The U.S.-based AI-native leader is expanding in Europe to serve a growing regional customer base of retailers and consumer brands.

LUXEMBOURG and NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Verneek, the deep-tech enterprise AI company, today announced the expansion of its European operations and plans to establish its first European office in Luxembourg. Subject to final agreements, Luxembourg would serve as its regional base and launchpad as Verneek deepens its work with global retailers, luxury houses, and consumer brands.

The expansion will bring Verneek closer to leading retail, fashion, and luxury companies operating across diverse markets, languages, channels, and consumer expectations. Verneek selected Luxembourg as its preferred European launch point for its central location, multilingual business and technology community, connectivity to major markets, and active role in shaping and implementing EU-wide policies and solutions.

“Retail and wholesale together are Europe’s largest private-sector employer. Companies across the sector face mounting operational headwinds — the kinds of challenges our AI-native operating platform is designed to address. We are excited to support our European retail partners more closely as we work to establish our first European office,” said Dr. Nasrin Mostafazadeh, co-founder and CEO of Verneek. “This expansion gives Verneek a strong foundation for global growth and advances our mission to help Europe’s consumer enterprises grow their top line, optimize their bottom line, and delight shoppers, as we have done for years in the U.S.”

Built by AI scientists and trusted by Fortune 500 consumer enterprises, Verneek’s AI-native platform creates a centralized intelligence layer connecting the front and back office. It unifies fragmented data and institutional knowledge across merchandising, planning, store operations, clienteling, e-commerce, and executive decision-making.

Verneek will also draw on investors and board members with extensive European and global leadership experience, including Philippe Schaus, former president and global CEO of Moët Hennessy and global chairman and CEO of DFS Group, now a director of Exemplar Luxury Group; and Nils Smedegaard Andersen, chair of ASML’s Supervisory Board and former group chief executive of A.P. Møller–Mærsk and chair of Unilever.

“Luxembourg is pleased to support Verneek’s European expansion,” said Luc Decker, Consul General of Luxembourg in New York. “Verneek’s intention to establish its first European office in Luxembourg represents an opportunity to build local expertise and help European businesses put artificial intelligence to practical use. We look forward to supporting Verneek’s founders as they work to establish the company’s presence in Europe.”

The expansion coincides with Verneek’s fifth anniversary and next phase of growth. Its technology now supports tens of millions of consumers and several hundred thousand employees, helping consumer enterprises increase productivity, accelerate decision-making, and create deeply personalized customer experiences.

About Verneek
Founded in 2021, Verneek is an enterprise AI company that delivers the consumer industry’s first AI-Native operating platform. Built on more than two decades of scientific progress in AI, the platform autonomously transforms enterprise data into vertically integrated business workflows, breaking down silos and enabling unified operations. Through fostering close partnerships, Verneek helps consumer enterprises deploy AI-Native solutions across business functions — from supply chain, merchandise planning, marketing, store operations, and customer care to e-commerce use cases like search and discovery. Trusted by leading global enterprises, Verneek is committed to transforming the consumer industry by building the most helpful AI for augmenting intelligence and enhancing experiences for employees and consumers. Verneek is headquartered in New York City. For more information, please visit https://www.verneek.com.

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HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amap Platform, Amap’s global provider of location-based solutions, has launched Qianyu, a spatial-intelligence open platform that incorporates its location and mapping capabilities into standardized agentic tools. Developers and enterprises can deploy agents through natural-language prompts, with no coding required.

The announcement came at the 2026 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou. Amap Platform showcased how it is applying spatial intelligence to two-wheel mobility, AIoT devices, and overseas services.

Cui Yong, General Manager of Amap Platform, said the company had transformed spatial intelligence into ready-to-use agents and made them available to developers and enterprises, enabling AI not only to understand space and perceive changes but also to support decision-making for real-world businesses.

While large language models primarily focused on answering questions in the digital world, many real-world tasks—such as choosing store locations, routing fleets, and ensuring riders’ safety—also rely on understanding physical places, road networks, buildings, and how the city and surroundings change over time.

The Qianyu open platform is structured around the ‘Point-Line-Plane-Dynamic’ framework, integrating points of interest (POIs), roads, buildings, regions and time-series information into a machine-readable spatial system. As of August 2026, the platform includes more than 80 million POIs, over 5 million kilometers of roads and 7,500 square kilometers of three-dimensional models. It has expanded the information coverage to include addresses, travel times, building outlines, and area-level heatmaps.

Users can give natural-language instructions to the agent on Qianyu; the agent will then determine the spatial-temporal scope, gather information, verify with multiple sources, and then provide actionable and traceable recommendations. Tasks such as store location selection, neighborhood analysis, and demand heatmap generation usually take days to complete. With Qianyu, these tasks can be packaged into an agent-executable workflow, substantially improving operating efficiency for enterprise users, the company said.

Amap also extends features previously used in car navigation, such as lane-level guidance and traffic-light countdowns, to two-wheel mobility scenarios for scooters and motorcycles. Its ‘Eagle Eye Guardian’ alert system for two-wheel mobility provides beyond-line-of-sight warnings and flags high-risk situations including rear-end collision, dooring accidents and lane-cutting.

Its spatial solution is now compatible with Android, Linux, OpenHarmony and RTOS. The company also deepens its collaboration with mobility brands such as Niu Technologies and Ninebot.

In AIoT scenarios, Amap partners with brands including Xiaomi and Qwen Glasses to embed standardized spatial intelligence into wearables. Users can search for nearby places by voice and receive turn-by-turn instructions through smart glasses, or hail a ride from a smartwatch with a single voice command.

For developers and partners worldwide, Amap Platform continues to make its spatial intelligence capabilities available based on its World Map service. The solution is being built as a spatial-intelligence layer covering address records, route planning, navigation, and dispatch support. This applies to mobile apps and systems for enterprises’ operating and fleet-dispatch systems.

Amap said the World Map now includes more than 300 million continuously updated POIs and over 900 million address records, with support for Chinese, English and local-language adaptation.

Amap World Map service supports navigation for driving, cycling, walking and motorcycle for logistics platforms, on-demand delivery, local services and online travel operators. Amap is extending to international markets a set of navigation capabilities already available and tested in China, including junction views, lane-level guidance, voice prompts and turn-by-turn instructions grounded in real-world road-network attributes. These features can be integrated directly into enterprise applications and operating systems.

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Work will be performed at the company’s newly expanded Singapore facility

SINGAPORE, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pratt & Whitney Canada signed a four-year agreement with AirBorneo Airways to provide comprehensive maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for the PW127M engines powering its ATR 72-500 regional turboprops through 2030. AirBorneo operates its fleet of ATR 72-500 aircraft on the Rural Air Services network, a vital public service that connects remote and underserved communities across East Malaysia. Pratt & Whitney is an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business.

“We worked closely with AirBorneo to develop a maintenance solution that manages engine costs and supports high dispatch availability for these critical flights,” said Anthony Rossi, vice president, Customer Service, Pratt & Whitney Canada. “This agreement reinforces our commitment to advancing our MRO services and meeting customers’ evolving needs.”

AirBorneo’s engines will be primarily maintained at Pratt & Whitney Canada’s Singapore facility, a key hub for customer support across Asia-Pacific. Recent investments have expanded the site’s turboprop MRO capabilities, strengthening the company’s ability to provide more localized support to operators across the region.

“We value our relationship with Pratt & Whitney Canada and the proven quality and reliability behind its products and services,” said Megat Ardian Aminuddin, CEO of AirBorneo. “Having this support based in Singapore puts our engine maintenance and repairs close to home and our aircraft back in service faster. That confidence gives us the operational certainty we need to consistently serve our customers on our intra-Borneo routes where reliable air transport is a vital link for remote communities.”

The PW127M is part of Pratt & Whitney Canada’s PW100 engine family, which has provided regional turboprop operations for more than 40 years. PW100 engines have accumulated more than 200 million flight hours and power aircraft serving communities around the world.

About Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney, an RTX business, is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines and auxiliary power units for military, commercial and civil aviation customers. Since 1925, our engineers have pioneered the development of revolutionary aircraft propulsion technologies, and today we support more than 90,000 in-service engines through our global network of maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities.

About RTX
With more than 180,000 global employees, we push the limits of technology and science to redefine how we connect and protect our world. With industry-leading capabilities, we advance aviation, engineer integrated defense systems for operational success, and develop next-generation technology solutions and manufacturing to help global customers address their most critical challenges. The company, with 2025 sales of more than $88 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

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About AirBorneo Airways
AirBorneo Airways is Sarawak’s state-owned airline, committed to providing safe, reliable and affordable air connectivity across Malaysia and the region. Established in January 2026 following the transition from MASWings, the airline has expanded beyond Rural Air Services (RAS) with the introduction of jet operations to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in July 2026.

Guided by its mission of “Connecting Communities, Empowering Growth,” AirBorneo remains committed to strengthening connectivity and supporting Sarawak’s economic growth. The airline operates ATR 72-500 turboprops powered by PW127M engines and Viking Air DHC-6-400 Twin Otters powered by PT6A-34 engines, and has eight ATR-600 aircraft powered by PW127XT Series engines on order.

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