payabl., a leading European financial technology provider offering payments and business accounts, reinforces its commitment to Lithuania with the registration of a new local entity. The move formalises the company’s presence in Vilnius, where it has operated with a growing team for several years, and establishes Lithuania as payabl.’s hub for the Baltics and Nordics. As part of this step, Esfira Zaka, payabl.’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), has been appointed General Manager of the Lithuani...

Today, Venture Global, Inc. (NYSE: VG) announced a donation of $30,065 to the Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation (MSEF) for community-based programs and solutions that support the DMV area. This contribution is part of Venture Global’s multi-year partnership with Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) through the Assists for Advancement initiative for the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards and the Points for Progress initiative for the Washington Mystics. Venture Gl...

Variational AI, Inc., a generative AI drug discovery company, today announced a collaboration with Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, to apply Variational AI’s Enki™ platform to design and optimize novel small molecule candidates against two undisclosed targets. Under the agreement, Variational AI will use a fine-tuned version of its Enki™ platform trained on Merck’s proprietary data to generate and optimize small molecule candidates against therapeutic targets desig...

Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, today officially launched AI SHIELD to protect AI systems from threats and vulnerabilities, a proactive toolkit to help AI-powered financial services stay secure and compliant as AI rapidly transforms global finance. Ensuring security is at the core of Ant International’s AI strategy, which also prioritises providing domain excellence in FinAI and extending AI services via an AI-as-a-Service ...

HCLTech, a leading global technology company, and one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment, marine and industrial engines and comprehensive transport solutions, headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, today announced that they have renewed their long-standing digital transformation agreement with an expanded scope of services. Under a new multi-year contract, HCLTech will enhance and modernize the Gothenburg-based manufacturer’s IT infrastructure and tran...

On May 20, 2025, following successful product demonstrations, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI) and Amber Kinetics (AK) signed an MOU extending their collaboration to promote KHI’s iVSG (Virtual Synchronous Generator) technology with AK’s FESS (Flywheel Energy Storage System). This partnership aims to provide reliability, stability and resiliency to power grids. As renewable energy sources integrate further with power grids, the more unstable it becomes, such as in the major blackout that r...

Registration has opened for SPIE Photonics West 2026, which will run from 17 to 22 January at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The largest annual conference and exhibition in optics and photonics, Photonics West brings together researchers, innovators, engineers, and business leaders from across the globe for an exciting week of research sharing, thought leadership, and innovation-inspiring exchanges. With more than 100 technical conferences and 150 special events complementing the 1,200-plus co...

Bettr, a leading provider of embedded financing and tech solutions under Ant International, today announced the launch of its AI-driven accounts receivable financing solution designed to provide global e-commerce platform vendors with rapid and secure access to working capital as they prepare for the year-end shopping sprees. Bettr’s solution directly addresses a critical pain point for online vendors on global e-commerce platforms: the need for fast, flexible, and reliable funding to manage ...