Blackpanda will refer brokers to CyberCube’s Broking Manager and license the platform across its regional network, backed by local incident response support for brokers’ clients.

SINGAPORE, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Blackpanda, Asia’s leading cyber incident response company, today confirmed a collaboration with CyberCube to bring cyber risk analytics to brokers across Asia. The collaboration pairs CyberCube’s Broking Manager platform with Blackpanda’s incident response presence in the region. Brokers gain the analysis to advise clients on cyber cover, and their clients gain a local team to call when a cyber incident happens.

Brokers in Asia can request an introduction to Broking Manager through Blackpanda.

Cyber risk models used across Asia have typically been benchmarked against a single global average. Broking Manager, CyberCube’s cyber risk analytics platform for brokers used across 40 countries, includes an APAC regional view alongside its loss severity, incident frequency, and security posture benchmarks. As a result, peer comparisons reflect the markets that brokers’ clients actually operate in.

The collaboration has four strands:

Refer: Blackpanda will introduce brokers across Asia to Broking Manager.License: Blackpanda will license Broking Manager for use with its own broker relationships.Respond: Blackpanda’s incident response team is available to support brokers’ clients during live cyber incidents.Research: CyberCube has licensed Blackpanda’s aggregated, anonymised incident data for future regional research.

“Clients are asking their brokers harder questions about cyber exposure and how much cover is enough,” said Gene Yu, Founder and CEO of Blackpanda. “Broking Manager gives brokers a structured way to answer them: the financial-loss analytics and peer-benchmarking insights they need to prepare for client conversations. When an incident happens, their clients can call on our responders, recognised by Frost & Sullivan as Asia-Pacific’s incident response Company of the Year for three years running. Keeping advice and response this close together serves everyone in that conversation.”

Nate Brink, Head of Broker Sales & Account Management at CyberCube, said: “Brokers across Asia have told us for years that a single global benchmark doesn’t reflect what they’re actually seeing in the market. This partnership brings Broking Manager’s regional benchmarking to brokers across Asia, backed by Blackpanda’s reach and incident response expertise in the region, so they can have a more grounded conversation with their clients about exposure and coverage.”

Further detail on Broking Manager’s capabilities is available for viewing here.

About Blackpanda
Blackpanda is Asia’s leading cyber incident response company, delivering digital emergency response across three integrated channels: IR consulting, IR-1 assurance subscriptions, and Lloyd’s of London-underwritten cyber insurance. Each is purpose-built for a different buyer, whether enterprise, mass market, or sophisticated risk-transfer clients, and each stands alone as full incident response. Together, these channels reach the entire commercial market, because our mission is to provide digital emergency response for everyone. Buy all three and they combine into the complete post-attack recovery solution: preparation in advance, response the moment you’re hit, and financial recovery paid for by insurance. One local team to help you get ready, respond, and recover.

About CyberCube
CyberCube is the leading provider of software-as-a-service cyber risk analytics to quantify cyber risk in financial terms. CyberCube leverages data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and human resources to serve insurance institutions globally. The CyberCube platform was established in 2015 within Symantec and has operated as a standalone company since 2018. With offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Tallinn, Estonia, the team is committed to helping organizations and society build resilience to cyber risk. For more information, please visit www.cybcube.com or email info@cybcube.com. 

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SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Asia-Pacific Road User Charging Alliance (AP RUC Alliance) marked a new milestone at the ITS World Congress, officially welcoming ITS Australia as its newest member and further strengthening regional collaboration on road user charging and intelligent mobility.

The joining ceremony was witnessed by Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Chen Yen-po, Taipei City Government Deputy Secretary-General Lin Shih-bin, and representatives from across the Asia-Pacific region, underscoring the growing regional momentum for collaboration on the future of road infrastructure, road user charging and intelligent transportation.

With ITS Australia formally joining the Alliance, the network now brings together seven ITS organizations — ITS Taiwan, ITS New Zealand, ITS India, ITS Thailand, ITS Malaysia, ITS Singapore and ITS Australia — creating a broader platform for sharing policy, technology and operational experience across the region.

The occasion also carried special significance as Taipei prepares to host the ITS World Congress in 2029. Bringing the global ITS community to Taipei will provide an important opportunity to showcase advances in smart mobility and intelligent transportation, while creating a platform for partners from across the Asia-Pacific to exchange experience, demonstrate innovation and strengthen international collaboration.

Deputy Minister Chen Yen-po highlighted the importance of international cooperation as transportation systems become increasingly connected and digital.

“Transportation is becoming increasingly connected and digital, making international collaboration more important than ever. By sharing experience across the Asia-Pacific, we can learn from one another and advance smarter, more sustainable mobility together. We also look forward to welcoming the global ITS community to Taipei in 2029 and sharing the region’s innovation and experience with the world.”

Building a Regional Platform for Road User Charging

The expansion of the Alliance reflects the increasing importance of road user charging across the Asia-Pacific region. While individual markets are at different stages of development, they share many common challenges and opportunities — from the evolution of electronic toll collection and multi-lane free-flow tolling to sustainable road funding, emerging charging models, technology integration and changing mobility patterns.

The AP RUC Alliance provides a regional platform through which ITS organizations and their respective communities can exchange practical experience, discuss emerging policy and technology trends, and explore opportunities for greater collaboration.

Philip Tseng, President of ITS Taiwan, said the addition of ITS Australia further strengthens the diversity of experience represented within the Alliance.

“The strength of the Alliance comes from bringing together different experiences from across the Asia-Pacific. With ITS Australia joining us, we now have seven ITS organizations sharing ideas, lessons and perspectives. As we look toward the ITS World Congress in Taipei in 2029, I hope we can continue to grow this network and bring a stronger Asia-Pacific voice to the global ITS community.”

ITS Australia Brings New Perspectives to the Alliance

Australia brings extensive experience in intelligent transportation, road operations, connected mobility and the ongoing discussion around future road funding and road user charging. Its participation further broadens the range of perspectives represented within the Alliance and strengthens connections among ITS communities across the region.

Susan Harris, Chief Executive Officer of ITS Australia, welcomed the opportunity to join the growing regional network.

“We are delighted to join the AP RUC Alliance. It gives us a valuable opportunity to share Australia’s experience, learn from different approaches across the Asia-Pacific, and work together as road user charging continues to evolve. We look forward to contributing to the Alliance and strengthening our connections with ITS partners across the region.”

The addition of ITS Australia marks another step in the Alliance’s development as a regional platform for knowledge and experience sharing, regional collaboration and technology innovation in road user charging and related intelligent transport applications.

With seven member organizations now connected through the Alliance, the AP RUC Alliance will continue to deepen engagement among its members, facilitate the exchange of practical experience and connect Asia-Pacific perspectives with the wider global ITS community.

Looking ahead to 2029, when Taipei will host the ITS World Congress, the Alliance will continue to strengthen regional collaboration and create opportunities for its members to bring Asia-Pacific experience, innovation and perspectives to the global stage.

About the Asia-Pacific Road User Charging Alliance

The Asia-Pacific Road User Charging Alliance (AP RUC Alliance) is a regional collaboration platform bringing together ITS organizations, government agencies and operators to promote knowledge exchange and dialogue on road user charging, electronic tolling and related intelligent transportation applications.

The Alliance currently comprises ITS Taiwan, ITS New Zealand, ITS India, ITS Thailand, ITS Malaysia, ITS Singapore and ITS Australia. Through regional exchanges, industry engagement and international ITS platforms, the Alliance seeks to connect experiences across different markets and support the continued development of road user charging and intelligent mobility in the Asia-Pacific region.

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TraceWeave develops its own post-Transformer AI architecture that enables AI agents to run on memory-constrained devicesCompletes paid pilot in mobility; pursues commercialization across robots, drones, smart glasses, and moreNAVER D2SF continues to invest in on-device AI and next-generation device technologies

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NAVER D2SF has made a new investment in TraceWeave, an on-device AI startup led by co-founder and CEO Jaeyoung Park. TraceWeave is the team behind Phase-TITAN, a post-Transformer architecture that understands long contexts and carries out multi-step tasks while keeping memory usage constant. NAVER D2SF recognized the company’s core technology for enabling AI agents on resource-constrained devices.

As AI expands to robots, vehicles, smart glasses, and drones, its applications are advancing beyond simple chatbots toward complex reasoning and decision-making. In Transformer-based models, the key-value cache (KV-Cache) grows with context length, requiring more memory. On-device constraints in memory, battery life, and heat have made it difficult to implement AI agents that understand long contexts and perform complex tasks.

TraceWeave’s Phase-TITAN is a new AI architecture designed to resolve this memory bottleneck by replacing the conventional Transformer architecture altogether. TraceWeave develops its own AI models rather than relying on existing open-source models. Memory usage remains constant as context grows. According to TraceWeave, at a 1M-token context without quantization, a comparable Transformer’s KV-Cache holds tens of gigabytes or more, while its 1B Phase-TITAN model holds 0.04 GB. This enables agents to call tools, interpret results, and decide on their next actions entirely on the device, without cloud calls. TraceWeave’s internal benchmarks on RULER and BFCL indicate that Phase-TITAN maintains performance on par with Transformer models of the same size and larger.

TraceWeave has demonstrated a multi-step agent running on a smartphone using only its CPU, without cloud calls. In mobility, it completed a paid pilot with the autonomous driving affiliate of a global automotive group, identifying driving-data frames that improve the partner’s autonomous driving model without human annotation. It is also validating in-vehicle agent performance with a global automotive electronics software company and exploring opportunities in robots, drones, smart glasses, and wearables. TraceWeave was a Top 20 finalist in NVIDIA’s 2026 Inception Grand Challenge.

TraceWeave was co-founded in October 2025 by researchers with backgrounds at ETH Zurich, Google, and KAIST. The team combines engineering expertise grounded in computational neuroscience and physics with business development capabilities, designing its own architecture and validating it in device environments that reflect real-world customer needs. In this seed round led by Mirae Asset Capital, TraceWeave raised approximately KRW 3 billion at a pre-money valuation of approximately KRW 30 billion. Based at NAVER D2SF @Gangnam, the company plans to use the funding to expand its research and engineering team for next-generation architecture development and grow its business.

“Taking the KV cache out was never the hard part. Staying capable without it was,” said Jaeyoung Park, co-founder and CEO of TraceWeave. “The best part is no part. Phase-TITAN already delivers Transformer-class capability without the Transformer’s memory tax, and the next one goes well beyond its class, with the memory still fixed.”

“On-device AI is a core technology for implementing complex, advanced AI across diverse device environments beyond PCs, and it also offers advantages in reducing cloud call costs and protecting privacy,” said Sanghwan Yang, Head of NAVER D2SF. “TraceWeave is a team that is innovating AI architecture to overcome the limitations of existing AI models and bring AI to on-device environments.”

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