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CFS named first international partner in UKAEA’s LIBRTI programme

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the world’s largest fusion energy company, is the first international company to join the UK national fusion laboratory’s flagship programme to test new tritium blanket technologies.CFS to gain early access to world-leading infrastructure for blanket testing, which includes a customised large-scale neutron source.The agreement builds on momentum from the King’s Address to the U.S. Congress in April.

OXFORD, United Kingdom, July 1, 2026 /CNW/ — The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) today announced that Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the largest fusion energy company, will be the first international company to participate in UKAEA’s flagship Lithium Breeding Tritium Innovation programme (LIBRTI).

LIBRTI is a £220 million UK government initiative that aims to demonstrate net tritium production – a vital capability for commercializing fusion energy that means fusion power plants can produce enough of this fuel component to cover their own use.

The programme is creating a first-of-a-kind technology facility at UKAEA’s Culham Campus following the recent acquisition of a high-flux neutron source.

In a fusion power plant, a blanket is the region where neutrons from the fusion process strike lithium atoms that then turn into tritium, a form of hydrogen used as fusion fuel. The production technique is called breeding, and the new LIBRTI facility will enable industry partners to develop and verify their blanket technologies in fusion environments representative of full-scale machines.

CFS is a private company based in Devens, Massachusetts, that spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2018. The company has raised more than US$3 billion in private capital, making it the best-funded fusion energy company globally. CFS is currently building its SPARC fusion demonstration machine and expects to generate electricity from its first ARC fusion power plant in Virginia in the United States in the early 2030s.

CFS and UKAEA will work together, designing the experimental setup, developing testing protocols, and conducting experiments at the LIBRTI facility. CFS will build the test articles to be used in the first investigations.

Tim Bestwick, CEO, UKAEA, said:

“The UK Fusion Strategy emphasises the UK’s position as a leader in fusion research while recognising the value of continued global collaboration.”

Amanda Quadling, Senior Responsible Officer, LIBRTI, said:

“Welcoming CFS is a defining moment for LIBRTI. Their participation adds momentum to our own efforts and accelerates the global pathway to demonstrated fusion powerplant scale technology.”

Brandon Sorbom, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, CFS, said:

“LIBRTI’s specialized testing capabilities will allow us to demonstrate net tritium production and increase confidence in our ARC blanket system design. Through this collaboration, CFS will gain hands-on experience engineering and building blanket systems directly representative of our commercial fusion power plant. We’re thrilled to partner with UKAEA and the LIBRTI team as an early user.”

Heena Mutha, Director of Fuel Cycle and Blanket Technology, CFS, said:

“It’s an incredible moment for the fusion industry that we’re building the capability to investigate the performance of blankets in a fusion-relevant environment. We look forward to this collaboration with the UKAEA and LIBRTI.”

For more information, please contact:

Mike Bridge, Media & Communications Manager, via email: mediaenquiry@ukaea.ukChristine Dunn, Head of External Communications at CFS, via email: press@cfs.energy

About the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 

Who we are 

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is the UK’s national fusion energy research organisation. We are an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). 

The work we do 

UKAEA’s mission is to lead the delivery of sustainable fusion energy to maximise scientific and UK economic benefit. We do this by being technical experts, partnering with companies and the international research community. 

At the core of UKAEA’s efforts is the operation of world-leading facilities that build a comprehensive knowledge base for fusion energy. By addressing and solving the challenges across the full lifecycle of fusion, and integrating solutions from various disciplines, we establish technical centres of excellence that serve as the foundation for future fusion power plant programmes. 

UKAEA collaborates with its partners to develop fusion power plants by providing access to our skills, facilities and expertise. UKAEA owns UK Fusion Energy (UKFE) on behalf of the UK government. Through UKFE, we’re spearheading the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme to design and build the UK’s first prototype fusion energy power plant in Nottinghamshire. 

To grow the fusion ecosystem, UKAEA focuses on cultivating skilled talent, growing the fusion industry and creating ‘innovation clusters’. We actively seek opportunities to advance fusion technologies and communicate its vast potential to stakeholders and the public alike to accelerate fusion energy’s future – the energy of tomorrow we need today. 

More information: https://www.gov.uk/ukaea. Social Media: @UKAEAofficial  

About fusion energy 

When a mix of two forms of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium) is heated to form a controlled plasma at extreme temperatures – 10 times hotter than the core of the Sun – they fuse together to create helium and release energy which can be harnessed to produce electricity. There is more than one way of achieving this. UKAEA’s approach is to hold this hot plasma using strong magnets in a ring-shaped machine called a ‘tokamak’, and then to harness this heat to produce electricity in a similar way to existing power stations.  

About Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is the world’s largest and leading private fusion company. The company’s marquee fusion project, SPARC, will generate net energy, paving the way for limitless carbon-free energy. The company has raised more than $3 billion in capital since it was founded in 2018.

SPARC® and ARC™ are trademarks of Commonwealth Fusion Systems®.

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Opus 2 expands European presence to meet growing demand for its leading litigation and arbitration solutions and AI innovation

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New strategic investments reinforce Opus 2’s position as the most trusted technology provider for Europe’s most innovative law firms and arbitral institutions.

LONDON, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Opus 2, a leading legal software and services provider, today highlighted continued momentum across Europe driven by personnel additions and market investments in Amsterdam and Paris, an expanding continental client base, growing regional demand for digital hearings, and recently announced AI innovation throughout the commercial disputes lifecycle.

Already well established with 40 of the FT (Financial Times) top 50 innovative law firms in Europe trusting Opus 2 solutions, the company’s latest investments follow a year of increased demand for its AI-enabled software platform.

Supporting firms throughout every case, Opus 2 serves as the collaborative “hub” for disputes teams as they work—from assessing the merits, developing strategy, and preparing for trial through creating the bundle, presenting evidence, providing a real-time transcript, and conducting an in-person, virtual, or hybrid hearing. Last year alone, Opus 2 delivered more than 1,100 hearings across 33 countries and tripled its subscription revenue in the European market.

“Our momentum in the European market is driven by strong demand for proven case preparation and hearings solutions that adapt to the requirements of each dispute, including delivering some of the most complex international arbitrations in the world,” said Will Carter, Chief Revenue Officer at Opus 2. “Building upon our existing investments with the new office and strategic leadership hires, who combine deep legal expertise with a genuine understanding of how disputes practitioners work, reflects our commitment to partnering with the European disputes community.”

Opus 2’s recent investments and achievements in Europe include:

Expanded European presence

Following the acquisition of AI company Uncover in late 2025, Opus 2 opened a new office location in Amsterdam where co-founder Caroline Zand-Korteweg now serves as Opus 2’s Director of AI and Market Development, Europe. Zand-Korteweg leverages her extensive background in litigation and AI to lead innovation and growth strategy in Europe.

In addition, Opus 2 welcomed Nailah Eddoo as Market Development Manager, Europe, based in Paris and formerly of Stephenson Harwood LLP. The move positions the company to better serve the evolving needs of leading European firms.

Leading AI innovation

Extending the power of Opus 2’s award-winning AI, the company recently announced the significant expansion of new AI capabilities into litigation and arbitration proceedings. Already the most used AI software for litigation management, legal teams can leverage Opus 2’s AI at their hearing to surface insights from real-time testimony, analyse evidence while it is presented, and adapt their case strategy as proceedings develop—empowering them to act with greater speed and confidence.

Creating a connected disputes ecosystem

Opus 2 continues to play an active role in supporting the litigation and arbitration community in Europe. With solutions designed for law firms, chambers, and arbitral institutions, Opus 2 creates an ecosystem that streamlines disputes from instruction to resolution. The company has recently been recognised for its work by the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards for Innovation in Arbitration Technology, the European Legal Innovation & Technology Awards for Excellence in Litigation Technology, and the ILTA Distinguished Peer Awards for Solution Provider of the Year, among others.

About Opus 2

Founded in 2008, Opus 2 develops award-winning, AI-enabled software that solves the most pressing problems facing the practice of law. The company’s best-in-class solutions are essential to the commercial disputes ecosystem and trusted by the world’s most successful law firms for their critical matters. Those solutions are built on a flexible, powerful platform that helps firms create intelligent legal solutions that win business, deepen client engagement, and simplify workflows firmwide. For more information, visit the Opus 2 website.

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Cognizant and Domyn Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Sovereign AI Solutions Across EMEA

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Partnership combines Domyn’s chip-to-application sovereign AI infrastructure with Cognizant’s enterprise integration expertise and EMEA industry reach, enabling regulated organisations to deploy AI securely on-premise and within sovereign environments

LONDON, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) and Domyn, the European leader in sovereign AI infrastructure for regulated industries, have announced a strategic partnership to bring sovereign AI capabilities to enterprises across the EMEA region. The partnership will help organisations in highly regulated sectors deploy powerful AI solutions that keep data within client-controlled environments and support compliance with European regulatory frameworks.

Domyn’s end-to-end AI system — spanning compute, proprietary models, governance, and agents —is purpose-built for exactly this challenge, and Cognizant’s role as an AI Builder and trusted global systems integrator, with deep EMEA enterprise relationships, makes it the ideal partner to bring these capabilities to scale.

Under the partnership, Domyn will provide the AI infrastructure layer, delivering LLMs that can be deployed within client environments, on-premise or in private cloud configurations, while Cognizant will serve as the application, integration, and domain execution layer. Cognizant will train and adapt Domyn’s models into smaller, domain-specific models (SLMs), build agents and applications tailored to specific industry use cases, and manage the legacy data pipeline construction, data cleaning, and model-alignment work required for enterprise deployment. Together, the companies will execute a joint go-to-market strategy targeting organisations across UK & Ireland, DACH, Northern Europe, and Southern Europe and the Middle East.

For enterprise customers, the partnership unlocks a fully integrated sovereign AI proposition. Organisations gain access to cutting-edge AI models and infrastructure without sacrificing control over their data, while benefiting from Cognizant’s proven ability to manage complex enterprise change, embed human-in-the-loop compliance frameworks, and deliver measurable business outcomes at scale. As per Gartner®, “Geopolitics is the key driver behind the demand for true sovereign AI solutions and services, which has a negative impact on global cloud providers offering AI services, such as hyperscale cloud providers. Considering the current geopolitical situation, local cloud providers offering AI services will increasingly become relevant competitors and will grow market share.” By 2029, geopolitics will drive 50% of cloud AI workloads to sovereign cloud AI deployment models, up from 5% in 2025.1

“Sovereign AI is one of the most significant growth opportunities in EMEA, and one where Cognizant is uniquely positioned to lead,” said Manoj Mehta, President, EMEA, Cognizant. “Regulated organisations across Europe need AI that delivers transformational outcomes without compromising on data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, or security. Our partnership with Domyn brings together world-class AI infrastructure and Cognizant’s deep expertise in turning that infrastructure into real, industry-specific solutions. Together, we are giving enterprises the confidence to move fast on AI – on their terms and within their borders.”

“The next wave of AI in Europe will be won by those who own and control the intelligence at the heart of their business,” said Uljan Sharka, CEO at Domyn. “With Cognizant’s extensive industry relationships across EMEA, we’ll be able to scale our vision and give the most demanding institutions the foundation to move decisively on AI, and truly own the intelligence they’re building on.”

The partnership aligns with Cognizant’s three-vector AI Builder strategy — enabling hyper productivity, industrialising AI, and agentifying the enterprise — bringing more than 60 AI patents, 1,500-plus industry-specific agents, and a dedicated AI Lab across San Francisco and Bengaluru. It also represents an important step in Domyn’s mission to help regulated enterprises own, govern and trust the intelligence powering their most critical workflows, with the partnership initially focused on customers across EMEA.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an AI builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

About Domyn
Domyn develops responsible AI for regulated industries, across financial services, government and heavy industry. It supports enterprises with proprietary, fully governable solutions, based on a composable AI architecture, including Large Language Models and domain-specific AI Agents. The company is building one of the largest AI Supercomputers in Regulated Industries in partnership with NVIDIA and the UAE.

1 Gartner, AI Vendor Race: True Sovereign AI Will Define Winners and Losers in the Cloud AI Race by Rene Buest, Fernando Pereiro, 24 February 2026. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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RWS launches Trados Studio 2026, delivering major advances in AI, performance and productivity for language professionals

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New release introduces next-generation architecture, context-aware AI, enhanced terminology management and an improved workspace experience

MAIDENHEAD, England, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RWS (AIM: RWS.L), a global AI solutions company, today announced the launch of Trados Studio 2026, the newest version of the world’s most widely used computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool.

Built with direct input from the Trados community, including professional freelance translators and RWS’s language specialists, Trados Studio 2026 offers significant performance, AI and terminology enhancements, including brand new options to bring the world’s most advanced AI translation engine, Language Weaver Pro, into the Trados ecosystem. Together they help language professionals work faster while keeping control of the quality, terminology and client-specific knowledge that define their work.

The release gives Trados Studio users greater capacity for complex translation work. The next-generation architecture is built for demanding translation environments, so teams can manage larger files, bigger translation memories, richer termbases and AI-powered features with greater speed and stability. That means smoother project handling and more confidence when working on high-volume translation projects. In testing, large and complex files opened up to seven times faster than in previous versions.

“Trados Studio 2026 reflects the way professional translation is changing,” said Matt Hardy, SVP of Products at RWS. “Language professionals need tools that are faster, more flexible and more intelligent, but they also need to retain control over the quality and knowledge that define their work. This release brings performance, context-aware AI and trusted linguistic resources together in one environment, helping users take on more complex projects while continuing to deliver the standards their clients expect.”

Trados Studio 2026 also brings large language models directly into the professional translation workflow. Users can now benefit from access to Language Weaver Pro natively within Trados. Released in March 2026 and built specifically for translators, Language Weaver Pro outperforms alternative AI models on translation tasks in 31 of 32 languages. Trados Studio 2026 also supports the most common third-party models such as ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek for full flexibility and sophistication.

AI-generated translations are grounded in trusted linguistic resources, including translation memories, terminology and custom prompts. This gives users more accurate first drafts while keeping them in control of quality, style and client-specific requirements.

Another key innovation is the move toward more context-aware AI. Instead of relying only on isolated sentence-by-sentence processing, Trados Studio 2026 can take the broader document context into account before generating a suggestion, so first drafts land closer to the intended meaning, tone and terminology and need less correction. The result is a more practical way to work with AI, with human expertise at the center of the process.

More than 250,000 translation professionals use Trados Studio worldwide. Trados Studio 2026 builds on that community, with many of its improvements shaped directly by the translators, reviewers, project managers and enterprise teams who rely on Trados Studio daily.

Trados Studio 2026 is available now through subscription and upgrade options.

About us
RWS is a global AI solutions company empowering the world’s most trusted enterprise AI.

Our proprietary Cultural Intelligence Layer, powered by 250,000 data specialists, cultural and language experts and deep domain professionals, backed by 45+ patents, makes enterprise AI culturally fluent, contextually accurate and secure, ensuring every interaction reflects a brand’s tone, context and customer values.

Through our Generate, Transform and Protect segments, we deliver intelligent content, enterprise knowledge, large-scale localization and IP protection for global growth. Trusted by 80+ of the world’s top 100 brands, RWS provides the confidence, governance and expertise organizations need to deploy AI safely, responsibly and at scale.

Headquartered in the UK, RWS is listed on AIM.

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