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Amber Group’s Accelerator Amber.ac Launches OPC Hackathon in Singapore

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SINGAPORE, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amber Global Limited (“Amber Group”), a global leader in digital asset innovation, today announced the launch of OPC Hackathon, organized by amber.ac and co-hosted with Amber Group. The one-day hackathon on July 12 will bring together 300 builders in Singapore to explore the rise of the One Person Company (OPC) and the future of agentic services. Top-performing teams will compete for an awards package that includes US$140,500 in AWS credits and Claude memberships.

Designed for founders, engineers, researchers, designers and independent builders, the hackathon brings together Singapore’s ecosystem to build and showcase solutions across AI agents and end-to-end agentive services. The event reflects amber.ac’s commitment to supporting the next generation of AI-native founders and exploring how individual expertise can scale through the combination of human judgment and AI execution into scalable AI-powered businesses.

A New Frontier: Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty

Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty represents an emerging paradigm where AI agents can perceive context, coordinate tasks, make decisions, and execute work across software and services, while human operators retain ownership, judgment, and control. As agents become more capable, the core question is no longer only what AI can automate, but how humans can direct autonomous systems responsibly and turn them into scalable products and services.

Participants will build across two tracks:

Autonomous Agent Systems: Develop AI agents, multi-agent workflows, orchestration frameworks, productivity tools, and AI-native applications capable of supporting real-world execution.Sovereign OPC Models: Create agentic services and One Person Company workflows where human expertise, judgment, and review guide AI execution across research, coding, design, operations, and delivery.

As part of this year’s initiative, OPC Hackathon introduces the One Person Company (OPC) as a core builder model for the Agentic Era. By combining human judgment with AI execution, OPC builders can use autonomous agents to transform individual expertise into scalable Agentive Services, while maintaining control over direction, quality, and value creation.

Awards and Opportunities

Top-performing teams will receive AWS Credits and Claude memberships to help carry their projects beyond the event. The awards are designed to support participants as they continue developing Agentive Services beyond the hackathon, with access to cloud infrastructure and AI tools that can help teams build, test, and scale their projects.

Confirmed support includes:

1st Place: US$10,000 AWS Credits and Claude Max membership, with Max 20x for 3 months or Max 5x for 6 months2nd – 3rd Place: US$4,500 AWS Credits and Claude Max membership, with Max 5x for 3 months4th – 5th Place: US$4,500 AWS Credits and Claude Max membership, with Max 5x for 1 monthTop 30 Teams: US$4,500 AWS Credits and Claude Pro access

Eligibility to receive AWS Credits is subject to AWS’s startup credit policy. Participating teams must receive prize benefits through a registered company entity. Full eligibility requirements, distribution procedures, and award terms are available in the OPC Hackathon Rules.

Outstanding teams may also receive continued support through BUIDL_QUESTS, including:

Technical sharing from industry leadersAccess to mentors, judges, investors, and ecosystem partnersExposure to Singapore’s AI and startup ecosystemOpportunities to join future founder programs and continue developing their projects beyond the hackathon

Event Agenda

The OPC Hackathon will take place on July 12 at Lifelong Learning Institute in Singapore, with a full-day program designed to support participants from onboarding and technical sharing through building, judging, and final awards.

Time

Event

9:00 AM

Check-In

10:00 AM

Opening

10:10 AM

SkillsFuture Sharing by LLSG

10:30 AM

Amber Group Sharing

10:50 AM

Claude Singapore Community Sharing

11:00 AM

Hackathon Starts

6:00 PM

Hackathon Submission Deadline

7:00 PM

Top 30 Announcement

7:10 PM

Top 10 Pitch

8:30 PM

Final Judging & Social

8:45 PM

Winners Announcement

Join OPC Hackathon

Whether you are a founder, developer, researcher, designer or independent builder, OPC Hackathon offers a focused environment to build, connect and explore the future of One Person Companies and Agentive Services.

Build an Agentive Service. Launch your One Person Company.

Apply Now: https://luma.com/r6v3evdi

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About Amber Group

Amber Group is a global leader in digital financial services and technology solutions, empowering clients with tailored solutions across the entire digital financial ecosystem—including wealth and asset management, institutional liquidity provision, market infrastructure, and secure wallet services. The Group’s portfolio companies includes the Nasdaq-listed digital wealth management platform Amber Premium, the accelerator amber.ac, and the investment venture Amber Labs. Founded as Amber AI in 2017, Amber Group’s vision that the convergence of crypto and AI would redefine finance remains a core driver of its innovation and growth.

Website: ambergroup.io | LinkedIn: Amber Group | X: @ambergroup_io

About amber.ac

amber.ac is an AI accelerator program launched by Amber Group to foster innovation and accelerate the next generation of Agentive Services and AI-native companies. By leveraging emerging technologies such as blockchain and tokenization where they create real value, amber.ac empowers founders to transform ambitious ideas into scalable products and sustainable businesses.

As the flagship innovation initiative of amber.ac, BUIDL_QUESTS is an annual global builder program designed to discover, support and accelerate the next generation of AI founders. The 2026 theme is Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty, exploring how autonomous AI agents can execute complex work while humans retain ownership, judgment and control.

Website: amber.ac | X: @amber_ac_

About Claude SG

Claude Singapore Community is a non-profit community with the mission to empower, educate and encourage people on the responsible usage of AI.

LinkedIn: Claude SG
Claude Code SG: https://claudecode.sg
Telegram: https://t.me/claudesg

About Lifelong Learning SG

Lifelong Learning Singapore (LLSG) is a key driver of the SkillsFuture movement, nurturing the spirit of curiosity and lifelong learning in Singapore. LLSG empowers Singaporeans by connecting them with training and career opportunities to realise their potential for growth.

LinkedIn: Lifelong Learning SG
Website: https://lifelonglearningsg.org

Media Contact

Amber Group | Media Relations Team
Phone: +65 6022 0228
E-mail: pr@ambr.io

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TEAM LEWIS Introduces AI Practice to Accelerate Visibility and Trust for Emerging AI Companies

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Brand strategy and communications consultancy to help high-growth companies lead with credibility.

SAN DIEGO, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TEAM LEWIS, a global integrated marketing agency, today announced the launch of its AI Practice. The practice will help emerging AI companies translate complex technologies into clear, credible market narratives that drive growth.

Built for companies shaping the AI stack, the practice enables brands to move beyond technical capability and vague AI narratives to demonstrate real-world impact to the audiences that influence decisions (developers, buyers, investors and analysts). With nearly one in two Americans (47%)1 saying marketing often looks or sounds the same, differentiation has never mattered more.

The practice is underpinned by TEAM LEWIS’s experience in the deep tech ecosystem.

Integrated Work that Unlocks Outcomes:

Market Education & Authority: Brand Strategy, Positioning, PR/Media Relations, and Executive Thought-Leadership programs that turn technical, complex value into easy-to-understand authority in the conversations that shape your category.Demand Creation & Value: Campaign Strategy, Creative, Content Systems, Social, Web, SEO, ABM and paid amplification that puts one consistent story in front of the right buyers, generates qualified interest and converts it into pipeline.Proof, Credibility and Advocacy: Executive visibility, customer evidence, partner storytelling, community building and reputation/crisis readiness that backs up your claims, strengthens credibility under scrutiny, and turns customers into advocates.

“AI companies don’t have a visibility problem – they have a clarity problem,” said Danielle Malvesti, VP Strategy, TEAM LEWIS. “The market is saturated with general AI claims, but buyers are looking for proof, perspective and practical impact. Our AI Practice is built to help companies tell sharper stories, earn trust faster and turn innovation into influence.”

The practice debuts with the introduction of the Fog City AI Marketing Collective, an invite-only online community for San Francisco marketers putting AI to work in the real world. Members get weekly news roundups, access to candid peer conversations, and a consistent calendar of local meetups. Approval required; registration only.

To learn more about TEAM LEWIS’s AI practice area or sign up for the Fog City AI Marketing Collective, visit here.

Media Contact

usmarketing@teamlewis.com 

About TEAM LEWIS

TEAM LEWIS delivers creative campaigns for commercial and community causes. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in London, the agency operates across 27 offices throughout Asia, EMEA and North America. For more information, visit www.teamlewis.com.

Methodology 

1 TEAM LEWIS surveyed 1,000 individuals in the US. All respondents were 18 or older, and the sample was census-balanced by age and gender. TEAM LEWIS collected data through an online survey fielded from May 20 – 22, 2026. The survey respondents were independently sourced from Veridata Insights.

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TEAM LEWIS Introduces AI Practice to Accelerate Visibility and Trust for Emerging AI Companies

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Brand strategy and communications consultancy to help high-growth companies lead with credibility.

SAN DIEGO, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TEAM LEWIS, a global integrated marketing agency, today announced the launch of its AI Practice. The practice will help emerging AI companies translate complex technologies into clear, credible market narratives that drive growth.

Built for companies shaping the AI stack, the practice enables brands to move beyond technical capability and vague AI narratives to demonstrate real-world impact to the audiences that influence decisions (developers, buyers, investors and analysts). With nearly one in two Americans (47%)1 saying marketing often looks or sounds the same, differentiation has never mattered more.

The practice is underpinned by TEAM LEWIS’s experience in the deep tech ecosystem.

Integrated Work that Unlocks Outcomes:

Market Education & Authority: Brand Strategy, Positioning, PR/Media Relations, and Executive Thought-Leadership programs that turn technical, complex value into easy-to-understand authority in the conversations that shape your category.Demand Creation & Value: Campaign Strategy, Creative, Content Systems, Social, Web, SEO, ABM and paid amplification that puts one consistent story in front of the right buyers, generates qualified interest and converts it into pipeline.Proof, Credibility and Advocacy: Executive visibility, customer evidence, partner storytelling, community building and reputation/crisis readiness that backs up your claims, strengthens credibility under scrutiny, and turns customers into advocates.

“AI companies don’t have a visibility problem – they have a clarity problem,” said Danielle Malvesti, VP Strategy, TEAM LEWIS. “The market is saturated with general AI claims, but buyers are looking for proof, perspective and practical impact. Our AI Practice is built to help companies tell sharper stories, earn trust faster and turn innovation into influence.”

The practice debuts with the introduction of the Fog City AI Marketing Collective, an invite-only online community for San Francisco marketers putting AI to work in the real world. Members get weekly news roundups, access to candid peer conversations, and a consistent calendar of local meetups. Approval required; registration only.

To learn more about TEAM LEWIS’s AI practice area or sign up for the Fog City AI Marketing Collective, visit here.

Media Contact

usmarketing@teamlewis.com 

About TEAM LEWIS

TEAM LEWIS delivers creative campaigns for commercial and community causes. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in London, the agency operates across 27 offices throughout Asia, EMEA and North America. For more information, visit www.teamlewis.com.

Methodology 

1 TEAM LEWIS surveyed 1,000 individuals in the US. All respondents were 18 or older, and the sample was census-balanced by age and gender. TEAM LEWIS collected data through an online survey fielded from May 20 – 22, 2026. The survey respondents were independently sourced from Veridata Insights.

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SAS puts machine learning in marketers’ hands with new SAS 360 Marketing AI

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New solution brings purpose-built workflows to marketers of all skill levels, accelerating time to execution, improving ROI and enhancing customer experience

CARY, N.C., July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SAS, the leader in data and AI, today announced SAS 360 Marketing AI, a new solution to help marketers build, deploy and scale machine learning models without relying on overstretched data science teams.  

SAS launches SAS 360 Marketing AI to help marketers build, deploy and scale machine learning models.

Many marketing organizations struggle to translate insight into action. SAS 360 Marketing AI addresses this with purpose-built guided workflows and customizable recipe templates for common marketing uses that help marketing teams move faster from data to decision.

“For the longest time, ownership of analytical intelligence has lived outside of marketing,” said Roger Beharry Lall, Research Director at IDC. “As such, this predictive intelligence was hard to procure, often being costly, complex, and time consuming. Offerings like SAS 360 Marketing AI solution help democratize the skills, knowledge, and trust needed to put predictive AI in the hands of marketers”.

Why It matters to marketers

Turn insight into action faster

Prepare and assess data quality through automated workflows.Train machine learning models with guided, explainable steps.Generate and activate scores directly in customer journeys.Monitor performance and retrain models automatically.

Reduce time and complexity

Automates data preparation, feature engineering and model training.Dramatically shortens time to deployment.

Focus on high-impact use cases

Identify customers most likely to convert.Detect and prevent churn.Expand into next-best offer, cross-sell, CLTV and segmentation.Customizable recipe templates for common marketing uses.

Work with your data – not against it

Train models using data where it already resides.Reduce costly data movement and prep.

Build trust with transparent, governed AI

Full visibility into data inputs and outcomes.Built-in bias detection and mitigation.Automated monitoring and governance.

Faster time to impact
Data preparation can account for up to 80% of model development effort, often taking months to complete. SAS 360 Marketing AI streamlines these processes, enabling teams to:

Shorten time from insight to action.Increase marketing ROI through targeted interventions.Improve customer experience with more relevant, timely engagement.

Flexible deployment and growth path
SAS 360 Marketing AI can be deployed as a standalone modeling and scoring engine or as part of the broader SAS Customer Intelligence 360 ecosystem, where it enhances journey orchestration, decisioning and personalization. Organizations can start with specific use cases and expand their adoption as their analytics maturity grows.

“Marketers don’t lack data – they lack the ability to act on it at speed,” said Mike Blanchard, Head of Customer Intelligence Solutions at SAS. “SAS 360 Marketing AI removes the barriers between insight and execution, giving teams the tools to operationalize AI where it matters most: real customer decisions.”

For more information on SAS Customer Intelligence 360, visit: SAS Customer Intelligence 360

To follow updates and insights, visit the SAS Customer Intelligence LinkedIn page: SAS Customer Intelligence 360 on LinkedIn

About SAS
SAS is a global leader in data and AI. With SAS software and industry-specific solutions, organizations transform data into trusted decisions. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2026 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

Editorial Contacts:
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angela.lipscomb@sas.com
919-531-2525
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