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Unanimous AI Wins Air Force Contract to bring Hyper-Communication Technology to Real-time Command and Control

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“Hypercom” is a patented network of AI agents that connects every team member to every other in real time, replacing sequential reporting with parallel communication

ARLINGTON, Va., July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Unanimous AI today announced it was awarded a new Phase I contract from AFWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Air Force, to bring its latest hyper-communication technology (called Hypercom AI) to real-time command and control applications. In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, this funded effort will enable Unanimous AI to quantify the benefits of hyper-communication networks across large distributed teams engaged in urgent tasks.

Unanimous AI is a “humans-first” company founded on the mission of keeping people in the loop. We do this by ensuring that human stakeholders remain central to critical planning, decision-making, and assessments made within large organizations. Its patented network of AI agents has been shown in a variety of published papers to maximize communication efficiency and amplify team intelligence. This new funded effort will enable Unanimous AI to apply these innovations to high-stakes communication across large defense and enterprise teams engaged in mission-critical operations.

The Problem: Communication Bottlenecks in Critical Ops

In high-pressure environments traditional “One to Many” communication frameworks create severe operational bottlenecks. While a team leader can efficiently broadcast messages to a full team, receiving status updates requires team members to speak in a series or wait to be called upon sequentially. This standard communication framework often results in unnecessary delays, cognitive overload, fragmented data streams, sluggish decision-making, and dangerous distractions during chaotic time-critical scenarios.

Solution: Conversational Multiplexing using Hypercom AI

Hypercom AI™ solves this challenge with a true “Many to One” voice-based communication path, a structure previously impossible using existing voice and video technology. Leveraging Unanimous AI’s Hyperchat AI™ and Hypervideo AI™ technologies, this new system will intelligently multiplex real-time conversational streams, enabling a single team leader to hold a coherent real-time discussion with dozens of individuals simultaneously, each of whom may be monitoring different threats, overseeing different regions, or coordinating different operational disciplines. It achieves this using intervening AI agents called “Conversational Surrogates” that optimally route communications among and between team members (see video).

Core capabilities include:

Parallel Communication Channels: The platform deploys individual voice-based AI agents to up to 60 team members. This allows every member to verbally report critical information simultaneously as circumstances dictate, eliminating sequential stacking.Intelligent Synthesis and Clustering: The underlying AI engine processes all incoming communication channels in parallel, automatically aggregating related information.Prioritization and Streaming: Communicated information is triaged based on urgency and importance, then streamed to Team Leaders as a concise, natural-language content.Targeted Inquiries without Distraction: Leaders can request updates from specific subsets of the team. The system routes the request exclusively to those pertinent members, ensuring other team members remain focused and undisturbed.

The Hypercom AI system will intelligently multiplex real-time communications, enabling distributed team members to respond in parallel instead of stacking sequentially. This greatly increases communication efficiency while eliminating distractions and reducing cognitive load.

Commercial Impact

Beyond defense, Hypercom AI technology addresses immediate demand in the commercial sector. The enterprise collaboration market is estimated at over $60 billion for 2025, and this “conversational multiplexing” architecture provides an ideal solution for municipal and corporate control centers. Key non-defense applications include disaster response, airport operations, cybersecurity incident rooms, distributed logistics networks, and medical rapid-response teams.

“Imagine you’re a team leader with 20 members in the field, each with different roles, different expertise, and different situational awareness,” said David Baltaxe, President of Unanimous AI. “You ask for urgent status to guide decisions. Instead of waiting for members to sound-off in series, Hypercom lets everyone report in parallel, as AI agents optimize the information flow.”

The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Air Force, have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) process by accelerating the small business experience through faster proposal to award timelines, changing the pool of potential applicants by expanding opportunities to small business and eliminating bureaucratic overhead by continually implementing process improvement changes in contract execution. The DAF began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018 which expanded the range of innovations the DAF funded. On June 23, 2026, Unanimous AI was funded under this program to create and provide innovative capabilities that will strengthen the national defense of the United States of America.

The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.

About Unanimous AI:
Unanimous AI is a “humans-first AI company” with the mission of keeping human expertise, wisdom, judgement, and sensibility inherent to organizational planning, problem-solving, and decision-making. The company is the creator of Swarm AI®, Hyperchat AI™, and Hypervideo AI™ technologies that harness and amplify team intelligence and is the maker of the Swarm® and Thinkscape® collaboration platforms. For more information on Unanimous AI’s technology and platforms, visit Unanimous.ai

About AFWERX
As the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force and a division within the Air Force Research Laboratory, AFWERX brings American ingenuity from small businesses and startups to solve the most pressing challenges facing Airmen and Guardians. Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, AFWERX strengthens the defense industrial base by expanding access to nontraditional vendors, building new defense partnerships and accelerating the transition of critical technologies to operational capability. In fiscal year 2025, AFWERX awarded more than 1,000 contracts totaling $1.37 billion and achieved 438 Phase III transitions valued at $8.1 billion, supercharging the industrial base that supports U.S. military readiness and battlefield advantage. For more information, visit: afwerx.com.

About AFRL
The Air Force Research Laboratory is the Department of the Air Force’s primary scientific research and development center and one of six centers within Air Force Materiel Command. AFRL leads the discovery, development and delivery of technologies for air, space and the multidomain. With a workforce spanning seven mission areas at more than 40 locations worldwide, AFRL conducts research ranging from basic science to advanced technology development. For more information, visit afresearchlab.com.

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Sofia Kathryn Spieler
Media Relations, Unanimous AI
315-395-1877
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LEAP Group Relaunches HumanView, a Growth Intelligence System Built to Explain Why Customers Behave the Way They Do

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Reimagined from the ground up, HumanView pairs statistical modeling with expert analysts to turn millions of real-world customer signals into business decisions

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LEAP Group today announced the relaunch of HumanView, its growth intelligence service. The new version has been rebuilt from the ground up and now has a dedicated home at leapgroupnetwork.com/humanview.

HumanView analyzes what customers say and do across social platforms, e-commerce sites, review platforms, search behavior and user-generated content, including signals from Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Meta, Amazon and Walmart+ that general AI tools cannot always access. Because the data reflects unprompted, real-world behavior, it avoids the response bias built into surveys and focus groups.

The service works in three layers. HumanView captures signals at scale, decodes millions of records through validated statistical models such as regression, correlation and clustering, and then relies on experienced analysts to interpret the patterns. Clients receive clear, human-validated insights instead of another dashboard.

“Machines find the patterns. Humans find the point,” said Alan Gilleo, CEO at LEAP Group. “The first version of HumanView showed us how much customers reveal when nobody is asking them questions. This version is built to explain why they act the way they do, and to put those answers in front of everyone making decisions, from product to service to marketing.”

HumanView focuses on three areas:

Growth Intelligence: customer motivations and how people perceive a brand and its competitors

Market and Category Intelligence: product pain points, service friction, unmet needs and competitive gaps

Audience Intelligence: new segments, positioning opportunities and gaps in the market

Every model is designed and validated by data scientists and benchmarked before it informs a recommendation.

To learn more about HumanView, visit leapgroupnetwork.com/humanview.

About LEAP Group
LEAP Group is a boutique marketing agency holding company with offices in Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Chicago. Guided by the belief that brands should “Market Less. Matter More.,” LEAP gives clients access to specialized experts across its entire network. Learn more at leapgroupnetwork.com.

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STEPHEN A. SMITH ADDRESSES WHITE HOUSE DINNER ATTENDANCE, REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO HBCUs AND PROTECTING CORPORATE INVESTMENT IN BLACK EDUCATION

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NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Stephen A. Smith, media mogul, New York Times bestselling author, and proud 1991 graduate of Winston-Salem State University, is addressing the public discussion surrounding his decision to attend a White House dinner with President Donald Trump, emphasizing his commitment to the long-term financial stability of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

For Smith, the decision was rooted in a commitment to institutions that have educated generations of Black leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, and public servants.

“I will always advocate for HBCUs and the students whose futures depend on them,” Smith said. “My reason for attending the White House dinner was to discuss the challenges these institutions face in securing long-term funding and to make the case that corporate America must continue to invest in them.”

Smith acknowledged federal support through the FUTURE Act while expressing concern that political tensions surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) could discourage private companies from supporting HBCUs. He maintains that these institutions deserve sustained corporate partnerships, philanthropic contributions, and public investment.

“If we truly believe in free-market capitalism, businesses should be able to support educational institutions and charitable causes without fear of criticism or repercussions,” Smith said. “HBCUs have made extraordinary contributions to this country. They deserve sustained public and private investment.”

Ashley Christopher, Esq., Founder and CEO of the HBCU Week Foundation, recognized Smith’s advocacy and decision to engage with the administration.

“Stephen A. Smith has been a powerful advocate for HBCUs, using his platform and influence to shine a national spotlight on our institutions,” expressed Christopher, “His continued support of HBCU Week helps advance our mission of connecting students with life-changing educational opportunities, and we are proud to have him as our ambassador.”

Since Smith became an HBCU Week Ambassador in 2019, the initiative has facilitated more than 15,000 on-the-spot college acceptances and raised and awarded more than $150 million in scholarships, according to the HBCU Week Foundation.

As public discussion continues, Smith is emphasizing the importance of ensuring HBCUs have the resources and partnerships needed to educate future generations and expand opportunities for students.

CLICK HERE to watch Smith’s full response to his White House visit.

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Advantex Announces Completion of Financing and Extension of Maturity Date of Previously Issued Debentures

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TORONTO, Oct. 23, 2026 /CNW/ — Advantex Marketing International Inc. (CSE: ADX) (“Advantex”), a leader in the merchant cash advance and loyalty marketing products for merchants, today announced the completion of a $250,000 secured debt financing. Advantex issued a $250,000 non-convertible debenture which bears an interest rate at 12% per annum and matures December 15, 2027. The proceeds raised from this issuance of the Debenture will be used for working capital purposes.

Advantex has also extended the maturity of its existing $700,000 in 12% secured debentures from October 10, 2026 to December 15, 2027.

About Advantex Marketing International Inc.

Advantex provides working capital to merchants. Advantex also provides specialized marketing programs that enable members of Aeroplan to earn Aeroplan points at participating merchants.

Advantex shares trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol ADX. For more information go to Advantex’s profile on www.sedar.com

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This news release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable securities laws relating to the future business and operations of Advantex. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by these statements. The business and operations of Advantex described herein is dependent on a number of factors and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ material include, but are not limited to, changes in Advantex’s economic and competitive conditions including but not limited to the industry sectors in which Advantex operates.

The statements in this news release are made of the date of this release. Forward-looking statements are made based on management’s beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date the statements are made and Advantex undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as required by applicable law.

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