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New Multi-Lingual Budgeting App – ‘Butterfly’ – Empowers Newcomers to Canada to Budget with Confidence

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TORONTO, Nov. 4, 2024 /CNW/ – Credit Canada, the oldest non-profit credit counselling agency in the country, is proud to announce the launch of Butterfly, a multi-lingual budgeting app for newcomers to Canada that helps build their financial confidence.

As a progressive web app, Butterfly works on any device—phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop—and offers a personalized, step-by-step budgeting experience tailored to life in Canada. Available in four languages (Hindi, Spanish, English, and French), it guides users through easy-to-follow prompts, providing practical tips, resource links, and recommendations based on their budget.

Whether you’re moving to Toronto or a small town in New Brunswick, Butterfly can provide location-based insights on typical living expenses and adjust for household size. It also addresses the unique needs of newcomers, like including a budget line for sending money home, and allows users to convert their budget into their home currency—making budgeting easier and more intuitive from the start.

“At Credit Canada, we understand how overwhelming it can be to adjust to a new country. It feels like everything is different—the culture, people, language, work environment, ways of living, and managing finances,” said Bruce Sellery, CEO of Credit Canada. “That’s why we created Butterfly—a simple, supportive tool to help newcomers feel more confident about their finances from day one. Our goal is to make budgeting as stress-free as possible so people can focus on building their new lives in Canada.”
Butterfly was developed by newcomers, for newcomers, and is available for free at budgetbutterfly.ca, thanks to the support of lead sponsor Interac Corp. (Interac).

“It is important to Interac that newcomers have access to resources that will support mindful spending and management of finances as life begins here in Canada,” said Lauren Mostowyk, Head, Integrated Marketing & Communications. “The Butterfly app is a tool every newcomer can use; we are ensuring it is free for all so they build financial confidence.” 

Key Features of Butterfly:

Butterfly has specific features to make budgeting as simple as possible and build your financial confidence. It is:

Conversational: You just answer a series of questions about income and expenses. In about 10 minutes, you have created a budget that shows if you have a surplus or deficit. And there are helpful tips and other resources along the way. Relevant: Includes expenses that are most relevant to newcomers, including sending money back home.Clear: Converts budget results to the currency of your country of origin, whether that’s pesos, yuan, rupees, euros or any of the other 180 currencies in the world.Multi-lingual:  Available in Hindi, Spanish, English and French.Stand-alone: The app doesn’t require you to link to other accounts.Customized: Provides insight on the cost of living based on where you move to in Canada, and your household size. “Based on your family size, your rent is going to be about $2,000“.

Butterfly will be promoted with the support of newcomer community organizations and online influencers like Remsaway, Para.Canada, Amit Bhatia, and Shreyti Garg to connect with newcomers where they are.

You can learn more or set up a Butterfly account at budgetbutterfly.ca.

To book an interview with Credit Canada CEO, Bruce Sellery, or Digital Strategist and Butterfly spokesperson Tanvi Chitnis, please contact Madeleine Jay at mjay@creditcanada.com or (416)716-3744.

About Credit Canada

Credit Canada is Canada’s first and longest-standing non-profit credit counselling agency. For more than 50 years, Credit Canada has been helping Canadians get out of debt and back into life through financial education and debt resolution. As a national, non-profit organization, Credit Canada has helped thousands become debt-free and achieve financial wellness.

Press kit includes speaker bios and images of the Butterfly app.

Website: www.creditcanada.com
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Smartcat Unveils AI-Powered Course Creation and Translation Workflows for Real-Time Market Adaptation at Learning Technologies London 2026

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New Multi-Agent Systems Enable Enterprise L&D Teams to Continuously Scale and Adapt Global Learning Content as Markets Shift

LONDON, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Smartcat, the leading enterprise AI platform for global content, today unveiled new Multi-Agent Systems for course creation and translation at Learning Technologies London 2026. The new capabilities enable enterprise L&D teams to create, translate, and continuously update global learning content up to 10x faster than traditional workflows — closing the adaptation gap that delays training rollouts and increases compliance risk.

The launch comes as recent Smartcat research indicates that 75% of L&D teams report at least a 25% year-over-year increase in content demand, and 50% cite regulatory compliance velocity as the most common complexity driver in scaling content.

This complexity is fueled by unprecedented pressure from local volatility. Shifting policies, regulations, data privacy laws, and market access rules by geography now demand continuous content updates across all languages faster than traditional or agency-led workflows can deliver.

“Traditional L&D workflows force teams to choose between relevance and reliability: continuously update content to reflect market changes and risk errors across languages, or maintain quality and let the content fall behind,” said Sherali Karimov, Chief Technology Officer at Smartcat. “Our AI Agents eliminate that tradeoff. L&D teams can now make changes in real time, in every language the business demands—all without introducing risk.”

Solutions on Display at Stand L05

Smartcat is demonstrating a comprehensive suite of AI-powered capabilities designed to keep enterprise global L&D content continuously up-to-date:

End-to-End Course Creation and Translation

Video, images, interactions, PDFs, and attachments are all translated within a single unified workflow—eliminating the need for multiple tools or manual cleanup. Powered by Smartcat’s Customer Intelligence Fabric, Smartcat’s agents learn from experts’ corrections and apply that knowledge to every future project, so quality continuously improves instead of resetting.

SCORM Translation — An Industry First

Smartcat is the only AI platform that translates entire SCORM packages. This is the industry’s first AI workflow that translates an entire learning experience, including interactions, multimedia, and attachments.

Continuous Updates with Delta Detection

Automatically detects source edits and updates all global versions. Only the modified segments are retranslated, ensuring consistency while dramatically reducing time and cost.

Engage with Smartcat at Learning Tech London

Experience live demonstrations of AI-powered course creation and translation workflows. See how AI Agents collaborate with human experts to deliver compliant, localized training at the speed of change. Smartcat experts will also lead two high-impact sessions:

“Keeping Up Is Over: How L&D Teams Win in an Age of Constant Change”

Theatre 11 | April 29, 12:30-13:00 + April 30 10:15-10:45

“Working Alongside Smartcat AI to Scale Global Training Without Risk”

Bitesize Learning Zone 2 | April 30 | 12:45-13:00

Register to meet the team: smartcat.com/events/learning-tech-london

About Smartcat

Smartcat is the leading enterprise AI platform for multilingual content and real-time market adaptation. Global enterprises use Smartcat to orchestrate AI agents and human experts across communications, content, and compliance workflows, continuously adapting to policy, access, and product change. The platform transforms content in any format into any language, from documents and videos to complex websites and software, enabling enterprises to operate globally at scale. Twenty-five percent of the Fortune 1000 trust Smartcat to communicate their ideas and innovations worldwide.

Media Contact:
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press@smartcat.com

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Clarivate Introduces Nexus Connect, the First Institutional AI Gateway to Trusted Research and Learning

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Nexus Connect provides a single, university-branded connector inside AI chat agents, giving students and researchers seamless access to scholarly resources and services.

LONDON, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced Nexus Connect, an AI gateway to universities’ academic resources and services. Nexus Connect is designed to meet users wherever they work — as a connector inside leading general-purpose AI chat agents, such as ChatGPT or Claude.

AI chat agents increasingly serve as the main workspace for students and researchers. In recent months, Model Context Protocol (MCP) — an open standard that lets AI chat agents connect directly to external data sources, tools and services — has emerged as a powerful way to bring academic resources directly into these environments and ground AI responses in trusted content. But as vendors across the academic ecosystem release product-specific MCP services, libraries are left out of the picture — with no visibility, control, or certainty that their licensed resources and services are surfaced.

Nexus Connect addresses this directly, integrating with other platforms that support MCP integration. Powered by the Clarivate Academic AI Platform, it gives users easy access to their university licensed content and services, directly from AI chat agents. It brings together Clarivate content and services, library resources, and services from other academic vendors into a single institutional presence. Nexus Connect joins Clarivate Nexus Extend, a browser-based academic assistant, as part of Clarivate’s growing suite of solutions designed to meet AI users where they are.

Oren Beit-Arie, Senior Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, Academia & Government at Clarivate said: “Libraries are where trusted knowledge lives, and our goal is to make sure that remains true in AI environments.

“Nexus Connect is the latest example of our strategic approach to academic AI – embedding transformative intelligence into our products, containing our carefully curated data and content, while connecting AI users to trusted resources. We are providing institutions with a unified layer that keeps their resources and identity in front of students and researchers. Alongside Nexus Extend, it keeps libraries at the center of research and learning.”

Shirley Wong, University Librarian, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University said: “User expectations are changing fast as they want the speed and ease of AI as part of how they study and research. Our priority is to bring AI to users in a way they can trust, grounded in the library’s resources and expertise. MCP lets us do that, by building trusted AI services within our institutional environment.”

Five universities in North America and APAC will be among the first institutions to deploy Nexus Connect. A broad early access program is planned for July 2026.

Core capabilities include:

Entitlement-based access: Users can discover the resources their library has licensedInstitutional identity: The library stays visible and central, under the university’s brandConfigurable scope: Libraries control which services are exposed and how content sources are prioritizedExtensible architecture: Institutions can start with one service and expand over timeEnterprise-grade security and privacy: Built to meet security and privacy standards

Nexus Connect launches with two use cases available to early adopter partners:

Academic discovery: powered by Primo and the Clarivate Central Discovery Index (CDI), students and researchers can search and retrieve library materials – including local resources – directly from their AI chat environment, with links into the library’s holdings for full access.End-user library services: powered by Alma and Primo, users can manage book loans, holds, renewals and library accounts directly from their AI chat agent.

In practice, this means a student working in ChatGPT or Claude can search their university’s entire library collection, find an e-book on their topic and link to the full text, all without leaving the chat. If a print copy is needed instead, they can check availability and place a hold in the same conversation.

Subsequent releases will expand Nexus Connect with additional resources and services, including library expert resources, such as research guides and teaching materials; additional Clarivate products; and services from other vendors across the academic ecosystem.

Clarivate works with leading general-purpose AI chat agent providers to deliver purpose-built institutional connectors that fit the needs of academic institutions — addressing priorities such as ease of deployment, usage attribution, and copyright protection.

Nexus Connect prioritizes security and privacy, to meet the requirements of academic institutions. It operates in accordance with Clarivate’s privacy policy and applicable data privacy regulations. 

Libraries and universities who wish to shape the Nexus Connect roadmap can apply for the early access program.

About Clarivate  
Clarivate is a leading global provider of transformative intelligence. We offer enriched data, insights & analytics, workflow solutions and expert services in the areas of Academia & Government, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences & Healthcare. For more information, please visit www.clarivate.com.  

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Amy Bourke-Waite, Senior Director, External Communications 
newsroom@clarivate.com  

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ROHM Launches Ultra-compact Wireless Power Chipset for Wearables

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KYOTO, Japan, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ROHM Co., Ltd. has developed a wireless power supply IC chipset consisting of the receiver (ML7670) and transmitter (ML7671) compatible with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for compact wearables such as smart rings and smart bands.

ML767x chip set: https://www.rohm.com/products/power-management/wireless-power?page=1&SearchWord=ml767#parametricSearch 

Figures: Product features
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The smart ring market has seen rapid growth in recent years. However, for extremely small ring-shaped devices worn on the finger, wired charging is impractical, while the conventional Qi wireless charging standard is difficult to implement due to constraints such as coil size.

In response, NFC-based charging, which operates at the high-frequency 13.56MHz band that enables antenna miniaturization, is attracting increased attention, with adoption accelerating in next-generation wearables.

This new chipset builds on the proven receiver (ML7660) and transmitter (ML7661). The maximum power transfer is specified at 250mW, while peripheral components such as the switching MOSFETs required to supply power to the charging IC are built in. The result is a solution optimized for both mounting area and power transfer efficiency in the power class demanded by compact wearable devices.

Figures: Comparison of power receiver IC features and application examples
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The ML7670 power receiver IC achieves a maximum power transfer efficiency of 45% in the 250mW low output range — all in an industry-leading form factor of just 2.28 x 2.56 x 0.48mm. What’s more, all firmware required for wireless power delivery is embedded directly within the IC, eliminating the need for a host MCU.

Compliance with NFC Forum (WLC 2.0) enables power transfer while maintaining compatibility with existing devices, positioning the chipset as a core element in the expanding NFC wireless power ecosystem.

Figures: Lineup table
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The new chipset is already in mass production. Furthermore, it has been adopted in SOXAI RING 2, the latest model launched on December 10, 2025, by SOXAI Inc., the Japanese developer and distributor of the original sleep-monitoring ring SOXAI RING.

*The name “SOXAI” is pronounced “SOK-sai.”

SOXAI RING 2 Adoption Example: https://www.rohm.com/collaboration/soxai_ring-2 

Application Examples
– Smart rings
– Smart bands
– Smart pens
– Wireless earphones
– Other compact devices (i.e., wearables)

News release: https://www.rohm.com/news-detail?news-title=2026-04-28_news_wireless-charge&defaultGroupId=false 

About ROHM: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/attach/202604217802-O1-7Qv27crN.pdf 

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Official website: https://www.rohm.com/ 

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