Recognition Spans CPaaS, CCaaS, and Workforce Engagement Management, Based on Data from a 1,437-Company Global CX Study

SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–8×8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), a leading global business communications platform provider, has been named a 2026 MetriStar Top Provider for Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) by Metrigy, an independent research and advisory firm focused on customer experience, workplace collaboration, and artificial intelligence.

The CPaaS recognition is part of a broader result in Metrigy’s 2026 MetriStar Award programme, with 8×8 also receiving the MetriStar Top Provider recognition for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS).

The awards are based on Metrigy’s Customer Experience MetriCast 2026 study, which surveyed 1,437 CX leaders across 10 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. 8×8 achieved above-average scores on both business success and customer sentiment, with particular strength in CSAT improvement, revenue growth, platform reliability, and no-code/low-code application quality.

“Most of the companies we work with aren’t just looking for a messaging API — they need the whole chain: campaign management, AI, analytics, and a contact center that talks to all of it,” said Sylvain Chaperon, General Manager, CPaaS at 8×8, Inc. “This recognition from Metrigy validates our approach helping organisations improve customer satisfaction, drive growth, and simplify operations at scale.”

Metrigy highlighted 8×8’s integrated communications portfolio as a key differentiator, noting that 8×8 is among a small number of vendors offering CPaaS, CCaaS, and UCaaS within a single platform. The research highlighted 8×8’s approach to treating CPaaS not as a standalone developer toolkit but as a programmable layer across the CX stack — extending customer engagement capabilities beyond the contact center to sales, field service, and frontline teams.

The 8×8 CPaaS portfolio includes global messaging, voice, and video APIs; 8×8 Connect for no-code multi-channel campaign management and real-time delivery analytics; 8×8 AI Studio for low-code conversational AI design; and omnichannel engagement solutions including WhatsApp Flows for interactive in-app customer experiences. The platform supports engagement across SMS, WhatsApp, voice, email, web chat, and other digital channels.

Metrigy’s research found that customer satisfaction improvement remains the strongest area of business impact among CPaaS deployments, followed by revenue growth and employee efficiency gains.

About 8×8 Inc.

8×8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) connects people and organizations through seamless communication on the industry’s most integrated platform for Customer Experience – combining Contact Center, Unified Communications, and CPaaS solutions. The 8×8® Platform for CX integrates AI at every level to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration. As a business communications leader, the company helps customer experience and IT leaders around the world become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. For additional information, visit www.8×8.com, or follow 8×8 on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook.

Copyright 2026 8×8, Inc. 8×8 and associated brand assets are trademarks of 8×8, Inc. All rights reserved.

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New classifications, enhanced analytics, and industry-defining partnerships will help site owners and transparent AI companies work together to build a thriving Agentic Internet

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, announced today new classifications, enhanced analytics, and industry-defining commercial partnerships that bring together site owners and transparent AI companies so that the agentic Internet can flourish. Cloudflare’s new tools and integrations help site owners and AI companies optimize for discoverability, efficiency, and monetization. By establishing these new rails, Cloudflare is helping provide the foundation for a healthy, collaborative agentic economy that benefits society, site owners, and AI companies.

The fundamental nature of Internet traffic has shifted. Today, automated agents and bots drive more than half of all web requests. AI is becoming the new interface for accessing information and conducting commerce online, changing the rules for how content is discovered. Most website owners want their content in AI systems. But for businesses built on advertising or subscriptions, they are threatened by AI systems training on their content without compensation. We believe that if you’re a business that wants your content in AI systems, we should make it as easy and efficient as possible; but if you’re a business where you do not, then you should have the tools to restrict AI’s access. In response, Cloudflare is testing new default classifications, delivering deeper insights to customers, making AI search faster, and ensuring creators are compensated when their content powers an answer. The result is a level playing field. It optimizes crawling efficiency, protects intellectual property, and allows creators and AI to thrive in the agentic economy.

“Last year we provided site owners with transparency and control over what bots access their content, and we are thrilled with the benefits it has had to the ecosystem,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “Now that the majority of traffic on the Internet is non-human, we must go further and act faster so that a sustainable ecosystem can emerge. Cloudflare’s new tools and partnerships give website owners increased visibility and commercial opportunities and benefit AI companies that have bots with clear and transparent intent. We hope that our proposed default changes encourage mixed-use crawlers to separate out search from agent use and training.”

A Deadline to End the Free Pass for Mixed-Used Crawlers

After thousands of conversations with AI companies and site owners, one thing is clear: most site owners want to be discoverable in AI. However, for those who monetize via ads and/or subscriptions, maximizing discovery shouldn’t mean giving away intellectual property for free. Transparent AI companies have enabled this by clearly separating and labeling their bots by intent. However, mixed crawler bots disadvantage both site owners and transparent AI companies by blending search, agent use, and training. This forces content owners to choose between being discoverable in an agentic era and giving away their most valuable content without compensation. Today, the largest search engine has access to about 2X more information than leading AI companies because they make it difficult for customers to remain discoverable without also being used for AI.

Over the next two months, Cloudflare will engage with the ecosystem, listen to feedback, and run tests to finalize new defaults and classifications with a deadline of September 15, 2026.

For new customers and for new sites for existing customers, on September 15, 2026, the defaults will be set to allow for search but block training and agent use for pages with ads. Mixed crawlers that do not give site owners the ability to choose between search, agent use, and training, will be blocked on all pages with ads. At any time these settings can be changed by customers in their dashboard.

On September 15, 2026 these changes will also be made for all existing free customers that have not changed their settings by September 15, 2026 in their dashboard. These changes aim to level the playing field between AI companies, who are redefining what it means to be discoverable in an agentic era in an equitable and transparent way, and legacy search companies.

Enhanced Analytics to Drive Visibility and Monetize Content

The market for monetized content is here, with publishers and AI platforms signing more than 50 major content licensing agreements over the past year alone. To accelerate these arrangements, Cloudflare is introducing the new Attribution Business Insights dashboard, stripping away the data asymmetry that has long left content owners negotiating in the dark. For the first time, business stakeholders, not just security and IT teams, can clearly see how AI bots consume their content and track how much human traffic specific AI companies actually send back.

But understanding how AI consumes content is only the first step. As discovery shifts from search engines to answer engines, customers need to perfect a new discipline: Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). AEO is about understanding not just who is crawling, but how your content is cited in AI-generated answers, how often, and how prominently, across models. Just as web analytics became essential infrastructure for the search era, Cloudflare aims to provide the definitive measurement and optimization layer for the AI era.

Smarter Search and Fair Compensation

Negotiated deals can work for the largest publishers, but they don’t scale to the rest of the web. Cloudflare is working on two fronts that help creators and AI companies alike: making AI search more efficient, and paying creators automatically when their work is used. Today, AI models and search engines repeatedly crawl millions of unchanged web pages searching for fresh data to answer user queries. Cloudflare data suggests that over 50% of crawl traffic from AI crawlers is spent re-fetching unchanged pages. The result is wasted bandwidth for publishers, wasted compute for AI companies, and no better answers to show for it. Because Cloudflare can see what has actually changed, it can signal when a page is worth re-fetching and when it isn’t — cutting needless crawls in the process, while delivering better results. Cloudflare is testing these signals with leading AI companies to measure how much they improve freshness and reduce wasted crawling, and plans to make them broadly available later this year.

A year ago, on the first Content Independence Day, Cloudflare launched the first version of Pay Per Crawl so publishers could charge AI companies to crawl their content. Today, Cloudflare is evolving Pay Per Crawl into Pay Per Use, so publishers are paid when their content actually creates value, not just when it’s fetched. The company is working with top partners, including Ceramic.ai and You.com to turn that principle into a working market. With Ceramic.ai, when a publisher opts in, they are paid every time their content appears in Ceramic’s AI search results, and they get back the queries, citations, and ranking back. Other AI companies can bring the model that fits how they work — You.com, for instance, will let an agent pay on demand for a specific piece of premium content it needs, while Cloudflare provides the common layer beneath them all.

A Year of Content Independence: What’s Launched

Last year’s Content Independence Day was fundamentally about defense—giving you the tools to take back control of your data. Over the past twelve months, Cloudflare has been aggressively building the infrastructure required to shift from mere protection to active enablement. Today’s announcements represent the culmination of that foundation, delivering on three pillars for a sustainable ecosystem: control, transparency, and monetization. Last year, Cloudflare introduced AI Crawl Control, which set a permission-based model for AI crawling. To democratize these protections, Cloudflare partnered with platforms like beehiiv, providing independent creators and major media outlets alike with granular dashboards to easily track, block, or opt into specific AI models. To fundamentally secure agent interactions, Cloudflare also spearheaded Web Bot Auth, an open framework that allows AI bots and autonomous shopping agents to verify their identity and legitimacy to publishers and merchants. Cloudflare has also collaborated with leading payment providers to lay down the underlying payment rails for the emerging agentic commerce economy. Building directly upon Web Bot Auth, Cloudflare is helping them ensure AI shopping agents can transact safely at millions of merchants globally without exposing raw credentials. Ultimately, these initiatives help to provide the backbone for a sustainable agentic economy, ensuring the next era of the Internet is built on transparency, discoverability, and fair compensation.

Leading Publishers and AI Companies Support the Agentic Internet

• beehiiv: “We are entering a new era where content discoverability is being completely redefined and independent creators deserve to be at the forefront of that shift. The future is about giving creators control over their content and audience. We want to hand writers the steering wheel so they can easily opt into the new, agentic internet, maximize their visibility in next-generation answer engines, and actively scale their audiences on their own terms.” – Tyler Denk, CEO
• Ceramic.ai: “To scale the future of AI search, we need a partner with massive reach and a shared commitment to transparency and fair compensation. Cloudflare allows us to easily and programmatically scale our operations. By bringing our pay-per-query model to their network, we ensure millions of content owners can seamlessly opt in to be compensated every single time their content appears in our search results.” – Anna Patterson, founder and CEO
• Condé Nast: “Over the past year, Cloudflare has continued to support premium publishers like Condé Nast, by being an advocate for ensuring we are paid for our content as critical inputs to the AI ecosystem. They provide market leading technical infrastructure and continue to be a thought partner for what’s coming next.” – Geoff Campbell, SVP Strategy & Business Development
• Patreon: As AI agents become increasingly powerful and popular, creators deserve a meaningful say in how their work is used by AI companies. On most of the Internet, creators have to accept AI training on their work just to reach and grow an audience. Patreon has a different vision: creators should be able to grow their audience and control how their work is used. That’s why we’re building on our existing work with Cloudflare to block known AI training crawlers at the network level across Patreon, while still allowing the crawlers that help creators get discovered and grow their businesses through search.” – Drew Rowny, SVP of Product

To learn more about Cloudflare’s vision, please visit the following resources:

• Blog: Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet
• Blog: Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers
• Blog: Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights
• Blog: Making AI Search smarter

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.

Learn more about Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud at cloudflare.com/connectivity-cloud. Learn more about the latest Internet trends and insights at radar.cloudflare.com.

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3D Investment Partners Issues Open Letter to NSSOL’s Outside Directors Requesting a Meeting to Discuss the General Meeting Voting Results and the Board’s Plan for Responding to Clear Public Shareholder Feedback

TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–3D Investment Partners Pte. Ltd., which provides discretionary investment management services to a fund (collectively with the fund as “3D”) that is the largest minority shareholder of NS Solutions Corporation (“NSSOL” or the “Company”) (TSE Code: 2327.T), submitted two shareholder proposals at NSSOL’s 46th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on June 19, 2026. The two shareholder proposals were as follows: Proposal No. 2 to amend the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to prohibit deposits placed with Nippon Steel Corporation, NSSOL’s parent company, and Proposal No. 3 to require the disclosure of the deposit terms, the basis for making the deposits and the policy for their review and withdrawal.

Based on the voting results disclosed by NSSOL in its Extraordinary Report filed on June 23, 2026, both shareholder proposals received affirmative votes from approximately 60% of public shareholders, as indicated in the table below.

These results clearly demonstrate that the majority of public shareholders are concerned about the deposits placed with Nippon Steel, which impair NSSOL’s corporate value, and are unequivocally calling for the withdrawal of these deposits and for transparent verification and explanation of that process.

In light of these vote results, 3D has issued an open letter requesting a meeting with NSSOL’s Outside Directors, who are duty-bound to protect the interests of public shareholders, to convey 3D’s perspectives on NSSOL’s deposits and to understand how the Company’s Board of Directors intends to respond to this clear message from public shareholders.

Link to the Open Letter: https://www.3dipartners.com/engagement/nssol-letter-to-board-of-directors-en-202606.pdf

3D will maintain its constructive dialogue with NSSOL to advance the withdrawal of the Company’s deposits with Nippon Steel. We respectfully ask that our fellow public shareholders support our efforts by continuing to engage with NSSOL, standing together with us as public shareholders.

[For Reference]

Content of the Shareholder Proposals

• Proposal No. 2: Partial Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation (Prohibition of Deposits with the Parent Company, etc.)
  • This proposal is to add a provision to the Articles of Incorporation stipulating that NSSOL shall not make deposits with its parent company, subsidiaries, or affiliates, and that if any such deposits are made in violation of this provision, they shall be promptly recovered.
• Proposal No. 3: Partial Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation (Disclosure Concerning the Provision of Funds to the Parent Company, etc.)
  • This is a proposal to add to the Articles of Incorporation a provision that the following matters shall be disclosed by appropriate means:
    • The average interest rate on the deposits in the most recent fiscal year and other transaction terms.
    • The reasons for judging the transaction terms set out in the preceding item to be reasonable in light of the relationship between the cost of capital and the return on the deposits, together with the criteria or benchmarks used in making that judgment.
    • Whether there are any policies or criteria for reviewing or terminating deposits, and the details thereof.

Reasons for the Shareholder Proposals

Our reasons for submitting the above shareholder proposals at the General Meeting can be summarized in the following three points.

• NSSOL’s deposits with the Parent Company give rise to a conflict of interest with the minority shareholders and are impairing NSSOL’s corporate value.
  • Although NSSOL raises no funds through borrowing or the like, it holds cash and deposits of as much as ¥110 billion, equivalent to approximately 40% of its net assets, and places approximately 90% of that amount as deposits with the Parent Company.
  • The interest rate on these deposits is only 0.5%, so that while the Parent Company secures funding at a level below its external funding cost (0.6% to 3.6%), NSSOL is forced to deploy these funds at a yield far below its own cost of capital (6% to 8%).
• With respect to the matter of these deposits, NSSOL has not conducted verification or explanation sufficient for the minority shareholders to conclude that the deposits contribute to enhancing NSSOL’s corporate value.
  • The yardstick is inappropriate: From the standpoint of corporate value, the reasonableness of the deposits should be tested by whether they generate a return exceeding the cost of capital, yet NSSOL has consistently done no more than repeat explanations based on a comparison with market interest rates.
  • There is no basis for the level of cash and deposits: NSSOL justifies its on-hand liquidity of approximately ¥90 billion solely as “2.4 months of monthly sales, in line with peers,” without showing the basis for that calculation, and since a peer average does not indicate the level required by NSSOL specifically, neither the appropriateness of the ¥90 billion nor the rationale for funding it solely with shareholders’ equity has been explained.
  • The explanation for the reduction in deposits does not reflect reality: NSSOL states that, based on the decrease in deposits from the fiscal year ended March 2025 to the fiscal year ended March 2026, the deposits are not fixed in place; however, that decrease is no more than a temporary factor arising from the application of the gain on the sale of Recruit shares to the acquisition of Infocom, and a comparison between the average for the fiscal years ended March 2022 through March 2024 (approximately ¥93.8 billion) and the balance for the fiscal year ended March 2026 (¥94.4 billion) shows that the recurring level has remained essentially flat.
• Even through its dialogue with 3D, NSSOL has not taken any substantive action toward resolving the matter of these deposits.

[Past Public Materials Released by 3D]

• For the Enhancement of NS Solutions’ Corporate Value (Explanatory Materials for the Shareholder Proposals at the 46th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (2026))
  • https://www.3dipartners.com/engagement/nssol-presentation-material-en-202605.pdf
• Perception Study among NSSOL Shareholders and Other Market Participants
  • https://www.3dipartners.com/engagement/nssol-perception-study-en-202506.pdf

About 3D Investment Partners Pte. Ltd.

3D Investment Partners Pte. Ltd. is an independent Singapore-based Japan focused value investing fund manager founded in 2015. 3D Investment Partners Pte. Ltd. focuses on partnering with managements who share its investment philosophy of medium- to long-term value creation through compound capital growth and a common objective of achieving long-term returns.

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3D Investment Partners Pte. Ltd. and its affiliates and their related persons (“3DIP”) believe that current market price of NSSOL does not reflect its intrinsic value. 3DIP acquired beneficially and/or economic interest based on its own idea that NSSOL securities have been undervalued and provides attractive investment opportunity and may in the future beneficially own and/or have an economic interest in, NSSOL securities. 3DIP intends to review its investments in the NSSOL on a continuing basis and, depending upon various factors including, without limitation, the NSSOL’s financial position and strategic direction, the outcome of any discussions with NSSOL, overall market conditions, other investment opportunities available to 3DIP, and the availability of NSSOL securities at prices that would make the purchase or sale of NSSOL securities desirable, 3DIP may, from time to time (in the open market or in private transactions), buy, sell, cover, hedge, or otherwise change the form or substance of any of its investments (including the investment in NSSOL securities) to any degree in any manner permitted by any applicable law, and expressly disclaims any obligation to notify others of any such changes.

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3DIP hereby expressly states that, by reason of its assessments, estimates and expressions of opinion made through this press release, or its dialogue with other shareholders, it has no intention or agreement to be treated as a joint holder (kyodo hoyu sha) under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan or as a closely related party (missetsu kankei sha) under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, and that it has no intention to accept any permission to exercise, or any authority to represent other shareholders in the exercise of, the voting rights held by other shareholders, whether by 3DIP or by a third party, and no intention to solicit, encourage, induce or require that such voting rights be exercised by proxy.

3DIP does not have the intention to make a proposal, directly or through other shareholders of NSSOL, to transfer or abolish the business or asset of NSSOL and/or NSSOL group companies at the general shareholders meeting of NSSOL. 3DIP does not have the intention and purpose to engage in any conduct which constricts the continuing and stable implementation of business of NSSOL and/or NSSOL group companies.

This press release may include content or quotes from news coverage or other third party public sources (“Third Party Materials”). Permission to quote from Third Party Materials in this press release may neither have been sought nor obtained. The content of the Third Party Materials has not been independently verified by 3DIP and does not necessarily represent the views of 3DIP. The authors and/or publishers of the Third Party Materials are independent of, and may have different views to 3DIP. The quoting Third Party Materials on this press release does not imply that 3DIP endorses or concurs with any part of the content of the Third Party Materials or that any of the authors or publishers of the Third Party Materials endorses or concurs with any views which have been expressed by 3DIP on the relevant subject matter. The Third Party Materials may not be representative of all relevant news coverage or views expressed by other third parties on the stated issues.

This press release has been prepared based on constructive dialogue with NSSOL and publicly available information (which 3DIP has not independently verified), and is not complete, timely or comprehensive. 3DIP has not received any insider information as defined under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan (hereinafter, “Insider Information”) or any material information under the Fair Disclosure Rule (hereinafter, “Material Information”), and this press release does not contain any Insider Information or Material Information.

In respect of information that has been prepared by 3DIP (and not otherwise attributed to any other party) and which appear in the English language version of this press release, in the event of any inconsistency between the English language version and the Japanese language version of this press release, the meaning of the Japanese language version shall prevail unless otherwise expressly indicated.

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Customers can now accept digital IDs across 60+ countries and territories through a single integration with no separate vendor relationships, no country-by-country accreditation

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered identity intelligence, today announced that it has significantly expanded support for digital IDs across the globe, allowing Jumio customers to accept digital IDs in more than 60 countries and territories when onboarding new users, helping customers drive conversions and meet compliance mandates.

Digital IDs are rapidly moving from an emerging concept to a mainstream expectation. Driven by global initiatives like mobile driver’s licenses (mDL), European eIDAS 2.0, Singapore’s widely adopted Singpass ecosystem, and major wallet integrations from Apple and Google, digital IDs are increasingly coexisting with, and in some markets beginning to replace, traditional physical IDs.

Jumio has been at the forefront of this evolution for years, managing accreditation on behalf of customers and enabling them to seamlessly verify eIDAS-compliant eIDs across nearly 20 EU countries. Jumio was also one of the first global identity intelligence providers to support Brazil’s digital driver’s license, adopted by over 60 million citizens, through both QR code validation and biometric verification against government database selfie records. Since launching acceptance in early 2025, Jumio has processed more than one million Brazil CNH Digital verifications, demonstrating that digital credentials, properly implemented, perform at scale.

Now, Jumio is further expanding its digital ID offering through its integration with leading digital ID gateway Trinsic. Jumio customers will be able to onboard new users with digital IDs in more countries than ever before. Jumio’s Trinsic integration enables rapid support for new credential formats as they emerge without customers bearing the accreditation burden. But where other providers offer only basic credential checks, Jumio delivers true identity intelligence by enriching digital ID verification with biometric authentication, liveness detection, multiple risk signals and Jumio’s Identity Graph, powered by global cross-customer data — all through the same platform customers already use for physical document verification. There is no need for additional vendor relationships or fragmented workflows, just a single integration that supports every credential format.

“Jumio is the first identity intelligence provider that meets users wherever their identity lives, whether it’s in a physical document, mobile wallet, or government-issued digital credential — all through a single, trusted integration,” explained Philipp Pointner, Jumio’s chief of digital identity. “The credential landscape is shifting faster than most organizations can track. Our job is to make sure our customers are always ahead of the curve with each new government mandate, wallet format, or fraud vector. That’s what identity intelligence at scale looks like.”

“The future of identity verification isn’t a sharper photo of a plastic card, it’s accepting the digital IDs people already carry,” said Riley Hughes, CEO and co-founder of Trinsic. “By integrating Trinsic’s acceptance network, Jumio’s customers can now instantly verify customers through mobile driver’s licenses, eIDs, EUDI, and reusable credentials across more than 60 countries and territories, alongside the biometric and document checks its customers already trust. We’re proud to help one of the most recognized names in identity intelligence meet users where the world is heading.”

To learn more or schedule a demo, visit jumio.com.

About Jumio

Jumio helps organizations to know and trust their customers online. From account opening to ongoing monitoring, the Jumio Platform provides AI-powered identity intelligence anchored in biometric authentication, automation and data-driven insights to accurately establish, maintain and reassert trust.

Leveraging powerful automated technology including biometric screening, AI/machine learning, liveness detection and no-code orchestration with hundreds of data sources, Jumio helps to fight fraud and financial crime, onboard customers faster and meet regulatory compliance including KYC and AML. Jumio has processed more than 1 billion transactions spanning over 200 countries and territories from real-time web and mobile transactions.

Based in Sunnyvale, California, Jumio operates globally with offices and representation in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, and has been the recipient of numerous awards for innovation. Jumio is backed by Centana Growth Partners, Great Hill Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners.

For more information, please visit www.jumio.com.

About Trinsic

Trinsic is the first and most expansive identity acceptance network, built for a world moving from photos of plastic IDs to digital identity. Through a single API, Trinsic lets businesses verify identity up to 10x faster across more than 60 countries and territories by accepting mobile driver’s licenses, European eIDs (eIDAS/EUDI), bank IDs, reusable IDs, and government digital ID wallets. It draws on more than 40 integrated ID providers and a network of nearly two billion pre-verified users.

Founded in 2019, Trinsic offers the complete digital ID operating system, handling the integrations, certifications, compliance, and market intelligence required to accept trusted digital IDs across borders. Security and privacy are foundational: Trinsic is built with zero-access encryption and certifies to standards including SOC 2 Type II and GDPR. The company’s mission is a “one tap” future in which anyone can prove who they are with a single tap. Learn more at trinsic.id.

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U.S. Media Contact
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10Fold Communications

jumio@10fold.com
810-516-5486

APAC Media Contact
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FINN Partners

Luke.Nazir@finnpartners.com
+65 8139 2504

LATAM Media Contact
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Sentidos Comunicaciones

giancarlo@sentidoscomunicaciones.com
+56 9 7969 5161

For Trinsic
Benjamin Cejvan

Trinsic

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End-to-end, fully factory-prefabricated modular AI Factory deployment in just a few months, with full-stack intelligent management from GPU to rack, to the entire data center.

HAMBURG, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AIFactoryManagement–KAYTUS, a leading provider in AI infrastructure and liquid cooling solutions, unveiled two core solutions at ISC 2026, designed for next-generation AI data centers: a gigawatt-scale, fully prefabricated containerized liquid-cooled data center solution and KSManage Ultra, an intelligent operations management platform for AI Factories. Together, the solutions target the escalating efficiency, performance, scalability, and reliability requirements of AI-era infrastructure, enabling faster deployment, optimized thermal management, and unified operations across large-scale AI computing environments.

The KAYTUS gigawatt-scale solution is built around a 3MW base delivery unit and scales flexibly to 1GW, reducing deployment timelines by up to 60% compared with conventional data center construction. KSManage Ultra provides full-stack visibility and proactive operations management across GPU, rack, and data center layers, helping improve resource utilization, fault detection, and operational efficiency.

At ISC 2026, KAYTUS also showcased its broader full-stack AI infrastructure portfolio, spanning compute, storage, networking, liquid cooling, intelligent operations, and performance optimization. Together, these capabilities provide European customers with end-to-end support for deploying scalable, high-density, and energy-efficient next-generation AI infrastructure.

Key Challenges Facing European AI Infrastructure Operators

As demand for AI training and inference, scientific computing, and industrial simulation workloads accelerates, cloud service providers, supercomputing centers, research institutions, and enterprises across Europe are facing increasingly complex and tangible infrastructure challenges:

• Slow deployment: AI compute capacity must be brought online rapidly, yet conventional data center construction cycles can take up to 18 months, delaying infrastructure readiness and time-to-service.
• Scaling flexibility: Building large-scale AI infrastructure in a single phase requires substantial upfront capital investment. Operators need a modular, demand-driven deployment model that allows them to start with lean capacity, scale incrementally as workloads grow, and avoid premature cost lock-in.
• Fragmented management: Modern AI data center architectures introduce substantial operational complexity. With single-rack power densities exceeding 120kW and increasingly heterogeneous hardware environments spanning GPUs, servers, switches, PDUs, and CDUs, unified infrastructure management can no longer depend on manual processes.

KAYTUS directly addresses these challenges through its latest AI data center infrastructure and intelligent management solutions, redefining both how AI facilities are deployed and how they are operated. By combining factory-prefabricated infrastructure, modular scalability, and unified proactive operations, KAYTUS enables faster deployment, flexible capacity expansion, and more efficient management of complex, high-density AI environments.

Fully Prefabricated, Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Solutions

KAYTUS’ gigawatt-scale containerized liquid-cooled data center solution standardizes the full infrastructure stack into three factory-prefabricated container modules: IT Cube, Power Cube, and Cooling Cube. Unlike approaches that prefabricate only IT racks or cooling subsystems, KAYTUS factory-builds the complete data center infrastructure as a fully integrated system. The architecture scales incrementally from a 3MW base unit to 15MW, 100MW, and ultimately 1GW, providing cloud providers, AI service providers, and supercomputing platforms with a reliable, energy-efficient, and rapidly deployable foundation for large-scale AI infrastructure.

• IT Cube serves as the standardized compute module for high-density AI and HPC workloads. In its 3MW base configuration, it integrates 18 liquid-cooled racks at 150kW per rack, together with network, storage, and server management infrastructure. Enclosed hot-aisle containment and a redundant CDU architecture enable efficient thermal control and cross-module cluster scheduling, while real-time monitoring of coolant flow, temperature differential, and pressure across all secondary-side circuits supports cost-efficient deployment, operational reliability, and remote management.
• Power Cube prefabricates the PTU enclosure and diesel generator enclosure as independent factory-built units, adopting a 2+1 redundant power architecture. All power components are factory-integrated and fully validated across defined operating conditions before shipment, supporting continuous 24/7 power delivery for high-density GPU clusters and mission-critical AI workloads.
• Cooling Cube comprises two factory-prefabricated subsystems: a liquid cooling module and an air-cooled chiller module. The design integrates redundant auxiliary equipment, a thermal buffer tank, and a long-duration emergency water reserve. All systems are factory-validated across full failure scenarios, providing short-term cooling continuity during power events and sustained cooling capacity during water supply interruptions. This architecture is designed to meet the thermal resilience and cooling efficiency requirements of high-density rack deployments.

Together, the three Cube modules deliver four core customer outcomes: accelerated time to revenue, turnkey single-vendor delivery, consistent factory-controlled build quality, and flexible incremental scaling. A 3MW delivery unit can be brought online within one month of arrival on site, while providing a clear, modular roadmap for expansion to gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure.

KSManage Ultra: Intelligent Management for AI Factory

KAYTUS also introduced KSManage Ultra, its next-generation intelligent infrastructure management platform purpose-built for AI Factory environments. KSManage Ultra delivers full-stack visibility across GPU, rack, and data center layers by integrating in-band and out-of-band system telemetry, to identify performance bottlenecks and enable coordinated, system-level operations management. The platform helps customers move beyond fragmented, component-level monitoring toward unified operational control of large-scale AI infrastructure.

• Unified management across traditional infrastructure and AI rack systems
  
  KSManage Ultra breaks down the operational boundaries between IT systems and physical infrastructure, as well as between component-level monitoring and full-rack management. Its multi-tier resource view spans components, nodes, racks, clusters, and data center layers, providing a consistent, end-to-end operational view across the entire AI infrastructure environment.

• In-band and out-of-band integration for proactive operations
  
  KSManage Ultra consolidates in-band telemetry from operating systems and drivers with out-of-band data from BMCs, firmware, and hardware logs, alongside infrastructure-level metrics. This enables cross-layer correlation across system status, hardware health, network topology, and power and cooling infrastructure. When GPU anomalies, cooling irregularities, or other operational issues are detected, the platform triggers proactive alerts, helping shift operations from reactive troubleshooting to early intervention.

• Health assessment and compute reassignment
  
  KSManage Ultra provides continuous node- and rack-level health monitoring, enabling automatic anomaly detection, impact analysis, and fault isolation. The platform clearly identifies units requiring replacement as well as available rack resources, allowing operators to rapidly reassign compute capacity, minimize service disruption, and maintain AI Factory business continuity.

• Automated operations at scale
  
  KSManage Ultra supports bulk node discovery and automated onboarding, reducing single-rack commissioning time from 50 minutes to under 3 minutes. The platform also enables one-click L10/L11 stress testing, accelerates fault root-cause analysis from hours to minutes, and supports automated rack-level initialization and configuration management. These capabilities help eliminate configuration drift, reducing the risk of performance degradation and workload failures across large-scale AI infrastructure.

Darren Cox, General Manager of KAYTUS Europe, said: “KAYTUS brings a differentiated combination of vertically integrated solutions and deep engineering expertise — spanning hardware, cluster infrastructure, management platforms, and code-level services. Underpinned by our 4D engineering expertise — Design, Develop, Deploy, and DC Operations — we can bring a 30MW large-scale data center live in as little than six months. We are committed to the European market for the long term and look forward to working with local ecosystem partners to help customers in cloud, research, manufacturing, and beyond build and scale their AI and HPC infrastructure efficiently and with confidence.”

KAYTUS has deployed more than 200MW of liquid-cooled AI data center infrastructure across Europe, the United States, Japan, Southeast Asia, and other global markets. In Europe, KAYTUS delivered a hundred-rack, high-density liquid-cooled AI data center for a European infrastructure unicorn in just four months, reducing deployment time by 80% compared with conventional construction timelines. Through professional on-site tuning and system validation services, KAYTUS also achieved a 20% improvement in overall system performance, enabling a stable, efficient launch of the customer’s AI workloads.

About KAYTUS

KAYTUS is a leading provider of AI infrastructure and liquid cooling solutions, delivering a diverse range of innovative, open, and eco-friendly products for cloud, AI, edge computing, and other emerging applications. With a customer-centric approach, KAYTUS is agile and responsive to user needs through its adaptable business model. Discover more at KAYTUS.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X

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Implementation advances Thredd’s cloud-first infrastructure strategy, enabling faster programme deployments, improved platform resilience and greater optionality for local market connectivity in APAC

SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Thredd, the AI-first issuer processing platform, today announced the implementation of Visa Cloud Connect (VCC) in the Asia Pacific, marking a significant regional milestone in the company’s broader cloud transformation strategy.

Following Thredd’s global agreement to enable Visa Cloud Connect, the Asia Pacific implementation advances the company’s commitment to building a more resilient, scalable and future-ready issuing infrastructure for fintechs, digital banks and embedded finance providers operating across the region. The implementation is currently centralised through Singapore, Thredd’s regional cloud hub for APAC, supporting faster programme onboarding, more efficient release cycles and enhanced operational reliability for clients.

Visa Cloud Connect enables organisations to access VisaNet, Visa’s secure global payments network, through cloud-based infrastructure. For Thredd, the implementation is part of a wider shift away from traditional data centre hardware toward end-to-end cloud-native infrastructure, including direct cloud connectivity into the network. This reduces reliance on third-party intermediaries and gives Thredd greater control over the performance, monitoring and resilience of its platform.

“Visa Cloud Connect represents an important step in the evolution of our infrastructure strategy across Asia Pacific,” said Damien Gough, Head of APAC at Thredd. “The industry is moving beyond traditional processing environments toward cloud-native, real-time financial orchestration, where speed, resilience, scalability and adaptability increasingly determine competitive advantage. By implementing direct cloud connectivity into VisaNet through our Singapore regional hub, we are strengthening the operational foundation that supports faster programme deployment, improved platform visibility and greater flexibility as clients expand across markets, rails and emerging payment models.

“With the pace of change happening in areas such as AI, Agentic Commerce, and multi-rail payments, infrastructure needs to be able to evolve quickly alongside changing customer behaviour, regulatory requirements and new forms of commerce. Visa Cloud Connect helps position us to support that shift with a more modern, resilient and operationally flexible connectivity model across the region.”

The implementation supports Thredd’s hosted model in Asia Pacific, allowing fintechs, digital banks and other digital-first businesses to leverage Thredd-managed infrastructure without having to build and maintain their own direct environment. This model is particularly well suited for organisations prioritising speed of execution, simplified deployment and access to Thredd’s regional operating infrastructure.

The move also increases Thredd’s flexibility to support future local deployments where client or market requirements demand it. Visa Cloud Connect creates optionality to stand up dedicated local instances in major markets faster than would have been possible under traditional infrastructure models. For large institutions with local data residency or sovereignty requirements, such as tier-one or tier-two banks, this provides a clearer path to exploring dedicated market-specific deployments where commercially and operationally appropriate.

By moving to a cloud-native model with direct cloud connectivity to VCC, Thredd is improving the network-connection layer in APAC, to further improve the foundation for speed, resilience, and future optionality.

About Thredd

Thredd is the trusted, AI-first, cloud-enabled issuer processing platform powering the next generation of global payments. Through a single API, unified platform, Thredd delivers debit, credit, digital wallet and ledger capabilities to over 100 fintech, digital banks and embedded finance providers, across 50+ countries, processing billions of transactions annually. With a global operating footprint, local expertise, and AI integrated into every layer of its platform, Thredd has been purpose-built for speed, scale and modern issuance models, setting the standard for market entry, client experience, security, regulatory rigour and operational resilience. Learn more at www.thredd.ai

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SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#EmbeddedGUI—GigaDevice, a leading semiconductor company specializing in Flash memory, 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), sensors, and analog products, has officially entered a strategic partnership with Qt Group, a global leader in software design, development, and quality assurance solutions. Leveraging the GD32H7 high-performance MCU series, the two companies will collaborate to optimize and enhance embedded GUI solutions, enabling developers to create more intuitive, visually rich, and responsive user experiences. This collaboration further expands GigaDevice’s ecosystem strategy in advanced human-machine interface (HMI) and establishes a solid foundation for future innovation across smart industry solutions, energy storage systems, smart home devices, and consumer electronics.

As IoT, industrial automation, energy storage, and smart devices continue to evolve, demand for intuitive, visually rich, and responsive human-machine interfaces (HMI) is growing rapidly. GigaDevice’s GD32H7 series MCUs, featuring high-performance processing capabilities, advanced graphic support, and industrial-grade reliability, provide an ideal platform for next-generation HMI applications. Qt Group’s Qt for MCUs framework, known for its efficient cross-platform development environment, high-performance graphical rendering, and comprehensive UI component library, has been widely adopted across various types of applications worldwide.

Through this partnership, GigaDevice and Qt Group will collaborate in three major areas. The companies will jointly optimize and validate Qt for MCUs on the GD32H7 platform to maximize system performance and development efficiency. They will also develop reference designs, software frameworks, and best-practice guidelines for targeted application segments, helping developers accelerate product development and reduce time-to-market. In addition, both companies will work together to expand the developer ecosystem through technical training, community engagement, joint marketing initiatives, and customer enablement programs.

“At GigaDevice, building a comprehensive MCU ecosystem has always been central to our strategy,” said Vincent Li, GigaDevice Senior Vice President and General Manager of the MCU Business Unit, “Qt Group’s technical expertise and developer footprint in embedded GUI align closely with our direction: serving premium customers and raising the competitive bar for our products. This partnership will combine the hardware strengths of the GD32H7 series with the software capabilities of Qt for MCUs, giving development teams an integrated platform, and helping end customers deliver more differentiated product experiences, faster.”

“Embedded developers building advanced HMI products face a consistent bottleneck: the time it takes to get a graphics stack running well on new hardware before meaningful UI work can begin,” said Michele Rossi, Director, Qt for MCUs Product Management, Qt Group. “Our work with GigaDevice on the GD32H7 platform is about removing that bottleneck. Qt for MCUs has proven itself on demanding hardware across automotive, industrial, and consumer applications worldwide, and this partnership extends that track record to one of the fastest-growing MCU platforms in the market today.”

This partnership between GigaDevice and Qt Group marks an important milestone in advancing the embedded software and hardware ecosystem. The two companies will deliver a more integrated development experience and comprehensive solution portfolio for customers worldwide.

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New integration embeds Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control technology into beehiiv, allowing newsletter operators to seamlessly manage bot traffic, optimize for AI search discovery and protect their content archive

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, and beehiiv, the newsletter-first publishing platform that helps publishers and businesses own, grow, and monetize their audience, today announced a strategic partnership to redefine the creator economy and how independent creators interact with AI. By integrating Cloudflare’s advanced Crawl Control technology directly into the beehiiv platform, the partnership equips creators with clear visibility and granular control over how AI models use their work.

As AI models evolve to offer new forms of search and discovery, independent creators are looking for flexible ways to understand and manage how their content is accessed. This integration simplifies the process by letting beehiiv users manage their digital footprint through two clear choices: publishers can either opt-in to maximum discovery to allow AI search engines and agents to crawl their work freely for broader distribution, or choose content protection, blocking AI scraping to preserve their archives for future monetization and licensing opportunities.

“Cloudflare is dedicated to protecting and enabling content creators, from independent bloggers to the world’s largest publishers,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “As the Internet evolves, our commitment remains the same: ensuring creators have the tools they need to thrive. This partnership with beehiiv is the next logical step in that mission, giving newsletter operators the transparency and control to navigate the AI era on their own terms, whether they are optimizing for discovery or preserving their work for future opportunities.”

“beehiiv was built to support creator independence,” said Tyler Denk, co-founder and CEO of beehiiv. “As AI changes how people find and consume content, publishers need real leverage. Our partnership with Cloudflare gives creators the data and controls they need to either maximize discovery and distribution, or protect their writing and dictate their own terms.”

Managing AI bots historically required complex technical engagement, like manual robots.txt updates or firewalls. This partnership removes those technical hurdles, giving publishers of all sizes – from large media outlets to individual creators – the ability to easily set automated preferences. Key features of the integration include:

• Personalized Analytics: Creators get an on-platform dashboard powered by Cloudflare APIs. This shows exactly which AI crawlers are attempting to access their content, which ones are being blocked, and the referral traffic those crawlers send back to the newsletter.
• One-Click Toggle Permissions: The ability to block or allow specific AI models based on the creator’s business goals.
• Future-Proof Rights Management: Automatic updates that adapt to new AI crawlers as they emerge on the web, ensuring creators have the most up-to-date control without needing to update code.

AI Crawl Control will be available to all beehiiv users in beta, giving every publisher visibility into how AI services interact with their content and the traffic they generate. beehiiv Max customers will also have access to AI Crawl Control, enabling them to block AI crawlers and decide how their content is used across the AI ecosystem.

The new AI control features are rolling out today and will be available through the platform’s standard dashboard settings. For more information about the partnership, please visit cloudflare.com or beehiiv.com.

About beehiiv

beehiiv is the platform creators and brands use to publish, grow, and monetize their owned audiences. More than 135,000 publishers run their newsletters, websites, and podcasts on beehiiv, keeping 100% of their subscription revenue and full ownership of their audience. The platform brings newsletter publishing, podcast hosting, a website builder, and digital product sales together in one place, with built-in monetization, deep analytics, and a suite of integrations and AI-tools. beehiiv’s mission is to help the next million creators and brands to build direct relationships with their audience and turn those relationships into sustainable revenue. Learn more at beehiiv.com.

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.

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New Private Access Control Tokens (PACT) technology, developed alongside Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify, pioneers a privacy architecture to secure interactions across the global Internet

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced a new initiative with major Web browsers—Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge—committing to developing and submitting for standardization a privacy-preserving protocol to help humans and bots prove that their traffic is not malicious. As the Internet shifts from human-driven clicks to agent activity, website operators must now figure out how to stop aggressive automated traffic, without resorting to invasive tracking. This initiative will lay the foundation for a more frictionless, secure, and private experience for every Internet user and website owner alike.

“The way we interact with the Internet is facing a fundamental shift. Normal everyday tasks like ordering food previously required a user to personally navigate menus and payment gateways. Now, autonomous agents are starting to orchestrate these workflows on behalf of people,” said Dane Knecht, CTO of Cloudflare. “As AI-powered traffic becomes widespread, existing tools to support its use are too generic and coarse. Now this collaboration lets us eliminate the friction caused by security protocols for every visitor—whether they are human or agent—without sacrificing privacy.”

For decades, website operators have relied on a patchwork of imperfect defense mechanisms to manage automated abuse, but these imperfect techniques are increasingly failing to keep pace with modern threats. Now, with the explosion of Generative AI, the battlefield has shifted yet again. Malicious automation is more widespread, sophisticated, and economically damaging to site owners. As we move toward an era of agentic AI, the line between human behavior and bot activity is blurring, leaving the digital world with an unprecedented privacy problem. When websites attempt to verify that a request originates from a legitimate human or authorized bot, the traditional solutions—forced logins and invasive tracking—compromise user trust.

“In commerce, every extra challenge, delay, or false positive can turn a purchase into an abandoned cart. Merchants need effective protections against automated abuse, but buyers shouldn’t have to pay for them with unnecessary friction or invasive tracking. Shopify is proud to help develop PACT as an open, privacy-preserving standard that can help the millions of businesses on our platform distinguish legitimate shoppers and authorized agents from abusive traffic while preserving buyer privacy.” – Ilya Grigorik, Distinguished Engineer at Shopify.

Private Access Control Tokens (PACT) are designed to allow sites with strong knowledge of “personhood” to issue anonymous tokens. A user’s browser can then provide these tokens to other sites to prove that a human is in the loop, reducing the need for annoying and clunky captchas or invasive tracking. PACT is designed so that sites cannot leverage it to track or identify users or their browsing history.

“The health of the web depends on effective, interoperable, privacy-preserving tools that enable sites to combat abuse without unnecessary user friction. Microsoft is excited to collaborate on developing new standards and helping ensure their deployment across the open web.” – Erik Anderson, Director of Engineering, Web Platform at Microsoft Edge.

“Mozilla is committed to defending openness and user privacy on the web. An avalanche of automated traffic is pushing sites to adopt blunt defenses—paywalls, identity checks, CAPTCHAs, and invasive tracking—simply to tell whether a request comes from a human. We can build a better solution that maintains strong privacy and provides a much less annoying experience for real humans using the web. This project requires collaboration across the ecosystem, and we’re thrilled to work with Cloudflare and other like-minded partners to bring it to life.” – Bobby Holley, CTO for Firefox at Mozilla.

PACT will further empower businesses to identify genuine visitors, ensuring they can focus their resources on the traffic that matters to them. PACT leverages trusted information from contexts that have authentic relationships with people while keeping that information private. This provides businesses with high-integrity assurances about their audiences with minimal friction. Using PACT on Cloudflare’s network raises the bar for trustworthiness and integrity online without the traditional costs.

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

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PixVerse brings the football manga that shaped generations of fans into a new era of AI-powered creativity.

SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#CaptainTsubasa–PixVerse, a global AI video generation platform, today announced a collaboration with Captain Tsubasa, bringing the iconic football manga to AI video generation for the first time. From now until July 26, fans can create original content featuring Captain Tsubasa characters on PixVerse, made possible through a licensing partnership with KAGAMI Gate.

Created by Yoichi Takahashi in 1981, Captain Tsubasa follows a young player’s relentless pursuit of his dream to become a world-class footballer, a story of ambition and perseverance that has resonated with generations of fans and athletes across Japan and around the world. Renowned football players including Fernando Torres and Lukas Podolski have cited the manga as a formative inspiration in their careers.

Reimagining How Fans Engage With the IPs They Love

PixVerse’s video generation is backed by in-house AI research and engineering, giving creators tools for cinematic-quality output without the need for production experience. Among the platform’s most popular features are its templates and effects, pre-built creative formats that let any user generate polished, stylized content in seconds. These template features were central to PixVerse’s early viral growth, turning everyday users into creators of trends that spread across the internet.

This collaboration brings that same capability to a different kind of content: dedicated Captain Tsubasa templates that let fans upload their own photos and recreate iconic matches and dramatic plays, from Hyuga’s signature Tiger Shot to Misaki’s finesse on the ball, placing themselves alongside the characters they grew up watching.

“Captain Tsubasa shaped how many of us first fell in love with football, and with storytelling itself,” said Jaden Xie, Co-Founder and President of PixVerse. “Being able to bring this IP into PixVerse means a lot to us, not just as a company, but as fans. We hope this is the start of a new kind of relationship between AI and the stories we grew up with, one that lets today’s fans engage with these worlds in new ways, while helping introduce the next generation to the IPs we loved as kids.”

Running from June 18 to July 10, PixVerse is inviting creators to bring their own football stories to life through the “My Dream Goal” challenge. Entrants can create original AI-generated videos inspired by Captain Tsubasa and the spirit of football, with a prize pool that includes cash awards and PixVerse credits. Full details and submission guidelines are available at this link.

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The collaboration is made possible through KAGAMI Gate, the licensing infrastructure built by KAGAMIAI Holdings. KAGAMI Gate manages how IP is used and tracked in AI generation, ensuring that Captain Tsubasa’s use on PixVerse stays aligned with TSUBASA Co., Ltd.’s vision for the franchise.

“Japan’s IP has shaped culture and inspired generations, and protecting that legacy as AI reshapes how stories are told is core to our mission at KAGAMIAI. This collaboration between Captain Tsubasa and PixVerse shows what’s possible when AI platforms and IP holders work together with the right safeguards in place, creating new value for fans while honoring the rights and wishes of creators like Yoichi Takahashi,” said Takami Kondo, Representative Director, President & Group CEO of NEXYZ.Group and Chairman of KAGAMIAI Holdings.

The Captain Tsubasa experience is available on PixVerse from now until July 26. More information is available at app.pixverse.ai.

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