“Christina has spent her career doing something rare: translating cutting-edge technology and analytics into real, scalable business value,” said Rob Fauber, President and Chief Executive Officer of Moody’s Corporation. “That is exactly what Moody’s Analytics customers expect from us as they navigate a rapidly changing and complex operating environment. As AI reshapes the analytics landscape, I am confident that Christina will raise the bar on what it means to be a trusted partner to the businesses and institutions we serve.”

“Moody’s Analytics sits at a remarkable intersection of proprietary data and deep customer relationships in a moment where AI is fundamentally changing how the world’s most consequential institutions make decisions,” said Ms. Kosmowski. “That combination creates a powerful advantage and a clear opportunity to accelerate innovation. My focus is to ensure every customer can act on that intelligence with confidence and precision, and to build on Moody’s long-standing reputation for rigor and trust in serving our customers. I am honored to lead this exceptional team in building on that foundation and driving the next phase of growth and innovation.”

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Ms. Kosmowski specializes in guiding organizations through periods of rapid growth and centers customer success at the heart of everything she does. She was a founding member of Salesforce’s customer success organization – one of the earliest and most influential models in the technology world – and has spent years building teams and operating models designed to ensure customers realize sustained value from enterprise solutions. Ms. Kosmowski is a proven enterprise technology leader with a track record of building and scaling high-growth businesses at the forefront of industry shifts, including the rise of AI-driven enterprise platforms. She joins Moody’s from LogicMonitor, where she served as Chief Executive Officer, leading the company’s growth strategy and global expansion, and helping enterprises operate complex, data-rich environments and make more informed, real-time operational decisions.

Before LogicMonitor, Ms. Kosmowski held senior leadership roles at Slack, including Chief Customer Officer, where she built and scaled the Customer Success and Enterprise go-to-market organizations as the company grew to $1 billion in revenue and through its direct listing. She previously spent 15 years at Salesforce, where she led a $4 billion revenue organization and was a pioneer in building the customer success model that helped define the modern enterprise software industry.

Ms. Kosmowski serves on the board of Nasuni and is a founding partner of Operator Collective, an investment firm focused on the next generation of B2B technology companies. Through her work across operating roles, board leadership and investing, she remains closely connected to the ideas, talent and partnerships shaping the future of enterprise technology and AI.

She also serves on the Board of Trustees at Northwestern University, where she earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering.

Source: BusinessWire

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Spatial proteomics platforms are generating increasingly rich and complex tissue data, yet a significant portion of that data’s biological value remains unrealized. Critical insights, including novel spatial biomarkers, treatment response signatures, and patient stratification patterns, are often under extracted due to sub-optimal assay development and fragmentation across assay development, imaging, and analytics. As multiplex imaging technologies advance, the gap between data generation and actionable insight continues to widen, leaving substantial value unrealized.

This partnership introduces a premium, fully integrated offering for pharma sponsors, delivered as a single engagement unified across the entire workflow. Sirona Dx leads assay design, development, and validation to ensure high-quality image generation, while Nucleai delivers AI-powered spatial analytics from feature extraction through biomarker discovery and biological interpretation. Together, the companies provide a seamless end-to-end solution in which highest quality tissue data is connected directly to actionable biological insight.

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“Until now, pharma teams haven’t had a seamless way to translate spatial proteomics data into actionable biological insight,” said Avi Veidman, CEO of Nucleai. “Together with Sirona Dx, we’re delivering a single, integrated path from tissue data to meaningful biological insight — enabling more confident biomarker decisions and ultimately improving the probability of clinical success.”

“Pharma sponsors are investing heavily in spatial biology and need solutions that match both the quality and complexity of their data,” said Nasry Yassa, CEO of Sirona Dx. “Our partnership with Nucleai augments our capabilities to deliver fully integrated insight, providing a more seamless and effective model for supporting drug development programs.”

The joint offering supports applications across oncology, immunology, and neuroscience, including biomarker discovery and validation, patient stratification, mechanism of action studies, and clinical trial biomarker programs.

The partnership, combining best-in-class experimental and analytical capabilities, is timed perfectly to meet growing demand from pharma sponsors for integrated spatial biology solutions.

Source: BusinessWire

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NTT Research announced Scale Academy at Upgrade 2026, the company’s annual research and technology innovation summit taking place April 15-16 at the Signia by Hilton San Jose.

Scale Academy: From Academic Research to Market Reality

NTT Research was founded as a corporate subsidiary with a mandate to engage in basic scientific research. Now in its seventh year of operations, NTT Research has also formalized a duty that aligns with its corporate status, namely: to identify technologies with strong commercial potential and guide them through the early phases of business success.

Its newly established Scale Academy is executing that role with SaltGrain, a zero-trust data security suite that leverages ABE, a cryptographic scheme first proposed in a 2004 paper co-authored by Dr. Amit Sahai of UCLA and Dr. Brent Waters, who now serves as the director of NTT Research’s Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab. The product name combines Salt – a term for enhanced hash security – with Grain, which alludes to ABE’s ability to provide access to data on a granular level.

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“As NTT Research enters its ‘2.0’ phase, we are launching Scale Academy to iterate and grow the most promising new NTT technologies into market success,” said NTT Research President and CEO Kazu Gomi. “As the first case out of Scale Academy, we will push SaltGrain, which we believe the market is ready for. SaltGrain is a data security suite that breaks the prevailing all-or-nothing file-access paradigm, closes cybersecurity gaps and enhances privacy protection, which is much needed in the environment where AI agents are everywhere and playing a wide variety of roles.”

Startup incubators, well-known to venture capital firms, large universities and R&D-focused corporations, provide new ventures with separate governance and explicit resource allocation, which business analysts from Geoffrey Moore to the McKinsey Group have long associated with startup success. The Scale Academy at NTT Research will support breakthrough products that originate in its own four labs and in others throughout NTT.

“Business start-ups have their own rhythms and incentives that quarterly metrics miss,” Indart said. “Scale Academy accommodates those realities, with SaltGrain providing a timely entrance amidst AI risk acceleration, gaps in network and identity controls and the growing need to protect data wherever it moves.”

Source: BusinessWire

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Trust is at the core of any system, and this partnership helps teams build with confidence from the start. Together, Hashgraph and Halborn are helping ensure that applications launching on the Hedera network are resilient from day one and continue to meet high standards as they grow.

“Security is fundamental to trust in any distributed system,” said Joe Blanchard, CIO and CSO at Hashgraph. “By working with Halborn, we are giving builders in the Hedera ecosystem access to specialized expertise that helps them identify and address risks early, and continue strengthening their systems over time.”

Halborn brings deep experience securing systems that operate under real-world pressure. The firm has conducted more than 2,500 security assessments, identified over 13,000 vulnerabilities, and helped protect more than $1 trillion in digital assets. Its team of more than 100 security practitioners supports over 800 clients, including financial institutions operating in highly regulated environments. This experience shapes a practical approach to security that focuses on how systems behave when things go wrong.

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Halborn’s methodology focuses on identifying potential exploit paths across the full stack, with the goal to deliver clear, prioritized findings that teams can act on quickly, with validation processes in place to ensure accuracy and completeness. A key element of the partnership is enabling a more structured approach to security as projects evolve, including:

• Pre-launch readiness, where early risks are identified and translated into clear go or no-go decisions
• Targeted assessments, allowing teams to bring in security expertise as new components are introduced
• Continuous engagement, where security becomes an ongoing part of development and operations

This model reflects how risk changes as systems grow more complex, integrate with new services, and attract greater usage. For the Hedera ecosystem, it means access to security support that aligns with how projects are actually built and deployed.

The partnership between Hashgraph and Halborn is ultimately focused on strengthening trust. By combining Hedera’s consensus-level security with Halborn’s ability to identify and address real-world threats, the Hedera ecosystem is better positioned to support applications that require a high level of assurance, from financial services to AI and beyond.

Source: PRNewswire

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The Growth Agent is built to solve one of the industry’s most pressing challenges: deposit acquisition and retention in a high-velocity market. It leverages MX’s customer analytics and data enrichment to identify deposit opportunities in real-time. These insights are then funneled into Primitive’s agentic operating system, which executes targeted campaigns and manages complex back-office workflows including automated direct deposit switching.

“The real challenge for banks hasn’t been a lack of data, but the difficulty of transforming that data into an enhanced, actionable asset at scale,” said Ryan Caldwell, founder and CEO of MX. “This partnership helps close the gap between customer data intelligence and measurable growth by expanding MX’s current framework where insights can trigger secure, governed actions. We’re enabling a level of personalized service and back-office efficiency that was previously difficult to achieve at scale, all while supporting the rigorous transparency and oversight that regulated institutions require.”

The partnership introduces a joint go-to-market offering that provides these growth agents directly to banks and credit unions. This collaboration leverages MX’s excellence in front-end consumer experiences and data insights alongside Primitive’s specialized agentic AI operating system for bank operations. By combining MX’s open banking connectivity with Primitive’s token optimization across LLM providers, financial institutions can now deploy sophisticated AI that is both cost-effective and operationally secure.

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Key Growth Agent Capabilities:

• The “Grow Agent” Framework: An industry-first collaboration that identifies external deposit opportunities using MX aggregated and consumer-permissioned data and executes automated recovery and retention strategies.
• Three-Layer Agentic Architecture: Built on Primitive’s robust foundation featuring secure gateways, agent orchestration, and an Executive Agentic Capital Dashboard for real-time performance oversight.
• Precision Data Enrichment: Leverages MX’s proprietary transaction categorization, life-stage inference, and propensity scoring to predict which customers are most likely to increase their deposit share.
• Automated Campaign Executions: Streamlines the movement of funds through integrated direct deposit switching (via Atomic) and automated bill pay and automated account funding workflows.
• Enterprise-Grade Governance: A native “human-in-the-loop” workflow that incorporates existing bank risk frameworks without requiring system changes, ensuring every agent stays compliant.
• Secure MCP-Enabled Integration: Utilizes the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and MX’s consumer-permissioned third party data to ensure data remains secure within the financial institution while allowing agents to process real-time analytics.

“Our long-term vision is clear: AI agents will soon act as a massive force multiplier for human capital, allowing financial institutions to scale their reach and operational impact without losing the personal touch,” said Derek White, Founder and CEO of Primitive. “This partnership positions both companies at the center of that evolution. By integrating MX’s deep data enrichment with our agentic assembly and orchestration layers, we’re giving banks a plug-and-play workforce that is compliant, traceable, and incredibly effective at driving revenue.”

Source: GlobeNewswire

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The multi-year agreement reflects OneAZ’s continued commitment to investing in a digital platform that evolves alongside member expectations and supports the credit union’s broader growth strategy. With more than 230,000 members and 25 branches across Arizona, OneAZ has relied on Lumin’s cloud-native platform to deliver intuitive, secure, and flexible digital banking capabilities to its members.

“Our partnership with Lumin has enabled us to create a digital banking experience that is flexible, forward-looking, and centered on our members,” said Nihar Pilla, Vice President of Digital Services at OneAZ Credit Union. “This renewal enables us to build on that momentum and continue advancing our digital strategy as our members’ needs evolve.”

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Since launching on the Lumin platform in 2021, OneAZ has expanded its digital banking capabilities across retail, business, and commercial banking, including enhanced card services and additional features, resulting in more than 200,000 digital banking users, over 112,000 monthly active mobile app users, and app ratings of 4.85 on iOS and 4.80 on Google Play.

“Working with OneAZ has been both meaningful and impactful,” said Lisa Daniels, Chief Operating Officer at Lumin Digital. “It’s been a privilege to work alongside the OneAZ team, and we’re grateful for the continued trust they place in us as we enter this next phase of our partnership.”

Lumin’s cloud-native architecture enables financial institutions to innovate efficiently, deploy enhancements rapidly, and adapt to changing market conditions without the constraints of legacy infrastructure. Throughout the relationship, the two organizations have worked closely to align product roadmaps, operational priorities, and member experience initiatives. As OneAZ continues to refine its digital strategy, the renewed partnership positions the credit union to build on its existing foundation while maintaining flexibility for future growth.

Source: BusinessWire

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By leveraging Askey SCU5000 small cell, Bloxtel is integrating its AI-enabled, decentralized 5G core network into an all-in-one 5G access point. Unlike traditional solutions that rely on centralized cloud cores, the AP 201 brings the full 5G Core, including the Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) and User Plane Function (UPF), directly onto edge hardware through Bloxtel’s Open6GC architecture.

Edge-Native Architecture and AI-Driven Operations
By hosting core network functions directly at the edge, alongside the small cell, the AP 201 minimizes the need to route data through distant cloud environments. This architecture reduces backhaul dependency, simplifies deployment, and improves responsiveness for latency-sensitive applications such as industrial automation and autonomous systems.

The AP 201 features an on-device AI agent for local decision-making, combined with a distributed coordination layer that enables networks to operate reliably even in environments with limited or intermittent connectivity. It further advances an autonomous network model with integrated AI capabilities for monitoring, predictive maintenance, and self-healing. The system is powered by Bloxtel’s patented dSIM® technology, introducing an asymmetric authentication framework aligned with emerging 6G architectures, providing a strong foundation for secure and scalable network identity.

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Askey is also aligned with Bloxtel on a roadmap for future GPU-enabled generations of the AP, designed to support advanced workloads, including generative AI and real-time processing at the network edge.

“We are pleased to integrate Bloxtel’s innovative decentralized 5G core solution with Askey’s market-proven 5G radio into a unified platform,” said Robert Lin, CEO and Chairman of Askey. “The AP 201, built on our SCU5000 platform, demonstrates our commitment to enabling edge AI solutions through open API in collaboration with innovative partners on Askey’s 5G radio platform, accelerating private 5G adoption and advancing the industry.”

“This partnership with Askey is a pivotal milestone,” said Izzo Wane, Co-founder and CEO of Bloxtel. “We are moving beyond the cloud-heavy limitations of the past by delivering a turnkey, serverless solution that is as simple to deploy and manage as enterprise Wi-Fi, but with the security and performance of carrier-grade 5G. With Open6GC and our GPU-enabled roadmap, we are building the foundation for the next generation of network infrastructure.”

Source: PRNewswire

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Dean joins TruConnect with more than two decades of experience leading technology organizations at high-growth digital platforms operating in complex regulatory environments. In his role, he will lead the company’s engineering, platform development, and technology strategy as TruConnect continues to scale its platform and expand its impact.

TruConnect operates at the intersection of telecommunications, government programs, compliance, and consumer technology – a unique combination that requires sophisticated platform infrastructure and operational rigor. As the largest platform in its category, serving millions of customers nationwide and processing high volumes of daily transactions, the company is entering a new phase of growth focused on expanding its technology capabilities and accelerating product innovation.

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“Justin brings the rare combination of deep technical leadership and operational execution needed to scale complex platforms,” said Scott Southron, President of TruConnect. “As we continue to expand our services and technology capabilities, his experience building high-performing engineering organizations will play a critical role in our next chapter.”

Dean has held senior executive technology leadership roles across several high-growth digital platforms, where he led large engineering organizations and built scalable product and data infrastructure supporting millions of users. He is known for transforming engineering teams into high-performance product development organizations capable of delivering innovation in highly regulated industries.

“TruConnect operates in one of the most interesting intersections in technology today where telecommunications infrastructure, government programs, compliance, custom hardware and consumer platforms meet,” said Dean. “The opportunity to modernize and scale a platform that directly impacts millions of people is incredibly compelling. I’m excited to work with the team to strengthen the technology foundation and accelerate innovation across the business.”

Dean’s appointment comes as TruConnect continues to invest in its technology platform and expand its engineering capabilities to support long-term growth.

Source: PRNewswire

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“Cloud costs keep getting harder to manage, and the core problem isn’t missing data, it’s too much data without context,” said Matt Biringer, Co-Founder and CEO of North. “We spent three years watching this problem compound across hundreds of companies. Noros is what we built to fix it: an agent that can take the full complexity of a cloud environment, understand what it means for your business, and tell you what to do about it.”

An AI Agent Built for Every Seat at the Table

Noros was built from the ground up as a unified system. Where most cloud cost tools are reactive alerting after a spike has already happened Noros tracks the KPIs your business cares about, surfaces anomalies before they compound, and connects cloud data to business outcomes in plain language.

At the center of Noros is a cloud finance LLM trained on simulations from over 10 million optimization data points. It operates on raw cost and usage data, analyzing hundreds of columns across services, resources, usage types, pricing models, and time to surface how cost behavior actually emerges.

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Noros allows teams to:

• Get direct answers to hard questions: Ask why spend jumped 22% last month, which teams are driving cost increases, or whether you’re on track to hit your yearly target. Noros reasons across the full dataset and returns clear, contextual answers grounded in your actual environment. It maintains context across follow-ups, refining the explanation as you dig deeper rather than restarting the analysis.
• Access automated reporting on a schedule: Noros generates analysis and reports in the visualization format your team needs. Set a cadence and updated reports are delivered weekly, monthly, or on a schedule of your choosing.
• Enforce FinOps goals: Manual FinOps priorities get crowded out by urgent work. Noros keeps them on track by understanding your goals and project managing tasks from conception to completion.
• Explore data interactively: Ask Noros to build a dashboard and it generates one in real time, tailored to what you’re investigating. Teams can surface exactly the views they need without relying on a data analyst or predefined reports, essentially building their own FinOps product agentically.

Built on Three Years of FinOps Data

Noros is a new product built within the North ecosystem. North has spent three years working with hundreds of engineering and finance teams across cloud providers, and the model at the center of Noros reflects that depth. The system doesn’t just answer queries. It improves within each domain over time as each specialist agent develops a sharper understanding of its area.

Source: PRNewswire

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At a time when quantum computing is transitioning from promise to practical reality, Bull and Equal1 share a common objective to accelerate the adoption of quantum‑enhanced computing for industrial and scientific applications. By enabling seamless hybridization between classical HPC and quantum computing, the partnership aims to lower the barrier for industrial and scientific adoption of quantum-accelerated workloads.

The partnership brings together Bull’s world-class supercomputing infrastructure and quantum emulation expertise with Equal1’s breakthrough silicon-spin quantum computers. By interfacing Equal1’s hardware directly with Bull’s Qaptiva platform, the companies offer quantum computing capabilities in existing AI and HPC data centre environments, enabling users to develop, test and optimise quantum algorithms and use cases while mitigating the uncertainty and error rates of current‑generation quantum hardware.

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The collaboration focuses on three core pillars:

• Technical Integration: Developing a seamless connector between Equal1’s rack-mounted quantum servers and Bull’s Qaptiva software stack to enable high-speed hybridisation between classical supercomputers and quantum processors.
• Joint R&D: Advancing research in silicon-spin qubit characterisation and physics to drive the development of scalable, energy-efficient quantum-on-chip technology.
• Sovereign European Projects: Collaborating on European Union-led quantum initiatives to strengthen the continent’s technological sovereignty in the global quantum race.

Bruno Lecointe, SVP, Global Head of HPC, AI and Quantum at Bull, said:

“The convergence of high-performance computing and quantum technologies is redefining how we address the world’s most complex challenges, Ten years after launching the first quantum emulator of the market, innovation has always been part of Bull’s DNA and we remain committed to designing hybrid architectures that help translate emerging technologies into operational capability By integrating Equal1’s silicon-spin quantum servers into our Qaptiva ecosystem, we are enabling a seamless bridge between HPC, quantum emulation and quantum execution. This alliance ensures our customers can leverage quantum-centric supercomputing to achieve real-world outcomes with unprecedented efficiency and performance.”

Jason Lynch, CEO of Equal1, commented:

“By building quantum processors on standard silicon, we are turning quantum from bespoke laboratory hardware into deployable infrastructure. This collaboration with Bull is a vital step in bridging the gap between breakthrough hardware innovation and industrial workloads. Together, we are positioning our joint solutions as the standard for high-performance computing, enabling seamless integration into existing data centres and driving a more sustainable digital future.”

Under the terms of the MoU, the parties will establish a framework for technical exchange and joint project evaluation, initially focused on advancing physics-based simulations and large-scale datacentre infrastructure.

Source: Bull

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