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Pvolve and Jennifer Aniston Launch “Strength Redefined” Challenge to Kick Off 2025

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The Six-Week Fitness Program Features New Workouts Inspired by Aniston’s Personal Pvolve Routine, Focusing on Progressive Weight Training and Functional Movement

NEW YORK, Jan. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Pvolve, the clinically-proven workout that pairs functional movement with cutting-edge resistance equipment, is redefining strength training with Jennifer Aniston, world-renowned actress, producer, and director, with the announcement of the “Strength Redefined” Challenge to kick off 2025. The Challenge is modeled after Aniston’s own Pvolve program and gives members unprecedented access to her routine. The six-week challenge features a unique curation of Pvolve workouts that Aniston credits for helping her to achieve the strongest version of herself.

“Thanks to my Pvolve workouts, I feel the strongest I have ever been,” said Aniston.

The Challenge, running January 6 through February 17, arrives at a pivotal moment when strength training is growing in popularity, with a recent survey finding that “building muscle” was the number one fitness goal for 2024 (35.9%)*.

Members will experience four new workouts each week, guided by Aniston’s hand-picked training team: Dani Coleman, Maeve McEwen, Antonietta Vicario, and Zach Morris. The programming features the brand’s three signature class types: Progressive Weight Training, Strength and Sculpt, and Sculpt and Burn, making it a fully comprehensive regimen to build strong, resilient bodies that stand the test of time.

Pvolve first introduced its Progressive Weight Training Class two years ago, and it quickly rose to the top as a member favorite class both in studio and on-demand. The class blends Pvolve’s signature dynamic functional movements with heavier weights to build total-body strength, increase bone density, and combat the natural muscle loss that accompanies aging.

“Adding Progressive Weight Training was exactly the push I needed as I advanced in my routine with Pvolve,” said Aniston. “What makes it unique is how it blends Pvolve’s signature dynamic movements and emphasis on mobility, stability, and balance with heavy weights. Since adding it to my workouts, I’ve watched my entire body transform, plus I love that I’ve built up the strength to pick up heavier weights over time.”

The Strength Redefined Challenge builds upon Pvolve’s foundation of creating programming that effectively supports longevity and improves health spans for its members. Pvolve’s Healthy Aging Study, showed that Pvolve improves lower body strength by 19%, lower body balance and mobility by 10%, and flexibility by 21%, among other impressive outcomes.** This study was recently published in the American College of Sports Medicine’s Official flagship journal and validates the strength and mobility improvements Aniston and many others have achieved through the program.

“The research is clear – muscle loss is the silent pandemic of our time—it’s stealing our ability to live longer, healthier lives,” says Julie Cartwright, President of Pvolve. “The Challenge is the perfect program for people who wish to work towards reversing this trend. It will help our members unlock their full potential, build deep strength, and redefine what it means to age well.”

“This Challenge was so much fun to create because it reflects what Jen and I do in our sessions together,” said Dani Colemen, Pvolve’s Director of Training and Jennifer Aniston’s Pvolve Trainer, “Jen is so strong and has continued to get even stronger, so we are thrilled to give members a first-hand experience of how she trains. We hope this Challenge motivates the community to start the new year strong, get moving, and stay accountable.”

To help Challenge participants succeed, Pvolve has partnered with leading wellness brands to offer exclusive benefits, including special offers from Trifecta Meals, Lolavie, Rosewood Las Ventanas, and WeGym. Members will also gain access to a dedicated WhatsApp community for ongoing motivation and special Live Virtual Studio events.

The Challenge is available through Pvolve’s digital on-demand platform, and studio locations across the US and Canada. Registration opens January 2nd at Pvolve.com.

For more information on Pvolve, please visit https://www.pvolve.com/. 

About Pvolve
Pvolve is a workout method that pairs functional movement with resistance equipment to build strong, mobile bodies, so members can live younger, longer. After being introduced to functional fitness in 2017, founder Rachel Katzman was determined to help others experience an approach that respects the body’s holistic needs while making you look and feel great. The Pvolve Method is supported by a Clinical Advisory Board of doctors, as well as highly credentialed trainers, to offer effective workouts that help you break a sweat, not your body. In June 2023, world-renowned actress, producer, and director, Jennifer Aniston, officially partnered with Pvolve after falling in love with the method as a member. Pvolve has a comprehensive omnichannel ecosystem, offering members a diverse fitness experience wherever they are, featuring 1,400 classes on-demand, over 40 live classes per week through their interactive two-way Live Virtual Studio, and 44+ specialized workout series targeting areas like the lower back, pelvic floor, and life changes like menopause. In addition to digital programming, Pvolve has physical studio locations in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, franchises across the US and Canada, and more than 40 locations in development. For more information, please visit https://www.pvolve.com/, https://pvolvefranchise.com/. 

*According to a 2024 Life Time annual consumer health and wellness survey of nearly 3,000 respondents.

**12-wk clinical trial (72 women ages 40-60) conducted by University of Exeter and Pvolve comparing four 30-55 min Pvolve workouts per wk to standard physical activity guidelines of 150 minutes per wk.

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commercetools Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce as AI Reshapes the Market

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commercetools is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce for the seventh consecutive year.commercetools has been driving AI innovation on how enterprises build, operate and sell, including capabilities like Sphere, Commerce MCP and commercetools for Builders.commercetools is helping global enterprises modernize complex commerce operations and prepare for a future where both people and AI agents discover, shop and transact.

BOSTON, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — commercetools, the digital commerce AI company, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce. This marks the seventh consecutive year commercetools has been recognized as a Leader in the report.

As AI reshapes commerce, commercetools is expanding how it supports the enterprises who build and operate commerce experiences, and the shoppers who use them. Global enterprises including JD Sports, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Chemist Warehouse and Mirion Technologies are using commercetools to modernize complex digital commerce, accelerate growth and adopt new AI-powered ways of operating and selling.

“Commerce is moving from systems that simply respond to human instructions toward systems that can increasingly understand, decide and act,” said Doug McNary, Chief Executive Officer at commercetools. “We’re proud to be named a Leader for the seventh consecutive year. Enterprises shouldn’t have to choose between the flexibility they need today and the autonomy they’ll need tomorrow. Our focus is giving them the technology to support both.”

Over the past year, commercetools has introduced new products and capabilities designed to bring AI across the commerce lifecycle:

Sphere: Brings together commercetools’ AI-native infrastructure and agent governance through Commerce MCP into a unified platform for enterprises to build, operate and sell with AI.commercetools for Builders: Helps anyone build, extend and evolve enterprise commerce faster with AI.AgentSphere: Lets enterprises build and manage AI agents to run commerce operations and agentic shopping, with appropriate guardrails to do so safely and at scale.Modular commerce offerings: Gives enterprises the flexibility to start with the capabilities they need and expand over time, accelerating time to value without requiring a full commerce transformation upfront.Commerce Integration Layer: Centralizes integration logic behind customer-facing experiences. Storefronts, mobile apps and AI agents connect through a unified layer hosted and maintained by commercetools.Smart Data Modeler: Uses AI to accelerate product data modeling, helping teams build the right foundation faster and reduce time-to-launch.

commercetools’ customers include large enterprises across retail, manufacturing, life sciences, healthcare and telecommunications in markets around the world.

To learn more about commercetools’ position as a Leader, download your complimentary copy of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant report today.

About the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce Platforms, Aditya Vasudevan, Penny Gillespie, Sandy Shen, Jason Daigler, Mike Lowndes, 19 October 2026

Gartner and Magic Quadrant are trademarks of Gartner, Inc., and/or its affiliates.

Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About commercetools

commercetools, the global digital commerce AI company, helps enterprises transform commerce for the AI era. Built API-native from the start and AI-first by design, our technology enables agentic shopping experiences, automates commerce operations and gives businesses the agility to modernize faster, innovate continuously and operate more intelligently.

More than 500 global brands, retailers and enterprise companies rely on commercetools to power their digital commerce. Together, they process more than $100 billion in annualized GMV, over 700 million orders and more than one billion customer records on our platform.

Media Contact: comms@commercetools.com 

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Phylo’s Biomni Lab to expand the use of AI agents in scientific research at Bayer

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Phylo, Inc. announced today a partnership with Bayer to deploy Biomni Lab, Phylo’s agentic AI platform to accelerate scientific research and evaluation. 

Under the agreement, Phylo will provide Bayer with full access to its agentic platform that helps Bayer scientists bring together scientific literature, biomedical data, and analytical methods in one environment, reducing the manual effort required to assemble and assess evidence. The platform’s inspectable workflows preserve the context behind each result, allowing researchers to review the underlying sources, methods, and execution and apply their own scientific judgment. Bayer scientists will gain access to Biomni Lab for workflows focused on assembling literature and omics evidence for drug discovery.

“This partnership reflects our belief that AI should expand scientific curiosity, not just speed up routine work. Giving our scientists an AI partner that brings rigor to every step lets them explore more ideas, ask bolder questions, and find the insights that move drug discovery forward, ultimately accelerating the pace at which we can bring new medicines to patients,” said Sai Jasti, Senior Vice President, Head of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Bayer Pharmaceuticals R&D.

“For agentic AI to matter in research, it has to earn the trust of the scientists doing the work. Bayer’s selection of Biomni Lab is a strong endorsement of the scientific rigor and AI capabilities we’ve built into the platform,” said Kexin Huang, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO of Phylo. “Our vision is an AI-native operating system for biopharma, where every scientist can direct a team of AI agents to pursue complex research questions. With Bayer, we aim to show what becomes possible when AI capabilities meet deep scientific expertise: more hypotheses explored, more discoveries made, and new possibilities for medicine.”

About Phylo

Phylo’s mission is to bring the best agentic intelligence to every biomedical scientist. Its enterprise-grade AI platform, Biomni Lab, is the first Integrated Biology Environment—a unified workspace where scientists collaborate with AI agents across literature research, experimental design, biological data analysis, and scientific decision-making.

Biomni Lab is now used by leading global biopharma, including Bayer, Chugai Pharmaceutical and Ono Pharmaceutical. Phylo is based in South San Francisco, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Menlo Ventures.

For more information, visit phylo.bio. To learn more about Biomni Lab, visit biomni.phylo.bio.

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Sandler Partners Welcomes Bryan Rias as Director, Sales Engineer, West Region

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New Hire Announcement | Independent Technology Distributor Sandler Partners grows its Sales Engineering team, adding Bryan Rias as Director, Sales Engineer, West Region.

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sandler Partners, the leading independent Technology Solutions Distributor, announces the addition of Bryan Rias as Director, Sales Engineer, West Region, further strengthening its dedicated sales engineering team and the technical support available to Partners in the West Region.

Bryan brings more than two decades of experience designing and delivering complex technology solutions, including enterprise and Cloud architecture roles at Lumen/Savvis and IBM focused on infrastructure modernization and customer success. His expertise spans automation, edge computing, disaster recovery, application performance monitoring (APM), and DevSecOps. In his role, Bryan will support Partners across the West Region, aligning early with them on strategy and leading thoughtful discovery to help them find the right fit for each client.

For Bryan, strong relationships and solid values guide his life and form the foundation of his professional success, a perspective that fits naturally within the Sandler Partners community. When he is not working, Bryan spends time with his family, including his wife, three sons, and a grandson, RVing, boating, and biking, along with pursuing his passion for freediving.

“Bryan brings the kind of hands-on experience our Partners value: he’s been in the room on complex deals and knows how to turn a customer’s needs into the right solution,” says Justin Marano, Chief Revenue Officer, Sandler Partners. “He came to Sandler for the freedom to work across best-of-breed Providers, and our Partners in the West will feel that right away. He’s collaborative, grounded, and focused on helping Partners win. I’m excited to have him on the team.”

“I’m excited to get to work alongside our Partners, helping them navigate complex opportunities and bring clarity to technical decisions,” says Bryan. “For me, it all comes back to relationships. When you build them on trust and shared values, the results follow for our Partners and their clients. That’s something that the Sandler community really embodies, and I look forward to getting to work with our Partners!”

About Sandler Partners
Sandler Partners helps empower its network of leading independent Sales Partners to deliver a comprehensive range of technology solutions to organizations worldwide, including Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Connectivity, Cloud, Colocation, Mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), and Continuity. Its community-focused approach enables Partners to identify the right solutions for customers quickly and objectively from a diverse portfolio of 220+ Providers. Partner sales agents, VARs, and MSPs gain access to an innovative suite of sales tools within the Sandler Portal—including SCOUT, Solutions Finder, Scout for Solutions, and the Marketing Center—several of which are AI-powered, all backed by a robust support network, dedicated Sales Engineering expertise, and rich marketing resources. Together, these tools and resources empower Partners to focus on what they do best: delivering quality, value, performance, innovative solutions, unmatched expertise, and exceptional service to their clients. Members of the Sandler Partners community also benefit from the industry’s strongest negotiated agreements and a dedicated team committed to ensuring commissions are accurately identified, tracked, and paid. For more information, visit www.sandlerpartners.com.

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