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OCI Energy Announces Sale of Hillsboro Project to Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd.

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SAN ANTONIO, July 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — OCI Energy is pleased to announce the successful sale of a 260 MWdc solar project to Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd. This milestone marks the first transaction of its kind between the two companies, and it sets the stage for both companies to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding for future collaboration on renewable energy development.

An official transaction closing and MOU ceremony was held today at OCI Energy’s headquarters in San Antonio. Team members from Hyundai’s Houston office as well as representatives from its parent company in Seoul, South Korea were in attendance.

Project Hillsboro is currently under development in Hill County, in the ERCOT North load zone. Hyundai Engineering will undertake construction of the project and expects it to begin operating in the first quarter of 2027.

Sabah Bayatli, President of OCI Energy, expressed excitement about the partnership, stating, “We are thrilled to complete the sale of Project Hillsboro to Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd. This transaction not only signifies an important step in our ongoing commitment to advancing renewable energy in the U.S., it also serves as a platform for future collaboration between our respective companies. We look forward to working together on additional projects that support the electrical grid in the U.S. and contribute to a sustainable energy future.”

“We are very pleased that we have successfully acquired our first solar project in the United States. This marks a significant milestone for our company as we venture into the renewable energy sector. We would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to OCI Energy for their exceptional work in developing this remarkable solar project. With this project, we look forward to continuing to cooperate and build a strategic partnership with the OCI team for upcoming projects” said Dongjoon Kim, Vice President of Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd.

This sale comes on the heels of OCI Energy’s recent rebranding from OCI Solar Power. The new name reflects the company’s broader business focus, which now includes utility-scale solar projects and battery energy storage systems, positioning OCI Energy as a versatile leader in the renewable energy sector.

For more information, please contact:
Leslie Garza-Wright
Sr. Manager, Marketing & Communications
210-612-4978
lgwright@ocienterprises.com

About OCI Energy LLC
OCI Energy, formerly OCI Solar Power, is a leading developer of utility-scale solar and battery energy storage projects. Since its establishment in 2012, OCI Energy has been committed to accelerating the clean energy transition through innovation and excellence. With a diverse portfolio of projects and a nationwide presence, OCI Energy continues to lead the way in providing sustainable energy solutions that meet the growing demand for clean power. For more information, visit www.ocienergy.com.

About Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd.
Hyundai Engineering was established in 1974 as Hyundai Technology Development Co., Ltd., and has grown into a global engineering company that can represent Korea on the world stage. As a global engineering firm that plays a leading role in the fields of process plants, power & energy plants, Building & Housing Works, infrastructure industry & development and asset management, Hyundai Engineering is expanding into eco-friendly energy to build a sustainable future. For more information, visit https://www.hec.co.kr/en.

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BugBase Unveils Pentest Copilot Enterprise to Automate Black-Box Pentesting

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BugBase’s Pentest Copilot Enterprise maps attack surfaces, follows user journeys, and delivers validated vulnerabilities across applications, APIs, networks, and cloud.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —  BugBase announced Pentest Copilot Enterprise, an autonomous black-box red teaming platform.

Recent public disclosures have underscored the need for organizations to continuously test and verify their cyber defenses as AI capabilities advance. Many regulated organizations cannot share source code with external pentesters. Others depend on costly, time-consuming manual black-box assessments that can take months to complete and are conducted only periodically.

Pentest Copilot Enterprise is built for that reality. It tests systems from the outside in, without source-code access, while maintaining authenticated context to find and validate meaningful weaknesses. Specialized agents operate in parallel across changing states, identities, and workflows.

Pentest Copilot maps pages, APIs, forms, accounts, access levels, and business functions, then executes iterative attacks across 100 vulnerability types, including authentication, authorization, injection, and complex business-logic flaws.

Real Chromium browsers reproduce authenticated user flows while preserving cookies, authentication tokens, CSRF state, and multiple identities. Agents navigate WAFs, bot-detection systems, CAPTCHA, T-OTP, email and phone verification, and magic links.

In BugBase-published testing, Pentest Copilot achieved 100% coverage of defined scope on OWASP Juice Shop and Broken Crystals. It also completed GOAD, NHA, and DRACARYS Active Directory labs, demonstrating coverage across web applications, APIs, internal networks, identity systems, and clouds.

“AI is changing the economics of attack, so security teams cannot depend on an annual, point-in-time test,” said Dhruva Goyal, Founder and CEO of BugBase. “Many organizations need the confidence of a real pentest without handing source code to a third party. Pentest Copilot tests from the outside in, follows the attack through, and proves the impact, so teams can find and fix weaknesses before an attacker does.”

Every reported vulnerability includes a reproducible proof of concept, validated evidence of impact, remediation guidance, compliance-ready reporting, and one-click retesting.

Pentest Copilot Enterprise is available as self-serve SaaS, a dedicated tenant, or an on-premises deployment.

Try it out today by creating an account or requesting a demo at copilot.bugbase.ai.

About BugBase

BugBase is an offensive security research company that helps organizations defend themselves through continuous, authorized testing against real-world attack paths. Its offerings include managed bug bounty and vulnerability-disclosure programs, expert-led pentesting services, and autonomous pentesting through Pentest Copilot.

For further information, contact queries@bugbase.ai.

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The Next Generation of Agent Assist is Here with Balto

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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Balto, the leading AI platform for contact centers and the company that invented the category of agent assist called real-time guidance in 2017, today officially unveiled RTG3 – the tool is being regarded as the future of agent assist – not for its first of its kind features, but also because it’s an agent assist that consistently delivers measurable ROI.

Introducing RTG3

RTG3 delivers what Balto describes as ambient agentic intelligence for the frontline contact center agents – an experience the contact center space has never seen before, and one that is being heralded as the future of agent assist.

The idea was born from a simple but powerful feeling: Making the agent app the central command center for the frontline by providing instant answers to information that’s impossible to memorize, the ability to search for information right on the app, and turning it into a personalized workspace, rather than just another screen/app on their desktop.

RTG3 brings that experience to the frontline contact center agent for the first time, within the context of their work. Rather than a single nudge tucked on the side of the screen, RTG3 is agentic intelligence that works on the agent’s behalf, automatically launching AI agents that gather the answers, customer context, and hard-to-find information a live conversation calls for, exactly when it’s needed. The result is a frontline agent with AI at their fingertips and the freedom to focus on the customer in front of them.

That power belongs to the agent. RTG3 is built for the frontline, designed to be made their own, personalized and arranged around how each person works best; not to monitor them, and not to replace them. It is Balto’s bet on humans and on what they are capable of when given the best possible tools. RTG3 is available today, free to existing Balto real-time guidance customers, through a fast and easy implementation.

Consistently delivers measurable ROI

Agent assist is the top investment priority for contact center leaders. According to industry-leading analysts in Customer Management Practice (CMP) Research, in the 2026–2027 year, 61% of leaders say they are going to invest in agent assist, making it the number one category, ahead of analytics and insights, chatbots and virtual agents, knowledge management, and automated QA.

Renowned for an excellent product suite, customer service and a platform that consistently delivers measurable ROI across multiple industries, Balto holds a 4.8-star rating across more than 600 reviews on G2 and Capterra, and has built RTG3 to meet that demand where the ROI actually lands: improved customer retention, agent to manager ratio, reduced agent turnover, accelerated ramp time, reducing handle time, better CSAT scores, and higher conversion rates.

“If you know there’s golden data, why are you waiting for somebody to go into your product, go to the interface and ask the question? Provide them with the data that you know is good,” says Balto CEO Marc Bernstein. That principle of putting that intelligence directly in front of the agent, rather than waiting for someone to ask, is at the heart of RTG3.

How RTG3 Works

RTG3 works today in the format contact center teams already know: the app is nestled in over the side of the screen and integrates with the CCaaS and UCaaS to start and stop automatically as calls come in and go out. For the first time, Balto is also introducing an intelligent agent desktop powered by ambient agentic intelligence for the frontline contact center agent.

Customer History before the call: The second a call comes through, Balto automatically populates the history of that customer by working through previous Balto conversations and transcripts. Agents immediately see why the customer is calling and their most recent call history. Customer History carries a 93% thumbs-up rating from agents.AI agents working in the background: When a customer mentions a city, Balto pulls local weather and sports. When a competitor comes up, it pulls that competitor’s reviews and surfaces the common complaints. In healthcare, when a provider is mentioned, Balto returns the provider’s name, specialty, practice address, and a link to their listing. All of it happens in the background while the agent keeps talking.Answers to questions impossible to memorize: Agents can ask Balto anything, including questions no one could reasonably memorize, such as pricing a plan for several hundred seats with the right discounts applied. Balto searches knowledge resources in Balto Cloud and can search a customer’s SharePoint. Every answer cites its source and deep links to the exact article, page, and section it came from.Real-time checklists are built as levers: The best AI checklists are not a full script; they are a few levers that let agents hit the metrics that matter: compliance requirements like verification, deeper discovery, and an assumptive ask or close. Agents can set completed items to auto-disappear, or keep them visible.A home base for the agent: Agents no longer have to navigate an obstacle course of tabs, CRMs, and Slack channels just to answer one customer question. RTG3 consolidates everything agents need–compliance, knowledge, workflows, and supervisor support–into one customizable workspace.Make it your own: RTG3 brings everything agents need into one place, and lets them make it their own. Agents can customize their layouts, pin what they use most, and personalize the look and feel of their workspace. Every agent can create a workspace that fits the way they work. If it works the way agents have longed for and they can personalize it, agents will use it.

Available and ready to use now

RTG3 is available now and free to existing Balto agent assist customers, with an implementation Balto describes as fast and low lift. Balto’s team stays involved through implementation and beyond, helping teams prepare documents so AI can read them accurately and connecting knowledge databases so agents can query the full knowledge base from inside Balto.

Customers are already seeing incredible results with a Health Insurance brokerage call discovery rose from below 20% to roughly 51%, with an approximate 10% increase in sales as RTG3 usage grew and a Home Improvement company’s new hire ramp to estimate certification dropped from about 90 days to 30.

Learn more about Balto Agent Assist.

About Balto

Balto is the #1 rated agent assist, QA automation, and agentic insights platform for contact centers, wrapped into a single platform where humans and AI work together. Founded in 2017, Balto was the first company to bring agent assist to market and has since deployed it across more than 300 customers and 500 million interactions. Balto is backed by Telescope Partners and Vista Equity Partners. Learn more at balto.ai

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S&P Dow Jones Indices and Kaiko Introduce S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices

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New co-branded suite brings both companies’ crypto index offerings onto a single platform

NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI”), the world’s leading index provider and Kaiko, the global independent leader in digital asset market data, indices, and data infrastructure, today announced the combined digital asset index offerings under a single co-branded suite: S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices.

With this release, Kaiko’s digital asset reference rates and multi-asset indices, together with S&P DJI’s existing crypto indices, will be rebranded under the S&P Kaiko name. The suite is powered by Kaiko’s crypto-native data infrastructure and market expertise, with S&P DJI providing global licensing, distribution and benchmark administration.

With institutional participation in digital assets growing, asset managers, ETF issuers, exchanges and structured product providers increasingly require benchmarks that combine robust data, transparent methodologies, trusted governance and global distribution. The S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices are designed to meet that demand by pairing S&P DJI’s institutional benchmark expertise with Kaiko’s 24/7 digital asset data platform and exchange connectivity.

“Together, S&P DJI and Kaiko are raising the standard for digital asset benchmarks. As the asset class matures, institutional investors need indices defined by transparency, rigor and market relevance. This suite combines the trusted S&P brand with Kaiko’s crypto-native data infrastructure and market expertise, purpose-built for global, 24/7 digital asset markets,” said Cameron Drinkwater, Chief Product & Operations Officer at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

The S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices suite will operate on a single platform built on Kaiko’s technology stack, with S&P DJI’s benchmark administration, licensing and distribution infrastructure integrated into its commercial operations. S&P DJI brings decades of index governance experience, global licensing capabilities and benchmark administrator status under the EU Benchmarks Regulation, aligned with the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks. Kaiko will provide data sourcing and calculation through its crypto market expertise, connectivity to 150+ exchanges and round-the-clock infrastructure, as well as index methodology support.

At launch, the S&P Kaiko suite covers over 4000 rates and indices across the digital asset class. Existing financial products benchmarked to Kaiko reference rates and multi-asset indices – including exchange-traded products, futures, options and structured products – will be able to leverage the new S&P Kaiko brand.

“S&P DJI and Kaiko bring what digital asset markets have been missing: a globally trusted benchmark brand paired with crypto-native infrastructure built for 24/7 markets. S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices gives institutions the credibility, distribution and data precision they need to participate in this asset class with confidence,” said Ambre Soubiran, CEO at Kaiko. 

To learn more about the S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices visit here.

For additional information about Kaiko’s data infrastructure, indices, and pricing solutions, visit kaiko.com. Kaiko Indices, S.A., as a legal entity, will retain its existing brand and BMR registration.

ABOUT S&P DOW JONES INDICES 

S&P Dow Jones Indices is the largest global resource for essential index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average®. More assets are invested in products based on our indices than products based on indices from any other provider in the world. Since Charles Dow invented the first index in 1884, S&P DJI has been innovating and developing indices across the spectrum of asset classes helping to define the way investors measure and trade the markets. S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit: www.spglobal.com/spdji.

ABOUT KAIKO

Kaiko provides regulated data services for onchain finance. Founded in 2014, the company delivers institutional-grade digital asset market data, analytics, indices, and data infrastructure for tokenized and traditional markets. Its clients include banks, asset managers, exchanges, and leading financial institutions worldwide. Kaiko’s data and infrastructure support trading, valuation, risk management, tokenized assets, and onchain applications, connecting traditional and blockchain-based markets. For more information, visit: kaiko.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Silke McGuinness 
Global Head of Communications, S&P DJI
(+1) 415-205-8414
silke.mcguinness@spglobal.com

Victoria Calmon
Kaiko
Editorial & Communications Manager
press@kaiko.com

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