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Cognizant and Cognition put autonomous AI engineering into production at Odyssey Logistics, with a 37 percent net cost saving

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Rebuilding Odyssey’s transportation management platform from legacy forms into cloud-native software, with Odyssey reporting a 37 percent net cost saving inside a fixed budget and accelerated timeline.

TEANECK, N.J., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) and Cognition announced production results from autonomous AI engineering work at Odyssey Logistics, along with an expanded set of collaborative offerings built on Cognition’s AI software engineer, Devin.

Enterprises modernizing their technology estates face a persistent constraint: the work is often well understood, but engineering capacity is scarce and conventional modernization programs can run for a year or more before delivering value. Cognizant and Cognition have worked together since 2024, and entered into an AI engineering collaboration in January 2026 to help address that constraint directly.

Devin, Cognition’s AI software engineer, is designed to take on multi-step development tasks – planning, writing and testing code across complex systems – working alongside Cognizant’s engineers. Cognizant brings the industry depth, delivery scale and governance that enterprises require before letting agents near the systems that run their business. Cognizant has trained more than 3,000 associates on the Devin platform, and applied to its own engineering work, Devin has cut time to release-ready code by more than 50 percent and accelerated greenfield development five to six times1.

Since then, the two companies have developed a combined set of offerings. These now include a modernization and upgrade offering designed to support and automate most conversion, templating, migration, testing and fixes at scale; a quality engineering offering that embeds Devin to identify test-coverage gaps and assist in generating test cases automatically; and a Frontier AI Cyber Defense offering built on a Devin-based capability.

“Software engineering is changing faster than anything I have seen in my career,” said Tarun Kumar, Americas Head, Software Engineering Group, Cognizant. “Autonomous agents change the economics of modernization and what an enterprise can realistically do. As an AI Builder, our work aims to put that capability into the systems businesses depend on every day. What Odyssey is doing is a preview of how enterprise engineering will run.”

Odyssey Logistics is a global multimodal logistics provider with a freight network of more than $3B, serving industrial customers with complex transportation and supply chain needs across chemicals, metals, food-grade product and other specialized markets. The company combines managed transportation, modal expertise, technology and executional discipline to help customers move freight safely, efficiently and reliably.

Odyssey is currently working to launch its OdysseyONE platform, intended to support order intake, execution, visibility and lifecycle management across its network. Odyssey set out to consolidate its order intake and full shipment lifecycle onto that platform. The workflow logic behind it sat in legacy Microsoft Access and Visual Basic for Applications forms, which are hard to scale, maintain or integrate, and the original business rules had to survive the migration intact. A fixed budget and a tight delivery window ruled out a conventional rewrite.

A seven-person Cognizant team used Devin to handle the legacy conversion, rebuilding the forms as cloud-native applications and generating tests, deployment pipelines and documentation alongside the code. Every change was reviewed and signed off by a Cognizant technical lead or architect before merging.

Delivery throughput rose by roughly a third and Odyssey recorded a 37 percent net cost saving against the conventional approach. The current phase is live and the program continues.

“Modernization only matters if it changes the business outcome,” said Maneet Singh, CIO and CDO, Odyssey Logistics. “For us, this was about moving faster without compromising discipline. Cognizant and Cognition helped us turn a complex legacy rebuild into a practical, governed path to production, with clear accountability around every change. That is the model we are applying more broadly across Odyssey now: use AI where it creates measurable value, keep people in control of the decisions that matter and make technology a driver of business performance, not just an IT project.”

Before committing to the re-development, Odyssey tested the approach with Cognizant and Devin on a separate, standalone legacy application. That project closed 21 days after kickoff, and the results gave Odyssey the confidence to apply the same model to its transportation management platform, now in production.

“Our customer Odyssey directly proves the business case for autonomous AI engineering. Enterprises can move faster without giving up quality, and a complex modernization becomes a governed, repeatable path,” said Art Levy, VP Global Partnerships, Cognition. “With Devin working alongside the engineering team, the budget and people that would have gone into a year-long rebuild go toward strategic work that drives the business. Together with Cognizant’s world class enablement, we make that possible at massive scale.”

Cognizant leads the solution and the delivery, powered by Devin, so the client deals with a single accountable partner. Both companies intend to explore extending their collaborative offering set across security remediation, AI assurance, observability-driven application maintenance, legacy modernization and greenfield software development.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant. 

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Limitless Labs Brings More Real Customers and Creators into What SACHEU is Making Next While much of beauty races to let AI make the calls, the partnership with SACHEU is built to do the opposite – to help SACHEU hear more from its real customers and creators, and keep every product decision human.

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Limitless Labs, an agentic AI company, and SACHEU, a category-creating cosmetics brand, announced a partnership to bring more real customer and creator voices into how the brand decides what to make, launch, and improve.

“Social Mirror Audiences shows us where beauty creators are frustrated in their routines, the gaps and pain points nobody’s solved yet, before we ever start developing a shade,” said Sarah Cheung, Founder of SACHEU. “It’s not about chasing what’s trending. It’s about spotting the white space that no one’s filled and getting there first. The formulas, the risk, the creative call on what to actually build – that’s still all us. Limitless Labs AI just makes sure we’re pointed at the right problem before we start.”

The technology is Limitless Labs’ Social Mirror Audiences, which trained a custom audience for SACHEU on thousands of real beauty creators, each member built from that creator’s own content and stated preferences, not an invented persona, then pointed that audience at what shoppers are already saying, including more than 22,000 customer reviews across 22 SACHEU products and 184,060 social videos, so a proposed shade, product, or claim can be put in front of the whole audience at once. Limitless Labs then refines the audience against SACHEU’s own internal data, keeping the voices that correctly understand the brand; on SACHEU’s data that step lifted preference accuracy by about 30 percentage points over an unrefined audience, turning weeks of small-panel research into days and leaving every answer traceable to real customer and creator voices.

Since January, the partnership has produced a methodology that shapes real decisions:

Reading the reviews. When SACHEU revisited the how-to-use guidance on its Peel-Off Lip STAY-N, the decision was informed by 7,391 real customer reviews – the people who actually use the product.Hearing the creators. What real creators gravitate toward helps SACHEU understand which shades and ideas resonate before committing to them. Ahead of one lip shade launch, the audience ranked three shades in the same order they ultimately sold.Deciding with more of the picture. One shade study drew on 184,060 social videos to show which shades had real pull and which were splitting the audience.

“This patent-pending technology allows brands to predict what will sell before they manufacture it by learning from their customers at a scale they never could before,” said Dale Janée Schroeter, VP of Business Development at Limitless Labs. “Our AI agents give sharper answers because they are built on real, unique data sets.”

The approach is intentionally bounded. It helps SACHEU hear more and understand more; it does not replace the brand’s creative instinct, shade expertise, or the trust SACHEU has built with its customers and creators. SACHEU makes every product, launch, and brand decision – now with more real voices in the room.

About Limitless Labs

Limitless Labs builds AI systems that help brands understand and act on what is happening in real time. Learn more at www.wearelimitless.ai

About SACHEU

From viral sensation to global movement. Founded by Sarah Cheung, SACHEU is the brand redefining longwear makeup. Their products are 100% vegan, cruelty-free, and dermatologist-tested and are available at leading retailers including Ulta Beauty and Target. Learn more at sacheu.com.

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A City Chooses Unity: Colorado Springs with Reclaiming Civility Launch Movement to Reverse National Incivility Crisis

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On September 30, Mayor Yemi Mobolade, the City Council President, business leaders, and citizens across Colorado Springs will gather at the Penrose House Garden Pavilion to put their names to paper, launching a rising movement: the Inaugural Civility Pledge.

Spearheaded by Reclaiming Civility LLC, founded by Lori Leander and Lisa Brandt, the effort addresses a defining crisis of our era, the quiet exhaustion of a public weary of political contempt and the urgent need for courage to lead across differences. Mayor Mobolade and Council leadership will sign alongside the inaugural class following a keynote address by Alexandra Hudson, author of The Soul of Civility and contributor to The Wall Street Journal, CBS, PBS, TIME, POLITICO, and Newsweek.

The movement lands at a crucial tipping point. According to the Reagan Institute, more than 70 percent of Americans actively want to help restore civility to public life. The social and economic costs of division continue to mount:

Workplace Cost: SHRM estimates $2.6 billion is lost daily in American workplaces due to incivility.Relational Fractures: Research by Cornell University sociologist Karl Pillemer reveals 27 percent of Americans are currently estranged from a family member.Public Exhaustion: A survey by More in Common shows 86 percent of citizens report feeling exhausted by national political division.

“Every signature on the pledge is a choice to see people rightly, hear people well, and engage disagreement honorably, one decision that has a ripple effect, inviting our region to choose civility together,” said Lori Leander, Co-Founder of Reclaiming Civility LLC.

Demonstrating the enduring nature of this commitment, the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum will preserve the signed pledges into perpetuity and will work to share them with the public through a variety of programs and exhibits. Attendance at the September 30 ceremony is required to be named an Inaugural Signer.

Strategic outreach for the movement is led by Paul Yankey, Outsourced Chief Marketing Officer for Reclaiming Civility LLC. To learn more or join the movement, visit reclaimingcivility.com or contact hello@reclaimingcivility.com.

About Reclaiming Civility LLC

Reclaiming Civility LLC, founded by Lori Leander and Lisa Brandt, is a Colorado Springs-based organization dedicated to transforming culture by teaching corporate & organizational half-day workshops on the mindset and skills of civility, renewing hope & frameworks for constructive public discourse through community gatherings, and empowering citizens to communicate respectfully across differences. Learn more at reclaimingcivility.com.

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Taiwan Flagship Showcase Draws Thousands of Visitors, Strengthens Global Manufacturing Ties at IMTS 2026

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CHICAGO, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) today announced the successful conclusion of its Taiwan Flagship Showcase at IMTS 2026, held September 14–19 at McCormick Place. Highlighting their high-precision, flexible, and integrated manufacturing capabilities, 56 Taiwanese companies welcomed thousands of visitors. Additionally, TAITRA welcomed more than 250 attendees at the opening ceremony and Taiwan Night networking event combined, connecting Taiwanese manufacturers with international buyers, distributors, and technology partners in Chicago.

Showcase Highlights

Throughout IMTS 2026 week, the Taiwan Flagship Showcase hosted an opening ceremony attended by representatives from Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO), Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT), Machine Design, Cutting Tool Engineering, Siemens, and HEIDENHAIN, as well as guided brand tours for international delegations and a series of industry-focused seminars covering aerospace applications, semiconductor applications, and smart components. Companies featured live demonstrations of Taiwan’s capabilities such as a completely waterproof CNC tool setter by T-Sense, an industrial robot by Syntec, and a tool management system by Tenpro, that drew steady crowds throughout the week.

Conversations centered on how Taiwanese manufacturers fit into international markets and broader sourcing and growth strategies. Potential buyers expressed interest in semiconductor and precision equipment components, and explored opportunities for direct U.S.-based partnerships and joint ventures. This showcase highlighted how Taiwan’s advanced manufacturing base continues to support the emerging demand of the American market in the semiconductor sector and automation industry.

In a key success story, a metal processing exhibitor successfully established direct contact with U.S. buyers, securing immediate alignment with a manufacturer seeking local service capabilities for its overseas operations and unlocking long-term growth opportunities in the semiconductor space.

By uniting key industry players under a single, collaborative presence, these initiatives serve as a vital bridge between North American demand and Taiwan’s robust manufacturing ecosystem, accelerating cross-border supply chain integration. In another success story, a Taiwanese company outside the semiconductor industry is adapting its technology through a U.S. partnership to deliver grinding solutions, expanding its reach into semiconductors.

“The successful outcome we saw from IMTS 2026 confirmed what we initially set out to prove: Taiwan’s manufacturers can meet the needs of the manufacturing industry,” said Simon Wang, President & CEO of TAITRA. “Whatever the consumer wants, Taiwan can make it happen, and this week showed the world firsthand the quality, precision and capability that Taiwanese manufacturers bring to the table.”

Looking Ahead

Taiwan Flagship Showcase’s success at IMTS 2026 goes beyond a single exhibitor, but it introduces Taiwan’s complete industrial ecosystem. From advanced machine tools to precision components and solutions, and smart automation and digital manufacturing, Taiwan connects every point of the supply chain, so buyers don’t need to look elsewhere. Under the “Team Taiwan” platform, that ecosystem continues to expand its global reach, underscoring that Taiwan’s capabilities to support the needs of the global manufacturing market.

About the Taiwan Flagship Showcase

Commissioned by the International Trade Administration (TITA) and executed by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the Taiwan Flagship Showcase is a national trade promotion initiative designed to strengthen the international visibility of Taiwan’s industries.

Built around the “Team Taiwan” concept, the initiative integrates Taiwan’s industrial capabilities across key sectors, including machine tools, industrial machinery, automotive parts, fasteners, hand tools, plumbing hardware and electronic components, at major international trade shows.

Through integrated supply chain presentations, industry marketing and business matchmaking programs, the Taiwan Flagship Showcase aims to help Taiwanese companies expand their presence in strategic global markets and develop new international business opportunities. For more information, visit: 2026IMTS.Taiwantrade.com

About TAITRA: The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is Taiwan’s leading nonprofit trade promotion organization. Headquartered in Taipei, TAITRA supports more than 1,300 specialists across a global network of over 60 branch offices, working alongside the Taiwan Trade Center, Taipei World Trade Center, and Far East Trade Service. TAITRA connects Taiwanese businesses to international markets through flagship trade shows such as COMPUTEX, TIMTOS, and Taipei Cycle, and helps companies expand their global reach through market development, trade intelligence, and supply chain partnerships. For more information, visit taitra.org.tw.

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