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Digital Domain and TOPPAN Holdings Launch Collaboration on Virtual Human Solutions

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Utilizing biometric data from real-world people to create high-quality virtual humans that can be provided for diverse services

HONG KONG, March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Digital Domain Content (Hong Kong) Limited (“Digital Domain”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Digital Domain Holdings Limited (stock code: 547), and TOPPAN Holdings Inc. (“TOPPAN Holdings”) have jointly announced the launch of a comprehensive collaboration this month. This follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together in the field of virtual humans, utilizing high-resolution data gathered from biometric scanning of real individuals.

The collaboration aims to create innovative solutions by integrating virtual humans developed from this high-precision biometric data into Digital Domain’s Momentum Cloud™.1 The biometric data is captured on a Light Stage2 at TOPPAN Holdings’ VIRTUAL HUMAN LAB™.3

Alleviating Labor Shortages and Accelerating Virtual Human Applications Development

Industries worldwide are facing labor shortages. According to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute, labor markets in advanced economies are among the tightest in two decades. Aging workforces have made this challenge a long-term trend, pushing companies and economies to explore new ways to expand labor capacity and boost productivity. Among the promising solutions is the development of AI technologies.

Technologies and applications related to virtual humans are evolving rapidly due to advancements in three-dimensional computer graphics and artificial intelligence. Virtual human technologies unrestricted by time or location, can flexibly meet the needs of global markets and are expected to be utilized in a range of fields, from entertainment to hospitality, retail, education, and healthcare, to enhance service experiences through creating innovative applications. Photorealistic virtual humans featured in corporate advertising and video content have garnered growing attention in recent years, and they are now being deployed for functions such as reception desks and facility guidance.

TOPPAN Holdings has been producing high-quality virtual humans based on biometric data captured on its Light Stage since 2020. The virtual humans created function as user interfaces for various services. Digital Domain, with over 30 years of experience in visual effects, AI virtual humans, and visualization, continues to develop cloud-based virtual human solutions through advanced production and cloud technologies.

By combining TOPPAN Holdings’ Light Stage scanning technologies and Digital Domain’s virtual human technologies, the collaboration aims to offer high-quality virtual human solutions to meet market demand and help alleviate labor shortages.

Mr. Hiroshi Asada, head of TOPPAN Holdings’ Business Innovation Center, stated, “TOPPAN has been promoting business development in the frontier field of virtual humans by using a Light Stage, a piece of cutting-edge human scanning technology. Digital Domain has a long track record of experience in the film industry for light stage production and also has a market-ready solution for the industry called Momentum Cloud™, so we expect significant synergy from this collaboration. We look forward to accelerating the market development of virtual humans and creating various use cases for each industry.”

Creating an Efficient Production Flow to Meet Market Demands

TOPPAN Holdings will conduct face scanning on a Light Stage, evaluate quality, develop business models for customized virtual humans, and provide original virtual human characters, while Digital Domain will import the high-resolution data obtained from the Light Stage into its Momentum Cloud™ platform to create and operate photorealistic virtual humans.

The collaboration will establish a high-quality, efficient production flow for virtual humans based on establishing production methods by utilizing AI and high-resolution data from face scanning on the Light Stage, enabling photorealistic virtual humans created from real-world people to be operated on Momentum Cloud™. This will reduce the lead time and cost for producing virtual humans, enabling a prompt and efficient response to requests for original character production.

Mr. William Wong, CEO of Digital Domain, stated, “Digital Domain is dedicated to developing AI-driven virtual human technologies, implementing applications, and creating sustainable business models for the future. As the significance of virtual humans increases across various industries, the pace of application development will also quicken. The virtual human solutions created in collaboration with TOPPAN Holdings will utilize both companies’ technological strengths to enhance virtual humans’ quality, performance, and effectiveness. These solutions will effectively meet market demands and create diverse application scenarios, opening up new opportunities for innovative business models.”

The collaboration aims to establish a production flow for virtual humans, which will help expand TOPPAN Holdings’ lineup of original virtual character offerings. This initiative will also provide solutions for casting these virtual humans for various services in the global market, utilizing Digital Domain’s Momentum Cloud™. By advancing pilot testing and business development that leverage the strengths of both companies, Digital Domain and TOPPAN Holdings aspire to create a virtual human solution business by the end of fiscal 2025.

1 Momentum Cloud™ is a server-based software platform for controlling virtual humans that can be used in the B2B2C space.

2 A Light Stage is a piece of equipment for high-precision face scanning developed by the University of Southern California.

3 The VIRTUAL HUMAN LAB™ was opened in December 2020 as a facility for advancing research and application development related to the use of face scanning and various other human biometric data.

About Digital Domain

Digital Domain is a pioneer in the virtualization of sensory experiences. After more than 3 decades of evolution, Digital Domain has transformed from a Hollywood company to achieve global expansion in fields such as VFX, AI virtual humans, and visualization. Digital Domain’s pursuit of creativity and advanced technologies has allowed the company to achieve unmatched refinement of its creative process as evidenced in the production of several hundred films and TV series as well as thousands of commercials, game graphics, and both experimental and immersive experiences. Digital Domain’s most outstanding achievements include: academy awards for “Best Visual Effects” in the films Titanic, What Dreams May Come, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, blockbuster classics such as The Avengers series, and the 4th season of the popular word-of-mouth hit show Stranger Things.

As the first VFX studio that has achieved success in Greater China, Digital Domain entered the realm of virtual reality in 2016. By applying techniques such as fully integrating the base technology of AI and virtual reality, Digital Domain has constructed fully real-time photo-realistic digital characters capable of emotional expressivity. The extension of this technology outside of the silver screen provides a new medium for human-machine and human-human interactions in virtual scenarios.

Digital Domain is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Stock code: 547) and is headquartered in Hong Kong and maintains operations in multiple cities including Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Beijing, Shanghai, Hyderabad, and more.

For more information, visit the official website – www.digitaldomain.com.

About the TOPPAN Group

Established in Tokyo in 1900, the TOPPAN Group is a leading and diversified global provider committed to delivering sustainable, integrated solutions in fields including printing, communications, security, packaging, décor materials, electronics, and digital transformation. The TOPPAN Group’s global team of more than 50,000 employees offers optimal solutions enabled by industry-leading expertise and technologies to address the diverse challenges of every business sector and society and contribute to the achievement of shared sustainability goals.

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Faculty Launches Frontier Plug-in Marketplace, Accelerating How Organisations Build and Scale Decision Intelligence

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Frontier’s latest release equips technical teams with modular plug-ins – expanding platform capabilities and strengthening integration with existing enterprise tools.

LONDON, April 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Faculty, the developer of the Decision Intelligence platform, Faculty Frontier™, today announced the launch of the Frontier Plug-in Marketplace, a new capability that extends the Frontier platform with a curated, open ecosystem of modular plug-ins. Available to all Frontier customers, the marketplace enables teams to discover, adopt, and contribute plug-ins directly within existing deployments, with no refactoring required.

“In the AI era, the organisations that will win are those that improve decision-making at scale,” said Andy Brookes, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Faculty. “The Frontier Plug-in Marketplace is how we ensure that advantage compounds – enabling teams to reuse proven capabilities, share innovations, and apply them safely and consistently across the organisation.”

Scaling AI across the enterprise remains one of the most complex challenges facing organisations today. As AI programmes expand beyond initial deployments, teams struggle to maintain consistency, move at pace, and maximise the value of their technology investments. Without a standardised way to share and reuse proven capabilities, ROI slows and the gap between AI ambition and enterprise reality widens. The launch of the Plug-in Marketplace within Faculty Frontier™ directly addresses this challenge.

A Curated Library of Modular Capabilities
The Plug-in Marketplace gives teams access to a curated library of modular capabilities – spanning data ingestion, MLOps pipelines, decision management, validation tooling, and more – all accessible directly within their existing Frontier environment.

An Open Ecosystem, Built to Scale
The marketplace is designed to grow with the organisations using Frontier. Beyond consuming what’s available, technical teams can build and share their own plug-ins – retaining full control of what they contribute.

Every plug-in is reviewed and versioned by Faculty, giving teams the confidence to adopt quickly, upgrade on their own terms, and focus on what matters: improving the decisions that drive enterprise performance, rather than managing infrastructure.

What This Means for Technical Teams
For the data scientists, data engineers, ML engineers, and decision engineers at the heart of Frontier deployments, the marketplace delivers an immediate and tangible shift in how work gets done:

Proven, reusable capabilities adopted in minutes, not daysNo need to rebuild what others have already solvedA consistent, maintained foundation across every Frontier deploymentAbility to build, share, and contribute capabilities back to the wider Frontier communityA clear upgrade path as new capabilities are added

Availability
The Frontier Plug-in Marketplace is available to all Frontier customers. To explore how your team can begin with the marketplace, speak to your Frontier solutions engineer. New to Frontier? Visit faculty.ai/frontier to learn how organisations are using Decision Intelligence to transform performance and scale AI across the enterprise.

About Faculty
Founded in 2014, Faculty is one of Europe’s longest standing applied AI companies. Our suite of AI products spans everything organisations need to access frontier AI and get it into the hands of their frontline teams to support their most important work. Faculty is also the developer of Faculty Frontier™, a Decision Intelligence Platform used by some of the world’s most trusted brands to transform decision-making at scale.

Widely recognised as a leader in AI safety, we work for the world’s leading AI labs, such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, to ensure their latest models are safe, human-led and explainable. Our PhD-heavy team of deep AI experts has delivered hundreds of real-world AI products to improve critical public services and drive sustained economic returns across every sector of the economy. Headquartered in London, Faculty remains founder-led following its acquisition by Accenture in 2026.

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Tuniu Discloses Cash Dividend to Holders of ADSs

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NANJING, China, April 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tuniu Corporation (NASDAQ: TOUR) (“Tuniu” or the “Company”), a leading online leisure travel company in China, today disclosed that the cash dividend of US$1.197 per American depositary shares (“ADSs”) will be paid to holders of ADSs of record as of the close of business on May 4, 2026, U.S. Eastern Time, based on the current ratio of its ADSs to its Class A ordinary shares, pursuant to the cash dividend totaling approximately US$13 million as the previously declared by the Company on March 20, 2026.

The Company changed the ratio of its ADSs to its Class A ordinary shares (the “ADS Ratio Change”) from the previous ratio of one (1) ADS representing three (3) Class A ordinary shares to current ratio of one (1) ADS representing thirty (30) Class A ordinary shares, effective April 22, 2026.

In light of the ADS Ratio Change, the dividend amount on a per ADS basis was not disclosed in the previous announcement and would be disclosed separately after the ADS Ratio Change took effect. The dividend to holders of ADSs will be US$1.197 per ADS and is expected to be paid on or about May 20, 2026 through the depositary bank, subject to the terms of the deposit agreement. Dividend payment to holders of ordinary shares remains the same as previously announced.

About Tuniu

Tuniu (Nasdaq: TOUR) is a leading online leisure travel company in China that offers integrated travel service with a large selection of packaged tours, including organized and self-guided tours, as well as travel-related services for leisure travelers through its website tuniu.com and mobile platform. Tuniu provides one-stop leisure travel solutions and a compelling customer experience through its online platform and offline service network, including a dedicated team of professional customer service representatives, 24/7 call centers, extensive networks of offline retail stores and self-operated local tour operators. For more information, please visit http://ir.tuniu.com

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MongoDB Announces €74M Ireland Expansion, 200 Jobs, and New Cork Office

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Investing €74M to expand MongoDB’s Irish operations across engineering and AI developmentCreating ~200 new jobs by 2027, growing Irish workforce by 50%+ to 500+ employees across Dublin International HQ and new Cork officeHelping 65,200+ customers move AI from experimentation to production at scale

DUBLIN, April 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) is expanding its Irish operations through a €74 million investment in engineering, AI development, and operational growth. As part of this expansion, the company plans to grow its Irish hybrid workforce by more than 50% by 2027, creating approximately 200 new roles across engineering, product development, and customer-facing teams. Ireland’s focus on “Applied AI” aligns closely with MongoDB’s role in helping 65,200+ global customers move from AI experimentation into real-world production. Anchored by its international headquarters in Dublin and a new office in Cork, the company is deepening its investment in local talent and ongoing university partnerships under the leadership of newly appointed Vice President of Product and Technology, Donal Walsh.

CJ Desai, President and Chief Executive Officer, MongoDB, said: “Ireland is an important market for MongoDB, home to exceptional talent, great customers, and the right environment to scale our global business. Our teams here are central to how we innovate for and serve our world-class customer base.

As organizations move from experimentation to building agentic AI applications in production, they need a data platform that can handle the complexity of real-world data and deliver highly accurate retrieval when the stakes are high. This investment in Ireland advances our mission to do exactly that — building the unified data platform our customers need for modern, multi-cloud, and AI applications.”

The investment expands engineering and customer teams in Ireland that build and support MongoDB’s modern data platform, used by organizations worldwide. These teams help customers develop secure AI-powered applications on a flexible data foundation that runs across cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments, while supporting their efforts to meet Europe’s evolving regulatory requirements around data protection, security, and the EU AI Act.

Minister Peter Burke, Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Government of Ireland, said: ”I warmly welcome MongoDB’s decision to expand its Irish operations through a €74 million investment, creating 200 high-quality jobs and establishing a new office presence in Cork. This announcement is a strong endorsement of Ireland’s ability to attract and grow global technology leaders in areas such as engineering and applied AI.

Ireland’s focus on innovation, skills development, and regional growth continues to resonate with companies operating at the forefront of digital transformation. MongoDB’s ongoing commitment to Ireland, supported by IDA Ireland, highlights the depth of our talent pool and the strength of our collaboration between industry, government, and higher education. I wish MongoDB every success as it continues to expand its footprint here.”

Dónal Travers, Executive Director, IDA Ireland, said: ”I would like to congratulate MongoDB on this significant investment of €74 million in Ireland, which will result in 200 new jobs, and the opening of a new office in Cork. Ireland is now a recognized European location for companies seeking to build their applied capabilities in artificial intelligence, a key growth driver in IDA’s strategy. We are delighted to support MongoDB’s innovation goals and look forward to a continued partnership in the years ahead.”

Paul Sweetman, Chief Executive, American Chamber of Commerce Ireland (AmCham), said: “I want to congratulate MongoDB on the announcement of its €74 million expansion in Ireland. This significant investment, with its strong focus on AI, underscores Ireland’s position as a hub for advanced engineering, innovation, and next-generation technologies, and highlights the strength of the country’s deep and collaborative talent ecosystem. It also reflects the continued confidence of US companies in Ireland as a location for high-value investment and growth. US companies already employ hundreds of thousands of people across Ireland, and recent AmCham surveys point to sustained confidence among members, with many planning further investment in areas such as AI, R&D, and digital transformation. This announcement is a clear example of how that confidence is translating into real investment and job creation.”

Established in 2013, MongoDB Dublin has long played a pivotal role in helping the company achieve its mission of empowering innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. From the energy of MongoDB’s Dublin headquarters to the new collaborative space in Cork, the company has created an environment where people can see the real impact of their work. At MongoDB, employees are empowered to make a difference from day one, supported by a culture built on clarity and trust and a firm belief that every voice matters as the company shapes the future of software.

MongoDB serves more than 65,200 customers worldwide, including Anthropic, Eleven Labs, TUI, Vodafone, Decathlon, Lombard Odier, Financial Times, L’Oréal Groupe, and Volvo Connect, and counts around 75% of the Fortune 100 among its clients. The company established its EMEA headquarters in Dublin in 2013 as part of an aggressive growth plan, starting with customer and technical support. Its presence in Ireland continues to expand, with more than 13,500+ developers listing MongoDB as a skill on LinkedIn across the country. For new open roles, visit: https://www.mongodb.com/company/careers

About MongoDB

Headquartered in New York, MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform was built to power the next generation of applications, and MongoDB is the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market. With integrated capabilities for operational data, search, real-time analytics, and AI-powered data retrieval, MongoDB helps organizations everywhere move faster, innovate more efficiently, and simplify complex architectures. Millions of developers and more than 65,200+ customers across industries – including ~75% of the Fortune 100 – rely on MongoDB for their most important applications. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.

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