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AI-Driven Cybersecurity Solutions: Innovations Shaping the Future of Data Protection

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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — USA News Group – Cybersecurity is an ever-evolving battle for enterprises, governments, and even hackers. The need for new defenses is reaching the highest levels, as federal officials are acknowledging the potential for generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help better identify cyber threats, including data scientists from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) exploring the key benefits of this tech for analyzing vast data sets. At the local government level too, officials are considering AI for cybersecurity, marking a shift in how cybersecurity policies are carried out. But it’s clear that most institutions aren’t equipped to develop the tech necessary, nor the resources to keep up with the evolving abilities of the world’s hackers, bringing attention to the minds working behind the scenes to make data analysis safer and more effective. The market is constantly being updated by these innovators, with recent developments coming from groups such as Avant Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: AVAI), Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK), Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA), CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD), and Tenable Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TENB).

Emerging AI-focused tech company Avant Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: AVAI) has been actively developing solutions in AI infrastructure. As part of their strategies, Avant has been seriously exploring additional technologies in the biotechnology and healthcare sectors, recently unveiling AI-powered healthcare infrastructure to deliver intelligent healthcare solutions.

More recently, Avant has stepped up this potential offering, by announcing they’ll be implementing robust cybersecurity measures for their AI-driven healthcare solutions. As per the announcement, Avant is building comprehensive cybersecurity measures into the very foundation of its intelligent solutions, ensuring the highest protection for sensitive patient information.

This issue is topical, as earlier this year US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy AI, that emphasized the need to establish rigorous security standards, which brought an impact on healthcare cybersecurity.

Given Avant’s foundational experience in AI, the company plans to assess the industry’s leading frameworks to integrate with its healthcare AI technology. The plan is to prioritize patient data security throughout the entire development lifecycle by employing a multi-layered cybersecurity approach and protecting data at rest and in transit, while also strictly adhering to  HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulations.

“We are committed to enhancing our AI-driven application with state-of-the-art cybersecurity measures to protect our patient’s privacy,” said Danny Rittman, Chief Information Officer of Avant. “Our AI-driven healthcare solutions are developed to monitor and enhance our patient’s health, and it is our top priority to ensure the highest data security and privacy standards for our AI healthcare applications.  In addition to our advanced cyber measures, we intend to assess third party, industry-standard security platforms to establish a multi-layered, robust cybersecurity system.”

At its foundational level, Avant’s cybersecurity framework is made up of a ZTA (Zero Trust Architecture) and a multi-layer approach to protect sensitive patient data, ensuring the integrity of its AI-driven healthcare solutions. Their system facilitates robust data security measures, including encryption, access controls, and MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication).

Avant secures its AI Models through advanced access control, data minimization, and federated learning.  A secure network architecture, microsegmentation, vulnerability management, and endpoint protection form the infrastructure and network security foundation. Avant also plans to evaluate industry-leading cybersecurity platforms to strengthen its security posture, while committing to continuous monitoring and improvement on its security measures through real-time threat detection, incident response planning, and regular security audits.

The goal for Avant is to advance healthcare through AI, while setting a new industry data security and privacy standard. Avant plans to continue investing in cybersecurity measures to strengthen its solutions and maintain the trust of both healthcare providers and patients.

Also dealing in the healthcare field is Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK), a global leader in medical technologies, which recently announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire care.ai, a privately held company specializing in delivering AI-assisted virtual care workflows, smart room technology, and ambient intelligence solutions. The acquisition aligns with Stryker’s growing healthcare IT offering and its wirelessly connected medical device portfolio.

“This acquisition underscores our commitment and focus on our customers,” said Andy Pierce, Group President, MedSurg and Neurotechnology, of Stryker. “care.ai will help Stryker significantly accelerate our healthcare IT and digital vision to provide customers with real-time, smart and connected decision-making tools that enhance the lives of caregivers and their patients.”

Much like Avant’s ambitions, Stryker is committed to cybersecurity across its healthcare IT offerings. The company has a thorough global security program encompassing both corporate and product security that is committed to attaining and retaining external certifications including Global ISO 27001 and the SOC 2 certification of Stryker’s health cloud.

Leading identity and access management company Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA) recently announced a SaaS Startup Competition, inviting early-stage startups, incorporated in the US, that are building applications using identity, privacy, and security enabled workflows to showcase their innovations. The winner of the competition may receive up to a $500,000 investment from Okta and access to a global network of identity management experts and venture capitalists.

“Okta’s platform helps startups develop identity-enabled applications,” said Austin Arensberg, Senior Director, of Okta Ventures. “Startups can capitalize on Okta’s robust tools to free up time so they can focus on building new products and applications without the complexities of managing identity infrastructure. This is an incredible opportunity for startups to showcase their creativity while building for the future. “

SaaS startups and enterprises are already driving innovation within the Okta Identity Cloud, utilizing its global network to help thousands of organizations securely manage identities with ease, flexibility, and reliability. This enables their customers to create seamless user experiences, strengthen cybersecurity, integrate authentication processes, and more.

Coming out of a near-catastrophic global technology outage, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD) is moving forward to learn from the experience and prevent future occurrences. In particular, a somewhat overreliance on AI in cybersecurity was questioned in the aftermath. However, CrowdStrike continues to have faith in its multi-agent AI architecture that it can help to enhance analyst efficiency and tackle cyber security challenges.

Recently, CrowdStrike released its 2024 CrowdStrike Threat Hunting Report, which sounded the alarm that Nation-States can exploit legitimate credentials to pose as insiders. Key findings in the report included naming North Korea-Nexus Adversaries as a legitimate threat of posing as US employees, hands-on-keyboard intrusions increased 55% (with an increase of 75% in healthcare), and cloud-conscious adversaries targeting the control plane.

“In tracking nearly 250 adversaries this past year, a central theme emerged—threat actors are increasingly engaging in interactive intrusions and employing cross-domain techniques to evade detection and achieve their objectives,” said Adam Meyers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike. “Our comprehensive, human-led threat hunting directly informs the algorithms that power the AI-native Falcon platform, ensuring that we stay ahead of these evolving threats and continue to deliver the industry’s most effective cybersecurity solutions.”

Exposure management company Tenable Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TENB) was recently recognized as the Top Performer in Cloud Security by CRN in its 2024 Annual Report Card. Prior to this recognition, Tenable unveiled its industry-leading vulnerability intelligence data and response capabilities to expose and close priority threats that drive up risk. Delivered over two offerings called Vulnerability Intelligence, and Exposure Response, Tenable is delivering two powerful context-driven prioritization and response features available now in its products Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable One, and Tenable Cloud Security.

“Without threat context and research insights, every vulnerability is a priority, creating a high-stress, low efficiency whack-a-mole scenario for security teams,” said Gavin Millard, VP of product management for Vulnerability Management for Tenable. “Tenable is unleashing more than two decades of carefully curated exposure data to enable security teams to focus on the risk that matters most to their organization and communicate succinctly to stakeholders. The enriched intelligence and contextualization take prioritization and response to a new level, providing security teams with the critical data needed to identify and reduce risk.”

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Northern Hemisphere Heat Drives Demand for Cooling and Sun-Protection Products on Yiwugo

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YIWU, China, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Yiwugo.com, the official website of the Yiwu Commodity Market, is the largest commodity wholesale market in the world. The final whistle may have blown on the World Cup, but the intense heat gripping the Northern Hemisphere shows no sign of letting up. Europe has experienced unusually hot weather this year, sparking not only a surge in demand for air conditioners but also a boom in portable handheld fans. Merchants on Yiwugo say that in previous years, European customers would begin placing orders in March or April and take their time completing their annual procurement. This year, however, the purchasing season has stretched well into summer, with a flood of new buyers coming in, most of them looking for small handheld fans. With customers eager to capitalize on the peak summer season, delivery timelines have also become significantly tighter. Whereas orders in previous years could generally be fulfilled within a month, merchants are now frequently being asked to deliver within about a week, leaving manufacturers scrambling to keep pace with demand.

Lingpan Official Flagship Store has specialized in the production and sales of small fans, insulated cups, and related products for 15 years. This summer, demand from European customers for high-speed small fans has risen sharply, accompanied by urgent delivery requirements. Many customers began requesting shipment just one week after placing their orders, hoping the products would arrive in time for the World Cup and the ongoing heatwave across Europe. One long-standing European customer purchased only five models of small fans from Lingpan last year. Anticipating stronger demand ahead of this summer, the customer expanded the order to 10 models. The first shipment sold out soon after arriving at port, prompting several subsequent repeat orders. European buyers have shown particular interest in high-speed cooling fans and placed great requirements on product quality. So far this year, Lingpan’s fan sales have more than doubled compared with the same period last year, with total purchases reaching approximately RMB 1 million.

Beyond Europe, the owner of Lingpan, Ling Pan pointed out that the Indian market has also undergone significant changes over the past two years. Indian customers are showing great interest in panda-shaped fans, drinking cups, and related products. Procurement volumes among many Indian buyers have increased substantially, with average annual purchases now reaching several hundred thousand yuan.

Unlike European countries grappling with sudden heat waves, Asian markets such as Japan and South Korea, where summers are consistently hot and air conditioners and fans are already everyday essentials, have shown much stronger demand for sun-protection products. From April 1, 2026 to date, sales of sun-protection masks on Yiwugo have increased by 31.6% YoY, while sales of sun-protection face shields surged by 72.42% and sun hats rose by 8.1%.

Chen Jia, a Yiwugo merchant, has engaged in the production and sales of sun-protection masks and sun-protection face shields for eight years. Chen operates the Xiao Zhen and Xiao Mian Sun-Protection Products Workshop in District 4 of the Yiwu International Trade Market. In recent years, the company has customized cooling nylon fabrics for customers in Japan and South Korea. Sun-protection masks and sun-protection face shields made from this material not only offer UPF 50+ protection, but also maintain a more structured shape and are less susceptible to snagging or deformation. Their protective performance remains effective after routine washing, and the products can last for more than five years under normal use.

In 2024, a TV shopping operator from South Korea contacted Xiao Zheng and Xiao Mian through Yiwugo and began placing orders after inspecting the products in person. Over the following two years, the company continued to improve the fitness and design of its sun-protection products. It introduced sun-protection face shields with breathable mesh panels and incorporated soft supports around the nose area to prevent the masks from rubbing against lipstick. These product upgrades have steadily driven up customer ratings on the client’s store. Annual procurement, initially valued at around RMB 300,000, has risen year by year, and the company has since developed into a recognized brand in the local market.

Persistent heat across the Northern Hemisphere has been creating new forms of cross-border consumer demand while enabling Yiwugo merchants to keenly capture shifts in overseas markets. From the strong sales of small portable fans in Europe to the rising demand for functional sun-protection products in Japan and South Korea, the diversity of orders reflects both consumers’ need for relief from extreme heat and the ability of Yiwu manufacturers to strengthen their presence in global markets through product innovation and rapid fulfillment. Faced with a rapidly changing international market, many merchants are continuing to refine product designs, upgrade fabric techniques, and enhance supply efficiency. By leveraging Yiwugo to broaden their export channels, they are keeping pace with overseas consumption trends and capitalizing on the expanding market for cooling and sun-protection products, turning the summer heat into new momentum for cross-border trade.

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Snorkel AI Highlights First Wave of Open Benchmarks Grants Projects

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Snorkel AI today highlighted the first group of projects supported through Open Benchmarks Grants, a $3 million commitment to support open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation research.

Launched in February 2026, Open Benchmarks Grants has received hundreds of applications from researchers, labs, and engineers working to address a growing challenge: AI systems are advancing faster than the field’s ability to rigorously measure their performance on realistic, consequential work.

“From complex environments and huge autonomy horizons to rich, sophisticated outputs, these projects tackle some of the field’s hardest evaluation challenges,” said Fred Sala, a member of the Open Benchmarks Grants steering committee and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “I’m excited to see the broader research community use, validate, and build on them.”

Open Benchmarks Grants provides selected teams with funding, expert data development support, research and engineering collaboration, and platform resources. Supported projects include:

Frontier-Bench (formerly Terminal-Bench 3.0), developed with Laude Institute and the Harbor community, is a harder, more domain-diverse successor to Terminal-Bench 2.1 — built in the open, task by task, under continuous adversarial review.Agents’ Last Exam, developed with UC Berkeley RDI and the RDI Foundation, evaluates agents on long-horizon, economically valuable professional workflows. It spans 55 sub-industries and includes more than 1,500 tasks toward a 5,000-task target, sourced and validated by more than 300 industry experts.OSWorld 2.0, developed with XLANG Lab, evaluates computer-use agents on 108 long-horizon workflows across 31 self-hosted web environments and professional desktop applications.Continual Learning Bench, developed with UC Berkeley SkyLab and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, measures whether agents genuinely improve across sequential, stateful tasks.SlopCode Bench, developed with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, measures how code quality degrades as coding agents repeatedly modify and extend their own solutions.Terminal-Bench 2.1, developed with Stanford University, Laude Institute and the Harbor community, evaluates agents on challenging work in terminal environments. The release corrected 28 tasks and introduced continuous validation.

With support from Open Benchmarks Grants, Terminal-Bench Science is also now in development, extending the Terminal-Bench framework to computational research workflows across the life, physical, earth, and mathematical sciences.

Beyond the grants program, Snorkel led the development of Senior SWE-Bench with the research teams at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The benchmark evaluates coding agents on senior-level engineering work, including implementing features from realistic instructions, investigating bugs that require runtime analysis, and producing code that follows existing codebase conventions.

Open Benchmarks Grants was established with support from Hugging Face, Prime Intellect, Together AI, Factory, Harbor, and PyTorch. Applications remain open and are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Learn more and apply for a grant at benchmarks.snorkel.ai.

About Snorkel AI
Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes. 

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Payzli Vaults to No. 3 on Tampa Bay’s Fast 50, Up From No. 22 in One Year

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Payments technology company, Payzli earns a second consecutive Fast 50 ranking, crediting the climb to accelerating partner and merchant growth on its proprietary technology stack.

TAMPA, Fla., July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Payzli, the partner-first payments technology company, has been named the No. 3 fastest-growing company in the region on the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 2026 Fast 50 – a 19-spot climb from its No. 22 debut last year, and the company’s second consecutive year on the list.

The ranking was announced July 23 at the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Fast 50 event in Tampa, where Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer Naim Hamdar accepted the award alongside members of the Payzli team.

Payzli attributed its growth to a compounding effect: a national network of ISOs, agents and ISVs bringing merchants onto a technology platform Payzli built and operated in-house. 

That platform rests on three proprietary pillars:

Payzli Connect: the company’s payment CRM and merchant-and-partner dashboard, giving agents and ISOs daily residuals visibility and giving merchants a single place to run their account.Payzli POS: AI-powered point-of-sale and business software purpose-built for service businesses, including salons, med spas, wellness studios, and independent operators.Payzli Transact: an online payment gateway built on Visa Platform Connect through Payzli’s partnership with Visa Acceptance Solutions.

The Visa Acceptance Solutions partnership is central to how Payzli frames its credibility: rather than assembling a growth story on top of borrowed infrastructure, the company processes on rails backed by one of the most established networks in the industry alongside Fiserv and TSYS – a point that matters to the partners and merchants deciding where to place their volume.

“A second year on this list, and a jump to No. 3, isn’t about one good quarter. It’s about a network deciding to build with us and stay,” said Naim Hamdar, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Payzli. “Every rank on this list represents partners we’ve earned and merchants who trust us to run their payments. We built the technology in-house so we could keep the promises the industry usually breaks: nothing hidden, a real person in reach, and daily residual visibility our agents can actually count on. That’s what this ranking measures and it’s why we’re doing it all, for the joy of business.”

“They say nothing in Tampa moves fast except the afternoon thunderstorms, so making the Fast 50 two years running feels pretty good,” said Kapil Pershad, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Payzli. “In all seriousness, this is a credit to our team and the businesses that trust us to power their growth.”

The Fast 50, produced by the Tampa Bay Business Journal, recognizes the fastest-growing private companies in the Tampa Bay region. Payzli’s return to the list and its move into the top three reflects a merchant-first product suite and a rapidly expanding national partner network across the payments and embedded-finance landscape.

About Payzli

Payzli is an end-to-end payments technology partner that makes accepting payments simpler and affordable for businesses of all sizes and risk levels. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Payzli brings together in-person processing, an advanced online gateway, AI-powered point of sale, and mobile and contactless payments – backed by its own technology, honest pricing, and dedicated human support. Built partner-first, Payzli equips ISOs, agents, developers, and independent software vendors to grow, with direct integrations to major processing platforms, in-house underwriting, a flexible credit policy, a Visa Acceptance Solutions foundation partnership, and sponsor-bank backing from Esquire Bank, a NASDAQ-listed strategic investor in Payzli. For more information, email partners@payzli.com or visit payzli.com.

Payzli is a registered trademark of United Payment Systems LLC. United Payment Systems LLC is a registered ISO of Esquire Bank (Jericho, NY), Commercial Bank of California (Irvine, CA), and KeyBank, National Association (Cleveland, OH).

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