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Kong Launches Ascent to Eliminate Legacy API Migration Risk and Help Enterprises Get Agentic AI-Ready

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Ascent helps enterprises cut legacy API management migration timelines by at least 50%

SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, today announced Kong Ascent, a new AI-assisted migration offering designed to help enterprises make their APIs AI-ready. By automating and accelerating the transition from legacy API management platforms to Kong Konnect, the unified API and AI platform, Ascent allows enterprises to cut typical migration timelines by 50% or more.

AI agents are rapidly emerging as a new class of API consumer alongside applications and human developers. To adapt, organizations need an API platform capable of transforming traditional APIs into agent-consumable interfaces. This shift requires infrastructure that can secure agent access, provide deep visibility into agent activity, and tightly control the costs of agentic workflows.

Because legacy API management platforms were designed primarily for human developers and application-to-application integrations they generally lack native support for capabilities such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI-specific governance, agent observability, semantic controls, and AI traffic management. As a result, many enterprises face a growing gap between their AI ambitions and the capabilities of the infrastructure running their APIs.

While the need to modernize is clear, the perceived risk of migration has historically been a hurdle. Multi-year timelines, massive consulting bills and unpredictable cutover risks meant that staying on outdated infrastructure was less painful than trying to leave it.

Kong Ascent eliminates this dilemma. By introducing AI automation into the migration lifecycle, backed by human support from Kong Professional Services, Ascent fast-tracks the transition to Kong Konnect. This allows organizations to seamlessly move off legacy systems and onto a unified platform built for API, AI, event and agent connectivity, effectively closing the gap between AI strategy and infrastructure reality.

“Every enterprise software vendor is racing to make their platforms accessible to AI agents,” said Reza Shafii, SVP of Product, Kong. “The challenge for most organizations is that the APIs powering their business were never designed to be discovered, governed, secured, and consumed by agents. Kong gives customers the platform they need to make their APIs agent-ready, and Ascent dramatically accelerates the journey.”

Kong Konnect
With Kong Konnect, organizations can expose APIs to AI agents, govern and secure agent access through AI Gateway, monitor and control AI traffic, publish APIs and AI services through developer and agent-facing catalogs, and apply consistent governance across traditional APIs and AI workloads. Together, these capabilities help enterprises adopt agentic AI while maintaining the security, visibility, and operational control required at scale.

Kong Ascent is available now through Kong Professional Services for migrations from MuleSoft® environments with additional platforms to follow. Transitioning to Kong Konnect, the unified API and AI platform, provides customers with the ability to manage their APIs, events, and agents, in one place, better positioning them as they enter into the agentic AI era.

To learn more about Kong Ascent, visit konghq.com/products/ascent-ai-powered-api-migration.

About Kong Inc.
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.

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Sigmetrix Appoints Ed Walsh as President

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MCKINNEY, Texas, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sigmetrix, a leading provider of mechanical variation management solutions, today announced the appointment of Ed Walsh as President, effective immediately. Sigmetrix’s mission is to help manufacturers deliver Better Products through Mechanical Variation Management.

Ed brings more than 18 years of leadership experience at Sigmetrix, during which he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategy, operations, and global growth. Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer, where he led enterprise-wide initiatives focused on scaling the business, strengthening customer impact, and aligning execution across Sigmetrix’s technology, services, and learning solutions.

“Sigmetrix has always been guided by a clear purpose: enabling manufacturers to make better decisions earlier by understanding and managing mechanical variation,” said Ed. “As President, my focus is on advancing our strategy, investing in our people and technology, and strengthening partnerships so our customers can fully realize the value of their digital engineering investments, accelerate innovation, and bring better products to market with confidence.”

Throughout his tenure, Ed has consistently aligned engineering innovation with measurable business outcomes. Under his leadership, Sigmetrix has helped manufacturers maximize the return on their MBD investments, improve profitability by balancing product quality with manufacturing cost, and shorten development cycles to achieve faster time to market. His strategic focus has reinforced Sigmetrix’s role as a trusted partner in enabling organizations to drive innovation through a deeper understanding of mechanical variation, while also capturing, transferring, and retaining critical product and process knowledge across the enterprise.

Prior to joining Sigmetrix, Ed was a partner at Leading Edge Engineering, where he led business development efforts and served as Lead for the Robust Design and Variation Analysis Group. He has also held senior leadership roles within the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), including serving as Chicago Chapter President and Regional Director, and continues to be an active leader in the global product development community.

Ed holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and attended the University of Chicago’s Executive Program for New Product Development. He is a Motorola Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified New Product Development Professional, and a named Inventor by the U.S. Patent Office. He brings extensive global experience helping manufacturers adopt and scale technology solutions that improve engineering decision-making and accelerate product development.

As President, Ed will lead Sigmetrix’s long-term strategic vision and operational execution, reinforcing the company’s commitment to helping manufacturers improve product quality, control cost, accelerate innovation, and confidently manage mechanical variation across the product lifecycle.

About Sigmetrix
Sigmetrix has been helping companies produce better products for over 20 years through a combination of software solutions, training, and consulting services that focus on managing the impact of mechanical variation. For more information, visit their website at https://www.sigmetrix.com.

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StockOracle™ Cuts Hours of Analysis Down to Minutes with AI-Powered Insights, Recognized by Benzinga as Best Stock Research Tool

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SINGAPORE, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — StockOracle™ is an AI-aided stock intelligence tool built for one purpose: to empower everyday retail investors with the same research clarity that professional investors have access to — without the complexity, the cost, or the hours.

The platform was recently named Best Stock Research Tool for Retail Investors at the 2025 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards in New York City.

Retail investors now represent up to 35% of daily U.S. equity trading volume, yet most lack a structured way to research the stocks they’re buying. Most retail investors are time-strapped, not finance-trained, and left piecing together a view of a stock from scattered data across multiple platforms. StockOracle™ brings everything together in one place, helping investors answer the two questions that matter most: Is this a good company to invest in, and is this the right price to buy?

StockOracle™ was developed by Adam Khoo, an 8-figure investor with 1.1 million YouTube subscribers and 64 million video views, known for his timely market analysis. Backed by institutional-grade FactSet data and over four years of research and development, the one-stop platform gives investors a seamless way to research and monitor their investments:

OracleIQ™ — color-coded stock health check across revenue, earnings, growth, and balance sheetOracleValue™ — proprietary intrinsic value estimate plus nine established valuation models including DCFAI Insights — bull and bear thesis, growth drivers, risks, and competitive moat analysisSide-by-Side Comparisons — evaluate multiple stocks at once against industry peersWatchlist Builder — monitor fundamental changes in stocks before buyingPortfolio Visualiser — full holdings dashboard with sector, geography, and strategy breakdowns

Retail investors can start a free 7-day trial at www.stockoracle.com.

About Piranha Profits & StockOracle™

StockOracle™ is an AI-aided stock intelligence web app powered by Piranha Profits, an online school for investors and traders founded by renowned financial educator Adam Khoo. With over 1.7 million followers worldwide and over 40,000 students across 160 countries, Piranha Profits empowers everyday investors with proven, market-beating strategies.

In 2024, Piranha Profits was honored with the Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Holistic Trading Education at the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards in New York — the same stage where StockOracle™ was named Best Stock Research Tool for Retail Investors in 2025.

www.stockoracle.com | www.piranhaprofits.com

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Nesenoff & Miltenberg, LLP’s Boston and New York Offices Earn Rankings in the Chambers USA 2026 Guide

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BOSTON and NEW YORK, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nesenoff & Miltenberg, LLP is proud to share that Chambers and Partners recognized both of the Firm’s offices in the 2026 Chambers USA Guide. In this year’s edition, Chambers ranked the Boston, Massachusetts office in Labor & Employment: Mainly Plaintiffs (Band 2), and the New York, New York office in Labor & Employment: Mainly Plaintiffs (Band 3).

“Our recognition in the 2026 Chambers USA Guide reflects the rigorous and tenacious effort of our team, who fight each and every day for our clients that have suffered discrimination in the workplace. It is that passion that drives us towards excellence, and to be rewarded for it is a true honor,” said Andrew T. Miltenberg, Managing Partner.

Chambers and Partners’ thorough ranking process is based upon law firm submissions and feedback received from thousands of interviews conducted by Chambers researchers of both lawyers and clients.

The Chambers USA ranking emphasizes Nesenoff & Miltenberg LLP’s place as a key player among the nation’s top law firms, particularly through its unique approach in pioneering a hybrid practice at the intersection of employment discrimination and civil rights in the educational setting.

About Nesenoff & Miltenberg, LLP
Nesenoff & Miltenberg, LLP serves clients nationwide from offices across the country from its offices in New York, New York and Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is widely recognized for its work in Labor & Employment, Title IX and campus disciplinary matters, academic misconduct matters, defamation, commercial litigation, and institutional investigations. Nesenoff & Miltenberg, LLP combines trial-tested advocacy with practical, business-focused counseling. For more information about the ranking and practice, please visit: www.nmllplaw.com.

Media Contact: Marybeth Sydor, msydor@nmllplaw.com

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