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Synopsys and Amazon Announce Multi-Year IP Agreement for Custom Silicon Innovation

ITDigest Bureau — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:47:12 +0000

Synopsys and Amazon have announced a multi-year strategic agreement valued at more than $1 billion to accelerate custom silicon development and advance AI-powered engineering across Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The agreement expands Amazon’s use of Synopsys’ silicon intellectual property to include application-optimized IP, with Amazon becoming the lead customer as Synopsys evolves its IP business toward a license-plus-royalty model. The collaboration builds on more than 15 years of partnership and will also expand Amazon’s use of Synopsys electronic design automation, simulation and analysis, and agentic AI technologies. The companies plan to optimize Synopsys software on Amazon’s Trainium and Graviton chips and accelerate multiphysics solutions for these platforms. They will also explore AI across silicon-to-system engineering workflows, including the use of AI-powered EDA, physics-based simulation, and agentic AI capabilities to help engineering teams design, analyze, optimize, and validate increasingly complex chips and systems more efficiently.

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“Amazon has invested in custom silicon for more than a decade, and it has fundamentally changed what’s possible for AWS and our customers,” said Peter DeSantis, SVP, foundational AI, custom silicon, quantum computing at Amazon. “From Graviton to Trainium, purpose-built chips deliver better performance at lower cost because they’re designed for exactly what customers need. As our chip designs grow more ambitious and AI reshapes the engineering process itself, Synopsys helps us move faster across the design cycle, helping us deliver more capable, efficient computing for customers worldwide.” Synopsys will also adopt Amazon EC2, cloud storage services, and Amazon Bedrock to accelerate development of its own IP and EDA tools. “Special purpose silicon is at the heart of AWS innovation. As we expand into application-optimized IP solutions, we’re proud to have Amazon as our lead customer for this next phase of growth,” said Sassine Ghazi, president and CEO of Synopsys. “More broadly, by combining Amazon’s leadership in AI infrastructure and custom silicon with Synopsys’ leadership in silicon IP, EDA and Multiphysics solutions, we can dramatically increase the productivity of our teams and shape the future of AI-native engineering.”

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Thales Unveils Global Framework to Protect Critical Infrastructure Against Frontier AI Threats

ITDigest Bureau — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:47:06 +0000

Thales has introduced a comprehensive, all-in-one cybersecurity structure to help critical organizations defend against a new generation of threats enabled by frontier AI models, where their increased reasoning, autonomy, and scale can speed up discovery of flaws, creation of exploits and execution of cyberattacks at machine speed. Announced at the Thales Cyber Summit in Paris, the structure is designed to evolve organizations from a reactive mode of cybersecurity to one of continuously tested resilience by integrating threat intelligence, vulnerability management, exposure management detection mitigation and testing effectiveness along the security lifecycle. The system’s five interdependent components focus on application security, AI-accelerated detection and response, a converged cyberdefence platform, continuous testing and risk assessment, and the defences and continuity of critical assets. Thales notes the importance of automation via AI to keep pace with AI-driven attacks, but underscore the need for critical decisions to be made by human minds.

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“Frontier AI models represent a new inflection point for cybersecurity. The challenge is not only technological; it is about helping organisations act before risks materialize, understand the implications, assess their exposure, and, if an attack still succeeds, ensure resilience and quick recovery. By combining advanced technologies with strategic and operational cybersecurity services, our ambition is to give customers the insight, expertise and continuous support they need to navigate this new reality with confidence,” said Philippe Vallée, Executive Vice-President, Cybersecurity & Digital Identity, Thales. The company is also strengthening the framework through partnerships with technology providers, including its participation in Google’s Fairwind program, which will provide critical industries access to cyber AI innovations such as Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and the CodeMender harness. The initiative reflects Thales’ strategy to combine AI-powered defence, cybersecurity expertise, and continuous resilience to help organizations protect critical infrastructure as attackers increasingly operate at machine speed.

Oracle Introduces Agentic AI Solutions to Fight Financial Crime

ITDigest Bureau — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:06:47 +0000

Oracle Financial Services has expanded its financial crime and compliance management portfolio with the availability of Oracle Nexus Case Flow and Oracle Nexus Reach, introducing agentic AI capabilities designed to help financial institutions manage growing volumes of alerts and cases while improving investigative efficiency and controlling compliance costs. The solutions can autonomously pre-investigate cases for red and green flags, identify behavior aligned with financial crime typologies, and alert investigators without requiring manual prompts, helping teams gather relevant information earlier and reduce false positives. Oracle Nexus Case Flow uses agentic AI to help investigators collect evidence, understand entity context, generate recommendations, and develop supporting narratives, with all AI-generated outputs designed for human review. The configurable platform also provides access-controlled workboards, case-specific templates, configurable fields, and visibility into related and historical cases.

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Meanwhile, Oracle Nexus Reach is a browser-based extension that works with existing financial institution applications and can conduct adverse media scans, assist with investigative analysis and narrative creation, and execute autonomous AI Reviews and AI Investigations. “Investigators need a clearer picture of potential risk early enough to act with confidence,” said Jason Somrak, global head of financial crime products, Oracle Financial Services. “Oracle Nexus Case Flow and Oracle Nexus Reach put relevant context and AI capabilities into the flow of work, helping teams focus their expertise where it matters most. Investigators remain in control of the decisions, so institutions can scale their response to financial crime without compromising rigor or accountability.” The launch highlights Oracle’s focus on embedding agentic AI into established financial crime workflows while retaining human oversight for investigative decisions and supporting regulatory accountability.

EY Forms a Strategic Alliance with Aaru to Advance Enterprise Behavioral Simulation

ITDigest Bureau — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:06:43 +0000

EY has announced an alliance with Aaru, an AI behavioral simulation company, to help organizations evaluate complex business decisions faster and with greater confidence by using predictive insights grounded in human behavior. The collaboration combines Aaru’s proprietary statistical engine, which creates AI-agent populations representing defined audiences, with EY US’ industry expertise and domain data to help C-suite leaders simulate how people may respond to strategies before committing resources. The alliance is initially supporting organizations in financial services with applications including marketing messages, product and pricing offers, sales and service strategies, and potential mergers and acquisitions. By modeling behavioral responses at scale, the technology is intended to provide actionable intelligence in hours, helping organizations complement traditional market research with faster and more flexible scenario testing.

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The technology’s predictive capabilities were validated through a blinded assessment involving EY US’ 2025 Global Wealth Management study, in which Aaru replicated six months of fieldwork involving 3,600 investors across more than 30 markets in a single day. “Too often, organizations invest in transformation without clear visibility into the outcomes they can expect. The EY-Aaru Alliance changes that by helping leaders to simulate, validate and optimize decisions before committing resources. Together, we help organizations move from insight to action with greater confidence, speed and measurable impact.” said Justin Singer, EY-Aaru Alliance Leader, EY US. Ned Koh, President and Co-Founder of Aaru, said, “Ultimately, every business exists to monetize behavior, and our mission is to help enable the enterprise to make better decisions. We’re excited to share this vision with EY US and expand its aperture to provide for clients at the same time.” The partnership reflects growing enterprise interest in AI-driven simulation as organizations seek to test scenarios, understand behavioral responses, and make strategic decisions with greater speed and evidence.

Citi Becomes First Bank to Launch Multi-Market Instant Payments on Swift

ITDigest Bureau — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:59:51 +0000

Citi has become the first bank to go live with multi-market instant payments through the Swift payments scheme, expanding its cross-border payments capabilities across Australia, the UK, and India. The launch enables real-time payments in Australian dollars through the New Payments Platform (NPP), British pounds through the Faster Payment System (FPS), and Indian rupees through the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS). Citi has also expanded its USD Clearing capabilities, allowing clients to transfer funds directly to Citi U.S. beneficiaries and broaden access to faster payment options. By combining its global banking network, established ISO 20022 (MX) capabilities, and connectivity to the Swift payments scheme, Citi aims to help clients introduce new payment capabilities more quickly while simplifying access to multiple domestic instant payment systems.

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“Industry collaboration is essential to delivering the faster, more transparent and more predictable cross-border payments experience consumers have come to expect. As usage of Swift’s retail payments framework grows and more corridors become active, greater certainty over cost and delivery time, full-value transfers and end-to-end visibility into international payments will become a reality for more people and businesses around the world,” said Leigh Amaro, Chief Executive, Americas at Swift. The development builds on Citi Services’ WorldLink platform, which integrates cross-border instant payments and real-time wires. Through a single relationship, clients can access nine instant payment schemes and near-real-time wires across 20 currencies and 54 markets, while WorldLink supports payments in 135 currencies and integrated foreign exchange across more than 4,500 currency pairs. The initiative reflects the broader industry push to make international payments faster, more transparent, predictable, and closer to the experience of domestic transactions.

NetApp and SAP Expand Partnership to Advance SAP Cloud Infrastructure

ITDigest Bureau — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:59:47 +0000

NetApp has announced plans to expand its long-standing partnership with SAP by exploring deeper cloud-native integration of NetApp capabilities into SAP Cloud Infrastructure, SAP’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform. The collaboration is intended to strengthen the storage and data infrastructure supporting SAP applications, SAP Business AI Platform, and customer workloads, with a focus on performance, resilience, security, and compliance. NetApp’s platform already supports key elements of SAP Cloud Infrastructure’s storage architecture through highly available file and block storage services, proactive data protection, and data replication capabilities designed to support SAP’s global availability model. “SAP and NetApp share a long-standing commitment to empower the world’s most mission-critical enterprise environments,” said Álvaro Celis, Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial, Partner and Ecosystem Officer at NetApp.

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“By bringing together SAP Cloud Infrastructure with the NetApp Platform, we can empower customers to build an intelligent data infrastructure that delivers the agility, resilience, performance and security required to take on the most demanding tasks and complex problems across the most demanding environments.” The initiative is also expected to address country- and industry-specific compliance requirements across SAP’s global cloud infrastructure footprint, which spans multiple regions and availability zones. Jonathan Bletscher, SVP, Head of Infrastructure Platform Engineering & Delivery, SAP SE, said, “SAP Cloud Infrastructure is the foundation for secure, resilient and sovereign digital transformation. Together with NetApp, we are exploring ways to strengthen the infrastructure and data layer that enables SAP applications, SAP Business AI Platform and customer workloads to run with the performance, availability and security our customers expect.” The companies also plan joint go-to-market initiatives to help customers migrate, modernize, and operate SAP and non-SAP workloads on SAP Cloud Infrastructure, while evaluating NetApp Object storage through a technical validation.

Deutsche Bank and IPID Partner to Scale Payment Decision Intelligence

ITDigest Bureau — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:30:05 +0000

Deutsche Bank and global fintech IPID have announced plans to enter into a strategic partnership to deploy a suite of payment decision intelligence tools across Deutsche Bank’s global payments business. As international transactions grow increasingly complex, fast, and fragmented, banking institutions face rising operational demands to evaluate payee verification, optimize routing, mitigate fraud, meet regulatory compliance, and cut transaction costs prior to execution. Expanding upon Deutsche Bank’s prior adoption of selected IPID fraud-prevention tools, this collaboration integrates IPID’s verification, compliance, and signal-optimization capabilities directly into Deutsche Bank’s cross-border payment ecosystem to ensure higher transaction speed, security, and routing accuracy.

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Highlighting the strategic impact of early data validation across cross-border payment rails, Damien Dugauquier, Co-founder & CEO of IPID, stated: “As the payments landscape becomes faster, more complex and increasingly fragmented, intelligence before execution is essential. Our decision intelligence capabilities help financial institutions make informed decisions before money moves, bringing together verification, fraud assessment, compliance and routing optimization. Building on our work with Deutsche Bank, this partnership will enable us to expand these capabilities across their global payments business to support safer, faster and more efficient payment flows for their clients.” By combining Deutsche Bank’s global banking footprint with IPID’s predictive decision architecture, both organizations aim to establish safer, transparent, and highly optimized money-movement channels for institutional and corporate clients worldwide.

HCLSoftware Acquires Robotiq.ai to Advance Enterprise Agentic Automation

ITDigest Bureau — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:30:01 +0000

HCLSoftware, the software business division of HCLTech, has announced its intent to acquire Robotiq.ai, a Zagreb, Croatia-based provider of enterprise robotic process automation (RPA), in a move designed to strengthen its agentic automation capabilities. The acquisition will add Robotiq.ai’s RPA technology to HCL UnO Agentic, enabling AI-driven workflows to execute tasks across enterprise applications where APIs are unavailable or insufficient. This expands HCL UnO Agentic beyond coordinating AI agents and making decisions toward executing work across complex business environments. Robotiq.ai’s platform is already used by large banks, insurance groups, and telecom providers and includes ISO-certified security, audit logs, and flexible deployment options to support enterprise requirements for secure and reliable automation. “Enterprises are looking beyond AI experimentation toward production-scale automation that is secure, governed and reliable,” said Kalyan Kumar, President, HCLSoftware.

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“Robotiq.ai strengthens HCL UnO Agentic by combining orchestration with enterprise-grade execution, helping customers confidently deploy and scale agentic AI across their operations.” Darko Jovišić, CEO & Co-founder, Robotiq.ai, said, “We built Robotiq.ai on a simple belief: automation should be useful, fast to deploy, and reliable in production. Joining HCLSoftware gives our technology the enterprise reach, scale, and platform. Together with HCLSoftware, customers get automation that doesn’t stop at the task it becomes part of an orchestrated, governed process across the entire enterprise.” Transaction closing is scheduled for November 2026. The deal marks the increasing attention of enterprises towards shifting agentic AI from experimental to production settings, wherein automation needs to function dependably within legacy technology frameworks, such as those without contemporary integration interfaces.

Ondo Launches Intelligent Portfolios Powered by BlackRock to Deliver Onchain Strategies

ITDigest Bureau — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:55:33 +0000

Ondo Finance has officially launched Ondo Intelligent Portfolios, a pioneering onchain product category featuring single transferable tokens built on portfolio strategies developed by BlackRock. Available to eligible non-U.S. investors in supported jurisdictions, the initial offering includes three specialized portfolio tokens spanning high-income, diversified growth, and high-growth strategies issued via Ondo Global Markets. Through abstraction of multi-asset allocations into a single token, this approach to asset management enables peer-to-peer swaps, real-time utilization of positions on defi protocols, and automated smart-contract level rebalancing, to be done without having to buy, weigh, or rebalance individual positions. Commenting on the institutional shift, Lisa O’Connor, Global Head of the Model Portfolio Solutions team and Co-CIO for Global Solutions within the Multi-Asset Strategies group at BlackRock, noted:

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“Tokenization creates new ways for portfolio strategies to be delivered through digital infrastructure. Diversified portfolio strategies can be incorporated into tokenized investment products, enabling eligible investors to access diversified allocations through a single instrument. It shows how established portfolio construction approaches can be delivered through new channels and technologies.” Echoing the strategic milestone, Ian De Bode, Acting CEO and President of Ondo Finance, added: “Portfolios like these have never been available onchain. Now, they are made accessible onchain, transferable at any time, and usable across DeFi. This launch represents an important milestone in the development of onchain investment products. By incorporating strategies drawn on BlackRock’s longstanding portfolio construction experience into tokenized investment structures, eligible investors in supported jurisdictions can obtain exposure to diversified portfolio allocations through a single token.” Overall, the launch establishes an infrastructure that bridges traditional asset management expertise with programmable digital financial markets.

Chase Launches Data Security Center for Third-Party Financial Data Management

ITDigest Bureau — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:55:28 +0000

Chase has begun a phased rollout of the new Data Security Center. This offers customers with a single, central place to see and control their financial data sharing with linked third-party applications. This new experience, in the Chase Mobile app and extending existing account-linking features, consolidates all information about account linking into a single place where customers can see what apps are linked, what info is being shared, manage permissions, change the authorized sharing duration, select accounts from the account basket for linking, and disconnect apps if they choose. To address customer concerns about third-party data sharing, with increasing usage of connected bank accounts for paying bills or payments budgeting accounting, tax, and more.

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“Customers should be in control of their financial data, and that starts with giving them a clear view of where it’s going and straightforward tools to manage it,” said Melissa Feldsher, Head of Payments, Trust & Security and Open Banking at Chase. “The Data Security Center empowers customers to understand what’s connected, see what information is being shared and make informed decisions about those connections over time.” According to Chase, the new data center would offer educational material and FAQs that will enable customers to learn more about the data sharing of their connected-applications and make sure that they update their permissions and only share information with trusted applications. This shows how essential data governance and transparency have become with the expansion of open banking and digital finance services. With its mobile application experience, Chase hopes to make the process of monitoring the access of third-parties easier while making sure that the connection remains secure without giving out their username and password.