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Zoomlion’s Humanoid Robot Z01 Shines at KOMATEK 2026, Showcasing Advances in Embodied AI and Industrial Robotics

ISTANBUL, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Zoomlion”) attracted widespread attention at KOMATEK 2026 in Istanbul with the appearance of its humanoid robot Z01. Alongside more than 40 high-end construction machinery exhibits that secured orders exceeding RMB 1 billion, Z01 emerged as one of the event’s most talked-about attractions.

Zoomlion's Humanoid Robot Z01 performed a Tai Chi routine, drawing large crowds and extensive visitor engagement at KOMATEK 2026 in Istanbul.
Zoomlion’s Humanoid Robot Z01 performed a Tai Chi routine, drawing large crowds and extensive visitor engagement at KOMATEK 2026 in Istanbul.

Designed for industrial collaboration, intelligent guidance, and educational applications, the bipedal humanoid robot demonstrated coordinated movement and precise operational capabilities throughout the exhibition. During a live demonstration, Z01 performed a Tai Chi routine, showcasing advanced motion control, dynamic balance, and human-robot interaction capabilities, drawing large crowds of visitors.

The debut of Z01 highlights Zoomlion’s growing commitment to embodied AI, with embodied AI robots and related emerging industries forming the company’s third growth curve.

Zoomlion possesses significant advantages in embodied intelligence development. As one of the earliest companies in China’s construction machinery industry to invest in industrial IoT technologies, the company has built a strong digital foundation through Zvalley, its AI-powered industrial internet subsidiary, which is supported by nearly 1,300 technical and R&D professionals.

Since 2024, Zoomlion has accelerated the development of embodied AI technologies through its integrated hardware-software innovation capabilities. The company has established a comprehensive technology framework covering robot hardware, core components, decision-making and motion-control systems, and software ecosystems. At the same time, the integration of AI and robotics technologies is helping drive the intelligent transformation of Zoomlion’s construction machinery, agricultural machinery, and mining equipment businesses.

By the end of 2025, Zoomlion had developed eight embodied AI robot prototypes across four major categories, creating a diversified product portfolio that includes humanoid and wheeled robots. Leveraging the company’s extensive industrial environments, these robots have been validated in real-world applications at Zoomlion Smart City, including logistics handling, factory inspection, loading and unloading, pre-assembly, and quality inspection. These deployments have provided valuable operational data and experience for future large-scale commercialization.

Earlier this year at Hannover Messe 2026, Zoomlion showcased Robot Ops, its embodied AI development platform, and demonstrated collaborative operations involving humanoid and logistics robots. The event highlighted the company’s progress in moving embodied AI from laboratory research to practical, industrial-grade applications, emphasizing real-world adaptability, autonomous decision-making, and multi-robot collaboration.

Today, embodied AI robots are already being utilized across multiple manufacturing processes within Zoomlion Smart City. Zoomlion is committed to developing embodied intelligence with an industrial mindset, focusing on real-world scenarios and building capabilities from the ground up. By establishing a robust industrial data system for embodied AI and advancing engineering-oriented robot design and manufacturing, the company is steadily laying the foundation for the large-scale deployment of embodied intelligence technologies across industries.

Dance Without Borders: BYU Ballroom Dance Gives Historic Performances in India


NEW DELHI / BENGALURU, INDIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 10 June 2026 – The BYU Ballroom Dance Company lit up stages in India for the first time, enchanting over 1,000 audience members with show-stopping performances held on 4 and 6 June 2026 in the nation’s capital and a grand finale in Bengaluru on 9 June. Distinguished guests, including government, interfaith, and community leaders, were among the crowd, dazzled by the performances.

Audiences in New Delhi and Bengaluru were mesmerized by the elegance and precision of the BYU Ballroom Dance Company's performances.
Audiences in New Delhi and Bengaluru were mesmerized by the elegance and precision of the BYU Ballroom Dance Company’s performances.

“It was superb,” said India Foundation Executive Vice President Alok Bansal. “Not only the performance, but everything was so well-coordinated. Here, the whole team was in synchronization. It actually was amazing. It requires immense practice and confidence in one another, and that was very clearly visible. I think audience reaction was superb.”

For their performances in India, the BYU Ballroom Dance Company seamlessly blended ballroom dance with Indian cultural elements, drawing an effusive response from the audience.
For their performances in India, the BYU Ballroom Dance Company seamlessly blended ballroom dance with Indian cultural elements, drawing an effusive response from the audience.

The three shows were presented shortly after the Company’s success at the prestigious Blackpool Dance Festival, where they swept the British Championships again in both Ballroom and Latin Formations. Whether competing in London or performing in India, the internationally acclaimed ensemble consistently wowed audiences with its creative blend of standard ballroom and Latin styles. From the Waltz, Tango, and Quickstep to the Lindyhop and Samba, the student dancers surpassed cultural boundaries on the dance floor, show after show.

“It was truly spectacular. Every movement was executed beautifully, and the storytelling was so powerful that it kept me completely engaged throughout,” said media consultant Poonam Kashyap from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, who partnered the performances.

Every performance by the BYU Ballroom Dance Company in India concluded with a standing ovation. Their respect for the country and genuine desire to connect were evident as the student dancers embraced the people and culture.
Every performance by the BYU Ballroom Dance Company in India concluded with a standing ovation. Their respect for the country and genuine desire to connect were evident as the student dancers embraced the people and culture.

As the Company’s premiere performances in India, the shows filled theaters with standing ovations. Attendees left feeling mesmerized by the dedication and pure passion of the performances, with a newfound love for the art form. Many expressed appreciation for the opportunity to enjoy high-caliber performing arts with such cultural heritage at no cost.

Beyond the stage, the 32 dancers participated in meaningful cultural exchanges with classical Indian dancers from the illustrious Triveni Kala Sangam, and heartfelt interactions with mentally challenged patients at the Missionaries of Charity home in Old Delhi. These experiences fostered mutual understanding and strengthened connections between the visiting students and the people they met.

“All of us tried to coordinate and learn each other’s culture and traditions,” shared Acharya Jayalakshmi Eshwar, renowned head of the Bharatanatyam department at the dance institution. “It was like one family then we came together, exchanging our artistic ideas. It was very, very beautiful – a great experience.”

“India’s rich cultural heritage and extraordinary hospitality have made a lasting impression on our students and faculty,” said Curt Holman, artistic director of the Company. “The arts create connections that transcend language, reminding us that we have far more in common than we often realize.”

He added, “Our time in India has been life-changing for the students. Not only have they been able to share their dance talents, but they have gained a new perspective on life as they have personally connected with audience members. This will be a memory never to forget.”

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No Longer Poor: Can Laos be Clean, Green and Great?

A Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) vehicle is seen from the top of Patuxai, also known as the Victory Monument, in Vientiane on 10 March 2026, as the public transportation system resumes in the Lao capital. (Photo by AFP)

By Anoulak Kittikhoun, originally published on Fulcrum Analysis on Southeast Asia


Laos will graduate from the UN’s Least Developed Country (LDC) category this year. Doing so not only achieves a national aspiration from the 2000s but also marks the end of a decades-long categorisation that has framed the country as “poor”. Laos will surpass three ASEAN Member States that remain as LDCs — Cambodia, Myanmar and Timor-Leste — and 44 countries that are still classified as such.

In January 2026, Laos set a long-term development goal to reach upper-middle income status by 2055. But this goal will have little value if the country is less liveable and sustainable.

Laos deserves credit for its graduation. From 2000 to 2020, its economy grew rapidly, with an average annual growth of 7 per cent — among one of the highest in the world. That expansion was driven by natural resource extraction and exports, especially hydropower, mining and plantations. This growth alongside added assistance from development partners, in turn, financed better infrastructure and reduced national poverty to 15 per cent by 2025.

However, resource-led development has come at environmental and health costs. The land, forests and the mighty Mekong have experienced major degradation and deforestation. Forest cover fell by 2.9 per cent between 2000 and 2015. Cities in Laos — like many others in the world — are facing a global waste crisis in which dumping, open burning and clogged drains have caused adverse health effects, flooding and environmental harm. In the national capital of Vientiane and UNESCO World Heritage City Luang Prabang, waste burdens have increased as a result of population and tourism growth. For example, only a third of an estimated 970 tons of waste produced per day in Vientiane is collected and properly disposed of. By 2030, the amount of waste produced could rise to 1,512 tons per day.

When the Covid-19 pandemic broke in 2021, its effects exposed the structural weaknesses of Laos’ resource-led development model. From 2021 to 2023, the economy faced unprecedented pressures, from high inflation and currency depreciation to low foreign reserves. Public debt rose to around 131 per cent of GDP in 2022. A Sri Lankan-style economic collapse was predicted. In July 2024, President Thongloun Sisoulith instructed the government to take new measures to stop the depreciation of the kip within one month. These measures included stronger capital flow management to increase foreign currency inflows into the banking system, the building up of gold reserves and the creation of a centralised foreign exchange (FX) platform. The kip has since stabilised, while inflation has eased, reserves have improved and public debt has been reduced to 88 per cent of GDP by the end of 2025.

To avoid a repeat of the 2022–2023 debt crisis, Laos’ development drive needs to better balance financially-sound growth with green prosperity. The strongest lesson comes from countries that undertook similar policies when they were “still poor” and developing. For example, upon independence in 1965, Singapore was burdened by issues of poverty, slums and poor sanitation. From the start, Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew envisioned “the cleanest and greenest city in South Asia” as the ultimate “hallmark of success”. That clarity of mission has been integral to Singapore’s development strategy. Since the 1960s, the city state’s leaders have rejected investment projects that were deemed highly pollutive. Although resources were scarce, Singapore’s early investment in waste management and urban greening, the enactment of new laws and successful sustainability campaigns have paid off.

Likewise, Laos can boost its economy and development without normalising waste and environmentally unfriendly resource extraction. To that end, the Lao government has already put in place laws and strategies that have successfully increased forest cover, advanced world-class mitigation measures for Mekong dams and implemented dam-safety standards nationwide.

The central challenge, however, remains uneven implementation. In general, regulatory agencies often lack the resources, technical capacity and independence needed to monitor compliance, and overlapping mandates between ministries dilute accountability. In addition, the effects of poor waste management on health, tourism and investor confidence will only undermine a country’s capacity to handle more complex development challenges.

To help make Laos cleaner and greener, four mutually reinforcing strategies are needed. First, there must be integrated visions and longer-term planning by the government and its partners. On waste management, ad hoc or donor efforts are not enough. Laos should adopt a country-wide cleanliness strategy that cities can adapt. It should also establish clear national targets (e.g. “make Vientiane the cleanest Mekong capital”), define institutional responsibilities, manage financing and fee models and implement monitoring systems, including protocols for festivals and tourist hotspots.

On sustainability, Laos already has specific targets for conservation and development, but these goals are often in silos. For example, the 2020 Forestry Strategy aims to achieve 70 per cent forest cover, while the power plan has set targets of 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2030. If these targets are not coordinated, increased power outputs may inadvertently put more pressure on rivers, forests and food systems. Laos needs to formulate an integrated climate-water-energy-food vision that is climate resilient and adaptive to scenarios on future water availability, flood and drought risks. These strategies should also align with Mekong-wide planning, moving from project-by-project decisions toward coordinated dam operations and joint investments that produce multiple benefits. With more multi-sectoral developments in certain areas, Laos can save other areas of valuable ecosystems, such as free-flowing rivers and wetlands, from exploitation.

Second, waste and environmental policies should be implemented with a carrot-and-stick approach. Waste management solutions need to be accompanied by nationwide waste and public health laws that support implementation. Singapore’s Environmental Public Health Act (enacted over 50 years ago) is instructive. Inspections, punitive fines and Corrective Work Orders (CWOs) which require offenders to clean public areas, have reduced land pollution. In green development, Laos already has modern laws on land, water, forestry and environment, and a recently integrated Ministry of Agriculture and Environment with a stronger mandate for enforcement. What is needed is the consistent application of sustainability criteria when reviewing projects, stronger inspectorates, and stricter penalties for unauthorised development and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) violations.

Laos also needs incentives that can fund sustainable waste management solutions. Bhutan’s Sustainable Development Fee model could be an option for Luang Prabang, allowing Laos to mobilise additional revenue for clean and green efforts. Additionally, waste-to-energy schemes such as the Tuas South Incineration Plant demonstrate that waste can become productive infrastructure.

The rise of regional carbon markets offers Laos another opportunity for ASEAN cooperation: as hard-to-abate industries seek high-integrity carbon credits, Laos could generate new revenue by protecting forests and other carbon sinks, thereby creating financial incentives to implement clean and green development. Finally, eco-certification and tax or licensing incentives could encourage greener factories, hotels, restaurants and tourism operators.

Third, authorities can draw on systematic civic mobilisation to cultivate environmentally conscious behaviours. Laos has had some campaigns in the past, but they lacked scale, regularity or social anchoring. Nationwide Total Cleanup or broader clean and green campaigns once or twice a year can be institutionalised to bring together ministries, organisations, schools and businesses in a synchronised effort. Leaders should roll up their sleeves and participate visibly and sustainably, not symbolically. A potential untapped resource is temples, already among the cleanest and most orderly public spaces in many Lao villages. If temples led monthly village clean-up efforts in cooperation with local authorities, spiritual values, community pride and environmental duty can be merged in ways that government slogans alone cannot achieve.

Finally, policymakers and officials need to leverage modern technologies to build stronger monitoring systems and adaptation. Drones, for example, can lower the cost of monitoring systems, while AI-powered data systems can increase analytical prowess and options for decision making. A digital twin of Laos’ critical areas of cities, land and environments — with satellite and drone-generated imageries, data and tracking and modelling software — would allow policymakers to monitor city streets, forest cover, river systems, waste flows and infrastructure project footprints in near real time.

Being clean and green takes more than money and resources. It is a matter of mindset and leadership. Laos is on the verge of shedding its long-standing reputation as one of the world’s poorest countries. The question is no longer how Laos can become richer, but what development choices it will make to reach that goal responsibly. An extractive, higher income country with long-term environmental degradation would be a poor answer. A cleaner and greener Laos, however, would be a great one indeed.

OOm Institute Calls for AI Fluency to Close Human Critical Thinking Gap


SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 10 June 2026 – OOm Institute, a Singapore-based AI and digital skills training provider, is calling for greater AI fluency as businesses adopt Generative AI and concerns grow over declining critical thinking and verification skills.

The rapid adoption of AI tools without sufficient verification, contextual understanding, or critical oversight is contributing to a growing “Human Critical Thinking Gap”.

Recent research from Professors Rick Dakan and Joseph Feller also corroborates this; only 8.7% of participants consistently verified high-stakes AI-generated claims before accepting them.

Beyond the Prompt: The Human-Centric Shift

While prompt engineering remains a foundational skill for today’s workforce, OOm Institute suggests the discipline must evolve beyond simple input mechanics.

“We are entering a false competence trap,” says Ian Cheow, CEO at OOm Institute. “People are learning how to prompt, but they aren’t learning how to make the right decisions. If you cannot spot when an AI’s logic fails, you aren’t using a tool, you are delegating your intelligence.”

The Warning: If You Let AI Think for You, You “De-skill”

Professionals who rely heavily on AI without developing critical evaluation skills risk “de-skilling”, where domain expertise erodes over time due to over-dependence on automated systems.

The concept of AI Fluency is built around three core capabilities:

  • Decision to Correct: The ability to determine when AI-generated output is sufficient and when it poses a risk that requires human revision or rejection.
  • Contextual Sovereignty: Ensuring human oversight remains central so AI outputs align with Singapore’s cultural, commercial, and ethical contexts.
  • Critical Inquiry: Moving beyond prompting to actively question assumptions, logic, accuracy, and completeness in AI-generated responses.

Real-World Practice vs Theory

As AI tools evolve rapidly, practitioners argue that effective AI capability cannot rely solely on static classroom theory. Real-world usage often involves changing workflows, unpredictable outputs, and context-specific decision-making that require continuous practical application and human judgment.

Maintaining AI fluency increasingly requires learning from practitioners actively applying these tools in commercial environments.

“At OOm Institute, our focus is on building practical decision-making in AI usage,” Mr Cheow added. “Our goal is to help professionals use AI with stronger critical thinking, clearer accountability, and practical business understanding.”
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OOm Institute

OOm Institute is a WSQ course provider in Singapore, supporting workforce upskilling in AI, Digital Marketing, and Soft Skills, backed by expert trainers and over 20 years of digital expertise. They deliver industry-oriented learning programmes designed to help organisations apply digital tools effectively in real-world business environments.

Suanova, a Subsidiary of Yeebo, Signs Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Agreement with InfiX.ai

Advancing Deployment of Training and Inference Integrated AI Platforms in Healthcare Applications, Powered by Domestic High-Density Computing Infrastructure


HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 10 June 2026 – Yeebo (International Holdings) Limited (“Yeebo”; Stock Code: 00259.HK, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Suanova Technology Limited (“Suanova”), has entered into a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with InfiX.ai, a global leader in enterprise-grade generative AI (GenAI) infrastructure solutions. Leveraging Suanova’s Shanghai Cube, a domestically developed high-density computing infrastructure, the two parties will jointly advance the deployment of training and inference integrated AI platforms with continuous self-learning capabilities in healthcare applicatoins. As part of this collaboration, Suanova will contribute its expertise in domestic computing infrastructure by providing the core computing power and foundational support.

With healthcare as the initial focus, the two parties have already collaborated with leading medical institutions to conduct clinical validation in areas such as cancer GenAI, foundational medical Large Language Models (LLMs) and personalized cancer treatment planning.

Building Integrated Infrastructure for Medical AI with Shanghai Cube as the Foundation

The training and inference integrated AI platforms deployed under this collaboration are powered by Shanghai Cube, combined with InfiX.ai’s training, inference and multimodal AI capabilities. This integration delivers a truly unified hardware-software infrastructure tailored for medical AI applications.

Shanghai Cube, developed with the participation of Suanova, was among the earliest of its kind in China and is currently the highest-density domestically developed GPU supernode product. It adopts a high-density deployment architecture featuring 128 GPUs per rack with liquid cooling, enabling compact and efficient deployment of large-scale computing clusters. Shanghai Cube integrates a range of domestically produced core components, including liquid-cooling systems, high-performance parallel storage systems, retimers and motherboard capacitors. It provides a one-stop, highly efficient solution for the large-scale deployment of domestic computing systems and models.

Partnering with InfiX.ai to Build Enterprise-Grade AI Infrastructure

InfiX.ai is a research-driven AI infrastructure company serving global markets, with capabilities spanning IaaS, PaaS and MaaS. The company is building a Decentralized Co-GenAI Network that connects computing power, models, platforms and intelligent applications, with the aim of helping enterprises and organizations train, deploy and own their domain-specific AI based on proprietary data, expertise and business workflows.

InfiX.ai brings together world-class talent in AI research and industry deployment. The company is led by its Founder and Chief Scientist, Prof. Hongxia Yang, with Co-Founder and Vice President Haiqing Chen and Chief AI Architect Jianmin Wu forming the core management and technology team. Prof. Yang is also a Chair Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is a globally recognized leader in artificial intelligence, with extensive experience spanning both academia and industry. She previously served as Head of LLMs in the at ByteDance (U.S.), AI Scientist and Director at Alibaba Group, Chief Data Scientist at Yahoo!, and Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Prof. Yang has published more than 150 papers and holds over 50 patents. She has also received numerous international honors, including the WAIC SAIL Award, the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, and recognition as one of the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars worldwide.

By integrating InfiX.ai’s training and inference algorithms with Suanova’s high-performance computing platform, the solution significantly reduces memory usage and computing resource requirements. This enables higher throughput and supports training and deployment of larger-scale models under equivalent hardware configurations. The system is also capable of continuously capturing data for incremental training, integrating user feedback for fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, thereby ensuring that model performance evolves alongside changing business needs. Furthermore, the infrastructure supports local execution of the entire AI workflow – from training and fine-tuning to inference – thereby ensuring data security by design and meeting the stringent security requirements of sectors such as healthcare, finance, and government.

Mr. Daliang Chen, CEO of Suanova, said: “This partnership with InfiX.ai represents an important milestone in Suanova’s expansion into medical AI. Leveraging the Shanghai Cube high-density domestic computing platform, we aim to accelerate the adoption of medical AI in real-world clinical settings. This collaboration not only brings together the complementary strengths of both companies from a technological perspective, but also serves as a key step in advancing the domestic computing ecosystem. Looking ahead, we will continue to work closely with our partners to drive the deep integration of artificial intelligence across diverse industries.”

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About Yeebo (International Holdings) Limited

Founded in 1988, Yeebo (International Holdings) Limited is a diversified electronic component company with a well-established presence in the global market. The Company’s core business spans flat panel displays, computing power and capacitors, serving a broad spectrum of industrial and consumer applications. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Yeebo operates its manufacturing operations primarily in the Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces, supporting a global sales network that ensures localized service and support for its international clientele.

In alignment with its long-term strategic vision, Yeebo is leveraging its robust operational foundation to expand into the Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) compute and related sectors. This initiative reflects the Company’s commitment to innovation and technological advancement, with the objective of positioning Yeebo as a leading and influential participant in the rapidly evolving AI industry across mainland China and Hong Kong.

About Suanova Technology Limited

Suanova, under Yeebo, is an innovative technology company focused on delivering independent, efficient, and accessible domestic AI computing services. Its business spans three core areas: computing power and cloud operations, computing technology development and computing industry investment. With branches in Hong Kong and Shanghai, it provides customers with better localized services. It is committed to transforming complex AI infrastructure into simple, efficient, and cost‑effective services through continuous technological innovation, with the goal of becoming a leading “infrastructure operator” in the AI era.

OceanaGold Reports Voting Results from its 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

VANCOUVER, BC, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — OceanaGold Corporation (TSX: OGC) (NYSE: OGC) (“OceanaGold” or the “Company”) is pleased to report the voting results from the Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders of the Company (the “AGM”) held today.

A total of 184,072,822 common shares of the Company were represented in person or by proxy at the AGM, representing 82.06% of common shares outstanding as at the record date. Shareholders voted in favour of each of the items of business at the AGM.

Election of Directors

Each of the director nominees listed in OceanaGold’s Management Information Circular dated April 23, 2026 was elected as a director of the Company to hold office for the ensuing year or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed results of the vote for each director are set out in the table below:

Directors

Votes For

%

Votes Withheld

%

Paul Benson

132,452,772

77.70

38,003,874

22.30

Ian M. Reid

169,552,116

99.47

904,530

0.53

Craig J. Nelsen

169,280,303

99.31

1,176,343

0.69

Sandra M. Dodds

167,057,565

98.01

3,399,081

1.99

Alan N. Pangbourne

170,267,931

99.89

188,715

0.11

Linda M. Broughton

170,153,528

99.82

303,118

0.18

Stefanie E. Loader

169,432,122

99.40

1,024,524

0.60

Gerard M. Bond

170,272,112

99.89

184,534

0.11

Appointment of Auditor

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was appointed as the auditor of the Company to hold office until the close of the next annual meeting of shareholders or until its successor is appointed, at a remuneration to be fixed by the directors of the Company.

Votes For

%

Votes Withheld

%

180,933,130

98.29

3,139,692

1.71

Advisory Vote on the Approach to Executive Compensation

A non-binding resolution on the Company’s approach to executive compensation was approved.

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

165,775,649

97.25

4,680,997

2.75

Virtual-Only Annual General Meetings

A resolution to hold the Company’s 2027 annual general meeting of shareholders in a virtual-only format was approved.

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

106,379,295

62.41

64,077,351

37.59

About OceanaGold

OceanaGold is a global intermediate gold and copper producer committed to safely and responsibly maximizing the generation of Free Cash Flow from our operations and delivering strong returns for our shareholders. We have a portfolio of four operating mines: the wholly-owned Haile Gold Mine in the United States of America; the wholly-owned Macraes and Waihi operations in New Zealand; and the 80%-owned Didipio Mine in the Philippines.

For further information please contact: Investor Relations: Brian Martin, SVP, Business Development & Investor Relations, Tel: +1 604-678-4096, ir@oceanagold.com; Valerie Burns, Manager, Investor Relations, Tel: +1 604-235-0742, ir@oceanagold.com; Media Relations: Louise Burgess, VP, Communications, Tel: +1 604-403-2019, media@oceanagold.com  

WEKA and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Validate 10x Throughput Gains for Long-Context AI Inference

Joint benchmarks on OCI H100 infrastructure showed 10x more concurrent users, 10x higher token throughput, and 7x more tokens served without adding GPUs

CAMPBELL, Calif., June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — WEKA, the AI data and memory infrastructure company, today announced production-scale benchmarks that show how organizations can improve the economics of long-context AI inference by serving more users and tokens on the same GPU footprint. The benchmarks show that WEKA’s NeuralMesh™ platform with Augmented Memory Grid™ on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) serves 10x more concurrent users, delivers 10x higher token throughput, and produces 7x more tokens per GPU than DRAM-only configurations without adding infrastructure. The results were validated on a nine-node OCI bare-metal H100 cluster with 100,000-token context windows.


“Enterprise AI workloads are pushing context windows and GPU utilization to new limits,” said Pablo Selem, senior director, software development, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “These benchmarks show how WEKA’s NeuralMesh platform with Augmented Memory Grid on OCI helps remove memory bottlenecks so customers can support larger, more demanding inference workloads without simply adding more GPUs.”

Three Outcomes That Change the Math on Inference
Validated at production scale on a bare-metal H100 cluster (nine nodes, 72 GPUs, 100,000-token context windows, thousands of concurrent users), NeuralMesh with Augmented Memory Grid on OCI delivered:

  • 10x more concurrent users served, without adding infrastructure. NeuralMesh with Augmented Memory Grid scaled past 5,000 concurrent users vs. about 600 for DRAM-only configurations. This eliminates the failure cliff that hits when cache saturates by expanding the active cache working set from 8.64 TiB of DRAM to 287 TiB of usable NVMe. In addition, more users per GPU means the same investment stretches further.
  • 10x higher token throughput. More output from every GPU in the cluster. On OCI, NeuralMesh with Augmented Memory Grid reached approx. two million tokens per second, compared to under 200,000 for the DRAM-only baseline. For product teams running real-time AI features, including search, summarization, code assist, and multi-turn agents, the throughput determines the ceiling for how many users can be served, how fast features respond, and how much revenue the infrastructure can support.
  • 7x more tokens served. Lower cost per token at scale. NeuralMesh with Augmented Memory Grid served five billion tokens, compared to 700 million for the DRAM-only baseline, in a single one-hour, 2,400-user test. For organizations running agentic workflows, DRAM saturation quietly drains GPU capacity through constant recomputation, creating a direct hit on cost per token and ROI.

“Inference is bottlenecked by how much effective memory is available to GPUs,” said Liran Zvibel, CEO of WEKA. “These results prove that AI token economics aren’t solved by hardware alone; they’re solved by eliminating the memory wall that has been the real ceiling on what existing hardware can do. NeuralMesh with Augmented Memory Grid running on OCI brings orders of magnitude more tokens to customers in an extremely cost-efficient way.”

Transforming AI Economics with Context Memory Infrastructure
As inference demand grows, AI infrastructure inefficiencies compound. Every key-value (KV) cache eviction is a tax: on GPU cycles, latency, user experience, and the cost of every token served. For long-context and agentic workloads, where inputs routinely run to 100,000 tokens or more, that tax is not a rounding error. It is a direct hit on the unit economics of every organization running production AI.

Augmented Memory Grid, a capability of NeuralMesh, solves the problem at the architectural level by decoupling KV cache from local GPU memory and storing it in a high-performance token warehouse accessible across the cluster. Any host can serve any session with cache hits intact, eliminating rigid session stickiness while delivering superior performance to DRAM, improving load balancing, and enabling clean horizontal scaling as concurrency grows. The result is persistent context memory for AI agents and the cost lever that makes long-context inference economical to run at scale.

Production-Grade Proof
OCI published the full benchmark methodology, system configuration, and results on its AI & Data Science blog on May 13, 2026. The benchmarks, executed on a nine-node OCI bare-metal H100 cluster, move beyond the prior phase of validation, which demonstrated 1000x more KV cache capacity and up to 20x faster time to first token at 128,000 tokens. This latest phase tests the full economics of inference in production: concurrency density, sustained throughput, cache persistence, and service level objective (SLO) stability when demand spikes under high load.

Available on Oracle Marketplace
NeuralMesh with Augmented Memory Grid is generally available to WEKA customers and on the Oracle Marketplace, with OCI as WEKA’s exclusive cloud launch partner. Organizations running long-context inference on OCI can deploy a validated, production-ready architecture today. For more on the OCI and WEKA Augmented Memory Grid benchmark, read the OCI blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/scaling-long-context-inference-on-oci-with-wekas-augmented-memory-grid.

About WEKA
WEKA is the AI data and memory infrastructure company transforming the economics of agentic AI. Its NeuralMesh™ platform unifies high-performance data storage with extended GPU memory, giving enterprises, AI cloud providers, and AI builders a single foundation for training, inference, and agentic workloads. With Augmented Memory Grid, NeuralMesh extends GPU memory capacity by 1000x, accelerates time to first token by up to 20x, and delivers 10x more concurrent users from the same GPU footprint, proven in production benchmarks. Trusted by 30% of the Fortune 50, WEKA enables organizations to scale AI faster, optimize GPU utilization, and reduce the cost of every token served. Learn more at www.weka.io or connect with us on LinkedIn and X.

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Citrea’s Token (CTR) Now Live on UPbit and Bithumb

Citrea’s CTR token brings Bitcoin capital markets to two of South Korea’s largest digital asset exchanges UPBit and Bithumb; also available globally on Coinbase, Kraken, Binance Alpha, KuCoin, Gate.io, and more

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Citrea, the Bitcoin application layer backed by Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, announced that CTR, its coordination asset for the Bitcoin economy, is now available for trading on UPbit and Bithumb, South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. UPbit opened CTR/BTC and CTR/USDT markets at 15:00 KST today, while Bithumb added CTR to its KRW market, enabling direct Korean won trading. Together, the dual listing represents a significant expansion of CTR’s reach into one of the world’s most active retail digital asset markets.

CTR Exchange List Summary
CTR Exchange List Summary

The listing represents a major milestone in Citrea’s mission to build open, user-led Bitcoin capital markets. With UPbit and Bithumb collectively dominating South Korean crypto trading volume, CTR’s presence on both platforms deepens liquidity and broadens access to the Citrea ecosystem for millions of South Korean users.

CTR was officially launched on May 4, 2026 as Citrea’s coordination asset that lets users and applications take direct control of how capital flows across the Bitcoin ecosystem. Through a modified vote-escrow staking model, CTR holders can stake their tokens to receive xCTR, granting voting power over the Citrea Governance Treasury and the broader Citrea Network. Rather than ceding those decisions to centralized actors, Citrea designed CTR to close what it calls the “Ownership Gap”, the disconnect between those who create long-term value in an ecosystem and those who ultimately capture it.

The Korean listings come soon after Citrea’s announcement of over $50 million in planned liquidity commitment from Galaxy Digital and other leading asset managers, as well as the launch of the ctUSD Pre-Deposit Vault, which enabled the community to bootstrap stablecoin liquidity ahead of the network’s activation. Together, these milestones establish Citrea as the infrastructure layer for scaling Bitcoin capital markets.

CTR is now live on UPbit, Bithumb, Coinbase, Kraken, Binance Alpha, KuCoin, Gate.io, Bitget Futures, MEXC, HTX, BitMart, and LBank, among others.

To learn more about CTR, visit https://citrea.xyz/ctr-token 

About Citrea

Citrea is the Bitcoin application layer, enabling institutions and users to access Bitcoin capital markets. The platform aims to expand Bitcoin’s financial utility while remaining anchored to the network’s security model. Citrea is backed by investors including Founders Fund, Galaxy Ventures, Maven 11, Delphi Digital, Erik Voorhees, Balaji Srinivasan and more.

For more information, please visit: Citrea website | Citrea X Account

About Chainway Labs

Chainway Labs, a core contributor to the Citrea protocol, was co-founded by four young computer scientists and entrepreneurs with a focus on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and zero-knowledge technologies. The broader Chainway Labs team includes engineers and mathematicians whose backgrounds include multiple medals from the International Mathematics Olympiad and the International Olympiad in Informatics.