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Randstad Digital and Google Cloud Deploy Agentic AI to Drive Productivity and Accelerate Onboarding at Forze Hydrogen Racing

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Collaboration leverages Gemini Enterprise to onboard engineers up to three times faster

AMSTERDAM, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Google Cloud today announced a collaboration with Randstad Digital to deploy an advanced agentic AI solution for Forze Hydrogen Racing, the world-renowned student motorsport team building hydrogen-powered race cars. The solution, an AI agent known as Forze Mirate, uses Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise and Gemini models to help solve a critical challenge: ensuring knowledge transfer happens quickly and seamlessly in high-turnover engineering environments.

Every year, the Forze Hydrogen Racing team experiences a 100% workforce turnover, onboarding 50 to 60 new student engineers, who then must immediately resume complex engineering projects. After more than 18 years of continuous improvements, the team’s technical DNA—including specifications, CAD drawings, telemetry, and operational guidelines—had become siloed across thousands of documents on multiple platforms. This fragmented historical data created steep learning curves for onboarding new members and made them dependent on alumni, losing valuable time answering repetitive, foundational queries.

To eliminate this friction, Randstad Digital—a premier partner for digital and AI talent—developed Forze Mirate. Built natively on Google Cloud’s secure infrastructure, this AI agent synthesizes decentralized historical data into an accessible, conversational solution that provides real-time, actionable insights.

“What Forze Hydrogen Racing faces on an annual basis is a concentrated version of a challenge many enterprises face: the loss of critical institutional knowledge when talent turns over,” said Peter Kouwen, Director, Randstad Digital, The Netherlands. “By combining Randstad Digital’s talent expertise with Google Cloud’s generative AI, we aren’t just solving a data problem; we are also fundamentally empowering human talent. AI’s true value is unlocked when it operates as a digital mentor that augments the workforce, allowing engineers to focus on complex innovation rather than searching for scattered information and historic files.”

Using Google Cloud’s AI stack, the Forze Mirate solution enables engineers to query 18 years of engineering history in natural language, receiving contextualized, role-specific answers complete with citations to original documents—and alumni insights. The platform even processes visual context, allowing engineers, for example, to upload photos of complex wiring and instantly receive the relevant technical specifications and safety instructions.

Since deploying the solution, Forze Hydrogen Racing has transformed its efficiency:

Accelerated onboarding: The racing team has reduced time-to-productivity for new engineers by up to three times.Operational autonomy: Forze has reduced unnecessary reliance on alumni and lead engineers by 80%, minimizing technical interruptions while making it much easier to coordinate with those who have moved into professional careers.Knowledge preservation: The team has improved institutional knowledge retention by 50%, ensuring engineering breakthroughs are never lost between generations.

“Forze Mirate is a testament to how agentic AI can seamlessly integrate into the flow of work to drive tangible business outcomes,” said Joost Smit, Head of Google Cloud, Benelux. “By building on Gemini Enterprise, Randstad Digital has created a highly secure, grounded solution that translates complex, siloed data into actionable intelligence. It is a blueprint for how organizations can future-proof their human capital.”

About Google Cloud

Google Cloud offers a powerful, optimized AI stack — including AI infrastructure, leading models like Gemini, data management capabilities, multicloud security solutions, developer tools and platform, as well as agents and applications — that enables organizations to transform their business for the Agentic Era. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

About Randstad Digital
Randstad Digital is the dedicated IT and technology specialization of Randstad. As a partner for digital and AI talent, we support leading clients in realizing their digital transformation. By combining top-quality IT expertise with our global network of over 25,000 digital experts, we provide a flexible mix of traditional tech consulting, managed projects, on-demand team augmentation, and talent services.

About Forze Hydrogen Racing
Forze Hydrogen Racing is a student-led team that designs, builds, and races hydrogen-electric racing cars. Founded at Delft University of Technology in 2007, the team focuses entirely on education, innovation, and sustainability, showcasing its achievements and the power of hydrogen through racing. Since its start, Forze has built nine hydrogen fuel cell racing vehicles, with more than 500 students contributing to its success, preparing a new generation to tackle the challenges of the future.

 

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Endless Access and Ink & Switch Launch Backstitch, a Real-Time Collaboration Plugin That Goes Beyond Git for Godot

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The new open-source tool brings Google Docs–style collaboration to the Godot editor for artists, programmers, jam teams, indie studios, and classrooms alike.

WILMINGTON, Del., June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Backstitch is now in public alpha. The plugin, developed by Ink & Switch under a brief commissioned by Endless Access and funded by the Endless Foundation, brings real-time version control and collaboration to the Godot game engine. You can try it today at backstitch.dev.

Git wasn’t built for games

Version control has long been a friction point in Godot development. Artists hit merge conflicts that break scenes. Programmers spend their time fixing teammates’ Git issues instead of writing code. Less-technical contributors get locked out of projects entirely. Git was built for code, but games are far more than code.

Backstitch brings real-time, Google Docs-style collaboration directly into the Godot editor, whenever you save, your changes are automatically shared with your team, with intelligent automatic merging so you’re never stuck with a broken scene. Teams can view a full history with visual diffs, revert to older versions, and create and merge branches, all without leaving Godot or touching a terminal.

“Version control is something anyone should have access to, not just programmers,” said Paul, researcher at Ink & Switch. “Students don’t care about version control. They want to build a game and collaborate quickly. That’s exactly the right demand: get out of the way and enable creative work.”

Currently in alpha, with real-world testing underway

Backstitch is in alpha, and the current focus is gathering feedback from real-world use. Endless Access is testing the plugin with students in an upcoming game jam and across its learning programs, while Ink & Switch is engaging Godot developers and indie teams to try it in their own workflows. Early use within Endless Access, including prototyping work on Threadbare (the open-source game with a Best of GDC mention), has helped shape the tool.

Backstitch supports both online sync and fully offline workflows. It is free and open-source, and was recently presented at GodotCon Amsterdam in the session Beyond Git: Real-Time Version Control for Godot.

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Rodrigo Sanchez Lopez, Director of Marketing, rodrigo@endlessaccess.org

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A2Z Cust2Mate Mass Production Facilities in China Are Fully Operational Ramping Up Cart Deliveries

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TORONTO, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ: AZ), a global leader in smart retail technology, today announced that its mass production facilities in China are fully operational, with large-scale manufacturing now underway.

The launch of full-scale manufacturing marks a significant milestone in the Company’s growth strategy, providing the production capacity needed to support increasing demand from retailers across multiple markets. With manufacturing operations now running at scale, Cust2Mate has begun shipping systems to support both existing and new deployments.

To have a firsthand look at the Company’s production facilities being inaugurated by A2Z Cust2Mate CEO Mr. Gadi Graus, watch this video: Production Facilities in China

To meet growing demand, the Company is ramping up deliveries and deployment activities. Additional carts are being delivered to customers and deployment schedules are being accelerated as retailers continue to expand their smart cart programs. The combination of scaled manufacturing capabilities in China and expanded deployment operations in Israel positions Cust2Mate to support a growing pipeline of retailer programs worldwide while maintaining efficient delivery timelines and operational execution.

“This is a major milestone for Cust2Mate,” said Gadi Graus, CEO of A2Z Cust2Mate. “With our mass production facilities in China now fully operational, production running at scale, and shipments underway, we have significantly strengthened our ability to serve retailers around the world. At the same time, we are accelerating deliveries and deployments at Israel to support growing customer demand. These achievements reflect the progress we have made in scaling our operations and position us well for continued global growth.”

About A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp.

A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ: AZ) makes in-store retail smarter by connecting retailers, brands, and shoppers at the Smart Cart. Cust2Mate transforms everyday shopping carts into AI-powered, connected commerce platforms that elevate the in-store experience, turning each visit into a seamless, personalized, and rewarding journey. The Smart Cart platform helps retailers and brands grow revenue through targeted retail media and real-time shopper engagement at the moment purchase decisions are made. It delivers actionable, real-time data that provides full visibility into in-store shopper behavior and decision-making. With its modular, state-of-the-art technology, Cust2Mate enables retailers to increase revenue, optimize store operations, and mitigate loss across their chains at scale. For more information on A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp. and its subsidiary, Cust2Mate Ltd., please visit www.cust2mate.com

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Genesis Computing Announced as Validated Technology Partner of Databricks

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NEW YORK, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Genesis Computing, the agentic data engineering platform, today announced it has become a Validated Technology Partner of Databricks, the Data and AI company.

Through the partnership, Genesis’s pretrained autonomous agents can now deploy directly within Databricks environments, enabling enterprises to automate complex data engineering workflows securely inside their own infrastructure.

Genesis provides autonomous agents purpose-built for enterprise data engineering. Powered by the Genesis Context Graph, the platform gives agents contextual awareness of enterprise systems, workflows, governance policies, and business context by continuously learning from an organization’s existing data estate.

Deployed directly within customers’ own environment, including Databricks, and other major cloud and data platforms, Genesis transforms fragmented institutional knowledge into operational assets that agents can act on autonomously.

Why This Matters for Databricks Customers

For Databricks customers, Genesis agents automate data engineering tasks such as complex migrations, data pipeline RCAs and customer data onboarding directly within the Databricks platform while understanding Delta Lake assets, respecting Unity Catalog governance, and executing workflows using existing enterprise tools.

Data never leaves their Databricks account.

Governance is enforced by design which means Databricks customers can automate pipeline development, legacy migrations, data catalog management, testing, and documentation while maintaining compliance and data residency requirements—all natively within their trusted Databricks platform built on lakehouse architecture.

Customer Results

Genesis delivers outcomes, not just co-pilot suggestions, through autonomous agents that execute end-to-end data engineering work, embedding semantic understanding in agent workflows, and natively handling structured and unstructured data preparation.

Real results: Healthcare data platform Abacus Insights, deployed Genesis agents within Databricks to automate customer data mapping and pipeline creation, reducing deployment timelines from months to weeks, accelerating discovery and mapping from weeks to days, cutting pipeline engineering effort by more than 50%.

About Genesis Computing

Founded in 2024 by data and financial industry luminaries, Matt Glickman and Justin Langseth, Genesis Computing is the autonomous data engineering platform built from the ground up to address the growing complexity of enterprise data engineering and the industry-wide data labor shortage. Genesis deploys AI agents securely within enterprise environments to deliver end-to-end data engineering outcomes and transform institutional knowledge into operational intelligence.

Learn more at genesiscomputing.ai

Media Contact: Esther Katz

media@genesiscomputing.ai

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