‘Cheers to Beer’ Celebrates the Drink at the Heart of Life’s Meaningful Moments

LONDON - Wednesday, 05. August 2026 

World’s Leading Brewer, AB InBev, Celebrates Beer as the Drink for Moderation and Socialization

 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ahead of International Beer Day on August 7th, AB InBev, the world's leading brewer, launched “Cheers to Beer,” a new global campaign celebrating the timeless role beer plays in culture and communities around the world.

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The campaign is anchored by a new film, created in partnership with Wieden+Kennedy, that celebrates the many moments of cheers that beer creates across geographies and generations. The film, which will be amplified globally, reinforces beer's role in life’s meaningful moments, big and small.

“Beer is universal and woven into cultures and communities around the world,” said Michel Doukeris, CEO, AB InBev. “No matter who you are, what you do for a living, or where you live, when someone says, ‘Let’s grab a beer,’ you know it means something more. It’s an invitation to celebrate or to simply connect.”

Beer’s enduring relevance is reinforced by a new whitepaper from Ipsos and IWSR, which shows that even in a world overflowing with choice, beer continues to lead the alcohol category. Among legal-drinking-age adults who consume alcohol, 73% choose beer1. It also represents approximately 93% of total no-alcohol volume – more than 30 times larger than any other category – while beer and beyond beer accounted for about half of global beverage alcohol servings in 2025.

As consumers make more intentional choices about what, when, and how they drink, the research finds that beer remains well positioned to meet evolving preferences around key trends: moderation, experiences, premiumization and affordability, flavors and convenience, and trust.

“As consumers focus their spending on meaningful moments, our research shows a clear momentum for beer and beyond beer among the alcohol category,” said Marten Lodewijks, IWSR Managing Director & President. “Premium beer continues to outperform much of the category, while no-alcohol beer accounts for the vast majority of no- and low-alcohol beverage consumption. Together, these trends underscore beer’s relevance in shaping the alcohol category.”

The launch of “Cheers to Beer” follows AB InBev's Q2 2026 results, reflecting the continued strength of the beer category with revenue growth of 5.6% and beer volume growth of 1.1%. For Q2 2026, AB InBev also saw no-alcohol beer grow 27%, Beyond Beer grow 44%, and its Balanced Choices portfolio grow 13% – highlighting how beer is well positioned to meet evolving consumer preferences.

There are many reasons to love beer.

Beer is social – Beer brings people together. From major cultural moments like the NBA finals, Wimbledon, and The FIFA World Cup™, to backyard gatherings and concerts, it’s a beverage to connect, to celebrate, and to share.

Beer is the drink for moderation – With a lower alcohol by volume and a broad portfolio of no- and low-alcohol options, beer offers consumers choice for responsible enjoyment.

Beer is natural – Beer starts with simple ingredients like grains, hops, yeast, and water, and has been brewed using the same process for thousands of years.

Beer is local – Sourced from local farmers and brewed with exquisite craftmanship, beer is deeply rooted in the places where it is made and enjoyed.

Beer offers choice – With no-alcohol, gluten-free, low-carb, low-calorie, and sugar-free options, beer continues to evolve to meet a wide range of preferences and occasions.

Beer drives economies – Beer supports communities, with 1 in every 100 jobs globally tied to beer.

More than just a drink, beer is a universal driver of connection – bringing people together across cultures, communities and generations, one “cheers” at a time.

About AB InBev
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) is a publicly traded company (Euronext: ABI) based in Leuven, Belgium, with secondary listings on the Mexico (MEXBOL: ANB) and South Africa (JSE: ANH) stock exchanges and with American Depositary Receipts on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUD). As a company, we dream big to create a future with more cheers. We are always looking to serve up new ways to meet life’s moments, move our industry forward and make a meaningful impact in the world. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest ingredients. Beer is the drink for moderation, and for over a century, AB InBev has championed responsible drinking. We are committed to providing our consumers with Balanced Choices to enjoy on any occasion. We also invest in marketing that aims to reinforce positive behaviors, and we work with communities, customers, and partners to promote responsible consumption through evidence-based initiatives.
Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser®, Corona®, Stella Artois® and Michelob Ultra®; multi-country brands Beck’s®, Hoegaarden® and Leffe®; and local champions such as Aguila®, Antarctica®, Bud Light®, Brahma®, Cass®, Castle®, Castle Lite®, Cristal®, Harbin®, Jupiler®, Modelo Especial®, Quilmes®, Victoria®, Sedrin®, and Skol®. Our brewing heritage dates back more than 600 years, spanning continents and generations. From our European roots at the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium. To the pioneering spirit of the Anheuser & Co brewery in St. Louis, US. To the creation of the Castle Brewery in South Africa during the Johannesburg gold rush. To Bohemia, the first brewery in Brazil. Geographically diversified with a balanced exposure to developed and developing markets, we leverage the collective strengths of approximately 137 000 colleagues based in more than 40 countries worldwide. For 2025, AB InBev’s reported revenue was 59.3 billion USD (excluding JVs and associates).

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Moove Raises $250 Million at $2.1 Billion Valuation to Scale the Global Infrastructure Layer for Autonomous Mobility

 Led by Mubadala Investment Company "Mubadala", and co-led by Woven Capital (Toyota) and Ion Pacific, the Series C accelerates Moove’s global infrastructure platform for autonomous mobility as the market shifts from breakthrough technology to scaled deployment.

$250 million Series C values Moove at $2.1 billion, cementing its position as the category defining infrastructure company for the autonomous mobility economy

Moove is building the core operating layer for autonomous mobility globally through integrated fleet management, robotics-first depot infrastructure, and 24/7 operations

Through its partnership with Waymo, Moove is already a leading third-party autonomous vehicle fleet manager, with operations live or announced across Phoenix, Miami and London

Moove’s autonomous strategy is grounded in five years of building and operating mobility infrastructure at scale, from an initial launch of 76 vehicles in Lagos to approximately 42,000 vehicles across 29 cities (13 countries) and achieving an ARR of $420 million

 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Moove, the global mobility company building the operating layer for autonomous mobility, today announced it has raised $250 million at a $2.1 billion valuation in a Series C funding round led by Mubadala Investment Company and co-led by Woven Capital, Toyota’s Growth Fund, and Ion Pacific.

The round also brings in BlueCrest Capital Management, Sona Asset Management and The Raptor Group, further strengthening the depth of Moove’s institutional backing, alongside the likes of BlackRock, MUFG, Franklin Templeton, Uber, Left Lane, Silverbacks Holdings, Square Associates, The Latest Ventures, and the Ontario Power Generation Pension Plan, supporting Moove’s next phase of growth.

The funding will support the expansion of Moove’s autonomous vehicle business, including autonomous fleet ownership and robotics-first depot infrastructure “Nests”, where autonomous fleets are charged, serviced, maintained and orchestrated for continuous operation. The funds will also be used to support new market launches, globally. As part of this expansion, Moove expects to grow its autonomous vehicle workforce by more than 220% by the end of the year, increasing from ~150 employees today to ~500.

Scaling autonomous mobility requires more than vehicle technology alone. It depends on access to capital, fleet ownership, charging infrastructure, maintenance, operational orchestration systems, and 24/7 city-level execution. Moove is building that infrastructure layer, enabling autonomous mobility to transition from breakthrough capability to large-scale transportation networks.

Since 2020, Moove has built the capital, fleet and operations platform required to deploy and manage productive human driven ride-hail mobility assets at scale. Today, the company employs 3,300 people globally, and operates approximately 42,000 vehicles across 29 cities in 13 countries, making it one of the largest ride-hailing fleets in the world. It has expanded through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions, including Kovi in Brazil and Tokyo Taxi in Japan, and has grown to $420 million ARR.

Through its autonomous mobility business, Moove is extending the operating model it has built over the past five years for human driven mobility into next generation AV systems. Autonomous vehicles increase the need for reliable physical infrastructure and operational precision, and Moove is applying its experience across fleet orchestration, operations, servicing, charging, and logistics to meet that demand. Through its partnership with Waymo, Moove is already a leading third-party autonomous fleet operator, with operations live in Phoenix and Miami, and future operations in London.

Autonomous mobility is expected to become a foundational layer of future urban ecosystems, influencing logistics, public transportation, commerce, and city infrastructure. Platforms capable of operating this infrastructure at scale are likely to play a central role in enabling next generation mobility networks.

Ladi Delano, Co-Founder, Co-CEO and Advisory Board Chairman of Moove, said: “Every major technology revolution becomes an infrastructure race. The internet required data centres. AI required compute. Autonomy requires fleets, charging, maintenance, data systems and 24/7 operations in every city - and that is what Moove is building. In our view, as autonomy scales, infrastructure ownership and operations will define the category leaders. We are building to be one of them.

We started in Lagos with a simple insight: mobility demand is abundant, but supply cannot scale unless capital, technology and operations move together. Five years later, that insight has evolved into a global platform. Today, we are focused on building the platform that will redefine mobility and enable billions of autonomous journeys worldwide.

From our anchor in the UAE, and backed by long-term strategic capital, Moove now has the platform to help take autonomy from breakthrough technology to everyday transportation. This is not a departure from our mission, it is the fullest expression of it.”

Ali Eid AlMheiri, Executive Director of Diversified Assets, UAE Investments Platform at Mubadala, said: “As autonomous mobility moves from innovation to scaled deployment, the infrastructure supporting it becomes increasingly important. Moove is building an integrated operating platform that combines fleet ownership, operational capability, and technology to support the next phase of growth in autonomous mobility. This is particularly important for the UAE. Mubadala is investing in enabling infrastructure and scalable platforms like Moove that support economic diversification and strengthen the UAE’s role as a hub for advanced technologies. Since Mubadala’s initial investment three years ago, Moove has been a great partner and we are glad to continue partnering with Moove in its next phase of growth.”

Betty Lee, Principal at Woven Capital (Toyota’s Growth Fund), said: "Moove has demonstrated an exceptional ability to execute across markets, building a global platform across traditional and autonomous vehicle fleets. The next wave of mobility is an infrastructure problem as much as a software one, and Moove is building the foundational layer to solve it. Few companies at this stage have proven they can move with the speed and operational excellence that Moove has demonstrated across so many markets. We’re excited to be part of what they are building and help accelerate their path as they scale."

Michael Joseph, Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Ion Pacific Limited, said: “We’ve partnered with the Moove team for more than five years, and their execution has consistently impressed us. As autonomous mobility moves from possibility to reality, Moove is building a critical infrastructure layer for the sector - one that is complex, adaptive and essential to scaling AVs. We’re excited to be part of that journey.”

Moove’s Series C marks a step change in the company’s ability to scale the infrastructure layer underpinning autonomous mobility globally.

About

Moove is a global mobility company building the operating layer for autonomous mobility. Headquartered in the UAE and founded in 2020 by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi, Moove finances, owns and operates productive mobility assets for leading mobility platforms across manned and autonomous transportation. Moove operates across 13 countries and 29 cities, with approximately 42,000 vehicles and more than 3,300 employees worldwide. The company scaled rapidly to an ARR of $420m within 5 years of launch.

Moove is Uber’s largest global fleet partner and a leading third-party operator of autonomous vehicle fleets through its partnership with Waymo. In autonomous mobility, Moove finances, owns and operates autonomous vehicle fleets, builds and manages robotics-first Nest infrastructure, and runs the operational layer required to deploy driverless services at scale. Autonomous operations are live in Phoenix and Miami, with London confirmed as the first international expansion and further cities to be announced.

Moove has also expanded its global footprint through strategic acquisitions, including the full acquisition of Kovi in Brazil and Tokyo Taxi in Japan, strengthening its position across key international markets.

The company’s model combines capital, infrastructure and operations to enable mobility platforms to scale globally across both manned and autonomous mobility. Moove is backed by a strong group of global investors, including Mubadala, Woven Capital, Ion Pacific, Blue Crest, Sona Asset Management, Uber, Speedinvest, Silverbacks Holdings, Square Associates, The Raptor Group, The Latest Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst, Clocktower Ventures, Left Lane, LocalGlobe, BlackRock, Prosus, MUFG, Quona Capital, FJ Labs, Maya Capital, Monashees and Valor.

 

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Une nouvelle étude mondiale de Velo révèle l’« effet d’entraînement » de l’expression de soi

61 % des adultes se sentent plus à l’aise pour s’exprimer lorsque d’autres font de même

LONDRES - mercredi, 05. août 2026

 

• Une nouvelle enquête montre que quatre adultes sur dix (39 %) estiment qu’il devient plus difficile de créer des liens authentiques avec l’âge, mais que la musique et les pistes de danse constituent le remède idéal
• Plus d’un quart (27 %) des 25-35 ans déclarent que leurs amitiés les plus solides se sont construites lors d’événements musicaux en direct
• Velo et Tomorrowland ont uni leurs forces pour lancer « Echoes of Tomorrowland », une initiative visant à promouvoir l’expression authentique de soi et à offrir aux amateurs de musique électronique un espace unique pour vivre ensemble de nouvelles expériences.
   

 

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Une nouvelle étude mondiale* menée par Velo met en lumière le besoin croissant d’expériences partagées, alors que la marque lance « Echoes of Tomorrowland », un réseau mondial d’événements en direct et de diffusions synchronisées permettant aux fans du monde entier de vivre la magie de Tomorrowland.

Cette campagne s’appuie sur une étude* révélant que près de deux adultes sur cinq (39 %) considèrent qu’il devient plus difficile de nouer des relations significatives avec l’âge. Cette difficulté s’explique notamment par la recherche de personnes partageant les mêmes centres d’intérêt (28 %), le sentiment de gêne ou de maladresse (27 %), la peur du rejet (24 %) et la crainte d’être jugé (21 %).

Velo, première marque de sachets de nicotine en Europe** conçue pour les esprits originaux, et Tomorrowland sont convaincus que la musique constitue le meilleur moyen de faire tomber ces barrières. La piste de danse s’impose comme un puissant lieu de rencontre et de connexion grâce à son rôle unique dans l’expression de soi. Ainsi, 30 % des personnes interrogées affirment que la piste de danse est l’endroit où elles se sentent le plus libres d’être elles-mêmes et de « danser comme si personne ne les regardait », tandis que 61 % se sentent plus à l’aise pour s’exprimer lorsqu’elles voient d’autres personnes faire de même. Cette dynamique favorise la création de liens authentiques : 27 % des 25-35 ans considèrent que les amitiés nouées lors de concerts ou d’événements culturels sont plus sincères que celles créées dans d’autres contextes sociaux.

Comme de nombreux fans ne peuvent assister physiquement à Tomorrowland, Velo a choisi de faire voyager l’énergie, la culture et l’esprit communautaire du festival bien au-delà de son site d’origine. Pour démontrer que l’expression de soi est contagieuse, la campagne a débuté par une expérience sociale originale organisée au Tomorrowland Store d’Ibiza. Les participants recevaient une moitié de papillon fabriquée avec soin et étaient invités à retrouver une personne inconnue possédant l’autre moitié afin de reconstituer le papillon. Cette expérience interactive a instantanément transformé une salle remplie d’inconnus en une communauté active et collaborative.

L’événement, organisé le vendredi 17 juillet, était porté par la DJ ukrainienne de house et de techno Korolova et comprenait une retransmission en direct depuis la scène principale de Tomorrowland. Recréant la culture unique de communauté spontanée qui caractérise le festival, Velo a réuni des fans de la marque, des représentants des médias britanniques et espagnols ainsi que des créateurs de contenu lifestyle et musique venus des quatre coins du monde.

Grâce à une série d’événements connectés « Echo » organisés à Ibiza et dans d’autres lieux — avec scènes live, retransmissions synchronisées et performances de DJ — « Echoes of Tomorrowland » crée un espace unique permettant aux amateurs de musique électronique de s’exprimer pleinement et de vivre ensemble des expériences inédites.

Revenant sur l’énergie particulière de cette soirée, la DJ internationale Korolova a déclaré : « La piste de danse est l’un des rares endroits où les gens se sentent totalement libres d’exprimer qui ils sont, sans jugement. C’est exactement l’énergie que j’ai ressentie tout au long de la soirée à Ibiza grâce à Velo. C’était incroyable de voir chacun se libérer, être pleinement lui-même et célébrer ensemble son originalité. »

L’artiste Camden Cox a ajouté : « Ce qui m’a le plus marquée pendant cette soirée, c’est la facilité avec laquelle des inconnus ont créé des liens grâce à une expérience commune. Parfois, il suffit d’une simple invitation pour entamer une conversation. Voir le public utiliser les papillons physiques pour briser la glace et danser ensemble avait quelque chose de magique. »

Malky Brown, responsable mondial du contenu et des partenariats chez BAT, a commenté : « Avec “Echoes of Tomorrowland”, nous voulions recréer ce sentiment de connexion qui rend le festival si spécial. En encourageant les gens à sortir de leur zone de confort et à aller vers les autres, nous avons donné vie à la conviction de Velo selon laquelle l’expression de soi peut rapprocher les individus. »

Pour visionner le film récapitulatif officiel de l’événement et en savoir plus sur Velo, rendez-vous sur @velo.global.

Réservé aux consommateurs de nicotine âgés de 18 ans et plus. Ce produit contient de la nicotine et crée une dépendance.

* Étude réalisée auprès de 2 009 consommateurs de nicotine (18 ans et plus), utilisant des produits nicotiniques depuis au moins six mois et consommant actuellement ces produits au moins une fois par semaine au Royaume-Uni, en Espagne, au Pakistan, en Pologne et en Autriche. Enquête menée du 16 au 22 juin 2026.

 

** Sur la base de la part de volume estimée de Velo dans les circuits de distribution mesurés sur les principaux marchés européens des sachets de nicotine (Suède, Danemark, Royaume-Uni, Pologne et Suisse), calculée pour l’année 2025.

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BAT (Nicoventures Communications (Switzerland) SA)

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New Velo Global Research Reveals the “Ripple Effect” of Self Expression

61% of Adults Feel More Comfortable Expressing Themselves When Others Do the Same

LONDON - Wednesday, 05. August 2026

 

• New survey data shows four in ten (39%) adults find making genuine connections harder with age, but music and dancefloors found to be the ultimate fix
• Over a quarter (27%) of 25–35-year-olds say the strongest friendships are made at live music events
• Velo and Tomorrowland joined forces for "Echoes of Tomorrowland" to champion authentic self-expression and create a unique space for dance music fans to experience something new together.
   

 

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New global research* from Velo highlights the growing need for shared experiences, as Velo launches “Echoes of Tomorrowland” – a global network of live events and synchronised livestreams that bring the magical experience of Tomorrowland to fans around the world.

The campaign is backed by new research* that found that almost two in five adults (39%) say building meaningful connections has become harder with age. This is driven by a range of factors, including difficulty in finding people with the same interests (28%), feeling awkward (27%) fear of rejection (24%), and a fear of being judged (21%).

Velo, the leading nicotine pouch brand in Europe** made for true originals, and Tomorrowland together believe the ultimate catalyst for breaking down these barriers is the music itself. The physical dancefloor acts as a powerful space for connection, driven by its unique role in self-expression. 30% of respondents agree the dancefloor is where they feel most able to show up as their authentic selves and "dance like nobody’s watching”, while 61% feel more comfortable expressing themselves when they see others doing the same. This leads to meaningful connections, with 27% of 25-35 year olds agreeing that friendships made at live music or cultural events are more genuine than those formed in other social settings.

With many fans unable to attend Tomorrowland in person, Velo brought the festival’s energy, culture, and community beyond. And to prove that self-expression is contagious, the campaign kicked off with a bespoke social experiment at the Tomorrowland Store in Ibiza where guests were handed a beautifully crafted physical butterfly half and challenged to find a stranger holding the other half to complete the butterfly. This interactive social experiment instantly turned a room of strangers into an active, collaborative community.

The event, which took place on Friday 17th July, was headlined by Ukrainian house and techno DJ, Korolova, and featured a livestream from Tomorrowland’s mainstage. Recreating Tomorrowland’s unique culture of spontaneous community, Velo welcomed a mix of consumer fans alongside hosted media from the UK and Spain, and lifestyle and music creators flown in from all corners of the globe.

Through connected “Echo” events in Ibiza and others – featuring live stages, synchronised streams, and DJ sets – “Echoes of Tomorrowland” creates a unique space and opportunity for dance music fans to fully express themselves and experience something new together.

Reflecting on the unique energy of the night, global DJ headliner Korolova said: "The dancefloor is one of the few places where people feel completely free to express who they are without judgment. That's the energy I felt throughout the night in Ibiza, thanks to Velo - it was incredible to watch everyone let go, show up as their true selves, and celebrate their originality together."

Supporting artist Camden Cox added: "What stayed with me from the night was watching total strangers connect so easily through a shared experience. Sometimes all people need is a small invitation to start a conversation, and seeing the crowd use the physical butterflies to break the ice and dance together was pure magic."

Malky Brown, Global Head of Content & Partnerships at BAT, commented: “With ‘Echoes of Tomorrowland’, we wanted to recreate the sense of connection that makes the festival so special. By encouraging people to step outside their comfort zones and connect with others, we brought to life Velo’s belief that self-expression can bring people closer together.”

To watch the official event wrap film and discover more about Velo, visit @velo.global.

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* 2009 Nicotine users (Aged 18+), who have used nicotine products for at least the past six months and are currently at least weekly users of nicotine products across the UK, Spain, Pakistan, Poland, and Austria. Research conducted between 16.06.2026 - 22.06.2026.

 

** Based on Velo estimated volume share in measured retail in the following key nicotine pouch markets in Europe: Sweden, Denmark, UK, Poland and Switzerland, calculated for the year 2025.

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Tokenized Equities Surge 140% in 2026 as New DeFiLlama Research Maps the Market

VICTORIA, Seychelles - Wednesday, 05. August 2026

 

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), today highlighted key findings from a new independent DeFiLlama research report examining the rapid growth and evolving market structure of tokenized equities. According to the report, tokenization’s active market capitalization has grown by more than 140% in 2026, increasing from $814 million at the beginning of the year to nearly $2 billion at the time of publication. The research explores how leading tokenized equity platforms are evolving across market structure, liquidity, settlement, and execution quality as adoption continues to accelerate.

The report evaluates leading tokenized equity platforms across brokerage integration, reserve verification, dividend treatment, settlement mechanisms, and trading infrastructure. It also benchmarks quoted liquidity and execution quality across multiple venues, providing an independent assessment of how the tokenized equities market is evolving.

DeFiLlama's analysis found that Bitget recorded the lowest median bid-ask spread at 0.83 basis points and the deepest top-of-book liquidity across all five tokenized equity markets evaluated. In its broader execution benchmark covering 36 stock perpetuals and eight metals and commodity perpetuals, Bitget led 32, 34 and 33 contracts across the 5, 10 and 50 basis point depth measurements respectively, while also recording the greatest aggregate order-book depth across all measured depth ranges. The findings suggest that as tokenized equity infrastructure matures, execution quality and liquidity are becoming increasingly important differentiators between platforms.

“A tokenized stock is only as good as the market behind it. Investors don't care how the asset is packaged if they can't trade it efficiently,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. “That's why liquidity and execution matter. DeFiLlama found Bitget recorded the lowest median bid-ask spread and the deepest top-of-book liquidity across the markets they evaluated. As this market grows, those are the things investors will increasingly expect.”

The report also examines adoption trends within Bitget's Reality rTokens, which generated more than $1.16 billion in cumulative trading volume between June and July. Semiconductor and technology-linked assets accounted for the majority of activity, underscoring continued demand for tokenized exposure to innovation-driven public companies.

For more information, read the full DeFiLlama report here.

About Bitget

Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 500+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships such as MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry's lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

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Interactive Brokers Adds Brazilian Futures through Brazil’s B3 Exchange

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(BUSINESS WIRE)--Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global broker, today announced that eligible clients outside of Brazil can now trade Brazilian futures in addition to equities through the B3 exchange. Interactive Brokers was the first broker to provide international investors with streamlined, low-cost access to B3.

Offering Brazilian futures and equities alongside products across more than 170 markets worldwide underscores IBKR’s commitment to broadening global market access and giving clients efficient, cost-effective ways to diversify through a single, unified platform. Access to B3 provides exposure to one of Latin America’s most active and liquid markets, providing long-term growth potential across multiple sectors and another way for investors to pursue emerging market opportunities.

"Global investors deserve seamless, low-cost access to the world's most compelling markets, including emerging economies shaping tomorrow's financial landscape," said Milan Galik, Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Brokers. "As the first broker to bring streamlined access to Brazil's B3 Exchange to international investors, we remain committed to expanding the boundaries of global investing. The addition of B3 futures allows our clients to engage with a dynamic and fast-growing economy within the same unified experience they rely on to trade across markets worldwide."

IBKR clients now have direct access to both Brazilian futures and equities, plus over 170 markets worldwide through powerful trading platforms and tools. This expansion reflects IBKR's ongoing commitment to delivering efficient, low-cost access to global opportunities.

For more information, please visit:

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Product availability varies by Interactive Brokers affiliate and client country of residence. Access to Brazil’s B3 exchange through Interactive Brokers is not available to residents of Brazil.

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Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR) is a member of the S&P 500. Its affiliates provide automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, foreign exchange, and prediction markets around the clock on over 170 markets in numerous countries and currencies from a single unified platform to clients worldwide. We serve individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors and introducing brokers. Our four decades of focus on technology and automation have enabled us to equip our clients with a uniquely sophisticated platform to manage their investment portfolios. We strive to provide our clients with advantageous execution prices and trading, risk and portfolio management tools, research facilities and investment products, all at low or no cost, positioning them to achieve superior returns on investments. Interactive Brokers has consistently earned recognition as a top broker, garnering multiple awards and accolades from respected industry sources such as Barron's, Investopedia, Stockbrokers.com, and many others.

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NTT DATA AI for Insurance Converts Complex Workflows into Governed, Repeatable AI-delivered Services

 LONDON & TOKYO

Service-as-Software solution, powered by the NTT DATA AIVista platform, helps insurers improve productivity, decision quality and risk management across underwriting, claims and customer service through governed AI with enterprise-grade governance and human oversight.

Solution combines NTT DATA’s recognized AI expertise with decades of insurance domain experience supporting large carriers worldwide.

 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, today announced NTT DATA AI for Insurance, an AI-native agentic solution that converts complex core insurance workflows into governed, repeatable services. Built for highly regulated insurance environments, the Service-as-Software solution combines configurable AI agents, insurance-specific data models, workflow orchestration and enterprise-grade governance to maintain auditability, regulatory guardrails and human oversight.

NTT DATA AI for Insurance helps carriers modernize underwriting, claims, customer service and other core insurance workflows while improving productivity across the enterprise. Powered by NTT DATA AIVista, the company's AI-native product platform, the solution combines a prebuilt insurance foundation with flexible configuration and targeted customization, enabling rapid deployment while adapting to each carrier's products, processes, operating model and regulatory requirements.

The solution is designed for open integration with existing carrier systems and enterprise technology environments, enabling insurers to deploy AI capabilities without core system lock-in. Its model-routing capabilities also help carriers avoid lock-in to any single foundation model.

“Insurance is built on human judgment that understands risk, prices fairly and stands behind promises when it matters most,” said Bruno Abril, Global Lead, Insurance Industry, NTT DATA, Inc. “AI strengthens the ability of insurers to meet that responsibility, and NTT DATA AI for Insurance supports human expertise with intelligent systems that work within a governed operating layer for enterprise-scale transformation. The result is that insurers can move from AI-enabled workflows to AI-delivered operations, at enterprise scale and with the governance that regulators and boards demand.”

Carriers need agentic AI built for insurance operations

Carriers are under pressure to increase underwriting capacity, accelerate claims and service workflow processing, reduce loss ratios and improve risk selection while meeting rising governance expectations. NTT DATA’s 2026 Global AI Report: A Playbook for AI Leaders in Insurance found that two-thirds of insurers want to use AI in front-office interactions, while 86% support AI use in back- and mid-office workflows, yet most have not industrialized agentic AI across their core operations. NTT DATA AI for Insurance is purpose-built to close that gap.

"The insurance industry is generating more data than ever before, but better outcomes depend on how effectively that information is translated into action," said Prashant Hinge, Chief Information Officer at MSIG USA. "AI can help insurers identify high-risk claims sooner, improve consistency throughout the claims process, and equip claims professionals with the insights they need to make faster, more informed decisions."

NTT DATA AI for Insurance provides a comprehensive agentic architecture that includes:

Specialized models and agents purpose-trained on carrier and domain-specific data to improve reliability, accuracy and cost-effectiveness.

Specialized guardrails that embed governance into every AI agent decision and support deterministic, auditable outcomes that help carriers meet regulatory and internal governance requirements.

AI-native knowledge base and proprietary insurance data genome that embed agents into the systems, data and processes carriers already use, while providing the context agents need to interpret submissions, policies, claims and regulatory requirements.

Prebuilt and configurable AI agents that enable 3X faster deployment into underwriting, claims, service and other insurance workflows.

Cognitive and event-driven agent orchestration that coordinates AI agents, people, systems and processes around each carrier’s operating requirements.

NTT DATA is named as a leader in HFS Horizons: Agentic Services, 2026 Research Report as well as ISG Provider LensTM – Insurance Services – Strategic Capabilities (Insurance GenAI and Agentic AI Services). Worldwide, the company serves 10 of the world’s 25 top insurers, operates 16 delivery centers with insurance expertise and employs more than 12,000 insurance specialists.

Visit our website to learn more about NTT DATA AI for Insurance, access industry resources and meet some of our insurance experts. To learn more about the science and innovation behind our Service as Software platform for insurance, read our blog.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

Visit us at nttdata.com.

 

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Tecnotree Delivers Double-Digit Profit Growth and Accelerated Deployment Momentum in H1 2026

  ESPOO, Finland - Wednesday, 05. August 2026 AETOSWire 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tecnotree, a global leader in AI-native Digital Business Support Systems (BSS) and digital platform solutions for the telecommunications industry, today announced its financial results for the first half of 2026. The company delivered growth across every principal financial measure, expanded operating margin by 800 basis points, and converted a record order book into deployment at pace, with eight go-lives completed across the North America, Africa and the Middle East.

First Half (January – June 2026)

Net sales of EUR 36.8 million (EUR 34.2 million), up 7.5% year-on-year; in constant currency, EUR 37.6 million, up 10.0% year-on-year.

Operating result (EBIT) of EUR 13.2 million (EUR 9.6 million), up 38.1% year-on-year.

Operating margin of 36.0% (28.0%), up 800 bps year-on-year.

Net result of EUR 4.5 million (EUR 2.6 million), up 73.5% year-on-year.

Net income margin of 12.0% (7.0%).

Positive free cash flow of EUR 2.1 million (EUR 2.1 million), up 2.1% year-on-year.

Order book at the end of the period EUR 106.3 million (EUR 105.7 million), up 0.6% year-on-year.

Key Achievements

Eight Go-Lives Across North America, Africa and the Middle East: Tecnotree completed eight production deployments in the first half, converting order book into live operations. A Tier 1 North American operator went live across their enterprise and retail chains, a Middle East national operator simultaneously went live with Tecnotree’s combined B2B and B2C capabilities, and in Africa Tecnotree went live with six deployments spanning wholesale billing and settlement, onbiller, converged billing upgrades and a first-phase rollout with a major financial services institution.

New Customer Acquisitions and MVNX Expansion: Tecnotree added new customers across Latin America and Africa, deploying the AI-native digital B2B2X BSS, and Moments AI native realtime marketing and B2B marketplace platforms. Further, Tecnotree added Two Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNX) engagements in Africa that now let operators launch virtual brands on a shared, cloud-native foundation in the region.

DevOps and Managed Services Growth: Tecnotree secured DevOps engagements across three operating companies of a leading pan-African operator group and one key Tier 1 customer in the Middle East, extending its role from platform provider to long-term operational partner.

Analyst Recognitions: Tecnotree was recognized across five Gartner® Hype Cycle™ reports through July 2026, reinforcing its relevance across critical CSP capabilities:

Hype Cycle for Autonomous Operations in the Communications Industry, 2026

Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies in the Communications Industry, 2026

Hype Cycle for Telco Cloud Services, 2026

Hype Cycle for Enterprise Communication Services, 2026

Hype Cycle for Customer Experience and Monetization in the Communications Industry, 2026

Industry Awards: Tecnotree received nine analyst and industry recognitions through July 2026. Alongside the five Gartner Hype Cycle citations above, the company was named CX Catalyst Winner for Impact at The Fast Mode Awards and was included in The Fast Mode 100, both highlighting Tecnotree Moments CVM and XPM. At the Asian Telecom Awards 2026, Tecnotree won AI Initiative of the Year for the Moments Engagement and Experience Management platform, and Digital Initiative of the Year for its MVNE/MVNO CX Catalyst initiative built on Tecnotree BSS Suite 5.0.

Product Innovation: Tecnotree continued to enrich its platform with AI-native capabilities across Tecnotree Moments, Sensa and BSS Suite 5.0, advancing real-time decisioning, agentic orchestration and GenAI-driven customer engagement, alongside explainable AI governance for regulated telecom markets.

CEO Statement

Padma Ravichander, CEO of Tecnotree, stated: "Our H1 2026 results demonstrate that disciplined execution and AI-native innovation can grow together. Operating margin expanded by 800 basis points and net income rose by more than 70%, while we delivered eight go-lives across the North America, Africa and the Middle East — converting order book into live operations for our customers. What gives me the most confidence is the balance of this performance: new logos in Latin America and Africa, deeper DevOps partnerships in Africa and the Middle East, and MVNX expansion across the African market, all underpinned by a platform recognized across five Gartner Hype Cycle reports through July 2026. I am proud of our teams and partners, and we enter the second half of 2026 with strong momentum and a clear focus on sustained, profitable growth."

About Tecnotree

Tecnotree is a global leader in AI-native Digital BSS and fintech solutions, helping communications service providers accelerate digital transformation, monetize next-generation services and deliver exceptional customer experiences. With more than 40 years of industry expertise, Tecnotree serves operators across Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East through its cloud-native, TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA)-compliant platform. The company is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki (TEM1V).

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BeOne Medicines Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Business Updates

 SAN CARLOS, Calif. - Wednesday, 05. August 2026 AETOSWire  

Total global revenues of $1.7 billion for the second quarter, an increase of 30% from the prior year

BRUKINSA (zanubrutinib) global revenues of $1.2 billion for the second quarter, an increase of 31% from the prior year

Diluted GAAP Earnings per American Depository Share (ADS) of $2.05 for the second quarter; non-GAAP diluted Earnings per ADS of $3.84 for the second quarter

Raised 2026 total revenue guidance to $6.6 to $6.8 billion; GAAP operating income of $1 to $1.1 billion, non-GAAP operating income of $1.7 to $1.8 billion

 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--BeOne Medicines Ltd. (NASDAQ: ONC; HKEX: 06160; SSE: 688235), a global oncology company, today announced financial results and corporate updates from the second quarter of 2026.

John V. Oyler, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, BeOne, said:

“These strong second-quarter results underscore our continued growth as a global oncology leader. Our foundational hematology franchise, led by BRUKINSA, continues to gain momentum as we advance one of the industry’s deepest and most diverse pipelines. With differentiated capabilities spanning drug discovery, clinical development, manufacturing, and commercialization, we are well positioned for our next phase of global growth.”

Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Product Revenue totaled $1.7 billion for the second quarter of 2026, representing growth of 29% compared to the prior-year period.

BRUKINSA: Global sales totaled $1.2 billion for the second quarter of 2026, representing growth of 31% compared to the prior-year period; U.S. sales of BRUKINSA totaled $893 million in the second quarter of 2026, representing growth of 31% compared to the prior-year period.

TEVIMBRA (tislelizumab): Global sales totaled $229 million in the second quarter of 2026, representing growth of 18% compared to the prior-year period.

Amgen in-licensed products: Global sales totaled $157 million in the second quarter of 2026, representing growth of 25% compared to the prior-year period.

Gross Margin as a percentage of global product sales for the second quarter of 2026 was 90%, compared to 87% in the prior-year period on a GAAP basis. The gross margin percentage increased due to a proportionally higher sales mix of global BRUKINSA compared to other products in the Company’s portfolio. Gross margin also benefited from productivity improvements resulting in lower costs for both BRUKINSA and TEVIMBRA.

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TestMu AI Makes Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra Available on Real Device Cloud Ahead of Retail Launch

 Developers can test websites and mobile apps on Samsung's newest foldables, running Android 17, before the devices reach customers

 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest), the world's first full-stack Agentic AI Quality Engineering platform, announced that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra are now available for testing on its Real Device Cloud. Both devices, unveiled at Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, run Android 17 with One UI 9 and are accessible for live testing and automation before retail units reach customers.

The launch generation introduces a testing challenge new to the Galaxy Z Fold line. The Galaxy Z Fold8 unfolds into a portrait-oriented 7.6-inch display, while the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, the first Ultra model in the Z series, unfolds into a landscape-oriented 8.0-inch display. Two devices that share a name, a chipset, and an operating system present layouts with opposite orientations, which means an interface validated on one can break on the other.

"Samsung has introduced two foldables with opposite unfolded orientations in the same generation, and that kind of form-factor diversity is exactly what engineering teams need to be ready for," said Mudit Singh, Co-Founder & Head of Growth, TestMu AI. "By making the Galaxy Z Fold8 and Z Fold8 Ultra available on Real Device Cloud before a single retail unit ships, we are giving teams a window to run their layout suites on both form factors, compare the results, and resolve defects before their users ever hold the hardware."

With the addition of the Fold8 pair, TestMu AI's Samsung foldable inventory spans four generations of the Galaxy Z Fold line across three Android versions, allowing teams to validate a single form factor against multiple OS releases. For web testing, each foldable presents two browser viewports, cover display and main display, giving teams four distinct viewports across the Fold8 pair to validate responsive layouts on real hardware. For mobile apps, the Real Device Cloud enables checks that emulators cannot replicate, including fold and unfold configuration changes, multi-window behavior, cover-screen entry points, and camera, biometric, and sensor behavior on the unfolded panel. Automation on both devices is supported through standard Appium capabilities.

"The gap between announcement and general availability is usually dead time for QA teams, because the hardware simply is not in anyone's hands," Singh added. "We want that gap to work in their favor. Every defect found on the Fold8 or Fold8 Ultra now is a defect their users will never see."

Additional details are available in the TestMu AI announcement blog.

About TestMu AI

TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest) is a Full-Stack Agentic AI Quality Engineering platform that empowers teams to test intelligently and ship faster. Engineered for scale, it offers end-to-end AI agents to plan, author, execute, and analyze software quality. AI-native by design, the platform enables testing of web, mobile, and enterprise applications at any scale across real devices, real browsers, and custom real-world environments.

For more information, visit www.testmuai.com.

 

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Bitget Launches Private Copy Trading for CFD

VICTORIA, Seychelles - Tuesday, 04. August 2026

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has introduced Private Copy Trading for its CFD platform, giving professional traders the tools to build invitation-only trading communities while maintaining greater control over strategy distribution. The feature reflects the growing evolution of copy trading from a public discovery tool into a community-driven business model.

As copy trading has evolved, many successful traders have expanded beyond the platform itself, building dedicated communities across Telegram, Discord, X, and other social channels. These communities often become the primary way traders share market insights and cultivate long-term relationships. Rather than making every strategy publicly available, many now reserve their highest-conviction trades as exclusive benefits for members of those communities.

The feature introduces flexibility to community management, allowing traders to generate multiple invitation links for different communities or marketing channels, monitor conversion performance across each source, manage follower capacity independently, and remove followers when necessary. Public and private copy trading projects can also operate in parallel, enabling traders to grow a public audience while maintaining exclusive communities for selected users.

"As leaders of crypto copy trading, we’ve been one of the few players to evolve this segment" said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. "Traders trust data and transparent copy-trading helps in collective growth, another tier added to this is private copy trading, providing professional traders with more flexibility in sharing strategies."

The invitation-only model also helps protect proprietary trading strategies by limiting visibility to approved participants rather than opening trading activity publicly. For traders focused on client acquisition, optional registration requirements tied to invitation links provide a more targeted way to onboard new users while measuring the effectiveness of different promotional channels.

Bitget pioneered copy trading as one of the first major exchanges to make professional trading strategies accessible to a broader audience. The launch reflects a broader evolution in the creator economy surrounding trading. As professional traders increasingly build independent brands and communities, copy trading platforms are evolving from simple discovery tools into infrastructure that supports audience management, client acquisition, and long-term community growth. Private Copy Trading extends Bitget's copy trading ecosystem to meet those changing needs.

To find out more, visit here.

About Bitget

Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 500+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships such as MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry's lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

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New 3D Flash Memory Technology from Kioxia and Sandisk Achieves Industry’s Highest Bit Density for QLC NAND

 10th-generation QLC 3D flash memory represents a major leap forward for AI storage architectures, cloud platforms, and data‑intensive innovations

 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Future of Memory and Storage Conference (FMS) – Kioxia Corporation, a subsidiary of Kioxia Holdings Corporation (TOKYO: 285A) and Sandisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK) today unveiled their next-generation Quad-Level-Cell (QLC) 3D flash memory technology, which delivers up to 60% increase in bit density compared to their 8th-generation, surpassing 37 Gb/mm² and setting the industry benchmark1 for bit density, performance and power efficiency.

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Leveraging the companies’ revolutionary CMOS directly Bonded to Array (CBA) technology2 which fabricates CMOS logic and the memory array on separate wafers before bonding them together with high-precision wafer-to-wafer alignment, the new generation improves read and write bandwidth compared to the 8th-generation 3D flash memory and becomes the industry’s first QLC 3D flash memory technology to reach a 4.8 Gb/s 3 interface.

Additional interface enhancements improve I/O data-out transfer power efficiency. These large power efficiency upgrades directly address the power and cooling challenges of modern AI and cloud infrastructure.

Chief Technology Officer at Kioxia, Hideshi Miyajima, said, “As AI continues to underpin the advancement of society, its applications are expanding from generative AI to agent-based and physical AI, while the use of data is becoming increasingly diverse and sophisticated. QLC technology enables the efficient storage of rapidly expanding data volumes, helping deliver greater performance and scalability for AI systems. Kioxia will accelerate development toward the commercialization of its 10th-generation flash memory products incorporating QLC technology.”

Chief Technology Officer at Sandisk, Alper Ilkbahar, said, "As AI training, inference, and hyperscale datacenter workloads drive unprecedented growth in data generation, the storage industry faces increasing pressure to deliver greater capacity, higher performance, and improved energy efficiency. By redefining the performance and efficiency envelope of QLC NAND, our 10th-generation QLC 3D flash memory delivers simultaneous gains in density, bandwidth, and energy efficiency and establishes a new paradigm for high‑capacity flash storage to provide a scalable foundation for next‑generation infrastructure applications.”

Key 10th-genaration QLC 3D flash memory technology highlights include:

332‑layer architecture and optimized floorplan design deliver up to 60% increase in bit density, achieving >37 Gb/mm² compared to the 8th-generation.

4.8 Gb/s 3 NAND interface enabled by Toggle DDR6.0 and the Separate Command Address (SCA) protocol to unlock the full potential of fast interface.

CMOS directly Bonded to Array (CBA) architecture enhances density scaling, performance, and manufacturing efficiency.

Power‑Isolated Low‑Tapped Termination (PI‑LTT) improves I/O data-out transfer power efficiency.

As of August 4, 2026, based on Kioxia and Sandisk survey.

Technology wherein each CMOS wafer and cell array wafer are manufactured separately in their optimized condition and then bonded together.

1Gb/s is calculated as 1,000,000,000 bits/second. This value is obtained under our specific test environment, and may vary depending on use conditions.

About Kioxia

Kioxia is a world leader in memory solutions, dedicated to the development, production and sale of flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs). In April 2017, its predecessor Toshiba Memory was spun off from Toshiba Corporation, the company that invented NAND flash memory in 1987. Kioxia is committed to uplifting the world with “memory” by offering products, services and systems that create choice for customers and memory-based value for society. Kioxia's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, automotive systems, data centers and generative AI systems.

About Sandisk

Sandisk (Nasdaq: SNDK) delivers innovative Flash solutions and advanced memory technologies that meet people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. Follow Sandisk on Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube. Join TeamSandisk on Instagram.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws, including statements regarding expectations for the performance, capabilities, improved power efficiency, bit density and scalability of Sandisk Corporation’s and Kioxia Corporation’s BiCS10 QLC technology; the expected growth of AI training, inference, and hyperscale datacenter workloads and the resulting demand for growth in data generation; the anticipated benefits of the BiCS10 QLC architecture for modern AI, cloud infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, and enterprise storage applications; and the anticipated industry significance and competitive positioning of the technology. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Key risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements include: adverse changes in global or regional economic conditions, including the impact of evolving trade policies, tariff regimes and trade wars; volatility in demand for Sandisk’s products; pricing trends and fluctuations in average selling prices; exposure to execution, financial and market risks due to long-term agreements; inflation; changes in interest rates and a potential economic recession; the impact of business and market conditions; the impact of competitive products and pricing; the development and introduction of products based on new technologies and management of technology transitions; risks associated with strategic initiatives, including restructurings, acquisitions, divestitures, cost saving measures and joint ventures; risks related to product defects; difficulties or delays in manufacturing or other supply chain disruptions; reliance on strategic relationships with key partners, including Kioxia Corporation; the attraction, retention and development of skilled management and technical talent; risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence in business operations; changes to relationships with key customers or consolidation among the customer base; compromise, damage or interruption from cybersecurity incidents or other data system security risks; reliance on intellectual property; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; actions by competitors; risks associated with compliance with changing legal and regulatory requirements; and other risks and uncertainties listed in Sandisk’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on August 21, 2025 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 1, 2026, to which your attention is directed. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and Sandisk undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new information or events, except as required by law.

 

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WHOOP Expands Commitment to Women's Health by Including One-Year Subscription of Natural Cycles° App in Membership

BOSTON - Tuesday, 04. August 2026

The integration gives eligible WHOOP members seamless access to the only FDA-cleared hormone-free birth control app, with the first year of Natural Cycles° included for those new to the app as part of their WHOOP membership.

(BUSINESS WIRE)--WHOOP, the human performance company, today announced an expansion of its women’s health offering through an integration with Natural Cycles° (NC°), the only FDA-cleared, hormone-free birth control app. WHOOP is offering a 12-month subscription to the NC° app to eligible new Natural Cycles users. Members with compatible WHOOP devices can now automatically share overnight skin temperature with the NC° app to enable personalized fertility insights and hormone-free birth control.

The Natural Cycles app, a Class II medical device, uses biomarker data, including temperature and heart rate data, to identify fertile and non-fertile days, helping users prevent pregnancy without hormones while also providing fertility insights. Beyond birth control, the app also supports users through pregnancy planning, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause with dedicated modes tailored to each stage of their reproductive journey.

This integration and exclusive offer advance the efforts of WHOOP in women’s health by combining continuous physiological data with clinically validated fertility technology. Women are one of the fastest-growing segments of WHOOP members, with membership growing 111% year over year. As demand grows for personalized health insights and non-hormonal reproductive health options, this integration gives WHOOP members a more seamless way to understand fertility alongside the recovery, sleep, and health insights already available through WHOOP.

"This partnership represents a commitment to supporting women's health through clinically-backed, actionable data," said Dr. Ami Bhatt, WHOOP Chief Medical Officer. "By integrating with the NC° app, we are providing our members with a seamless way to access personalized reproductive health insights, expanding WHOOP beyond performance into everyday health."

"At Natural Cycles, we're committed to making digital contraception as seamless as possible for our users," said Dr. Magda Armbruster, VP of Product at Natural Cycles. "Integrating with WHOOP removes friction from the experience by allowing members to use the wearable they already rely on to automatically capture overnight skin temperature used by the NC° app to determine daily fertility status. It's another step toward making hormone-free birth control fit more naturally into everyday life."

Membership Benefits:

A 12-month subscription to the NC° app included with any WHOOP membership for members new to Natural Cycles.

Automatic overnight skin temperature sharing with the NC° app through compatible WHOOP devices.

Daily fertility status inside the world's only FDA-cleared digital birth control app.

Features designed by Natural Cycles° to support women throughout the reproductive journey—from birth control and pregnancy planning to pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause.

The integration is currently available for users with WHOOP MG and 5.0 devices. WHOOP and Natural Cycles° remain committed to the highest standards of privacy and data security, ensuring that sensitive health information is managed with the utmost care.

To learn more about WHOOP, please visit whoop.com. To access visuals, please visit the Digital Press Kit.

About WHOOP

WHOOP delivers a wearable membership to help people live healthier, longer lives and unlock extraordinary potential. Through a powerful 24/7 wearable with a 14-day battery life, WHOOP provides intelligent health guidance across sleep, recovery, strain, fitness, and longevity. The health platform includes an FDA-cleared ECG, a Healthspan longevity feature, Blood Pressure Insights, and Advanced Labs blood biomarker analysis. Research shows that people who wear WHOOP daily log more than 90 additional minutes of exercise per week, get over two extra hours of sleep, and have 10% higher heart rate variability.

Trusted by millions of members worldwide including athletes, global leaders, military operators, executives, and artists, WHOOP has become a modern symbol of disciplined, intentional living. WHOOP was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston. The company has raised more than $950 million in venture capital, ships to 56 countries, and operates in six languages. To learn more or start a one-month free trial, visit whoop.com and connect with WHOOP on Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

About Natural Cycles°

Founded in 2013 by physicists Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl and Dr. Raoul Scherwitzl, Natural Cycles is a leading women's digital health company dedicated to transforming how women understand and manage their reproductive health. The company developed the world's first FDA-cleared digital method of birth control, delivered through an app and powered by a proprietary algorithm that interprets biomarker data, including body temperature, to provide personalized cycle insights and a daily fertility status. The NC° Birth Control app is an FDA-cleared Class II medical device with six FDA clearances and has also received regulatory authorizations in Europe, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and South Korea.

With a single subscription, the Natural Cycles app offers five dedicated modes—NC° Birth Control, NC° Plan Pregnancy, NC° Follow Pregnancy, NC° Postpartum, and NC° Perimenopause—supporting women throughout their reproductive lives. Trusted by more than six million registered users worldwide and backed by 30 peer-reviewed studies, Natural Cycles continues to pioneer science-driven, non-invasive innovations that expand access to personalized reproductive health tools and empower women to take control of their reproductive health.

Learn more at Naturalcycles.com.

 

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LabPMM® Launches Global KMT2A MRD Testing Service to Support Menin Inhibitor Development and Acute Leukemia Care

 SAN DIEGO - Tuesday, 04. August 2026 AETOSWire Print 

(BUSINESS WIRE)--LabPMM®, an Invivoscribe® subsidiary, today announced the global availability of its new KMT2A measurable residual disease (MRD) testing service. The highly sensitive digital PCR service is available to healthcare providers, clinical researchers, and biopharmaceutical partners through LabPMM’s global laboratory network, with CAP/CLIA-accredited testing available in the U.S. The service addresses a growing need for accurate molecular monitoring in acute leukemias.1,2,3

KMT2A rearrangements (KMT2Ar) are oncogenic drivers in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).4 These rearrangements are present in about 80% of infant cases and 5-15% of childhood and adult leukemia cases.5 KMT2Ar leukemias are associated with chemotherapy resistance, high relapse rates, and poor clinical outcomes.5

The emergence of menin inhibitors is transforming the therapeutic landscape for patients with AML and ALL, particularly those with KMT2A-rearranged and NPM1-mutated disease.6 The first FDA approval of a menin inhibitor for relapsed or refractory acute leukemia with a KMT2A translocation established clinical validation for this emerging drug class.7 As menin inhibitor programs move into frontline and combination studies, there is an increasing need for sensitive molecular testing that can accurately characterize KMT2Ar, quantify deep molecular response, and track response durability over time.

Standardized MRD Testing for Global Clinical Development

LabPMM’s new test targets the most common KMT2A partner fusion genes in AML and ALL,8 aligning the assay with the KMT2A biology central to many current menin inhibitor development programs. The test provides a quantitative result reported as the percentage of KMT2Ar relative to a housekeeping gene. The assay supports disease characterization and longitudinal MRD monitoring with sensitivity down to 0.005% and a turnaround time in as little as 48 hours.9 This launch expands Invivoscribe’s comprehensive myeloid testing portfolio, which includes globally standardized molecular assay kits and LabPMM services for screening and MRD monitoring of FLT3, NPM1, KMT2Ar, as well as AML MRD assessment by multiparametric flow cytometry. Together, these integrated capabilities enable drug developers and healthcare providers to monitor disease burden over time with unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy.

“Menin inhibitors are creating important new possibilities for patients with KMT2A-rearranged leukemia, but continued development requires a partner that can deliver highly sensitive, standardized molecular data across clinical programs and geographies,” said Jeff Miller, CEO and CSO of Invivoscribe. “By making KMT2A MRD testing available through LabPMM, we are helping clinicians and biopharmaceutical partners measure meaningful responses earlier, monitor their durability, and ultimately improve patient care.”

Together, Invivoscribe and LabPMM provide an integrated global ecosystem of standardized MRD testing, regulatory expertise, and companion diagnostic capabilities. Highly sensitive MRD testing can help define molecular response depth, evaluate response durability, support patient stratification, and accelerate trials when used as surrogate endpoints. By generating consistent molecular data across global clinical programs, this integrated approach helps sponsors make earlier, more informed decisions and reduce development risk from early clinical studies through regulatory submission, approval, and commercialization.

Healthcare providers and biopharmaceutical sponsors developing menin inhibitors for acute leukemia or other immunotherapies can contact Invivoscribe to discuss our global testing programs. Visit www.invivoscribe.com or contact inquiry@invivoscribe.com

About Invivoscribe

Invivoscribe® is a global, vertically integrated biotechnology company dedicated to Improving Lives with Precision Diagnostics®. For over thirty years, Invivoscribe has improved the quality of healthcare worldwide by providing high-quality standardized reagents, tests, and bioinformatics tools to advance the field of precision medicine. Invivoscribe has a successful track record of partnerships with pharmaceutical companies interested in clinical trial testing via our global lab network located in the U.S., Germany, Japan, and China, and in developing and commercializing companion diagnostics, with rigorous expertise in both regulatory and laboratory services. Providing distributable kits, as well as clinical trial services through its globally located clinical lab subsidiaries, LabPMM®, Invivoscribe is an ideal partner from diagnostic development through clinical trials, regulatory submissions, and commercialization.

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https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resources-information-approved-drugs/fda-approves-revumenib-relapsed-or-refractory-acute-leukemia-KMT2A-translocation

Additional KMT2A partner fusion genes will be added in early 2027 further expanding ALL coverage.

MRD results from our KMT2A, FLT3-ITD, and NPM1 assays can be reported in as little as 48 hours, although standard turnaround time is 7-10 business days.

 

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Kioxia to Showcase CXL™ Compatible Memory Expansion Module KIOXIA XL1 Series for AI Workloads

 TOKYO - Monday, 03. August 2026

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, today announced that it will exhibit the KIOXIA XL1 series, a Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) compatible memory expansion module, at the Kioxia booth at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage, taking place August 4 - 6 in Santa Clara, CA. The product features KIOXIA XL-FLASH™, a low-latency and high-performance flash memory technology that enables flash memory, traditionally used for storage applications, to also be utilized as a memory expansion solution. In addition, it is being designed and developed to support the growing volume of memory-intensive AI applications. Evaluation samples are scheduled to be shipped to industry ecosystem collaborators in August 2026.

In recent years, the growing number of AI workloads has significantly increased memory demand in data centers, creating serious challenges such as capacity shortages and rising costs. In response to this important market need, Kioxia is targeting an innovative memory expansion solution for hyperscale environments. The KIOXIA XL1 series memory expansion module combines low-latency, high-performance XL-FLASH™ with a CXL™ interface and improves DRAM utilization efficiency by placing less frequently accessed data on the module. It bridges the performance and cost gap between conventional DRAM and SSDs, enabling memory expansion for demanding AI applications.

Note: The sample drives are for evaluation purposes only. Some functions may not have been fully tested, and specifications are subject to change.

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Compute Express Link and CXL are trademarks of Compute Express Link Consortium, Inc.

Other company names, product names and service names may be trademarks of third-party companies.

About Kioxia

Kioxia is a world leader in memory solutions, dedicated to the development, production and sale of flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs). In April 2017, its predecessor Toshiba Memory was spun off from Toshiba Corporation, the company that invented NAND flash memory in 1987. Kioxia is committed to uplifting the world with “memory” by offering products, services and systems that create choice for customers and memory-based value for society. Kioxia's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, SSDs, automotive systems, data centers and generative AI systems.

*Information in this document, including product prices and specifications, content of services and contact information, is correct on the date of the announcement but is subject to change without prior notice.

 

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