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Student Storytellers at Boys & Girls Clubs of Twin Cities Take Center Stage at Dream to Screen Awards Powered by Epson, with Special Appearance by Epson Ambassador Shaquille O’Neal

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Aspiring Storytellers Recognized at Red-Carpet Celebration Hosted by Best Buy Saluting a Centennial and Featuring Winning Videos, Inspiring Student Voices, and Back-to-School Supplies for Every Student

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Epson America, Inc. and Best Buy recently joined forces to inspire and celebrate the creativity of students from the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities through a video challenge, inviting young creators to produce short videos designed to motivate and encourage their peers as they prepare for the upcoming school year. The challenge culminated at a red-carpet Dream to Screen Awards celebration where selected youth were recognized with scholarship awards and every event participant received back-to-school supplies to help prepare for the upcoming school year. Adding to the excitement, Epson Ambassador Shaquille O’Neal made a special appearance to congratulate participants and encourage them to continue using their voices to make a positive difference in their communities. Together, Epson and Best Buy are helping prepare students for the future by providing technology and hands-on experiences that foster creativity, build real-world skills, and inspire confidence in an AI- and media-driven world.

Boys & Girls Club Storytellers Take Center Stage at Dream to Screen Awards by Epson with Special Guest Shaquille O’Neal

“The future of education isn’t just about giving students access to technology – it’s about helping them understand how to use it to think critically, collaborate and create,” said Mike Isgrig, vice president, consumer sales and marketing, Epson America, Inc. “The Dream to Screen Challenge gave students the tools and a platform to tell their stories while encouraging their peers as they approach the new school year. As AI and digital tools continue to reshape learning, Epson is committed to supporting the evolving education landscape with technologies that complement these tools and help students thrive. We’re proud to amplify students’ voices, celebrate their visions and help equip them for success in the classroom and wherever their futures take them.”

Through the themes of organization, friendship, mental wellness, and staying motivated, the challenge inspired students to share advice, encouragement and personal insights to help other young people start the school year with more self-confidence. To support the creative process, Epson equipped participating Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities with LifestudioTM projectors and EcoTank® printers, providing students with the tools to print storyboards, collaborate on ideas and review their videos on a big screen throughout production. Along the way, participants discovered new ways to express themselves, built confidence both behind and in front of the camera and developed valuable storytelling, communication, and teamwork skills as they brought their visions to life.

During the red-carpet celebration, students watched the premiere of the winning videos, walked the red carpet alongside friends, and reflected on what inspired their messages. Beyond the video challenge, students were also invited to share words of encouragement about how technology – including projection – can help power their success in the coming school year, as well as how their local Boys & Girls Club has positively impacted their lives as the organization celebrates its 100th anniversary. Their inspiring quotes were showcased on the big screen during the event and select students were surprised with LifestudioTM projectors to continue exploring big-screen technology at home.

The video challenge was integrated into the summer STEM curriculum for middle school and high school youth attending Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities through hands-on, activity-based group work. Based on the level of participation and positive feedback, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities plan to continue video-based group work beyond the summer initiative. 

“The Dream to Screen Challenge empowered our Club members to tell their stories, strengthen their creative and technical skills, and share meaningful encouragement with other young people,” said Terryl Brumm, President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities.

“What makes these videos so impactful is that they are rooted in our Club members own experiences and perspectives. As we celebrate our 100th anniversary, this program perfectly reflects our mission of helping young people reach their full potential through opportunities that build confidence, leadership and a sense of belonging. We are thankful to Epson and Best Buy for investing in our youth and helping amplify their voices.”

To further support the students’ success, every participant received a backpack filled with back-to-school supplies, reinforcing Epson’s and Best Buy’s commitment to celebrating student voices, inspiring creativity, and encouraging students to pursue their passions throughout the school year and beyond.

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More About Epson Lifestudio Projectors
Designed to help create unforgettable entertainment experiences, the Lifestudio projector lineup, including the portable Lifestudio Pop, Pop Plus, Flex, and Flex Plus projectors and ultra short throw Lifestudio Grand and Grand Plus projectors, combines Epson’s advanced 3-Chip 3LCD projection technology, a custom-designed audio system developed with Bose and built-in Google TV™2 for seamless access to favorite movies, shows and apps. Depending on the model, Lifestudio projectors can deliver a picture up to 150 inches, transforming virtually any space into a shared viewing experience.

More About Epson EcoTank
Epson America, Inc. is the global leader in refillable Supertank technology and Epson EcoTank is the world’s number-one selling Supertank† printer*. EcoTank leverages proven PrecisionCore® Heat-Free technology2 to provide everyday users with stellar print quality and reliability, designed to provide a worry-free printing experience. EcoTank printers also offer uniquely keyed EcoFit® bottles that help prevent ink from drying out and come with enough ink to last up to three years.3 Each replacement ink bottle set is equivalent to about 80 individual ink cartridges4 ensuring zero cartridge waste. The recently announced expansion of the award-winning EcoTank cartridge-free portfolio, including the EcoTank ET-1910, EcoTank ET-2900 and EcoTank ET-4903 Supertank Printers are now available. For more information, please visit epson.com/ecotank-home-office-printers.

About Epson
Epson is a technology innovation and engineering company whose philosophy of efficient, compact, and precise innovation enriches lives and helps create a better world. The company uses technology and engineering ability to implement real-world solutions in precision innovation, industrial and robotics, office and home printing, and visual and lifestyle.

Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of more than JPY 1.4 trillion. corporate.epson/en/ 

Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson’s regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (facebook.com/Epson), X (x.com/EpsonAmerica), YouTube (youtube.com/epsonamerica) and Instagram (instagram.com/EpsonAmerica).

About Boys & Girls Clubs of Twin Cities
Through our long and rich history, experience, and expertise, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities is leading a transformative change in the opportunity equation for Twin Cities youth through our programs at 12 Club locations. We believe that every young person deserves the chance to realize their full potential and achieve a great future. Our K-12 youth development continuum is a holistic model that helps prepare all young people to succeed in school, develop leadership skills, maintain healthy lifestyles, and build career aspirations. Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities is committed to safety, health, and dignity with a North Star Goal of all members on track for a successful future beyond high school graduation. To learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities programming, visit www.boysandgirls.org.

*Source: Based on industry available information and Epson internal cumulative sales data 2010-2025. †Supertank printers are defined as refillable ink tank printers.

1 To access Google TV and its features, a Google Account and an Internet connection of 5 Mbps or faster for HD or 25 Mbps or faster for 4K is required. Third-party app compatibility subject to change without notice.
2 Select EcoTank models.
3 Based on average monthly document print volumes of about 100 pages.
4 Actual savings and costs will vary considerably based on print tasks, print volumes and usage conditions. Savings and cost per ISO page are based on the cost of replacement ink bottles and the cost of enough standard cartridges to achieve the total page yields of the bottles using the MSRP (USD) and yields for Epson standard-capacity ink cartridges for similarly featured Epson consumer inkjet printers as of May 2026.

EPSON and EcoTank are registered trademarks and Lifestudio is a trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation. EcoFit is a registered trademark of Epson America, Inc. Google TV is the name of this device’s software experience and a trademark of Google LLC. All other product and brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Epson disclaims any and all rights in these marks. Copyright 2026 Epson America, Inc.

 

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Introhive Makes Relationship Intelligence Available to Enterprise AI Through MCP

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Now generally available to all Introhive customers, the standards-based connection brings continuously updated relationship context into compatible AI assistants.

FREDERICTON, NB, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Introhive today announced the general availability of its MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server for all customers. The Introhive MCP Server gives firms a standardized way to connect their relationship intelligence to their AI infrastructure. Professionals can then query that intelligence directly, without switching systems or performing manual lookups, and without needing IT to build custom integrations.

Centralizing enterprise data is only part of the work. For firms building their own AI tools, the difficulty often emerges after the initial connection. Activity data must still be resolved to the correct people and companies, evaluated for relationship strength and recency, and kept current as interactions change. Without that work, an AI tool can be technically connected and still provide poor guidance. Introhive has built and continuously maintains that relationship-intelligence layer. The MCP Server makes it available to compatible AI assistants, agents, and internally developed applications.

Ask which contacts at an upcoming event are worth prioritizing. Find out which key account has gone quiet. Surface which colleague has the warmest path into a new client or expanded opportunity. Or help a firm’s own AI tool assess whether a proposed client introduction is actually warranted — instead of guessing from CRM fields nobody has updated in months.

Most firms are deploying AI without access to one of their most valuable assets: the context around firm-wide relationships. The signals exist across emails, calendars, contact histories and individual experience. Raw activity alone cannot tell an AI tool whether it has identified the correct person, how strong or current a relationship is, or who within the firm has the most credible path forward.

The Introhive MCP Server Advantage

For more than 14 years, Introhive has refined its approach to capturing, validating, and scoring those relationship signals. The platform goes beyond who knows whom; it evaluates factors including the recency, frequency, reciprocity, breadth, and depth of interactions across the firm, then organizes them into a continuously updated, firm-wide relationship graph.

Because MCP is an open standard, firms using the MCP Server can make the same relationship-intelligence layer available to multiple compatible tools rather than rebuilding a separate connection each time their AI environment changes. Unlike a custom API that locks relationship intelligence to a single tool, the MCP Server is model-agnostic by design: the graph doesn’t depend on which AI assistant wins next year, because it was never built into just one of them.

AI Can’t Drive Growth Without Relationship Context

As AI assistants become a more common interface for professional work, the quality of their answers increasingly depends on the intelligence underneath them. For professional services firms, relationships are central to winning new business, expanding client work and protecting important accounts.

The shift toward AI does not reduce the value of those relationships. It raises the cost of not having accurate relationship context available when growth decisions are made.

“I’ve watched enterprise technology evolve since the 1990s, but the shift now underway is more fundamental,” said Lee Blakemore, CEO of Introhive. “The way professionals interact with data and systems has been revolutionized, and the interface is wherever the professional happens to work, which means the intelligence layers underneath it create the value. Relationship intelligence is one of those foundational layers. A meaningful AI strategy must tap into the strength, reach, and trajectory of client relationships. Introhive’s MCP Server provides a secure, compliant, and portable way to make that intelligence available to compatible AI tools at the moment it’s needed. For organizations adopting AI responsibly, this is the infrastructure that helps them do so securely.”

Availability

The Introhive MCP Server is now generally available to all Introhive customers, expanding beyond the legal-sector commercial preview introduced in April 2026.

For more information, visit https://www.introhive.com/introhive-mcp/.

About Introhive

Introhive is the Relationship Intelligence Platform purpose-built for legal, accounting, consulting and built-environment firms. Introhive automatically captures, enriches and activates relationship data, turning emails, meetings and interactions into measurable relationship capital: the collective value of every client, prospective client, alumni and referral relationship across the firm.

Because that data is captured continuously and kept current without manual effort, Introhive gives professionals and AI tools the reliable, timely context they need to identify the right connections and support firm growth. Introhive is trusted by 20 of the world’s top 100 law firms and 36 of the top 100 accounting firms, with users in more than 90 countries.

For more information, visit https://www.introhive.com/.

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Fins Adds Benzinga’s Premium US Equities Newsfeed to Power FinScores

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Premium US Equities Newsfeed gives Fins’ AI engine faster, higher-quality signal

DETROIT, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Benzinga, a leading provider of real-time financial news and market intelligence, today announced that Fins has added Benzinga’s Premium US Equities Newsfeed to its platform.

Fins is built around surfacing the market-moving signal inside the news noise. A fast, high-quality equities newsfeed is the raw fuel for that engine, giving Fins sharper and faster FinScores. Each FinScore assigns a numeric, ticker-specific score to a news event’s likely market impact, paired with AI-generated reasoning and tracked against real price movement after the news breaks.

The addition reflects Benzinga’s broader mission to democratize financial information, putting institutional-grade market intelligence directly into the hands of everyday investors. Fins represents a new generation of AI-native apps built on that same idea.

“Retail investors don’t only want more news. They want to know which headlines actually matter,” said Michael Saad, AI Licensing Lead at Benzinga. “Fins is built around that idea, and we’re glad to be the newsfeed powering it.”

“The best investment decisions begin with trusted information,” said Mehmet Kağan Aydoğan, Founder & CEO of Fins. “At Fins, our mission is to become the trusted destination for reliable financial news. Our partnership with Benzinga enables us to deliver high-quality financial news, while Fins provides the context that helps investors understand why each story matters.”

Benzinga’s Premium US Equities Newsfeed delivers fast, high-quality coverage across U.S. equities, giving platforms like Fins the raw material to build sharper analysis and scoring tools on top of real-time market data.

About Benzinga

Benzinga is a leading financial media and data technology company that empowers investors with high-quality, real-time market intelligence. Through its news platform, APIs, and data products, Benzinga provides traders, financial institutions, and fintech platforms with the insights they need to make smarter investment decisions. From breaking news and analyst ratings to corporate events and alternative datasets, Benzinga’s tools help market participants stay ahead of the information that drives price movement.

To learn more, visit benzinga.com/apis.

About Fins

Fins is an AI-driven financial intelligence platform that helps investors understand not just what is happening in the markets, but why it matters. By combining trusted financial news with AI-powered event classification and the mathematical FinScore Engine, Fins transforms complex market information into clear, actionable insights. Instead of simply aggregating headlines, Fins identifies the companies affected, classifies each event into standardized market categories and evaluates its potential market relevance through a transparent mathematical scoring model. With personalized news feeds, real-time alerts and contextual analysis, Fins enables investors to make faster, more informed decisions with confidence.

To learn more, visit fins.news.

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Amity Global Research Hub Launches in New York to Boost India-US Innovation

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The Amity Global Research Hub (AGRH) is a multidisciplinary international platform established by Amity University to foster world-class research collaboration, innovation, entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, and policy engagement across global ecosystems. AGRH enables collaborative research that addresses pressing global challenges while creating opportunities for scientific discovery, economic development, and societal transformation.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In a significant step towards strengthening India–United States collaboration in science, technology and innovation, the Amity Global Research Hub (AGRH) was inaugurated at the Consulate General of India, New York, on August 21, 2026, under the theme “Shaping the Future through Emerging Technologies.”

Amity Global Research Hub Launched in New York to Strengthen India–US Research and Innovation Partnerships

The launch marks the beginning of an international research platform envisioned to bring together academic institutions, researchers, industry, innovators and other stakeholders from India, the United States and the wider global ecosystem. The initiative aims to facilitate collaborative research, promote knowledge exchange and create new pathways for innovation and technology-led solutions to global challenges.

The inauguration also witnessed the unveiling of the AGRH website and research brochure, followed by panel discussions focusing on multi-sector partnerships, research, innovation, emerging technologies, and opportunities for strengthening India–US collaboration. The discussions brought together distinguished representatives and academic and research stakeholders from institutions including Rutgers University, Georgia Institute of Technology, CUNY, Long Island University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Aseem Chauhan, Chancellor, Amity University and Chairman, AGRH, highlighted the importance of creating globally connected research ecosystems that can address increasingly complex technological and societal challenges. AGRH is envisioned as more than an international academic presence. It seeks to function as a bridge connecting the research strengths, talent and innovation capabilities of India with the extensive academic, scientific, technological and entrepreneurial ecosystem of the United States.

The initiative comes at a time when emerging technologies are rapidly transforming economies and societies, creating both new opportunities and complex challenges. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, advanced materials, biotechnology, healthcare technologies, cybersecurity, space technologies and clean and sustainable technologies increasingly require interdisciplinary and international collaboration.

Dr. Sandeep Mittan Director Amity Global Research Hub & Vice President Research and Development highlighted how AGRH will serve as a platform to foster international research partnerships and advance innovation through collaboration between India and the United States. This initiative will be the creation of opportunities for young researchers, students and innovators to participate in international research networks.

AGRH aims to contribute to this process by facilitating interactions among researchers and institutions and supporting opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaborative engagement. The Hub’s broader vision is to create meaningful opportunities not only for established researchers but also for emerging scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs.

The establishment of AGRH in New York provides access to one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic ecosystems of universities, research institutions, technology companies, healthcare organizations, investors, start-ups and global talent. This environment provides significant opportunities for building connections between Indian researchers and their counterparts in the United States. The launch event itself reflected this potential, bringing together representatives from leading American academic and research institutions for discussions around collaborative research and innovation.

Prof. (Dr.) W. Selvamurthy, President, Amity Science, Technology & Innovation Foundation, emphasized the importance of collaboration in shaping the next generation of research and innovation. The multidisciplinary approach of AGRH is particularly significant as many of today’s major challenges cut across traditional academic boundaries. Addressing issues related to health, climate change, energy, advanced manufacturing, digital technologies and national and global security requires researchers from multiple disciplines to work together. The Hub therefore aims to facilitate an ecosystem in which ideas can move from research and discovery to innovation, technology development and societal impact.

Strengthening the India-US Knowledge Partnership : The launch of AGRH also comes against the backdrop of the expanding strategic relationship between India and the United States in science, technology, education and innovation. The initiative’s emphasis on multi-sector partnerships is particularly significant. Rather than limiting collaboration to academic institutions, AGRH aims to create connections involving research organizations, industry, innovators, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.

The inauguration of AGRH represents an important milestone in Amity’s continued efforts to expand its international research partnerships and strengthen collaboration between India and the United States. The long-term ambition is to develop AGRH into a platform where global research partnerships can generate tangible outcomes-ranging from collaborative research and knowledge exchange to technology development, innovation, entrepreneurship and opportunities for the next generation of researchers.

With its launch in New York, the Amity Global Research Hub seeks to position itself at this intersection-connecting India’s growing research and innovation capabilities with global opportunities, and contributing to a future shaped by collaboration, technology and knowledge.

Learn more about Amity Global Research Hub at https://amity.edu/agrh/

Dr. Sandeep Mittan, PhD , FAHA

Director Amity Global Research Hub

Vice President Research and Development

Amity Education Group Long Island Campus, New York

500 Montauk Hwy, Oakdale, NY 11769

Executive Board Member New Jersey Academy of Science (NJAS), New Jersey

Research Scholar – National Institute of Health-NIH,MD 20892

Email : smittan@amity.edu

M: +16467023447

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