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Global business leaders share ideas on AI-driven growth in Shanghai

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SHANGHAI, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from english.shanghai.gov.cn

Shanghai should better leverage artificial intelligence to integrate services with manufacturing and consumption and nurture more growth engines, experts and executives from leading multinational companies said.

The comments were made during the 38th meeting of the International Business Leaders’ Advisory Council for the Mayor of Shanghai, held on Oct 11 under the theme of promoting innovation-driven development of the service sector.

Initiated in 1989, the IBLAC has grown into a think tank for Shanghai mayors, with 42 multinational executives from 14 countries attending this year’s edition.

Shanghai has a unique advantage to better leverage technology thanks to its strong industrial base, its close ties with the rest of the Yangtze River Delta region and a mature service industry, Mohamed Kande, global chairman of PwC, said.

He suggested Shanghai connect technologies, research and capital with international service providers to address real-economy challenges.

Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and executive chairman of S4 Capital and former chairman of IBLAC, said that Shanghai is becoming a testing ground for global AI governance and the intelligent transformation of the services sector.

For the global service sector, AI has seen its role transitioning from an efficiency tool to a “value-chain restructurer”. Shanghai should thus further align with international rules, facilitate data flow, open up more application scenarios, build up a more talent-friendly ecosystem and seek international coordination to make it a global innovation hub for AI-empowered services, he suggested.

Applauding Shanghai’s strong manufacturing foundation as well as a rich pool of AI companies, professional service providers, multinational companies and long-term capital, Zhang Lei, founder and chairman of Hillhouse Investment, said that the city should attach greater importance to the real deployment of AI.

More key scenarios that affect companies’ operations should be opened up. Shanghai should also cultivate a group of forward-deployed engineers and professional service enterprises that understand both AI and industries. In this way, more AI applications and service capabilities successfully tested in the Chinese market can go global from Shanghai, he said.

According to Gary S. Guthart, executive chair of the board of directors at Intuitive Surgical, combining high-quality medical data with AI and robotics can create new frontiers in medical care. Shanghai has unique advantages for such transformation by piloting the development of high-quality datasets for robot-assisted surgeries, experimenting with new approaches for secure medical data sharing, and building a “Shanghai model” for the responsible use of medical data that can be replicated nationwide.

Jean-Paul Agon, chairman of L’Oreal Group, believed that AI can provide consumers with tailor-made products by connecting the online and offline shopping experiences. He added that Shanghai should improve its business ecosystem to become a hub connecting global innovation rules.

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IQVIA Selects Veeva Clinical Operations Applications

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IQVIA (NYSE: IQV) and Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) today announced an expansion of their partnership with the selection of Veeva CTMS, eTMF, Study Startup, and Site Connect as enterprise standard applications that will be used across IQVIA clinical development studies. This extends the previously announced EDC partnership.

Together, IQVIA and Veeva bring best-in-class capabilities to clinical research to help customers increase trial speed and efficiency, strengthen site centricity, and make better-informed decisions, ultimately helping get life-changing treatments to patients faster. All Veeva clinical solutions are also available through IQVIA for sponsors who wish to enable a full Veeva technology stack.

“By bringing our companies’ strengths together, we’re giving clinical teams a more connected way to work, built on frictionless integration of our respective technologies,” said Richard Staub, president of Research and Development Solutions at IQVIA. “Just as importantly, customers retain the flexibility to choose the EDC, RTSM, and eCOA technologies and solutions that best meet their needs, including IQVIA’s innovative capabilities.”

“This is an exciting expansion of the partnership IQVIA and Veeva announced last year and the work we have done together since,” said Veeva founder and CEO Peter Gassner. “We are committed to supporting seamless product and services integration for the benefit of our customers and improving access to innovations for patients.”

Join us at Veeva R&D and Quality Summit on October 20-21 in Boston to learn more.

About IQVIA
IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. IQVIA’s portfolio of solutions are powered by IQVIA Connected Intelligence™ to deliver actionable insights and services built on high-quality health data, Healthcare-grade AI®, advanced analytics, the latest technologies and extensive domain expertise. IQVIA is committed to using AI responsibly, with AI-powered capabilities built on best-in-class approaches to privacy, regulatory compliance and patient safety, and delivering AI to the high standards of trust, scalability and precision demanded by the industry. With approximately 94,000 employees in over 100 countries, including experts in healthcare, life sciences, data science, technology and operational excellence, IQVIA is dedicated to accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide.

IQVIA is a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. The company uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes. IQVIA’s insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures. To learn more, visit www.iqvia.com.

About Veeva Systems
Veeva delivers the industry cloud for life sciences with applications, agents, data, and consulting. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva serves more than 1,500 customers, ranging from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Veeva is committed to balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, and the industries it serves. For more information, visit veeva.com.

Veeva Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements regarding Veeva’s products, services, and the expected benefits from use of our products and services, and forward-looking statements regarding Veeva’s partnership with IQVIA and the expected benefits of the partnership. These statements are based on our current expectations. Actual results could differ materially from those provided in this release and we have no obligation to update such statements. There are numerous risks that have the potential to negatively impact our results, including the risks and uncertainties disclosed in our filing on Form 10-Q for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2026, which you can find here (a summary of risks which may impact our business can be found on pages 33 and 34), and in our subsequent SEC filings, which you can access at sec.gov.

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IQVIA Investor Relations

Veeva Investor Relations

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IQVIA Media Relations

Veeva Media Relations

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QuickLogic Secures Six-Figure eFPGA IP Contract for Automotive Industrial SoC

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Initial contract targets battery management and motor control applications using 16nm automotive process technology

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — QuickLogic® Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Hard IP, Strategic Radiation Hardened and Antifuse FPGAs, and ruggedized programmable logic solutions, today announced a new eFPGA Hard IP design win for a programmable system-on-chip (SoC) targeting battery management, precision motor control, and industrial robotic applications on a 16nm automotive process technology. The six-figure initial contract is expected to generate license revenue over the next six months, with royalty revenue anticipated upon production shipments.

The design win expands QuickLogic’s presence into the rapidly growing robotics and battery management semiconductor markets, which is being driven by increasing adoption of electric vehicles, battery energy storage systems, renewable energy infrastructure, and industrial manufacturing management solutions. It also builds on the Company’s strategy to expand adoption of its eFPGA Hard IP across applications requiring long product lifecycles, evolving algorithms, and post-silicon flexibility.

“Battery management systems, industrial applications, and robotics represent exciting growth markets where adaptability and long product lifecycles are becoming increasingly important design considerations,” said Andy Jaros, Vice President of IP Sales at QuickLogic. “As these systems grow more intelligent and software-driven, developers need the flexibility to evolve hardware functionality throughout a product’s life. Our eFPGA Hard IP provides that capability while preserving the efficiency benefits of a custom SoC.”

Battery management systems have become increasingly sophisticated, demanding higher energy density, faster charging, longer operating life, enhanced safety, and improved system intelligence. Similarly, application-specific motor control systems demand reduced energy consumption, extended operating life, and early fault detection. As control algorithms and system requirements evolve, SoC developers increasingly need hardware flexibility without sacrificing the power, performance, and cost advantages of ASIC implementations.

QuickLogic’s eFPGA Hard IP enables developers to incorporate programmable hardware functionality directly into their SoCs, allowing them to adapt algorithms, implement new features, accelerate critical workloads, and extend product lifecycles without requiring costly silicon redesigns.

The SoC will leverage QuickLogic’s proprietary Australis™ eFPGA IP Generator, enabling a programmable logic fabric optimized for the customer’s specific performance, power, and area requirements. The embedded programmable logic can be utilized for hardware acceleration, security functions, communications interfaces, advanced control algorithms, and other application-specific functionality.

For more information about QuickLogic’s customized eFPGA Hard IP solutions for automotive, energy, industrial, aerospace and defense, AI/ML, communications, and other applications, contact info@quicklogic.com.

About QuickLogic 

QuickLogic is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Hard IP, Strategic Radiation Hardened and Antifuse FPGAs, and ruggedized programmable logic solutions. QuickLogic’s unique approach combines cutting-edge technology with open-source tools to deliver highly customizable low-power solutions for aerospace and defense, industrial, computing, and consumer markets. For more information, visit www.quicklogic.com.

QuickLogic and logo are registered trademarks of QuickLogic. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

 

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CGI Federal announces Momentum® 8.4, expanding automation, AI and built-in compliance capabilities for federal agencies

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FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CGI Federal Inc. (CGI Federal), a leading provider of technology and professional services for the U.S. government, today announced a new release of its Momentum Enterprise Suite. The latest release delivers significant enhancements to the built-for-federal financial, acquisition and budget management system, expanding automation, AI-driven insights and streamlined workflows for federal agencies. Designed to help organizations increase efficiency and respond to evolving regulatory requirements, Momentum 8.4 introduces modern capabilities designed to improve operational performance, ease compliance burden and enhance user experience.

Momentum 8.4 helps federal agencies to unlock deeper insights and optimize their operations with its latest advancements. Through AI-backed conversational analytics offered via Momentum’s analytics agent, agencies can access and interpret data more easily. Additionally, this new release introduces enhancements designed to streamline business processes and maximize utilization of unused funds. Specifically, it features improved capabilities for managing unliquidated obligation (ULO) and unliquidated commitment (ULC) balances, as well as automated recommendations for efficient credit card reconciliation.

This latest release also includes several important updates that support federal compliance. For example, Momentum 8.4 is the first core financial system on the Treasury Financial Management Quality Service Management Office (FM QSMO) Marketplace to offer commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) integration with GO.gov, the travel management system for federal agencies, enabling integrated processing of travel authorizations, vouchers and advances. It also offers additional regulatory improvements such as new payment justification capabilities and integration with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Information Returns Intake System (IRIS), allowing agencies to keep pace with the latest federal mandates.

Another major feature of Momentum 8.4 is the introduction of six action-oriented workspaces purpose‑built for federal workflows, including budget execution, automated match, intra-governmental transaction management, streamlined ordering, credit card statement reconciliation and GO.gov travel management. Each of these workspaces provide guided processes, data insights and centralized tools that improve the speed and quality of work for federal users, helping them complete tasks more intuitively and efficiently. For example, the GO.gov workspace supports financial optimization by simplifying the recovery of unused travel advances through improved visibility and recommended actions.

“Federal agencies are looking to modernize core operations while navigating evolving requirements and increasing demands for efficiency,” said Kerry Canfield, Vice-President, CGI Federal. “Momentum 8.4 expands automation and compliance capabilities while introducing user-centric enhancements designed to reduce operational complexity across federal supporting functions.”

Momentum 8.4 is available now to all federal agencies. To learn more about how this release can support mission performance and modernize financial, acquisition and budget operations, visit www.cgi.com/Momentum.

About CGI Federal’s Momentum® Enterprise Suite

Momentum is the industry-leading budget, financial and acquisition management software and the first core financial management solution approved by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Management Quality Service Management Office (FM QSMO). Purpose-built for federal agencies, Momentum leverages agentic AI, intelligent automation, and exception-based processing to empower agencies to achieve new heights of efficiency and compliance with evolving federal priorities. Momentum is CGI Federal’s flagship financial management solution and leverages agentic AI, intelligent automation and exception-based processing to empower agencies to achieve new heights of efficiency and compliance with evolving federal priorities.

About CGI Federal

CGI Federal Inc. is a leading U.S.-based technology and professional services company that serves federal agencies across defense, civilian, healthcare, justice, intelligence and international affairs. With nearly 8,000 professionals, CGI Federal works with its clients to modernize government through innovative technology solutions, flexible delivery models and a commitment to achieve mission outcomes. CGI Federal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CGI Inc. For more information, visit www.cgifederal.com.

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