Specialized AI agents plan, connect, build, and deploy production-grade connectors in days, dramatically reducing the time and cost to unlock the value of integrations

SYDNEY, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Avalara, Inc., the agentic AI leader in global tax and compliance, today announced the availability of Versori by Avalara, an agentic integration fabric that dramatically accelerates how developers and partners connect enterprise systems to Avalara tax and compliance solutions. The offering is now available through the Avalara Developer Portal and was showcased at Avalara CRUSH, the company’s flagship customer and partner conference.

Invariably, businesses implement and make changes to a complex mix of ERP systems, billing platforms, e-commerce applications, and custom technology. Those changes create significant budgetary and staffing burdens, and can delay critical business outcomes. They can require significant specialized engineering and create cost overruns, complexity, and delays as businesses grow and their technology stacks evolve.

With Versori by Avalara, integration time and expense are no longer sticking points for these projects. AI agents do the complex research, analysis, and coding in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional integration tools. Rather than relying on generic code generation or rigid pre-built templates, Versori by Avalara’s specialized AI agents execute the integration lifecycle.

“Businesses should not have to spend significant engineering time just to connect tax and compliance to the systems where they already work,” said Hugo Sarrazin, Chief Executive Officer at Avalara. “Versori by Avalara changes that equation. Specialized AI agents can research, build, test, and deploy production-grade connectors in days, giving developers and partners a dramatically faster path to bring Avalara into virtually any enterprise system. For customers, that means less integration work, faster time to value, and greater freedom to use the technology that works for their business.”

From integration requirements to production-ready connectors

Versori by Avalara uses four core AI agents to guide developers from initial mapping to certified release:

• Plan: Analyzes endpoint schemas, API contracts, and compliance requirements to scope integration architecture.
• Connect: Establishes secure authentication and automated system-to-system handshakes across ERPs, billing engines, e-commerce systems, and custom databases.
• Build: Generates production-ready transformation logic, mapping rules, and error-handling code. Customers and partners retain access to the generated connector code and business logic.
• Deploy: Runs automated testing, validates against Avalara certification benchmarks, and publishes the live connector.

Rather than relying on generic code generation or rigid pre-built templates, Developers and partners can access Versori by Avalara today through the Avalara Developer Portal. Users can explore API documentation and enroll in hands-on Versori by Avalara training.

About Avalara
Avalara is the agentic AI leader in global tax and compliance. For more than two decades, Avalara’s trusted tax content, deep compliance expertise, proprietary data, and technology have helped customers succeed on a global scale. Avalara now pairs that foundation with agentic AI to help businesses execute complex compliance work while keeping people in control. Avalara processes more than 54 billion AvaTax API calls annually and supports millions of businesses worldwide. For more information, visit Avalara.com.

Hosted by Nearmap Chief Product Officer David Tobias, new podcast brings together leaders across insurance, government, AECO, and commercial real estate to explore AI, data, and the future of property intelligence

SYDNEY, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nearmap, the global property intelligence company, today announced the launch of The Reality Layer, a new podcast hosted by Nearmap Chief Product Officer David Tobias that explores how technology, data, and artificial intelligence are changing the way organisations understand and act on the physical world.

Launching today, The Reality Layer will bring together executives, practitioners, and technology leaders from across industries for candid conversations about the forces reshaping the built environment. Episodes will explore topics ranging from AI and property intelligence, to insurance underwriting and claims, catastrophe response, and the future of cities and communities.

As organisations navigate rising loss costs, increasingly complex property risk and growing pressure to make faster, more informed decisions, access to better data and intelligence is becoming increasingly important. The Reality Layer will examine these challenges through the experiences and perspectives of the people working to solve them.

“There’s an enormous amount happening in the physical world that we can’t always see or understand from traditional data alone,” said David Tobias, Chief Product Officer at Nearmap and host of The Reality Layer. “The combination of AI, geospatial technology and property intelligence is changing that. This podcast is about exploring what happens when we can see the world more clearly, and what organisations can do with that enhanced understanding.”

Each episode will feature conversations with industry leaders and subject-matter experts, exploring both the opportunities and practical challenges facing organisations today.

“We’re at a point where technology is changing not just how businesses operate, but how they understand the world around them,” continued Tobias. “The most interesting conversations are no longer about technology for technology’s sake. They’re about how organisations can turn data, AI and new sources of intelligence into better decisions and better outcomes. That’s what makes The Reality Layer such a timely conversation.”

The podcast is part of the Nearmap broader commitment to advancing the conversation around property intelligence and the role of technology in helping organisations better understand the built environment.

Listen to and subscribe to The Reality Layer on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

About Nearmap
Nearmap is a global property intelligence company redefining how organisations understand and act on the built environment. By owning the entire intelligence value chain—from high-recency geospatial capture powered by patented camera technology to accurate AI-derived analytics and guaranteed building materials data—Nearmap delivers a single, trusted source of truth for property decisions. Insurers, government agencies, and AECO organisations rely on Nearmap to transform property uncertainty into evidence, helping organisations move beyond fragmented data and manual processes with verified, frequently updated insight. These proprietary insights enable faster, more confident decisions across underwriting and claims, assessment and response, and planning and construction so teams can see truth, assess risk, and act with certainty. Founded in Australia in 2007, Nearmap stands as the definitive source of truth that shapes the livable world.

For more information, visit www.nearmap.com.

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SINGAPORE, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As investment in AI, cloud computing, and digital infrastructure accelerates across Southeast Asia, Milliken & Company will showcase its MAXCELL^® cable management solutions at Data Centre World Asia 2026, helping data center owners, operators, engineers, and contractors build scalable, high-density networks designed for future growth.

Demand for data center capacity across the region continues to rise as organizations expand digital services, deploy AI workloads, and strengthen cloud infrastructure. At Data Centre World Asia, Milliken will highlight how MAXCELL^® flexible fabric innerduct solutions help customers increase usable conduit capacity, simplify cable management, and create space for future expansion without the need for additional conduit installations.

Designed for demanding data center environments, MAXCELL^® helps operators make more efficient use of available pathway space, improve installation efficiency, and adapt to evolving connectivity requirements.

“Across Asia, data center operators are being asked to deploy infrastructure faster while maintaining the flexibility to adapt as requirements change,” said Zach Huckabay, Senior Sales Director for Milliken’s technical textiles business. “MAXCELL^® helps customers maximize existing conduit assets to improve network readiness for rapidly expanding AI, cloud, and digital connectivity demands. We’re excited to connect with customers at Data Centre World Asia and discuss how we can help address their infrastructure challenges.”

Milliken’s participation in Data Centre World Asia reflects the company’s continued commitment to supporting customers through local expertise, technical service, and project collaboration. Teams across Asia work closely with customers to address increasingly complex networking and data center requirements, combining innovative products with on-the-ground technical expertise.

As investment in hyperscale data centers and next-generation digital networks continues across the region, Milliken remains focused on expanding its cable management capabilities, strengthening customer partnerships, and helping organizations improve infrastructure performance and efficiency.

Visitors can meet the Milliken team at Booth C105 during Data Centre World Asia 2026, taking place September 29-30 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, to learn more about MAXCELL^® solutions and Milliken’s approach to supporting the future of digital infrastructure.

About Milliken 
Milliken harnesses materials science to deliver tomorrow’s breakthroughs today. Discover our innovative portfolio of textiles, flooring, specialty chemicals, and healthcare solutions at milliken.com and on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

/C O R R E C T I O N — Basecamp Research/

In the news release, Basecamp Research raises $140M to advance AI-designed therapeutics, issued 23-Sep-2026 by Basecamp Research over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that information has changed in the first bulleted subheadline and in the fourth paragraph. The complete, corrected release follows:

• Oversubscribed Series C led by S32 with backing from NVIDIA, Menlo Ventures’ Anthology Fund, Catalio Capital Management, European Tech Collective, Firebrand River Capital, Inception Fund, King Philanthropies, NATO Innovation Fund, PostScriptum, Redalpine, The Rockefeller Foundation, Singular, Sovereign AI, and True Ventures.
• Funding will advance a pipeline of EDEN-designed therapeutics, starting with in vivo cell therapy, and expand pharmaceutical partnerships
• The company has demonstrated strong preclinical results across multiple modalities and disease areas

LONDON and BOSTON, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Basecamp Research, a frontier AI company developing AI-designed medicines, today announced a $140M Series C financing to train a new generation of EDEN models and advance a pipeline of AI-designed therapeutics towards clinical development.

Basecamp’s ambition is to develop cures for diseases that remain incurable by designing medicines that reprogram the body to repair itself. The company combines frontier AI models trained on proprietary biological data with technology for writing DNA sequences into cells.

“We believe the future of medicine lies in reprogramming the body to repair itself. We design the models and the medicines to teach it how,” said Glen Gowers, co-founder and CEO of Basecamp Research. “AI-based approaches promise to change what’s possible for patients who currently have few alternatives. This funding brings this technology closer to those who need it most.”

The oversubscribed round was led by S32, with participation from Menlo Ventures’ Anthology Fund, Catalio Capital Management, European Tech Collective, Firebrand River Capital, Inception Fund, King Philanthropies, NATO Innovation Fund, NVIDIA, PostScriptum, Redalpine, The Rockefeller Foundation, Singular, Sovereign AI and True Ventures.

Additional investment comes from senior leaders from across pharma, biotech, and global industry, including André Hoffmann, Vice-Chairman of Roche, who said: “The biotechnology revolution that began fifty years ago transformed how we make medicines. Personalised, AI-designed therapeutics represent the next transformation of that journey. Basecamp Research has built the full platform to deliver it, from biological data to trained models to designed therapies. This will be key in helping the industry to continue to innovate.”

Applying EDEN to develop new therapies

Basecamp Research is applying EDEN, its biological foundation model, to in vivo cell therapy – reprogramming a patient’s cells inside the body. Today’s cell therapies are limited both in the complexity of what they can deliver and by a manufacturing process that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient.

By pairing EDEN’s ability to design long and complex DNA sequences with large serine recombinases that can precisely integrate them into the genome, Basecamp’s platform aims to underpin the future of cell therapies, making them more sophisticated, more customisable and simpler to administer. This has the potential to transform how we treat cancer, autoimmune disease, and more.

The company has demonstrated strong preclinical results across multiple modalities and disease areas. To expand its pharmaceutical partnerships, Basecamp has appointed Richard Pearce, formerly of Biogen, as Chief Business Officer.

Andy Conrad, General Partner at S32 and former CEO of Google’s Verily, who joins the Board of Directors, said: “AI is opening up new possibilities across every part of society, but perhaps nowhere is the potential more meaningful than in human health. The ability to combine AI, biological data and scientific insight could transform how we understand disease, discover medicines and ultimately improve and extend people’s lives. Basecamp Research is building an important technology platform at the center of that opportunity.”

The AI and data powering Basecamp Research’s therapies

At the centre of Basecamp Research’s AI platform is the Trillion Gene Atlas, the world’s largest proprietary biological AI training dataset. Built with partners including NVIDIA, Anthropic, PacBio and Ultima Genomics, the Atlas draws on biological data collected through access and benefit-sharing partnerships in more than 30 countries across all seven continents.

Trained on this data, the company’s EDEN models recognise patterns across a huge breadth of previously unseen biology. Unlike AI systems developed for a single scientific task, EDEN models aim to deliver a universal understanding of how DNA works across all of life.

This means that the models can generate potential therapeutic candidates directly from information about a disease, an approach already demonstrated through Basecamp’s collaboration with Anthropic on Claude Science. The EDEN models’ capabilities include designing cell and gene therapies, enzymes and peptides.

About Basecamp Research

Basecamp Research trains frontier AI models for therapeutic design. The EDEN models are trained on the Trillion Gene Atlas, the world’s largest proprietary genomic dataset, collected through partnerships in more than 30 countries worldwide. Its pipeline of EDEN-designed therapeutics, beginning with in vivo cell therapy, is advancing towards clinical development. Basecamp Research is headquartered in London with offices and labs in Cambridge, MA.