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Fusion Connect Simplifies Enterprise AI Adoption with Predictable Flat-Fee Pricing for AI-Powered Contact Centers

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Industry-leading innovative pricing model removes the uncertainty of token– and usage-based AI pricing, making it easier for organizations to budget, adopt, and scale AI.

ATLANTA, Aug. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fusion Connect, a leading provider of managed communications, connectivity, and cloud solutions, today announced the availability of its AI-powered Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform alongside an industry-leading, innovative flat-fee pricing model designed to eliminate one of the biggest barriers to enterprise AI adoption: unpredictable costs.

While artificial intelligence has rapidly become a strategic priority for organizations, pricing AI remains one of the industry’s greatest challenges. Unlike traditional software, which is typically licensed on a per-user basis, most AI solutions are priced according to usage—charging customers by complicated token consumption rate cards. Because pricing often varies based on which AI capabilities are used and how frequently they are invoked, organizations frequently struggle to estimate costs before deployment.

For many businesses, that uncertainty slows or even prevents AI adoption.

Fusion Connect is taking a different approach.

Instead of requiring customers to estimate token consumption, Fusion Connect offers predictable monthly pricing for its AI capabilities. Customers know their costs before deployment, making it easier to budget, evaluate return on investment, and confidently expand AI throughout their organization.

“Organizations shouldn’t need a data scientist or financial model just to understand what their AI investment will cost,” said John Nee, Chief Marketing Officer of Fusion Connect. “Our goal is simple: remove the complexity from AI purchasing so customers can focus on improving customer experiences—not deciphering pricing models or worrying about unexpected cost overruns.”

Why Contact Centers First?

Contact centers represent one of the most compelling applications for artificial intelligence within enterprise communications.

Every day, contact centers process thousands of customer interactions involving billing inquiries, technical support, account management, scheduling, returns, and other repetitive yet business-critical conversations. These interactions generate enormous amounts of valuable data while requiring agents to answer many similar questions repeatedly.

Artificial intelligence excels in precisely these environments—analyzing large volumes of conversational data, automating repetitive tasks, assisting agents in real time, and identifying insights that improve both customer satisfaction and operational performance.

Organizations implementing AI within their contact centers can reduce manual effort, improve first-call resolution, shorten wait times, enhance agent productivity, and deliver a more consistent customer experience while creating measurable operational savings.

AI Capabilities Available Today

Fusion Connect’s AI-enabled Contact Center platform introduces intelligent capabilities across the customer journey, including:

Agent AI Assistance

Provides real-time guidance to customer service representatives by surfacing relevant information, suggested responses, and knowledge in real time while conversations are taking place, enabling agents to resolve customer issues more quickly and accurately.

Navigator AI

Uses customers’ natural language to understand a caller’s intent, autonomously resolve requests, and intelligently route customers to the most appropriate representative—reducing transfers, shortening wait times, and replacing traditional “Press 1, Press 2” endless interactive voice response menus.

Autopilot Agentic AI

Automates routine customer interactions without requiring a live agent, allowing organizations to provide faster responses for common inquiries while enabling human representatives to focus on higher-value customer engagements.

CX AI Analytics

Automatically analyzes customer conversations to identify trends, service opportunities, coaching insights, quality issues, and operational performance without requiring supervisors to manually review thousands of recorded calls.

Bringing Predictability to AI

Rather than charging customers based on complicated token calculations or unpredictable usage metrics, Fusion Connect has introduced a transparent pricing structure that customers can easily understand.

Core AI capabilities—including Agent AI Assistance and CX AI Analytics—are offered on a straightforward monthly per-seat basis, while high-volume automation services such as Autopilot Agentic AI and AI-powered call routing are available through simple monthly packages based on anticipated call volumes.

The result is a pricing model that enables organizations to forecast costs with confidence while avoiding unexpected monthly AI charges.

Frederic Dickey, Senior Vice President of Product Management of Fusion Connect, added: “Organizations want to understand the business value AI delivers—not spend time estimating token consumption or worrying about unexpected invoices. Our pricing model removes that uncertainty and gives customers a clear path toward broader AI adoption.”

Built for Customers—and Partners

Fusion Connect’s simplified pricing benefits not only end customers, but also the company’s nationwide network of technology advisors and channel partners.

By replacing complex AI consumption calculations with transparent monthly pricing, partners can quote solutions more quickly, customers can approve projects with greater confidence, and sellers can focus conversations on business outcomes instead of pricing mechanics.

As Fusion Connect continues expanding artificial intelligence across its portfolio, the company intends to maintain the same philosophy: making enterprise AI easier to buy, easier to understand, and easier to adopt.

Availability

Fusion Connect’s AI-powered Contact Center solutions and simplified pricing model are available immediately.

For additional information, visit www.fusionconnect.com or contact a Fusion Connect sales representative.

About Fusion Connect

Fusion Connect delivers managed communications, connectivity, cloud, security, and customer engagement solutions to businesses across the United States. Its comprehensive portfolio includes managed network services, Unified Communications, Contact Center, cloud connectivity, and cybersecurity solutions backed by U.S.-based service and support. Fusion helps organizations simplify technology, improve customer experiences, and accelerate digital transformation through innovative, secure, and reliable communications solutions.

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AGEDB Technology Announces Debt Settlement

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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 13, 2026 /CNW/ — AGEDB Technology Ltd. (“AGEDB” or the “Company”) (TSXV: AGET) announces that it has entered into a debt settlement agreement to settle an aggregate of C$100,000 of outstanding indebtedness owing to one creditor (the “Creditor”), in exchange for the issuance of an aggregate of 1,538,461 units at a deemed price of $0.065 per unit (each a “Unit”) of the Company to the Creditor (the “Debt Settlement”). Completion of the Debt Settlement is subject to the Company receiving all regulatory approvals, including acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange.

Each Unit consists of one common share and one transferable common share purchase warrant (each a “Warrant”). Each Warrant will entitle its holder to purchase one common share in the capital of the Company (a “Warrant Share”) at a price of C$0.18 for 24 months from the closing date of the Debt Settlement.

Any shares issued to the Creditor or in connection with the Debt Settlement will be subject to a statutory hold period of four months and one day.

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Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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This news release contains statements that constitute “forward-looking statements.” Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements, or developments in the industry to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “intends,” “estimates,” “projects,” “potential” and similar expressions, or that events or conditions “will,” “would,” “may,” “could” or “should” occur.

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RYAN KAVANAUGH TO RECEIVE OUTSTANDING VIRTUAL PRODUCTION AWARD AT INFINITY FESTIVAL’S 2026 MONOLITH AWARDS FOR ACME STUDIOS WORK

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Two-Day Showcase Expands Lineup with ACME’s Ryan Kavanaugh alongside George R.R. Martin, Brad Bird, Seth Rogen, Mel Brooks, Pola Maneli and Leading Animation Studios

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Infinity Festival announced today that Ryan Kavanaugh’s studio, ACME Media, is being honored for pioneering the Grey Box™, an AI-driven production methodology that integrates live-action performance, virtual environments and generative visual effects. ACME AI is taking virtual production beyond the stage and into the whole of filmmaking. 

They were selected for this honor as the company to make the biggest paradigm shift utilizing technology in film and entertainment today. Specifically, they were able to create a totally photoreal movie, preserve all actor performance and pioneer the use of the Grey Box™ methodology for actor capture, while utilizing their tech to create over 213 locations in 21 total days. 

The Grey Box™ is a stage and actor performance capture system built around the filmmaker. A Grey Box™ production makes films the way films have always been made – it shoots with the same cameras, the same crew and the same process as any other film, just with extra technology and a precise design to allow for a more cohesive and cost effective process. Department heads are employed and on set, the actor’s performance is not touched, and the director still owns the frame. 

ACME’s own systems, engines and artists (150 across multiple locations) then build the world around that performance, delivering fully photoreal 16-bit 4K output for theatrical release. 

The Grey Box’s™ proprietary performance capture methodology leads to a 50-75 percent reduction in production time and cost. This gives each film and filmmaker more flexibility, tools and coverage than was financially feasible previously. 

” Virtual production has never been about technology alone. It’s about expanding what filmmakers can imagine and achieve. ACME AI & FX is challenging the boundaries of traditional production by rethinking how live-action performances, digital environments, and emerging technologies come together,” said Jeroen Hallaert, Executive Producer, Infinity Festival Hollywood.

“Their approach represents exactly the kind of bold experimentation and convergence we celebrate at Infinity Festival. We’re proud to recognize ACME AI & FX with the Monolith Award for Outstanding Virtual Production.

ACME has spent in excess of 70 million dollars building its tech, which has led to its own process and program which runs off of over 500 tools and 175 film attributes with thousands of its own lawyers on its its internal program now running across its own network. “This was a two-year, multimillion-dollar, all-hands effort and we couldn’t be more proud of the team for what it built,” said Garrett Grant, ACME co-founder and partner. ACME is the only production company and/or studio to deliver an A list feature film utilizing AI which holds up against films shot traditionally for much larger budgets. 

Yves Bergquist, who is one of the most relied upon voices by studios and entertainment companies around technology and AI in relation to entertainment (he is the head of the AI Media lab at USC’s Entertainment Technology Center and a member of the generative AI working group at the Academy of Motion Pictures), said: “I am in the fortunate position where I see what I believe is all the most recent advancements in AI filmmaking. That includes from the biggest tech companies to the studios to highly respected filmmakers. More or less anyone doing AI production, I have seen their work. To date, I haven’t seen anyone that is even at 10 percent of the quality or output of where ACME is. What they have done is not just extraordinary; it’s a shift to the industry no one else has even begun to figure out. Their product is bar none, on par with the biggest, best productions to come out of Hollywood. There is a reason they are making movies for many of the studios and have so many films in their pipeline and that ACME has become the go to for studios and production companies alike and the reason they have become the go to not just for AI production but more and more for production overall.” 

Other features that they have built and incorporated include another 246 unique virtual production features 

A director’s dashboard that allows a director to seamlessly work between the real grey stage shooting with their traditional camera setups and team and the virtual portion with easeLens and Lighting Library: virtually every lens and lighting package filmmakers rely on, built and mapped so the finished world matches what the camera photographed, including anamorphic.Being able to adjust the camera, lighting, camera movement, lenses in postBeing able to adjust any part of a scene that isn’t the actor’s performance in post Full DI and finishing system Theatrical Finishing: photoreal 16-bit 4K output, mastered through to DCP and EXR delivery.Protected IP: a portfolio of 22 patent applications covering the core systems.

Kavanaugh said, “The ability to respect the integrity of the acting while being so tech-forward was a big part of our consideration. Obviously the tech itself and the artistic process that is required to make the tech work is another. They are literally bringing back the mid-budget film genre by making those stories financially feasible to make. The art of filmmaking is at the heart of everything we do. We built the Grey Box™ and our own engines so that every tool a director could want is available, even on a small-budget movie. Original films that sat for years because of cost are now getting made, at the same scale and with the same vision. We are grateful to Infinity Festival for recognizing that,” said Ryan Kavanaugh, founder of ACME and consider this a tremendous honor.”

The Monolith Awards honor Story Advanced by Technology. This award honors ACME for pioneering an AI-driven production methodology that integrates live-action performance, virtual environments and generative visual effects. With Bitcoin, ACME has taken virtual production beyond the stage and into the whole of filmmaking, bringing some 200 story locations to life around real performances captured over 20 days. We are delighted to celebrate it alongside this year’s honorees, including Brad Bird and George R.R. Martin, both receiving Lifetime Achievement.

Additional featured talent includes Sony Pictures Animation director Tyree Dillihay and President Kristine Belson; Netflix’s Steps directors Alyce Tzue and John Ripa; Disney/Pixar Hoppers director Daniel Chong; Toy Story 5 co-director/writer Kenna Harris; Hexed directors Fawn Veerasunthorn and Jason Hand; DreamWorks Forgotten Island filmmakers Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado; LAIKA’s Wildwood writer Chris Butler and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel; Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender director Lauren Montgomery; The Simpsons director David Silverman; Cartoon Saloon director Louise Bagnall; Tangles director Leah Nelson, Cat in the Hat directors Erica Rivinoja and Alessandro Carloni, X-Men ’97, The Violinist directors Raul Garcia and Ervin Han and The Proud Family creator Bruce W. Smith and more.

 ABOUT ACME

ACME Media is a film and television studio and the parent company of ACME AI, the most prolific studio working in AI today. ACME’s principals have produced, financed or distributed more than 250 films with more than $17 billion in global box office. They created slate co-financing, built the structure that allowed Marvel to make its own films, co-created the subscription streaming window with Netflix and built the largest mini-major studio of its era. Their films have received over 60 Academy Award® nominations, Based in Los Angeles and London with AI artists worldwide, ACME pioneered the Grey Box studio and completed the first performance capture AI film BITCOIN, currently in post-production. The film is directed by Doug Liman and stars Casey Affleck, Gal Gadot, Pete Davidson and Isla Fisher. ACME has more than twelve films in various stages of production.

 ACME AI pioneered the Grey Box, a stage and actor performance capture system that delivers photoreal 16-bit 4K theatrical output while cutting below-the-line costs and has over a dozen feature films in various stages of production, as well as endeavors in music videos, and advertising.

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The NYSE Welcomes vVARDIS as a Publicly Listed Company

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NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — vVARDIS (NYSE: VVVV) co-founders Dr. Haley Abivardi and Dr. Goly Abivardi aim to reshape the future of dental care with a drill-free treatment for the world’s #1 non-communicable disease: cavities.

vVARDIS Solves a Problem that Millions FaceTooth decay affects billions of people worldwide, and dental anxiety keeps millions from getting the care they need.vVARDIS is a Swiss dental technology company focused on changing the way early tooth decay is treated.vVARDIS has introduced a new approach that aims to treat decay earlier and more comfortably for patients.Its flagship product, Curodont® Repair Fluoride Plus, uses proprietary peptide technology to help repair early-stage tooth decay by supporting the natural remineralization of enamel — simply put No drill, No needle, or No filling.Tooth Decay is One of the Most Common Health Issues in the World2.5 billion people globally live with untreated tooth decay.Nearly 90% of U.S. adults have experienced tooth decay.Nearly 73% of U.S. adults report dental fear.21% avoid the dentist because of anxiety.The Story that Helped Shape vVARDISFor decades, treating early tooth decay often meant waiting until it worsened or getting a filling. The founders spent 25 years developing Curodont® Repair Fluoride Plus, a treatment that helps repair early tooth decay before it becomes a cavity.Curodont® gives dentists a way to treat early decay while making the experience easier and less intimidating for patients.The technology has already treated more than 2.5 million teethAvailable in more than 20% of U.S. dental practices

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