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Conexon Connect reach across Georgia surpasses 240,000 homes and businesses with ninth fiber-to-the-home project completed statewide

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Network completed in partnership with Satilla REMC spans 5,200 fiber miles and delivers multi-gigabit-speed internet access to nearly 60,000 locations across nine rural counties

KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Conexon Connect, the internet service provider (ISP) formed by rural fiber broadband leader Conexon, has completed its 15th electric cooperative fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network since the company’s launch in 2021, and its ninth in Georgia, the state where its first projects launched.

The multi-gigabit-speed network, built in partnership with Alma, Georgia-based Satilla REMC, spans 5,200 fiber miles, marking the ISP’s longest network in the state and bringing its total statewide reach to more than 240,000 homes and businesses.

The Connect, powered by Satilla REMC, fiber network delivers reliable, affordable broadband access to 100 percent of the EMC’s more than 39,500 members across Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Pierce, Ware and Wayne counties.

“Completing this build represents real impact, bringing dependable high-speed internet service to families, farms and businesses across Satilla REMC’s communities,” said Randy Klindt, Conexon Founding Partner and Conexon Connect co-CEO. “We’re honored to be a partner in the mission to transform connectivity for Satilla members while furthering our own mission to serve rural America.”

The partnership with Satilla REMC was announced in May 2021 and has been defined by resilience and commitment to members since its inception. The project advanced steadily over the five-year build, even in the face of widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in 2024. The network was completed in June 2026, ensuring reliable, high-speed fiber internet access for every member served.

“When Satilla began this journey, it was apparent that our members had a desperate need for access to reliable high-speed internet service,” said Romeo Reyes, President and CEO of Satilla REMC. “Recognizing that none of the existing internet companies were willing to extend their facilities out to rural communities to meet this need, Satilla partnered with Conexon on a project to do just that. The main goal of this project was to make high-speed internet service available to every Satilla REMC member. I am proud to say that we have been successful in meeting that goal.”

Connect’s fiber-optic networks provide access to multi-gigabit-speed, symmetrical internet capabilities, offering the same fast download and upload speeds. The company recently rounded out its multi-gig capabilities with Connect Elite 5 gigabit service. In addition to world-class internet speeds and reliability, the fiber network also enables HD-quality phone service and unlocks the benefits of smart grid technology that modernize and future-proof partner co-ops’ electrical infrastructure to enhance resiliency and improve overall service reliability.

In partnership with electric co-ops and community entities nationwide, Conexon Connect’s growth trajectory as one of the nation’s premier rural ISPs continues. Today, the ISP has more than 20 FTTH projects across seven states, collectively set to reach nearly 500,000 rural homes and businesses upon completion.

About Conexon Connect
Conexon Connect, the fiber-to-the-home internet service provider (ISP) formed and operated by Conexon, is an emerging broadband leader in rural communities across the country. Connect works predominantly with electric cooperatives and communities, building networks using Conexon’s proven methodology and architecture that leverage existing infrastructure to power reliable and affordable 100 percent fiber broadband service for rural homes and businesses. Connect currently operates in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri.

About Conexon
Conexon is an industry-leading broadband network design, construction and operations firm working with electric cooperatives, communities and other entities to deploy fiber to the home across rural America. Since its inception a decade ago, Conexon has collaborated with electric cooperatives across 80 markets to launch and deploy fiber-to-the-home networks in their territories, with nearly 50 projects now reaching 100 percent of members. The company’s internet service provider, Connect, today delivers multi-gigabit-speed internet across many of those markets. Through Conexon’s work with its partners, more than 4 million rural Americans now have access to world-class fiber to the home. The company has designed more than 200,000 miles of fiber. With more than $2 billion in federal, state, and local funding for FTTH projects, Conexon and its partners have collectively secured more federal broadband funding for fiber construction than any other group in the country.

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cindy.parks@conexon.us

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Aily Labs and AWS Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate AI Decision Intelligence Across the Fortune 500

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Aily’s AI Decision Intelligence agents are now available in AWS Marketplace, with one-click procurement against existing AWS commitmentsOrchestrated by Aily’s Super Agent and powered by multiple foundation models, the agents are also available on Amazon BedrockExisting customers deploy in as little as one day inside their own AWS environment with governance, security, and compliance built inAily and AWS will jointly deploy and adopt agents to accelerate impact across the Fortune 500, focus verticals: pharma, CPG, and luxury

NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Aily Labs, creator of the first AI-native Decision Intelligence platform for global enterprises, today announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprises deploy and scale Aily’s agents on AWS Marketplace, spanning five core functions across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, R&D, and commercial.

The partnership pairs AWS’s trusted cloud infrastructure with Aily’s AI Decision Intelligence platform, giving enterprises a direct path to measurable impact where decisions are made, executed, and measured across the business. Grounded in each enterprise’s own business context, Aily’s agents connect decisions across functions and act in real time, returning decision-grade recommendations while self-monitoring performance, simulating what-if scenarios, and surfacing risks and opportunities across critical functions. Through Amazon Bedrock, Aily draws on a choice of leading foundation models and orchestrates them dynamically, routing each decision to the model best suited to the task. This multi-model orchestration lets agents reason across complex business scenarios with greater accuracy and speed, all within the customer’s secure AWS environment.

With Aily’s agents now available as a managed subscription on AWS Marketplace, enterprises gain a simplified procurement path to the full Aily agent platform, with consolidated billing through their existing AWS account and usage that counts toward any committed-spend agreement. For current AWS customers, Aily deploys inside their own AWS environment in as little as one day, running on the customer’s existing data infrastructure and security stack, with no new environments or compliance reviews required.

“Enterprises don’t need more pilots or reports, they need decisions,” said Bianca Anghelina, Founder and CEO of Aily Labs. “Bringing Aily’s agents to AWS Marketplace gives global enterprises an AI operating system they can run at scale, on infrastructure they already trust. That’s how we build the agentic enterprise, together.”

Aily and AWS will jointly deploy and adopt agents tailored to pharma, CPG, and luxury enterprises, accelerating impact across the Fortune 500. Organizations ready to put AI Decision Intelligence to work can access Aily’s agents today in AWS Marketplace at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-x5qobedt7bpze?.

About Aily Labs
Aily Labs is transforming how global enterprises make decisions by combining enterprise data with AI, machine learning, and large language models into a single Decision Intelligence platform. Its Super Agent orchestrates autonomous AI agents that both recommend and execute decisions, delivering measurable ROI from day one. The platform integrates into existing enterprise workflows, helping Fortune 500 companies break down data silos and accelerate decision-making across every major function.

Founded in 2020, Aily Labs operates globally with teams of AI data scientists, engineers, business and product experts. Last November, Aily Labs raised $80 million in funding, led by FPV Ventures with participation from existing investor Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan, and other strategic investors. To date, it has raised more than $101 million.

For more information, visit ailylabs.com.

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America Works Launches “250 Hires Initiative” to Celebrate America 250 and Expand Workforce Opportunity Nationwide

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NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — America Works, a national leader in workforce development with more than 40 years of proven results, today announced the launch of its 250 Hires Initiative, a national campaign to place 250 individuals into jobs in honor of the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.

This initiative will stand as a high-visibility moment to demonstrate America Works’ broad reach, measurable outcomes, and results-driven approach to helping people secure long-term employment.

With more than 30 million clients served and decades of experience placing job seekers into work across the country, America Works is building on a long record of measurable results through the 250 Hires Initiative.

“For more than four decades, we’ve proven that employment is the most effective pathway to independence,” said Dr. Lee Bowes, Co-Founder and CEO of America Works. “This initiative reflects both our legacy and our forward-looking commitment to helping individuals succeed in today’s evolving workforce.”

America Works delivers performance-based employment outcomes for welfare, disability, reentry, veterans, and homelessness programs across multiple states under rigorous oversight and evaluation. Its model has been consistently validated by leading research institutions, government agencies, and independent evaluators, including early studies by Ernst & Young showing strong one-year employment retention, research from the Manhattan Institute on sustained employment outcomes for disability beneficiaries, and research by the Fraser Institute emphasizing long-term welfare exits and strong value for money.

“This milestone is deeply personal for our team and the communities we serve,” said Marsha Netus, Vice President and Regional Director of America Works of Maryland and Washington, D.C. “We have seen firsthand how access to employment can profoundly transform lives. The 250 Hires Initiative brings that impact to life in a way that is both meaningful and measurable.”

As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, the 250 Hires Initiative emphasizes America Works’ continued leadership in workforce development and its commitment to expanding economic opportunity nationwide.

About America Works

Founded in 1984, America Works is a national workforce development organization committed to delivering real jobs, real support, and real results. With more than 30 million clients served across 50+ states, America Works helps job seekers overcome employment barriers through rapid placement, individualized support, and employer partnerships. The organization places clients on average in about seven weeks and maintains a retention rate of more than 70%, reflecting its performance-based approach to workforce success. Learn more at americaworks.com/about.

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Allora Labs Launches Forge to Let AI Models Compete, Improve, and Earn on Real-World Predictions

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The world’s first arena for predictive intelligence, Forge is a live environment where machine learning models compete on real-world problems and improve together, built on the thesis that the future of prediction belongs to a network of models rather than any single one.

NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Allora Labs today launches Forge, the world’s first arena for predictive intelligence: a live environment where AI models compete on real-world problems, improve through that competition, and earn continuously for the predictions they produce.

A network of models, not a single one

Predicting what comes next is one of the oldest pursuits there is. Allora‘s thesis is that its future will not belong to a single dominant AI model but to a network of them, each competing and improving, together forming a collective intelligence that grows more capable as more models join.

Built for developers who want a real test

Forge is built for developers who want to test their models against the best in the world. Models improve fastest under real competition, and on Forge they face it on live problems with real outcomes. A developer brings a model and a predict() function, and Forge runs it live and handles the data, the infrastructure, and the rest, so the work stays on the model rather than the operations around it. Models remain owned by their developers, wherever they run.

Predictions that are already in demand

More than 140 partners across the Allora Network build on the predictions made on Forge, so a model’s work is consumed in production and rewards its developer continuously as the model improves and the network grows.

“We don’t believe the future will be predicted by one model that beats all the others,” said Nick Emmons, CEO of Allora. “It will be predicted by many models competing, each making the others better. Forge is where that happens, and where the engineers building the best prediction models in the world are rewarded for it.”

Availability

Developers can join and deploy their first model directly on Forge.

About Allora Labs

Allora Network is a decentralized AI inference network that harnesses a globally distributed community of machine learning models to produce highly accurate, context-aware predictions in real time.

Built on a modular, topic-based system, Allora orchestrates competing models on shared prediction tasks and continuously evaluates performance under live conditions, synthesizing outputs into a high-confidence aggregated signal.

By treating inference as an open, competitive, and economically aligned process, Allora enables ever-improving AI services that can be embedded directly into operational systems, powering use cases from EV charging optimization to autonomous IoT decisioning.

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