquisition extends AlphaSense's leadership in market intelligence by embedding AI-driven financial modeling directly into analyst workflows
AlphaSense, the AI platform redefining market intelligence for the business and financial world, today announced at its AlphaSummit customer conference the acquisition of Carousel, an innovator in AI-powered Excel modeling. This acquisition expands AlphaSense's leadership in generative AI by adding Carousel's dynamic modeling technology to AlphaSense's generative AI suite, creating a new standard of unified intelligence – from documents to financial data, and now dynamic models.
For decades, Excel has been central to decision-making, yet building models has required burdensome manual workflows. With Carousel added as an extension of AlphaSense's end-to-end AI platform, customers will be able to create and update financial models almost at the speed of thought. AlphaSense will uniquely combine generative Excel modeling on top of the world's most extensive premium content universe, including its fully drivable Canalyst models for 4,500 companies, incorporating historical financials and granular KPI drivers for detailed modeling of every company's financial performance.
"This acquisition extends and accelerates our efforts to automate financial workflows with Generative AI, uniquely combining Canalyst's one-of-a-kind data asset with Carousel's AI-driven modeling tool," said Jack Kokko, CEO and Founder of AlphaSense. "AlphaSense has long been the leader in AI-driven market intelligence. By incorporating what the Carousel team has built, we extend that leadership into Excel, streamlining one of the most important analytical workflows in the financial and business world."
Carousel eliminates the most tedious parts of an analyst's workflow – extracting data from PDFs and presentations, formatting models, building formulas, and explaining complex logic. Now, as Carousel's modeling velocity becomes seamlessly embedded into the AlphaSense ecosystem, it evolves from an execution tool into an iterative thought partner. Analysts can spend less time wrestling with manual tasks and more time generating strategic insights, with AI that not only builds models faster but also enables intelligent iteration – helping them sharpen their craft and deliver the high-value analysis that drives smarter, faster decisions.
This will deliver unmatched speed, accuracy, and depth of insight by enabling customers to:
- Build and iterate on models informed by market intelligence: Carousel can both build first drafts and iteratively refine models with natural language. With AlphaSense integrated, analysts can incorporate insights from earnings calls, research reports, and competitive filings to drive their modeling assumptions and explore new strategic angles, all without leaving Excel.
- Ingest unstructured sources from anywhere into Excel: Carousel already extracts data from user-provided PDFs, CSVs, and presentations. With AlphaSense integrated, analysts can also search across thousands of filings for specific line items buried in footnotes or across multiple 10-Ks, pulling precise data points directly into models without manual hunting.
- Understand, explain, and check models: Model Walkthrough breaks down cell-level formulas into plain language, while Carousel's chat interface helps users understand how models are architected and laid out. Senior team members can quickly get comfortable with junior team members' work, simplifying reviews, ensuring accuracy, and accelerating onboarding.
- Work with context-aware AI directly in Excel: Carousel understands your model's context to help analysts test more scenarios, pursue alternative hypotheses, and stress-test assumptions thoroughly. Analysts gain leverage to pursue deeper insights that would otherwise require days of manual work.
"Carousel takes care of tedious Excel work, but together with AlphaSense, we can now build toward a bigger opportunity," said Daniel Wolf, Co-Founder of Carousel. "By pairing our modeling velocity with AlphaSense's unparalleled intelligence capabilities, millions of documents, and thousands of Canalyst models, we can help analysts iterate with market insights and pursue deeper analysis they wouldn't have time for otherwise. We can make analysts better, not just faster."
A Unified Vision
This acquisition reinforces AlphaSense's position as the market's AI and intelligence leader while expanding its value proposition from research to modeling – and from insight to action. The integration of Carousel's technology ensures a seamless, in-platform experience where Excel modeling is embedded directly into AlphaSense's generative AI workflows, enabling customers to work smarter and faster than ever before.
The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
About AlphaSense
AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and agentic workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents – including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and clients' internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps clients extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com.
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Pete Daly for AlphaSense
Email: media@alpha-sense.com