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Ivalua Launches IVA Studio, Redefining How Procurement Works With AI

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Ivalua’s Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA), now powered by IVA Studio, is a fully agentic system able to execute any Source-to-Pay process from day one and automate any procurement workflow. IVA Studio is built on the same skills framework pioneered by leading frontier AI labs, giving IVA full platform access, self-improving capabilities, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. Governance is enforced at the platform level: IVA inherits the same permissions applied to people, cannot exceed them, and logs every action for complete auditability.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – Ivalua, the enterprise AI platform for procurement, announces the launch of IVA Studio, enabling a fundamentally new way for procurement teams to work. Rather than managing many AI agents atop fragmented data and disjointed systems, IVA Studio enables procurement to perform any activity across the Source-to-Pay (S2P) process through a single agent, IVA, that knows your data, follows your rules, and gets work done on day one. IVA Studio is the AI control tower managing IVA’s skills, permissions, tools, and MCP integrations.

Procurement can operate with greater speed and intelligence with IVA. A category manager preparing to re-source an expiring contract can ask IVA to pull the contract, benchmark against agreements, identify stronger suppliers, set up an RFx, and launch the event, all in a single conversation. An Accounts Payable team can have IVA validate incoming invoices against not just price and PO, but also against the harder-to-enforce contract terms buried in documents.

“At Ivalua, we believe the future of procurement is not AI, it’s people using AI to deliver better and faster results. IVA, powered by IVA Studio, is a decisive step forward into a new era for procurement, one full of disruptive challenges and exciting opportunities. With IVA, procurement teams can focus on what they do best: building strategies and relationships, internally and externally. We are thrilled to lead this journey with our customers and partners,” said Franck Lheureux, CEO of Ivalua.

IVA also works autonomously, in workflows, and in the background. A supplier risk event can trigger IVA to surface every affected contract, open a PO, create a mitigation plan, and propose qualified alternative suppliers. IVA can do anything a user can and more, because the entire Ivalua Source-to-Pay application is its knowledge source and toolset.

A Complete Agentic Operating System for Procurement

Procurement teams gain a truly intelligent, intuitive experience – they simply tell IVA what to do, and IVA assembles the right skills, tools, and knowledge for the task. For complex work, IVA creates and orchestrates temporary sub-agents.

This is the first complete S2P agent to follow the skills-based architecture frontier AI labs are converging on. Users do not need to build, orchestrate, or select from a growing catalog of agents. Instead, IVA understands all the data in the Ivalua S2P platform, can take any action as a tool, and follows organization-specific best practices through skills, with human-in-the-loop controls maintained.

Ivalua’s AI technology and services combine to ensure successful implementation, adoption and continuous optimization. IVA delivers value immediately because it can execute any action a user can from day one. Unlike competing solutions, there is nothing to integrate or configure. Over time, IVA gets smarter as organizations use it, encoding their expertise in skills and memory. And as teams grow to trust it, IVA can take on more autonomous work — embedded in workflows or running in the background — turning Source-to-Pay into an automation engine. Additionally, Ivalua and its implementation partners provide guidance, expertise and support services.

“Procurement teams have typically had to spend time building and configuring AI agents before seeing any results. Ivalua’s approach is entirely different: IVA accesses the Ivalua platform as its toolset and source of knowledge, so procurement can start getting value from day one, within a framework of governance that’s enforced by design,” said David Khuat-Duy, Founder & Chief AI Officer at Ivalua.

Governed by design

Governance is enforced at the platform level, not by the agent. IVA inherits the permissions of the user who invokes it and cannot exceed them. When IVA is operating autonomously in a workflow, it still has an accountable user whose boundary it follows and who it falls back on for human-in-the-loop controls. Every action is logged with a continuous audit trail. AI works only where it is allowed to work, and procurement leaders can prove it.

Expertise that compounds

IVA learns employee best practices: sourcing approaches, negotiation strategies, and compliance rules as skills that IVA follows. Skills turn individual expertise into team capabilities, building institutional knowledge that compounds with every interaction. A new hire working with IVA operates with the benefit of the whole organization’s experience. IVA also maintains memory of interactions, self-improving automatically.

Fits your AI ecosystem

IVA Studio is the AI control tower to manage the skills IVA uses, the tools it can call, the external systems it connects to through MCP, and the LLMs it runs on. IVA is LLM-agnostic, customers can use the models Ivalua provides out of the box or bring their own. With IVA Studio, IT teams, partners, and customers can build or tailor what IVA can do and how it connects.

IVA Studio is available in Beta today and will be generally available in summer. To learn more about IVA, powered by IVA Studio, watch this webinar.

About Ivalua

Ivalua is the only truly unified, enterprise AI platform for managing spend and suppliers. We seamlessly connect people, AI agents, workflows and data, making businesses more profitable, resilient, and sustainable. We are trusted by over 500 of the world’s most admired brands and consistently recognized as a leader by Gartner and other analysts. Learn more at www.ivalua.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.

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Sauropods in Katsuyama: Standing Beneath the Giants That Shook the Earth at Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

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KATSUYAMA, Japan, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kanazawa Biyori, a regional media outlet rooted in the Hokuriku region of northwestern Japan — one that reports not only on famous landmarks but on the culture that still breathes through this region — turns its lens toward a gathering of prehistoric giants. The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum’s special exhibition for 2026, titled in Japanese Ryūkyakurui: Daichi o Yurugashita Chijō Saidai no Ikimono and rendered in English by Kanazawa Biyori as “Sauropods: The Largest Creatures Ever to Walk the Earth,” runs through November 3 and explores how these long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters grew to such extraordinary size.

A Skeleton Preserved as It Was Found

The centerpiece is Xinjiangtitan, a sauropod from China displayed in situ, preserving the arrangement in which its bones were excavated rather than reconstructing the skeleton from scattered remains. The cast measures approximately 19 meters in length. The specimens displayed alongside it, drawn from Japan, China and Spain, include fossils being shown in Japan for the first time and together explore a central question: how did any land animal grow this large?

A World First, and Fossils From Across Japan

Also on view is Iniestapodus, a footprint fossil exhibited as a cast and, according to the organizers, displayed publicly for the first time anywhere in the world. Alongside it are sauropod fossils — some of them actual specimens rather than casts — from every locality in Japan where such remains have been discovered, gathered together for the first time. Among them is Tambatitanis.

A Summer Project and a Lifelong Fascination

Throughout the exhibition, the museum offers guided tours led by its own researchers as well as lectures by visiting specialists. The exhibition also provides an ideal subject for the summer research projects commonly assigned to Japanese schoolchildren, making it a destination for families as much as for lifelong dinosaur enthusiasts. An exhibition of this scale and scope could be realized only at one of the world’s leading dinosaur museums.

Standing Beneath Nineteen Meters of History

Kanazawa Biyori visited the exhibition. Until we entered the hall, “19 meters” was merely a number — these animals had existed for us only in books and illustrations. The museum bridges that gap with video installations, dioramas and skeletal models that allow even visitors with no background in paleontology to grasp the scale of what stands before them.

One display in particular remained with us: restored forelimbs presented side by side at full scale. Brachiosaurus, the largest, reaches 5.0 meters, while Fukuititan stands at 1.8 meters — a difference immediately apparent to the eye. Beyond that are world-premiere exhibits, fossils excavated from sites across Japan, and specimens brought from China and Spain. The exhibition traces the evolution of these animals, the excavation of their remains and the lives they once led, in a sequence so absorbing that we lost track of time.

Why Kanazawa Biyori Tells This Story

Hokuriku is often reduced to a handful of familiar images — gardens, hot springs and gold leaf. Yet this coast also preserves the ground from which Japan’s dinosaurs emerge, and it is home to a museum regarded as one of the finest of its kind in the world.

We are reporting on this exhibition not simply as another destination to add to a travel itinerary, but because standing beneath a 19-meter skeleton fundamentally alters one’s sense of scale in a way no photograph can capture. That experience, we believe, deserves to be shared with readers far beyond these shores.

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Special Exhibition Ryūkyakurui: Daichi o Yurugashita Chijō Saidai no Ikimono (English rendering by Kanazawa Biyori: “Sauropods: The Largest Creatures Ever to Walk the Earth”)
Dates: Friday, July 10 – Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (November 3 is a national holiday in Japan)
Hours: 9:00–17:00, last entry 16:30. Extended summer hours apply from Saturday, July 18, to Sunday, August 16: 8:30–18:00, last entry 17:30.
Closed: Wednesday, September 9; Thursday, September 24; Wednesday, October 14; Wednesday, October 28

Admission:

Adults: ¥1,800 (¥1,600 for groups of 30 or more)
High school and college students: ¥1,600 (¥1,300)
Elementary and junior high school students: ¥1,000 (¥800)
Visitors aged 70 and over: ¥1,000 (¥800)
Preschool children: Free
Tickets: Timed-entry tickets are generally required and should be purchased in advance. Same-day tickets are available at the museum only while capacity remains, and telephone reservations are not accepted. Advance purchase is strongly recommended.
Venue: Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Special Exhibition Room, 51-11 Terao, Muroko-cho, Katsuyama-shi, Fukui 911-8601, Japan
Parking: Available

Official site: www.dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp/special/sauropod2026/

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INFiLED Launches GeminiLED Series: a Dual-Sided LED Display for Public Spaces

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An ultra-thin dual-sided LED display for retail, corporate and transportation environments where information must remain visible from more than one direction.

SHENZHEN, China, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — INFiLED announced the launch of the GeminiLED Series last week, introducing an ultra-thin dual-sided LED display for venues where information needs to remain visible from both sides. The series brings two fully independent display faces into a slim 25.5 mm structure, with suspended and freestanding configurations for wayfinding, branding, service updates and visitor messaging in high-traffic interiors.

In airports, rail hubs, retail atriums and corporate lobbies, information no longer belongs to one fixed viewing direction. People read while walking, approach from different angles and rely on displays as part of how they understand the space. INFiLED GeminiLED responds to this reality by aligning visibility, installation and daily operation in one compact public-space format.

Its value is spatial as much as visual – clearer communication from both sides, with less visual pressure on the architecture around it.

Communication Follows the Flow of People

Public venues are planned around movement, not a single viewing line. INFiLED GeminiLED Series turns that planning reality into a dual-sided communication format: each face operates independently, so one side may guide people entering a zone while the other presents updates, branding or visitor messaging for the opposite approach.

For planners, designers and system integrators, the value shifts from screen count to information placement. Messaging becomes easier to organize, the visual environment stays cleaner, and content reaches people according to how they actually move through the venue.

The Display Becomes Part of the Architecture

In atriums, terminals and lobbies, a display’s physical form affects sightlines, ceiling structures and circulation routes. INFiLED GeminiLED’s 25.5 mm profile keeps the dual-sided structure slim within open interiors, while the 7.5 kg cabinet supports suspended configurations of up to 15 cabinets with fewer hanging points. Above circulation routes, this supports a larger dual-sided communication surface while keeping the structure visually restrained and the movement below open.

The same planning logic extends beyond overhead use. GeminiLED is available in either 16:9 or 9:16 formats to match the intended communication role, from horizontal information to vertical wayfinding, lobby messaging or retail storytelling. Suspended and freestanding totem configurations further match the display to different public-space layouts, so the format follows the space from the start.

Clarity and Control Continue Through Daily Operation

Public venues place pressure on both image quality and system stability. People read while walking, often from the side. Light changes under skylights, glass roofs and bright interior halls. Display systems also operate near public-address, security, wayfinding and facility infrastructure.

Each performance detail answers a real condition:

Under bright interior light or glass-covered ceilings, 1500 nits brightness keeps public information readable.As audiences approach from oblique angles, a 170° viewing angle keeps messages visible earlier in the walking path.For maps, text, service updates and brand visuals, MIP technology and 100,000:1 contrast support cleaner colour, stronger depth and clearer visual separation.Around public-address, security and wayfinding systems, EMC Class B certification supports stable coexistence in busy electronic environments.

Surface performance also matters over time. GeminiLED integrates SolidSkin technology to protect the LED surface while improving flatness and visual uniformity. In high-use public interiors, this supports clearer images, reduced moiré and stronger resistance to dust, moisture and incidental contact.

Long-hour operation is part of the same public-space requirement. INFiLED GeminiLED’s 24/7 reliability is designed for venues where displays remain active throughout the day, supporting stable performance in continuous public use. Its 5G-efficient control system supports stable signal transmission and cleaner internal cabling, helping the installation stay organized, serviceable and steady through daily operation.

Public-space communication is moving from screen placement to information architecture. A display is increasingly judged by how naturally it carries messages through a venue – visible from the right directions, restrained within the architecture and reliable through daily use.

That direction reflects INFiLED’s wider approach to LED display engineering. As a global LED display manufacturer with project experience across rental, fixed installation and commercial environments, INFiLED continues to shape solutions around image performance, structural integration and operational reliability. GeminiLED Series extends that experience into dual-sided public communication, creating a more considered way for professional venues to keep information visible from both directions while the space remains open, ordered and ready for everyday use.

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Lovense Launches Remote 8.0 With an Upgraded Ecosystem Experience

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SINGAPORE, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In July 2026, Lovense has officially launched Remote 8.0, a major update to the Remote App, one of the most important entry points to the Lovense ecosystem. Building on Remote’s established device-control capabilities, version 8.0 introduces a unified experience for the next stage of the ecosystem, bringing hardware, content, interactive experiences and community together while keeping device control continuously accessible.

Remote 8.0 organizes the app around five main spaces: Community, Message, Toy, Explore and Me. Presented within a clearer, more cohesive structure, these spaces give users a more consistent way to move between controlling connected devices, discovering content, accessing interactive experiences and connecting with others. The update builds on Remote’s established role in device control, extending that foundation across a broader ecosystem experience.

Persistent access to toy controls is central to the redesigned experience. When users navigate away from the main control panel, connected devices can continue running while a floating control bubble remains available for intensity adjustments as they browse other areas of the app. Physical volume keys can also be used to change device intensity directly. Together, these updates allow users to explore more of the Lovense ecosystem without having to repeatedly return to the main control screen.

Remote 8.0 reflects our continued commitment to improving how users experience Lovense,” said Dan Liu, CEO of Lovense. “By creating a clearer and more unified journey across control, content, interaction and community, this update strengthens the foundation for the continued evolution of the Lovense ecosystem.”

The update also brings community participation and shared content closer to Remote’s established control experience. Lovense Bond provides a dedicated environment for community conversations and discovery, while Patterns continues to allow users to share vibration patterns they have created and explore patterns contributed by others. Communication, personal activity and interactive experiences are brought into the same overall journey, creating a more connected path between device control and other parts of the ecosystem.

The significance of Remote 8.0 lies in how the update brings previously distinct parts of the Lovense experience into a more unified structure. Device control remains at the center, while content, interaction and community become easier to discover and access around it. Remote 8.0 represents an important step in Lovense‘s ongoing work to improve and refine the experience across its ecosystem. Lovense will continue to develop Remote’s core experiences in future releases.

Remote 8.0 is now available globally on iOS and Android. Users can download or update to the latest version through the Apple App Store and Google Play.

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