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New York – September 11, 2026 -- Ankura Consulting Group, LLC has appointed Joanne Taylor as Chief Operating Officer, tasking her with running the firm's global day-to-day operations and building the infrastructure needed to scale efficiently.

Taylor brings 25 years of transformation experience to the role

Taylor has more than 25 years advising boards, private equity sponsors, and executive teams, with expertise in business transformation, operating-model design, and operational excellence. Before joining Ankura, she held senior leadership and general management roles across global consulting, technology, and services organizations, leading enterprise-wide transformations and large-scale operational turnarounds.

Houston – September 11, 2026 -- Memorial Hermann Health System has cut patient follow-up messages about test results by 32% after deploying Art, an AI-powered documentation assistant built into its Epic electronic health record system.

Clinicians save nine seconds per result comment using AI-drafted notes

Art generates an initial draft patient note in plain language as clinicians review lab and imaging results in Epic's In Basket, replacing complex medical terminology with patient-friendly explanations. Clinicians then review, edit and personalize each draft before sending it to patients. Care teams at Memorial Hermann have used the tool to write more than 55,000 patient messages since adoption began, with clinicians saving an average of nine seconds per result comment when starting from Art's draft.

Singapore – September 11, 2026 -- Parseur, an AI-powered document processing platform serving more than 10,000 businesses globally, has achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance following an independent audit by Constellation GRC, verified through Oneleet.

Audit confirms controls meet AICPA Trust Services Criteria after six-month review

The certification process took approximately six months and verified that Parseur's systems and controls consistently meet the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Trust Services Criteria for security, availability, and confidentiality. The report gives enterprise customers processing invoices, contracts, and financial records independently verified assurance over how their data is handled.

Dubai – September 11, 2026 -- Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched Forex Perpetual Contracts, adding a new derivatives category with three USDT-settled pairs: EURUSDUSDT, GBPUSDUSDT, and USDJPYUSDT.

New contracts track spot FX rates without expiry using crypto collateral

The three pairs mirror their respective spot exchange rates and carry no expiry date, letting traders hold continuous FX exposure while posting crypto assets as collateral. The products integrate Bybit's crypto-native derivatives mechanics -- funding rates, dynamic leverage, and the platform's Unified Trading Account -- into foreign exchange trading.

Global – – September 11, 2026 -- Ninety-two percent of in-house legal departments received AI implementation mandates with no accompanying budget in 2027, up sharply from 78% a year earlier, according to the Axiom 2027 In-House Legal Budget Report. The study, conducted by InsightDynamo and commissioned by Axiom, surveyed 510 in-house legal and finance leaders across six countries, with 64% of respondents from companies generating $1 billion or more in annual revenue.

Unfunded AI mandates push costs onto existing technology budgets

San Jose, California – September 11, 2026 -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) launched cOS SensAI, a vendor-agnostic, software-based intelligence platform designed to unify fragmented network data for broadband operators, with Analysys Mason estimating the addressable market at approximately $2.2 billion annually among Tier 2 and smaller broadband service providers.

SensAI consolidates data from thousands of disparate network sources into a single operational model

The platform builds a continuously updated, real-time model of a provider's operational ecosystem, correlating signals across network devices, tools, applications and customer premise equipment. It aims to replace the manual process of pulling data from a dozen separate systems, a task Hotwire Communications CTO Pragash Pillai described as tedious and time-consuming prior to deployment.

Beijing – – September 11, 2026 -- WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WiMi) has developed a multi-dimensional data pooling technique built on Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQA) that compresses complex datasets while retaining local feature detail, a persistent bottleneck in classical machine learning pipelines.

WiMi combines Quantum Haar Transform with partial measurement to eliminate flattening losses

The scheme merges a Quantum Haar Transform (QHT) with quantum partial measurement to build what the company calls a quantum pooling mechanism. Unlike classical pooling, which compresses data by discarding information through flattening, WiMi's method operates directly on multi-dimensional data in quantum state space, avoiding the need to reduce inputs to one-dimensional form before processing.

Arlington, Va. – September 11, 2026 -- Eighty-four percent of senior business leaders say at least one cultural factor is limiting their organization's success with artificial intelligence, even as AI adoption delivers measurable productivity and quality gains, according to a new survey from Eagle Hill Consulting.

AI adoption spreads evenly across core business functions

The Eagle Hill Consulting AI Capabilities survey of 306 U.S. director-level and above executives finds organizations deploying AI at nearly equal rates across business operations (73 percent), decision support and analytics (72 percent), and employee productivity and knowledge work (71 percent). Sixty-six percent of respondents report improved employee productivity, 59 percent cite improved operational efficiency, 55 percent report improved quality of work, and 53 percent report improved customer experience.

Berlin – September 11, 2026 -- SATELLAI, an AI-driven pet wellness company, deepened its partnership with Deutsche Telekom IoT and Swift Navigation at IFA 2026, combining three technology layers to scale connected pet devices into international markets.

Three companies combine AI, connectivity and positioning layers

The collaboration merges SATELLAI's AI-based pet intelligence, Deutsche Telekom IoT's global connectivity infrastructure, and Swift Navigation's advanced positioning technology. David Teaster, Product Marketing Lead at SATELLAI, said the partnership brings together an intelligence layer, a connectivity layer, and a positioning layer to form the foundation for scalable, connected pet experiences worldwide.

Berlin – September 11, 2026 -- SATELLAI, an AI-powered pet wellbeing company, has deepened its technology partnership with Deutsche Telekom IoT and Swift Navigation to support international scaling of its connected pet products, the company announced at IFA 2026.

Three technology layers combine to power global pet tracking

The collaboration integrates SATELLAI's AI-driven pet intelligence, Deutsche Telekom IoT's global connectivity infrastructure, and Swift Navigation's advanced positioning systems. SATELLAI presented the partnership during a keynote at a Deutsche Telekom IoT networking event, outlining how the combined stack supports scalable connected pet experiences across markets.