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Zephr.xyz’s Dual-Use Next-Gen GNSS Technology Selected for Two Leading Commercial and Defense Accelerator Programs

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A leading innovator in Augmented PNT, Zephr.xyz was selected by the prestigious Kickstart Innovation 2024 and the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) Propel Hawaii.

DENVER, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Zephr.xyz, a leading innovator in augmented position, navigation, and timing (AugPNT) technologies, is pleased to announce it has been selected by two distinguished accelerators – Kickstart Innovation 2024 in Switzerland and the U.S. National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) Propel Hawaii – to develop cutting-edge location-based solutions for smart city transportation and defense navigation.

Zephr.xyz addresses these challenges with a groundbreaking “networked GNSS” solution that leverages an innovative multi-receiver system to deliver unparalleled location accuracy, reliability, and error correction, while also guaranteeing a highly stable and reliable signal.

In a world where new technologies demand faster, more reliable location-based data, and traditional satellite navigation systems face increasing risks from interference attacks, the need for advanced PNT solutions is critical.

Zephr.xyz addresses these challenges with a groundbreaking “networked GNSS” solution that leverages an innovative multi-receiver system to deliver unparalleled location accuracy, reliability, and error correction, while also guaranteeing a highly stable and reliable signal that is at less risk of interference. By interconnecting satellite navigation data across multiple commodity devices, this computationally networked approach improves GNSS accuracy by 5 to 10 times (<50cm precision), without requiring new hardware.

“We are honored to be selected by Kickstart Innovation 2024 and NSIN Propel Hawaii to further develop our cutting-edge PNT solutions,” said Sean Gorman, PhD, CEO of Zephr.xyz. “Accurate and reliable location data is critical, whether it’s for optimizing smart city transportation or ensuring the safety and effectiveness of defense operations. These accelerators provide a unique opportunity to collaborate with top organizations and industry leaders, and we are excited to push the boundaries of innovation together to meet these pressing challenges.”

Kickstart Innovation 2024:

Zephr.xyz is one of 41 scaleups from nine countries selected to join Kickstart Innovation’s 2024 program in Switzerland, which is focused on solving society’s biggest challenges.

As a finalist in the Smart Cities category, Zephr.xyz is developing its innovative solution for urban innovation, including more advanced location accuracy that will enable the widespread use of fully autonomous vehicles while also ensuring stronger safety controls, particularly for pedestrians.

Kickstart Innovation is one of Europe’s leading open innovation platforms, supporting the development of groundbreaking projects through partnerships with corporations, cities, and universities. Since 2016, the program has facilitated over 310 deals and helped raise more than CHF 2.5 billion in investments.

National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) Propel Hawaii:

As one of only 10 ventures selected for the 2024 NSIN Propel Hawaii cohort, Zephr.xyz is scaling its innovative technology to support the U.S. Air Force and its partners in operating as a ready, innovative, and agile force in the Indo-Pacific region.

Through the accelerator, Zephr.xyz is enhancing the reliability and accuracy of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces’ (PACAF) GNSS through its self-correcting network receivers which eliminate the need for base stations – a critical advantage in contested regions. These innovations will help to ensure PACAF remains adaptable, forward-thinking and mission-ready in a rapidly evolving operational environment.

NSIN Propel selects startups that have novel technologies for collaborative planning and execution, Agile Combat Employment (ACE), or camouflage, concealment, and deception (CC&D) – technologies areas that are critical for the next-generation warfighter. During the cohort, the companies work alongside the PACAF Science and Technology and the 613th Air Operations Center (AOC), Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC), and the University of Hawaii Office of Innovation and Commercialization to design national security applications from their innovations. Since inception, NSIN Propel’s 62 alumni companies have secured $418 million in trusted private capital and $130 million in government funding.

Advanced PNT Solutions for Commercial and Defense Use Cases:

Zephr.xyz’s more precise and consistent GNSS solution enables new and emerging technology fields, such as smart cities, autonomy (from vehicles to robotics and drone-based delivery systems) and augmented reality, while also improving cost savings and revenue opportunities for current industries, including navigation, delivery/logistics, rideshare, auto insurance, agriculture, advertising, location-based apps and more.

Designed from the beginning as a dual-use technology capable of performing under the most challenging conditions, Zephr.xyz’s solution is also ensuring more accurate and resilient PNT data in GNSS-degraded environments, such as battlefields and other contested regions. The company has also developed new capabilities to detect and geolocate GNSS spoofing and jamming.

The company’s pioneering solutions have undergone rigorous and extensive testing, from simulation software by SRI International to exhaustive field testing with real smartphones under difficult conditions – including on the front lines of Ukraine.

About Zephr.xyz:

Zephr.xyz powers next-generation location-based solutions by significantly improving the accuracy and resiliency of GNSS on mobile devices through a patent-pending solution that enables nearby devices to collaborate in real-time. Zephr.xyz’s SDK and supporting cloud APIs allow a network of mobile phones to compute and share corrections that dramatically improve location performance for mobility, augmented reality, logistics, insurance, gaming, mapping, advertising technology (AdTech), and more, in addition to search and rescue, national security and defense.

Founded in 2022, Zephr.xyz’s executive team is composed of a seasoned group of startup veterans with multiple successful exits, and PhDs with a unique set of sophisticated computational skills and business acumen. Zephr.xyz is backed by a coalition of top-tier venture capital firms and research labs with deep expertise in PNT technologies, including Space Capital, First Spark Ventures and SRI Ventures.

Learn more at: www.Zephr.xyz

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BinBase Expands 2026 BIN Dataset with Instant Payout Intelligence for iGaming, Gambling, and Cross-Border Transfers

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BinBase updates its 2026 dataset with specialized Fast Funds, Visa Direct, and Mastercard MoneySend indicators to help iGaming operators and payout platforms execute seamless, instant card disbursements.

MIAMI, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — BinBase, a global provider of payment routing intelligence and card issuing data, has introduced specialized instant payout indicators as part of its upgraded 2026 BIN Database. Tailored for iGaming operators, online gambling platforms, crypto-to-fiat ramps, and payout aggregators, the updated dataset helps platform engineers streamline real-time card disbursements and Push-to-Card (P2C) transactions.

In high-velocity sectors such as online betting and gaming, instantaneous player payouts are a primary driver of customer retention. However, executing Push-to-Card transactions through protocols like Visa Direct and Mastercard MoneySend requires knowing whether the receiving card issuer supports Fast Funds for specific merchant category codes (MCCs). Attempting instant payouts on non-eligible cards leads to declined transactions, elevated processing fees, and poor user experiences.

The 2026 BinBase release solves this operational bottleneck by delivering dedicated attributes for real-time fund disbursements:

Fast Funds Eligibility: Granular indicators identifying domestic and cross-border Fast Funds support across global Visa and Mastercard ranges.Online Gambling Fast Funds (OG FF): Dedicated flags specifically identifying card ranges authorized to receive real-time gambling and betting payouts.Mastercard MoneySend & Visa Direct Indicators: Precise protocol compatibility markers (MS Ind & MT Ind) ensuring push transactions are routed only to eligible recipient cards.Direct Debit & Pull-Funds Support: Indicators for recurring collections and account-funding transactions.

“Player payouts in iGaming cannot wait for standard 2-to-3-day ACH settlements,” said a spokesperson for Damiko Inc. “By embedding our Fast Funds and Gambling FF flags into their payment engines, operators can instantly validate recipient cards before initiating a transfer, guaranteeing high success rates and instant liquidity for their users.”

Fintech engineers and payout architects can examine the full 29-field database schema and access a free 2026 sample dataset on GitHub.

To explore commercial licensing, bulk database downloads, or custom data feeds, visit BinBase at https://binbase.com.

About Damiko Inc

Damiko Inc is a US-based fintech data provider specializing in card issuer analytics, payment routing data, and global BIN database solutions. Operating through its flagship product, BinBase.com, the company supplies high-precision transaction intelligence to help merchants and payment facilitators worldwide optimize approval rates and mitigate processing fees.

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Walnut Coding’s Young Coders Serve as ‘Instructors’ at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp

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Ages 8 and 15, students showcase AI-era project-building skills from concept to working application

BEIJING, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Walnut Coding (the “Company”), a leading online platform for youth coding education, said two of its students – ages 8 and 15 – have joined the “instructor” lineup at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp, making them among the youngest “instructors” in the program’s history. The Company cites the pair as a prime example of how young learners can combine coding fundamentals with AI tools to turn ideas into working applications.

The two students, Bolin Du, 8, and Peiqi Gao, 15, built working applications using Huawei Cloud CodeArts, an AI coding assistant, then presented the projects to the training camp themselves – walking the audience through their design choices, technical builds, and debugging process.

The move lands at a moment when AI coding tools are forcing a rethink across the education sector. Tools that can generate functioning code from a plain-language prompt have undercut the traditional argument for teaching children to program – that they need the skill to build things themselves. Walnut Coding’s answer is that the more valuable skill now is judgment – knowing what problem to solve, breaking it into parts, and determining whether an AI’s output actually works.

Gao built a travel-planning application that generates routes, itineraries, and recommendations based on user input, handling the project end to end, from requirements and design through coding and debugging. Du, the younger of the two, built an interactive calendar application, using HTML for page structure, CSS for visual design, and JavaScript for interactive features. Both students then took on an instructor’s role at the camp, presenting their project goals and technical implementation to the audience – a step Walnut Coding says separated the work from a typical classroom assignment.

These were not classroom exercises but working projects, built and presented inside a professional developer-training environment. The experience demanded more from both students than simply producing something functional – they needed to articulate their reasoning, defend technical choices, and refine the final result under scrutiny. Their participation signals a broader shift underway in what youth coding education can deliver.

AI is making code generation easier, but it is also redrawing which skills actually matter. A student who relies only on one-click generation may get a rough prototype quickly, but still struggle to spot logical flaws, judge whether the output is reliable, or turn an abstract idea into a product that actually works. Students with programming foundations, by contrast, are better positioned to define requirements, evaluate what the AI produces, correct its errors, and treat the technology as a tool rather than a shortcut to lean on.

“AI can help children generate code faster, but it cannot decide for them what problem they should solve, nor can it make the final judgment about whether the result is truly effective,” said Pengxuan Zeng, founder and CEO of Walnut Coding. “What these two students demonstrated is not just coding technique, but the ability to define needs, break down tasks, verify outcomes, and turn an idea into a working product. That is why we believe young people still need to learn programming in the AI era.”

Walnut Coding structures its courses around that thesis, pairing student-led project work with teaching-assistant guidance and AI-assisted support. According to the Company, this data is continuously fed back into its systems to refine the personalization of AI-assisted feedback — a closed-loop process linking teaching, practice, feedback, and curriculum development.

The Company frames the payoffs less around producing professional software engineers than around a broader form of literacy. As AI continues to reshape how tasks get done, the ability to understand the technology, structure problems clearly and collaborate effectively with intelligent tools may prove one of the most durable skills a young learner can develop.

Walnut Coding says it plans to keep expanding opportunities for students to build practical projects, partner with industry technology platforms such as Huawei Cloud, and develop the core capabilities needed to build with technology in the AI era.

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MOREH Showcases High-Performance LLM Inference on AMD GPUs at AMD Advancing AI 2026

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Moreh, an AI infrastructure software company, led by CEO Gangwon Jo, participated in AMD Advancing AI 2026, AMD’s flagship annual AI event held in San Francisco on July 22–23 (local time), where it demonstrated its distributed inference solution, the MoAI Inference Framework, running on AMD GPUs.

At the event, Moreh presented a live demonstration of the GLM-5.1 large language model (LLM) powered by the MoAI Inference Framework on a system equipped with 32 AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs across four nodes. Visitors experienced the chatbot firsthand, evaluating its response speed and service quality while observing performance across a range of real-world use cases.

Unlike conventional demonstrations that simply run an AI model, Moreh’s showcase displayed key inference service metrics in real time, including GPU utilization, Tokens Per Second (TPS), Time To First Token (TTFT), and Time Per Output Token (TPOT). This enabled attendees to directly verify both inference performance and GPU resource efficiency in a production-like service environment.

Global AI industry leaders and enterprise customers attending the event expressed strong interest in the system’s fast response times and stable performance. In particular, the live deployment of the computationally demanding GLM-5.1 model on AMD GPUs at production-grade service levels received positive feedback from visitors.

Moreh’s MoAI Inference Framework is widely recognized as the world’s first commercially deployed distributed inference solution built for the AMD ecosystem. Its distributed inference and heterogeneous computing technologies are designed to dramatically reduce AI service costs, enabling broader adoption of AI worldwide. The technology addresses one of the industry’s biggest challenges-the rapidly rising infrastructure and service costs caused by increasingly larger AI models-by delivering a more efficient inference infrastructure.

Moreh CEO Gangwon Jo stated, “This event provided an opportunity for global customers to verify firsthand that top-tier inference performance can be achieved on AMD GPU environments,” and added “We will continue advancing our AI infrastructure software so enterprises can operate AI services as efficiently as possible, regardless of the underlying GPU platform.”

Moreh develops its own AI infrastructure engine and has expanded its end-to-end AI capabilities through its foundation LLM subsidiary, Motif Technologies, covering both AI infrastructure and foundation models. The company is also strengthening its presence in the global AI market through strategic partnerships with leading technology companies, including AMD and Tenstorrent.

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