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Signify Enhances Philips Hue Matter Support Through Collaboration with Silicon Labs

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New Philips Hue smart bulbs leverage Silicon Labs wireless technology to support both Matter and Zigbee, giving consumers more choice while preserving the premium Hue experience

AUSTIN, Texas and EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), the leading innovator in low-power wireless connectivity, and Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), a world leader in lighting, today announced their collaboration to bring concurrent multiprotocol (CMP) communications to select Philips Hue smart bulbs, enabling support for both Zigbee and Matter over Thread concurrently on a single device.

Bringing Greater Choice to the Smart Home

The collaboration allows Philips Hue users to benefit from the simplicity and interoperability of Matter while continuing to access the advanced features, immersive experiences, and deep ecosystem integration that have made Hue a leading smart lighting platform.

As smart homes become increasingly diverse, consumers want products that work seamlessly with the platforms they already use—whether that’s Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, or the Philips Hue ecosystem. By leveraging Silicon Labs’ MG26 and SiMG301 wireless SoCs, Signify is enabling a new generation of Hue smart bulbs designed to deliver greater flexibility without compromising the premium lighting experiences consumers expect from Philips Hue.

“Philips Hue aims to transform how users use lighting inside their home whether it be for ambiance creation, convenience or entertainment. A big part of achieving this is to remove complexity for consumers while continuing to deliver the exceptional lighting experiences. Matter represents an important step forward for the smart home industry because it makes connected devices easier to set up and use,” said George Yianni, Chief Technology Officer Philips Hue at Signify. “Our collaboration with Silicon Labs allows us to support the interoperability consumers want through Matter while preserving the advanced capabilities, entertainment experiences, and innovation available through the Hue ecosystem.”

Combining Matter Simplicity with the Hue Experience

Philips Hue delivers a rich and reliable ecosystem with unique differentiated features and experiences including dynamic scenes, entertainment synchronization, automation capabilities, and immersive lighting experiences based on ZigBee technology. Matter was created to simplify smart home connectivity by enabling devices from different brands and platforms to work together more easily. With Matter-enabled Hue bulbs, consumers can have the freedom to integrate directly into leading smart home ecosystems for everyday controls while still unlocking advanced lighting centric functionality within the Hue ecosystem.

Silicon Labs’ concurrent multiprotocol technology makes this possible by enabling Zigbee and Matter over Thread to operate simultaneously on a single wireless device. Rather than forcing manufacturers or consumers to choose between protocols, CMP allows devices to participate in multiple ecosystems at the same time, helping bridge today’s installed smart home infrastructure with tomorrow’s interoperable Matter-based environments.

Powering the Next Generation of Connected Lighting

“The future of the smart home isn’t about choosing one ecosystem over another—it’s about giving consumers the freedom to use the products and platforms they prefer,” said Ross Sabolcik, Senior Vice President of Product Lines at Silicon Labs. “Signify has been a leader in advancing both smart lighting innovation and Matter adoption. By combining Philips Hue’s industry-leading lighting experiences with Silicon Labs’ concurrent multiprotocol technology, we’re helping create a smart home experience that is simpler, more flexible, and more intuitive for consumers.”

The collaboration builds on a long-standing relationship between Silicon Labs and Signify and reflects a shared commitment to advancing open standards, interoperability, and user-centric innovation across the smart home industry.

Select Philips Hue smart bulbs leveraging Silicon Labs MG26 and SiMG301 wireless SoCs are available now or are being introduced across Philips Hue product lines. Currently these products require choosing ZigBee or Thread at commissioning time but the software update to enable concurrent operation will be rolled out later this year simplifying the experience for consumers.

About Signify

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is a world leader in lighting for professionals and consumers. They proudly bring to market some of the world’s best lighting brands, from SignifyPhilipsPhilips HueSignify InteractSignify DynaliteColor Kinetics and many more. Their advanced products, connected systems and services unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. In 2025, they had sales of EUR 5.8 billion, approximately 27,000 employees, and a presence in over 70 markets. They are in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, earned a CDP ‘A’ score for climate performance and transparency and hold the EcoVadis Platinum rating.

About Silicon Labs

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) is the leading innovator in low-power connectivity, building embedded technology that connects devices and improves lives. Merging cutting-edge technology into the world’s most highly integrated SoCs, Silicon Labs provides device makers with the solutions, support, and ecosystems needed to create advanced edge connectivity applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Silicon Labs has operations in over 16 countries and is the trusted partner for innovative solutions in smart home, industrial IoT, and smart cities markets. Learn more at https://www.silabs.com.

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Beyond Announces AI Innovations to Empower Property Managers & Grow Revenue

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Launch of Beyond’s MCP server and Listing Lens feature, along with rapid adoption of Neyoba, Beyond’s AI pricing assistant, signals new era of AI-powered revenue management

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Beyond, the short-term rental industry’s leading revenue management platform, today announced two new AI-driven innovations that reflect the company’s commitment to transforming how property management companies operate. Listing Lens, the company’s AI-powered listing analyzer, is now available for all Beyond customers and Beyond’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, the first of its kind for revenue management, is now in beta. Together, they mark a significant expansion of Beyond’s AI capabilities, building on the foundation of machine learning and demand intelligence that has powered Beyond’s dynamic pricing engine since the company’s founding.

“AI has always been instrumental in powering Beyond’s revenue management system – from our intuitive automations to our best-in-class pricing,” said Julie Brinkman, CEO at Beyond. “The launch of Listing Lens, our agent-to-agent via MCP server and updated user API now extends our intelligence into new parts of the operator’s workflow. From listing quality to conversational analytics to direct integration with any AI agent – Beyond has expanded the flexibility and impact of revenue management. For property and revenue managers who are evolving in our modern world, this functionality is critical to business and revenue growth.”

LISTING LENS: NOW LIVE FOR ALL

Listing Lens, Beyond’s AI-powered listing analyzer, is now generally available. The feature analyzes Airbnb listings across photos, descriptions, amenities, and reviews, then delivers a prioritized action plan that tells operators exactly what to fix to increase OTA rankings and guest booking conversion rates.

For property managers overseeing large portfolios, listing quality is one of the hardest things to track consistently. There are no alerts when a listing loses search visibility, and no dashboard showing which properties need attention before bookings slow. Listing Lens changes that, giving operators a scalable, repeatable quality audit built for portfolios of any size.

Unlike competitors who charge up to $12 per listing per month for similar functionality, Beyond includes Listing Lens as part of its core revenue management platform, reinforcing the company’s commitment to making sophisticated tools accessible for all. Property managers and hosts who are not yet Beyond customers can also try it for free here.

BEYOND MCP SERVER: NOW IN BETA

Beyond has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and custom enterprise agents to connect directly to Beyond’s dynamic pricing data. This is to complement Beyond’s existing API offering, which already enables revenue managers and property managers direct, live access to Beyond’s pricing, market, and reservation data piped straight into the tools and workflows they already run internally.

The MCP standard is quickly becoming the connective layer between AI agents and business data. In fact, Beyond’s MCP server is also built to support agent-to-agent communication, enabling AI agents to delegate tasks, share context, and collaborate across tools without human intervention. This means a revenue management agent can automatically coordinate with a finance agent, a CRM agent, or a custom operations bot, all using Beyond’s live data as the shared source of truth. As more revenue management workflows run through AI agents and automated pipelines, Beyond’s MCP server is designed to be that foundation for short-term rental operators.

With the MCP server, revenue teams can:

Pipe Beyond’s pricing signals and market benchmarking data directly into BI tools like Tableau or Power BIFeed Beyond’s reservation data into finance forecasting models without manual exportsTrigger automated workflows like occupancy alerts, owner report generation, or rate adjustments using real-time Beyond data

Beyond is the only STR revenue management platform with a live, production MCP server. Operators interested in joining the beta can visit http://beyondpricing.com/str-developers to learn more, and access Beyond’s API documentation.

NEYOBA: AI ASSISTANT DRIVING REAL CUSTOMER TIME SAVINGS

Neyoba, Beyond’s AI pricing assistant, has quickly become one of the platform’s most-used features after being launched in late 2025. In its first six months, more than 15 thousand hosts and property managers had nearly 50 thousand conversations with Neyoba.

Neyoba addresses one of the most time-intensive parts of revenue management: translating portfolio data into action. Tasks that once required multiple hours of manual analysis, like reviewing nightly rates, monitoring booking pace, and auditing competitor pricing, can now be answered instantly through a natural language prompt. Workflows that used to take 2-3 hours are now taking less than 10 minutes to ask the question and action on the information.

Based on this, Neyoba has saved customers more than 100,000 hours of manual analysis time, freeing operators to focus on higher-value strategy and owner relationships.

About Beyond

Trusted by thousands of short-term rental operators to price millions of listings, Beyond’s AI-driven dynamic pricing, market intelligence, and automated revenue management levers is built around one goal: help every portfolio outperform the market by more than 20%. Beyond’s revenue management system gives every operator, from the individual host to the enterprise property manager, the intelligence and control to run a more empowered, more profitable STR business. Learn why Beyond is built for more at www.beyondpricing.com.

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Zillow launches a personalized hub that guides home buyers from first search to closing

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Summer Launch 2026 introduces four new products to help buyers plan, finance and find a home, and give sellers more exposure before their listing goes live

SEATTLE, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Zillow® is launching a personalized hub that guides home buyers through every step of their purchase in real time. In addition, three new features have been designed to give buyers and sellers more clarity at every stage of the transaction.

The median home search for a buyer takes from three to four months, involves countless conversations with an agent and lender, and culminates in gathering documents at a few days’ notice, all while tracking a budget on a spreadsheet. It’s a process that moves more than half of buyers to tears, according to Zillow research. And today’s market conditions aren’t making it any easier. Buyers, nearly half of whom are first-timers, are navigating a market where the housing recovery is “back on pause,” with mortgage rates climbing past 6.5%, adding more uncertainty to an already complex process.

Now, Zillow is giving buyers a clearer path forward: a single place where everything comes together. The new personalized hub guides buyers through four milestones: setting a budget, finding a home, making an offer and closing the deal. It brings together goals, finances, tasks, documents, and the agent and lender a buyer is working with, all in one place. And all of those details update automatically as the journey evolves, so buyers always know where they stand and what to do next.

“Zillow has spent 20 years turning on the lights in real estate, giving buyers and sellers access to information they’d never had before,” said Jeremy Wacksman, Zillow’s chief executive officer. “The next frontier is the journey itself: the financing, the coordination, the offer, the closing. For the first time, every home shopper on Zillow has a single place that brings it all together, so instead of wondering what comes next, they always know exactly where they are and what to do.”

Personalized moving hub: A clear path from first search to closing
Home shoppers start by answering a single question, “Are you buying, selling, both, or just browsing?” From there, they receive a personalized plan.

The hub immediately displays:

BuyAbility℠: This personalized, real-time affordability tool helps buyers understand the range of home prices and monthly payments that may fit their financial situation. They can then use that guidance to shop for homes that are realistically within reach. That information is updated with live mortgage rates.Local market insights: This includes market conditions, median days to pending, active listings and a one-year price forecast.The shopper’s team: If a buyer is already working with an agent and loan officer, those contacts are given in this view. If the buyer doesn’t have a team, the hub brings up Agent Finder to connect them with an agent in their area.

From there, buyers are guided through four milestones: setting a budget, finding a home, making an offer and closing the deal. The hub shows buyers which areas to focus on and lists the steps to follow below each milestone. Progress is updated automatically — when a buyer gets pre-approved, the hub moves forward; when they go under contract, closing tasks appear.

The hub is available now on iOS and Android, and will be coming soon to Zillow.com.

Three additional Summer Launch features give buyers and sellers the tools to plan their move
Zillow’s Summer Launch goes beyond offering the personalized moving hub with the addition of three new features designed to help buyers and sellers move forward during those moments that matter most.

“Every feature in our Summer Launch was designed around a specific moment when buyers lose clarity or momentum,” said Christopher Roberts, chief product officer at Zillow. “The hub gives buyers confidence by making a complex process easier. The shared collection feature helps partners collaborate on their home search, and the ability to shop with Verified Pre-approval shows buyers what they can actually afford on every listing, not just the list price. Zillow Preview opens the pre-market to every buyer, not just those in a certain network. Together, these features remove the friction that makes the home-buying process so hard.”

Zillow Preview
Zillow PreviewSM gives soon-to-be sellers the opportunity to hire an agent to show their listing to the broadest online audience possible before it actually goes on the market. During this window, the home appears in every buyer’s regular Zillow search, with a Preview label.

Buyers can now filter specifically for Preview listings. Once they find a home they’re interested in, they can save it, pre-book a tour or use the time to get pre-approved — signals that indicate serious buyer interest. Sellers get real-time engagement data on views, saves and tour requests to refine their list price and strategy before their listing is fully active. Preview is available through more than 1,200 participating brokers nationwide.

With Zillow Preview, no private network is required. But sellers who decide to go the private-network route pay a price: They lose access to the full buyer pool and net 1.5% less on their sale, which could amount to more than $30,000 in high-cost markets, according to Zillow research. A Zillow survey conducted by The Harris Poll finds that 85% of soon-to-be sellers would be more likely to hire an agent who can show their listing to the broadest online audience before putting it on the market.

Shop with Zillow Home Loans Verified Pre-approval
Most buyers lack financial clarity when they start their home search. Only 28% of prospective buyers who plan to finance have been pre-approved before they begin their search, and about half don’t know what pre-approval means, according to Zillow research.

Now buyers have a way to shop with Zillow Home Loans Verified Pre-approval, with that pre-approval connected directly to a buyer’s home search. Buyers will clearly see whether a listing is a match or is out of their price range as they browse.

A home costs more than its list price. That’s why taxes, insurance, HOA fees and closing costs are factored into Verified Pre-approval, so buyers understand why a higher-priced home may still fit within their means, or a lower-priced one may not. Zillow Home Loans is the only lender to integrate financing directly into the home search in this way, with the buyer’s loan officer accessible throughout the process.

Shared collection
Most people buying a home aren’t doing it alone. More than half of buyers in 2025 purchased their home with a partner, according to Zillow research, and for most of them, coordinating their search consisted of texting screenshots and forwarding listing links. The new shared collection feature replaces that with a single shared workspace inside Zillow, where buying partners can save, organize and compare homes together in real time, with any update immediately visible to both people, across iOS, Android and the web.

Tech momentum at Zillow keeps growing
Today’s launch is the latest move by Zillow to streamline the home-buying process and build consumer confidence throughout the full transaction.

In summer 2025, the company introduced SkyTour, an interactive 3D exterior home tour built on Gaussian splatting technology originally developed by the gaming industry; and Offer Insights, a tool that shows buyers in real time how competitive different offer prices might be. In fall 2025, Zillow launched in-app messaging for co-shoppers, AI-powered virtual staging on ShowcaseSM listings, and an integrated closing dashboard, connecting the front end of the search with the back end of the transaction.

Earlier this year, Zillow launched Zillow AI mode, a conversational AI experience built directly into the app that lets buyers and renters ask questions in plain language, explore neighborhoods, compare affordability and book tours without leaving Zillow. Now available to a growing number of users, it will be expanding throughout the year.

About Zillow Group: 
Zillow Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.

As the most visited real estate app and website in the United States, Zillow connects hundreds of millions of consumers with innovative technology, trusted agents and loan officers, and seamless digital solutions. With industry-leading tools and resources, Zillow supercharges real estate professionals so they can grow their businesses and deliver exceptional client experiences. For renters and housing providers, Zillow offers not only a robust marketplace but a set of end-to-end products and services to streamline applications, leases, payments and more.

Zillow’s ecosystem spans the entire home journey — from dreaming and shopping to renting, buying, selling and financing.

Zillow Group’s affiliates, subsidiaries and brands include Zillow®, Zillow Premier Agent®, Zillow Home Loans®, Zillow Rentals®, Zillow® New Construction, Trulia®, StreetEasy®, Out East®, HotPads®, Follow Up Boss®, ShowingTime® and dotloop®.

All marks herein are owned by MFTB Holdco, Inc., a Zillow affiliate. Zillow Home Loans, LLC is an Equal Housing Lender, NMLS #10287 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org). © 2026 MFTB Holdco, Inc., a Zillow affiliate.

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Jinxin Technology Holding Company Announces Plan to Implement ADS Ratio Change

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SHANGHAI, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Jinxin Technology Holding Company (“Jinxin” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: NAMI), an innovative digital content service provider in China, today announced that it plans to change the ratio of its American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) to its ordinary shares (the “ADS Ratio Change”) from one ADS representing 18 ordinary shares to one ADS representing 450 ordinary shares.

For the Company’s ADS holders, the ADS Ratio Change will have the same effect as a one-for-25 reverse ADS split. A post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement on Form F-6 will be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to reflect the ADS Ratio Change. The Company anticipates that the ADS Ratio Change will be effective on June 25, 2026, U.S. Eastern Time (the “Effective Date”).

Each ADS holder of record at the close of business on the Effective Date will be required to surrender and exchange every 25 existing ADSs then held for one new ADS. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as the depositary bank for the Company’s ADS program, will arrange for the exchange of the current ADSs for the new ones. The Company’s ADSs will continue to be traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol “NAMI.”

No fractional new ADSs will be issued in connection with the ADS Ratio Change. Instead, fractional entitlements to new ADSs will be aggregated and sold by the depositary bank and the net cash proceeds from the sale of the fractional ADS entitlements (after deduction of fees, taxes and expenses, where applicable) will be distributed to the applicable ADS holders by the depositary bank. The ADS Ratio Change will have no impact on the Company’s underlying ordinary shares, and no ordinary shares will be issued or cancelled in connection with the ADS Ratio Change.

As a result of the ADS Ratio Change, the trading price of the Company’s ADSs is expected to increase proportionately upon the effectiveness of the ADS Ratio Change, although there can be no assurance that the ADS trading price after the ADS Ratio Change will be equal to or greater than 25 times the ADS trading price before the ADS Ratio Change.

About Jinxin Technology Holding Company

Headquartered in Shanghai, China, Jinxin Technology Holding Company is an innovative provider of digital content and interactive communication services. Through its flagship platform Namibox, the Company delivers intelligent, engaging, and curriculum-aligned products powered by advanced AI, AR, and digital human technologies.

Jinxin Technology works closely with China’s leading textbook publishers and educational platforms, providing AI-generated digital content for primary and middle school students. Its distribution channels include:

Namibox, the Company’s flagship learning appTelecom and broadcast operatorsThird-party educational devices

For more information, please visit the Company’s website at https://ir.namibox.com

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This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “aims,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” “confident,” “potential,” “continue,” or other similar expressions. Jinxin may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual reports to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including but not limited to statements about Jinxin’s beliefs, plans and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this announcement is as of the date of this announcement, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update such information, except as required under applicable law.

For Investor and Media Inquiries, Please Contact:

Jinxin Technology Holding Company
Investor Relations Department
Email: ir@namibox.com

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