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VANCOUVER, BC, June 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — USA News Group – The world is changing rapidly thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), with what’s being called the Transformative AI era which comes with great benefits and also potential dangers. The economic impacts are global, with a new report from The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) urging central banks to adapt rapidly to AI advances. Now it’s become apparent how important it is for companies to understand how to harness the full potential of GenAI to secure strategic revenue growth in the coming years. The surge of AI’s usefulness is accelerating innovation in R&D, while behind the scenes tech companies are advancing the infrastructure required to keep this revolution going, including new developments from Avant Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: AVAI), Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN), Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL), and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN).

Known for pioneering advancements in AI, Avant Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: AVAI) has persistently refined and expanded its premier offering, Avant AI™. This sophisticated AI platform, celebrated for its machine learning and deep learning capabilities, is the culmination of Avant’s efforts to deliver unprecedented and cost-effective compute infrastructure that unlocks the full potential of AI and ushers in a new era of technological advancement. 

“There is a real unmet need as rapid growth across the entirety of the AI and big data industries is outpacing the necessary infrastructure for an industry that demands exponential power and capacity while remaining cost effective,” said Avant’s CEO William Hisey in a recent address of progress on AI supercomputer-driven data centers. “Avant’s ‘edge-native’ approach doesn’t rely on cloud-based services so we can offer AI and big data companies many advantages over the more familiar ‘cloud-native’ approach, including, reduced latency, improved security and privacy, increased scalability, and reduced costs.”

In a recent strategic development, Avant entered into a Binding Letter of Intent (BLOI) with Flow Wave, LLC (FW), a prominent Florida-based firm specializing in immersible computer server technology. This agreement allows Avant to acquire up to 50 cutting-edge immersible computer servers from FW, in a transaction valued at $50 million.

“By integrating proprietary machine learning algorithms with open-source innovations into these servers, Avant is developing a highly intelligent system designed to optimize resource allocation, enhance performance, and drive unprecedented levels of efficiency and automation,” said Hisey.  “This marks the beginning of a new era for Avant Technologies, positioning us at the forefront of the supercomputer-driven data center industry and setting new standards for managing and storing AI applications.”

Flow Wave Immersible AI Supercomputer Servers are engineered for demanding AI and machine learning applications, delivering powerful processing capabilities that accelerate data analysis. Their cutting-edge cooling system is both energy-efficient and cost-effective, reducing environmental impact. These servers’ compact design facilitates easy installation in space-constrained data centers, and their robust construction ensures longevity and lower maintenance requirements.

In response to digital era challenges, Avant intends to acquire up to 50 of these high-performance servers. Their superior cooling technology boosts performance while conserving energy, aligning with Avant’s goal of providing top-tier AI infrastructure and maximizing efficiency. Additional details about the acquisition will be shared once the final agreement is secured.

In Q3 2024, Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) brought in over $900 million in new Generative AI bookings, for a total of $2 billion fiscal year-to-date. Despite missing its overall earnings targets, the market responded by sending its shares upward.

“We achieved strong new bookings of over $21 billion, up 22% over last year, and continued to accelerate our strategy to be the reinvention partner of choice, with another 23 clients with quarterly bookings of over $100 million, bringing the total of such bookings to 92 year-to-date,” said Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO of Accenture. “We also achieved two significant milestones this quarter — with $2 billion in Generative AI sales year-to-date and $500 million in revenue year-to-date — which demonstrate our early lead in this critical technology.”

Back in May, Accenture took steps to help its clients to scale their Generative AI responsibly.

“Clients are eager to embrace the potential of generative AI, and we are ready to help them build responsible AI into every use,” said Sweet. “We do this for ourselves, and we can use that example to help our clients find success faster. Our focus is to enable our clients to innovate AI safely and be ready to seize the opportunities that AI will bring in the decades ahead.”

Recently, the cloud-based security solution provider Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) unveiled the general availability of its AI Gateway platform. Marketed as a comprehensive interface for managing and scaling generative AI workloads, the platform has transitioned from its beta phase, which started in September 2023, to full client use after successfully handling over 500 million requests.

This launch coincides with Cloudflare’s announcement of a partnership with Hugging Face, a leading platform for AI developers. The collaboration offers a one-click global deployment for AI applications via the Workers AI platform, now also generally available. As the first serverless inference partner integrated on the Hugging Face Hub, this allows developers to deploy AI models quickly, easily, and cost-effectively on a global scale, without the need for managing infrastructure or paying for unused compute capacity.

“Workers AI is one of the most affordable and accessible solutions to run inference,” said Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder, Cloudflare. “With Hugging Face and Cloudflare both deeply aligned in our efforts to democratize AI in a simple, affordable way, we’re giving developers the freedom and agility to choose a model and scale their AI apps from zero to global in an instant.”

In the education space, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) through Google, is bringing new AI tools to Google Workspace for teen students using their school accounts to help them learn responsibly and confidently in an AI-first future, and empowering educators with new tools to help create great learning experiences.

“In the coming months, we’re making Gemini available to teen students that meet our minimum age requirements while using their Google Workspace for Education accounts in English in over 100 countries around the world, free of charge for all education institutions,” said Google in a blog post. “To ensure schools are always in control, Gemini will be off by default for teens until admins choose to turn it on as an Additional Service in the Admin console.”

Google has also developed a number of resources and trainings to help students, parents and educators use generative AI tools responsibly and effectively, including a video on how teens can responsibly use AI while learning.

After recently hitting a $2-trillion valuation, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) continues to be a big player in the AI space. Now it’s reportedly working on its own AI chatbot that some say might be smarter than ChatGPT, named Metis, which will generate answers by grabbing info from the internet.

Metis is driven by an internal Amazon AI model known as Olympus, drawing inspiration from Greek mythology. According to sources, Olympus is a more advanced version of Amazon’s publicly available Titan model.

Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy has noted that nearly every division within the company is engaged in some form of AI project. As a pioneer in cloud computing, Amazon has been developing machine learning, a subset of AI, for many years. Jassy recently announced that Amazon’s AI initiatives are projected to generate over $1 billion in annual revenue, with expectations of driving “tens of billions of dollars” in sales in the coming years.

However, Amazon has lagged in the realm of consumer AI assistants. An internal document from last year highlighted that Amazon “does not have a publicly or internally available product that looks and works exactly like ChatGPT.”

According to a source reported by Business Insider, the tentative launch date for Metis is September, right around the time when Amazon is set to host a big Alexa event, although the timeline could still change.

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FULL CIRCLE BOYS DROP HIGH-ENERGY SPORTS ANTHEM “BLEACHERS” WITH EXPLOSIVE MUSIC VIDEO AND VIRAL DANCE CHALLENGE

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The latest single from Full Circle Boys arrives with Keone Madrid-choreographed visuals and a towel-waving dance challenge built for stadiums, arenas, and living rooms everywhere.

LOS ANGELES, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ –Full Circle Boys have officially unleashed their newest single, “Bleachers,” and it’s already making noise. Available now on all major streaming platforms, the track is a high-octane record designed to soundtrack the biggest moments in sports and beyond.

Building on the momentum of their second EP, PLIÉ, which has surpassed 2 million streams, “Bleachers” marks a bold new chapter for the five-member group. The single is pure adrenaline, a chest-thumping, crowd-moving anthem built for stadium jumbotrons, halftime shows, pregame warmups, and championship celebrations. From the first beat, it demands that you get on your feet.

The Music Video
Accompanying the single is the group’s 9th official music video, choreographed and directed by acclaimed creative director Keone Madrid (BTS, Justin Bieber) and featuring the Choreo Cookies. The video showcases explosive, high-energy choreography that pushes Full Circle Boys into new territory, matching the song’s intensity beat for beat.

Watch the official music video here: https://youtu.be/lJM-z0ohbkc

The #BleachersChallenge
Full Circle Boys are calling on fans everywhere to join the movement. Grab a towel, learn the choreography straight from the boys, and post your best take. The “Bleachers” dance challenge is built for everyone, whether you’re courtside, in the student section, or in your living room. It’s the kind of routine that turns spectators into participants and fans into performers.

With a fresh sound that builds on the foundation of PLIÉ and the debut EP JETÉ, “Bleachers” signals a group ready to own the intersection of music, movement, and sports culture, and they’re just getting started.

Release Details
Single: “Bleachers”
Status: Out Now on all major streaming platforms
Music Video: Available now on YouTube
Choreography & Video Direction: Keone Madrid
Featuring: Choreo Cookies

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Instagram: @fullcircleboys
TikTok: @fullcircleboys
YouTube: @fullcircleboys

About Full Circle Boys:
Full Circle Boys is a five-member pop group consisting of Jagger Moon, James Herron, Sean Garrity, Dossan Bell, and Oliver Hincy. Known for their jaw-dropping choreography, self-penned anthems, and authentic brotherhood, they are redefining what it means to be a pop group by uniting movement and music to get the world moving again.

Created by David Loeffler and Steve Miller of Anomaly Create, in collaboration with Jon Lucero and Stacy Pyle, with executive producing by Nappytabs (Jennifer Lopez, SYTYCD) and creative direction by Keone Madrid (BTS, Justin Bieber).

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Steer Health Wins 2026 Hearst Health Prize

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$125,000 in Hearst Health Prize awards recognize Steer Health and finalist Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for innovative uses of data science to improve health outcomes

LOS ANGELES, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hearst Health, in partnership with the UCLA Center for AI & SMART Health, awarded the 2026 Hearst Health Prize to Steer Health, an AI-driven clinical orchestration company whose platform has measurably reduced care gaps for more than 1.6 million patients across 34 states. Greg Dorn, senior vice president of Hearst and president of Hearst Health, presented the award on June 16, 2026 at the UCLA Health Data Day event. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was recognized as the 2026 finalist for MatchMiner, an open-source platform that automatically matches cancer patients to precision medicine clinical trials. Hearst Health awarded $100,000 to Steer Health and $25,000 to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Steer Health was recognized for its AI-powered patient engagement and care coordination engine, which addresses one of U.S. healthcare’s most costly and persistent problems: clinical inertia. Up to 40% of patients in the U.S. never complete a specialist referral and nearly one in five scheduled appointments are no-shows, representing an estimated $150 billion in annual waste and millions of patients who fall out of the care continuum each year. Steer’s platform predicts which patients are at risk of disengaging and autonomously guides them through scheduling, intake, and post-visit follow-up, integrated with more than 50 EHR systems.

“We founded Steer Health because too many patients fall through the cracks of a system that wasn’t built for continuous engagement,” said Sridhar Yerramreddy, founder and CEO of Steer Health. “This recognition from Hearst Health validates what our team and hospital partners already know: AI can take on the complex, invisible work of keeping patients connected to care – doing so at a personalized scale no human workforce could achieve alone. We’re honored, and we’re just getting started.” 

Closing the gap between a physician’s order and a completed patient visit has historically been a staffing problem. Steer Health reframes it as a data problem. Using a gradient-boosted predictive model to identify at-risk patients and a multi-agent AI system to act on those signals in real time, the platform supported 1.68 million patients across 950+ care sites in 2025 — achieving a 2.2% no-show rate against an 18–20% national average and executing more than 4 million automated follow-ups without human intervention.

“The Hearst Health Prize exists because we believe data science is one of the most powerful tools we have to close the gaps between patients and the care they need. Steer Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are doing exactly that — not in theory, but at scale, in real clinical environments, with measurable results,” said Dorn. “Recognizing this work is central to Hearst Health’s mission and we’re proud to support organizations that are moving the field forward in meaningful ways.”

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Knowledge Systems Group was named the 2026 finalist for MatchMiner, an open-source clinical trial matching platform operational at Dana-Farber since 2016. Fewer than 10% of adult cancer patients ever enroll in a clinical trial, despite trials being the primary mechanism through which new cancer treatments are developed. The matching problem is overwhelming: thousands of active trials, increasingly complex genomic eligibility criteria, and oncologists who cannot track it all manually.

MatchMiner automatically matches patients to precision medicine trials using genomic data and AI that reads unstructured clinical notes. To date, the platform has facilitated 402 trial enrollments and reduced the time to patient consent by a median of 55 days — a critical window when patients’ health is actively declining. The platform is fully open-source, enabling any cancer center to adopt it without licensing fees, and its AI models are trained on synthetic patient data so they can be shared across institutions without privacy barriers. MatchMiner is now expanding to Mayo Clinic.

“Our partnership with Hearst Health was built to surface and celebrate the data science work that is genuinely transforming patient outcomes. The 2026 finalists represent two very different problems — care access and clinical trial matching — but the same underlying insight: that intelligently applied data can find the patients who need help and connect them to it faster. We are proud to recognize both organizations and to inspire others working toward the same goal,” said Dr. Alex Bui, director of the Medical & Imaging Informatics (MII) group at UCLA.

About the Hearst Health Prize
The Hearst Health Prize is an annual competition that showcases data science programs making a health impact. Visit the Hearst Health Prize webpage to sign up to receive updates, including notifications about the call for submissions for the next Hearst Health Prize.

About the UCLA Center for AI & SMART Health
The UCLA Center for Artificial Intelligence & Systematic, Measurable, Actionable, Resilient and Technology-driven (SMART) Health is a campus-wide collaborative that looks to the integrated transformation of healthcare through emergent data and technologies. A joint effort between the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the Institute for Precision Health (IPH) and the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences that brings together UCLA’s experts to shape how digital and data-driven healthcare technologies will help to manage risk, reliability, resilience, uncertainty and precision in future biomedical research and clinical care.

About Hearst Health
The mission of Hearst Health is to guide healthcare organizations by delivering essential intelligence and software that improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care. Hearst Health has been innovating with care for more than 40 years, with a commitment to making a lasting positive impact on health. The Hearst Health companies — FDB, Homecare Homebase, MCG, MHK, QGenda and Zynx Health — elevate care by informing and empowering participants across the health journey. To learn more, visit Hearst.com/Hearst-Health and follow @Hearst Health on LinkedIn.

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Lindsay Gay Jean-Paul, Hearst Health, Lindsay.Gayjean-Paul@Hearst.com
David Sampson, UCLA Health, DSampson@Mednet.ucla.edu
Avni Parekh, Steer Health, Avni@SteerHealth.io
John Noble, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Johnw_Noble@dfci.Harvard.edu

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Switching Accounting Software to QuickBooks: What Scaling UK Businesses Need to Know According to Software Experts

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NEW YORK, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ –As UK businesses continue to scale, many are reassessing whether their existing accounting systems can support increased operational complexity. In response, platforms such as QuickBooks are seeing increased adoption among mid-sized businesses seeking more advanced reporting, automation, and financial oversight. Rising transaction volumes, evolving reporting requirements, and growing compliance demands are accelerating this shift.

Best Accounting Software for Scaling UK Businesses

QuickBooks – a cloud-based accounting platform that helps businesses manage finances, automate routine tasks, and gain real-time insights to support growth.

According to Software Experts, switching accounting software is emerging as a strategic priority for businesses aiming to improve efficiency and maintain control as they grow.

Why businesses are re-evaluating their accounting software
Growth often exposes limitations in legacy systems. Manual processes, limited reporting, and disconnected tools can slow down decision-making and increase administrative workload. As a result, finance teams are prioritising systems that offer automation, real-time insights, and greater operational control.

Software Experts notes that modern accounting platforms are increasingly expected to support not just finance functions, but broader business operations. This includes managing customer relationships and their employees within a single system.

Software Experts also highlights that many businesses begin exploring a switch when existing systems become costly to maintain, lack scalability, or no longer support long-term growth goals. Increasing demand for forecasting tools, integrations, and automation is encouraging businesses to reassess whether their current accounting setup is fit for future expansion.

What to expect during the switching process
Switching accounting software can be complex, particularly for businesses with large volumes of historical data or multiple entities. Software Experts emphasises that a structured migration process is essential to minimise disruption and maintain data integrity.

Key elements of a typical migration include:

Mapping and transferring the chart of accountsReconciling historical transactions and balancesPreserving audit trails and compliance recordsValidating data accuracy before and after migration

Software Experts recommends planning migrations during quieter business periods where possible, allowing teams time to clean and organise data, test systems in parallel, and onboard employees before fully transitioning to a new platform.

QuickBooks UK works with specialist migration partners to support this process. These partners handle technical requirements such as data mapping and validation, helping ensure continuity during the transition.

Their migration partner DataSwitcher helps businesses transfer financial records efficiently while maintaining data integrity throughout the entire process. The platform specialises in automated migration and includes pre-migration checks and post-transfer validation to help ensure accuracy and continuity when switching accounting systems.

The role of automation and AI in scaling operations
Automation is a central factor in why businesses upgrade their accounting systems. Features such as automated invoice reminders, approval workflows, and customisable processes can reduce manual workload and improve efficiency.

In addition, AI-driven capabilities are becoming more common. QuickBooks UK offers tools designed to proactively assist with financial management tasks, helping businesses save time and identify insights without requiring constant manual input.

Software Experts notes that businesses evaluating new accounting software are increasingly prioritising integrations with tools such as CRMs, payroll systems, and payment platforms. Connected systems can help reduce duplicate data entry and improve operational visibility across departments.

Support and guidance as a differentiator
Beyond features, Software Experts points to support as a critical consideration when switching systems. Dedicated onboarding and ongoing guidance can significantly reduce the learning curve for teams.

For mid-sized businesses migrating to QuickBooks Advanced, QuickBooks UK provides a structured support model that includes:

A dedicated account manager throughout the migration processRegular check-ins for ongoing optimisation and performance reviewProduct training to help teams adapt quickly

QuickBooks UK also provides access to expert support seven days a week via phone, chat, or screen sharing. Additionally, the company offers onboarding support designed to help employees become familiar with new workflows and features, including reporting tools, invoicing systems, and automation capabilities relevant to their day-to-day responsibilities.

This approach is designed to provide clarity at each stage of the transition, from initial setup to long-term use.

Planning for long-term growth
For mid-sized UK businesses, the decision to switch accounting software is increasingly tied to future scalability rather than immediate needs. Systems that can handle growing complexity without requiring frequent upgrades or add-ons are becoming a priority.

As digital transformation continues across industries, accounting software is evolving into a central hub for business operations. Software Experts suggests that companies evaluating a switch should consider not only current requirements, but also how their systems will support growth over the next several years.

By focusing on automation, data visibility, and structured migration support, businesses can position themselves to scale more effectively while maintaining control over their financial operations.

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