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alwaysAI Partners With Industry Leaders to Drive AI Innovation in Mining and Beyond

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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Vision AI is rapidly becoming a must-have for key industries across the globe. alwaysAI, a pioneer in Vision AI technology, is proud to announce several strategic collaborations with industry leaders, including Cognizant, Becker Mining Systems, Instituto De Ingenieros De Minas Del Perú (IIMP), MAC Distribución, Servicios y Proyectos Mineros de Mexico, Blaize, Eagle Eye Networks, and VSA Capital. These collaborative efforts aim to bring cutting-edge computer vision solutions to enhance productivity, safety, and efficiency.

alwaysAI announces strategic collaborations with industry leaders to enhance productivity, safety, and efficiency.

Visionary Partnerships and Collaborations for a Transformative Future

alwaysAI’s state-of-the-art Vision AI technology is set to redefine industry standards across mining, manufacturing, and other critical sectors. By harnessing the power of AI, these collaborations will unlock new levels of operational excellence and innovative capabilities.

Cognizant brings its deep expertise in digital transformation to the table. “Our partnership with alwaysAI will accelerate the adoption of AI-driven insights across multiple domains, enhancing decision-making and operational agility,” noted Sushant Warikoo, SVP & Business Unit Head Retail of Cognizant.

Enhancing Safety and Efficiency in Mining

Becker Mining Systems sees immense potential in applying Vision AI to underground mining operations. “The ability to monitor and analyze conditions in real-time will significantly improve safety and productivity in mining operations,” stated Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wegener, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Becker Mining Systems AG.

“Instituto De Ingenieros De Minas Del Perú (IIMP), with over 76 years of contributions to the mining sector, sees alwaysAI’s Vision AI as a transformative force for the Peruvian mining industry,” said Carlos Diez Canseco, General Manager of IIMP. “Our mission is to provide our members with innovative ideas and practical applications of AI in mining. By forging collaborative partnerships with top-tier experts, we bring state-of-the-art technology into Peru. We plan to host a series of workshops with various mining companies and entities, introducing alwaysAI’s world-class expertise in Vision AI to enhance operations, health, and safety. This educational initiative ensures that the Peruvian mining industry remains at the forefront of innovation, benefiting from globally recognized leaders in computer vision for mining.”

Alejandra Arenas Tapia and PGeo. Ramón Hiram Luna Espinoza bring unparalleled expertise and connections within the mining sector. “Our collaboration with alwaysAI enables us to introduce cutting-edge Vision AI solutions to key industry players, significantly enhancing safety standards in mining through real-time monitoring,” said Alejandra Arenas Tapia, Gerente de Mercadotecnia at MAC Distribución. “With alwaysAI’s technology, we are positioned to transform mining productivity by optimizing operations, boosting efficiency, and streamlining processes,” added PGeo. Ramón Hiram Luna Espinoza, President and Founder of Servicios y Proyectos Mineros de Mexico. “We are excited to be part of this revolutionary shift in mining technology.”

Innovative Hardware and Video Solutions

Blaize, a provider of purpose-built, AI-enabled edge computing solutions, sees the integration as a significant step. “We are excited about our collaboration, which will focus on integrating alwaysAI’s computer vision technology and remote deployment capabilities with Blaize’s cutting-edge graph streaming processor and edge devices, making seamless edge deployments more accessible for enterprises worldwide,” stated Dinakar Munagala, CEO of Blaize.

Eagle Eye Networks, a global leader in cloud video surveillance, believes AI can help businesses optimize security and operations. Tijmen Vos, Eagle Eye Networks VP of Product Management said, “The integration of alwaysAI’s Vision AI to the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS will bring new real-time monitoring, customizable analytics, and actionable insights to business customers that will enhance productivity, security, operational efficiency, and ROI.”

A Unified Vision for the Future

“VSA Capital views Vision AI as a transformative technology, particularly in sectors like mining and energy, where real-time data analysis can significantly enhance safety, efficiency, and operational performance. This will be a game-changer for businesses operating in these critical areas. The fact that it will increase revenues significantly ahead of any costs makes it a compelling technology for any company,” stated Andrew Monk, CEO of VSA Capital.

“alwaysAI is thrilled to collaborate with such visionary leaders across various industries,” said Marty Beard, Co-Founder and CEO of alwaysAI. “Together, we will drive the adoption of Vision AI to create smarter, safer, and more efficient operations. This is just the beginning of a transformative journey.”

These partnerships and collaborations mark a significant milestone for alwaysAI as it continues to lead the way in AI innovation, empowering industries with advanced technology to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

About alwaysAI®
alwaysAI® offers world-class, customizable computer vision solutions that provide the real-time, actionable data needed to help businesses across all industries improve their operations. We help you work smarter. For more information, schedule a meeting with an AI Expert.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. As one of the world’s largest professional services companies, we help clients modernize technology, reimagine processes, and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we’re improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.

About Becker Mining Systems
Becker Mining Systems is the only worldwide supplier of complete energy, automation, communication, transportation and infrastructure technology for the mining industry. It is one of the technology leaders in its markets. The products can be used in all mining operations, and fulfill even the highest demands for use in explosive atmospheres.

About Instituto De Ingenieros De Minas Del Perú (IIMP)
The Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas del Perú (IIMP) is a prominent organization within Peru’s mining sector. Its mission is to contribute to the professional growth of its members through the dissemination of high-level academic knowledge, technological innovation, and the promotion of responsible practices that strengthen the mining industry in Peru. The IIMP is recognized for organizing significant events, such as PERUMIN, one of the largest mining conventions in Latin America.

About MAC Distribución
MAC Distribución is a leading provider of promotional products and customized textiles, with over 20 years of experience supporting brands in Mexico. With a strong focus on the mining industry, MAC Distribución has built lasting relationships by delivering high-quality, durable products tailored to meet the unique needs of mining companies. From safety gear and branded apparel to promotional items that enhance visibility and morale, MAC Distribución understands the demands of the mining sector and offers solutions that help businesses strengthen their brand presence, motivate their teams, and promote operational success.

About Servicios y Proyectos Mineros de Mexico
Servicios y Proyectos Mineros de México (SPM) is a prominent provider of high-quality exploration and mining services in Mexico. Known for their technical reliability, SPM integrates experienced professionals with a strong commitment to honesty and excellence. Established to meet the growing demands of the mining and geology sectors, the company consistently adheres to Mexican regulations while delivering comprehensive solutions. SPM’s mission is to become the leading exploration partner in Mexico, helping to advance the mining industry to world-class standards.

About Blaize®
Blaize® provides a full-stack programmable processor architecture suite and low-code/no-code software platform that enables AI processing solutions for high-performance computing at the network’s edge and in the data center. Blaize solutions deliver real-time insights and decision-making capabilities at low power consumption, high efficiency, minimal size, and low cost. Blaize has raised over $330 million from strategic investors such as DENSO, Mercedes-Benz AG, Magna, and Samsung and financial investors such as Franklin Templeton, Temasek, GGV, Bess Ventures, BurTech LP LLC, Rizvi Traverse, and Ava Investors. Headquartered in El Dorado Hills (CA), Blaize has more than 200 employees worldwide with teams in San Jose (CA), Cary (NC), and subsidiaries in Hyderabad (India), Leeds and Kings Langley (UK), and Abu Dhabi (UAE).

About Eagle Eye Networks
Eagle Eye Networks is the global leader in cloud video surveillance, delivering cyber-secure, cloud-based video with artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics to make businesses more efficient and the world a safer place. Businesses of all sizes utilize the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS (video management system) to centralize their video surveillance and obtain better security and operations. Purpose-built for the cloud and AI, the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS addresses customers’ security and operational needs with unlimited scalability, simple usage-based subscription pricing, advanced analytics, integrated AI, and an open RESTful API platform delivering flexibility. Eagle Eye sells through a global network of resellers and integrators. Founded in 2012, Eagle Eye is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Amsterdam, Bangalore, and Tokyo. Learn more at https://www.een.com.

About VSA Capital
VSA Capital is an international investment banking and broking firm that provides corporate finance, advisory, and capital markets services to private and public growth companies. With a focus on natural resources, transitional energy, alternative energy, and technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT), VSA Capital has built deep relationships worldwide, particularly in Asia and Africa, with a strong understanding of the cultural nuances of conducting business in these regions. As an early leader in transitional energy, the firm offers leading expertise in executing capital markets strategies across the full battery storage supply chain.

Contact:
Catherine Cacciotti
Director of Marketing
alwaysAI
catherine.cacciotti@alwaysai.co

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SiriusXM Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

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NEW YORK, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per share of common stock. This regular quarterly dividend is payable in cash on August 26, 2026, to stockholders of record at the close of business on August 10, 2026.

About Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America with a portfolio of audio businesses including its flagship subscription entertainment service SiriusXM; the ad-supported and premium music streaming services of Pandora; an expansive podcast network; and a suite of business and advertising solutions. Together, SiriusXM reaches a combined monthly audience of approximately 255 million listeners. SiriusXM offers a broad range of content for listeners everywhere they tune in with a diverse mix of live, on-demand, and curated programming across music, talk, news, and sports. For more about SiriusXM, please go to: www.siriusxm.com.

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investor.relations@siriusxm.com 

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Shutterstock Announces Capital Allocation Update

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NEW YORK, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) (the “Company”), a family of brands delivering scalable creative and GenAI solutions to help customers fuel great work, today announced that at a meeting held on July 20, 2026 its Board of Directors (the “Board”) resolved to suspend the Company’s future quarterly cash dividend.

The Board’s determination reflects its ongoing review of the Company’s capital-allocation priorities and its focus on deploying capital to support long-term value creation for shareholders, including reducing debt, minimizing related interest expense and strengthening financial flexibility.

The Board will continue to evaluate the Company’s capital allocation priorities as part of its regular governance process. Any future declaration and payment of dividends, and the amount thereof, will remain subject to the discretion of the Board and will depend upon the Company’s results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements, contractual restrictions, applicable law, and such other factors as the Board deems relevant.

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This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may discuss intentions and expectations as to future plans, trends, events, results of operations or financial condition, or otherwise. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as predictions of future events, as there can be no assurance that the events or circumstances reflected in these statements will occur. Forward-looking statements can often, but not always, be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology including “believes,” “could,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “ongoing,” “plans,” “seeks,” “should,” “will,”  or the negative of these words and phrases, other variations of these words and phrases or comparable terminology, but not all forward-looking statements include such identifying words. Forward-looking statements are based upon current plans, estimates and expectations that are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ materially from those indicated or anticipated by such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release relate to, among other things, the Company’s capital allocation strategy, the suspension of the Company’s quarterly cash dividend, the Company’s plans with respect to debt reduction, interest expense management and financial flexibility, and any future declaration and payment of dividends. For a discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by forward-looking statements, see the sections captioned “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and the Company’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While those factors are considered representative, no list of risk factors should be considered a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements, and the Company disclaims any such obligation, except as may be required by law.

About Shutterstock
Shutterstock is in the business of turning ideas into impact. Powered by a global network of millions of creators and our cutting-edge technology, we provide businesses, creatives, and brand leaders with the essential, universal ingredients to make their work more effective. Shutterstock offers access to one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of high-quality licensable assets, specialized training datasets, evaluation tools, and end-to-end strategic partnerships for the full model training lifecycle, as well as advertising and distribution solutions, exclusive editorial content, and full-service studio production—delivering unparalleled resources to fuel great work.

Discover our impact at www.shutterstock.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook and YouTube.

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ICI Welcomes Bipartisan Sponsors of Bill to Stop States from Seizing Long-Term Investors’ Savings

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WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Investment Company Institute released the following Viewpoints blog. To learn more about why this issue matters and how the SAFER Act would help protect American investors, watch our video on LinkedIn.

Millions of American investors have adopted the advice given by financial advisors to invest for the long term and then leave those savings alone. In some states, however, following this guidance can get your account seized. That was the warning sounded at an event featuring the sponsors of the bipartisan SAFER Act, Representatives Sam Liccardo (D-CA) and Mike Lawler (R-NY), who joined ICI leaders to make the case for a federal solution to the problem of state unclaimed property laws that can treat buy-and-hold investors as though they have disappeared. 

ICI President and CEO Eric Pan opened the event by outlining the nature of this growing threat. More than 128 million Americans invest in regulated funds, many with the intention of holding them for years, following the advice of many financial educators to “stay in the market, invest for the long term.” They put their money away and go about their lives, confident that the savings will be there when they need it. But under some states’ laws, an account that shows no activity can be declared abandoned and taken into state custody through a process called escheatment.

Pan walked through what seizure means in practice. When a state escheats an investment account, it typically liquidates the holdings — so even an investor who eventually recovers the money gets back only what the account was worth at seizure, with no credit for years of market gains. For retirement accounts, the forced liquidation can also trigger unforeseen tax consequences. And recovering the money at all can take years of paperwork and persistence. Meanwhile, some states are moving in the wrong direction, loosening their rules to make it easier to capture assets. 

“This is where the leadership of Congressmen Lawler and Liccardo is so important,” Pan said. “They’ve introduced the SAFER Act, a federal solution to a problem that exists across the United States. This patchwork of different legal standards, and the fact that the legal standards change constantly, creates a lot of confusion and creates this risk and harm that we’re so worried about.” 

In a panel discussion, the two lawmakers described the issue as an obvious place for Democrats and Republicans to find common ground, given Americans’ widespread use of investment accounts for saving.

“We are, for the most part, a group of Americans who sit on our investments, which is more or less the right strategy,” Liccardo said, noting that this is exactly the approach that inactivity standards put at risk. 

Liccardo pointed to the widely reported case of Walter Schramm, an investor who bought Amazon shares in the late 1990s and then did what many long-term investors do: leave the account be. Delaware deemed the account abandoned and liquidated the shares in 2008, when they worth about $8,000. By the time Schramm discovered what happened years later, the position would have been worth roughly $100,000.

The financial incentives driving state behavior are a concern, Liccardo noted. Unclaimed property has become one of Delaware’s largest sources of revenue, bringing in more than half a billion dollars a year — a powerful reason for states to loosen their standards rather than tighten them. 

Lawler contrasted legitimate unclaimed property programs and what some states are doing now. “It’s one thing to get an asset because it’s truly abandoned,” he said. “It’s another to basically target a group of investors who have a long-term strategy of just not touching the asset and being passive.”

The right standard, Lawler argued, is the obvious one: before seizing investment assets, a state should have to prove the owner is actually deceased. He posited that most Americans would be shocked to learn how little protection they have. “You think you have ownership of this asset, but the state, under current law, can just take it.”

The SAFER Act would establish federal guardrails ensuring that inactivity alone cannot be the basis for escheatment and that states confirm the death of an owner and that no estate or beneficiary has claimed the assets before escheating investment accounts. It would also require states to leave unclaimed investments in place, rather than liquidating them, until they can prove abandonment.

Both lawmakers said the path to fixing the problem is through public awareness of the threat some state laws pose to Americans financial security. “Ultimately the American people will rise up,” Liccardo said. “It may take a little while. We just have to get the information to them.”

Contact: media@ici.org 

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