Atos appoints Judith Stewart as Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Asia Pacific

Perth, Australia, Nov 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atos, a global leader of AI-powered digital transformation, today announces the appointment of Judith Stewart as Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences for Asia Pacific, reinforcing the company’s commitment to accelerating growth and innovation across the sector and helping organizations harness the potential of artificial intelligence, sovereign technologies and cybersecurity.

Judith brings more than 18 years of international healthcare leadership experience, with a strong track record delivering healthcare reforms and transformations for public and private sector organizations across Australia and the UK. Prior to joining Atos, she held Executive roles for several years within WA Health, most recently as Executive Director for Child and Adolescent Community Health Services in Perth, Western Australia.  

In her new role, Judith will lead Atos’ Healthcare & Life Sciences business across Asia Pacific, with a focus on accelerating growth, strengthening customer relationships, fostering innovation and supporting clients as they navigate an increasingly complex technology landscape.

Daniele Principato, EVP and Head of International Markets at Atos, said:

“Judith brings extensive healthcare leadership experience and a deep understanding of the challenges facing the sector. Her appointment strengthens our Healthcare & Life Sciences capabilities in Asia Pacific and our ability to help clients accelerate transformation while addressing critical priorities around AI, cybersecurity and digital sovereignty.”

Judith Stewart, Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Asia Pacific at Atos, said:

“I am delighted to join Atos and look forward to working with our talented teams, customers and partners across Asia Pacific. Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations are navigating significant change, and technology and AI have an important role to play in helping them transform and innovate. I look forward to helping our clients unlock that potential and deliver meaningful outcomes for the communities they serve.”

The appointment reflects Atos’ continued investment in Asia Pacific and its commitment to supporting Healthcare & Life Sciences organizations as they harness advanced technologies to transform healthcare delivery, strengthen resilience and drive sustainable innovation.

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About Atos

Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.

With more than 51,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand.

A trusted partner in operating complex and mission-critical environments, Atos supports organizations across highly regulated and sovereign contexts.

About Atos Group

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 53,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris.

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lucie.leonardi@atos.ai

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SOURCE: Atos International

EIP, Singapore's EDB Deepen Ties On Energy Innovation And Decarbonisation

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- Energy Impact Partners (EIP), a global energy investor, has deepened its partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to help advance energy innovation and decarbonisation in Singapore.

The announcement was made at the inaugural Singapore Industry Decarbonisation Forum 2026, hosted by EDB, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and the Advanced Energy and Decarbonisation Office (AEDO).

Under the partnership, EIP will connect promising companies with Singapore’s research and industry ecosystem and open channels for technical exchange and collaboration, while the two organisations will explore ways to commercialise and scale new technologies, according to a statement.

“By connecting EDB’s ecosystem with our global network, we can help promising energy start-up companies find a path to scale here and beyond,” said EIP Partner, Frontier Investments, Anil Achyuta.

Meanwhile, EDB Executive Vice President, Wey-Len Lim said partnerships with global investors such as EIP help Singapore gain insights into emerging technologies and industry needs and develop solutions that address its decarbonisation needs.

EIP said Singapore’s research base, industrial infrastructure and connectivity across Asia complement its global network of energy and industrial companies and technology start-ups, supporting new technologies from research and testing through to commercial deployment.

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Templafy Launches Templafy Team, Enabling Professionals to Build and Share Their Own Document Agents

 

New offering turns company knowledge, templates and best practices into customizable AI agents for creating professional, business-ready presentations


NEW YORK, Oct 23 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Templafy, the agentic document generation platform, today announces the launch of Templafy Team, a new offering that enables professional teams to build, customize and share their own purpose-built Document Agents, powered by company knowledge, templates and trusted content.

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in everyday business workflows, professionals have more tools than ever to generate content, but ensuring the output is high-quality and consistent remains a challenge, particularly when teams are repeatedly creating similar presentations, proposals and client deliverables.

Designed for document-intensive teams, including consulting, professional services, financial services and sales, Templafy Team combines customizable Document Agents with Templafy's patented document generation technology. Rather than individuals repeatedly prompting AI or rebuilding presentations from previous work, business teams can now put their existing knowledge, expertise and best practices into shared agents that can be reused across recurring workflows.

Oskar Konstantyner, CPO at Templafy, comments: “AI has made it easier than ever to generate content, but generating a document is only one part of getting work done. The bigger opportunity is enabling teams to create AI agents that understand how their business operates, drawing on their own knowledge, expertise and established ways of working.

“With Templafy Team, we're combining the flexibility to build your own agents with the document generation capabilities needed to produce high-quality, business-ready work. Instead of everyone working with AI differently, teams can build on shared knowledge and best practices, creating a more consistent and scalable approach.”

The offering enables professional teams to:

• Build and share custom Document Agents: Create and customize AI agents for recurring business needs, turning individual expertise and ways of working into reusable capabilities for the whole team.
• Put company knowledge to work: Ground AI in trusted company information, methodologies and best practices, so outputs reflect the business rather than relying on prompts alone.
• Create professional, on-brand PowerPoints: Generate native, editable presentations using company templates and approved assets, reducing the time spent rebuilding and formatting AI-generated outputs.
• Work within existing AI workflows: Access Templafy Document Agents through PowerPoint, ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot, without requiring teams to change the tools they already use.
• Go beyond initial generation: Use AI agents to develop presentations, make edits and review outputs against company knowledge and standards.
   

Templafy Team is available with a 14-day free trial. For more information, visit https://www.templafy.com/teams/.

Notes to editors

About Templafy

Templafy is the leading agentic document generation platform, enabling professionals to create accurate, compliant, and on-brand documents with maximum efficiency.

Our platform allows enterprises to curb AI in the moments that matter by giving AI agents the right context, guardrails, and company-approved knowledge to work from. Through our approach, AI agents apply a combination of AI generated content and rules-based automation to create high-quality and trustworthy documents at speed, without compromising organizational control or consistency, at a low and predictable token cost.

Accessible directly within tools like Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and Salesforce, and AI Assistants including Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot, Templafy’s patented technology simplifies document workflows, reduces risk, and gives teams greater confidence in the documents that matter most.

More than 4 million users worldwide rely on Templafy to accelerate business content creation with AI. Trusted by industry leaders including KPMG and BDO, Templafy saves teams over 30% of the time they would typically spend on repetitive content, such as proposals, engagement letters, and audit reports, allowing them to focus on revenue-driving work instead.

For more information, press only:
Lucy Westman, Head of Global Communications, Templafy (+44) 7776 454 946, lwe@templafy.com 

SOURCE: Templafy Limited

AiMOGA Showcases Robot Line-Up At Chery Summit

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 (Bernama) -- Chery’s robotics brand AiMOGA Robotics is demonstrating its traffic police, nursing, retail and four-legged robots at the Chery Global Technology Innovation Center during the 2026 Chery International User Summit in Wuhu, Anhui.

During the summit, which runs until Oct 23, its intelligent traffic police robot is demonstrating smart traffic applications, its Robotic Nurse is providing medical guidance and its Mornine robot is delivering product presentations, while the four-legged robot Argos is showing autonomous following and material transport.

The brand will unveil Mobo, its family companion humanoid robot, on Oct 21. Mobo features voice interaction, visual object recognition, schedule reminders and long-term memory, allowing it to talk about nearby objects, remind users of planned activities and follow up on earlier conversations.

AiMOGA in a statement said it had set up 31 in-house research and development (R&D) laboratories, drawing on Chery’s global R&D system, focusing on technologies such as motion control and intelligent perception.

The brand combines technologies developed for Chery’s intelligent cockpits and driving systems with robotic motion control and decision-making and draws on the carmaker’s supply chain, manufacturing and quality control expertise.

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YYForce Launches Yolara AI Workforce Intelligence Platform in Singapore

Platform brings conversational AI and intelligent matching to frontline workforce operations 

SINGAPORE, Oct 16 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- YYForce Inc. (NASDAQ: YFOR) (“YYForce” or the “Company”), a technology-enabled provider of workforce solutions and integrated facility management services, today announced the commercial launch of Yolara AI, an AI-powered workforce intelligence platform that combines algorithmic matching, automated staffing workflows, digital attendance, and operational analytics for frontline enterprises.

The core platform is available in Singapore through web and mobile interfaces. YYForce is introducing a conversational AI voice agent through phased deployments with selected enterprise clients, extending the platform with natural-language staffing requests and AI-assisted workflow initiation.

Yolara AI is being introduced through YYForce’s existing regional operating network, which includes more than 100,000 verified frontline workers and over 500 enterprise partner locations. These figures describe the Company’s existing network and do not represent the number of active Yolara AI users or locations at launch.

AI Powered Workforce Orchestration

Yolara AI is designed to help businesses coordinate flexible staffing across hospitality, food and beverage, retail, logistics, events, and facilities management. Its workforce orchestration workflow connects enterprise demand with worker skills and availability, using AI-assisted matching to support staffing decisions and digital tools to track shift execution.

By bringing these activities into one platform, YYForce aims to reduce repetitive administration and improve coordination between businesses and workers. Actual staffing outcomes depend on worker availability, qualification requirements, and operating conditions.

Core Capabilities Available at Launch

• AI-powered multi-factor matching: Evaluates worker suitability using skills, availability, location, credentials, and previous shift records to support candidate matching for enterprise requirements.
• Conversational worker onboarding: Uses conversational interfaces to support worker information collection, availability confirmation, and communication of shift requirements.
• Automated scheduling workflows: Connects staffing requirements with eligible shift booking, helping businesses coordinate coverage and workers access suitable opportunities.
• Digital attendance and tracking: Uses geofenced check-in and check-out to capture shift attendance data for monitoring and reconciliation.
• Talent Graph and workforce intelligence dashboards: Structures worker profiles, qualifications, and shift histories into a searchable talent information base, with dashboards showing staffing coverage, attendance, and workforce cost metrics.

Phased Deployment of the AI Voice Agent

YYForce is deploying Yolara AI’s conversational voice agent in phases with selected enterprise clients in Singapore. The agent is designed to use natural-language processing (NLP), intent recognition, and information extraction to convert spoken staffing requirements into structured digital requests.

For example, a manager could request: “I need five banquet service crew members tomorrow from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Marina Bay.” The agent is designed to extract headcount, role, location, and shift times, request clarification where information is missing, and prepare the request for the platform’s matching workflow.

The phased deployment is intended to assess usability and operational performance before broader rollout. Voice-agent availability will therefore differ from that of the core platform during the initial launch period.

Connecting AI With Real World Workforce Operations

Yolara AI supports YYForce’s strategy of combining workforce operations with applied AI and digital workflow automation. Its existing worker and enterprise relationships provide a base for introducing the platform, gathering operational feedback, and identifying opportunities for future AI model development.

“Frontline staffing has historically suffered from manual friction, fragmented shift communication, and slow fulfillment cycles. With Yolara AI, we are translating applied artificial intelligence into immediate operational leverage—turning spoken manager requests into fulfilled shifts in minutes. This launch marks a foundational milestone in YYForce’s strategy to build a unified, intelligent workforce ecosystem across the region,” said Mike Fu, Chief Executive Officer of YYForce.

AI Development and Regional Expansion Roadmap

YYForce plans to evaluate expansion into additional Southeast Asian markets based on customer demand, operational readiness, and local requirements. Planned AI enhancements include machine-learning-based demand forecasting, predictive workforce analytics, and agentic workflows connecting conversational requests with enterprise systems. These capabilities form part of the development roadmap and are separate from the core functions available at launch.

About Yolara AI

Yolara AI is YYForce’s AI-powered workforce intelligence platform for frontline operations. Its core functions combine multi-factor matching, conversational onboarding, automated scheduling workflows, digital attendance, Talent Graph information, and operational analytics. A conversational AI voice agent for natural-language staffing requests is being introduced through phased enterprise deployments.

About YYFORCE

YYForce Inc. (Nasdaq: YFOR) is an AI-enabled workforce management and integrated facility management provider headquartered in Singapore and operating across Asia and beyond. Through its workforce technology and IFM businesses, YYForce provides workforce deployment, management and facility services solutions across multiple service industries.

The Company operates two distinct workforce technology platforms: YY Circle, which supports workforce deployment and management across hospitality, food and beverage, retail and other service industries; and Yolara AI, an AI-powered workforce intelligence platform that provides intelligent workforce matching, automated scheduling, digital attendance and operational analytics for frontline enterprises. Within its IFM operations, YYForce combines frontline facility services with technology solutions designed to improve workforce productivity and operational efficiency.

YYForce’s long-term strategy is centered on building an integrated future workforce ecosystem in which human workers, intelligent software, automation and robotics increasingly work together to deliver services more efficiently.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company bases these forward-looking statements on its expectations and projections about future events, which the Company derives from the information currently available to it. You can identify forward-looking statements by those that are not historical in nature, particularly those that use terminology such as "may," "should," "expects," "anticipates," "contemplates," "estimates," "believes," "plans," "projected," "predicts," "potential," or "hopes" or the negative of these or similar terms. Statements regarding expected performance, adoption and benefits of the Yolara AI platform; the phased deployment and any broader rollout of the conversational AI voice agent; planned AI enhancements, including machine-learning-based demand forecasting, predictive workforce analytics and agentic workflows; potential expansion into additional Southeast Asian markets are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, and the forward-looking events discussed in this press release may not occur, and actual events and results may differ materially and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about the Company and a number of factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, the Company's goals and strategies; the Company’s future business development, financial condition and results of operations, including the introduction of new products and services, the performance, accuracy and reliability of the Company’s AI models and voice agent; the Company’s ability to successfully complete the phased deployment and achieve client adoption of Yolara AI; the Company’s reliance on third-party technology providers; data privacy, cybersecurity and AI-related laws and regulations, including those governing location and voice data; expected changes in the Company's revenues, costs and expenditures, anticipated customer growth, and demand for and market acceptance of the Company's products and services; and industry, market and regulatory conditions, including competition, government policies and regulations affecting the Company's industry, and other factors that may affect the Company's financial condition, liquidity and results of operations. For a more detailed discussion of risk factors, please refer to the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's most recent annual report on Form 20-F, as amended. Readers should also consider the risks described in the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. YYForce undertakes no obligation to update these statements except as required by applicable law.

Investor Contact
Jason Zhi Yong Phua, Chief Financial Officer
YYForce Inc.
enquiries@yyforce.ai

Investor Relations Contact
Piacente Financial Communications
yfor@thepiacentegroup.com

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SOURCE: YY Group

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Acadian Launches Seaweed-Derived Tasco Animal Feed Technology Globally

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 (Bernama) -- Acadian Animal Wellness, a division of Acadian Seaplants Limited and a leader in marine bioactive technologies for animal health, resilience, and performance, has launched its Tasco optimised feed technology globally for use in animal feed products.

Derived from Ascophyllum nodosum seaweed, Tasco has prebiotic, stress-mitigation and immune-support effects that help animals become more resilient and productive, the company said.

“Tasco Marine Bioactive Technology represents a new chapter for Acadian Animal Wellness at the intersection of ocean stewardship and rigorous science.

“Backed by research across multiple animal species, Tasco improves resilience during critical periods while supporting consistent productivity and quality,” said Acadian Vice President, Global Portfolio and Strategic Partnerships, Enrico Boccaletti in a statement.

He said the technology was also suited to challenging conditions such as heat, transport, competition and environmental extremes.

The company said studies across multiple animal species had shown effects on gut microbial balance, fibre digestion and nutrient absorption, as well as antioxidant activity that helps reduce free radicals and oxidative stress.

These mechanisms help explain Tasco’s ability to support animal resilience and performance during periods of environmental and production stress, it added.

Tasco is available through Acadian Animal Wellness and its network of business partners for use in livestock and equine feed formulations, pet food and aquaculture diets.

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BRAINCHIP UNVEILS PROCESSOR IP CORE FOR ON-DEVICE GENERATIVE AI

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 (Bernama) -- BrainChip Holdings Ltd has unveiled BrainChip Sequora Core IP, a processor intellectual property (IP) core that runs generative artificial intelligence (AI), including large language models (LLMs), directly on battery-powered edge devices.

Sequora builds on BrainChip’s Akida platform. Its efficiency comes from a state-space design that keeps memory use fixed regardless of how long the data stream or conversation runs, allowing it to scale from models of a few million parameters up to three billion.

Devices that once could only recognise a signal can now understand, explain and respond, the company said in a statement.

“Customers are not asking for just a signal classifier or a language model. They want both, in the same product, on the same battery. Akida and Sequora together deliver exactly that,” said BrainChip chief executive officer, Sean Hehir.

According to BrainChip, Sequora removes the memory and power bottleneck that has kept generative AI out of battery-powered devices such as earbuds and sensor nodes.

Paired with Akida, it brings two workloads together. Akida processes streaming sensor data such as vibration, audio, radar, raw radio-frequency (RF) IQ data and biological signals, while Sequora runs generative and sequential AI, including on-device LLMs, voice-to-voice interaction and AI agents.

The company said target markets include consumer voice and wearables, aerospace and defence, automotive and industrial radar, industrial Internet of Things (IoT), and medical devices, all of which need conventional and generative AI in the same product.

Because Sequora runs AI without sending data off the device, it also keeps data and AI models on the device while minimising size, weight and power, BrainChip said.

Sequora is available now as licensable semiconductor IP, which customers integrate into their own system-on-chip (SoC) and manufacture at the foundry and process node of their choice. It is delivered as process-portable, fully synthesisable register-transfer level (RTL) code, with verification IP, a testbench, synthesis scripts and timing constraints.

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