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Xenith IG Appoints Noah Drake as Chief Executive Officer

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Award-winning business leader, Noah Drake, brings extensive experience from the critical network infrastructure and telco landscape to Xenith IG, strategically positioning the company for further growth

SINGAPORE, Aug. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Xenith Infrastructure Group (Xenith IG), a leader in critical network infrastructure provider serving hyperscalers, data centre operators, carriers, and enterprise clients throughout Asia Pacific (APAC), is excited to announce the appointment of Noah Drake as its Chief Executive Officer.

Noah, who has over a decade of experience in leading organisations in the telecommunications and critical network infrastructure industries, previously served as the President and Managing Director, Americas of Telstra International, where he was instrumental in developing high-performing teams across technical, sales, and operational functions, as well as scaling growth. At the Pacific Telecommunication Council (PTC) Annual Conference 2024, Noah was conferred PTC’s “Outstanding Young Leader Award”. He was also named in the Colorado Titan 100 Top Business Leaders – a programme that recognises the top 100 CEOs and C-level executives – for his recent work.

Prior to joining Telstra, Noah was Vice President of Product Management at Zayo Group, a critical network infrastructure company based in Colorado, USA, where he was responsible for the Fibre and Infrastructure portfolio of services. With Zayo Group, Noah also served as Senior Director of Global Reach where he was tasked with launching the company’s new market expansion team. With a proven track record of leadership, strategic planning, and operational excellence, Noah is poised to lead Xenith IG into its next phase of growth and innovation.

“We are thrilled to welcome Noah Drake to our team,” said Bill Cook, Executive Chairman of Xenith IG. “His focus on performance and delivery, demonstrated success in leading organisations to achieve their strategic goals, and deep understanding of the critical network infrastructure and telecommunications landscape make him an ideal fit to guide Xenith IG toward its next chapter. We are confident that Noah’s vision and commitment to innovation will further solidify Xenith IG’s position as a leader in the industry.”

In his new role, Noah will focus on expanding Xenith IG’s offerings, enhancing customer experience, and fostering a collaborative culture that seeks to put people first. Noah’s strategic vision aligns closely with the company’s mission to push the boundaries of innovation, scalability, reliability and flexibility, and set new standards in unparalleled connectivity.

“I am honoured to take on the role of CEO at Xenith IG,” said Noah Drake. “In a short period of time, this company has built a remarkable reputation for innovation and excellence in APAC, and I am thrilled to work with the talented team here to build on our successes and explore new opportunities. Together, we will continue to push the boundaries to deliver exceptional value to our clients and stakeholders.”

This announcement comes at a pivotal time as Xenith IG strategically positions itself for future growth in an ever-evolving market.

About Xenith IG

Xenith IG brings robust, critical network infrastructure to companies operating in APAC.

With its wholly-owned, high-capacity dark fibre infrastructure, Xenith IG connect data centres, cable landing stations and other key network interconnection points with the newest, state-of-the-art dark fibre optic cables. Xenith IG’s critical infrastructure assets are robust, underground, company-owned and operated, and capable of being quickly commissioned to bring customer’s operations online in days, not weeks or months. The Xenith IG executive team has the deep, proven expertise required to meet the challenges posed by the complex connectivity landscape in some of the largest and densest data centre markets in the world.

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Xinhua Silk Road: Going global-themed event for firms in Yellow River basin held in Jinan, E China

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BEIJING, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A conference on enterprises going global in the Yellow River basin was held in Jinan City, capital of east China’s Shandong Province, on Tuesday.

The conference aimed to implement the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) through high-quality cooperation and promote resource matching for enterprises in the Yellow River basin.

During the conference, the Department of Commerce of Shandong Province released three major outcomes, including a list of cooperation demand of enterprises in such fields as foreign labor service, outward investment, and construction machinery, a catalogue of services for enterprises going global, and investment cooperation reports on Indonesia, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Hungary.

The conference also saw the launch ceremony for the official operation of the Shandong Global Business Service Hub and the unveiling ceremony for the Yellow River Basin Enterprise Maritime Service Window.

It is reported that during its trial operation, the Shandong Global Business Service Hub has already served more than 700 enterprises from Shandong and other regions. The Yellow River Basin Enterprise Maritime Service Window has been set up in Jinan, Qingdao and Yantai, providing targeted shipping services for customers in the green petrochemical industry and others.

In the experience-sharing session, Pan Haiping, chairman of China Economic Information Service (CEIS), and Shu Hai, vice president of Haier Group, delivered keynote speeches. They shared their practices in supporting high-quality overseas business expansion and promoting global brand building.

During the signing ceremony, enterprises from the Yellow River basin inked 17 cooperation agreements with professional overseas service providers, covering foreign-related legal services, financial leasing, overseas engineering projects, industrial investment and global business collaboration.

Participants noted that Chinese enterprises’ outbound investment has kept expanding, driving robust market demand for high-quality, professional global business services. Shandong boasts strong opening-up momentum and has consistently pioneered integrated development of trade and investment. The Shandong Global Business Service Hub has laid a solid service foundation for enterprises to pursue high-quality global expansion.

The conference was hosted by the Department of Commerce of Shandong Province and co-organized by CEIS and the China Council for International Investment Promotion (CCIIP).

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Mattermost and Cohere Deliver Sovereign Human-Machine Teaming to On-Premises, Air-Gapped, and Classified Environments

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The combined stack pairs Mattermost’s sovereign operations platform with advanced Cohere models through Cohere North, enabling teams in national security and critical infrastructure to run powerful agents inside the mission systems they already use. Operators can fuse intelligence, accelerate planning, defend against agentic cyber threats, and coordinate with allies — all with human‑in‑the‑loop oversight, full auditability, and data‑centric Zero Trust security.

TORONTO, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Mattermost agents, powered by advanced Cohere models through Cohere North, bring multi-user, multi-agent sovereign platforms to national security and critical infrastructure operations, delivered as a combined stack under customer control and fielded by forward-deployed engineers who turn sovereign AI into mission results.

Mattermost, the sovereign human-machine teaming platform trusted by national security and critical infrastructure enterprises worldwide, and Cohere, the world’s leading sovereign AI company delivering mission-grade language models and agentic solutions for the most demanding regulated industries, today announced a strategic partnership to jointly serve national security and critical infrastructure organizations needing AI-powered operations with zero compromise on sovereignty.

In practice, this means commanders and operators can deploy Mattermost agents powered by advanced Cohere models inside the command-and-control, intelligence, and mission workflows they already run on Mattermost: fusing streams of reporting into decision-ready assessments, accelerating planning and execution cycles from headquarters to the tactical edge, and coordinating action with trusted partner nations. Critical infrastructure enterprises in financial services, energy, manufacturing, and technology can do the same, with teams of people and agents defending against agentic cyber attacks and building, securing, and deploying digital systems faster, while keeping regulated data and critical IP on infrastructure they own. Every agent action stays under human authority and on the record, and data stays under the operator’s control.

“Operators need more than single-player AI,” said Jason Blais, VP Product and NATO Alliances, Mattermost. “They need multi-user, multi-agent environments where people and agents work as one, connected to the critical real-time information essential for effective, timely decisions, without a single byte of data leaving their control. Bringing Cohere into the environments where Mattermost customers operate gives defence and critical infrastructure organizations exactly what they need to stay ahead of adversaries with rapidly escalating capabilities.”

Built for Vital Defence and Critical Infrastructure Operations

Mattermost agents connected to Cohere North work alongside people in Mattermost’s channels, workflows, and mission-critical applications, entirely inside infrastructure the customer controls. Together they serve the isolated environments behind the world’s most vital services, from defence networks to energy grids, where operations must withstand outages, multi-tenant disruptions, and geopolitical instability, and data stays in the customer’s jurisdiction, reducing dependence on external decisions. Cohere North is built for private deployment on-premises, in private clouds, or fully air-gapped.

“Mission-critical organizations shouldn’t have to send their most sensitive data to a public cloud just to get frontier AI performance,” said Michael McMillan, VP of Global Partner Ecosystem, Cohere. “Pairing Cohere North – our advanced AI models and SOTA agentic platform – with Mattermost’s sovereign operations platform means our most regulated customers get best-in-class AI without leaving their own infrastructure.”

What Operators and Agents Can Do Together

The Mattermost and Cohere solution allows for human-in-the-loop oversight and full auditability. Zero Trust and ABAC (attribute-based access control) policies govern messages, files, agents, and workflows, and specialist data-centric security partners extend those protections to help organizations address national and jurisdictional requirements. Manual and automated data sharing is governed by policy and integrates with cross-domain solutions, and the full stack runs anywhere it’s needed, from on-premises and air-gapped networks to private clouds and classified environments. These foundational capabilities let organizations:

Defend against escalating agentic cyber attacks by connecting proprietary SIEM and SOAR platforms into automated incident response that augments human analysts and reduces fatigue, without exposing sensitive data to third-party AI or infrastructure.Build, secure, and deploy digital systems faster and more reliably through DevSecOps workflows where engineers and agents work side by side, connected to custom tooling, while keeping source code and critical IP entirely in-house.Gain decision advantage with human-machine teaming by fusing multi-source intelligence reporting into draft assessments that analysts review and approve, inside the channels and workflows where they already work.Speed sensor-to-effector workflows with AI automation that stays sovereign end to end, keeping humans in command and every decision on the record.Coordinate coalition operations faster and more effectively, with policy-based sharing controls that help each partner see only the information it is authorized to receive.Supplement existing Microsoft Teams and Azure AI Foundry investments with the right mix of cloud and on-premises: Mattermost embeds in Teams through the Microsoft Marketplace, including in GCC High, so sensitive operations run fully on-premises or in private networks within the same Teams experience.

These capabilities come to market in Mattermost v12, shipping October 16, 2026.

Forward-Deployed Engineers Turn Sovereign AI Into Mission Results

Advanced AI models and a sovereign human-machine teaming platform are now available together. Unlocking their full potential takes hands-on AI expertise inside these environments. Mattermost’s forward-deployed engineers are ready to deploy Cohere-based sovereign AI solutions for existing and new Mattermost customers, working alongside operators to drive transformation. The team draws on domestic nationals in the Five Eyes and NATO countries it serves, working within each nation’s security requirements to bring that expertise directly to where missions and critical operations run.

Learn more at mattermost.com/cohere and cohere.com/mattermost, or contact your account team directly.

About Mattermost, Inc.

Mattermost is the leading sovereign human-machine teaming platform for national security and critical infrastructure enterprises. We put mission-critical work in motion with secure collaboration and workflow built for complex environments. Trusted by governments, allied militaries, and enterprises around the world, our platform runs on-premises, air-gapped, and in private clouds, delivering human-machine teaming across secure messaging, file sharing, systems integration, workflow automation, audio/screenshare, and project management with complete data and operational control. For more information, visit mattermost.com.

About Cohere

Cohere, founded in 2019, is the world’s leading sovereign AI company building foundation models and end-to-end AI products to solve real-world business problems. We partner with organizations to deliver seamless integration, deep customization, and user-friendly solutions. Our all-in-one platform provides maximum security, privacy, and deployment flexibility across clouds, private on-premises environments, and even fully air-gapped settings. Headquartered globally in Toronto, San Francisco, and Germany, Cohere operates additional offices in London, New York, Montreal, Paris, and Seoul, serving customers worldwide.

The company has raised ~$1.6BUSD from strategic tech investors (Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Oracle, Cisco), institutional investors (Radical Ventures, Inovia Capital, PSP Investments, HOOPP, BDC, Nexxus), and AI pioneers including Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Pieter Abbeel, and Raquel Urtasun. For more information, visit cohere.com.

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Rosa Lear, Mattermost, 1 4087574362, media@mattermost.com, https://mattermost.com/

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Weibo Corporation to Report Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results on November 17, 2026

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BEIJING, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Weibo Corporation (NASDAQ: WB and HKEX: 9898), a leading social media for people to create, share and discover content, will announce its unaudited financial results for the third quarter 2026 before the U.S. market opens on Tuesday, November 17, 2026. Following the announcement, Weibo’s management team will host a conference call from 6 AM – 7 AM Eastern Time on November 17, 2026 (or 7 PM – 8 PM Hong Kong Time on November 17, 2026) to present an overview of the Company’s financial performance and business operations.

Participants who wish to dial in to the teleconference must register through the below public participant link. Dial in and instruction will be in the confirmation email upon registering.

Participants Registration Link: https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BI816d8d5799814de5b22b07a130b7eb28

Additionally, a live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at http://ir.weibo.com.

About Weibo

Weibo is a leading social media for people to create, share and discover content online. Weibo combines the means of public self-expression in real time with a powerful platform for social interaction, content aggregation and content distribution. Any user can create and post a feed and attach multi-media and long-form content. User relationships on Weibo may be asymmetric; any user can follow any other user and add comments to a feed while reposting. This simple, asymmetric and distributed nature of Weibo allows an original feed to become a live viral conversation stream.

Weibo enables its advertising and marketing customers to promote their brands, products and services to users. Weibo offers a wide range of advertising and marketing solutions to companies of all sizes. Weibo generates a substantial majority of its revenues from the sale of advertising and marketing services, including the sale of social display advertisement and promoted marketing offerings. Weibo displays content in a simple information feed format and offers native advertisement that conform to the information feed on our platform. We are continuously refining our social interest graph recommendation engine, which enables our customers to perform people marketing and target audiences based on user demographics, social relationships, interests and behaviors, to achieve greater relevance, engagement and marketing effectiveness.

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Email: ir@staff.weibo.com

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