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2025 FISU World Cup: Football Begins in Dalian

DALIAN, China, Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — With an open and inclusive welcome, Dalian, China’s famed “Football City”, hosted the ultimate showdown in university football. On September 17, the 2025 FISU Football World Cup grandly kicked off at Suoyuwan Stadium, bringing together 24 elite university sides from 17 countries for a festival of fierce rivalry and new friendships on the pitch.

The tournament will be staged under the philosophy of “green, innovative, humanistic and spectacular”. The design of the mascot “Lianbao  Spotted Seal”, which is modeled on the rare spotted seals of Dalian’s National Nature Reserve, not only embodies the competitive spirit of young athletes, but also signals Dalian’s commitment to marine-ecosystem conservation and green development.

The tournament innovatively deploys cutting-edge technology to streamline operations and enhance the overall experience. The Dalian Football Youth Training Base now runs a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) inspection system equipped with HD and thermal-imaging cameras to monitor turf health in real time and fine-tune maintenance, greatly boosting efficiency. Across both digital and on-site touchpoints, AI chatbots deliver real-time, accurate support to participants, proof that technology is truly driving the tournament.

Human-centred hospitality underpinned every stage of the tournament. Thirteen Dalian universities offered dedicated, one-on-one support to overseas squads, and more than 280 student volunteers staffed reception, media and operations desks throughout the event.

On the field, players from every continent threw everything into tackle and counterattack; Off the field, diverse cultural-exchange activities ran in parallel. Three nightly shows of “Hello Dalian•Youth Aloft” mixed Chinese opera with hip-hop and left stadium corridors ringing with applause. Across the bay in Donggang, players filmed ferries gliding between skyscrapers as if sailing down a street. At Dalian Forest Zoo, the adorable giant pandas stole the show as the biggest stars. On Dongguan Street, the players stepped into the history museum and listened intently to the story of Dalian. As they toured the city, they experienced its natural scenery, cultural heritage and modern energy.

FISU President Leonz Eder hailed the event as “a milestone” and called China “our closest and most valued partner.” Drawn together by football, students from across the world left Dalian with new friends and lifelong memories, turning the tournament into a bridge for youth culture and people-to-people ties.

Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUR7UalyAUY

Two strategic hires across Virtual IT Group and The Instillery bolster Zero Trust Practice.

SHELLHARBOUR, Australia and AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Following the launch of its dedicated Zero Trust practice, Virtual IT Group and The Instillery have announced two strategic appointments to expand its Zero Trust capabilities and accelerate growth across Australia and New Zealand.

Security Consultants, Ronnie Meekers (Virtual IT Group) and Masaki Takeda (The Instillery)
Security Consultants, Ronnie Meekers (Virtual IT Group) and Masaki Takeda (The Instillery)

The expanded team will focus on delivering advanced managed security services and championing emerging technologies for mid-market and small enterprise organisations, including data protection, IoT/OT, and cellular solutions.

The new appointments include Ronnie Meekers, a cybersecurity expert from leading Zscaler partner Airloom, and Masaki Takeda, returning from Zscaler and previously with The Instillery, both bring deep expertise to the newly integrated team. Their appointments significantly scale the group’s Zero Trust capabilities across the ANZ region.

Masaki Takeda, Security Consultant at The Instillery, known for his regional insight shared, “I’m thrilled to be rejoining the amazing team at The Instillery and Virtual IT Group after an incredible tenure with Zscaler, supporting partners across the APJ region. It’s exciting to bring fresh experience and help drive Zero Trust innovation in the ANZ market.”

Ronnie Meekers, Security Consultant at Virtual IT Group added, “Joining Virtual IT Group and The Instillery was an easy decision. The team has an incredible reputation and real-world expertise in Zero Trust and Zscaler deployments. I’m looking forward to helping bring that capability into the Australian market and delivering security-first outcomes for organisations.”

Jeremy Nees, COO at The Instillery emphasised the importance of deep integration, “One observation we’ve made is that Zero Trust and SASE architectures are often implemented by telcos or integrators who have no insight into an organisation’s identity platforms, applications, or data. The result is that legacy technologies like firewalls or VPNs are simply replicated with newer tech, which makes no sense. Zero Trust requires deep integration into an organisation’s environment to deliver real value. It must be implemented as a security solution, not just a network transport platform. We aim to put this right, and it starts with talent.”

About Virtual IT Group

Virtual IT Group is one of the fastest growing and capable MSP & MSSP providers in Australia and New Zealand. With scale, reach, and proven expertise, we deliver end-to-end managed services for infrastructure as well as security, cloud transformation, and modern workplace solutions that keep organisations productive, resilient, and secure – real cyber solutions for real cyber threats. 

www.vitg.com.au

 

ADVANCION PUBLISHES 2024 CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

Fourth annual report highlights continued progress in sustainable innovation, safety, and responsible resource stewardship

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill., Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Advancion Corporation (“Advancion” or “Company”), a global leader in life science buffers and proprietary specialty ingredients, today announced the release of its 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report, available at advancionsciences.com/sustainability.

Now in its fourth year of comprehensive sustainability reporting, Advancion continues to strengthen its commitment to transparency, accountability, and measurable impact. The 2024 report theme, “Driven by Science. Designed for the Future,” underscores how Advancion integrates sustainability into innovation, operations, and stakeholder relationships to create long-term value.

Key highlights from Advancion’s 2024 report include:

  • Sustainable product innovation – Launched multiple new multifunctional ingredient platforms, including ELEVANCE™ ELITE Bio65, a 50% bio-based amino alcohol for beauty and personal care, and CORRGUARD™ SA-100, an emulsifier with 72% renewable raw material content for metalworking fluids. These together with the new OPTIMINE™ and ELEVANCE™ ULTRA product lines deliver next-generation performance while reducing overall environmental impact across several consumer and industrial markets.
  • Life sciences advancement – Through Expression Systems, an Advancion company, introduced a scalable baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) platform that enhances productivity for advanced therapies—demonstrating the Company’s role in enabling biotechnology innovation.
  • Safety leadership – For the second consecutive year, Advancion’s Sterlington, Louisiana, and Ibbenbüren, Germany manufacturing facilities operated with zero recordable incidents, highlighting its best-in-class safety culture and robust Advancion Management System (AMS).
  • Environmental stewardship – Made measurable progress toward 2030 environmental goals with reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity, energy consumption, waste, and water use versus 2020 baselines.
  • Positive impactIn 2024, 53% of total revenues came from products that positively impact health, minimize waste, or improve environmental performance.

“Our 2024 Sustainability Report reflects both our measurable progress and the deeper values driving our actions,” said David Neuberger, President and Chief Executive Officer. “From advancing renewable chemistry to expanding safety leadership and reducing our environmental footprint, we are proving that progress and responsibility go hand-in-hand. Sustainability is no longer optional—it is embedded into every decision we make, every innovation we launch, and every relationship we build. We remain focused on delivering long-term value to our customers, employees, and communities while safeguarding the health of our planet.”

For more information about Advancion’s sustainability platform and to download the 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report, visit advancionsciences.com/sustainability.

ABOUT ADVANCION
Advancion is a leading global producer of specialty ingredients and consumables for biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, home and personal care, and other consumer-oriented and industrial markets. The Company is one of the world’s largest producers of life sciences buffers and other proprietary ingredients, providing high-performance products, best-in-class quality and guaranteed supply security for more than 80 years. Through Expression Systems, an Advancion company, the Company produces innovative cell culture media formulations, cell lines, molecular tools and reagents used in the development and commercial manufacturing of advanced therapies. Advancion operates three manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Germany and serves its global customers through six regional Customer Application Centers located in Chicago, Illinois; Paris, France; São Paulo, Brazil; Singapore; Shanghai, China; and Mumbai, India. The Company is privately owned by Ardian and Golden Gate Capital, and is headquartered in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. For more information, visit advancionsciences.com.

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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Advancion Media Relations
Scott C. Johnson
+1 847-808-3769
scjohnson@advancionsciences.com

MiroMind’s Open Deep Research Framework Tops FutureX Benchmark, Heralds a New Paradigm in AI

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — MiroMind, the open-source initiative founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist Tianqiao Chen, has achieved the top ranking on the FutureX benchmark, the world’s first real-time test of AI’s ability to predict unfolding events. MiroMind’s agent framework, Miroflow, rose from sixth place in August to first in September, surpassing leading international competitors.

https://futurex-ai.github.io/
https://futurex-ai.github.io/

FutureX, developed by a global consortium including Stanford, Princeton, and Fudan, measures how well AI agents anticipate real-world outcomes—from stock market shifts to election results to technology trends. Unlike static benchmarks, FutureX evaluates reasoning and adaptability in dynamic environments.

“The first paradigm of AI was about general knowledge and subject-less reasoning. The new paradigm requires subjects—agents with memory, identity, and goals,” said Chen. “MiroMind is building large models around long-term memory, so AI can make better predictions and ultimately better decisions. We want an AI that reflects people, not replaces them.”

While LLMs generate content from general knowledge, MiroMind integrates subject data—individualized, contextual, multimodal, long-term memory—to reason, predict, and converge on the best decisions for each subject.

Chen created the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute nearly ten years ago and has built out a strategic ecosystem which aims to advance the use of technology such as AI to advance our understanding of the human brain and aspects of human intelligence that can lead to better artificial intelligence. The Institute partners with universities and other organizations around the world. Together, these efforts form a human-centered, AI-powered intelligence platform built on the principles of memory, prediction, and reflection.

About MiroMind

MiroMind is an open-source AI initiative dedicated to building Predictive Large Model as the basis for safe, evolving, and community driven artificial intelligence. Its mission is to create agentic systems that can reason, predict, and collaborate with humans in complex environments. Follow us on X at @miromind_ai. Learn more at https://miromind.ai/. On Github at https://github.com/MiroMindAI or on Hugging Face at https://huggingface.co/miromind-ai.

 

Tech Forum 2025: ASICs, packaging, and HBM reshape the AI chip race

TAIPEI, Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The global market for high-end cloud AI accelerators is approaching a major turning point. DIGITIMES forecasts that beginning in 2026, the supply chain will enter a new “decentralized” phase shaped by three forces: the expansion of custom ASICs, diversification of advanced packaging, and intensifying competition in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) pricing.

Credit: Digitimes
Credit: Digitimes

ASICs gain ground on GPUs

Cloud service providers are accelerating in-house ASIC development to gain tighter control over performance and costs. DIGITIMES projects that between 2025 and 2029, the compound annual growth rate for high-end cloud ASICs will reach 21%, far outpacing GPUs at 7%.

Google and Amazon, both leading adopters, are pursuing vertical integration and platform strategies that convert compute resources into cost advantages for customers. Meta and Microsoft, after years of ASIC research, are also scaling deployments. While GPUs remain indispensable for training workloads, custom ASICs are steadily eroding their market share.

Packaging moves beyond TSMC

In advanced packaging, the non-TSMC ecosystem is rapidly gaining traction. By the fourth quarter of 2026, non-TSMC suppliers are projected to account for 31% of global CoWoS-class capacity, up from 26% in late 2024.

ASE, Amkor, and SJSemi are emerging with distinct competitive angles: cost and scale, the US-based manufacturing, and China’s domestic demand, respectively. Intel is also pushing its EMIB technology, embedding silicon bridges in substrates to reduce costs and strengthen its “made in America” position. The result is a clear shift: high-end AI chips will no longer depend overwhelmingly on TSMC’s packaging lines.

Memory costs surge with HBM4

On the memory side, cloud accelerators will begin adopting HBM4 in 2026. DIGITIMES estimates that average selling prices for HBM4 will be roughly 53% higher than HBM3E, pushing memory’s share of total bill-of-materials costs above 50% for top-tier accelerators. Samsung is betting on advanced process technology and aggressive price cuts to win NVIDIA orders, directly challenging SK hynix’s long-standing dominance, while Micron continues steady capacity expansion.

Three emerging opportunities

DIGITIMES highlights three major opportunities in this shifting landscape:

Custom ASIC solutions to give cloud providers stronger cost control.

Regionalized advanced packaging capacity to meet the US manufacturing and China localization demands.

High cost-efficiency HBM offerings to deliver affordable memory in a period of steep price inflation.

Overall, the AI accelerator industry is moving away from a centralized supply model toward a more decentralized, competitive ecosystem. Only those companies that form strategic alliances and integrate technologies effectively will be able to stay ahead in this new era.

Suvoda and Greenphire complete brand integration with unified website and social media presence

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Suvoda LLC, a global clinical trial technology company, today announced the completion of its brand integration with Greenphire, unifying both companies under the Suvoda name and brand.

Following the successful merger announced in April 2025, the brand integration marks the next step in creating a single company that delivers a comprehensive clinical trial technology platform designed to ease the experience of running and participating in clinical trials. The company now offers a consolidated social media presence on LinkedIn and updated website featuring the full product suite at suvoda.com. 

Suvoda’s patient-centric solutions and product innovation simplifies the patient and site journey while improving operational efficiency and data quality. With this focus in mind, the Suvoda Platform delivers a seamless, real-time clinical trial experience for patients, study sites, sponsors, and CROs by bringing together eight integrated products:

  • IRT
  • eCOA
  • Greenphire Patient Payments (formerly ClinCard)
  • Greenphire Travel (formerly Concierge Services and Connex)
  • eConsent
  • Scheduling (formerly ePatient)
  • Greenphire Clinical Finance Suite, including Site Payments (formerly eClinicalGPS) and Budgeting & Benchmarking (formerly EnvisiX)

Over the next several months, the company will unify all its solutions so that clinical trial sites and sponsors enjoy a single sign on, consistent and intuitive user interface, a single patient app, and shared data layer for real-time data access across solutions.

“Our goal is to ease the experience at every point in the patient journey—whether that’s operational, logistical, or financial,” said Jagath Wanninayake, CEO of Suvoda. “We want to make clinical trials more responsive, more connected, and easier for patients to complete.”

Sponsors, sites, and patients using Suvoda products will begin to see rebranding, including a harmonized color palette and logo across all products. The company will also introduce a single launchpad on the platform, providing unified access to all study software.

Suvoda continues to provide high-quality products, services, and innovation, as well as the advanced technology and expert support needed to navigate the mission-critical, time-sensitive moments of clinical trials. Throughout the integration, Suvoda is dedicated to working with sponsors, sites, and patients to help them Trial wisely.

About Suvoda
Suvoda is a global clinical trial technology company with a real-time experience platform that empowers sponsors and CROs to make confident decisions and sites and patients to take calm, controlled action. Suvoda delivers interconnected, action-driven software solutions and industry-leading services and support, so that even in the most time-sensitive, mission-critical moments, life-changing studies keep moving forward. Headquartered outside Philadelphia, Suvoda also maintains offices in Portland, OR, Barcelona, Spain, Bucharest and Iasi, Romania, and Tokyo, Japan. The company maintains customer satisfaction scores that consistently exceed the technology industry average, contributing to the company being selected by trial sponsors and CROs to support more than 2000 trials across more than 95 countries. To learn more, visit suvoda.com and follow Suvoda on LinkedIn.

For additional information please contact:
Elena Filimonova
Chief Marketing Officer, Suvoda
marketing@suvoda.com

Logo – https://laotiantimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/suvoda_logo.jpg 

APMIC Launches New On-Premises AI Platform PrivStation to Help Enterprises Build Legally Compliant and Specialized Models

APMIC reports 119% revenue growth in 2024 and surpasses 1,100 clients, continuing its expansion into international markets.

TAIPEI, Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — APMIC, a global pioneer in delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions, announced the launch of PrivStation, a cutting-edge on-premises AI solution designed for highly regulated sectors such as government, finance, and manufacturing. Built to safeguard data sovereignty and privacy, PrivStation empowers organizations to accelerate AI deployment, develop specialized models, and achieve faster time-to-value. Nearly 100 enterprise customers have already signed up for the first round of product testing. APMIC also reported a 119% year-over-year revenue increase in Taiwan this past year. With its U.S. office now operational and expansion underway in Japan and Southeast Asia, the company continues its mission to deliver secure, trustworthy on-premises AI solutions for enterprises worldwide.

APMIC Co-founder & CEO Jerry Wu and Co-founder & COO Arthur Chang (Left to Right)
APMIC Co-founder & CEO Jerry Wu and Co-founder & COO Arthur Chang (Left to Right)

APMIC Doubles Growth, Strengths Presence in Taiwan, and Expands Globally

In 2024, APMIC’s annual revenue more than doubled, surging 119% compared to 2023. The company’s customer base has also steadily increased, surpassing 1,100 clients as of August 2025. This remarkable growth underscores the strong market demand for on-premises AI solutions and the strong trust in APMIC’s enterprise customers.

According to Verified Market Reports, the on-premises AI platform market is projected to grow from $1.5 billion in 2024 to $4.7 billion by 2033, exhibiting a 15.5% CAGR from 2026 to 2033. North America alone is expected to capture 42.7% of the global market share by 2026. APMIC entered the U.S. market in 2024 and appointed Ian Chen as the General Manager of U.S. operations in August 2025. Ian will be responsible for spearheading growth and developing strategic partnerships in the North American market. Looking ahead, APMIC will continue to increase its global footprint, with plans to establish offices in Japan and Southeast Asia and grow its customer base by 160% by 2027.

“As governments prioritize investments in sovereign AI, on-premises AI deployment has become an undeniable global trend. The foundations we’ve built in Taiwan, from both a technology and market perspectives, serve as a stepping stone to the international growth,” says co-founder and CEO Jerry Wu. “With our initiatives now underway in the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asia, we will continue to strengthen the strategic positioning of on-premises AI—empowering enterprises and governments to securely harness this new technology even in highly sensitive, tightly regulated environments, and to transform it into a driving force for business innovation and industry advancement.”

PrivStation: A Trusted On-Premises AI Platform Combining Rapid Deployment and Specialized Model Development

According to KPMG’s AI Quarterly Pulse Survey: Q2 2025, concern over data privacy has surged from 43% to 69% within a single quarter, making it one of the most important factors for enterprises when selecting technology providers. APMIC’s PrivStation is an on-premises AI platform designed for highly data-sensitive industries, such as manufacturing, government, finance, and B2C services, that also offers the flexibility to develop custom models on demand. Nearly 100 enterprise clients have already signed up for the first round of testing.

For the financial sector, PrivStation can integrate internal knowledge bases and compliance protocols to deliver real-time, accurate product explanations, workflow guidance, and regulatory recommendations. PrivStation also powers Taipei City Government Department of Land Administration’s “Hi Landy” Pre-Sale Home Contract Q&A chatbot, introducing AI-based recognition and regulatory interpretation features. Supporting both voice and photo queries, Hi Landy has already been used over 500 times in one month, demonstrating PrivStation’s real-world impact.

PrivStation comes with NVIDIA® NIM™ optimized inference models, combining Visual Language Models (VLM) and Multi-Modal RAG technology. It can process Word, TXT, PDF, HTML, and various image formats, and offers enhanced handling for complex PDF tables to ensure the completeness of knowledge management and application.

PrivStation is designed to address industry pain points with three core solutions:

  • Transparency and Compliance – Solves the AI “black box” problem by providing responses with original document references and annotations for full traceability.
  • Low-Barrier Integration – Combines the intuitive no-code platform CaiGunn with the PrivAI API toolkit, enabling deep integration and secondary development without steep technical requirements.
  • Cost-Performance Balance – Offers an all-in-one appliance with three-tier GPU options (NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000, H200, DGX B200/B300) to help enterprises optimize performance while managing costs.

APMIC co-founder and COO Arthur Chang stated, “In response to the global wave of sovereign AI, governments and highly regulated industries worldwide are imposing increasingly strict requirements on data privacy and compliance. With PrivStation, sensitive data is truly retained on-premises, enabling enterprises not just to passively chase technology but to securely and controllably harness AI— tuning it into a critical driver for business growth and industry transformation.”

About APMIC
APMIC (Accelerate Private Machine Intelligence Company) is a leading provider of enterprise AI solutions, founded in Taiwan in 2017. Starting with natural language understanding (NLU) as its core technology, APMIC has developed the PrivModel fine-tuning and distillation service for enterprise-specific models, as well as PrivStation, an end-to-end on-premises AI platform. These solutions enable organizations to upload their data and build dedicated on-premises AI systems without writing a single line of code.

APMIC’s products have already been deployed across more than 1,100 enterprises and government agencies in sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and retail. The company is committed to empowering every organization to build its own “AI brain”, making AI adoption accessible and practical for all.

For more information, please visit: https://apmic.ai/

Permissionless Agent Listing on Agents.Land: Enriching The AI-driven Creator Economy

NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Agents.Land, developed by Oraichain Labs, launched its platform for permissionless tokenization and listing of Thesis.io’s Agent Spaces. This integration enables creators to transform their content workspaces into token-powered hubs, seamlessly combining research, community building, and on-chain incentives into a single experience.

Permissionless Agent Listing on Agents.Land: Enriching The AI-driven Creator Economy
Permissionless Agent Listing on Agents.Land: Enriching The AI-driven Creator Economy

From Agent Spaces To Tokenization

Agent Spaces on Thesis.io are customizable hubs where creators publish research, share analysis results, and gather communities to discuss Web3 insights. With the new integration, these Spaces can now be tokenized and listed directly on Agents.Land.

Tokenization extends Agent Spaces beyond content hubs. Creators can design custom token models to productize their expertise and build value for their brand and community through sustainable on-chain business models.

Enriching the Creator Economy

Creators can design their own token models to support activities like:

  • Gated access
  • Community rewards
  • Contributor revenue sharing
  • Fundraising
  • DAO-style governance

The first community tokenized Space, $GALAC, reached a peak market cap of more than $470K in just nine days. Its journey from a trading hub to a large community, and eventually into a live token, highlights the potential of this model.

How It Works

Tokenization is fully permissionless and open to Thesis.io Premium users or 10,000 $ORAI stakers. The process is simple:

  1. Create and customize an Agent Space on Thesis.io.
  2. Connect to Agents.Land with a wallet or API key.
  3. Configure and launch: choose name, symbol, description, creator allocation (up to 80%), vesting schedule, and media links.

Launches follow a staged process: subscription allocation for $ORAI and $MAX stakers, a community round, a public round, and eventual migration to decentralized exchanges.

Why It Matters

By connecting Thesis.io’s Agent Spaces with permissionless tokenization, creators gain more than visibility. They gain tools to build community-driven economies around their research and discussions. Users earn clear incentives by joining, and promoters benefit by amplifying Spaces.

To fuel this momentum, Agents.Land is rolling out Weekly Creator Rewards, giving $5,000+ weekly to the top-performing token launches. Funded from the Treasury Pool and scaled with each graduating project, these rewards deliver recognition and tangible returns for committed creators.

Explore Agent Spaces and tokenization at Thesis.io.

About Agents.Land

Agents.Land is a pioneering launchpad for tokenized AI agents on Solana and Oraichain, empowering creators with one-click deployment, fair launch-driven market creation, and robust customization tools to launch, monetize, and scale next-gen AI brands and assets.