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Univers Unveils Next Generation Platform for Physical AI

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2 months ago

June 17, 2026

Industry-Leading Platform Evolves to Deliver Compounding Intelligence for Mission-Critical Operations

SINGAPORE, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Univers today unveiled the next generation of its industry-leading platform suite: a Platform for Physical AI that enables enterprises to govern, optimize and increasingly automate mission-critical operations across energy, building, transportation, logistics and industrial systems.

Industries are seeking to strengthen competitiveness amid rising energy demands, industrial transformation and the rapid emergence of generative and agentic AI. Organizations face a critical challenge: deploying AI reliably in the physical world, where operational decisions have more pronounced real-world consequences. But for leaders who act with urgency, this moment presents an unprecedented opportunity to build intelligence that compounds over time and becomes a lasting source of competitive advantage.

Built on close to a decade of experience managing complex infrastructure and energy ecosystems, the Univers Platform for Physical AI transforms fragmented operational data into coordinated intelligence across assets, facilities, energy systems and business operations.

Unlike AI systems designed primarily for digital workflows, the Univers Platform for Physical AI is purpose-built for physical operations. It models the relationships between assets, energy flows, operational constraints and business objectives, enabling enterprises to deploy generative, agentic and autonomous AI with the governance, reliability and domain expertise required for high-stakes environments.

Today, Univers supports some of the world’s largest energy, infrastructure and industrial organizations, orchestrating hundreds of millions of connected assets and managing complex operational workflows across multiple markets. The platform enables organizations to optimize and orchestrate operational activities, infrastructure performance and energy resilience in real time.

Univers combines deep expertise in AI, energy and operations to help organizations unlock greater value from existing infrastructure while accelerating their journey toward autonomous operations.

“We are entering an era where defensible business advantage will increasingly be determined by how intelligently organizations operate their physical assets, infrastructure and human capital,” said Chun Yin Mak, Senior Vice President, Univers. “The opportunity is no longer simply adopting AI. It is systematically building compounding intelligence that allows enterprises to continuously learn, adapt and automate mission-critical decisions with confidence. Organizations that begin this journey today will create their own market-leading trajectory for the future.”

As industries modernize infrastructure, industrial operations and energy systems, Univers believes the next generation of market leaders will be those that successfully combine domain expertise, operational intelligence and AI into a continuously improving system of action. The Univers Platform for Physical AI provides the foundation for such enterprises to sense, decide and act across the physical world at scale.

About Univers

Univers operates one of the world’s largest real-time intelligence platforms for physical infrastructure, managing more than 1,000 GW of energy assets and connecting over 400 million devices globally. Through its Platform for Physical AI, Univers helps organizations orchestrate complex energy, infrastructure and operational systems with intelligence that continuously learns and improves over time.

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Additional Information on the Ehrmann Family Increasing Its Equity Stake in Artprice by Artmarket as Part of Artprice’s “AI-First” Transformation

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43 minutes ago

August 23, 2026

PARIS, Aug. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As announced in Artmarket.com’s Q2 2026 press release published on August 13, 2026, under the title “Artmarket.com: Q2 2026 Growth — From Progressive Transition to Artprice’s ‘AI-FIRST’ Mutation”, Thierry Ehrmann, Founder and CEO of Artmarket.com, and his family reaffirm their complete confidence in the future of Artprice by Artmarket.com—the global leader in Art Market information—and in the sustained growth of its operations. This momentum is driven, in particular, by substantial investments committed to developing Artprice by Artmarket.com’s proprietary vertical AI solutions: “Intuitive Art Market ©” and “Blind Spot ©”.

The conviction of the Ehrmann family and Groupe Serveur, the majority shareholder, in the continued expansion of Artprice by Artmarket will materialize shortly through an increased equity stake in Artmarket.com via the acquisition of additional Artmarket.com shares. All mandatory regulatory disclosures will be filed with the AMF (the French Financial Markets Authority) and published online within legal deadlines, with share purchases executed strictly within authorized trading windows.

These current and upcoming transactions are intended solely to reaffirm their confidence in the future of Artprice by Artmarket.com and to provide full support to Artmarket.com. They are in no way intended to initiate a takeover bid or squeeze-out offer (tender offer / buyout), contrary to persistent misinterpretations across certain forums, nor do they involve any failure by the Ehrmann family to disclose transactions or threshold crossings.

The ONDE extranet (Outil de Notification et de Déclaration Électronique), the AMF’s secure platform dedicated to filing official regulatory declarations (insider transactions, major shareholding threshold crossings, etc.), lists the following current and upcoming filings:

1st filing — No. 2026DD1133787 (published on 08/17/2026)2nd filing — No. 2026DD1134265 (published on 08/20/2026)3rd supplementary filing — No. 2026DD1134267 (published on 08/20/2026)

In alignment with this determination to increase the family’s equity participation in Artmarket.com, Mrs. Nadège Ehrmann, Board Member of Artmarket.com, has acquired additional Artmarket.com shares. Because the aggregate total of her acquisitions exceeded the statutory regulatory threshold, she completed the mandatory disclosures with both the issuer and the AMF in full compliance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).

Furthermore, these share purchases follow ordinary market price fluctuations, which in no way alter the Ehrmann family’s commitment to reinforcing its equity position in Artprice by Artmarket.com.

By way of an iterative update, Thierry Ehrmann has completed the manuscript of an 1,800-page philosophical and scientific treatise dedicated to Artificial Intelligence from 1987 to the present day. The central chapters of this work (approximately 450 rigorously documented pages) chronicle the untold human odyssey of Artprice, culminating in the worldwide construction of a universal memory of the Art Market, forged through extraordinary encounters with the pioneers of Art Market sociology and historic market figures who have since passed away.

These historic relationships enabled Artprice to become the trusted custodian of the collective memory of these very figures. Among other insights, the work provides a scientific account of Artprice’s “AI-First” transformation, grounded in a philosophical framework articulated in 2026 under the AI concept of “alignment.”

This multilingual work will be distributed globally in a free digital edition and as a paid print edition in bookstores. The English version will be released in late August 2026 across OpenAI, Gemini, and on Artprice by Artmarket.com, prior to the launch of the French edition in September 2026.

This brief excerpt from the raw typescript illustrates both the literary style and the philosophical premise of the treatise—namely, the role of artificial intelligence in the formation of thought and memory:

“Artprice was not born to wrest secrets from the Art Market. It was born to prevent the public Market from succumbing to amnesia. This distinction is fundamental. It carries a specific conception of freedom. Transparency is not the abolition of privacy; it consists in rendering intelligible that which already belongs to the common sphere.

The more Artprice grew, the more we realized that we had become responsible for something far exceeding the mere economic and industrial function of a database. When you own a few books, you may do with them as you please. When you have gathered hundreds of thousands of unique fragments of the world’s Art Market memory from across multiple continents, legal ownership does not absolve moral responsibility: it transforms you into a custodian of this universal Art Market memory.

To receive without erasing. To connect without standardizing. To measure without diminishing. To render transparent without desecrating. To leverage digital technology without supplanting the human gaze. To build a digital information economy without ever forgetting that behind every data point lies a work of art, and behind every work of art lies a human being.

For nearly thirty years, we lived by these principles without ever feeling the need to enshrine them in a manifesto. Then, artificial intelligence transformed the nature of the challenge. With AI, memory is no longer merely consulted; it becomes an absolute training ground for learning.

A vertical, proprietary AI can now navigate volumes of information that no assembly of art historians or researchers could absorb in a lifetime. Connecting. Correlating. Detecting patterns. Surfacing anomalies. Rebuilding affinities. Identifying blind spots. Generating algorithmic hypotheses. It is a power of extraordinary magnitude. Yet it makes the authenticity and quality of the primary source more vital than ever.

At that exact moment, the thousands of libraries we salvaged across the globe undergo another shift in status. They are no longer simply Artprice’s past; they become the ultimate guarantee of its future. A vertical AI dedicated to the Art Market is meaningful only if anchored in a memory whose genealogy is flawlessly traceable across catalogues, manuscripts, codices, photographs, biographies, auction records, cross-verified sources, human corrections, and decades of rigorous standardization.

The source precedes the model. Always.”

Artprice’s econometrics department can answer all your questions relating to personalized statistics and analyses: econometrics@artprice.com

Find out more about our services with the artist in a free demonstration: https://artprice.com/demo

Our services: https://artprice.com/subscription

About Artmarket.com:

Artmarket.com is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris. The latest TPI analysis includes more than 18,000 individual shareholders excluding foreign shareholders, companies, banks, FCPs, UCITS: Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.

Watch a video about Artmarket.com and its Artprice department: https://artprice.com/video

Artmarket and its Artprice department were founded in 1997 by thierry Ehrmann, the company’s CEO. They are controlled by Groupe Serveur (created in 1987). cf. the certified biography from Who’s Who In France©:

https://imgpublic.artprice.com/img/wp/sites/11/2025/11/2026_Biographie_de_Thierry_Ehrmann_WhosWhoInFrance.pdf

Artmarket is a global player in the Art Market with, among other structures, its Artprice department, world leader in the accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current art market information (the original documentary archives, codex manuscripts, annotated books and auction catalogs acquired over the years) in databanks containing over 30 million indices and auction results, covering more than 915,300 artists.

Artprice Images® allows unlimited access to the largest art market image bank in the world with no less than 181 million digital images of photographs or engraved reproductions of artworks from 1700 to the present day, commented by our art historians.

Artmarket, with its Artprice department, constantly enriches its databases from 7,200 auction houses and continuously publishes art market trends for the main agencies and press titles in the world in 121 countries and 11 languages.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/artmarketcom-artprice-and-cision-extend-their-alliance-to-119-countries-to-become-the-worlds-leading-press-agency-dedicated-to-the-art-market-nfts-and-the-metaverse-301431845.html

Artmarket.com makes available to its 9.3 million members (members log in) the advertisements posted by its Members, who now constitute the first global Standardized Marketplace® for buying and selling artworks at fixed prices.

There is now a future for the Art Market with Artprice’s Intuitive Artmarket® AI.

Artmarket, with its Artprice department, has twice been awarded the State label “Innovative Company” by the French Public Investment Bank (BPI), which has supported the company in its project to consolidate its position as a global player in the art market.

Artprice by Artmarket publishes its 2025 Global Art Market Annual Report, published in March 2026:

https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2025

Artprice by Artmarket publishes its 2025 Contemporary Art Market Report:

https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-contemporary-art-market-report-2025

Summary of Artmarket press releases with its Artprice department: https://serveur.serveur.com/artmarket/press-release/en/

Follow all the Art Market news in real-time with Artmarket and its Artprice department on Facebook and Twitter:

www.facebook.com/artpricedotcom/ (more than 6.4 million subscribers)

x.com/artmarketdotcom

x.com/artpricedotcom

Discover the alchemy and the universe of Artmarket and its Artprice department: https://www.artprice.com/video

whose head office is the famous Museum of Contemporary Art Abode of Chaos dixit The New York Times / La Demeure of Chaos:

https://issuu.com/demeureduchaos/docs/demeureduchaos-abodeofchaos-opus-ix-1999-2013

Madame Rachida Dati, French Minister of Culture, has granted official recognition to thierry Ehrmann’s Abode of Chaos as a ‘total work of art’, the global headquarters of Artprice by Artmarket.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/madame-rachida-dati-french-minister-of-culture-has-granted-official-recognition-to-thierry-ehrmanns-abode-of-chaos-as-a-total-work-of-art-the-global-headquarters-of-artprice-by-artmarket-302409684.html

La Demeure du Chaos/Abode of Chaos – Total Work of Art and Singular Architecture.

Confidential bilingual work, now made public: https://ftp1.serveur.com/abodeofchaos_singular_architecture.pdf

L’Obs – The Museum of the Future: https://youtu.be/29LXBPJrs-o https://www.facebook.com/la.demeure.du.chaos.theabodeofchaos999 (more than 4.1 million subscribers)
https://vimeo.com/124643720

Contact Artmarket.com and its Artprice department – Contact: ir@artmarket.com

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The Apex Institute Explains Why Skilled Engineers Still Fail Technical Interviews

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43 minutes ago

August 23, 2026

Plenty of qualified engineers are rejected before anyone questions their skill. The bottleneck is not what they know. It is a process most of them were never trained for.

Skilled engineers fail technical interviews because the interview tests a different skill than the job does. It rewards explaining your thinking out loud, under time pressure, to a stranger with limited context. Most technical training never covers that. The gap is not ability. It is that nobody taught them how the room works.

BOWIE, Md., Aug. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — There is a strange pattern across tech hiring right now. Engineers with real skill and strong backgrounds get rejected again and again, often with no clear reason.

The problem is rarely their ability to do the job. It is their ability to survive the process required to get one.

Tayo Lusi, founder of The Apex Institute cloud engineering program, calls this one of the most misunderstood problems in tech careers. The interview has quietly become a second job requirement layered on top of the actual job.

Why does nobody teach the technical interview as a skill?

Because technical education is built around doing the work, not proving it.

A degree, a certification and a bootcamp all focus on capability. Very little of any of them covers performing under interview conditions, where a stranger evaluates you in a narrow window, under pressure, with incomplete information about what is actually being tested.

That mismatch creates a strange outcome. Someone fully capable of excelling in the role still loses the offer, because nobody taught them how the evaluation itself works.

“Software engineers may be the only career where the interview is harder than the actual job,” Tayo said. “Once someone is hired, they get time, tools and teammates to solve a problem. In the interview they get none of that, and they are still expected to perform like they do.”

Why do skilled engineers struggle in interviews more than you would expect?

It is easy to assume only underqualified candidates struggle. In cloud and infrastructure hiring, that is often not the pattern. Four things trip up strong engineers most often.

They assume the work speaks for itself. They arrive ready to show technical depth and get caught by questions testing communication and composure instead.They think out loud badly. The interviewer is often scoring how you reason through a problem, not whether you land the right answer.They prepare for one question format and meet another. Years of using a tool daily does not mean you have ever explained how it works underneath.They freeze when a question goes somewhere unexpected, and read that moment as proof they are not good enough.

None of those are skill gaps. They are gaps in having ever been asked to explain the skill in that specific way.

Get the free Cloud Project Portfolio Blueprint and build a project you can actually walk someone through out loud.

What does this gap actually cost engineers?

More than most people realize. It is a largely invisible reason capable people stay stuck in lower paying roles for years.

Applying constantly, getting occasional interviews, walking away without offers.No useful feedback about what went wrong, so the same mistake repeats.Concluding the market is bad, or that another certification is the answer.Years of compounding lost income while the underlying issue goes untouched.

Often none of that is the real issue. Nobody taught them to translate what they know into the format an interview is designed to reward. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects strong continued demand across computer and information technology occupations, which means the roles are there. Reaching them is a separate problem.

How do you train the interview as its own subject?

By treating it as a subject, not an afterthought. That is what a large part of the training at The Apex Institute is built around, alongside cloud engineering, DevOps and AI infrastructure.

Walking through your own work out loud, start to finish, without notes.Explaining what a project changed for the business, not only how it was built.Staying composed when a question goes somewhere you did not prepare for.Naming a number and holding it once the offer conversation starts, which the free Tech Salary Negotiation Scripts cover line by line.

“We treat interview skill as its own subject,” Tayo said. “You can be excellent at the job and still lose the interview if nobody taught you how that room works. That is fixable. It just has to actually be taught, not assumed.”

Students in the program have reported more than $11 million in combined job offers across 41 people. Individual results vary and are not typical.

Why does this matter more in 2026 than it used to?

Because the window keeps shrinking. As demand grows for cloud and AI infrastructure talent, companies run more interviews, faster, with less time on any single candidate.

In a slower hiring market, a candidate might get several chances to recover from a rough interview. In a faster one, there is often only one. That makes communication and composure under interview conditions more expensive to ignore than it has ever been.

What should you do if this sounds like you?

Stop adding credentials to fix a problem credentials do not touch. If you are getting interviews and not getting offers, more certifications will not change the outcome, because the rejection is not happening on technical grounds.

Start with one project you can explain end to end, in plain language, including what it was worth to the business. Then practice saying it out loud to another person, not in your head. The free Cloud Engineering Career Path Roadmap lays out what to build and in what order, and the free Cloud Engineering Salary Benchmark helps you work out the number you are walking in to defend.

Is this only a problem in the United States?

No, and that is part of why the mission goes further than one country. Real skill going unrewarded because nobody taught someone to present it under pressure is a global waste. Long term plans include nonprofit initiatives in developing countries teaching foundational cloud skills and interview readiness together, rather than treating them as separate subjects.

Ready to stop losing interviews you are qualified for?

Get the free Cloud Project Portfolio Blueprint and build something you can defend in the room.

Book your free career strategy call and get an honest read on why your interviews are stalling.

About The Apex Institute

The Apex Institute is an IT career training company that trains working professionals in cloud engineering, DevOps and AI infrastructure, including the specific skill of proving that ability under real interview conditions. Students have reported more than $11 million in job offers to date. Individual results vary and are not typical. Learn more at apexedu.io.

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XMINEX Expands Its Digital Mining Platform for Cryptocurrency Users

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3 hours ago

August 23, 2026

XMINEX continues to develop its digital mining platform, providing users with an online environment for accessing and managing cryptocurrency mining-related services.

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — XMINEX, a digital platform operating in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector, is expanding its online platform with a focus on providing users with a streamlined environment for accessing and managing cryptocurrency mining-related services.

Our focus is on building a straightforward and accessible digital platform while continuing to improve the experience and infrastructure available to our users.

The XMINEX platform provides users with an online dashboard through which they can manage their platform activity and access available mining-related features. The company is focused on developing an accessible digital experience as interest in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency continues to grow.

XMINEX is placing an emphasis on platform usability, infrastructure development and continued product improvements. The company aims to provide users with a centralized online environment while continuing to develop additional features and services.

As the cryptocurrency industry evolves, XMINEX intends to continue investing in its platform and user experience while maintaining a focus on clear communication and responsible development.

For more information about XMINEX and its platform, visit https://xminex.io/.

About XMINEX

XMINEX is a digital platform operating in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector. The platform provides online tools and services related to cryptocurrency mining and digital-asset participation.

Website: https://xminex.io/

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Tarana Rawal, https://xminex.io/, 1 9203691078, xminexio@gmail.com, Xmin

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