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15 Press Releases You Need to See This Week

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A roundup of the most newsworthy press releases from PR Newswire this week, including TIME’s Person of the Year, Omnicom’s acquisition of Interpublic Group and Grubhub’s 2024 trends report.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists and consumers stay on top of the week’s most newsworthy and popular releases, here’s a recap of some major stories from the week that shouldn’t be missed.

The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.

TIME Names the 2024 TIME Person of the Year: Donald Trump
“For marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a- generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world, Donald Trump is TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year,” TIME Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs wrote in a letter to readers.Omnicom to Acquire Interpublic Group to Create Premier Marketing and Sales Company
The new Omnicom will have over 100,000 expert practitioners. The company will deliver end-to-end services across media, precision marketing, CRM, data, digital commerce, advertising, healthcare, public relations and branding.Taco Bell’s Biggest Innovation Experience is Back: Live Más LIVE Set to Unveil 2025 Surprises
The brand’s tech-inspired Live Más LIVE experience is back for an encore performance to unveil 2025’s biggest innovations—on and off the menu. Attendees will get exclusive access to cutting-edge products, groundbreaking partnerships, live entertainment, and the ultimate fan celebration.Santa’s House returns to Zillow with new ‘Let Santa Know You Moved’ feature
Families can tour the Clauses’ North Pole cabin, one of Zillow’s most popular off-market homes. A new feature: “Let Santa Know You Moved,” allows families to notify Santa of their new address and claim their home on Zillow, ensuring he knows exactly where to deliver gifts.Grubhub’s 2024 Delivered Trend Report Reveals Americans Were ‘Doing the Most’ This Year
The report analyzes orders placed throughout the year—from restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, and more—delivered to customers at home, work, college campuses, hotel rooms, and beyond. Grubhub’s trends reveal that even when it felt a bit “extra,ˮ no one hesitated to “add to bag.ˮMarriott Acquires the Postcard Cabins Brand: A New Chapter for Outdoor Hospitality
“In joining Marriott, we’re excited to bring the Postcard Cabins experience to a global audience seeking exactly what we offer—a place to slow down, disconnect from the everyday and invest in the relationships that matter most,” said Jon Staff, Founder and CEO of Postcard Cabins.National Road Safety Foundation Urges Motorists to Plan Ahead for Safe Holiday Driving
The year-end holidays leading up to New Year’s is one of the most dangerous times on American roads and highways, with a spike in crashes that result in serious injuries or death.StubHub’s 2024 Year in Live Experiences: Taylor Swift Wraps Up Historic Eras Tour in Record-Breaking Year for Concerts while Global Sports Fandom Soars
“What’s incredible about 2024 is the huge influence live events had on global tourism – international travel to live events increased by 62% this year with vacations centered around seeing Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Ohtani in the World Series and Copa America,” said Cris Miller, chief business officer of StubHub.PR Newswire Unveils Expanded AI Solutions Suite with Additional Features for Strategic Communicators
Initially providing readability metrics, AI Insights now boasts the groundbreaking “Press Release Score,” which thoroughly analyzes each release for readability, formatting, structure and engagement potential and then provides specific recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of the press release.PetSmart Launches Streaming Experience for Cats and Dogs to End Holiday Pet Blues
A recent PetSmart survey revealed that 69% of pet parents feel guilty about leaving their pets home alone during the holidays, and nearly half offer entertainment to keep their pets occupied while they are away. The ‘Home for the Pawlidays’ videos help to ease pet and pet parent worry, and end the holiday pet blues.Travel Guard Names the World’s Unluckiest Traveler® Contest Winner for 2024
In a repeat of their popular travel promotion, Travel Guard solicited stories of travel nightmares and received nearly 500 entries from across North America. After weeks of voting, a winner has emerged.Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Laufey and More Light Up the Top 10 ASCAP New Classic Holiday Songs Chart
With the holidays in full swing, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers, unwraps the ultimate soundtrack for the season.Space Meets Sound: NASA Lands in 2024 Spotify Wrapped
NASA’s audio storytelling reached new frontiers in 2024, with Spotify Wrapped revealing the agency’s podcasts as a favorite among listeners worldwide. The agency’s podcasts cover a wide range of topics, including in-depth conversations with NASA astronauts, stories that take audiences on a tour of the galaxy, and Spanish-language content.Make-A-Wish kids bring even more holiday cheer with return of motivational hotline
This special telephone hotline features uplifting, pre-recorded messages from wish kids, giving callers a burst of happiness whenever they need it until December 31.IBM Brings the Speed of Light to the Generative AI Era with Optics Breakthrough
The new co-packaged optics innovation could replace electrical interconnects in data centers to offer significant improvements in speed and energy efficiency for AI and other computing applications.

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Extends Risk Intelligence to Agentic Activity

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AI agents are creating a new class of digital interaction, requiring organisations to distinguish legitimate agent activity from malicious automationKnow Your Agent intelligence helps organisations identify agent activity and fold it into broader risk intelligence used to assess digital interactionsBuilt on the unique scale and connectivity of the LexisNexis® Risk Intelligence Network, Know Your Agent intelligence helps organisations prepare for an agentic future.

UNITED KINGDOM, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LexisNexis® Risk Solutions has extended its powerful risk intelligence solutions to help organisations understand and assess a new class of digital actor: AI agents operating on behalf of people and businesses.

For decades, LexisNexis Risk Solutions has helped organisations make risk decisions by connecting identity, device, behavioural, network and transaction intelligence at global scale. As AI agents become another participant in digital interactions, the company is extending that same connected intelligence approach to agentic activity.

Know Your Agent (KYA) intelligence adds a new layer of agentic insights to LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ digital identity and fraud prevention platform. It helps organisations recognise when AI agents are interacting with their digital services and can bring those interactions directly into established risk assessment and decisioning workflows, rather than treating them as an isolated risk problem. Many LexisNexis Risk Solutions customers are already using KYA intelligence in their current risk management decision making.

Analysis of global digital transactions by LexisNexis Risk Solutions shows agentic traffic grew over 750% in the first half of 2026 alone. Rapid growth is expected to continue as more people and organisations adopt agents to undertake everyday tasks such as online shopping.

Because most personal agents today do not self-declare as agents, organisations face an immediate challenge: distinguishing agentic activity from other digital traffic. But this is only the first step. Agent detection alone cannot answer key questions organisations ultimately need to resolve: Who or what is the agent acting for? Has that activity been authorised? Is its behaviour consistent with that authority? And does the wider context of the interaction indicate that it is legitimate? 

That context may also change during a digital journey as control passes between a person and an AI agent, making continuous visibility into the interaction increasingly important. This is where the scale and connectivity of the Risk Intelligence Network becomes essential.

AI-agent activity does not need to be evaluated as an isolated interaction. It can be understood in the context of the identities, devices, networks, behavioural patterns and relationships surrounding digital activity, helping to provide richer context for risk decisions. This connected intelligence approach incorporates agent detection into risk decisions in real time, while aiding in creating a foundation for increasingly sophisticated agent identity and authorisation capabilities as agents, standards and use cases evolve.

Autonomous AI agents have the potential to increase the scale and sophistication of fraud, including authorised push payment fraud and account takeover attacks. Malicious agents can learn dynamically from successes and failures, enabling subsequent attacks to become more tailored and prolific.

For organisations, the decision is not whether an agent is universally trusted but whether a specific agent, acting in a specific context, should be permitted to perform a specific action. Legitimate agents will increasingly participate in digital customer journeys, but the appropriate response will depend on what the agent is attempting to do, the context of the interaction, and the organisation’s own risk policies. KYA intelligence helps organisations bring agentic activity into existing decisioning workflows so they can allow, authenticate, review or reject interactions as appropriate.

“Agentic commerce is moving quickly from experimentation into the mainstream,” said Grayson Clarke, chief commercial officer at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. “Agentic transactions globally more than doubled again in the last quarter, driven primarily by personal agents. Some businesses are enabling agents to transact on consumers’ behalf, while others are restricting their activities, and many are still determining the right approach. We have already seen firsthand how a global financial institution used our detection capabilities to help identify agentic activity and prevent it from executing sensitive transactions.”

LexisNexis Risk Solutions analysed more than 116 billion digital transactions globally in 2025 through its LexisNexis® Digital Identity Network®, giving it a uniquely broad view of how human, automated and increasingly agentic interactions are evolving. The network detected 4.9 billion automated bot attacks during the year, a 59% increase year over year. That scale reflects the role LexisNexis Risk Solutions already plays in helping many of the world’s largest financial institutions, merchants and digital businesses assess risk across digital interactions.

Mike Woodberry, senior vice president of product and analytics at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, added, “Managing risk in the agentic economy will require more than agent detection alone. The real challenge is establishing context: what is acting, who or what it represents, whether it is authorised and what it is attempting to do. Our vision for KYA is to extend established risk intelligence into the agentic economy, helping give organisations the flexibility to apply the appropriate response to each interaction rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all risk assessment.”

Woodberry continued, “Organisations should not have to build a new risk strategy every time digital interactions evolve. Adding a new layer of agentic insights to our established identity and fraud prevention platform helps customers build on the capabilities they already rely on while preparing for the next generation of digital interactions.”

Discover more about how organisations can distinguish between human and agentic traffic.

About LexisNexis Risk Solutions

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with information-based analytics and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced technology and algorithms to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, the company has offices throughout the world, serves customers in more than 190 countries and territories and is part of RELX. For more information, please visit LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions products and services provide risk signals, analytics and insights designed to assist customers in making risk-based decisions. Results may vary depending on factors including implementation, data availability, transaction characteristics and customer use. No product or service can detect or prevent all fraudulent, malicious, unauthorized or agentic activity. References to detection, identification, risk assessment or prevention should not be interpreted as a guarantee of outcomes.

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EPG Modular Data Center Marks Topping-Out of Its US$120 Million Malaysia FIZ Factory

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JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EPG Modular Data Center today marked the topping-out of its Malaysia FIZ (Free Industrial Zone) Factory in Senai Airport City (SAC), Johor. The milestone advances development of a manufacturing base closer to customers in Southeast Asia, expanding EPG’s production capabilities and strengthening its ability to respond to customer needs across the region and beyond.

The ceremony featured the raising of the final structural beam, followed by a tour of the facility. Guests included representatives from the Johor State Government, SAC and other government agencies, as well as business partners, customers, financial institutions and investment firms.

Representing an investment of approximately US$120 million, EPG’s FIZ Factory spans 107,450 square meters, including 70,000 square meters of production space. Scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2027, the facility is projected to rank among the largest single-site data center module manufacturing bases in the modular data center (MDC) sector by production capacity. Once fully operational, it is expected to employ more than 800 people locally.

The factory’s master plan comprises five buildings for sheet metal production, power transfer unit (PTU) products, diesel generator manufacturing, final assembly, and R&D and office functions. The facility will produce MDC shelters and supporting equipment, including diesel generator sets and PTU power modules.

Designed for flexible, digitally enabled manufacturing, the FIZ Factory will integrate advanced automation equipment, intelligent control systems and automated welding technology. Its production lines are expected to achieve an automation rate of at least 80%, with processes including pretreatment, laser cutting, robotic welding and dust-free coating. Modular line design will accommodate multiple product types and specifications.

Digital platforms for supplier relationship management (SRM), product lifecycle management (PLM), manufacturing execution (MES), quality management (QMS) and warehouse management (WMS) will connect processes across the supply chain, R&D, production, quality and warehousing. Digital twin technology will support production visibility and traceability, while intelligent sensing and real-time alerts will help strengthen workplace and equipment safety.

By consolidating production of MDC shelters and critical power equipment in Malaysia, EPG is building capacity closer to regional customers. The factory is expected to help the company coordinate production and assembly, respond more effectively to project schedules and deliver with greater flexibility.

EPG is also committed to responsible operations at the facility. Its priorities include resource efficiency, waste reduction, environmental protection, employee safety, local talent development and cooperation with Malaysian suppliers and partners. The company will operate in accordance with Malaysian laws and regulations and its ESG management requirements, integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles into its decision-making, compliance and risk management.

“The FIZ Factory marks an important step in bringing EPG’s manufacturing capabilities closer to customers and the markets we serve,” said Alick Wan, EPG’s founder and chairman. “By combining advanced manufacturing with strong local partnerships, we are building a responsive base in Malaysia and a model that can evolve with customer needs in other markets.”

Learn more about EPG Modular Data Center at www.epg-module.com.

Contact: communications@epg-module.com

About EPG

EPG is a prefabricated modular data center infrastructure provider, powered by R&D centers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Shanghai, as well as six advanced manufacturing hubs in Malaysia and China. With over 20 years of engineering expertise, it has a workforce of over 1,700 employees, including more than 300 researchers and experienced engineers in its R&D and technical team. Through continuous technological innovation and a scalable delivery system, EPG delivers integrated and efficient data center solutions for hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise deployments across APAC, EMEA, and other global markets.

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TCL CSOT Begins Equipment Move-In at Its t8 Production Line

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GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TCL CSOT’s t8 8.6-generation Inkjet Printing OLED (IJP OLED) production line in Guangzhou had entered the equipment move-in phase on October 31. With core production equipment now moving into the facility, the world’s first 8.6-generation IJP OLED production line has entered the final phase before expected mass production in 2027. The announcement was made at a ceremony attended by TCL CSOT executives and suppliers.

“The move-in of the first piece of core production equipment marks the t8 project’s transition to the equipment installation and commissioning phase,” said Feng Zhang, Senior Vice President of TCL CSOT. “This is one of the most advanced facilities of its kind, and installing the state-of-the-art equipment will be a true test of our ability to work with our partners to expand current technical limits. We look forward to working closely with our partners to take on these challenges as we establish t8 as a new benchmark for safety, quality, and efficiency.”

Representing a major strategic investment in the next generation of display technology, the t8 project will play a key role in driving future display development through IJP OLED. With a total investment of approximately RMB 29.5 billion and a designed monthly processing capacity of approximately 22,500 glass substrates (8.6-generation, approximately 2,290 mm × 2,620 mm), the production line will primarily produce displays for tablets, laptops, and monitors, with scope to expand into flexible and foldable displays. Following the start of construction on September 16, 2025, the main factory structure was topped out in just 226 days. Equipment move-in at t8 marks the project’s entry into the final phase before mass production. The project will now proceed through production line installation, integrated commissioning of power systems, and process validation, with mass production expected in the fourth quarter of 2027.

IJP OLED uses an inkjet printing process to deposit organic light-emitting materials onto glass substrates with greater precision through a process known as on-demand deposition. Compared with traditional vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE), IJP achieves higher material utilization for greener, more efficient production, and is widely recognized as a key technological pathway for next-generation displays.

“From a single drop of ink and a small prototype to our G5.5 line (t12) in Wuhan becoming the world’s first IJP OLED mass production line, and now the move-in at our G8.6 production line in Guangzhou, TCL CSOT has spent the past 13 years bringing IJP OLED from the laboratory to the production line. Equipment move-in at t8 marks the start of the final stretch before mass production,” said Weiran Cao, General Manager of IJP-OLED Middle Platform of TCL CSOT.

As the t8 project progresses towards mass production, TCL CSOT will continue to drive wider adoption of the industry-leading IJP OLED technology and further expand the sizes and applications of its OLED portfolio, delivering advanced displays and improved experiences for customers and end users worldwide.

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