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Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick to Join Meta Board of Directors

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MENLO PARK, Calif., April 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Meta today announced that Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick have been elected to the company’s board of directors, effective April 15.

Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Meta, said, “Patrick and Dina bring a lot of experience supporting businesses and entrepreneurs to our board. Patrick is deeply committed to expanding economic opportunity, and Dina has a long career advocating for economic development and supporting entrepreneurs. Their perspective will be extremely valuable to businesses that rely on our services to grow.”

“Between WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, Meta is one of the internet’s most important platforms for businesses. I look forward to helping them navigate the abundant opportunities of the coming years,” said Patrick Collison, Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe.

“I’m excited to bring my experience in finance, government and economic development to support the people and entrepreneurs who use Meta’s services,” said Dina Powell McCormick, Vice Chair, President & Head of Global Client Services at BDT & MSD Partners.

Patrick Collison is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe, a technology company that builds programmable financial services, which he started with his brother John Collison in 2010. Mr. Collison is also a co-founder of the Arc Institute, a biomedical research institute that is pioneering a new model for basic research.

Dina Powell McCormick is currently Vice Chair, President & Head of Global Client Services at BDT & MSD Partners. For over 25 years she has served at the highest levels of finance and in the U.S. government. Dina spent 16 years in senior leadership roles as a partner at Goldman Sachs including serving on the management committee, running the firm’s Global Sovereign investment banking business and leading some of the largest and most successful economic development programs, including 10,000 Women, 10,000 Small Businesses and One Million Black Women. She also has served two presidents, as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald J. Trump and Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel and Senior White House Advisor and as Assistant Secretary of State for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice under President George W. Bush. Dina is a New York Times best-selling author for Who Believed in You, the Power of Transformative Mentorship, a book she authored with her husband, United States Senator from Pennsylvania David McCormick.

Meta’s current board members are: Mark Zuckerberg; Peggy Alford, former Executive Vice President, Global Sales, PayPal Holdings, Inc.; Marc L. Andreessen, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; John Arnold, Co-Founder and Co-chair, Arnold Ventures; Patrick Collison, Co-Founder and CEO, Stripe, Inc. (effective April 15); John Elkann, CEO, Exor N.V.; Drew Houston, Co-Founder and CEO, Dropbox, Inc.; Nancy Killefer, retired Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Robert M. Kimmitt, Meta’s Lead Independent Director and Senior International Counsel, WilmerHale LLP; Dina Powell McCormick, Vice Chair, President & Head of Global Client Services, BDT & MSD Partners (effective April 15); Charlie Songhurst, Technology Investor; Hock E. Tan, President and CEO, Broadcom Inc.; Tracey T. Travis, Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor to the CEO, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.; Dana White, President and CEO, Ultimate Fighting Championship; and Tony Xu, Co-Founder and CEO, DoorDash, Inc.

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Meta is building the future of human connection, powered by artificial intelligence and immersive technologies. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward experiences that foster deeper connections and unlock new possibilities.

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IBM BOARD APPROVES INCREASE IN QUARTERLY CASH DIVIDEND FOR THE 30th CONSECUTIVE YEAR

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ARMONK, N.Y., April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The IBM (NYSE: IBM) board of directors today declared an increase in the regular quarterly cash dividend to $1.68 per common share, payable June 10, 2025 to stockholders of record as of May 9, 2025. 

This is the 30th year in a row that IBM has increased its quarterly cash dividend.  IBM has paid consecutive quarterly dividends since 1916.

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CalypsoAI Named a Top-Two Finalist at RSAC™ 2025 Innovation Sandbox, Defining the Future of AI Security

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Recognition Reinforces CalypsoAI’s Position as the Most Advanced Adaptive AI Security Platform for the Agentic Era

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — CalypsoAI, the leader in enterprise AI security, has been named a top-two finalist at the prestigious RSAC™ 2025 Innovation Sandbox contest, the cybersecurity industry’s foremost competition for emerging technologies. This recognition validates CalypsoAI’s unmatched innovation and leadership at a time when enterprises urgently need real-time, adaptive security for dynamic AI systems and agents.

“Being named a top-two finalist at the RSAC Innovation Sandbox is recognition of our commitment to advancing a future where enterprises can innovate and grow safely, powered by AI,” said Donnchadh Casey, CEO of CalypsoAI. “Our vision is a world where organizations can fully embrace AI’s potential — not just to protect AI itself, but to enhance the security and resilience of the entire enterprise.”

CalypsoAI’s groundbreaking Inference Platform offers a full-lifecycle AI security architecture that protects AI systems and agents at inference — where decisions are made, risks emerge, and trust must be earned. The panel of industry expert judges praised CalypsoAI’s focus on securing AI systems and agents, which have the potential to transform enterprises in the immediate future.

The RSA Innovation Sandbox is renowned for spotlighting transformational companies that redefine the security landscape. Finalists have collectively raised over $16.4 billion and driven over 90 acquisitions since the contest’s inception.

More than 200 companies applied for this year’s Innovation Sandbox contest, which is in its 20th year. The judges selected CalypsoAI as a top-two finalist from ten finalists, following product demonstrations, a live onstage pitch, and a Q&A session at RSAC™ 2025 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

CalypsoAI’s platform stands apart by delivering:

The CASI Score (CalypsoAI Security Index): A proprietary metric quantifying security beyond simplistic attack success rates, offering enterprises actionable transparency and continuously updated benchmarks for AI security posture.Agentic Warfare™ and Resistance Scoring: Deploying a team of autonomous agents to evaluate and continuously red-team AI systems, exposing vulnerabilities introduced by model choice, system architecture, and data access.AI Security Gateway with Deep Content Inspection: Blocking prompt injection, data leakage, and adversarial misuse in real time.Autonomous Exposure Management: Combining agentic-powered red-teaming and real-time defense to identify and remediate vulnerabilities before they cause harm.

CalypsoAI’s Inference Platform currently runs over 50,000 continuously evolving signature attacks, delivering the most advanced real-time protection. Recent stress tests saw CalypsoAI’s Inference Red-Team agents successfully compromise every major foundation model, proving the urgent need for active protection.

As AI systems become more autonomous and the threat landscape more complex, enterprises need security platforms that can adapt and evolve with them. CalypsoAI’s Platform is built to scale alongside teams — providing flexible, modular defenses that grow as AI use cases expand. By continuously learning from adversarial testing and threat evolution, CalypsoAI ensures enterprises can stay secure today and resilient tomorrow.

“CalypsoAI’s agents are unlike anything else on the market — adversarial, autonomous, and built to mirror the evolving threats enterprises face,” added James White, President and CTO of CalypsoAI. “By combining agentic red-teaming, real-time inference defense, and continuous observability, we’ve created a self-healing security architecture that ensures AI stays resilient as it scales.”

Following this achievement at RSAC, CalypsoAI plans to accelerate deployment of its Inference Platform — expanding real-time protection, adaptive governance, automated remediation, and dynamic exposure management for enterprises worldwide that are deploying AI.

About CalypsoAI

CalypsoAI secures AI systems and agents through its Inference Platform — protecting AI with customizable defensive controls, agentic red-teaming, governance, observability, and coming soon, automated remediation. Trusted by organizations like Palantir and SGK, and backed by investors including Paladin Capital Group, Lockheed Martin Ventures, and Hakluyt Capital, CalypsoAI ensures enterprises can innovate with AI safely, responsibly, and at scale.

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PayPal Brings Together Developers, AI Leaders to Power Agentic Commerce at Dev Days

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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) announced it is leading the agentic commerce revolution by providing developers and merchants with innovative tools to create next-generation shopping experiences. Developers can now enable agentic AI experiences that allow customers to pay, track shipments, manage invoices, and more, all powered by PayPal and within an AI agent.

“Over 25 years ago, PayPal made history by simplifying digital money movement. Today, we are charting the next era: the era of agentic commerce,” said Alex Chriss, President and CEO, PayPal. “We are building with velocity and partnering with the biggest players in AI to empower our customers to access new opportunities in the AI economy.”

Agentic commerce is the use of AI to transact on behalf of a customer or business. It is an emerging space in commerce, and developers worldwide are moving quickly to create new, powerful AI experiences. The pace of advancement in the field is accelerating rapidly.

PayPal is at the forefront of this innovation. The company has rapidly enabled agentic commerce by releasing developer tools such as the industry’s first remote MCP server and its Agent Toolkit. These new industry-leading capabilities are featured this week at PayPal’s Dev Days event, where PayPal is laying the groundwork for agentic commerce by convening developers, engineers, creators, and builders, together with leading AI companies such as Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and many burgeoning partners, to demonstrate the power of agentic experiences. PayPal is moving with velocity to become an open platform that enables partners to facilitate agentic commerce around the world.

Powering Possibility with Agentic Commerce
At PayPal Dev Days this week, attendees across the AI space and partners are collaborating to build agentic commerce experiences with PayPal. Main stage demonstrations include:

AI Shopping Companion with Google Cloud. Google Cloud will demo how the Agent to Agent (A2A) Protocol can be designed to allow merchants to integrate their Gemini-powered chat experiences with PayPal’s commerce capabilities.

“With Google Cloud’s agent interoperability protocol and tools such as the Agent Development Kit, PayPal can enable merchants to transform the commerce experience with AI-powered personalized and seamless shopping journeys, all while upholding strong consumer protection and privacy as foundational elements,” said Ali Arsanjani, Director, Applied AI Engineering, Google Cloud.

Supercharging Commerce for Merchants with AI by Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS will showcase how businesses can transform an idea into a digital campaign with an agentic workflow by integrating with PayPal Agent Toolkit, combining real-time product digitization and localized marketing asset generation using Amazon Nova foundation models to rapidly create intelligent merchant applications. 

“The ability to scan physical products and instantly create shoppable digital storefronts, powered by Amazon Nova generative AI technologies, is just the beginning of what’s possible with AWS’s robust foundation models and agentic capability and PayPal’s commerce expertise,” said Rahul Pathak, VP, Data & AI GTM at AWS.

Personalized experiences with Azure AI. By leveraging Azure AI, businesses will be able to create personalized, agentic AI-powered commerce experiences that transform shopping journeys and deliver business impact.

“Retail and consumer goods companies are reimagining personalized product discovery, and AI-powered ecommerce experiences are at the forefront of this transformation,” said Keith Mercier, VP, Worldwide Retail and Consumer Goods, Microsoft. “Collaborating with PayPal, we can help brands capitalize on this moment by creating the AI tools that will help them deliver memorable customer experiences and drive real business outcomes.”

Better Integrations with Agentic Tools
PayPal’s next-generation agentic AI integration tools help overcome key challenges in commerce development. Today, developers must contend with complex systems and ever-rising expectations for greater speed and personalization. They manage too many integrations, spend too much time writing code, and have too many hoops to jump through. Agentic development flips this model on its head. 

PayPal’s MCP servers and PayPal Agent Toolkit, now for the first time, allow developers to seamlessly integrate with PayPal’s suite of APIs to build agentic workflows that handle commerce operations with intelligence, efficiency, and the safety that users have come to expect from PayPal. The tools’ modular components, ability to easily swap orchestration frameworks, and reusable logic bring greater robustness and adaptability. Structured inputs and outputs and traceable actions create better observability. The best part is that developers can begin using these tools today.

“Together with our passionate developer community, PayPal is leading the agentic commerce revolution,” said Srini Venkatesan, Chief Technology Officer, PayPal. “We’re providing the tools and capabilities to empower creators to design sophisticated AI commerce experiences that are fast, efficient, and secure. This is just the beginning of how PayPal is shaping the future of commerce with AI-driven solutions.”

A New Paradigm of Merchant Discoverability
Agentic commerce represents a tremendous opportunity for merchants, big and small. By building agentic AI experiences, businesses large and small stand to capture a share of this multi-billion-dollar opportunity.

PayPal is uniquely situated to power this growth for merchants. The size and scale of our global, two-sided network and the robustness of our data can help merchants reach new customers. Consumers can now check out in conversational commerce experiences using PayPal credentials and smart wallet features to seamlessly pay with the right instrument, at the right merchant, at the right time.

Trust is crucial to enabling agentic commerce, as consumers need to trust that the merchant they are buying from is legitimate. This is where PayPal will provide the trust and security that merchants have come to expect. Because PayPal serves merchants that represent a significant portion of the world’s e-commerce transacted volume, the company can verify the merchants with whom consumers interact. This reduces the consumer risk of being scammed by fraudulent merchants. When consumers securely check out, they must perform a one-time password (OTP) identity check to verify their purchase.

Built into a Unified Commerce Platform
PayPal’s agentic tools are a part of a complete suite of capabilities within the PayPal Open platform, from catalog and inventory management to payments, order processing, shipping, post-purchase support, data insights, and advertising. These services form the foundation for powering agent-driven commerce ecosystems, enabling multiple agents to seamlessly interact with PayPal’s infrastructure to manage end-to-end shopping experiences. Whether listing products, dropping orders, managing inventory, processing payments, tracking shipping, handling refunds and disputes, or recommending subsequent purchases, AI agents can tap into these capabilities to autonomously execute and optimize commerce workflows. With the power of PayPal’s agentic developer tools, these robust capabilities can be enabled with the ease of natural language prompts.

Visit PayPal.ai today to start building the future of commerce with PayPal.

About PayPal
PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com and https://about.pypl.com/.

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