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Amy’s Kitchen Boycott Ends

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., June 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice organization, is pleased to announce that the protracted boycott of Amy’s Kitchen products called by the company’s workers and F.E.P. has ended. The boycott, which began in January 2022, was called to improve workplace safety, increase wages, and provide better health insurance.

“Working to improve working conditions and increase wages for all Amy’s Kitchen workers has had a great impact,” said Cecilia Luna Ojeda, an Amy’s employee for 20 years. “With the help and support of Food Empowerment Project, we’ve seen safety improvements, and we hope these changes will remain and keep improving. Thank you to Food Empowerment Project for their patience, commitment, and dedication to the workers since the beginning of the campaign. And thank you to Amy’s Kitchen for listening to us.”

During the boycott hundreds of consumers, including vegan and food justice advocates, labor organizations, and grocery cooperatives, lent their voices to those of Amy’s line workers to demand better treatment and conditions.

After eight months of discussions between Amy’s Kitchen food line workers in Santa Rosa, California, representatives of F.E.P., and executives at Amy’s Kitchen, agreements were made to not only improve the working conditions for the food line workers in Santa Rosa, but the company also acknowledged those who were abruptly let go at the now-closed Amy’s Kitchen facility in San José.

“Over the past eight months of collaboration with the Food Empowerment Project, Amy’s is pleased with the learnings and progress we’ve made together,” said Paul Schiefer, President of Amy’s Kitchen, Inc. “This collaboration has facilitated productive discussions about how we can better meet our workers’ needs and enhance our communication. We look forward to continuing this positive dialogue and making meaningful improvements for our workforce.”

F.E.P. will remain in contact with the workers at Amy’s to ensure the permanence of these decisions and their treatment, and in a year, F.E.P. will revisit to see if the wages of the workers have increased and to see if employees will be receiving a cost-of-living increase.

In addition, Amy’s Kitchen has agreed to increase the number of vegan foods produced.

“We have such a deep admiration for the line workers at Amy’s Kitchen who spoke their truth to the executives at the company and never wavered and who constantly advocated for their fellow workers who were not at the table,” said lauren Ornelas, F.E.P. founder and general programs collective member. “This journey has once again taught us the power of the workers and community when we stand together to make our food system more just and compassionate as we work toward a more sustainable food system for all.”

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About Food Empowerment Project

Food Empowerment Project (http://www.foodispower.org), founded in 2007, seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one’s food choices. In all of its work, Food Empowerment Project seeks specifically to empower those with the fewest resources. Its advocacy areas include fair conditions for farm workers; the availability of healthy foods in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities; and the protection of animals. A vegan food justice organization, Food Empowerment Project also works to expose negligent corporations, such as those that push unhealthy foods into low-income areas, those that perpetuate food deserts (or food apartheid areas), and those that sell chocolate derived from the worst forms of child labor. Food Empowerment Project is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

For more information:
Alejandra Tolley (408) 963-8096
Alejandra@foodispower.org

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Consilient Expands Access to Federated AI-Powered Financial Crime Solutions in AWS Marketplace, Including for Use in AWS GovCloud (US)

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Consilient’s Federated AML and fraud detection, synthetic financial-crime data, SAR analysis, and open-source intelligence are now available through AWS Marketplace

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Consilient, the leading provider of federated AI-powered financial-crime discovery and detection technology, today announced that its solutions are now available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, including for use in AWS GovCloud (US). The offering provides financial institutions, fintechs, and U.S. government organizations with a streamlined way to discover, procure, and deploy Consilient’s capabilities through AWS Marketplace.

Customers now have access to Consilient’s Federated AI ecosystem and four complementary products:

Federated Learning Models and Exchange: Behavioral machine-learning models, deployed and shared through a secure federated network that continuously improve by learning across institutions and data sets, without any data moving or leaving the institution’s environment. Covering core anti-money laundering (AML) typologies and specific high-risk financial criminal and fraud activities, the Consilient models also surface hidden risks and emerging typologies that no single institution could detect alone.Federated Synthetic Data: Realistic, labeled examples of rare, emerging, and underrepresented financial-crime risks to support model development, evaluation, and improvement when historical cases and data are limited.SAR Analyzer: AI-assisted analysis of Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) narratives to connect related entities and cases, uncover recurring risk patterns, and turn investigative findings into reusable detection opportunities.OSINT Agent: Open-source and external intelligence on individuals, businesses, ownership, and relationships to help investigators assess risk with fuller context.

Customers can now deploy Consilient flexibly within their AWS environment, taking advantage of shared insights through Consilient’s federated exchange and capabilities while ensuring data remains local, secure, and private.

“Financial-crime teams need more effective and dynamic ways to find emerging risks without compromising sensitive data or adding unnecessary friction to procurement. In proven deployments at Tier-1 financial institutions, Consilient has improved efficiency by 75% and increased detection effectiveness by 4x, uncovering hidden risks that existing systems simply cannot see. Availability in AWS Marketplace makes it easier for financial institutions and government agencies to access these capabilities on a continuous basis, including our newer SAR Analyzer and Federated Synthetic Data products, within the secure, compliant infrastructure they require,”  Ajit Tharaken, Chief Executive Officer, Consilient.

Consilient’s availability in AWS GovCloud (US) reflects growing demand from U.S. government agencies and regulated institutions for financial-crime detection capabilities that meet the highest standards of security and compliance, areas where federated learning’s data-local architecture is a natural fit for cloud infrastructure.  Consilient allows for more dynamic public-private insight sharing and feedback without having to share or move data.

Consilient’s federated learning approach allows approved model updates and insights to strengthen detection across participating institutions without transferring the underlying customer data. Industry estimates suggest existing rules-based systems generate false positive rates of up to 98%, creating enormous operational overhead for compliance teams.  Consilient’s federated capabilities enable more efficient and effective risk discovery.

Consilient’s wider portfolio combines its federated approach with AI-assisted investigation, external intelligence, and synthetic data to address structural inefficiencies of current approaches and support the detection of complex, emerging financial-crime risks dynamically. Consilient’s solutions are now deployable within AWS infrastructure.

To learn more about Consilient’s offerings, visit Consilient.com or view its listing in AWS Marketplace at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-3goaqbwjfiffo.

About Consilient
Consilient is the first company to apply federated AI for the detection and prevention of financial crime and fraud risk.  Consilient’s mission is to transform how the world prevents financial crime. 

Consilient enables financial institutions and regulators to transform financial crime detection by learning from patterns of behavior across institutions and borders, without ever sharing or moving data. Using federated learning, Consilient generates collective and constantly improving insights across data sets, making dynamic industry-wide collaboration to detect financial-crime risk possible for the first time. It reveals complex and emerging threats that cannot be detected within the boundaries of any single institution, improving risk discovery, increasing precision, and enabling more effective prioritization while maintaining strict data privacy and governance standards.

Co-founded and chaired by Juan Zarate, the first-ever U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism, Consilient was built to address the structural limitations of siloed detection systems and offer a more effective, collaborative, and systemic approach to preventing financial-crime and fraud while strengthening data privacy.

Learn more at Consilient.com.

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InventHelp Inventor Develops New Finger Blood Pressure, Pulse, Oximetry Device (CLR-357)

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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — “I’m a registered nurse, and I thought there could be a way to obtained three vital signs in one easy step,” said an inventor, from Romeoville, Ill., “so I invented the FINGER BLOOD PRESSURE, PULSE, OXIMETRY DEVICE. My design offers a simple and accurate way to frequently monitor blood pressure, pulse rate, and oxygen saturation.”

The invention provides an improved means to monitor vital signs in medical settings, at home, as well as when on the go. In doing so, it can be used to monitor the pulse, oxygen saturation, as well as blood pressure. As a result, it saves time and effort, and it eliminates the need to employ multiple devices. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the medical facilities, households, on-the-go individuals, and the general population.

The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 25-CLR-357, InventHelp, 100 Beecham Drive, Suite 110, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9801, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp’s Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.

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DongA Science turns 40 years of science journalism into AI tutor AiR NOVA, a CES 2027 honoree

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AiR NOVA answers K-12 students’ science questions using more than 100,000 articles written by DongA Science’s own journalists, showing the source article behind each answer.Launching in January 2027 on web, iOS and Android in Korean, English, Vietnamese and Spanish.

AiR NOVA’s Tutor answers a question about a newly named Korean dinosaur and shows the source article behind the answer. Background imagery is AI-generated.

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DongA Science, a South Korean science media company that has published science magazines since 1986, has built an AI tutor on its own journalism. AiR NOVA, which answers students’ science questions from the company’s archive and shows the source article behind each answer, has been named a CES Innovation Awards® 2027 Honoree in the EdTech category, the company announced today.

As news publishers around the world weigh how their reporting should be used by AI, DongA Science took a different route by turning its archive into an exclusive learning product. Rather than drawing on the open web, AiR NOVA sources its answers from more than 100,000 articles reported and verified by the company’s science journalists over the past 40 years. This archive spans its magazine archive and daily science news, allowing students to verify where each answer originated. Furthermore, students using AiR NOVA in English, Vietnamese or Spanish receive answers in their selected language, alongside the translated source article from the Korean original.

To learn more about AiR NOVA’s CES 2027 recognition and explore its AI-driven educational features, visit nova.dongascience.com/intro or watch the introductory video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=03EsRqmuASQ.

Three Ways to Keep Students Asking

AiR NOVA is designed for K-12 students and integrates three core AI functions into a single app:

Tutor answers questions with verified sources. For instance, if a student asks, “Are new dinosaurs still being discovered?” Tutor explains at their grade level how the Doolysaurus was named in 2026 as Korea’s third new dinosaur species, and then displays the reference article.Socrates is a patent-pending Socratic-dialogue mode that replies with guiding questions instead of direct answers, encouraging students to reason their way to an explanation in their own words. Students can also upload their inquiry reports, prompting Socrates to ask questions that walk them back through their conclusion process.Coach sustains the inquiry process beyond the initial answer. Students work through missions tied to specific articles, which involve predicting, asking questions, checking sources, explaining and reflecting.

In the Classroom

Teachers can utilize Coach to structure lessons around articles that match their curriculum, build worksheets and missions, and track each student’s participation and results via comprehensive reports. This significantly reduces the time required to prepare inquiry-based lessons.

At launch, AiR NOVA’s science and math content will align with South Korea’s national curriculum, the U.S. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), Cambridge International and the International Baccalaureate (IB). AiR NOVA will be available in January 2027 on web, iOS and Android platforms, requiring no dedicated device. Pricing details will be announced at a later date.

Built on a Proven Service in South Korean Schools

AiR NOVA is the global edition of DongA Science AiR, the company’s established AI science inquiry service in South Korea. The school edition, DongA Science AiR edu, is currently utilized by more than 20,000 students across 170 schools, who collectively complete an average of 5,000 inquiry activities per month. DongA Science developed AiR NOVA based on this extensive operational experience and direct feedback from educators, including practicing teachers collaborating through a classroom problem-solving project run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a South Korean public agency.

The Korean service was honored with the Minister of Science and ICT Award at the 2024 Digital Service Frontier Awards, while its school edition received the Minister of Education Award at the 2026 K-EduTech Contest.

Showcasing at CES 2027

AiR NOVA will be featured in the Korea Pavilion at CES 2027, taking place Jan. 6-9, 2027, in Las Vegas. During the event, DongA Science plans to connect with global education institutions and edtech companies.

“This CES Innovation Awards honor reflects our long-standing effort to combine the science content we have built up over many years with AI technology to solve real problems in education,” said Kyung-ae Jang, CEO of DongA Science. “We want students around the world to start from a small spark of curiosity and discover the joy of inquiry with AiR NOVA, and we want teachers to be able to design inquiry lessons without the extra burden.”

The CES Innovation Awards program, produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), honors outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products.

About DongA Science

DongA Science is a leading South Korean science media company that connects science journalism with AI technology to broaden how people learn. Starting with its flagship magazine, Science DongA, launched in 1986, it publishes science and math magazines for children and teens and, together with its daily science news, has built an archive of more than 100,000 science articles over 40 years. Content reported and verified by its science journalists is the foundation for building trustworthy AI education products. On that foundation, the company operates the AI science inquiry service DongA Science AiR in South Korea and will launch its global edition, AiR NOVA, in January 2027.

Website: www.dongascience.com/en
About AiR NOVA: nova.dongascience.com/intro
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=03EsRqmuASQ

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