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Venus Aerospace Selected as a 2026 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum

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Selection recognizes Venus Aerospace’s work advancing rotating detonation rocket engine technology for the future of global mobility

HOUSTON, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Venus Aerospace has been selected for the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Technology Pioneers cohort, joining 100 early-stage companies recognized this year for their potential to reshape industries and address global challenges.

Many of the technologies expected to shape the future, from advanced space infrastructure to new forms of global mobility, ultimately depend on the same foundational capability: propulsion. It determines how far systems can travel, how quickly they can move, what they can carry and what new missions become possible.

Venus is working to expand those boundaries by turning a new class of rocket engine, the rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE), into full propulsion systems for defense and space, with longer-term potential for new classes of high-speed flight.

The RDRE replaces traditional combustion with controlled detonation to burn fuel more efficiently. Long considered one of aerospace’s most promising but elusive propulsion concepts, it remained largely confined to testing and experimentation until 2025, when Venus became the first company to prove a high-thrust RDRE in flight. That milestone opened a path toward a new generation of aerospace systems.

“Frontier technologies matter most when they expand what people, industries, and nations can do,” said Sassie Duggleby, co-founder and CEO of Venus Aerospace. “For Venus, RDRE does not just represent a more efficient engine. It is a foundation for faster movement, more capable space systems, and new forms of connectivity across the planet. Being named a Technology Pioneer validates the potential of this technology to help shape a future where distance is less limiting.”

As a Technology Pioneer, Venus will participate in World Economic Forum initiatives and discussions over the next two years through the Forum’s Future of Space Community, contributing its perspective on the technologies shaping the future of aerospace.

About Venus Aerospace
Venus Aerospace is building next-generation propulsion systems for defense, space, and future high-speed flight. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, Venus is developing flight-proven Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) technology designed to deliver greater efficiency, range, and scalability for defense and space missions. Venus’ propulsion systems are designed for domestic manufacturing and mission flexibility across national security and aerospace applications. Venus is backed by Mercury Fund, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Prime Movers Lab, Airbus Ventures, Trousdale Ventures and others. To learn more, visit www.venusaero.com.

About the World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. To learn more, visit www.weforum.org

About Technology Pioneers

Launched in 2000, the Technology Pioneers is a leading community for early-stage companies from around the world that are shaping the future through breakthrough technologies and innovations. These companies are selected for their potential to have a significant impact on business and society and are invited to engage with public and private sector leaders through the World Economic Forum’s global platform.

The Technology Pioneers community is part of the Innovator Communities at the World Economic Forum, which convene the world’s leading global start-ups across different growth stages from early-stage Technology Pioneers to growth-stage Global Innovators and unicorn companies valued at more than $1 billion.

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Sarah.Heine@venusaero.com
502-471-6186

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Nextworld Launches Agentic Development: Prompt-to-Production Software for the Enterprise

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New capability uses coordinated AI agents and specification-driven development to close the gap between AI-generated prototypes and production-ready enterprise systems

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nextworld, the AI-native enterprise platform for eliminating Shadow ERP™, today announced the general availability of Agentic Development, a new capability addressing the widening gap in the market between AI-generated prototypes and production-ready enterprise systems. The new feature enables teams to describe operational problems in natural language and receive production-ready, governed enterprise software in return.

AI-powered app builders have made it faster than ever to generate a working prototype from a prompt, but the path from prototype to production remains unsolved for most organizations. Crucial business functions such as security, governance, compliance, integration, testing, and long-term maintainability still fall to the teams adopting these tools, and the resulting applications frequently operate outside IT oversight, creating new layers of ungoverned risk.

The industry is beginning to reckon with this reality. Recent research has surfaced significant security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code, and enterprise leaders across sectors have raised concerns about deploying AI-built applications that lack the governance controls their organizations require. The pattern is familiar: teams move fast, but the output doesn’t survive contact with production.

As a result, Nextworld built Agentic Development to break the pattern.

A different architecture, not a faster prototype
Where most AI building tools assign a single agent to generate code from a prompt, Agentic Development deploys a coordinated team of AI agents that mirror a real software development team. Product Owner Agents translate business needs into formal specifications. Design and Development Agents build the application against those specs. Quality Assurance Agents generate and execute tests to verify the output meets requirements. The result is software that has been specified, built, and tested before it ever reaches a user.

“Most agentic development tools stop at the prototype. Nextworld’s Agentic Development covers the full software development lifecycle giving teams the ability to go from a natural language prompt to a governed, production-ready application in hours without creating shadow IT or putting the burden of security and compliance back on IT,” said Vito Solimene, co-founder and chief technology officer of Nextworld.

The agent architecture is only half the story. Underpinning how those agents interact with the platform at runtime is Nextworld’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, and the way it’s built is what separates it from how most teams are implementing MCP today. Rather than relying on a fixed library of pre-built tool calls, an approach that hits hard limits as query complexity grows, Nextworld’s implementation uses Code Mode, which allows agents to write and execute logic dynamically at runtime inside a secure, sandboxed environment. Agents discover available platform primitives, compose the logic they need for a given task, and execute it server-side. Data never enters the large language model’s context window. Role-based access controls and audit logging apply automatically, because the sandbox operates under the same security model as the rest of the platform.

The architectural foundation is specification-driven development. Rather than treating generated code as the end product, Agentic Development captures user requirements in a formal, AI-readable specification that persists across the entire lifecycle. As the user iterates, the specification evolves, and the agents rebuild the application to match. The specification is the durable asset. The generated application is a commodity that can be recreated at any point without losing the intent behind it.

Enterprise-grade by construction
Everything built through Agentic Development inherits the full operational foundation of the Nextworld Platform. Security, role-based access controls, audit trails, lifecycle management, and zero-downtime upgrades are not configured after the fact. They are inherited automatically, because every application runs on Nextworld’s metadata-driven architecture.

This is a meaningful distinction from approaches that generate standalone applications requiring separate infrastructure, security models, and deployment pipelines. On Nextworld, there is no “last mile” between building an application and operating it in production. The platform handles governance so teams can focus on solving the operational problem.

“Everything produced by our Agentic Development technology is proper Nextworld metadata, governed by the same role-based access controls, audit, and lifecycle controls as the rest of the platform. The specification is the durable artifact, not the code. Nothing built this way becomes shadow IT,” Solimene said.

Built for the people closest to the problem
Agentic Development is designed for the business analysts, operations managers, finance leads, compliance teams, and other subject matter experts who understand their organization’s processes better than anyone. These are the people who have been describing the same broken workflows for years but lacked the tools to fix them without waiting in an IT backlog.

With Agentic Development, they can describe what they need in natural language and get working software that IT can govern, maintain, and approve. The goal is not to bypass IT. It is to give business teams a way to build on a platform that IT already trusts.

Availability
Agentic Development is available now as part of the Nextworld Platform. Companies interested in experiencing it firsthand can book a hands-on build session at nextw.com.

About Nextworld
Nextworld is an AI-native, enterprise-grade platform that helps organizations build powerful applications fast, automate intelligently, and modernize without disruption. It combines developer AI agents, composable applications, and a perpetually modern architecture so teams can move from idea to enterprise-ready app in minutes, stay upgrade-safe forever, and scale without limits.

For more information, visit www.nextw.com.

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SAGE ENERGY PARTNERS WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY SAGE WATER RESOURCES ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY AND ENHANCED CYBERSECURITY HARDENING OF UINTA BASIN INFRASTRUCTURE FOLLOWING TARGETED GEOPOLITICAL CYBER INCIDENT

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DUCHESNE, Utah, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sage Energy Partners / Sage Water Resources (SWR), a leading Native American-owned and operated water infrastructure and management provider in the Uinta Basin, today announced the completion of a comprehensive security hardening of its Programmable Logic Control (PLC) automation system following a targeted cyber incident.

On March 15, 2026, SWR detected unauthorized activity on its PLC at its salt water disposal facility located in Duchesne, UT. Forensic analysis conducted in coordination with federal law enforcement and cybersecurity experts confirmed the activity was a malicious logic manipulation carried out by an advanced nation-state threat actor. The attack was consistent with a broader, sophisticated campaign targeting critical infrastructure operators across the United States energy and water sectors.

Thanks to the vigilance of an early morning truck driver and the rapid response of SWR’s operations team, the unauthorized logic changes were detected and mitigated before causing physical or environmental damage. The PLC operational logic has been successfully restored and is now protected by an extensive Virtual Private Network (VPN).

“This incident underscores the reality that independent energy operators of critical infrastructure are on the front lines of global geopolitical threats,” said Steve Crower, CFO, Secretary and Treasurer. “However, the SWR operations team response, combined with the support of world-class federal agents and our local private partners, has allowed us to bounce back stronger, safer, and fully hardened against future cyber security threats.”

Following a rigorous forensic investigation, SWR has successfully transitioned its network environment from a legacy configuration (“Chevy”) to one of the most advanced PLC / VPN configurations in the oilfield (“Cadillac”).

“Our priority is the safety of our personnel, the Uinta Basin environment, the Ute Tribe, and our energy production partners,” said Cleve Pike, President, CEO, and Member of the Ute Tribe. “The resolve shown by our team, Sasquatch Automation, and the responding agencies shows exactly how the domestic energy market works together under pressure. We didn’t just patch a hole; we built a fortress.”

Sage extends our gratitude to the federal agencies whose coordination and forensic cyber security support contributed to our swift response and recovery efforts.

With an uncompromised commitment to:

Safety: Fully compliant and top-rated in ISNetworld and Veriforce.Environment: Environmentally responsible water resource management.Data Security: Strict customer data security and perimeter defense.Regulatory Compliance: Strict DOT logistics compliance.Administrative Excellence: Advanced billing and digital financial reporting.Tribal Advocacy: Unwavering respect for Tribal Sovereign Rights.

The Company is fully operational and actively pursuing new growth opportunities. Reach out today to discuss how SWR and Sage Oilfield Services—a UTERO-qualified production chemical logistics company—can safely support the growing Uinta Basin energy industry.

 

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From Grooming to Goodwill: Wahl® Benevolent Beards Tour Coming to NASCAR San Diego Weekend

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For every FREE beard trim, men’s grooming leader Wahl® will donate $100 to veterans’ charity
(see the mobile barbershop in action from last year)

STERLING, Ill., June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Men’s grooming leader Wahl® is bringing its Mobile Barbershop to NASCAR San Diego Weekend on Naval Base Coronado, from Friday, June 19, 2026, through Sunday, June 21, 2026, to celebrate this year’s Wahl® Benevolent Beards Contest. Starting at 9 a.m. (PDT), until the race concludes Friday through Sunday, attendees can stop by the barbershop for a FREE beard trim and learn about the contest. What’s more, for every FREE beard trim Wahl® will donate $100 to support Operation Warrior Wishes, up to $5,000. The organization brings thousands of veterans to professional sporting events completely free of charge.

“Our Benevolent Beards initiative is about celebrating men with facial hair who use their passions and platforms to make a positive impact in their communities,” said Zach Wyer, Sr. Director of U.S. Marketing for Wahl®. “This contest shines a spotlight on individuals who are giving back, supporting meaningful causes and making a difference where they live and work.”

San Diego is the last stop on Wahl®’s coast-to-coast tour supporting the 2026 Wahl® Benevolent Beards Contest, which rewards men who are making the world a “bearder” place to live.

How to Enter the Wahl® Benevolent Beards Contest

From now until July 1, 2026, men with beards can upload a video of themselves either explaining or demonstrating how they support a charity on the contest entry page they can also get to the page by visiting @WahlGrooming on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. What kind of charity? As long as it’s a 501(c)(3) organization with a goal to impact the world positively, all charities will be considered. So, whether you’re an animal advocate or helping humans, you have the chance to put your good grooming toward goodwill.

Following the entry period, 5 finalists will each win $500 for themselves, $500 for their charity and a Wahl® PRO SERIESTM High Visibility Trimmer. Things get exciting in August when public votes help determine which finalist wins the Grand Prize of $5,000 for himself, $20,000 for his charity and a visit from the Wahl® Mobile Barbershop to do a grooming event where barbers will offer the public FREE beard trims.

About Wahl Grooming
Celebrating its 107thanniversary, Wahl® continues to help men look and feel their best with innovative products manufactured to define and elevate the men’s grooming category. The company set the standard with the first-ever practical electric hair clipper in 1919, and later strengthened its leadership with the world’s first battery-powered facial hair trimmer. It’s this continued commitment to excellence that has solidified Wahl’s® place as the world’s go-to brand for men’s grooming solutions. For more information, visit WahlUSA.com.

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