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Electromagnetic Metamaterials Market to Approach US$15B by 2034, Finds IDTechEx

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BOSTON, May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Metamaterials use regular engineered patterns of subwavelength structures to interact with waves. Electromagnetic metamaterials promise to have transformative effects within the fields of optics and telecommunications. They could make biometric recognition cheaper and more accurate, make virtual reality more immersive and comfortable, and facilitate high-speed mobile internet with zero signal blackspots, yet adoption is in its infancy.

In “Optical & Radio Frequency Metamaterials 2024-2034: Markets, Players, Technologies“, IDTechEx comprehensively examines the emerging technology of electromagnetic metamaterials in its second edition of this report. Drawing from interviews with companies across the value chain and IDTechEx’s existing research on optical, telecommunication, and emerging materials, the report evaluates the market for optical and radio-frequency (RF) metamaterials in various applications. It analyzes each application’s requirements and includes case studies of existing players.

The report identifies reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in telecommunications and metalenses in smartphone cameras as significant opportunities. Through detailed segmentation, it presents a comprehensive overview of the status and market potential of each application. The forecast predicts the overall market to reach US$14.9B by 2034, driven by improved biometric sensing in smartphones via metalenses and increasing 5G mmWave rollout growing adoption of RIS.

Market for RF (Radio-frequency) metamaterials

RF metamaterials find applications across multiple sectors, including telecommunications, automotive, aerospace, and security. They can be utilized in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) to reflect, steer, and shield electromagnetic radiation, compensating for the reduced range associated with higher frequency signals. Additionally, in radar beamforming, RF metamaterials enable active steering of EM radiation to enhance angular resolution. This could be particularly beneficial for automotive radar systems. RF metamaterials can also be used for effective EMI shielding, enhancing security by preventing signal leakage, and can be frequency selective to create transparent shields. RF metamaterials also hold potential for medical sensing applications such as MRI scans and non-invasive glucose monitoring.

According to IDTechEx’s forecast, the largest market for RF metamaterials is forecasted to be in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for 5G mmWave and future 6G communications. Both 5G mmWave and 6G offer significant advantages, including the potential for leveraging expansive bandwidth to support peak data flow ranging from gigabits to terabits per second and maintaining ultra-low latency.

However, utilizing high-frequency spectra presents challenges such as very short signal propagation range (cm range for above 100 GHz frequency) and line-of-sight obstacles. Addressing signal decay and establishing strong communication over reasonable distances is a priority for both technologies, especially in busy urban areas where consistent connectivity despite barriers is crucial.

Establishing numerous base stations is not cost-effective in providing adequate coverage for high-frequency spectra like 5G mmWave and 6G. In contrast, metamaterial RIS can reflect and direct signals to end users, increasing signal range and strength while consuming low energy. Additionally, integrating metamaterial-based coatings with windows can improve signal coverage by reflecting beams around obstacles in urban areas. These solutions provide wide area coverage and offer vast opportunities for materials integration.

Market for optical metamaterials

Relatively simple optical metamaterials based on biomimicry of moth-eye structures have a relatively long history of use as antireflective (AR) coatings in high-end camera lenses. However, metalenses fabricated using semiconductor industry processes are expected to have a huge impact, initially driven by their ability to improve the performance of computer vision systems.

In 2022, metalenses designed by fabless player Metalenz saw commercialization in time-of-flight (ToF) sensors from STMicro, marking the first commercial use of this technology. Here, metalenses improved light-gathering performance in a smaller package than the optics they replaced. The biggest value in metalenses comes in their ability to add additional optical functionality, such as allowing for polarization imaging in a very compact package. This has a huge potential application in facial biometrics for smartphones and could bring facial recognition to smartphones outside of Apple’s range in the near future, with Metalenz announcing sensor modules designed for this application in late 2023.

Metalenses based on liquid crystals are expected to have a significant impact in VR headsets, where they could be used to solve the vergence-accommodation conflict and help these devices pass the “visual Turing test”. Furthermore, active optical metasurfaces could contribute to making LiDAR more compact and broadening the markets where these sensors could be used.

The biggest limiting factor for metalenses is broad spectrum performance, but significant innovation in the design of the metasurfaces themselves and software compensation is expected to make them a more compact and lower-cost replacement for lenses in smartphone cameras within the next ten years. Ultimately, metalenses have the potential to disrupt many corners of the optics industry in the near future.

IDTechEx has been studying emerging materials and photonics technologies and their market opportunities for a decade, utilizing extensive primary research. “Optical & Radio Frequency Metamaterials 2024-2034: Markets, Players, Technologies” provides a comprehensive picture of the underlying technologies, manufacturing methods, and application opportunities of both optical and radio-frequency metamaterials.

To find out more about this IDTechEx report, including downloadable sample pages, please visit www.IDTechEx.com/Meta.

For the full portfolio of 5G, 6G, RFID and telecoms market research from IDTechEx, please see www.IDTechEx.com/Research/5G.

Upcoming free-to-attend webinar

Exploring the Transformative Potential of Electromagnetic Metamaterials

Sam Dale, Senior Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, and Dr Yu-Han Chang, Principal Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, will be presenting a free-to-attend webinar on the topic on Thursday 20 June 2024Exploring the Transformative Potential of Electromagnetic Metamaterials.

Key points covered will include:

A brief introduction to RF (radio frequency) and optical metamaterials, highlighting key market opportunitiesAnalysis of the emerging usage of metalenses, one of the most exciting applications of optical metamaterials, with important manufacturing processes potential challenges highlightedAnalysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), the most promising applications of RF metamaterials, with discussion on players, technology roadmap, key case studies, etcAdoption roadmaps for optical and RF metamaterialsOutlook for the electromagnetic metamaterials market

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DeepKeep Demonstrates Superior Multilingual AI Security Performance in New Benchmark Study

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As the gap in the multilingual security of AI guardrails grows, new benchmark research reveals that DeepKeep’s ability to detect prompt injection and PII across languages outperforms others, including Meta and Nvidia

TEL AVIV, Israel, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DeepKeep, the end-to-end AI security platform, today unveiled the results of a new benchmark study showcasing significant improvements in the performance and efficiency of its multilingual AI security solution. The research study compared DeepKeep’s approach to other guardrails and LLM-as-a-Judge methods and demonstrated that DeepKeep’s multilingual capability provides superior accuracy and consistency.

As organizations deploy AI tools across global teams, the prompts and interactions these systems process increasingly span multiple languages. However, many AI security systems today are designed primarily for English-language prompts, and the consequences are measurable. A Brown University study found that translating unsafe inputs into low-resource languages got GPT-4 to engage with harmful requests 79% of the time, versus under 1% in English. As enterprises deploy AI globally, attackers can exploit this gap by issuing malicious prompts in other languages to bypass guardrails. While translation-based security solutions exist, these often introduce latency, lose context, or produce inconsistent results across languages, creating a growing security blind spot for multinational enterprises.

DeepKeep directly analyzes the semantic meaning of prompts and responses across languages using a cognition-based analysis, allowing the system to classify data without translating it into English first. The cognition-based solution can deliver an interpretable response, allowing the system to learn and improve in time. Due to their design, DeepKeep’s guardrails can efficiently handle zero-day attacks. The guardrails are also designed to handle mixed-language prompts seamlessly – a scenario increasingly common in enterprise environments where users combine multiple languages within a single AI query.

In benchmark testing against widely used open source models, including Meta’s LLaMa Prompt Guard and Nvidia’s NeMo, DeepKeep significantly outperformed in detecting prompt injection attempts and Personal Identifiable Information (PII).

The evaluation used several widely recognized prompt injection datasets, including SafeGuard, Wild Jailbreak, and Alpaca, with test sets translated into 12 additional languages including Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Portuguese. Across these benchmarks, DeepKeep achieved F1 scores approaching 0.98 in prompt injection detection while significantly reducing false negatives compared to translation-based guardrail models.

The platform maintains consistent security decisions across languages while operating with smaller, more efficient model architecture. DeepKeep’s multilingual classifier operates with a model of roughly 400 million parameters, which is significantly smaller than many guardrail models that rely on multi-billion-parameter architectures, enabling faster inference and lower latency in enterprise deployments.

“AI security has largely been built around the assumption that prompts are written in English or that translation is sufficient. That assumption no longer reflects how enterprises actually use AI,” said Yossi Altevet, CTO and Co-Founder at DeepKeep. “As AI systems are deployed across global teams and markets, security models must understand intent across languages, not just words. That shift requires a fundamentally different approach to how AI interactions are analyzed and protected, and we’re proud to have created a solution that meets this challenge with flying colors.”

DeepKeep’s multilingual security solution is part of the company’s established suite of enterprise AI security solutions that give businesses the confidence to leverage AI without sacrificing safety, control, or trust.

For more information about DeepKeep’s multilingual AI security research, read the full analysis here.

About DeepKeep

DeepKeep provides end-to-end AI security and trustworthiness across the full AI lifecycle. Its platform protects multimodal systems – including large language models and computer vision – helping enterprises deploy and use AI safely, accurately, and in compliance with security and privacy standards. With capabilities such as an AI Firewall, Vibe and Automated AI Red Teaming, AI Usage Control and advanced Model Scanning, DeepKeep enables cybersecurity teams to defend against vulnerabilities, data leakage, hallucinations, and bias while maintaining trust in AI-driven operations. Founded in 2021, DeepKeep is dedicated to securing the future of enterprise AI. For more information, visit www.deepkeep.ai.

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InfiniTrak Announces PioneerRx Integration to Deliver Streamlined DSCSA Compliance to Pharmacies

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TOLEDO, Ohio, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — InfiniTrak the industry leading DSCSA provider is proud to announce the completed integration with PioneerRx, a RedSail Technologies company. This will deliver a fully integrated Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) solution to independent pharmacies. The integration will streamline DSCSA compliance requirements by utilizing existing PioneerRx workflows.

Future of Pharmacy is Here: Two Industry Leaders Deliver Complete Inventory Visualization with Turnkey DSCSA Compliance.

As DSCSA requirements evolve, independent pharmacies face increasing pressure to ensure drug traceability, maintain accurate records, and strengthen supply chain security. InfiniTrak’s track-and-trace solutions bring end-to-end visibility across the supply chain, from manufacturing to pharmacy dispensing, to help pharmacies meet these requirements with confidence.

Through the new integration, InfiniTrak’s compliance capabilities are now available directly within PioneerRx. Pharmacies can verify authorized trading partners, manage EPCIS data, and maintain audit-ready records without leaving their pharmacy management system. At the same time, they can minimize supply chain disruptions and prevent medication misuse—thus improving patient care.

Melanie Christie, President of Pharmacy Systems at RedSail Technologies, expressed optimism about the integration’s impact. “RedSail’s mission has always been to provide independent pharmacies with technology that simplifies complex processes so they can focus on patient care. The completed InfiniTrak integration will allow pharmacies to meet DSCSA requirements without disrupting their regular workflow and spend more time serving patients.”

InfiniTrak’s Chief Executive Officer Alan Lancz, echoed enthusiasm about pharmacies’ capabilities with the integration. “Both InfiniTrak and RedSail Technologies have been leaders in their industries for over a decade. This integration is great timing to get all PioneerRx users compliant, with no interruption from current workflow, before the November 27, 2026 deadline,” Alan Lancz added.

Together, PioneerRx and InfiniTrak integration are transforming DSCSA compliance from a separate task to a seamless step in everyday pharmacy workflow. PioneerRx pharmacies can access the InfiniTrak integration for just $75 per month. To learn more about the integration and DSCSA, visit: https://infinitrak.us/pioneerrx/ or get started at: https://www.redsailtechnologies.com/dscsa

About InfiniTrak

InfiniTrak is a pioneer and industry leader in track-and-trace technology. Built specifically with the need of the end users in mind, the company offers intuitive, user-friendly solutions that automate operations and seamlessly integrate into existing pharmacy workflows. InfiniTrak simplifies the path to compliance by providing full DSCSA coverage for all current and upcoming FDA requirements. Along with its comprehensive compliance features, InfiniTrak seamlessly integrates with RedSail Technology solutions, including PrimeRx, BestRx, and now PioneerRx.

InfiniTrak is headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. For more information about InfiniTrak visit: www.infinitrak.us.

About PioneerRx

PioneerRx, a RedSail Technologies company, is the most installed independent pharmacy software on the market. With unmatched customer support and continuous innovation, PioneerRx equips pharmacies to thrive in a clinical, patient-centered future. By implementing user-driven enhancements and anticipating industry trends, PioneerRx empowers pharmacies to improve patient outcomes and achieve long-term success. To learn more about PioneerRx, visit www.PioneerRx.com.

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BOXX Insurance Futureproofs AI Coverage Ensuring Protection Against Deepfakes & Social Engineering

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TORONTO, July 22, 2026 /CNW/ — BOXX Insurance, a global cyber insurtech part of Zurich Insurance Group, today announced affirmative coverage for AI and deepfake related events for social engineering and security failures within their commercial policy offering, Cyberboxx® Business. 

New AI Endorsement Eliminates AI Coverage Grey Zone

This announcement eliminates ambiguity and cements BOXX’s commitment to providing clear cover for AI-driven incidents for their customers and their broker partners.

AI is creating new cyber and digital threats for small businesses with 86% of US business leaders with cybersecurity responsibilities reporting at least one AI-related incident in the past 12 months. In Canada, the trends follow similar patterns as 81% of Canadian businesses that experienced fraud in the past year also faced an AI-enabled attack. The sophistication of AI and deepfakes is also changing how attacks are carried out, with threat actors leveraging these tools to target and trick employees at scale via enhanced social engineering attacks.

“Threat actors are exploiting trusted relationships amongst employee and executive networks which can result in handing over credentials or misdirecting payments without an actual breach,” said Erik Tifft, Global Head of Underwriting at BOXX Insurance. “That’s why we’ve updated our policy language to address the real risks that businesses, executives and their employees face in the age of AI.”

Pairing AI & Deepfake Coverage with Each and Every Loss Reinstatements for Full Policy Term Protection

This endorsement, coupled with BOXX’s First Party Each and Every Loss, keeps coverage available throughout the policy period by reinstating the policy Aggregate Limit of Liability after each cyber incident. As AI-driven social engineering and deep fake losses ramp up, the risk of having multiple claims over a policy period increases.

“Our underwriting is keeping up with the higher frequency and the changing nature of emerging cyber and AI-driven threats,” continued Tifft, “As a result, we’re continuously enhancing our cyber insurance products with broadened, affirmative coverages to capture emerging cyber threats and new forms of cybercrime, whether they occur via systems breaches or through advanced social engineering.”

About BOXX Insurance

BOXX Insurance helps businesses and individuals insure and defend against cyber and technology risks, harnessing the power of ALL IN ONE Cyber and Technology Insurance and Protection. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices worldwide, BOXX is a global, award-winning provider of cyber protection services and technology insurance coverage.

We’re not a typical insurance company. That’s by design. We’re obsessive about making clients’ digital worlds safer and more resilient; creating real, positive changes for our clients, partners and brokers. With comprehensive, technologically advanced products and services that have a strong emphasis on predicting, preventing and insuring against negative cyber and technology events, BOXX is dedicated to helping businesses operate securely and confidently in an increasingly complex digital environment, 365 days a year. 

BOXX Insurance Inc. is part of Zurich Global Businesses & Operations, a global ecosystem focused on delivering meaningful value to customers and partners. By bringing together Travel, Cyber and Zurich’s global operations, including global capability centers, we operate at scale to provide customized, proactive and digital experiences that help individuals and businesses be better prepared for the future.

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