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Triumph Higher Education Group Acquires Culinary Institute of Barcelona, Expands Global Culinary Education Network

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Barcelona institution joins Triumph portfolio, expanding opportunities for international students and global reach for both organizations

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. and BARCELONA, Spain, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Triumph Higher Education Group (Triumph) today announced it acquired Culinary Institute of Barcelona (CIB), a Barcelona-based institution known for its innovation-driven approach to professional culinary education, effective July 17, 2026.

The acquisition brings CIB into Triumph’s culinary education portfolio alongside Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts (Escoffier), the largest culinary school brand in the United States,* and Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts in Vancouver, British Columbia, strengthening Triumph’s global network of career-focused culinary institutions. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Together, Triumph’s network will serve more than 8,000 students annually, with an alumni network of more than 25,000 and more than 150 faculty and chef instructors across North America and Europe. CIB will continue operating from its Barcelona, Spain campus with no disruption for students or programs. The institute will maintain its distinctive methodology, faculty and industry relationships, and will operate within Triumph’s culinary division.

Triumph said the acquisition supports its strategy to expand professional education programs in high-demand sectors, including culinary arts and hospitality, while broadening global opportunities for students across its network. CIB’s forward-looking educational model reinforces the business-focused curriculum across Triumph’s institutions.

Building on the international study opportunities already available across Triumph’s network, the organizations will introduce additional student pathways, including study-abroad experiences in Spain, expanded online learning and shared access to a global faculty of chef instructors and industry experts.

“CIB’s approach to culinary education, built on creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, is a natural fit with the Triumph family and with Escoffier’s blend of professional culinary arts and contemporary business training,” said Jack Larson, chairman, CEO and president of Triumph Higher Education Group. “Auguste Escoffier transformed how the world approaches the professional kitchen, and CIB carries that same spirit of reimagining what culinary education can be. We welcome CIB’s students, faculty and partners to Triumph as we work together to cultivate rewarding, meaningful careers for culinary professionals around the world.”

Founded in 2017, CIB has trained more than 1,300 students from more than 100 nationalities through professional diploma and specialization programs in haute cuisine, pastry arts, advanced culinary techniques, healthy cooking, kitchen leadership and restaurant management. Its proprietary methodology emphasizes creativity, problem solving and entrepreneurship, and a significant majority of alumni go on to start their own food businesses. From its vibrant campus in central Barcelona, CIB maintains internship partnerships with more than 200 leading restaurants internationally and was a nominee for Europe’s Best Culinary Training Institution at the World Culinary Awards 2025 and 2026.

“CIB was founded to transform culinary education and nurture a new generation of chef-entrepreneurs, and joining Triumph allows us to carry that mission to a global stage,” said Josep Gala Micó, co-founder and president of Culinary Institute of Barcelona. “Our students, faculty and alumni will keep the methodology and identity that define CIB in Barcelona, while gaining access to expanded resources, employer networks and career pathways that reach across North America and beyond. We teach our students to lead change, and this partnership puts that principle in action.”

Barcelona ranks among the world’s leading culinary destinations, and Spain’s gastronomy and culinary tourism sectors continue to grow, driving demand for skilled culinary professionals and entrepreneurs across the continent.

Students across the combined network will have access to expanded academic resources, broader employer partnerships and cross-border career pathways spanning North America and Europe. The combined programs will support the education and development of future culinary and hospitality leaders worldwide.

About Triumph Higher Education Group Triumph Higher Education Group is a global provider of education, training and recruitment of professionals for the hospitality and culinary arts industries. Its operations include Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts, Gecko Hospitality, Auguste Escoffier Global Solutions, Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts and the Culinary Institute of Barcelona. For more information, visit triumpheducation.com.

About CIB – Culinary Institute of Barcelona Culinary Institute of Barcelona (CIB) is a private international culinary school based in Barcelona, founded in 2017 by Ferran Fisas, Josep Gala, and Pep Nogué. The school was established to prepare culinary professionals through an educational model centered on creativity, innovation, leadership, and the evolving needs of 21st-century gastronomy. CIB offers culinary, pastry, management, and specialized professional programs, attracting students from around the world through a selective admissions process. Beyond its academic programs, CIB also operates innovation initiatives including openCIB, which provides creativity and innovation training for organizations, and CIBlab, which develops new food products and concepts for the food industry. For more information, visit https://cib.education/en/.

About Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts is the largest culinary school brand in the U.S.*, with a community of thousands of alumni represented across the United States and internationally. Escoffier’s programs blend a classic and contemporary approach to culinary and pastry arts, emphasizing sustainability, farm-to-table practices, business skills, and food entrepreneurship. The Austin, Texas, campus is nationally accredited by the Council on Occupational Education (COE), and the Boulder, Colorado, campus (including online programs) is nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET). Escoffier is ranked one of the Best Colleges for Culinary Arts in America 2026 by Niche.com. Both the Boulder and Austin campuses are Great Place to Work-Certified™ institutions. Escoffier’s Boulder campus (including online programs) has been recognized as a Military Friendly® School, a Military Spouse Friendly® School, and by Newsweek as a Top Online Learning Provider for 2026. Escoffier has also been nominated for the 2026 World Culinary Awards’ North America’s Best Culinary Training Institution, one of the culinary industry’s most prestigious international honors. For more information, visit escoffier.edu.

*Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts is the largest culinary school brand in the U.S. (based on comparable student population data currently reported in IPEDS).

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SPECTRUM MOBILE INTRODUCES UNLIMITED PLUS PREMIUM WITH BUILT-IN SAVINGS AND EXCLUSIVE FEATURES

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Unlimited Plus Premium includes unlimited premium high-speed data, 50 GB high-speed mobile hotspot data, and video streaming up to 4K UHD for maximum connectivity and entertainment.Customers receive built-in savings with up to $10/month phone financing credit (up to $360 value towards a new phone) and an included smartwatch data plan (up to $10 monthly value), plus Anytime Upgrade.Enhanced global connectivity is included, with free international roaming for calls and texts, and 20 GB per month of high-speed data in over 215 countries and destinations.

STAMFORD, Conn., July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ready for wireless that does more? The new Unlimited Plus Premium plan from Spectrum Mobile brings residential customers a powerful mix of premium features and built-in savings. The new top-tier plan delivers the most comprehensive suite of benefits across Spectrum Mobile, designed for those who want the best in wireless connectivity and value.

“Unlimited Plus Premium is our most flexible and feature-rich plan yet,” said Danny Bowman, Executive Vice President, Product. “It delivers premium connectivity, savings and exclusive benefits, meeting the needs of customers who expect even more from their mobile experience.”

The new plan offers several exclusive features:

50 GB of high-speed mobile hotspot data – five times more than Unlimited Plus. Ideal for streaming, gaming, remote work, travel and multi-device households.Video streaming up to 4K UHD on cellular, letting customers enjoy their favorite content in full 4K detail when away from WiFi.Built-in savings with up to $10 per month credit for financed Spectrum Mobile phones (up to a $360 value).Included smartwatch service for one eligible paired smartwatch, a $10 monthly value.Enhanced global connectivity with free international roaming with calls and texts, and 20 GB of high-speed data per month in more than 215 countries and destinations, including Canada and Mexico.

Unlimited Plus Premium also includes all the benefits of Spectrum Mobile’s current plans: unlimited high-speed data, unlimited talk, text and WiFi calling, straightforward pricing, coast-to-coast 5G coverage, and access to Speed Boost when connected to the Spectrum Mobile Network’s approximately 45 million secure WiFi access points nationwide. As with Unlimited Plus, customers who signed up for Unlimited Plus Premium also have access to Anytime Upgrade, allowing them to upgrade their phone without traditional wait times.

Unlimited Plus Premium is available to residential customers for $50 per month per line (multi-line) or $60 per month (single-line) with no contracts, added taxes or hidden fees.

More information about Spectrum Mobile Unlimited Plus Premium is available at www.spectrum.com/mobile.

About Spectrum
Spectrum is a suite of advanced communications services offered by Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR), a leading broadband connectivity company available to nearly 59 million homes and small to large businesses across 41 states. Founded in 1993, Charter has evolved from providing cable TV to streaming, and from high-speed Internet to a converged broadband, WiFi and mobile experience. Over the Spectrum Fiber Broadband Network and supported by our 100% U.S.-based employees, the Company offers Seamless Connectivity and Entertainment with Spectrum Internet®, Mobile, TV and Voice products. 

More information can be found at corporate.charter.com

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Harness Launches AppSec Alliance to Unite Best-of-Breed Partners for End-to-End Application, API & Agent Security

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Harness AppSec partner ecosystem gives resellers, systems integrators, and technology partners a single platform to deliver AI-era application security

SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Harness, the AI Software Delivery Platform™ company, today announced the Harness AppSec Alliance, a strategic partner ecosystem that brings together best-of-breed application security, API and Agent security capabilities on a single platform. The Alliance is designed to help resellers, systems integrators, and technology partners capture a fast-growing and largely unaddressed share of security spend as agentic AI accelerates both software delivery and the vulnerabilities that come with it.

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, the attack surface has fundamentally shifted and expanded. AI agents, LLM-powered microservices, and MCP-enabled integrations introduce new vectors that traditional security tools were not built to address. According to Harness’s State of AI-Native Application Security report, 62% of organizations have no visibility into where LLMs are in use across their environment, and 74% say AI sprawl will outpace API sprawl when it comes to risk. Partners without application security or secure-deployment offerings are leaving a substantial share of that spend on the table because they have nothing to quote. Customers select point solutions that create gaps in coverage and challenges in operationalization.

“Every partner conversation we’re having right now starts the same way: customers are already spending on AI-driven security, but their reseller or integrator can’t follow the budget into application security,” said Tom O’Reilly, Senior Vice President, Worldwide GTM Partnerships at Harness. “The Harness AppSec Alliance closes that gap. We’re bringing partners application security technology, built into one platform, so they can walk into an existing account and pick up spend they were never able to compete for before.”

Why Now: The Bottleneck Has Moved to Application Security

While the attack surface has expanded, the real crisis is no longer just discovering vulnerabilities. It is the speed at which organizations can respond to them. Modern AI systems can surface vulnerabilities far faster than security teams can triage, validate, and patch. This creates an operational bottleneck where organizations are flooded with findings but lack the capacity to remediate them, leaving them exposed despite having “visibility.” 

That shift is showing up directly in how customers buy. 75% of security professionals believe shadow AI will eclipse shadow IT as the defining enterprise security threat, yet most organizations still have no way to track it (Harness). Analysts and vendors alike are pointing to the same inflection point on recent investor calls: security budgets are reallocating toward the tools that can keep pace with AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery and AI-generated code.

Most security partners are well positioned on network, endpoint, and cloud security, but few have application security and secure software delivery in their portfolio. That leaves four customer problems largely unaddressed:

Gaps in runtime protection. Agentic attacks are biased toward APIs and increasingly use chained attack paths. Traditional WAFs are blind to attacks that unfold over time and aren’t built to secure APIs at scale.Signal overload. The volume of vulnerabilities surfaced by AI-powered scanning is overwhelming security teams, and traditional scanners compound the problem with high false-positive rates.Slow exposure audit and triage. When a vulnerability is disclosed in a widely used open-source package, it can take customers days to a year to find every instance of that package across their estate, while attackers exploit it in hours.Delayed patch windows. None of the above matters if it still takes weeks to ship a fix. Finding a vulnerability faster is only useful if the organization can patch just as fast.

A Single Platform Built for the AI Threat Era

The Harness AppSec Alliance is anchored on Harness’s application security capabilities, which partners can now package, resell, and deploy as part of the broader Harness AI Software Delivery Platform:

Shift left with SAST & SCA. AI-powered static analysis with reachability analysis, prompt and skill scanning, built natively into the CI/CD pipeline, cutting false positives through deduplication and intelligent prioritization.Software and AI Supply Chain Security. SBOM and AIBOM generation, provenance tracking, and attestation so every artifact is tracked, vulnerable artifacts are automatically quarantined, and responses to zero-day vulnerabilities can be accelerated.Web Application & API Protection (WAAP). Runtime protection purpose-built for the microservices era, combining WAF, API discovery, bot defense, and runtime attack blocking in a single, API-native control — not a legacy WAF bolted on.AI and Agent Security. Holistic offering that includes discovery of all AI endpoints and agents, adversarial AI testing, and an AI firewall enforcing policy at runtime, with agent trace preserving the record of all of it.

What Alliance Partners Get

The Harness AppSec Alliance is built around a co-sell-first model rather than a traditional tiered program with steep upfront certification requirements. Partners get:

A self-service partner portal with role-based enablement for sales, presales, and delivery teamsDeal registration protections and incentives that reward both partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipelineCo-marketing resources and joint go-to-market campaigns to help partners open new application security conversations inside existing accountsA path for best-of-breed technology partners to integrate their capabilities directly into the Harness platform and reach the Harness customer baseAccess to the same Software Delivery Knowledge Graph and platform context that powers Harness AI, so partner-delivered findings and fixes carry full provenance and audit trail

Where the Alliance Stands Today

Security and delivery have historically lived in separate tools, owned by separate teams, with fixes passed manually between Engineering, DevOps, and Security. Gartner named Harness a Leader in its 2026 Magic Quadrant™ for DevSecOps Platforms for closing that gap, recognizing the shift toward a single platform spanning delivery and security instead of three disconnected teams handing work back and forth. The Harness AppSec Alliance extends that same model to partners, turning security and delivery into one automated motion rather than a manual handoff.

That model is already taking shape in the field. Harness’s EMEA team has built a strong regional foundation so far, working directly with resellers, systems integrators, and technology vendors across the UK, DACH, France, Benelux, and the Middle East with a goal to line up more than 30 partner organizations. It’s a model Harness plans to replicate across its other regions as the Alliance scales globally.

Availability

The Harness AppSec Alliance is open now to resellers, systems integrators, and technology partners worldwide. Interested partners can apply at www.harness.io/partners.

About Harness
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform™ company, enabling engineering teams to build, test, and deliver software faster and more securely. Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the platform brings intelligent automation to every stage of the software delivery lifecycle after code — removing toil and freeing developers from manual, repetitive work. Companies like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels use Harness to accelerate releases by up to 75%, cut cloud costs by 60%, and achieve 10x efficiency across DevOps. Based in San Francisco, Harness is backed by Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, and Citi Ventures.

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DriveNets and AMD Publish Reference Architecture to Maximize AI Cluster Performance and Efficiency

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End-to-end blueprint enables cost-efficient high-performance AI infrastructure based on AMD Instinct™ MI350 series GPUs and DriveNets AI Fabric

RA’ANANA, Israel, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DriveNets, a leader in large-scale networking solutions, today announced the publication of an end-to-end reference architecture, that defines a validated design blueprint for building high-performance AI infrastructure using AMD Instinct™ MI350 series GPUs and DriveNets AI Fabric. The combined solution supports scale-out and scale-across architectures, including front-end and storage networking based on a single networking solution. When combined with automated orchestration and full-stack integration services, it also supports rapid deployment and efficient end-to-end scaling.

The reference architecture and the companies’ growing strategic relationship reflect a shared vision for open, multi-vendor AI infrastructure. AMD recently participated as a strategic investor in DriveNets’ $410 million Series D financing round, reinforcing a strong commitment to their joint customers.

The reference architecture, available here, is accompanied by a complementary deployment guide that outlines a system-level approach for designing, deploying, and fine-tuning large AI GPU clusters. Together, the documents cover compute and networking design, as well as end-to-end optimization across the full-stack, including AMD ROCm™ software ecosystem, RCCL collective communications, network plugins, NICs, servers, and system-level orchestration to maximize training and inference performance.

Validated performances at scale

The reference architecture includes comprehensive benchmarking across inference, training, network isolation, and fabric resiliency workloads on AMD Instinct MI355X GPU clusters – providing validated, reproducible evidence of the platform’s readiness for production-scale AI deployments.

The architecture includes multiple network topology options, along with detailed technical guidance and best practices for optimizing performance, scalability, isolation, and resiliency.

Benchmark results show that DriveNets’ AI fabric delivers approximately 5% higher throughput and 10–15% lower time to first token (TTFT) compared to publicly available industry results. At multi-node scale, the platform meets strict production service-level objectives, including sub-20 millisecond inter-token latency and a minimum of 50 output tokens per second per user.

Resiliency testing demonstrated stable collective communication performance under concurrent RDMA traffic, with no degradation during transient link disruptions. Fabric bandwidth remained consistent, with no observable recovery delays. The results also demonstrate RCCL collective performance on AMD platforms comparable to leading publicly available NCCL benchmarks on equivalent configurations.

High performance with improved efficiency

These results validate the joint architecture as a scalable foundation for the full LLM lifecycle, enabling high utilization and consistent performance across training and inference workloads.  The solution is designed to maximize GPU efficiency, reduce total cost of ownership, and deliver strong cost-per-token performance, offering an open alternative to vertically integrated AI infrastructure stacks.

“AI infrastructure is moving from single-vendor stacks to open, multi-vendor systems, and the network makes that shift work,” said Ido Susan, co-founder and CEO of DriveNets. “This reference architecture with AMD turns that into a validated blueprint: AMD Instinct GPUs and our AI fabric deliver higher throughput and lower time to first token than publicly available results — with the resiliency and consistency that production AI clusters require. This gives customers building on AMD Instinct a validated, end-to-end blueprint to maximize GPU utilization and lower cost-per-token, on open Ethernet.”

“Production AI clusters are defined by how well compute, network and software work together at scale,” said Arvind Balakumar, corporate vice president, Global Cluster Engineering, AMD. “Our collaboration with DriveNets gives customers a validated, open Ethernet reference architecture that pairs AMD Instinct MI350 series GPUs with DriveNets AI Fabric to help maximize GPU utilization, improve workload efficiency and simplify deployment across training and inference workloads.”

A better AI infrastructure choice

The deployment guide provides step-by-step instructions covering compute, network interface card (NIC), networking, collective-communications libraries and workload setup, configurations, and performance optimizations.

AMD and DriveNets are closely collaborating to ensure end-to-end software stack optimization, from NIC behavior and collective communications to system-level tuning. The companies are working with joint customers across production and proof-of-concept deployments, including LLM developers and NeoCloud providers. The companies also established a joint lab to enable customers to run proof-of-concept (PoC) tests using their own workloads.

About DriveNets

DriveNets is a leader in large-scale networking solutions for AI infrastructure and service providers. The company’s disaggregated networking architecture transforms the economics of large-scale infrastructures while maximizing performance, utilization, and operational efficiency. Its high-performance AI fabric maximizes GPU utilization and accelerates deployments by optimizing the AI stack end-to-end, resulting in higher tokens-per-second and lower cost-per-token. DriveNets’ solutions power production networks for global tier-1 operators like AT&T and Comcast — supporting nearly 50% of total U.S. internet traffic — and scale multi-vendor AI infrastructures at foundation model labs, NeoClouds, and enterprises. Learn more at https://www.drivenets.com.

About AMD

AMD drives innovation in high-performance and AI computing to solve the world’s most important challenges. Today, AMD technology powers billions of experiences across cloud and AI infrastructure, embedded systems, AI PCs and gaming. With a broad portfolio of AI-optimized CPUs, GPUs, networking and software, AMD delivers full-stack AI solutions that provide the performance and scalability needed for a new era of intelligent computing. Learn more at www.amd.com.

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