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Young Futures and Bukhman Philanthropies launch £4M UK partnership to help young people thrive in an AI-shaped world

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Bukhman Philanthropies will serve as catalytic anchor partner for a multi-year UK pilot combining funding, youth listening, leadership support and shared learning.

LONDON, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Young Futures and Bukhman Philanthropies today announced a new partnership to support UK organisations helping young people thrive in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.

The partnership will establish Groundwork UK, a multi-year pilot rooted in the experiences of young people and the strengths of the UK’s youth-serving sector. Bukhman Philanthropies will serve as the programme’s catalytic anchor partner.

Groundwork UK will identify and support promising organisations working across youth mental health, wellbeing, AI, belonging, agency and learning. It will combine catalytic funding with leadership development, youth listening, research and collaboration — strengthening individual organisations while helping build a more connected field around young people and AI.

Young people’s experiences will help shape the programme from the outset. Groundwork UK will also prioritise charities that design their work with young people, helping ensure that young people have a meaningful role in shaping the responses — and the futures — being built around them.

“Young people are already living through profound technological change, and they deserve a meaningful role in shaping how society responds,” said Daria Bukhman, co-founder and chair of Bukhman Philanthropies. “The UK has extraordinary charities, researchers and educators who understand young people’s lives and communities. By listening closely, investing in their work and creating opportunities for collaboration, we hope this partnership will help young people flourish in an AI-shaped world. We are proud to provide the catalytic support that will bring this work to life.”

A programme shaped by the UK

Groundwork UK will begin with a period of landscape research, youth listening, partnership development and programme design. Young Futures will listen directly to young people about how AI is affecting their learning, relationships, agency and wellbeing, and use those insights to help shape the programme’s priorities and funding approach.

These insights will inform an open funding challenge to select the programme’s inaugural cohort. Participating organisations will receive catalytic, two-year grants and join the Young Futures Academy, which offers leadership development, fundraising support, communications coaching, subject-matter expertise and peer learning.

The programme will be delivered by a lean, UK-based team, supported by the full Young Futures team in the United States, and will be designed in close partnership with people and organisations already leading this work. Details of the funding challenge — including eligibility, grant amounts, key dates and the application process — will be announced following the initial research and listening phase.

Supporting human development in a changing world

AI is rapidly changing how young people learn, create, communicate and make sense of the world. Public discussion has largely focused on issues such as safety, academic integrity and workforce readiness. Groundwork UK will complement those conversations by addressing an equally important question: How can young people develop the judgment, relationships, agency and wellbeing they need to flourish alongside intelligent technologies?

The programme begins from the premise that this is not simply a technology challenge. It is a human development challenge — and the strongest responses will be built with young people and the organisations and communities that know them best.

“What do young people in the UK need to thrive in a world increasingly shaped by AI? Safety matters, but it is only the floor. We also need to protect and strengthen the things that make us human: judgment, agency, curiosity, creativity, connection, and the experience of struggling through something difficult and emerging with an idea that is truly your own. Through Groundwork UK, we will explore that question alongside young people and the organisations closest to their lives, then invest in what we learn,” said Katya Hancock, chief executive officer of Young Futures.

The UK is well positioned to lead this work, with exceptional charities, world-class researchers and growing national attention to both youth wellbeing and AI. Groundwork UK will connect these strengths by identifying promising practice, supporting organisational leaders and sharing emerging insights across the sector.

Young Futures will also use storytelling, practical resources and research to capture what participating organisations are learning. This will create a feedback loop in which youth voice and frontline experience inform future action, funding and partnership.

Building a collaborative UK funding platform

Bukhman Philanthropies’ anchor support will provide the foundation for Groundwork UK and enable Young Futures to develop a broader collaborative funding platform. Throughout the pilot, Young Futures will engage additional UK and international funders and strategic partners interested in shared learning, co-investment and the programme’s future development.

During the second year of the inaugural cohort, Young Futures and its partners will assess what is working, identify opportunities for wider collaboration and determine the appropriate scope of a potential second phase.

Groundwork UK draws on Young Futures’ experience supporting youth-serving organisations in the United States, while being designed specifically for the UK’s communities, institutions and charitable landscape. The UK and US work may also create opportunities for learning across borders, helping organisations, researchers and funders distinguish shared challenges from those that require locally tailored responses.

Groundwork UK is intentionally designed to learn before it grows. Its future direction will be shaped alongside the young people, organisations, researchers and funders leading this work across the UK.

To learn more, visit youngfutures.org/initiatives/groundwork.

About Young Futures
Young Futures (YF) is a nonprofit seeking to make the digital world an easier place to grow up. YF provides a social compass for teens and families navigating the tech-driven world by supporting emerging nonprofits working tirelessly to help young people and their families not just survive but flourish as a team when navigating the uncertainties of the digital wilderness.

Young Futures combines catalytic grantmaking with youth listening, research, storytelling and cross-sector partnerships to identify what is working, translate emerging practice into actionable learning and help funders, practitioners and policymakers navigate one of the defining shifts facing young people today.

About Bukhman Philanthropies
Bukhman Philanthropies was founded by Dmitri and Daria Bukhman, reflecting their shared commitment to creating meaningful change and building a brighter collective future. Its core focus areas include neonatal and maternal support, the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults, and literature.

Bukhman Philanthropies supports innovative research, provides grants to effective charities and launches initiatives designed to create lasting, positive impact. The foundation believes philanthropy has a unique ability to take risks, address overlooked or underfunded needs and help build stronger, more resilient communities.

Registered charity no. 1211736.

Media Contact:
Brooke Messaye
Communications Associate
brooke@youngfutures.org  

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Nozomi Networks Introduces Nozomi Compass to Modernize the Everyday Work of OT Asset and Service Management

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Pairs the industry’s deepest first-party OT asset data to guide OT-safe change and remediation workflowsDelivers continuous compliance evidence, safer change governance, and real risk reductionEmpowers critical infrastructure operators to act, and prove they acted, at the speed the AI-risk era demands

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nozomi Networks, the leader in operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), and cyber-physical systems (CPS) security, today announced Nozomi Compass, an OT-native asset and service management platform built for a new reality. AI has collapsed the time it takes to discover vulnerabilities, anomalies, and exposures across industrial environments from months to minutes. Yet, acting on them still runs through spreadsheets, IT ticketing tools, and manual processes never designed for OT. Nozomi Compass closes that gap. 

“Nozomi Compass underpins our vision to provide a single source of truth for visibility, threat detection, governed workflows, compliance evidence, and trusted AI-enabled operational decision-making,” said Andrea Carcano, CEO and Co-Founder of Nozomi Networks. “Until now, operators have been working with an ineffective IT-native toolset to service their OT assets. As industrial organizations incorporate AI automation to keep pace with today’s threat and regulatory landscape, they cannot live in the unknown. Compass is the foundation that allows teams to move quickly with confidence.”

Built on Nozomi’s real-time, first-party asset data, Compass gives industrial organizations a real-time OT system of record and process-safe workflows to plan, approve, execute, and prove every change. As vulnerability discovery continues to outpace manual remediation, this framework of unified CPS security and OT service management gives industrial organizations the source of truth they need. It is the foundation for safely adopting autonomous and agentic OT and IoT workflows grounded in real operational and threat context with a human always part of the process. Nozomi Compass turns AI-speed action into governed, auditable outcomes without risking uptime or safety.

Key capabilities of Nozomi Compass will include:

A trusted OT system of record: Built on Nozomi’s real-time, first-party OT and IoT asset data, replacing stale spreadsheets, imported records, and IT-first configuration databases with a single current source of truth.OT-native workflows: Purpose-built for how industrial environments operate, incorporating OT-safe processes, Purdue-level relationships, safety criticality, and full lifecycle history into every asset record and workflow logic.Governed change and risk decisions: Live risk and safety context, traceable approvals, consequence-based risk scoring, and compensating controls create a defensible record of what was authorized, changed, and completed.Continuous compliance evidence: Audit-ready evidence mapped to frameworks including NERC CIP, IEC 62443, NIS2 and TSA, generated continuously to reduce manual effort.An open foundation for enterprise workflows and AI: Governed OT data flows into the EAM, CMDB, ITAM, ITSM, SIEM and SOAR tools customers already run, while giving AI-driven tools the clean, contextual OT data they need to operate safely.

Nozomi Compass marks the next step in Nozomi’s platform vision to unify cyber-physical systems security and operational technology service management on a single foundation that gives customers the confidence they understand what is happening across their operational environment and control what happens next. Rather than retrofitting a generic IT platform for OT service management, Compass is built directly on the same real-time asset intelligence that powers Vantage, Nozomi’s cyber-physical security platform, giving customers a unified, current system of record and action.

“OT and IT service management have always spoken different languages,” said Moreno Carullo, Co-founder and CTO at Nozomi Networks. “Nozomi Compass is purpose-built around how industrial operations work, including safety windows, process dependencies, and physical consequences, so teams can finally govern change and prove compliance without forcing OT data into an IT-shaped box.”

Nozomi Compass will be available to Nozomi Networks customers in January. For more information visit the Nozomi Compass page.

About Nozomi Networks
Nozomi Networks protects the world’s critical infrastructure from cyber threats. Our platform uniquely combines network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis for faster, more effective incident response. Customers rely on us to minimize risk and complexity while maximizing operational resilience. www.nozominetworks.com

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Nona Biosciences Successfully Develops World’s First Language Model Trained on Fully Human Heavy-Chain-Only Antibodies

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nona Biosciences (“Nona”), a global biotechnology company advancing biologics discovery and development through innovative technology platforms, today announced the development of HCAbLM, the world’s first language model specifically trained on fully human heavy-chain-only antibodies (HCAbs). HCAbLM was built on a large-scale repertoire comprising 31.8 million fully human HCAb sequences from 73 independently immunized HCAb transgenic mice. The study, “A foundation model learns the sequence and functional grammar of fully human heavy-chain-only antibodies,” was published in bioRxiv.

From Binder to Drug Candidate: A Leap in AI Antibody Development

The main bottleneck in the current AI antibody field is no longer “whether an antibody that binds the target can be designed,” but rather “whether the designed antibody can be manufactured at scale, whether it will aggregate, and whether it is stable”—that is, developability. HCAbLM was created precisely to address this issue. The model has learned the “sequence grammar” unique to fully human HCAbs—a set of underlying rules that determine whether an antibody can fold, exist stably, and ultimately become a drug. Conventional general-purpose models cannot capture this set of rules because their training data contain almost no HCAb sequences. HCAbLM fully demonstrates that a dedicated model trained on unique antibody sequence data can better translate sequence space cognition into developability prediction.

A Dedicated HCAb Model Outperforms General-Purpose Protein and Antibody Models

The representations learned by HCAbLM demonstrate transferability to experimentally measured antibody properties, including size exclusion chromatography (SEC) purity, hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) behavior, and thermal stability, highlighting HCAbLM’s potential in the evaluation and optimization of fully human HCAbs, going beyond mere sequence analysis.

In public benchmarks for cross-project developability prediction, HCAbLM, with only 366 million parameters, surpassed general-purpose protein large models including Meta’s ESM-6B with 6 billion parameters, as well as previously leading antibody language models IgLM and AbLang, on two core metrics: SEC purity and HIC behavior.

The development of HCAbLM marks an important advancement in Nona’s application of artificial intelligence (AI) to antibody discovery and development. By combining large-scale antibody repertoires with AI-driven modeling, Nona is building a foundation for more efficient and data-driven antibody design and developability assessment.

“The development of HCAbLM represents an important step in our efforts to apply AI to specialized antibody formats and unlock the value of large-scale antibody repertoires,” said Dr. Di Hong, Chief Executive Officer of Nona Biosciences. “By learning the unique sequence characteristics of fully human HCAbs and demonstrating transferability to experimentally measured molecular properties, HCAbLM provides a new foundation for AI-enabled antibody discovery and development. We look forward to further integrating HCAbLM with Nona’s technology platforms, and leveraging these capabilities to accelerate antibody discovery and development while empowering our partners to unlock new opportunities for next-generation biotherapeutics.”

About Nona Biosciences

Nona Biosciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBM Holding Limited (HKEX:02142), is a global biotechnology company committed to advancing biotherapeutic innovation through cutting-edge technology platforms and integrated solutions. Nona supports programs with its I to I® framework, from early-stage ideas through preclinical research and advancement toward IND and early clinic, spanning target validation and antibody discovery to early development.

Nona’s proprietary Harbour Mice® technology platform generates fully human monoclonal antibodies in classical two light and two heavy chain (H2L2) format, and heavy chain-only (HCAb) format. The HCAb Harbour Mice® is the world’s first fully human HCAb transgenic mouse with clinical validation. This unique platform offers exceptional versatility for diverse applications using fully human VH single-domain antibodies as a plug-and-play system, including bispecific antibodies, multi-specific antibodies, CAR-T therapies, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), mRNA-based therapeutics, and more.

By integrating Harbour Mice®, single-B cell screening technology, NonaCarFx™ (a direct CAR-function-based screening platform), Hu-mAtrIx™ (an AI-driven drug discovery platform), Modalities-on-Demand® (a next-generation modalities solution), and end-to-end preclinical drug development services, Nona Biosciences is dedicated to driving the global invention of transformative next-generation drugs. For more information, please visit: www.nonabio.com.

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Moldova eGovernance Agency Launches Banking Use of EVO Digital Identity Credentials Built to European Standards

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CHISINAU, Moldova, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Digital credentials from EVO, Moldova’s integrated government app, are now accepted by four of the country’s banks: Moldindconbank, FinComBank, EuroCreditBank and Victoriabank, allowing clients to identify themselves through EVO. This marks a broader expansion across the public and private sectors, as Moldova moves to make secure digital identity a standard way to access services nationwide while aligning with Europe’s emerging digital identity ecosystem. Developed in line with the European Digital Identity Wallet framework, EVO is being built to support secure, consent-based and interoperable digital identity transactions, including future cross-border use.

The integration turns the digital documents already available in EVO into reusable credentials for everyday interactions with private-sector services. Identity is confirmed by scanning a QR code and choosing to share the information the bank requests. The verified data is transferred digitally, eliminating the need to present or photocopy a physical identity document and reducing manual data entry.

The eGovernance Agency opened EVO integration to public and private organizations on April 1, 2026. Since then, the ecosystem has expanded beyond the first banking integrations, with 30 relying parties at different stages of connection, including one of Moldova’s largest telecommunications operators and the National Bank of Moldova. At least 20 organizations are expected to be operationally integrated by the end of 2026.

“Digital credentials become valuable when people can actually use them in real-life scenarios, and we’re aiming for ubiquity. Banks are among the institutions where trusted identification matters most, so bringing EVO into everyday banking is an important milestone. Our next step is to expand this ecosystem across both the public and private sectors, while ensuring that what we build in Moldova is compatible with the digital identity infrastructure being developed across Europe,” said Nicoleta Colomeeț, Director of the Moldova eGovernance Agency.

From national rollout to European interoperability

Moldova is developing EVO Wallet in line with European Digital Identity Wallet standards, while contributing its experience in digital credentials to their implementation, testing and cross-border interoperability. As a member of the WE BUILD consortium, Moldova works alongside European partners to validate digital identity credentials and help identify and resolve differences between national implementations. EVO has successfully tested its digital ID in the European PID format and its digital driving licence in the ISO mDL format with partners from France, Hungary, Austria and Belgium, while further interoperability testing in Moldova brought together teams from France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Romania and Ukraine.

For Moldova, an EU candidate country, digital identity is part of a broader transition toward European digital infrastructure. Following integration into initiatives such as SEPA and “Roam Like at Home”, the development of an interoperable digital identity wallet extends that process to how citizens identify themselves and securely share verified information.

The Moldova eGovernance Agency leads the development of Moldova’s digital public infrastructure and the transformation of public services. It develops and operates the national digital platforms that let citizens, businesses and public institutions interact securely online. Its work supports Moldova’s European integration and transition to fully digital public services. EVO test certificates and the integration guide are available on the egov4dev public integration page.

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