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76.8% of Dojo Meditation Sessions Lowered Heart Rate in Early Wearable Analysis

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dojo, the AI-native consciousness training platform behind a guided meditation and mindfulness app focused on measurable personalization, today released early findings from “The State of Meditation 2026: What Actually Calms the Human Body,” an aggregate analysis of first-party meditation session data with second-by-second heart-rate measurement that was cleaned into research-ready session metrics.

Across hundreds of qualified meditation sessions, heart rate decreased in 76.8% of sessions. The average heart-rate drop was 6.5 beats per minute, the median heart-rate drop was 5.11 beats per minute, and the median time to first heart-rate decrease was 1.0 minute. On average, sessions reached their minimum heart rate after 7.63 minutes. Among sessions with resting-heart-rate data, 27.0% went below the user’s recorded resting heart rate during meditation.

Dojo created the analysis to better understand how meditation affects the body during real practice sessions. The company analyzed completed meditation sessions with sufficient per-minute heart-rate coverage from H1 2026, using anonymized aggregate data from its research warehouse. Sessions without enough usable physiological data were excluded from the research cohort.

“Meditation should be measurable,” said Asaf Shamir, Founder and CEO of Dojo. “People should be able to see when their body is responding, not just guess whether a practice worked. Heart rate is not the whole story, but it gives us a real physiological signal that can help make meditation more concrete.”

Meditation is often described through subjective experience: calmer, clearer, less reactive, or more grounded. Dojo’s research adds a physiological layer by looking at how the body changes second by second during actual sessions. In the analyzed dataset, the average session duration was 12.36 minutes, the median first heart-rate decrease occurred after 1.0 minute, and the average session reached its minimum heart rate after 7.63 minutes.

Dojo is built for people who want more than static audio libraries. The company creates personalized meditation sessions that adapt based on user goals, preferences, and physiological signals such as heart rate. The product is designed to help users discover which meditation exercises and techniques, from focus and visualization to breath work, body scans, and other practice structures, appear to shift their state.

“People should not have to guess what works for them,” said Shamir. “The future of AI meditation is not just generating more audio. It is building a feedback loop between the mind, the body, and the practice, so each person can train in a way that reflects their real response.”

The strongest aggregate finding was that 76.8% of research-qualified sessions lowered heart rate from the beginning of the session to the end. The analysis also found that sessions had an average start heart rate of 73.64 bpm and an average end heart rate of 67.14 bpm. The average absolute heart-rate change was 8.96 bpm, and the average largest heart-rate drop from session start was 11.37 bpm. Dojo also analyzed resting-heart-rate response where that data was available. In sessions with resting-heart-rate data, 27.0% went below the user’s recorded resting heart rate, with a median time to first below-resting-heart-rate point of 2.0 minutes. This release focuses on the strongest aggregate findings from sessions that met Dojo’s data-quality criteria. More detailed breakdowns by session length, meditation technique, time of day, and experience level are reserved for future reports.

The analysis was conducted on anonymized aggregate data and designed to protect user data privacy rights. Dojo used completed sessions with sufficient heart-rate coverage and treated missing heart-rate data as missing rather than inferred. The dataset includes heart-rate data, but Dojo is not making device-specific claims from this analysis. The report focuses on aggregate physiological response during meditation rather than comparisons by device type or demographic segment.

Dojo’s long-term goal is to make meditation more personalized, measurable, and responsive. Through AI-guided session generation and physiological feedback, the company is developing a system that can help users understand which practices are most likely to support calm, focus, emotional regulation, sleep preparation, recovery, and stress reduction.

“AI can personalize mind training in a way static content never could,” said Shamir. “If the system can learn from what someone says they need and how their body responds, meditation can become less generic and more useful.”

Available as a meditation app for iOS, Dojo supports custom meditation, breath work, body scan meditation, meditation music, meditation with binaural beats, morning meditation, evening meditation, meditation for sleep, meditation for gratitude, and energizing breath-work. The app is designed for both meditation beginners and advanced users who want a personal meditation guide that can respond to their goals and physiological feedback.

Learn more about Dojo at https://www.medidojo.com/

Download Dojo on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dojo-master-meditation/id6503365052

Research blog post: https://www.medidojo.com/blog/state-of-meditation-2026/

Access the complete findings: research paper (PDF) and full report (PDF).

About Dojo

Dojo is an AI-native consciousness training platform built in California. The company creates adaptive meditation experiences based on user goals and physiological feedback, including heart rate and related signals. Unlike traditional apps built around static content libraries, Dojo helps users generate personalized meditation sessions in real time, making meditation more measurable, customizable, and responsive.

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WIDTH Shortlisted for Compliance AI Solution of the Year at ICA Compliance Awards APAC 2026

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SINGAPORE, June 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — WIDTH is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted for Compliance AI Solution of the Year at the ICA Compliance Awards APAC 2026.

The ICA Compliance Awards celebrate outstanding achievements, collaboration, and innovation across the global compliance and financial crime prevention community.

Following a thorough judging process, WIDTH has been shortlisted ahead of the official online awards presentation to be held on 21 July 2026.

The judging panel was made up of a diverse range of highly influential and respected figures within the compliance and financial crime prevention community. This includes Esme Hodson, Member & Chief Compliance Officer, SC Ventures; Preeti Khasturi, Market Head of Risk & Compliance (South Asia & Australasia), TMF Group; Teng Kuan Siong, Client Outreach Manager, Director, Bank of America; Li Yi Yeoh, Head of Compliance Technology, UOB; Manish Bisht, Financial Crime & Compliance, Concentrix; and more.

WIDTH’s entry for Compliance AI Solution of the Year highlighted its All-in-One Compliance and Risk Decision Intelligence Platform, designed to help regulated organisations manage financial crime and compliance risks through connected workflows, explainable risk scoring, AI-assisted case review, and auditable evidence management. The solution supports compliance teams across onboarding, screening, transaction monitoring, case management, review, and audit preparation, with human reviewers retaining final decision authority.

Chye Kit Chionh, Co-Founder & CEO of WIDTH, commented:
“We are honoured to be shortlisted for Compliance AI Solution of the Year at the ICA Compliance Awards APAC 2026. This recognition reflects the hard work of the WIDTH team in building practical, auditable, and AI-native compliance solutions for regulated businesses across APAC. Our focus remains on helping compliance teams connect data, workflows, evidence, and human judgement in a clear and accountable process.”

ICA’s President, Pekka Dare, commented:
“On behalf of ICA, I would like to personally thank everyone who entered the ICA Compliance Awards APAC. It gives me great pleasure to congratulate WIDTH on being shortlisted as a finalist in the category of Compliance AI Solution of the Year. All of the entrants represent the very best of what our industry has to offer, and I am looking forward to welcoming all our finalists to the awards presentation online on 21 July.”
The selected winners will be announced during the online awards presentation on 21 July 2026.

About the ICA Compliance Awards
The ICA Compliance Awards recognise and celebrate internal compliance and financial crime prevention teams who go above and beyond to collaborate, innovate, and raise compliance standards across the globe. These awards promote best practice, champion the profession, and highlight the importance of compliance and financial crime prevention in today’s constantly changing regulatory, geopolitical, and business environment.

About ICA
The International Compliance Association (ICA) is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills, and behaviour of over 160,000 professionals, either through its internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester, or through accredited in-company training.

About WIDTH
WIDTH is an All-in-One Compliance and Risk Decision Intelligence Platform built to help regulated businesses identify, assess, and manage financial crime and compliance risks across the customer lifecycle. The platform connects onboarding, screening, transaction monitoring, case management, AI-assisted review, and audit evidence into one unified workflow. Headquartered in Singapore, WIDTH supports financial institutions, fintechs, digital asset businesses, payment companies, corporate service providers, and other regulated organisations across APAC.

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Noida International Airport selects Octave Attune EAM to build a unified asset intelligence foundation

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The new deployment extends Octave’s mission to unleash intelligence at scale across India’s rapidly expanding aviation sector.

JEWAR, India, June 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Octave Intelligence plc (NASDAQ: OCTV), the global leader in software for the world’s most critical facilities and infrastructure, announced today that Noida International Airport (NIA) had adopted Octave Attune EAM (formerly HxGN EAM) as its enterprise asset management platform. Attune EAM will support the airport’s long‑term operational readiness and enhance passenger experience.

The new greenfield hub opened its first phase on 28 March and is set to become one of Asia’s largest, with capacity scaling from 12 million passengers at opening to as much as 70 million by 2050.

India has doubled its number of operational airports in the past decade, growing from 74 in 2014 to 163 in 2025, and has set a national target of 350 to 400 airports by 2047. Jewar’s new airport sits at the center of this effort, built to relieve congestion across the Delhi region and serve as a national and international gateway.

Building a connected asset ecosystem from day one

NIA selected Attune EAM during the construction phase, to help the airport realize a commitment to a unified, data‑centric approach to asset intelligence from the start of operations.

Attune EAM is now deployed, with the objective of creating a structured, comprehensive registry for critical assets: including runways, taxiways, airfield lighting, terminal facilities, baggage systems, HVAC units, e‑gates and vehicle fleets.

This single system of record gives NIA a reliable foundation for preventive maintenance, lifecycle planning and regulatory compliance across a complex, safety-critical airport environment.

The deployment began as a standalone platform during the commissioning period and will progressively expand to integrate with systems such as ERP, GIS (Geographic Information Systems), BMS (Building Management Systems) and BIM. These integrations will gradually knit together real‑world conditions, historical data and operational workflows, thus strengthening the airport’s ability to make informed decisions across its lifecycle. Attune EAM’s built‑in energy management capabilities will also help NIA monitor consumption across water, air, gas and electricity as part of its sustainability commitments.

A digital infrastructure for a new era of Indian aviation

India’s newest international hub was designed to serve millions of passengers without inheriting the fragmentation historically seen in airport operations. Instead, Attune EAM provides connected intelligence that moves maintenance planning away from reactive repairs toward condition‑based decisions informed by performance baselines.

This capability aligns with India’s wider push for digital infrastructure and self-reliance across aviation technology. With ₹150 billion committed to modernising airport systems by 2028, a unified approach to asset, safety and compliance data becomes critical as the country expands its network of greenfield and upgraded brownfield airports.

“Airports operate at a level of complexity where clarity and proactivity are of the utmost importance,” said Chanpreet Sahni, Vice President, India, Octave. “Noida International Airport chose to design for intelligence from day one. Attune EAM gives the airport a single source of truth that connects asset performance, maintenance activity and operational insight. This foundation will help NIA deliver a reliable, efficient experience as it scales into one of Asia’s most important aviation hubs.”

About Octave

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle – Design, Build, Operate and Protect – where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.

Octave has approximately 7,200 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

 

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Zorgm Pro achieves 98.5% on NEET PG benchmark with source-grounded clinical AI

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Educational reference answer engine for verified physicians becomes one of the first source-grounded clinical AI systems to surpass the 95% threshold on a publicly verifiable NEET PG benchmark

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Achieved a 98.54% score on the NEET PG 2025 benchmark using a publicly documented evaluation methodologyEvery answer is backed by citations from peer-reviewed journals, clinical guidelines, and regulator-approved sources to help reduce AI hallucinationsAvailable free for verified physicians, with clinical-language outputs designed specifically for medical education and practice

MUMBAI, India, June 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In a major breakthrough for clinical artificial intelligence, the LaennecAI Clinical Research Team announced today that Zorgm Pro, an educational reference answer engine built exclusively for verified physicians, achieved a score of 98.54% on a publicly verifiable reconstruction of India’s National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for Postgraduate medical courses (NEET PG) 2025 paper.

According to the company’s evaluation, Zorgm Pro answered 152 of 154 questions correctly, with one incorrect answer and one unanswered question. The benchmark was conducted using a documented methodology that has been made publicly available for independent review.

The result demonstrates the potential of source-grounded clinical AI systems to perform at a high level on complex medical education benchmarks while maintaining transparency through evidence-backed responses.

Zorgm Pro is raising the bar for clinical AI

Unlike conventional AI systems that generate responses without source attribution, Zorgm Pro utilizes an end-to-end Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture designed to reduce hallucinations. The platform retrieves information from a curated library of peer-reviewed journals, clinical guidelines, and regulator-approved drug labels, providing citations alongside responses.

The evaluation conducted by the LaennecAI Clinical Research Team found that Zorgm Pro performed strongly when assessed against the NEET PG benchmark and compared with other widely available AI systems evaluated under the same framework.

A notable example occurred on a question regarding paediatric HIV vertical-transmission prophylaxis, where Zorgm Pro cited India’s national PPTCT guidance (NACO India), international NIH Perinatal Guidelines, and relevant FDA-approved references in support of its response.

“The results are impressive. The real win is achieving them with an AI that is less prone to hallucinations, one that looks up only curated, evidence-based sources, and is not a black-box system,” said Dr. Akhil Das, Clinical Lead at LaennecAI.

“We built Zorgm Pro because doctors deserve AI they can trust,” added Dr. Arathy Varghese, Co-founder and CTO of LaennecAI. “An answer is only as good as the evidence behind it. Ours comes with the source attached every time, so a doctor never has to take it on faith.”

Elite medical education, democratized at zero cost

NEET PG is the primary gateway to specialist training for medical graduates in India, with up to 230,000 candidates competing each year. By offering a specialized clinical AI platform free for credentialed medical professionals, Zorgm Pro aims to support medical education, self-learning, and evidence-based reference.

In alignment with scientific transparency, the LaennecAI Clinical Research Team has published its technical methodology online. The corrected text-only question subset, prompt templates, and grading methodology have been made publicly accessible for independent review.

About LaennecAI 

LaennecAI is a medical AI company with teams across London, Cardiff, Birmingham, and Kochi. The company builds clinically focused AI tools for doctors and patients under the Zorgm brand. Its products include Zorgm Pro, a free clinician-only medical education answer engine for continuing medical education, self-learning, and evidence-based reference, alongside patient-facing self-management technologies and an AI as Medical Device digital stethoscope for respiratory and cardiac monitoring. 

LaennecAI’s approach is grounded in curated medical sources, clinical governance, privacy, and regional relevance. 

 

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