HONG KONG, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The 3rd GTI Forum on Digital Intelligence • Hong Kong, themed “Openness, Sharing, Cooperation – Advancing AI Development”, was held in Hong Kong, China on September 8.

Gao Tongqing, Chairman of GTI, stated that GTI continues to strengthen global cooperation, foster open exchange and build consensus on development priorities. Working alongside international organizations, regulators, universities and research institutions, GTI deepens cross-domain and cross-regional collaboration, advances in-depth integration of industry, academia and research worldwide, and promotes “network-intelligence integrated innovation for inclusive AI empowerment” as a global consensus. GTI deepens collaborative innovation to address key industry challenges: it has established eight open laboratories across Asia, Europe and North America, built a 6G open testbed, launched a global open innovation challenge with GSMA, and released over 50 white papers and research reports, providing practical guidance for the global industry to tackle common challenges. To contribute development insights and bridge the digital-intelligence divide, GTI put forward the Mobile Intelligence Integration Index (MI³), released the Mobile AI White Paper and the AI Security Governance Initiative, and advances the secure, trustworthy, inclusive and accessible development of AI. Globally, AI is advancing at an accelerated pace, with three core pillars—technological innovation, industrial application and governance practice—continuing to deepen. For this new stage of AI development, he put forward three proposals on behalf of GTI:

First, jointly advance technological innovation to consolidate the foundation of AI development. GTI will rally global innovation forces across industry, academia, research and application, leverage its open laboratories and testbeds to carry out diverse cooperation such as international joint R&D and global open innovation challenges, and jointly overcome key common technical bottlenecks.

Second, jointly expand application scenarios to unlock AI’s value potential. Adhering to a demand-driven approach, GTI will continue to identify high-value application scenarios across industries, promote in-depth integration of AI with sectors including healthcare, transportation, education and energy, and empower key links such as R&D, design and manufacturing.

Third, jointly promote trustworthy governance to steer AI toward good. Upholding a people-centered and responsible AI philosophy, GTI will deepen international dialogue and cooperation in areas such as AI standards, security and governance.

Li Huidi, Executive Vice President of China Mobile, pointed out that as a core founding member of GTI, China Mobile will continue to leverage GTI’s open cooperation platform to discuss AI technology evolution, industrial applications and governance pathways with all parties. Currently, AI is evolving from isolated tools to general-purpose capabilities, driving all-round transformation of productivity and social governance and reshaping the underlying logic of the information and communications industry: connectivity expands from human-machine-thing interconnection to Agent interconnection, and operation models shift from traffic-based operations to integrated “Byte+Token” operations.

Following this trend, China Mobile continues to advance the deep integration of AI and information and communications technologies, and accelerates the coordinated evolution of communications networks, computing networks and AI networks, so that AI can better embed into networks, empower industries and serve society. As the “AI+” era unfolds, China Mobile stands ready to forge ahead hand in hand with partners from all sectors. On behalf of China Mobile, Li Huidi put forward three proposals:

First, jointly strengthen foundational digital capabilities. The two sides will collaborate on core technologies such as large models, AI computing clusters and integrated cloud-network-compute scheduling, boost efficient coordination of communications, computing, data and models, and build secure, interconnected, open and trustworthy AI infrastructure.

Second, co-create smart application scenarios. China Mobile will deepen efforts in diverse tracks including industry, people’s livelihood and urban development, build more benchmark applications with Hong Kong and global partners, leverage Hong Kong’s role as an international gateway and “super connector”, and advance AI services’ industry-wide coverage, inclusive access for all, and global sharing.

Third, foster an open global ecosystem. The two sides will deepen industry-university-research-investment collaboration, build cross-border AI cooperation platforms, and jointly explore rules on cross-border data flows, algorithm security, model trustworthiness and AI Agent governance, to promote the safe, inclusive and sustainable development of artificial intelligence.

China Mobile, together with GTI and over 20 industry partners, jointly released the GTI AI Security Governance Technology White Paper and the Security Capability System; together with GTI and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, officially launched the AI4S Scientific Workstation • International Edition (TG Science); and, together with GTI, and over 10 industry-university-research partners, jointly released the Achievement of the 6G Open Testbed: Base Station and Terminal Prototype IODT Based on The Latest 3GPP Definitions. 

The event also featured two sub-forums: Smart Transportation and Mobile AI. Gathering over 20 experts and executives from sectors including transportation, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, the sub-forums explored integrated development and practices of AI across sectors, driving broader and deeper expansion of “AI+” and empowering transformation and upgrading of all industries.

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Edge storage integration deepens across the IBC show floor as attendees get their first live look at the Pro Mini Smart Drive moving through active production workflows

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — iodyne, leader in high-performance and smart data storage solutions, today announced its presence at IBC2026, running Sept. 11-16 in Amsterdam. The storage solutions provider will demonstrate how deeply its drives have become embedded in the daily workflows of its partners. During the show this year, iodyne will be co-exhibiting with professional video software provider, Hedge, at booth 7.A36. Additionally, iodyne’s solutions will make a special appearance powering workflows across the Adobe, RED Digital Cinema, and Cintegral Technologies booths. IBC2026 will also mark the first time European audiences see the Pro Mini Smart Drive, winner of Best of Show at NAB 2026, working live across multiple stops on a single show floor.

“Pro Mini is finally out of the display case and moving through real jobs at this show, starting at the Hedge booth for capture and archive, over to Adobe for AI creative and search workflows, and onto RED for raw ingest, a single Pro Mini can handle all of these different workflows and keep your data safe,” said Michael Gitig, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives of iodyne.

Across every booth, iodyne will showcase how their storage solutions move high-resolution footage through workflows without slowing down, staying encrypted and RAID-protected the entire way.

Powering the Show Floor

iodyne’s presence at IBC2026 spans four partner booths, each showcasing encrypted, RAID-protected data moving from capture through color, ingest, and archive without a hitch. Here’s where to find it on the show floor:

Hedge (Booth 7.A36): Hedge is running iodyne storage across a full capture-to-archive pipeline on its booth, pairing Hedge’s OffShoot, Canister, EditReady, Canopy, Mimiq with iodyne Pro Data and Pro Mini to show attendees a verified, encrypted transfer at every step, from the initial offload off camera media through to long-term archive.

Adobe (Booths 13.D501, 7.B35): iodyne is showing up across multiple Adobe workflows this year, from Premiere to After Effects, including native-resolution RAW grading inside the new Color Mode in Premiere, an integration first detailed in iodyne’s Premiere Color Mode workflow story. iodyne will also publish a new episode of its Workflow Kitchen series featuring Dave Helmly from Adobe, covering the AI-driven features Adobe has released over the past year and how they fit into faster color and post pipelines.

RED Digital Cinema (Booth 11.C35): At the RED Digital Cinema booth, iodyne Pro Data will support live, fast, and secure R3D RAW workflows, building on the streamlined card-free ingest setup that the two companies showed earlier this year at NAB Show and Cinegear Expo.

Cintegral Technologies (Booth 1.D25): iodyne rental partner, Cintegral Technologies, is making its IBC debut focused on connectivity services for the European market, including private 5G and free-space optical (FSO) transmission for productions that need to move data without a fixed line. As it expands into connectivity, Cintegral says the Pro Mini remains central to its business.

“For me, what makes the Pro Mini so invaluable to us as a business is the intersectionality it provides across all our verticals,” said Dane Brehm, Production Technologist of Cintegral Technologies.

“Having the Pro Mini as a premium product when people know us for our storage-as-a-service gives us the opportunity to interest them in our other offerings, like the connectivity we’re showcasing for IBC. Utilizing a premium product in an excellent partnership builds trust and creates Cintegral’s secret sauce for success.”

Getting studio-grade data workflows into the field is a business imperative across sports, cinema and TV. iodyne points to its case study with the Dallas Cowboys on off-site content production, alongside a new case study with CineLab, as examples of that shift. iodyne invites IBC attendees to stop by any of its partner booths to talk through how the same edge workflows could apply to their own productions.

iodyne’s drives remain the fastest in the storage category while staying fully encrypted and RAID-protected—a standard the company calls TruePut. At IBC2026, iodyne puts its drives to work, demoing how faster encrypted transfer speeds cut down both the time spent offloading footage in the field and the cost of shipping physical drives back to a home base.

For more information, visit iodyne.com.

About iodyne

Founded by veteran enterprise storage engineers, iodyne builds encrypted, RAID-protected storage for professionals who work at the edge, in the field, on set, or anywhere else a slow or fragile drive isn’t an option. Its Pro Data and Pro Mini product lines pair hardware RAID-6 and XTS-AES-256 encryption with the sustained, verified performance the company calls TruePut, giving media and entertainment, government, and enterprise IT teams a way to move and protect large datasets without giving up speed. iodyne is based in Los Angeles. Learn more at iodyne.com.

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Category Leader Launches Autonomous AI Development Platform to Bring Compounding and Iterative Agentic Capabilities to Supply Chain, Readiness, and Trade Management

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Exiger, a market-leading supply chain AI company, in partnership with investors Carlyle, Insight Partners, and JMI Equity, today announced its complete AI transformation with the AI-native 1Exiger release, a significant upgrade to the 1Exiger tech stack that is designed to allow customers to harness the agility of AI for supply chain, procurement, and compliance tasks. 1EXIGER.AI, 1Exiger’s enhanced AI execution layer, is built on Exiger’s new AI product development lifecycle (AI-PDLC), enabling continuous development, deployment, and scale while leveraging Exiger’s leading data, domain expertise and secure infrastructure.

Following the $1.2 billion investment led by Carlyle, Insight Partners, and JMI Equity in 2023, Exiger completed three acquisitions that significantly expanded its proprietary data assets beyond the commercially available data typically used by large language models (LLMs) and off-the-shelf tools. Since then, Exiger has pursued continuous innovation and, at the beginning of this year, embarked on a complete AI-led replatform of its business.

“With the AI-PDLC, we were able to rapidly execute this platform upgrade, integrating the most advanced agentic AI capabilities in just months and creating a platform for the ongoing release of new functionality on a daily and even hourly basis. 1Exiger will be like the smartphone of supply chain, readiness, and trade management, with new versions seamlessly deployed for an ever-improving experience,” said Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels. “This product development platform and built-in supply chain data universe obliterates the ‘build vs. buy’ decision for the supply chain, acquisition, and procurement communities, giving them the data they need and the tooling that allows them to use it effortlessly.”

Exiger’s flagship product, 1Exiger, has evolved from a leading supply chain risk solution into a centralized AI platform that helps organizations manage their operating network, from parts to suppliers, regulators, and customers, through an autonomous agentic workforce that learns, adapts, and augments with every decision. This AI-native release hardens Exiger’s market position, combining the largest supply chain knowledge asset with three trillion data points, deep expertise from long-term, complex use cases, and trusted deployment in highly regulated environments. That market dominance took years and hundreds of millions in investment to achieve, creating an entrenched differentiator over competitors and new entrants.

“Our capacity to revolutionize markets by building fit-for-purpose tooling and proprietary data into cutting-edge agentic workflows will allow us to not only dominate our core supply chain, readiness, trade compliance, and procurement markets, but also stretch into new ones,” said Daniels. “With the AI-PDLC, Exiger can do with a few hundred Experience Builders, a new role we’ve created aligned with AI-Native development, and engineers what companies with 10,000 staff engineers do. We’re operating at the bleeding edge. The customers building alongside us retain their own data while leveraging Exiger’s competitive advantage to create and own their AI future.”

The AI-PDLC automates each stage of development with AI now writing 95% of first-generation code and seamlessly integrates with Exiger’s secure CI/CD pipeline on top of the world’s largest proprietary dataset in supply chain, defense, and corporate intelligence. It has radically improved the speed, cost, and scale of Exiger’s AI development, compressing what was estimated to be a three-year, $180 million upgrade into a four-month, $20 million sprint, and positioning Exiger as the AI partner for organizations looking to act first and beat the market with pioneering supply chain and procurement automation.

“Exiger’s AI transformation reflects a forward-looking approach to innovation and a commitment to continually rethinking conventional approaches. The timing of this release is particularly compelling as defense and government customers are increasingly demanding sophisticated AI capabilities for supply chain mapping and decision-making. We believe Exiger is well positioned to meet this growing demand,” said Steve Bailey, Partner at Carlyle and Chairman of Exiger’s Board of Directors, and Dayne Baird, Partner at Carlyle and Board Member.

“Exiger’s AI-driven innovation engine generates durable moat, almost at-will, and their AI-PDLC is among the most advanced in the market, inside or outside of Silicon Valley,” said Ryan Hinkle, Managing Director at Insight Partners and Board Member. “Achieving 50% core market growth this year only reinforces our strong conviction in the Exiger team and what they’re building.”

“Rather than defend legacy approaches, Exiger embraced its philosophy of innovation-led transformation and reinvented its business ahead of the market,” said Bob Nye, Partner at JMI Equity and Board Member. “In doing so, the company has created a blueprint for how category leaders can harness AI to unlock new avenues of growth. We believe Exiger represents a compelling model for AI-native transformation across the JMI portfolio.”

About Exiger
Exiger is the AI partner for supply chain and procurement automation. Its centralized 1EXIGER.AI platform allows organizations to manage their entire operating network, from parts to suppliers, regulators, and customers, through an autonomous agentic workforce that learns, adapts, and augments with every decision. The AI-native platform combines the largest supply chain knowledge asset with three trillion data points, deep expertise from long-term, complex use cases, and trusted deployment in highly regulated environments. Exiger is taking 550+ global customers, including 150 Fortune 500 and 80+ government and defense industrial organizations, to the bleeding edge, empowering them to act first in the AI era. FedRAMP® authorized, 2x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management, and multiple patent holder, Exiger is recognized by 50+ tech awards and analyst evaluations. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn.

About Carlyle
Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit, and Carlyle AlpInvest. With $485 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2026, Carlyle’s purpose is to connect people, ideas, and capital to fuel growth for companies and performance for investors. Carlyle employs more than 2,500 people in 28 offices across four continents. Further information is available at www.carlyle.com. Follow Carlyle on X @OneCarlyle and LinkedIn at The Carlyle Group.

About Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of December 31, 2025, the firm has over $90B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 900 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has a global presence with leadership in London, Tel Aviv, and the Bay Area. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with tailored, hands-on software expertise along their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on X @insightpartners.

About JMI Equity
Founded in 1992, JMI Equity has focused on investing in exceptional software and AI-driven companies from scaling stages through later growth. For more than three decades, JMI has partnered with founder-owners and management teams across market cycles to accelerate growth and build their companies into industry leaders. With offices in San Diego, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, JMI has invested in nearly 200 businesses in its target markets. As of December 2025, the firm’s portfolio represents over $11 billion in combined revenue, $90 billion in aggregate enterprise value, and 40,000 jobs. To learn more, visit www.jmi.com.

For more information, please contact:

Kody Gurfein
Chief Marketing Officer
kgurfein@exiger.com
1.914.393.0398

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