SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Enteric capsules are widely used to protect acid-sensitive compounds and to delay drug release until intestinal entry. However, evidence supporting their gastric integrity under physiologically relevant fed-state conditions remains limited, as most data rely on conventional static in vitro dissolution tests.

In this study, the authors from Bioneer A/S, the University of Copenhagen, and Lonza Capsugel evaluated the gastric integrity of their enteric capsules – Capsugel® Enprotect® capsules, using the Dynamic Gastrointestinal Model (DGM), which simulates the physical, hydrodynamic, and biochemical conditions of the human gastrointestinal tract under fasted and fed states. The DGM simulated key physiological factors such as gastric motility, pH changes, digestive secretions, and gastric emptying patterns.

Capsugel^® Enprotect^® capsules, offer a next-generation enteric delivery solution designed to protect acid-sensitive APIs and enable targeted release in the small intestine. These capsules have been developed using a first-of-its-kind manufacturing process. The bi-layered capsule manufacturing technology allows target delivery of APIs to the distal small intestine without the need for post-filling coating excipients, which accelerates the drug manufacturing and development processes. They avoid exposure to heat and solvents to protect against degradation for some APIs. 

To evaluate this performance, researchers filled the capsules with caffeine, a well-characterized model compound, and tested them under three conditions:

• Fasted state
• Light meal (~500 kcal)
• High-fat FDA meal (~900 kcal)

Results showed caffeine‑filled Capsugel® Enprotect® capsules remained intact throughout gastric transit across all tested conditions, with release occurring only after intestinal entry. No caffeine was detected in stomach samples, indicating that the capsules did not prematurely release their contents. The capsules only disintegrated after entering the intestinal compartment, confirming their gastro-resistant properties. The capsules remained in the stomach for approximately 29 minutes in the fasted state, 147 minutes after the light meal, and 243 minutes following the high-fat meal. Despite this prolonged exposure, the capsules maintained their structural integrity.

Importantly, DGM‑based predictions of gastric residence time, capsule disintegration, and pharmacokinetic profiles closely aligned with previously published human MRI and salivary tracer data in the fasted state and after a light meal. One of the study’s most significant findings was that even under the challenging conditions of a high-fat meal, where gastric pH remained elevated for an extended period and stomach emptying was substantially delayed, the capsules still remained intact. The study also indicates that capsule floating behavior and the presence of an acidic “acid pocket” in the stomach may have helped preserve capsule integrity despite the less acidic environment.

Overall, these findings confirm the robust gastro‑resistant performance of Capsugel® Enprotect® capsules and highlight the value of biorelevant in vitro tools to predict oral dosage form behavior beyond standard dissolution testing.

Join Us at CPHI Korea 2026 and Discover the Future of Targeted Ingredient Delivery

As one of Asia’s premier pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry events, CPHI Korea 2026 connects pharma and nutraceutical leaders across Asia to discover emerging technologies, exchange industry insights, and build partnerships driving innovation in health and nutrition. A key highlight at this year’s event will be Capsugel® Enprotect® capsules, our innovative enteric capsule technology designed to provide reliable gastric protection and targeted ingredient delivery without the need for additional enteric coating processes.

Visit us at Booth K15, COEX, Seoul, South Korea, 25-27 August 2026, and discover how Capsugel® Enprotect® capsules and our advanced delivery technologies can help bring your next innovation to market faster and more effectively.

For more information on Capsugel® Enprotect® capsules, please visit us at CPHI Korea.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ScitiX unveiled the full scope of its production inference platform, purpose-built for enterprises running AI at scale. As organizations move from experimentation to live workloads, the company is positioning inference not as a supporting function, but as the operational core of modern AI stacks.

The platform—running entirely on ScitiX-owned and operated NVIDIA B200, H200, and H100 infrastructure—delivers a unified execution layer that abstracts away the complexity of model orchestration, while giving customers granular control over performance, cost, and compliance. Current production metrics include over 1 trillion tokens processed daily, average time-to-first-token of approximately one second, a cache hit rate exceeding 90%, and 99.9% uptime.

What the Platform Does

ScitiX Model Inference is designed for enterprises running multiple models simultaneously—whether open-source, fine-tuned, or third-party. Rather than lock customers into a single model provider, the platform serves as a neutral, high-performance routing layer that standardizes access through familiar APIs.

Key capabilities include:

• Intelligent model routing and fallback — Automatically directs queries to the optimal model based on latency, cost, or quality targets, with failover built in.
• Session-aware context reuse — Maintains long-running conversational state and caches intermediate results, drastically reducing redundant compute.
• Fault-tolerant execution — Handles retries, timeouts, and partial failures gracefully, so a single misbehaving call doesn’t break the entire workflow.
• Private deployment environments — Dedicated tenancy options for workloads with strict data residency or security requirements.
• Zero-retention policies — Ensures no customer prompts or outputs persist beyond the transaction, meeting the most stringent compliance standards.
• Full-stack observability — Provides infrastructure-level telemetry, audit logs, and performance dashboards that surface exactly where latency or cost is coming from.

These capabilities are not theoretical. They are live today, supporting some of the most demanding inference workloads in production—including those from RadixArk, the commercial team behind SGLang, which runs its heaviest scenarios on ScitiX. “As inference gets more complex, the underlying infrastructure becomes the differentiator,” RadixArk noted. “ScitiX delivers the responsiveness and reliability we depend on.”

Designed for the Realities of Production AI

The platform addresses a specific pain point that has become increasingly apparent across enterprise deployments: model quality matters, but model operations matter just as much. Production failures rarely trace back to model weights. They stem from runtime variability, configuration drift, sandbox timeouts, and unpredictable infrastructure behavior.

ScitiX’s internal evaluation framework, SiEval, reflects this philosophy. Rather than treat evaluation as a leaderboard exercise, SiEval examines the entire execution chain—how results are produced, whether execution paths are reproducible, and whether outputs can support high-stakes decisions like release approval, rollback, or checkpoint promotion. In internal testing, SiEval demonstrated up to 10.5× acceleration on evaluation-heavy pipelines and 7.22× end-to-end speedups across large-scale leaderboard workflows, with the largest gains in pipelines involving LLM judges, sandboxed code execution, and long-context processing.

Why Enterprises Are Shifting to an Inference-First Model

The economics of AI have shifted. Token prices are falling, but total operational spend is not—because every user interaction can cascade into dozens of internal inference calls. As agentic workflows multiply, managing that complexity with per-model point solutions becomes unsustainable.

ScitiX’s bet is straightforward: the infrastructure layer that manages execution, governance, and observability will matter as much as the models themselves. The platform is built to give enterprises control over the variables that actually impact their bottom line—latency SLAs, per-request cost, data governance, and model agility.

“We are not building another model,” said ScitiX. “We are building the operational layer that makes multi-model production viable. Enterprises should not have to become GPU operators to deploy AI. They need flexibility, control, and a platform that handles the rest.”

Availability

ScitiX Model Inference is available now to enterprise customers. For more information on deployment options, pricing, and supported models, visit [https://www.scitix.ai/inference].

About ScitiX

ScitiX provides production-grade AI inference and operations infrastructure, built on company-owned NVIDIA B200, H200, and H100 clusters. The platform offers a unified execution layer that improves performance, governance, reliability, and cost efficiency across multi-model environments.

Forward-Looking Statements & Disclaimers

This release contains forward-looking statements regarding platform capabilities, market adoption, and infrastructure evolution. Actual results may differ materially. Performance metrics, customer statements, and internal test results—including token volume, latency, cache rates, uptime, and acceleration figures—are provided for illustrative purposes only and do not constitute service-level guarantees. Actual performance depends on workload characteristics, model architecture, deployment configuration, network conditions, and customer environment.

NVIDIA, B200, H200, and H100 are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of their respective owners.

Following validation across more than 1,000 hotels in India, AI concierge solution expands globally with planned rollouts across Thailand, the United States, Malaysia and Africa

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Yanolja, a global travel technology company, today announced the global rollout of an AI concierge solution developed by its hospitality technology subsidiary, Yanolja Cloud Solution (YCS), following a preview program across more than 1,000 hotels in India. The solution will expand to Thailand, the United States, Malaysia and Africa.

“As AI reshapes the hospitality industry, hotels are looking beyond automation to intelligent systems that can execute operational tasks and elevate the guest experience,” said Aeijaz Sodawala, CEO of Yanolja Cloud Solution. “Our AI concierge brings together specialized AI agents, real-time operational data and deep hospitality expertise to simplify daily operations, empower hotel staff and deliver more seamless guest experiences.”

Hotels are increasingly adopting AI to automate repetitive operational tasks while enabling staff to focus on higher-value guest interactions. According to YCS, a typical 25-room hotel spends up to eight hours each day handling routine guest communications, including reservation inquiries, check-in and check-out requests, and room service coordination.

Purpose-built for hotel operations, the AI concierge is powered by a multi-agent architecture in which eight specialized AI agents collaborate across core functions, including guest communications, reservations, check-in and check-out, housekeeping, room service, payments and upselling. Through direct integration with the YCS Property Management System (PMS), the solution accesses real-time reservation and room availability data to execute operational tasks rather than simply respond to guest inquiries.

Guests can interact with the AI concierge through WhatsApp or a web-based Guest Portal to confirm reservations, complete digital check-in, request hotel services and make payments. When human assistance is needed, conversations can be seamlessly transferred to hotel staff in real time.

About Yanolja Co., Ltd.

Yanolja is a global technology company transforming the future of travel. We provide a Travel Enablement Platform (powered by data) for travelers and travel enterprises across every stage of the journey — pre-trip, in-trip, and post-trip — delivering efficiency for travel enterprises and seamless, personalized experiences for travelers.

Yanolja is revolutionizing the global travel ecosystem — making travel smarter, easier, and more connected for everyone, everywhere.

About Yanolja Cloud Solution

Yanolja Cloud Solution is a global hospitality technology company, providing an AI-powered hospitality platform that helps hotels and enterprise hospitality groups simplify operations, maximize revenue, and elevate every stage of the guest journey.

Trusted by more than 33,000 hospitality businesses across 170+ countries, our intelligent platform brings together hotel operations, distribution, direct bookings, payments, and guest engagement in one connected experience, empowering hoteliers to operate smarter and grow with confidence.

With more than 650 technology integrations and support for over 574,000 rooms daily, Yanolja Cloud Solution is helping shape the future of hospitality through connected technology and continuous innovation.

One year after launch, the module has completed 100 Full User Equivalent assessments, sizing SAP licensing on what users actually do rather than on the access they are assigned

SYDNEY, Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Soterion today announced that its SAP License Manager has completed its 100th Full User Equivalent (FUE) licensing assessment, just one year after the module was launched. The milestone reflects the growing demand for specialist licensing expertise as organisations transition from SAP ECC to SAP Cloud ERP Private.

The demand is being driven by a fundamental change in how SAP measures user licensing. Under the STAR measurement framework used by SAP Cloud ERP Private, FUE consumption is determined by the SAP authorisations assigned to users, irrespective of whether those authorisations are ever used. Because most legacy SAP role designs were created without FUE optimisation in mind, many organisations are consuming significantly more FUEs than their users’ actual activities require.

With user licenses typically representing 30 to 60 percent of an organisation’s total SAP software investment, and FUE consumption measured monthly throughout the subscription period, an inflated starting point or unmanaged role changes can result in unnecessary subscription costs and future true-up exposure.

Soterion’s SAP License Manager analyses actual SAP authorisation usage rather than relying solely on assigned access. The solution provides organisations with three key metrics: the FUE consumption based on their current role design, the reduction achievable through role remediation, and the best-case FUE requirement based on how users genuinely interact with SAP.

Across its first 100 assessments, Soterion found that legacy SAP role designs typically overstated organisations’ FUE requirements by approximately four times. 

By providing visibility into actual SAP authorisation usage, Soterion has helped organisations understand their true FUE requirements before entering commercial negotiations with SAP. For organisations already operating on SAP Cloud ERP Private, the solution has enabled targeted FUE remediation programmes to align FUE consumption with contracted entitlements, while providing ongoing visibility to proactively manage license consumption throughout the subscription term.

“SAP’s STAR rule set is actually very fair. I would even argue that it is relatively lenient,” said Dudley Cartwright, CEO and co-founder of Soterion. “The real challenge is that most organisations have not had the time, or the tools, to redesign their SAP roles with FUE optimisation in mind. As a result, many are consuming more FUEs than necessary. Our role is to provide the visibility organisations need to reduce unnecessary consumption, align with their contracted entitlements, and establish sustainable FUE governance.”

Cartwright added, “SAP role design is no longer just a security consideration. It has become a financial control. Every role change now has the potential to affect both access risk and software licensing costs.”

“Completing 100 assessments in our first year demonstrates how significant this challenge has become. As organisations work towards SAP ECC end of maintenance deadlines and migrate to SAP Cloud ERP Private, many are recognising that effective FUE management has become an essential part of a successful migration strategy.”

Soterion offers a complimentary SAP FUE assessment to help organisations understand their current FUE consumption, identify optimisation opportunities, and establish an informed baseline before negotiating or managing SAP Cloud ERP Private subscriptions.

About Soterion

Soterion is an international provider of business-centric Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and SAP FUE licensing software for companies running SAP. Founded in 2011, Soterion translates technical SAP access and authorisation data into business-friendly language, helping organisations manage access risk and optimise SAP licensing.

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — XPPen, a leading global digital art innovation brand, proudly celebrates its 21st anniversary. Marking 21 years of empowering creators worldwide, XPPen introduces this year’s theme, “DOODLE THE WORLD,” with a series of creative experiences, including the Global Art Toy Design Contest co-hosted by XPPen and TOP TOY, a globally renowned art toy brand, the upcoming Artist Ultra 14 drawing display, artist conversations, the Doodle & Spin Game on official website, and exclusive anniversary offers. Through these initiatives, XPPen encourages creators worldwide to explore diverse forms of artistic expression and create without limits.

“At XPPen, we believe creativity should have no boundaries, not limited by mediums or imagination,” said Brian Huang, Marketing Director at XPPen. “For 21 years, we have empowered creators with innovative solutions to bring their ideas to life. ‘DOODLE THE WORLD’ embodies our belief that inspiration can flow freely across paper, screens, and beyond. Through this anniversary celebration and collaboration with TOP TOY, we unite around a shared belief in creativity without boundaries and the power of imagination, while embracing a more youthful and trend-inspired creative culture through the fusion of digital art and designer toy culture.”

XPPen × TOP TOY Global Art Toy Design Contest

As one of the highlights of XPPen’s 21st anniversary celebration, XPPen has partnered with TOP TOY, a leading global art toy brand, to launch the Global Art Toy Design Contest, inviting creators worldwide to explore the possibilities of Zero, TOP TOY’s original IP character. Through this collaboration, creators can transform their ideas into collectible designs.

Running from August 16 to October 16, 2026, the contest encourages participants to reinterpret Zero through designs including the Null Shell Design, Fenix Shell Design, and Zero Figure Design. Participants can draw inspiration from seasons and clothing styles or develop their own original themes. Winners will receive XPPen creative devices, cash prizes, blind boxes, and X-Coins from the XPPen Community, which can be used for community giveaways and exclusive rewards. Selected winning works will also have the opportunity to be developed into physical art toys and stocked in TOP TOY stores worldwide. Join the contest at https://community.xp-pen.com/events/global-art-toy-design-contest?lang=en

A panel of artists and creative professionals will judge the entries, including Katun, an influential Southeast Asian graffiti artist; Josephine Rais, a German illustrator and strategic designer; Jun Oson, a Japanese illustrator and contemporary artist; together with TOP TOY’s senior art toy designer jury. “I hope creators can create boldly, not only through colors, but also by exploring more possibilities in subtle elements such as materials and emotions,” said Tong Liu, Senior Designer at TOP TOY, as one of the jury.

New Addition to the Artist Ultra Series

Continuing the celebration of XPPen’s 21st anniversary, the Artist Ultra 14 will launch on August 17. As the newest member of the Artist Ultra Series, Artist Ultra 14 delivers Ultra Clear True Color with exceptional accuracy and clarity in a slim, portable design, providing creators with a flexible and immersive experience. The new product will also be available as one of the prizes in the Global Art Toy Design Contest and the anniversary game on XPPen’s official website.

Celebrating Creativity Across Mediums and Beyond

To further explore this year’s theme, XPPen has invited artists from different creative fields, including Chromakane, Tattoo Artist, and Marina Esmeraldo, Multidisciplinary Artist, to share their creative journeys and interpretations of “DOODLE THE WORLD.” Through these conversations, XPPen showcases how drawing can take place across different mediums and creative environments, inspiring everyone to embrace the freedom to create anytime, anywhere.

Beyond artistic conversations, everyone is invited to join the anniversary game on XPPen’s official website. Participants can join the 21-Day Doodle Journey and spin the wheel to win prizes. XPPen’s official online stores will also roll out global anniversary offers, featuring discounts of up to 50% on selected products.

Building on 21 years of innovation, XPPen will continue empowering creators and advancing digital art. XPPen will also showcase its latest innovations and upcoming products at IFA 2026, including new releases ahead of official launch. More details will be revealed at IFA 2026.

For more information, please visit https://www.xp-pen.com/21st-anniversary-celebration.html