Creating a more seamless payment experience, the private aviation company continues to expand its offerings for the modern flyer.

CALABASAS, Calif., Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amalfi Jets, a leading global private aviation company known for its technology-forward approach, today announced a new partnership with Keeta, a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain. As part of the collaboration, Amalfi Jets becomes the first private aviation company to integrate Keeta Wallet to accept cryptocurrency.

As digital assets continue gaining traction across industries, Amalfi Jets is focused on making crypto transactions more practical and efficient for its flyers. The integration of Keeta Wallet embeds blockchain-powered payments directly into the booking process, helping create a smoother and more globally accessible experience tailored to today’s international and digitally savvy clientele.

“Private aviation has always been about convenience, access, and efficiency, and payments are evolving the same way,” said Kolin Jones, Founder & CEO of Amalfi Jets. “Integrating Keeta Wallet, and being the first private aviation company to do so, allows us to take that experience a step further with faster, more seamless global transactions. This partnership is about giving clients more flexibility while continuing to modernize the private aviation space.”

The Keeta Wallet integration is designed to simplify high-value international transactions by reducing friction commonly associated with traditional banking systems. With faster cross-border capabilities and enhanced flexibility for travelers operating in a global market, the partnership reflects Amalfi Jets’ continued investment in technologies that elevate the overall customer experience from booking to takeoff.

The announcement comes as Amalfi Jets continues to expand its technology-driven platform and global charter operations, following significant growth across its jet card and on-demand charter offerings. The Keeta partnership further strengthens the company’s position as an innovator at the intersection of luxury travel and emerging technology.

For more information, visit https://amalfijets.com.

About Amalfi Jets

Amalfi Jets is a global private aviation company redefining the charter experience through innovation, technology, and safety. Founded by commercial pilot and private aviation leader Kolin Jones, and philanthropist and financier Calvin Yoon, the company combines aviation expertise with proprietary technology to modernize how private jet travel is booked, managed, and delivered. Amalfi Jets leverages digital platforms and an in-house operations team to source aircraft, evaluate operators, manage logistics, and oversee every detail of a trip in real time, placing safety at the forefront of every flight. With access to a worldwide fleet and a team available 24/7, Amalfi Jets manages charter solutions for individuals, families, and businesses flying globally.

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PwC Canada’s AI Factory and firm-wide AI program earn national recognition for moving enterprise AI from experimentation to scalable, governed production

PwC Canada has been named a 2026 IDC CIO Awards Canada winner, recognizing the firm’s AI Factory and enterprise AI program for their impact on business value and innovation.The award celebrates PwC Canada’s shift from isolated AI experimentation to a repeatable, enterprise-wide delivery capability.The recognition acknowledges the contributions and leadership of Irene Zaguskin, Chief Information Officer of PwC Canada and Co-CIO of PwC Americas, who stood up the firm’s AI Factory and leads technology transformation and operations.

TORONTO, Aug. 31, 2026 /CNW/ — PwC Canada today announced that it has been named a winner of the 2026 IDC CIO Awards Canada, recognizing outstanding IT innovation and measurable business value delivery. The award honours PwC Canada’s AI Factory and firm-wide AI program, which have helped move enterprise AI from isolated pilots to a scalable, governed and repeatable capability across the organization.

“Over the past year, we’ve evolved our AI journey to build an enterprise capability that helps us reinvent how we work, serve clients and create value,” said Irene Zaguskin, Chief Information Officer, PwC Canada. “Our AI Factory, powered by talent specialized in AI, has enabled teams across the firm to move beyond experimentation and deliver AI solutions at scale, supported by strong governance, trusted data and cross-functional collaboration. This recognition reflects the commitment, innovation and hard work of so many people across PwC Canada.”

The AI Factory, led by Robert Bzdziuch, AI Factory and Products & Experiences Leader, PwC Canada, is the firm’s internal team of specialized AI talent, including developers, architects, designers, product managers and project managers. Solutions from the AI Factory have enhanced how PwC Canada delivers services to clients, and the experience gained through its development strengthens the firm’s broader AI capabilities and client conversations. PwC Canada’s experience applying enterprise AI transformation within its own organization has given its teams practical, first-hand experience navigating the technology, data, governance and adoption challenges that clients face when moving AI from experimentation into enterprise-wide production.

“Congratulations to our AI Factory and all the incredible teams who support our firm’s AI program and thank you to our partners who helped make this possible,” added Zaguskin. “What makes this achievement especially meaningful is that it isn’t about a single solution. It’s about creating a sustainable foundation for innovation, one that lets us transform today so we can build tomorrow, and continues to generate impact across our firm and for our clients.”

“We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the IDC CIO Awards Canada 2026. This prestigious award celebrates exceptional Canadian organizations that are leveraging technology to drive digital transformation and deliver measurable business value within their organization,” said Allice Shandler, Senior Director, Events – Americas at IDC and CIO Awards Canada Program Chair.

“This year’s winning projects are not only innovative but also inspiring examples of what’s possible when visionary leadership is paired with a highly skilled, future-focused workforce. We are honoured to recognize these achievements and the remarkable individuals behind them at our awards ceremony, which will take place following IDC’s CIO Summit Canada event on November 19, 2026, at Delta Hotels Toronto,” Shandler added.

Now in its fifth year, the IDC CIO Awards Canada program recognizes Canadian organizations and their teams for leveraging technology to drive business success, demonstrating IT innovation and delivering measurable business value. PwC Canada’s recognition underscores the firm’s commitment to embedding responsible AI governance from the outset and measuring success by business value delivered, rather than by the number of pilots or proofs of concept.

About PwC Canada

At PwC Canada, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We’re a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 6,500 partners and staff in offices across the country. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting, we help build, accelerate and sustain momentum.

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About the IDC CIO Awards Canada

The IDC CIO Awards for Canada celebrate Canadian organizations and the teams within them that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantages, optimizing business processes, enabling growth, or improving relationships with customers. The award is an acknowledged mark of enterprise excellence and a source of pride for all winning organizations.

About IDC

International Data Corporation (IDC) is the technology intelligence layer of the AI economy. A global leader in research and data for more than 60 years, IDC’s expert analysts, proprietary data sets, and rigorous methodologies are trusted by business and IT leaders to guide critical business strategies and IT investments. Today, that intelligence is built into the tools and workflows where work gets done with IDC Quanta, making work sharper, teams faster, and businesses harder to beat. Visit https://www.idc.com/, subscribe to the IDC blog, or follow IDC on X and LinkedIn for the latest industry insights.

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HUMAIN ONE and Microsoft 365 Copilot to be offered together as part of unique “AI productivity bundle” for enterprise customers, with initial target of one million enterprise users across the Middle East and AfricaHUMAIN AI PC to launch with Microsoft Windows, with enterprise availability beginning September 20, 2026

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Microsoft and HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, today announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration at LEAP 2026, introducing new offerings spanning enterprise AI applications and AI-enabled devices.

As part of the expanded partnership, HUMAIN and Microsoft intend to offer HUMAIN ONE with Microsoft 365, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft’s IQ capabilities, as a new “AI productivity bundle” for enterprise customers. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, the companies are initially targeting one million users across the Middle East and Africa.

HUMAIN ONE provides an agentic AI layer designed to enable employees to interact with enterprise applications, data and workflows through a unified interface. By bringing together HUMAIN ONE with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft’s IQ capabilities, the planned offering aims to connect workplace and business context so employees can access more relevant insights, streamline routine tasks and act faster – while helping organizations scale AI securely across everyday work and business processes.  Further plans include expanding the offering into HR, finance, procurement and IT modules.

HUMAIN and Microsoft intend to support customers in deploying the offering within their existing technology environments, including identifying priority use cases, integrating AI into established workflows and supporting deployment into production.

The announcement builds on the first phase of the companies’ collaboration announced ahead of LEAP on August 26, 2026, including plans to make HUMAIN’s ALLAM models available through Microsoft Foundry and intent to enable organizations to create specialized Arabic-language agents through Microsoft 365 Copilot. As well as bringing together HUMAIN AI experts with Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to support enterprise AI deployments.

The companies also intend to extend their collaboration to devices through a new generation of HUMAIN AI PCs, which was unveiled at LEAP and is planned to launch with Microsoft Windows.

Designed for enterprise use, the HUMAIN AI PC combines CPU, GPU and NPU computing to support AI workloads locally on the device alongside cloud-based AI services. The PC will provide access to Microsoft Windows and HUMAIN AI capabilities, enabling organizations to deploy AI across both cloud and on-device environments.

HUMAIN plans to make the first generation of the HUMAIN AI PC available for enterprise purchase beginning September 20, 2026, with an initial target of one million AI PCs across the Middle East and Africa by 2030.

Together, the HUMAIN ONE offering and HUMAIN AI PC expand the Microsoft–HUMAIN collaboration across enterprise applications, productivity and devices, complementing the companies’ existing work across AI models and enterprise deployment.

“We are building for a future where the enterprise itself becomes intelligent,” said Tareq Amin, Chief Executive Officer of HUMAIN. “Our expanded collaboration with Microsoft connects AI across the entire working environment – from models and agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and the HUMAIN AI PC with Windows. The shift is from giving employees more AI tools to making intelligence available wherever work happens.”

Naim Yazbeck, President, Microsoft Middle East and Africa said: “The next wave of AI adoption will be defined by how deeply intelligence is embedded into the way organisations operate. Together with HUMAIN, we are helping to create a new AI frontier across the region, where people can work with greater insight, organisations can move faster, and AI can scale securely from experimentation to enterprise-wide impact.”

The expanded collaboration builds on Microsoft’s enterprise technology and AI platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Windows, Azure and Microsoft Foundry, and HUMAIN’s capabilities across AI infrastructure, models and applications.

Microsoft and HUMAIN intend to continue exploring opportunities to deepen their collaboration across AI models, applications, productivity, devices and infrastructure, as well as potential joint go-to-market initiatives.

About HUMAIN: 

HUMAIN, a PIF company, is a global artificial intelligence company delivering full-stack AI capabilities across four core areas: next-generation data centers; hyper-performance infrastructure and cloud platforms; advanced AI models, including some of the world’s most advanced Arabic large language models developed in the Arab world; and transformative AI solutions that combine deep sector insight with real-world execution.

HUMAIN’s end-to-end model serves both public and private sector organizations, unlocking value across industries, driving digital transformation, and strengthening capabilities through human–AI collaboration. With a growing portfolio of sector-specific AI products and a core mission focused on intellectual property development and global talent leadership, HUMAIN is engineered for international competitiveness and technological excellence.

About Microsoft:
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) creates platforms and tools powered by AI to deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. The technology company is committed to making AI available broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Forward-Looking Statement

This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on current expectations and assumptions. Actual results may differ materially due to various risks and uncertainties. HUMAIN undertakes no obligation to update these statements.

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