PLANO, Texas, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Artificial intelligence is changing how organizations approach cybersecurity, from threat detection to security operations. As adoption accelerates, trust, transparency, and accountability are becoming the deciding factors in its success.

NuSummit Cybersecurity today announced it has become a Founding Signatory of the CREST AI Charter, joining a group of leading cybersecurity organizations committed to promoting the responsible use of AI across the industry.

Through this commitment, NuSummit Cybersecurity supports CREST’s Nine Principles for AI-Enabled Activities, ensuring its AI-enabled services are built and delivered with strong governance, security, human oversight and accountability.

“Clients don’t just want AI, they want AI that is accountable. That is why, as we embed AI deeper into our cybersecurity offerings, we treat governance and human oversight as non-negotiable. Becoming a Founding Signatory of the CREST AI Charter reflects the standard we set for ourselves, so that every AI-enabled solution we deliver is one that our clients can trust and depend on,” said Anantharaman Sreenivasan (Ganesh), Managing Director and Group CEO, NuSummit.

NuSummit Cybersecurity remains focused on applying AI responsibly, strengthening human expertise, and upholding the highest standards of customer trust.

“AI is changing cybersecurity, but trust will determine how successfully organizations adopt it. We believe responsible AI must combine innovation with transparency, governance and human expertise. Becoming a Founding Signatory of the CREST AI Charter reflects our commitment to helping shape a trusted future for AI-enabled cybersecurity,” said Sameer Shelke, President Americas and Cybersecurity Services Head, NuSummit, and CEO, NuSummit Cybersecurity.

The CREST AI Charter gives organizations an important framework for working through the opportunities and challenges that come with AI. By joining as a founding signatory, NuSummit Cybersecurity is contributing to a shared effort to make sure AI strengthens cybersecurity while keeping confidence and professional standards intact.

About NuSummit

NuSummit is a global technology leader in AI-led digital transformation, spanning applications, data, analytics, cloud and cybersecurity. With over two decades of experience, we serve 300+ clients worldwide, including 22 Fortune 500 companies, with core expertise in banking, insurance and capital markets.

NuSummit Cybersecurity brings deep expertise in Identity and Access Management, Risk Advisory, Security Verification, Managed Detection and Response, and Security Engineering, helping businesses strengthen their security posture and respond to threats with confidence.

For more information, visit us at nusummit.com or write to connect@nusummit.com. To know more about our cybersecurity services, visit cybersecurity.nusummit.com or write to cybersales@nusummit.com.

About CREST

CREST is an international not-for-profit organisation that supports the global cybersecurity community through accreditation, certification and industry standards. Working with governments, regulators and organisations worldwide, CREST helps set trusted benchmarks for cybersecurity capability, professionalism and quality.

As AI reshapes cybersecurity, CREST is helping the industry work through new opportunities and risks through initiatives such as the CREST AI Charter, which promotes responsible, transparent and accountable AI-enabled activities.

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SHANGHAI, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — From voice calls to intelligent interaction, from music enjoyment to vlog creation, audio is no longer mere signal processing — it has become the invisible infrastructure of the digital era. As user expectations for sound that is “clear, authentic, and immersive” continue to rise, audio technology is moving from behind the scenes to center stage.

As a leading force in mobile chipsets, UNISOC is leveraging UNISOC Lyric Audio technology to deepen its capabilities across four major scenarios — calling, interaction, playback, and recording — making sound a digital bond that connects, heals, and empowers creation.

Device-Edge AI Intelligent Voice: A More Natural Voice Interaction Experience

The device-edge AI intelligent voice capability of UNISOC Lyric Audio builds a complete on-device pipeline spanning wake-up, recognition, and understanding. Built on this technology framework, voice capabilities are deployed deeply on the device itself — from voice wake-up and voiceprint recognition to speech recognition and semantic understanding, all completed locally. This reduces reliance on the cloud and delivers an always-responsive, stable, and reliable interaction experience.

Specifically, the full-pipeline low-power voice wake-up technology adopts a software-hardware co-design to achieve ultra-low-power standby wake-up, keeping the device “always ready.”

Voiceprint recognition precisely matches the user’s voiceprint features against the enrolled voiceprint, providing localized protection for identity authentication and effectively reducing the risk of privacy leakage.

The command word recognition engine responds rapidly to basic voice commands, with recognition accuracy at an industry-leading level.

On-device automatic speech recognition (ASR) completes recognition processing without uploading voice data to the cloud, significantly reducing dependence on the network.

Lightweight natural language understanding (NLP) intelligently classifies user voice intents and accurately extracts key information from complex commands. It currently supports 400 common expressions across six core control scenarios, including music, brightness, and volume, helping terminal devices upgrade to a safer, more natural, and lower-latency voice interaction experience.

AI All-Scenario Noise Reduction: Clearer Voice, Purer Communication

AI all-scenario noise reduction covers all service scenarios, including cellular calls, VoIP, and recording. It innovatively offers multi-tier solutions — lightweight AI voice enhancement, flagship AI vocal prominence, and AI voiceprint noise reduction — flexibly matching terminal requirements from mainstream to flagship.

Among them, the lightweight AIECNR 1.0/2.0 solution is deployed on a dedicated audio ADSP chip, tackling everyday environmental noise with extremely low power consumption and latency. Combining AI noise reduction with echo suppression, it effectively overcomes the echo cancellation challenge in double-talk scenarios and has been validated in mass production in multiple leading customer projects.

For more demanding requirements, the flagship AI vocal prominence solution supports both cellular calls and VoIP scenarios with echo and noise reduction capabilities. It delivers stronger suppression of complex noises such as road noise and tapping sounds, significantly improving voice restoration quality in noisy environments such as subways and shopping malls — making voices stand out and communication clearer.

AI voiceprint noise reduction leverages enrolled voiceprint information and neural network capabilities to precisely separate and enhance the target speaker’s voice from mixed audio, effectively filtering out ambient noise and other people’s voices.

Built on UNISOC’s software-hardware co-designed platform capabilities, AI all-scenario noise reduction ensures that users always enjoy clear voice and pure communication across every scenario.

AI Voice Communication Enhancement: Smooth Communication Even in Weak-Network Scenarios

For extreme weak-network scenarios such as satellite communication, off-grid communication, and emergency rescue, UNISOC integrates two core capabilities — AI Codec (AI-powered codec) and AI PLC (AI packet loss concealment) — to ensure smooth and clear calls even in the most challenging environments.

AI Codec intelligent voice coding/decoding technology introduces AI generative reconstruction, breaking through the bandwidth limits of traditional voice codecs and achieving equivalent voice quality at only 30% of the bitrate of conventional solutions. In satellite communication scenarios, it effectively compensates for severe signal attenuation caused by mountain obstruction, cloud cover, and building blockage. In terrestrial off-grid communication scenarios, AI Codec significantly extends communication range at equivalent voice quality compared with traditional codec solutions, and greatly improves connection rates and call quality in extreme long-range conditions.

Meanwhile, AI PLC intelligent packet loss concealment targets all kinds of weak-network scenarios — whether fluctuating satellite links, the edge of off-grid communication range, or weak cellular signals. When network instability causes voice data loss, it predicts and reconstructs the missing voice segments in real time, keeping speech natural and continuous, without stuttering or interruption.

Together, AI Codec and AI PLC form an end-to-end voice communication enhancement technology with dual weak-network resilience — “ultra-low-bitrate transmission plus intelligent packet loss concealment.” It can widely serve critical scenarios such as field exploration, ocean operations, mountain rescue, and extreme-weather emergency response, enabling users in remote or critical environments to enjoy a reliable, clear, and uninterrupted voice communication experience.

AI Ultrasonic Fused Proximity Sensing: Accidental-Touch Prevention During Calls, Redefining Value with Chips

AI ultrasonic fused proximity sensing reuses the phone’s earpiece and microphone to transmit and receive customized high-frequency ultrasound, and fuses real-time sensor data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and more. During calls and VoIP scenarios, it accurately determines the relative position between the phone and the user’s face, intelligently turning the screen on and off. This solution not only delivers an experience upgrade featuring a hole-free design, strong interference resistance, and high precision, but also further optimizes terminal costs:

Hole-free integrated design: supports hole-free full-screen solutions, increases the screen-to-body ratio, and gives the device a cleaner, purer appearance;Superior environmental interference resistance: operates reliably even under complex conditions such as strong ambient light or a smudged screen;Precise and responsive, free from false triggers: ultrasound combined with motion and posture recognition effectively reduces the probability of false screen on/off judgments;Ultimate cost optimization: hardware reuse reduces dependence on additional components, allows more flexible screen selection, and strengthens the terminal’s cost advantage.

This feature is about to enter mass production on the T7300 platform. Leveraging the platform’s powerful software-hardware co-design capabilities, the solution offers end-to-end advantages of high integration, low power consumption, and easy deployment.

Diverse Audio Scenarios: A Complete All-Scenario Solution

Beyond the core technologies above, UNISOC Lyric Audio also delivers leading capabilities across diverse scenarios, including wireless audio, audio recording, audio playback, and gaming audio.

For wireless audio, the solution is capable of Hi-Res Audio Wireless certification and supports wireless audio transmission, spatial audio characteristic tuning, and Bluetooth LE Audio;For audio recording, in addition to noise reduction, it provides an integrated audio-visual solution that includes HDR recording, Audio Zoom, and Audio Focus;For audio playback, it supports end-to-end playback algorithms covering high-volume output, speaker control, and other technologies;For gaming audio, it supports customer customization needs, offering a complete solution that includes in-game AI voice enhancement, gaming sound effects, a low-latency gaming audio path, and intelligent gaming power management.

Built on UNISOC’s integrated software-hardware audio platform, UNISOC Lyric Audio has established four core technologies — AI all-scenario noise reduction, device-edge AI intelligent voice, AI voice communication enhancement, and AI ultrasonic fused proximity sensing — together with a complete all-scenario solution covering recording, playback, and gaming audio.

Going forward, UNISOC Lyric Audio will continue to advance its AI audio capabilities, evolving the audio experience from “clear and pleasant” toward “intelligent perception, natural interaction, and all-scenario adaptation,” bringing users a smarter and more immersive next-generation audio experience.

Note: The data in this article comes from UNISOC laboratories.

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Loop8ID Age Shield confirms that the person requesting access to an age-restricted app or website is who they claim to be, using the biometric authentication already built into Apple or Android phones. Loop8ID then connects to the age signal already established on a user’s device to return an instant pass/fail result, with no personal data collected or shared. Businesses can add Loop8ID to both mobile apps and websites through a simple OAuth 2.0 API to help meet the requirements of the UK’s Online Safety Act.

GLENDALE, Calif., Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — L8P8, Inc. today announced Loop8ID Age Shield, a privacy-first middleware platform built on Loop8, the company’s biometric identity app that replaces passwords with Face ID, Touch ID, or fingerprint authentication already on a user’s phone. Loop8ID Age Shield confirms that the person requesting an age check is the genuine account holder, not someone using a shared device, a borrowed login, or a stolen password.

Once identity is confirmed, Loop8ID requests a simple age-eligibility pass/fail flag from the age signal already established on the user’s device via OAuth 2.0, with no identity documents or other personally identifiable information ever collected or stored. Its flexible architecture also enables integration with other third-party age-verification solutions as regulatory requirements continue to evolve.

Contact Loop8ID today to request a demo.

The announcement comes as Ofcom actively enforces the Online Safety Act, requiring platforms hosting age-restricted content to implement highly effective age assurance. Non-compliant organisations can face fines of up to £18 million or 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue. Loop8ID Age Shield is designed to help online businesses adhere to the UK’s Online Safety Act age assurance requirements without creating additional repositories of sensitive user information.

“The challenge for many organisations isn’t understanding the regulations. It’s implementing age assurance in a way that also protects user privacy while still being able to operate their business successfully,” said Zarik Megerdichian, Founder and CEO of L8P8 Inc. “Loop8ID was designed to close that gap. It keeps children out and lets verified adults through in seconds, with no documents, no accounts, and no friction.”

Many age assurance methods, including digital identity verification, facial age estimation, and payment-based verification, rely on collecting and processing sensitive personal information. These approaches can support Ofcom compliance, but they may increase an organisation’s obligations under UK GDPR.

How Loop8ID Age Shield Works

At the centre of Loop8ID Age Shield is Loop8, an app purposefully built to authenticate a user without a master password, using the Face ID or fingerprint check already built into their phone.

Once Loop8 confirms that the request is coming from a genuine account holder, not a sibling on a shared device, a borrowed login, or a stolen password, Loop8ID routes a request to the age signal already established on that person’s device, using Apple’s Declared Age Range API or Google’s Play Age Signals API, where regionally available, which returns a simple pass or fail.

Because Ofcom’s standard for “highly effective” age assurance looks at the strength of the underlying proof, not just the speed of the check, Loop8ID Age Shield is built to work with device signals that already meet that bar. Where the device already provides a strong enough age signal, verification is instant and frictionless.

Loop8ID never touches a birthdate, a document, or an identity record. It confirms the person, then asks the platform that already knows their age to answer a yes/no question. It’s the privacy layer that lets businesses verify age without becoming custodians of sensitive identity data, because no personal data crosses the wire.

Key capabilities:

Biometric identity confirmation: Face ID, Touch ID, and Android biometrics confirm the person requesting verification is an actual Loop8 account holder before any age signal is ever requested.Middleware architecture: Live today on Apple iOS in the UK; already integrated with Google’s Android age-signal API and positioned to extend automatically as Google completes its UK rollout in the coming months, with no additional integration work required from businesses already using Loop8ID. Built to also integrate with any Ofcom-recognised age verification method.Zero data storage: No Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or documents stored.On-device processing: Biometric matching happens locally on the user’s phone. No fingerprint, face scan, or biometric data is ever transmitted to or stored by Loop8ID.Sub-second, passwordless verification: Verification completes in under a second, with no password prompts or redirects to disrupt the customer journey.OAuth 2.0 integration: Scalable and deployable within days.

Loop8ID is available and can integrate into any existing system, pilot programmes, and proof-of-concept deployments.

To learn more and schedule a demonstration, visit https://loop8id.com/.

Notes to Editors

The Online Safety Act 2023 received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, is responsible for enforcing the Act; its codes of practice for user-to-user and search services came into effect in July 2025, establishing legal duties requiring highly effective age assurance for age-restricted content. Under the Act, Ofcom may impose financial penalties of up to £18 million or 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue, whichever is greater, and may seek court orders requiring internet service providers, payment providers, and advertising networks to restrict services to non-compliant platforms. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) independently enforces the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Loop8 is L8P8’s biometric identity app, authenticating users through Face ID, Touch ID, or fingerprint sensor already on their phone rather than a password. Loop8ID Age Shield is one of the first services built on top of that identity layer.

About L8P8, Inc.

L8P8 Inc. is a biometric-based privacy technology company focused on eliminating password dependency and reducing unnecessary exposure of personal information. The company is the creator of Loop8, a personal privacy controller that replaces traditional password-based security with biometric authentication already built into a user’s phone, and Loop8ID, a privacy-first identity middleware platform designed to enable age verification and trusted user authentication without requiring businesses to collect or store sensitive personal information, minimising the credential theft and password sharing that can lead to impersonation.

L8P8 Inc. is headquartered in Glendale, California, USA.

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