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Anduril Industries and Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Partner with RealTruck for Custom Military Utilitarian Truck Build for Charity

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Truck to Cross the Block at Barrett-Jackson’s Inaugural 2026 Columbus Auction with Proceeds Supporting Call of Duty Endowment, a Non-Profit Supporting Veterans

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — American inventor and entrepreneur Palmer Luckey has embarked on a distinctive collaboration with RealTruck, America’s leading truck accessory brand for a custom military utilitarian Chevy 1500 Silverado build that will be auctioned off for charity, in support of veterans.

Known for designing the Oculus Rift and founding Oculus VR and Anduril Industries, Luckey’s involvement underscores a commitment to pushing boundaries in vehicle design and functionality alongside RealTruck’s extensive customization capabilities. The meticulously crafted truck will appear at NASCAR’s weekend series at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego, Calif., from June 19–21.

Following its display, the custom truck built by Matt Hunt Muscle Cars will be auctioned off at the inaugural 2026 Barrett-Jackson Columbus Auction at the Ohio Expo Center & State Fairgrounds, June 25–27. A lucky bidder will have the rare chance to acquire this exceptional vehicle, with 100% of the hammer price benefiting the Call of Duty Endowment, which seeks to help veterans find high-quality careers after their service, and has placed more than 169,000 veterans into jobs since its founding. Barrett-Jackson waives all consignment fees and sales commissions for charity vehicles.

“We are absolutely revved up to showcase this incredible utilitarian truck, a testament to our dynamic partnership with the visionary Palmer Luckey, while continuing to give back through meaningful charitable efforts like the Call of Duty Endowment,” said RealTruck Vice President of Marketing Lee Riser. “This collaboration truly pushes the boundaries of customization and we can’t wait for fans to see it.”

The custom truck showcases a fusion of rugged utility and cutting-edge innovation with RealTruck’s new Ascend Cap, RealTruck Traction recovery winch, Superlift 6″ suspension, custom tube doors and more. 

“I am absolutely thrilled to collaborate with RealTruck on this groundbreaking project, bringing together cutting-edge design and rugged utility,” said Palmer Luckey. “This isn’t just about building a truck; it’s about a vision that showcases what’s possible when innovation meets American craftsmanship, and leveraging that momentum to give back, raise awareness, and drive meaningful impact for our veterans.”

“We are deeply honored to feature this incredible custom Chevy Silverado on our auction block in Columbus,” said Craig Jackson, chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson. “Palmer Luckey and RealTruck have created a truly unique vehicle that perfectly fuses American innovation with rugged, military-inspired utility. Barrett-Jackson has a long, proud history of supporting our nation’s heroes, and we are thrilled that one hundred percent of the hammer price for this spectacular build will benefit the Call of Duty Endowment to help veterans secure meaningful, high-quality careers.”

“This campaign is about much more than a remarkable vehicle—it’s about helping veterans launch meaningful, high-quality careers,” said Dan Goldenberg, President of the Call of Duty Endowment. “Thanks to Anduril, RealTruck, and Barrett-Jackson every dollar raised will help our grantees provide veterans with practical, proven employment support—from resumes and interview practice to employer connections—at 1/14th the cost of comparable federal efforts. Veterans should never have to pay for help finding work, and collaborations like this make sure they don’t have to.”

This partnership highlights RealTruck’s dedication to innovation and its ability to collaborate on projects that resonate with a broad audience, from truck enthusiasts to technology pioneers.

For more information, please visit RealTruck.com, Barrett-Jackson.com, Anduril.com and follow on Instagramsm, TikToksm, Facebooksm, and LinkedInsm.

About RealTruck
RealTruck is the world’s premier accessory manufacturer for truck, Jeep®, Bronco® and off-road enthusiasts. Globally headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, RealTruck’s 6,000 associates operate from 78 facilities across four continents. RealTruck’s industry leading product portfolio, which includes the Husky Liners total vehicle protection brand, boasts over 1,000 patents and pending applications. The company’s omnichannel retail approach delivers a seamless consumer experience online at RealTruck.com, as well as through its 12,000+ dealer network and automotive (OEM) partnerships. For more information, visit www.realtruck.com.

About Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries is a leading defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology at scale. By bringing the expertise, technology, manufacturing methods, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built, and sold. For more information: www.anduril.com.

About The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company
Established in 1971 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Barrett-Jackson, The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions, is the leader in collector car auctions and automotive lifestyle events, which include authentic automobilia auctions and the sale of private collections. Welcoming hundreds of thousands of attendees per year, Barrett-Jackson hosts live collector car auctions in Scottsdale, Arizona; Palm Beach, Florida; Columbus, Ohio; and Las Vegas, Nevada, where thousands of the most sought-after, unique and valuable vehicles cross the block in front of a global audience. With broadcast partner A+E Networks, Barrett-Jackson features live television coverage of their events on FYI and The HISTORY Channel, as well as all the cars, all the time via their produced livestream on Barrett-Jackson.com. Also based in Scottsdale, the Barrett-Jackson Collection Showroom offers a rotating selection of premium vehicles that meet the high standards for which the company is known. Barrett-Jackson also endorses a one-of-a-kind collector car insurance for collector vehicles and other valued belongings. For more information about Barrett-Jackson, visit www.barrett-jackson.com, or call 480-421-6694.

About the Call of Duty Endowment
The Call of Duty Endowment identifies and funds the most efficient and effective organizations that get unemployed and underemployed veterans back to work. Beyond funding, the Endowment partners with grantees to provide an array of advice and support aimed at maximizing impact.

Since the nonprofit’s inception in 2009, the Endowment has become one of the largest philanthropic funders of veteran employment. In total, the Endowment’s efforts have funded the placement of over 169,000 veterans into high-quality jobs and achieved over an estimated $10.8 billion in economic value for U.S. and U.K veterans through first year salaries. Last year, the Endowment helped veterans secure employment at one-fourteenth the cost per placement of comparable U.S. Department of Labor efforts, while achieving average salaries more than twice as high.

Visit www.callofdutyendowment.org for further details, including more ways to help the cause.

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Plume Named to 2026 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces® List

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Global Broadband Customer Experience Leader listed No. 58 in Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces® ranking reinforcing direct link between culture health, business performance

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Plume Design, Inc. (“Plume”), the global technology leader trusted by more than 450 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across 58 countries, today announced it has been named to the Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces® list by Most Loved Workplace® and the Best Practice Institute at No. 58, published today in The Economist. The recognition follows Plume’s Most Loved Workplace® Certification earned in April 2026 and elevates the company into an elite group of organizations worldwide whose employees demonstrate the deepest levels of emotional connection, shared values and positive sentiment toward where they work.

“We’ve made building a great culture and a rewarding work environment one of our top objectives from day one because you cannot deliver world-class experiences for 450 ISP customers if the people behind the products do not feel respected, heard and empowered,” said Dan Herscovici, President and CEO of Plume. “Being placed in the Top 100 list tells us the work is taking root. This is a milestone, not a finish line. We are committed to earning our team members’ and our customers’ trust every single day.”

Compiled using the proprietary Love of Workplace Index® (LOWI) framework, The Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces® list is assessed across the five “SPARK” dimensions: Systemic Collaboration, Positive Future, Alignment of Values, Respect and Killer Outcomes.

When Dan Herscovici assumed the role of President and CEO in April 2025, culture was immediately identified as one of the company’s first strategic priorities. Over the past fourteen months, Plume has undertaken a company-wide culture initiative anchored in building trust, strengthening accountability and ensuring every team member feels they belong and have the tools to do their best work. The initiative was not a headquarters exercise as it spanned all of Plume’s global offices with the same level of investment and commitment at every location. The LOWI assessment captured positive sentiment across the entire worldwide team.

Throughout that same fourteen month timeline, Plume has expanded its ISP partnerships from approximately 400 to more than 450 across 58 countries; acquired Sweepr, a leading AI care orchestration platform; launched the industry’s first open Agentic AI platform for ISPs built on telemetry from over 500 million connected devices; committed to open standards by joining organizations such as the RDK Community, prpl Foundation and Connectivity Standards Alliance; and deepened partnerships by deploying advanced WiFi 7 technology with marquee ISPs including J:COM in Japan and FPT Telecom in Vietnam. For Plume’s leadership, the parallel trajectories of culture and business performance are inseparable, not coincidental.

“Our global transformation required a sustained, visible commitment from every level of leadership,” said Lorie Boyd, Chief People Officer at Plume. “Earning a place on the Top 100 list validates what we hear from our people every day. They feel the change. They see accountability in action, they trust the direction we are heading and they are proud of the work they do. At Plume, we treat culture as a business imperative in  the same way we treat product innovation or customer delivery. And we hold ourselves to that standard in Ljubljana and Hyderabad and Tokyo with the same rigor as our headquarters in Palo Alto.”

Employee-sourced insights were central to the SPARK assessment, which evaluated Plume across dimensions that include systemic collaboration, alignment of values and respect — areas that directly reflect the company’s emphasis on trust, inclusion and psychological safety.

“What sets the Global Most Loved Workplaces apart is not a score on a survey — it is the depth of emotional connection employees feel to their work, their colleagues and the future they are building together,” said Louis Carter, CEO and Founder of Best Practice Institute and Most Loved Workplace®. “Plume demonstrates exactly what the SPARK model reveals in the highest-performing organizations: a positive vision of the future that people believe in and leaders who create the conditions for people to love where they work.”

About Plume

Plume created the first managed Wi-Fi platform for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in 2016 and continues to lead today with a best-in-class solution for cloud-managed Wi-Fi, security, and workflow orchestration – all powered by an unmatched dataset and AI. Plume powers intelligent, cloud-managed Wi-Fi, security and subscriber experience services for more than 450 ISPs globally, delivering reliable, secure and personalized experiences across over half a billion connected devices worldwide. Plume leverages OpenSync®, an open-source framework that comes pre-integrated and supported on the leading silicon, CPE, and platform SDKs, and supports leading industry standards like RDK-B and prplWave. Combined with powerful AI orchestration tools with its acquisition of Sweepr, Plume now offers ISPs a true end-to-end solution to power their most important workflows and customer experiences, while making deployment simpler and faster. Plume is leading the way in providing ISPs an intelligence and innovation edge to stay competitive, build subscriber confidence, and adapt to the changing needs of the market. Discover more about how Plume is empowering ISPs by helping them deliver subscriber confidence through better Wi-Fi experiences, new services, and proactive customer care by visiting plume.com.

About Most Loved Workplace®

Most Loved Workplace® is a certification and research organization that identifies companies where employees demonstrate the deepest levels of positive sentiment and emotional connection, measured across the five SPARK dimensions: Systemic Collaboration, Positive Future, Alignment of Values, Respect, and Killer Outcomes. Certified Most Loved Workplaces® are eligible for inclusion on annual Top 100 lists featured in leading publications such as The Economist (Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces) and The Wall Street Journal (America’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces), and on broadcast features on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg and others. Learn more at mostlovedworkplace.com.

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IR further extends end‑to‑end observability for contact centers with Collaborate for NICE CXone

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SYDNEY, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Integrated Research (“IR”), a leading global observability software provider, today announced that its UC&C observability solution, Collaborate, now supports NICE CXone, one of the world’s most widely adopted cloud contact center platforms.

Part of the release of Prognosis 13.3, IR’s core observability platform, Collaborate now offers enterprise teams a single place to monitor performance and customer journeys across CXone, bring‑your‑own‑carrier (BYOC) infrastructure, and multi‑vendor UC platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Webex.

“Contact centers live and die by the experiences they deliver, but those experiences rarely start and end on a single platform,” said Ian Lowe, CEO of IR.

“By bringing NICE CXone into Collaborate, we’re giving operations teams one clear, real‑time view of performance – from the first carrier hop to the agent’s desktop – so they can find and fix issues before customers feel the impact.”

Collaborate for NICE CXone: One true view

With Prognosis 13.3, Collaborate ingests and correlates telemetry from NICE CXone, BYOC SBCs, and UC platforms into a single high‑performance intelligence layer. This provides an end‑to‑end picture of each interaction, even as it moves between voice, digital channels and multiple systems.

Key capabilities include:

Multi‑source data aggregation – Collaborate pulls in SBC metrics, UC call flows and third‑party platform data alongside CXone events, giving operations teams one “source of truth” across their entire contact estate.Reporting built for operations – Real‑time and historical dashboards help teams track skills performance, team workload, agent utilization, queue wait times and contact outcomes in one place, without stitching together multiple tools.Customer‑centric analytics – Users can follow customer journeys across channels, analyze handle times, abandon rates and first‑contact‑resolution proxies, and pinpoint where interactions are breaking down.Pre‑emptive alerting – Threshold‑based alerts on wait times, queue volumes and agent utilization help IT and operations teams get ahead of potential SLA breaches, rather than reacting after customers complain.Historical depth – Prognosis 13.3 supports up to five years of history, enabling trend analysis, capacity planning and long‑range SLA reporting for complex environments.

Deeper visibility into Call Detail Records

As part of the release of Prognosis 13.3, Collaborate introduces unified Call Detail Record (CDR) search, a single database with AI-powered search, giving deeper visibility into interactions across any vendor. AI powered insight at individual call level is significant as IT teams must assess performance and experience at individual call level to identify root cause and to remediate issues.

Using Iris, IR’s conversational AI intelligence layer for multi‑vendor UC&C observability, teams can now search a single CDR database that spans CXone, UC platforms, SBCs and other vendors instead of querying separate systems.

“Iris is already changing the way enterprises use UC&C observability data to drive faster, better decisions,” added Ian Lowe.

“Bringing that same AI‑driven experience to CXone and contact center analytics means leaders can spend less time hunting for data and more time improving journeys, agent productivity and overall business performance.”

For more information about IR Collaborate and Prognosis 13.3, visit www.ir.com.

About IR
At IR, we power elite business performance. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations for more than 30 years, our market-leading observability solutions are powered by Prognosis – the real-time intelligence platform built for multi-vendor infrastructure, UC&CX and payments environments. To find out more, visit www.ir.com.

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TriNet Announces Quarterly Dividend

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DUBLIN, Calif., June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TriNet (NYSE: TNET), a leading provider of comprehensive human resources solutions for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs),  today announced its Board of Directors approved a dividend of $0.29 per share of the Company’s common stock with a record date and ex-dividend date of July 1, 2026 and a payout date of July 27, 2026.

About TriNet
TriNet provides comprehensive HR solutions, technology, expertise, and access to world-class benefits that enable small and medium-sized businesses to attract and develop top-tier talent. Rooted in more than 30 years of supporting entrepreneurs and adapting to the ever-changing modern workplace, TriNet empowers SMBs to focus on what matters most—growing their business and enabling their people. For more information, visit TriNet.com or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.

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