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Homes You Love, Comfort You Deserve: Midea CHIONE, Your Cool Ideal AC

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BANGKOK, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Every summer, Thailand turns up the heat — and millions of households begin the all-too-familiar search for relief. But choosing the right air conditioner is far more complicated than it sounds. Cooling power, energy efficiency, noise levels, humidity control, smart features, durability — the list of must-haves is long. It seems impossible to find an air conditioner that truly balances all these “skill points”. That is, until Midea CHIONE entered the picture. Designed to be the “cool ideal” for every home, CHIONE was built to deliver on every front, so you never have to compromise again.

First Things First: Energy Efficiency Is Non-Negotiable

With so many features to evaluate when shopping for an air conditioner, it’s easy to get lost in the specs. But ask any Thai homeowner what matters most, and the answer is almost always the same: electricity bills. Air conditioning can account for roughly 40–60% of a household’s monthly energy costs — a figure that turns every degree of comfort into a source of financial stress.

The nighttime struggle is real. During the long Thai summer, many families set a timer to switch the AC off after falling asleep, only to wake up drenched in sweat at 2 a.m. and spend the rest of the night tossing and turning. Don’t turn it on? Too hot to bear. Turn it on? It hurts just thinking about the electricity cost.

Daytime is no easier. Remote workers face a similar dilemma — 8 to 10 hours of cooling is essential for productivity, but every hour the AC runs feels like watching money evaporate. Many resort to toggling the unit on and off repeatedly, or even escaping to a cafe shop —just to save a bit on the electricity bill.

In both cases, comfort is constantly sacrificed at the altar of the electricity bill. Before style, before smart features, before anything else, an air conditioner must prove it can keep you cool without draining your wallet.

But real-world results from Midea CHIONE tell a very different story. Parenting influencer หม่ามี๊น้องธิริน put the unit to the test in her own home — and was stunned by what she found. She ran the CHIONE for a total of more than 21 hours, and the entire energy consumption came in at just over 6 kWh. “It’s dramatically less than what we used to pay,” she shared. “I used to stress every time I turned on the AC, but now I can keep our home cool with real peace of mind and enjoy the coolness with my little one. The savings are right there on the meter — you can’t argue with that.”

The Technology Behind the Ideal

How does Midea Chione deliver such dramatic real-world savings without compromising living comfort? A smarter cooling experience brought by several layers of innovation working together:

Inverter Technology forms the foundation. Unlike conventional fixed-speed compressors that waste energy through constant start-stop cycles, Midea’s inverter system maintains continuous, stable operation — eliminating the biggest source of hidden energy waste.AI ECOMASTER, the heart of Midea CHIONE that transforms your AC from a simple reactive machine into a highly proactive smart system. Supported by giga-data foundation, it factors in conditions dynamically. It predicts rather than reacts. This smarter AI algorithm allows more precise indoor adjustments to enhance occupant comfort with less consumption. It handles daytime fluctuations and avoids excessive cooling at night . This real-time intelligence translates into extraordinary, tangible value. Verified by SGS, Midea CHIONE maintains an ultra-precise ±0.3°C temperature control to deliver 30% extra energy savings.Smart Control makes life easier and savings visible. Through the Smarthome app, users can monitor daily, weekly, and monthly energy consumption in real time, and receive usage alerts. Via Location-Based Services (LBS), your air conditioner can automatically be on when you are 15 kms away, ensuring a chill moment when you arrive. During nights, the Sleep Curve personal setting empowers you to fully customize your resting environment by tailoring sleep duration and precise temperature shifts to your exact habits.Beyond efficiency, CHIONE also ensures comfort never takes a back seat — with AI Humidity Control maintaining the ideal 40–70% range, Silent Mode cutting outdoor unit noise energy by 50%, COOLFLASH dropping room temperature by 5°C in just 10 minutes, and Prime Guard durability protection built for Thailand’s demanding climate.

This is what “My Cool Ideal” really means — an air conditioner that doesn’t ask you to choose between saving money and living comfortably. If a household saves approximately 500 THB per month on air conditioning costs, that adds up to 6,000 THB annually — meaning the investment in a Midea CHIONE could pay for itself in just a few months. This isn’t just an appliance purchase; it’s a rational household investment with measurable, monthly returns.

Now It’s Your Turn: Share Your Cool Moments with Midea

Midea is inviting real users across Thailand to join the conversation and share your ‘WoW’ moment with Midea AC. Simply share a snapshot of your everyday life with Midea: your cool work-from-home setup, your family’s comfortable living room, or any moment where Midea made your day better.

To participate, simply like Midea’s official post on Facebook and leave a comment with your story along with a real photo of your Midea AC in your home. The top three comments ranked by likes will win amazing prizes — 1st place takes home Midea Chione air conditioner, 2nd place receives a Mini Bar, and 3rd place wins a Stand Fan. This activity is exclusively open to residents of Thailand who are real Midea air conditioner users. Don’t miss your chance — show your story and the comfort speaks for itself!

(* This event is open to residents of Thailand only and is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by Facebook. Midea reserves the right of final interpretation of this event.)

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Foresite Named 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year for North America

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Recognition highlights leadership in practitioner-governed, AI-enhanced security operations

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Apr. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Foresite Cybersecurity today announced it has been named the 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year in the North America category, presented at Google Cloud Next ’26 in Las Vegas.

Foresite named 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year

Organizations looking to operationalize AI-driven security on Google Cloud can learn more at next.foresite.com.

Foresite delivers fully managed security operations on Google Security Operations (SecOps), enabling customers to detect and respond to threats in seconds, reduce investigation fatigue, and maintain continuous audit readiness without expanding internal teams.

Operating as the human control layer for AI-driven security, Foresite combines Google’s agentic investigation capabilities with practitioner-validated accountability. Every autonomous investigation is reviewed and authorized by a named analyst before response actions are executed, giving customers clear visibility into how decisions are made and risk is managed.

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name Foresite a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

As a Google Cloud Premier Partner with Security and MSSP specializations, Foresite delivers managed services through its Catalyst platform — extending Google SecOps with operational governance, automation, and continuous compliance capabilities. Over the past year, the company expanded its SecOps delivery practice while sustaining 96% customer retention, reflecting growing demand for managed, AI-enhanced security operations.

Across its managed services portfolio, Foresite delivers a 90% reduction in mean investigation time and sub-15-second automated threat response for its customers — enabling security teams to focus on strategic risk decisions rather than alert triage.

Foresite’s approach to managed security operations on Google Cloud was the subject of an independent Technical Validation by Enterprise Strategy Group (now part of Omdia), commissioned by Google in August 2025. The report examined how Foresite’s Catalyst platform extends Google Security Operations to deliver threat detection, investigation, and response for organizations at varying levels of security maturity.

“Our Technical Validation of Foresite’s Catalyst platform examined how practitioner-led governance can extend Google Security Operations to deliver measurable detection and response outcomes. Google Cloud’s Partner of the Year recognition independently confirms what our analysis identified — that platform-native expertise, rather than tool access, is what differentiates managed security outcomes for mid-market and enterprise organizations.”— Tony Palmer, Practice Director, Omdia (formerly Enterprise Strategy Group).

“We’re entering an era where AI can investigate threats at machine speed,” said Jeremy Hehl, Chief Evangelist at Foresite. “Enterprise organizations need confidence that those decisions are governed and aligned to real business risk. This recognition from Google Cloud reinforces our focus in helping customers operationalize AI security at scale.”

Foresite is showcasing its Agentic SOC capabilities at Google Cloud Next ’26, demonstrating how security teams can move beyond alert monitoring to govern autonomous response using Google SecOps, Google Threat Intelligence, and AI security controls.

Foresite is purpose-built for organizations that need enterprise-grade security operations without enterprise-scale friction. The company delivers the operational rigor and platform expertise these organizations require to run Google SecOps effectively — without the overhead of building and staffing a full internal SOC.

About Foresite Cybersecurity
Foresite Cybersecurity is a Google Cloud Premier Partner providing managed security operations, compliance automation, and threat intelligence services. Through its Catalyst platform, Foresite helps organizations operationalize AI-driven security with practitioner-led governance and measurable risk reduction. Learn more at foresite.com.

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Tredence Awarded 2026 Google Cloud Global Industry Solutions Partner of the Year Award for Retail

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Trusted for driving the data & AI strategy for 8 of the top 10 retailers, powering $2 trillion in retail revenue

LAS VEGAS and BENGALURU, India, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tredence, a global AI and data science solutions company, today announced it has been named the 2026 Google Cloud Services & Industry Solutions Partner of the Year for Retail. This award reflects Tredence’s demonstrated ability to deliver measurable customer impact at scale. Notably, this is Tredence’s third such distinction, having previously been recognized in CPG and Gaming, a testament to Tredence’s unmatched depth, breadth, and impact across the industries it serves.

For the world’s leading retailers, Tredence has consistently delivered the full AI transformation journey — migrating, modernizing, and deploying scalable AI applications and agents on Google Cloud, powered by Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise. In FY25, Tredence drove transformative impact across 25+ strategic retail accounts spanning four continents, delivering measurable business outcomes and accelerating Google Cloud adoption at unprecedented scale. Tredence’s impact has been defined by three core motions:

Modernization at scale, building agentic foundations – Tredence executed some of the world’s most complex retail cloud migrations, including the largest-ever cloud migration in retail history, migrating 12 petabytes of data for 40,000+ analytics users with 100% operational continuity, and a landmark platform overhaul delivered ahead of schedule, reducing total cost of ownership by 20–40% and building the unified data foundations that power agentic AI at scale.Accelerating agentic AI adoption – Tredence deployed 100+ AI/ML accelerators, including 10+ retail-specific multi-agent systems built on Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise, eliminating up to 70% of manual effort, automating up to 98% of manual ticketing processes, and cutting temporary labor costs by 20%, compressing months of deployment into weeks across some of the most complex retail environments in the world.Delivering global impact at measurable scale – Tredence drove transformative outcomes across every retail format and across geographies unifying supply chain data across 20,000+ stores to automate retail media insights, deploying a full agentic platform in just 6 months for a major wholesale retailer, and delivering greenfield Google Cloud wins, proving that the Tredence and Google Cloud partnership delivers measurable impact across every retail segment and scale of ambition.

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name Tredence a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

“Winning Google Cloud’s Retail Partner of the Year reflects one thing: the outcomes we deliver for the world’s most admired retailers, consistently and at scale,” said Amanpal Dhupar, Vice President, Head of Retail at Tredence. “We are the trusted Data and AI partner for 8 of the top 10 global retailers and have built a team of world-class retail practitioners, a proprietary accelerator ecosystem powering over $2 trillion in global retail sales, and a last-mile operationalization capability.”

Tredence recently launched its Transformative Agentic Commerce Solution Accelerators at NRF 2026. Built on Google Cloud services, these accelerators can be customized for each retailer to address unique needs and deliver faster time-to-value.

Tredence will showcase these capabilities at Google Next, Booth #2911, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

About Tredence:

Tredence is a global AI and data science solutions provider focused on solving the last-mile problem in AI, the gap between insight creation and value realization. Tredence leverages deep domain expertise, data platforms and accelerators, and strategic partnerships to provide tailored, cutting-edge solutions to its clients. The company has 4,200+ employees across the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Riyadh, London, Toronto, and Bengaluru, serving top brands in Retail, CPG, Hi-tech, Telecom, Healthcare, Travel, and Industrials. 

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dbt Labs Wins a 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award

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PHILADELPHIA, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — dbt Labs, the leader in standards for AI-ready structured data, announced today that it has received the 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year award for Data and Analytics: Data Pipelines and Governance. dbt Labs works together with Google Cloud to provide the foundation for an organization’s transition to AI leadership and innovation. The combination of rich data warehousing capabilities and the democratization of complex data transformation removes technical barriers, enabling analysts and business leaders to accelerate their time-to-value.

dbt Labs is being recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping  joint customers manage data at scale on Google Cloud and turn it into trusted, actionable insights with speed and efficiency. Thousands of organizations run dbt on Google BigQuery globally, an integration designed to accelerate the delivery of trusted analytics and AI. By consolidating data transformation into a single, unified tool, joint customers quickly gain increased operational efficiency through advanced orchestration features. dbt Labs empowers customers to manage and trust results, ensuring high-quality data is ready to power analytics and AI initiatives both today and in the future.

“Every AI strategy needs to be underpinned by a standardized foundation and process to control, govern and document progress for high-quality, trusted results,” said Shawn Toldo, Vice President, Worldwide Partner Ecosystem at dbt Labs. “Together, dbt Labs and Google Cloud enable organizations to build that foundation for an AI-ready future. We are excited for the recognition and growing partnership with Google.”

dbt Labs is being recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping  joint customers manage data at scale on Google Cloud and turn it into trusted, actionable insights with speed and efficiency. Thousands of organizations run dbt on Google BigQuery globally, an integration designed to accelerate the delivery of trusted analytics and AI. By consolidating data transformation into a single, unified tool, joint customers quickly gain increased operational efficiency through advanced orchestration features. dbt Labs empowers customers to manage and trust results, ensuring high-quality data is ready to power analytics and AI initiatives both today and in the future.

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name dbt Labs a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

This recognition is the latest example of dbt Labs’ momentum since launching on Google Cloud Marketplace one year ago. The partnership’s trajectory is driven by extensive global adoption and usage across diverse industries and a rapidly expanding community of active practitioners. Additionally, dbt Labs’ partner team earned two Google Partner All Star awards, reinforcing the deep collaboration and commitment to driving mutual success.

By bringing Google AI capabilities into dbt workflows, joint customers gain the trustworthy, well-documented, governed foundation that reliable analytics and AI demand. To learn more about how dbt Labs and Google Cloud are enabling AI-ready data pipelines, watch the on-demand webinar “Building dbt Models Faster with Google AI” at https://www.getdbt.com/confirmation/building-dbt-models-faster-with-google-ai-recording.

About dbt Labs
Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help data practitioners create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt is the standard for AI-ready structured data. Powered by the dbt Fusion engine, it unlocks the performance, context, and trust that organizations need to scale analytics in the era of AI. Globally, more than 80,000 data teams use dbt, including those at Siemens, Roche and Condé Nast.

Learn more at getdbt.com, and follow dbt Labs on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

 

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