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California AI Company Unveils Praxis Human-First AI™

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A New Category Designed to Preserve and Amplify Trusted Human Intelligence

At the AI for Good Global Summit 2026, Praxis AI introduces the Praxis Human-First Agentic Platform™: the technology, trust, intelligence, and economic infrastructure for Human-First AI.

GENEVA, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The first era of artificial intelligence transformed access to information and computation. Praxis AI believes the next era will transform access to trusted human intelligence.

Building on decades of foundational advances in AI, including contributions by AI visionary Ray Kurzweil in pattern recognition, machine intelligence, and knowledge representation, Praxis AI has identified the defining challenge of this next era: not building increasingly capable models, but building intelligent systems that remain human-directed, human-governed, and designed to preserve, amplify, and responsibly scale the knowledge, judgment, creativity, and expertise that make people uniquely valuable.

Meeting that challenge requires more than a new product or model. It requires an entirely new category of artificial intelligence.

At the AI for Good Global Summit 2026, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in partnership with more than 50 UN agencies and co-convened with the Government of Switzerland, the company introduces Praxis Human-First AI™: artificial intelligence built to keep human expertise trusted, protected, and continuously available – with people, not models, directing every intelligent interaction.

The company will present its vision during the featured fireside conversation, “Foresight with a Heartbeat: Human-First AI and the Rise of Amplified Intelligence,” with David James Clarke IV, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, and Sharyn Outtrim, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder, on Thursday, July 9, from 2:30–3:00 p.m. CEST on the Town Square Stage at Palexpo.

Defining Human-First AI

Praxis AI defines Human-First AI as artificial intelligence built on its Human-First Agentic Platform: a trusted infrastructure that enables AI to be created, governed, protected, and continuously improved, with humans serving as the conductors who guide AI with purpose, judgment, and oversight.

Human-First AI is not a single product or model. It is an integrated ecosystem of technologies designed to make trusted human expertise persistent, protected, and accessible across people, organizations, and generations.

Every Human-First AI experience begins with the same five conditions: a trusted human source, a governed purpose, protected knowledge, measurable accountability, and continuous human oversight.

Praxis AI calls the result Amplified Intelligence: the emergent capability created through continuous collaboration between human expertise and Human-First AI. Rather than replacing human judgment, Human-First AI learns from, extends, and amplifies it, creating outcomes that neither humans nor AI could achieve independently, while expanding access to trusted expertise across people, organizations, and generations.

The Architecture of Human-First AI

Human-First AI builds on decades of progress in artificial intelligence while addressing a new challenge. Inspired by the pioneering work of AI visionary Ray Kurzweil in pattern recognition, machine intelligence, and knowledge representation, Praxis AI has developed a unified architecture that extends those advances by keeping trusted human intelligence at the center of every AI experience.

The Praxis Human-First Agentic Platform is architected as a complete, integrated stack, with each layer purpose-built to address a distinct requirement for deploying trusted AI at scale.

At the foundation is the trust layer: the Patented Praxis IP Vault™ protects proprietary human knowledge through advanced encryption and access-controlled governance, ensuring that expertise uploaded to the platform cannot be used to train third-party models or accessed without authorization. PraxisShield™ extends this protection across the entire platform, providing enterprise-grade governance and compliance infrastructure.

The intelligence layer is organized around two proprietary systems. The 3D Digital Brain™ models the structure, relationships, and reasoning patterns of human expertise, enabling knowledge to be organized, connected, and experienced through more natural and intuitive interactions rather than retrieved as static documents. The Agentic Bus™, inspired by the synaptic architecture of the human brain, intelligently connects and coordinates AI agents as neural pathways coordinate human thought, enabling complex workflows to be distributed, managed, and refined across multiple models and systems in real time. The Human-First Agentic Platform is an intelligence infrastructure that grows sharper with every interaction, continuously refined by the humans who use it.

Built on this foundation, the platform intelligently orchestrates work across multiple AI models, optimizing quality, performance, and cost while supporting voice personalization, photorealistic avatars, enterprise middleware, and immersive AI experiences. The result is an ecosystem where trusted expertise is preserved, human capability is expanded, and intelligent systems learn with people rather than simply respond to prompts.

The economic layer, Praxis Universal Credit™, provides the exchange infrastructure that makes trusted human intelligence a distributable, governable digital asset. As a universal intelligence exchange layer, Praxis Universal Credit enables Praxis Human-First Digital Twins™, intelligent agents, and immersive AI experiences to be securely accessed, licensed, exchanged, and intelligently optimized across people, organizations, and platforms, establishing the economic foundation for what Praxis sees as an emerging intelligence economy.

Together, the Human-First Agentic Platform and Praxis Universal Credit represent the technological and economic infrastructure for Human-First AI: a complete architecture for creating, protecting, governing, and scaling trusted human intelligence at enterprise and institutional scale.

“For decades, we built infrastructure for information: the internet, cloud computing, and now artificial intelligence,” said David James Clarke IV, CEO and Co-Founder of Praxis AI. “But algorithms scale computation. People create meaning. The next era of AI will be defined by trusted infrastructure that allows human intelligence to persist, collaborate, and evolve. Human-First AI is our answer to that moment: AI designed not to replace people, but to preserve, amplify, and responsibly scale what makes them valuable.”

“Human-First AI begins with a simple principle: start with the human, not the model,” said Sharyn Outtrim, CMO and Co-Founder of Praxis AI. “Technology earns trust when it expands human capability, protects human knowledge, and strengthens human relationships. Praxis AI is defining the category of Human-First AI: artificial intelligence built to keep trusted human expertise protected, persistent, and available at the scale the world needs.”

Human-First AI in Practice

As part of AI for Good 2026, Praxis AI will demonstrate Human-First AI through NOVA: the Summit’s first AI-powered digital concierge and personalized conference curator. Powered by the Praxis Human-First Agentic Platform, NOVA builds a persistent memory of each attendee’s purpose and interests, mapping them to the Summit’s themes and tracks in real time to surface relevant sessions, facilitate speaker connections, and help delegates navigate the conference with clarity and intention.

NOVA is one application in a growing family of Human-First AI experiences that includes Human-First Digital Twins, intelligent agents, immersive AI applications, and enterprise intelligence solutions, all designed to preserve trusted expertise and expand human capability.

The platform’s impact is already measurable at scale. Across more than 180 institutions in three countries, Praxis-powered Human-First AI has achieved sustained engagement rates exceeding 70 percent, more than three times the industry average, while helping learners improve by a full letter grade in subject mastery. By making trusted human expertise available to more than 300,000 people, 24 hours a day and in more than 100 languages, Human-First AI is expanding access to personalized guidance regardless of geography or socioeconomic circumstance, ensuring that a first-generation technical school student receives the same quality of expert support as a student at an elite university.

Additional Human-First AI innovations built on the Praxis Human-First Agentic Platform will be introduced during AI for Good 2026, demonstrating how trusted human intelligence can be preserved, amplified, and responsibly shared across generations.

About Praxis AI

Praxis AI is creating the category of Human-First AI: artificial intelligence designed to preserve, amplify, govern, and responsibly scale trusted human intelligence. Through a strategic joint venture with Kurzweil Technologies, the company’s Human-First Agentic Platform is directly infused with the foundational AI technologies and visionary roadmap developed by renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. This partnership provides the technology, trust, intelligence, and economic infrastructure for building AI experiences that keep people at the center of every intelligent interaction.

Built on the philosophy of Amplified Intelligence, the platform combines proprietary technologies, including Patented Praxis IP Vault, PraxisShield, 3D Digital Brain, Agentic Bus, and Praxis Universal Credit, to power Human-First Digital Twins, intelligent agents, NOVA, immersive avatars, and future Human-First AI applications.

Praxis and Kurzweil share a core belief: the future of artificial intelligence is not about replacing human intelligence, but preserving and amplifying it for the benefit of society. Just as the internet became the infrastructure for information, Human-First AI will become the infrastructure for trusted human intelligence.

Learn more at Praxis-AI.com.

Media Opportunities

David James Clarke IV, CEO & Co-Founder, and Sharyn Outtrim, CMO & Co-Founder, are available throughout AI for Good 2026 for executive briefings, media interviews, live conversations with Human-First Digital Twins, and discussions on Praxis Human-First AI, Amplified Intelligence, and the future of trusted AI infrastructure. Advance scheduling is encouraged. Media are invited to experience Human-First AI firsthand.

Praxis Human-First AI™, Human-First Agentic Platform™, Praxis Human-First Digital Twins™, PraxisShield™, Praxis Universal Credit™, Praxis IP Vault™, 3D Digital Brain™, and Agentic Bus™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Praxis AI. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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De¹ Introduces Tokenized Asset World on BNB Chain, Developing Financial Intelligence Across the Full RWA Financial Landscape

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NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — De¹ is launching Tokenized Asset World on BNB Chain, the first domain-specific world under its Financial World Model (FWM). It introduces specialized financial intelligence designed to understand the full onchain RWA landscape, from trading and collateral to borrowing, credit, liquidation and agent activity, and apply that knowledge to real financial decisions.

Traditional finance moves assets through separate networks of brokers, custodians, clearing systems and lenders. Each institution sees a different part of the lifecycle, while transfers, reconciliation and collateral requirements add friction to capital deployment. Bringing assets onchain makes financial activity more programmable, but it does not automatically connect the knowledge held across trading, financing and risk systems.

De¹ is establishing Tokenized Asset World on BNB Chain, where that real-assets financial ecosystem already unfolds in live markets. PancakeSwap, ListaDAO, Venus, Binance Agent OS and BNB Agent SDK span public trading, collateralized lending, structured credit and authorized agent activity. These activities produce distinct signals: executed prices, liabilities, vault constraints, liquidations and the outcomes of agent actions.

Tokenized Asset World brings fragmented financial knowledge into a coherent, learnable model of the full RWA landscape. The domain model is designed to understand the relationships and consequences across financial operations, with verified execution outcomes continuously refining De¹’s understanding of onchain financial physics. This introduces a new layer of intelligence to BNB Chain, enabling a more complete understanding of the tokenized-asset stack across trading, collateral, credit, vaults and agent activity.

AI agents can tap into this intelligence to operate across tokenized-asset markets with a more comprehensive view of liquidity, borrowing conditions, collateral exposure and liquidation risk as a whole. This deeper market understanding could raise more sophisticated strategies, execution and risk decisions. Each agent interaction, in turn, generates new evidence for the model, creating a continuous feedback loop between financial intelligence and live market execution while strengthening De¹’s broader Financial World Model.

About De¹

De¹ is the intelligent infrastructure platform at the intersection of DeFi and AI, building the Financial World Model grounded in live execution and real market feedback. It serves developers, traders, institutions, and AI agents through intelligent execution, unified liquidity, reinforcement learning optimization, and a continuously evolving data flywheel.

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Plata reaches $1 Billion ARR Milestone, becoming the fastest digital bank ever

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The Mexico based digital bank shatters traditional digital banking scaling timelines, reaching a $1 Billion Annual Recurring Revenue  in less than 3.5 years from launch

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Plata, the world’s fastest growing digital financial institution, today announced that in September 2026 it has crossed $1 billion in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), reaching the milestone in less than 3.5 years from launch in April 2023 and less than a year after receiving its full banking license. Plata´s growth makes it the fastest digital bank in history to reach this benchmark, and puts it on par with some of the world’s fastest growing leading AI companies, underlining Plata’s own AI and tech capabilities.

Plata reaches this goal after having reached more than 4 million customers in Mexico and having launched operations in Colombia at the beginning of September. In Mexico, Plata is now the fourth credit card issuer in the country by number of customers, and the only digital bank with a full product suite including credit, debit, investments, and small business banking. Plata’s growth is also nearing profitability, which is expected to be reached for its Mexico business within the next 6 months.

Plata changed the rules by building a universal financial platform powered by its own technology from day one. By setting up its core banking system, the company proved that regulated financial institutions can scale at AI-like speed without undermining operating performance.

“By building our own technology from scratch, we proved that a bank can move at AI company speed without compromising anything. Now we are ready to accelerate our innovation, make finance effortless and accessible for everyone.” Neri Tollardo, CEO of Plata.

As digital adoption accelerates across Latin America, Plata´s performance sets a new benchmark for financial infrastructure scaling, financial adoption, and operational efficiency in emerging markets.

About Plata

Plata is the fastest-growing financial institution in Latin America and the largest private digital bank by customer volume. In less than three years, we reached a valuation of $3.1 billion with 4 million active credit card customers and crossed $1 billion in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Backed by $1.5 billion in equity investment, 1.5 in financing, and a workforce that includes 800 in-house developers, in Banco Plata we have built our own technological ecosystem, which includes a core banking system, CRM, and an app focused on simplifying the financial experience.

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Trends International Announces Kenneth Smith as President and Chief Executive Officer

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Experienced executive to lead company’s next phase of retail, digital commerce and strategic growth

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trends International, LLC, a leading publisher and manufacturer of licensed posters, calendars, stickers, wall art and social stationery products, today announced that Kenneth Smith has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 2026.

Smith will spearhead the company’s overall strategic direction and growth initiatives across its retail, wholesale, e-commerce, licensing and direct-to-consumer businesses. In his role, Smith will oversee Trends International and its portfolio of digital businesses, including Art.com and AllPosters.com.

Smith’s appointment comes as Trends International enters a new phase of expansion focused on broadening its retail presence, accelerating e-commerce, strengthening strategic customer relationships, developing new products and licenses, and pursuing partnerships and business opportunities.

“I am honored to lead Trends International and build on the strong foundation established by the company, its founders and its talented employees,” said Kenneth Smith, “We have an exceptional portfolio of brands, licenses, products and customer relationships, and we see significant opportunities to grow the business. Our focus will be on strengthening our retail partnerships, accelerating our digital businesses, developing innovative products and creating new strategic opportunities that deliver value for our customers, consumers, licensors and partners.”

Expanding Retail and Digital Footprint
Under Smith’s leadership, Trends International will continue to invest in its core retail business while broadening its digital commerce capabilities.

The company is focused on deepening relationships with major retailers, expanding distribution, improving merchandising, and developing new product platforms designed to create incremental sales opportunities.

Trends will also continue to build Trends Digital, bringing together the company’s e-commerce capabilities and creating a platform for future digital growth and potential e-commerce acquisitions.

The company’s digital portfolio includes Art.com and AllPosters.com, providing consumers with access to millions of images, posters, prints, wall art, and complementary décor.

“Trends has a tremendous opportunity to build upon its heritage while positioning the company for the future,” Smith said. “We are focused on growth, but equally important is how we achieve that growth — through strong customer partnerships, disciplined execution, innovation and a culture that empowers our people to succeed.”

Strategic Priorities
Smith’s leadership agenda includes several key areas of focus:

Retail growth — Expand relationships and sales with major national retailers and specialty channels.Product innovation — Develop new product formats, displays and seasonal programs that create incremental retail opportunities.Digital commerce — Accelerate the growth of Trends Digital, Art.com and AllPosters.com.Strategic partnerships — Forge new licensing, brand and business partnerships that expand the company’s market opportunity.Operational excellence — Improve organizational alignment, processes, technology, and execution across the company’s businesses.Talent and culture — Build a high-performing organization focused on accountability, innovation, customer service and sustainable growth.

“Kenneth brings a strong combination of leadership, customer focus and business development experience to Trends International,” said Phil St. Jean, Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of Trends International. “His vision for the company and his commitment to our customers, employees and partners make him the right leader for this next chapter. We are excited about what the future holds for Trends International and its businesses.”

About Kenneth Smith
Kenneth Smith is an experienced business executive with a background in sales leadership, strategic account development, business development, customer relationships, and organizational transformation. Throughout his career, Smith has focused on developing strategic growth initiatives, building high-performing teams, and creating long-term partnerships with major customers and business partners.

As president and chief executive officer of Trends International, Smith is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, growth, organizational leadership and business performance.

About Trends International
Trends International, LLC is a leading publisher and manufacturer of licensed posters, calendars, stickers, wall art and social stationery products. Established in 1987, Trends built its business around strong partnerships between licensors, retailers and licensees. Today, the company delivers a broad portfolio of licensed and proprietary products distributed through major retail, specialty, and digital channels.

Art.com, acquired by Trends International in 2023, is a leading online specialty retailer of high-quality wall art and complementary décor. The business offers millions of images and products through its digital commerce platform and interactive visualization tools.

AllPosters.com, part of the Trends International family of businesses, offers consumers a broad selection of posters, prints and wall décor.

For more information about Trends International, Art.com, AllPosters.com or Kenneth Smith, contact:

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