NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hilco Global’s Intellectual Property Services group (www.hilcoglobal.com), a leading intellectual property advisory firm specializing in intangible asset valuation, advisory, and monetization services, announced that it is seeking offers to acquire the patent portfolio and related assets of Canyon Navigation, which developed self-describing fiducial (SDF) technology for use in navigation of autonomous machines such as drones, industrial robots, and self-driving cars in GPS-degraded environments.

Non-binding indications of interest are due September 17, 2026. Interested parties should contact Hilco Global directly at ehurwitz@hilcoglobal.com or ssilverstein@hilcoglobal.com to learn more.

Canyon Navigation’s SDF-based landmarks optically transmit their own position, enabling precise localization without satellite signals – making them immune to jamming and multipath errors – to augment or completely replace GPS. GPS can become limited, denied, or degraded in many common, real-world situations such as urban canyons in metropolitan areas, inside tunnels or buildings, and intentional jamming of signals.

The SDF solution is low-cost, including just the measurement device (the camera) and the measurement targets (the SDFs). Along with the ease of producing the latter, SDFs are scalable across systems from a single warehouse to a city-wide positioning service.

Hilco IP Services Senior Director Eric Hurwitz notes of this portfolio, “Position information is key to the operations in a wide range of industries: automotive, aircraft, maritime, construction, and agriculture, and many more.” Hurwitz continued, “It is even more critical in emerging autonomous-forward markets including warehouse automation, self-driving cars, construction inspection, eVTOL aircraft, drone delivery and other drone applications. SDFs are a low-cost, scalable solution to GPS degradation in those and other large, rapidly expanding markets where fiducial-based positioning is already being adopted.”

For more information, click here or please contact the Hilco Global IP Services team and ehurwitz@hilcoglobal.com or ssilverstein@hilcoglobal.com.

About Hilco Global: Hilco Global, a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation USA, is a diversified financial services company that delivers integrated professional services and capital solutions that help clients maximize value and drive performance across the retail, commercial industrial, real estate, manufacturing, brand and intellectual property sectors, and more. Hilco Global provides a range of customized solutions to healthy, stressed, and distressed companies to resolve complex situations and enhance long-term enterprise value. Hilco Global works to deliver the best possible result by aligning interests with clients and providing strategic advice and, in many instances, the capital required to complete the deal. Hilco Global is based in Northbrook, Illinois and has more than 810 professionals operating on four continents. Visit www.hilcoglobal.com.

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Built for the volume of AI-generated code, with permissions for AI agents, reviews that keep pace, an enterprise free plan, and one-click migration from existing Git providers

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Harness, the platform for the autonomous SDLC, today launched Agent-Ready Harness Code Repository and AI Code Review, built for teams increasing their adoption of AI coding agents. The capabilities are designed to work as one experience: code lands in a repository built for the volume now generated by agents, and is reviewed by a system that understands what a change puts at risk.

Coding stopped being the hard part

Generating code is no longer the constraint. With agents in the loop, teams produce far more code, far faster, than they could alone, and the work has shifted to what happens next: storing, reviewing, approving, and shipping all of it without anything breaking.

The tools underneath were not built for that. Legacy source code management tools in wide use today, GitHub included, assume a human writes code and opens a pull request before a few colleagues look at it over the next few hours or days. When agents are doing the writing, the cracks show up in ordinary places: search and file history get slower as indexing falls behind, pull requests pile up faster than anyone can read them, and a permission system designed around a list of developers has no good answer for an agent that might merge code on its own. Harness has now rebuilt that layer.

“Software delivery is going through its biggest shift since the move to the cloud, and the systems we all built our workflows around were designed for a different scale and a different kind of user,” said Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness. “You do not solve that by adding AI features to a repository designed fifteen years ago. The entire SDLC has to become autonomous, which means the repository, the review, the pipeline, and the governance must all work as one system.”

Inside Agent-Ready Harness Code Repository

Harness Code Repository is what source control looks like when agents are part of the team.

Keeps up as commit and pull request volume increases: Harness Code Repository is scale-tested to handle thousands of pull requests and commits opened at once, which is roughly what a team running agents looks like on an ordinary day. Search, history, and diffs keep working at that volume, across repositories of varying sizes and with branches in the tens of thousands.Agents get their own permissions: Agents inherit permissions from humans that trigger them. Developers can further define what an agent may touch, merge, or deploy, just as they would scope a new engineer, down to a specific repository, branch, or environment. RBAC and Open Policy Agent (OPA) policies put that boundary in writing rather than leaving it to convention, so it holds before the merge instead of turning up in an audit afterward.Tailored to be used by humans and agents via MCP and CLI: Harness Code Repository and AI Code Review are both reachable from the command line through the Harness MCP and CLI, which covers the full pull request lifecycle, allowing users to find a review by the author’s email instead of an internal ID, see every open pull request across every repository in one place, and create, reply to, or resolve comment threads without opening a browser. AI agents can leverage Harness CLI commands to execute Harness Code and Review operations more deterministically and in headless mode.Free to start, simple to migrate: Any team can start using Harness Code Repository for free, with 50 GB storage. Migration takes a few clicks, regardless of whether organizations are migrating one repository or an entire GitHub organization, GitLab group, Bitbucket workspace, or Azure DevOps project, and the Harness CLI brings pull requests, labels, webhooks, and branch rules along with it.

AI Code Review

A repository that can withstand a flood of code does not help if a human still has to review all of it. AI Code Review reads a pull request the way a tech lead would.

Checks that gate the merge. Teams decide which AI Checks are mandatory, setting them once for an account or tuning them by project, and a change that fails a required check cannot be merged.Diff grouping by risk. The diff is grouped by risk rather than by file, so the few high-risk changes that alter how the software behaves are not buried under mass renames and dependency bumps.One-click remediation. Feedback describes what a change puts at stake rather than noting that a line moved, and suggested reviewers and labels arrive before anyone opens the pull request. If the feedback is valid, changes can be merged with a single click.

Agents can write code, but someone still has to decide what ships. AI Code Review is built so that the decision is an informed one instead of a rushed one.

One platform, from commit to production

Committing, reviewing, building, testing, securing, and deploying code already follow a single sequence inside Harness, which is why the repository and the review layer could ship together. Both are now part of the outer loop that the Harness Software Delivery Agent runs end-to-end, from commit to production, under one policy engine.

That sequence is also what makes the review useful. Harness already knows how a team releases software, which policies they enforce, and what has failed in their production before. All of that is mapped in the Harness SDLC Knowledge Graph, providing enterprise context for every review to reference.

By dogfooding these capabilities over the past several months, Harness engineering teams have saved more than 10,000 hours of manual review time per month.

Availability

Agent-Ready Harness Code Repository and AI Code Review are available today – book a demo to learn more.

About Harness

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform™ company, enabling engineering teams to build, test, and deliver software faster and more securely. Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the platform brings intelligent automation to every stage of the software delivery lifecycle after code — removing toil and freeing developers from manual, repetitive work. Companies like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels use Harness to accelerate releases by up to 75%, cut cloud costs by 60%, and achieve 10x efficiency across DevOps. Based in San Francisco, Harness is backed by Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, and Citi Ventures.

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Genesis hosts Child Creativity Lab STEAM workshop at Boys & Girls Clubs of King CountyGenesis Inspiration Foundation awards $10,000 grant to AIM Seattle to expand arts education for children with disabilities

SEATTLE, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Genesis and Genesis Inspiration Foundation recently supported science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education and youth development in the Seattle community. Through Genesis Gives, the corporate social responsibility initiative of Genesis Motor America, Genesis hosted an interactive STEAM workshop for students at the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County, introducing students to transportation technology careers and hands-on STEAM learning opportunities. Additionally, Genesis Inspiration Foundation awarded a $10,000 grant to AIM Seattle to help expand inclusive arts education programs for children with disabilities in the Seattle area.

“Exposure to the arts and access to applied STEAM learning can open doors that students may not have known existed,” said Brandon Ramirez, director, corporate social responsibility, Genesis Motor America, and board member, Genesis Inspiration Foundation. “By supporting programs like these, we are helping young people develop STEAM-related skills, explore transportation technology careers, and gain access to inclusive arts experiences.”

Genesis hosted a STEAM workshop, developed with Child Creativity Lab, for nearly 50 students at the Boys & Girls Club of King County. Students learned about emerging transportation technologies at Genesis and the product planning process, explored an all-electric Genesis GV60 and applied their creativity to develop future mobility concepts using upcycled materials. During this year alone, Genesis has impacted nearly 1,500 children through its STEAM workshop in schools and community organizations throughout the nation. This initiative is part of Genesis Gives, which seeks to empower the next generation of leaders and innovators through supporting STEAM education, youth sports, and sustainability programs.

Genesis Inspiration Foundation donated $10,000 to AIM Seattle, a nonprofit organization that provides adaptive and inclusive arts programming for children with disabilities. Through classes, camps, and community-based experiences, AIM Seattle fosters creativity, connection, and personal growth while helping participants overcome barriers to access. The donation will be used to support inclusive arts programming that empowers children with disabilities to explore their creativity and engage in enriching artistic experiences.

“This funding means we can keep doing what AIM does best: creating spaces where disabled kids, teens, and young adults can show up as themselves, try new things, build skills, and find their people,” said Kristin Nygaard, program director, AIM Seattle. “As AIM continues to grow, the need that we see in our community continues to grow as well. This $10,000 will help us keep our programs accessible while continuing to grow the opportunities we can offer. We’re really grateful for this support and for the Foundation’s belief in what we’re building together.”

Together, these initiatives help increase access to interactive STEAM learning and inclusive arts education for youth across the greater Seattle area.

Genesis Gives

Genesis Gives is a corporate social responsibility initiative from Genesis Motor America. Expanding on the brand’s commitment to the highest standards of performance and its athletic elegance design identity, Genesis Gives supports nonprofit organizations with the goal of improving access to, and performance in, youth sports and STEAM education in under-resourced communities. Since 2022, Genesis has donated over $3 million to support communities across the country. For more information, visit www.genesisgives.com.

Genesis Inspiration Foundation

Genesis Inspiration Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to connecting youth to the transformative power of the arts. Our mission is to improve educational outcomes by providing access to arts programs that engage and inspire children in under-resourced communities. Founded in 2018, the Genesis Inspiration Foundation has awarded over $16 million in grants to expand youth arts at museums, schools, and community organizations nationwide. With the support of Genesis and its retailers, we are introducing children to a new world of the possible. To learn more, visit us online at www.genesisinspirationfoundation.org.

Genesis Motor North America

Genesis is a new global automotive brand that delivers the highest standards of design, safety, refined performance, and innovation while looking towards a more sustainable future. Drawing from its cultural heritage and distinctly Korean hospitality, Genesis crafts experiences focused on customers as “son-nim”, or honored guests.

Genesis Motor North America offers a growing range of award-winning SUV, sedan, and electric models through its network of more than 190 independent U.S. retailers, in addition to its more than 30 Canadian agency distributors. Genesis now counts more than 100 standalone retail facilities across the North American region, with dozens more in development. Consumers can discover the brand through its many retail points, at Genesis House, the brand’s flagship space in New York City, or online at www.genesis.com.

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