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Sonilo Raises $11M to Build the AI-Native Audio Stack for Video

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Founded by veterans of TikTok’s AI and music teams, Sonilo is developing proprietaryAI-native music and sound models that adapt to the pacing, emotion and story of each video

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sonilo, a generative audio company building proprietary video-native music and sound models, today announced an $11 million funding round led by B Capital, with participation from Redpoint. The funding will be used for compute infrastructure to scale model performance, go-to-market expansion across creator and developer platforms, and grow its music licensing.

At the core of Sonilo’s platform is its Sound World Model, a proprietary multimodal AI system that connects video understanding, audio generation, and temporal alignment. Rather than treating music and sound effects as isolated assets, the model reads the timing, movement, and emotional arc of a scene to generate audio that belongs to that specific story. Creators can generate a synchronized, commercially-ready soundtrack by dropping in a video, describing what they want in text, or combining both. Sonilo’s model development is built around the creator’s actual workflow rather than industry benchmarks, a philosophy the team developed over years of building recommendation and generation systems at platform scale.

“Almost every audio-generation experience starts with a text prompt. You have to describe the music you want, line it up to the exact moments in your videos, and find the perfect sound effects which can take hours for one piece of content,” said Shawn Song, CEO and Co-Founder of Sonilo. “We built Sonilo to understand the visual story. You give us the footage, and Sonilo understands what’s happening frame by frame, including the pacing, emotion, and story, and generates music and sound effects that naturally fit the scene. We believe the future of video isn’t just about generating better pictures but making those worlds feel real through audio that fits perfectly.”

Building a video-native sound workflow requires more than audio generation. It takes multimodal AI research, music licensing expertise, and products designed around how creators work. Sonilo’s founding team brings these capabilities together. CEO Shawn Song, a CMU-trained researcher and former multimodal AI tech lead at TikTok, and CTO Alex Yin, who holds a PhD in Computer Music from the University of York and worked alongside Song at TikTok, bring expertise in multimodal understanding and audio generation. COO Keli Li, who built and led global music at TikTok, brings deep experience in music licensing and industry partnerships. CMO Trista Taylor has helped incubate consumer AI apps featured in a16z’s Top 50 rankings and leads Sonilo’s product and go-to-market strategy.

“We believe generative audio will become an essential part of the AI-native video stack. Sonilo stands out because its multimodal technology gives creators two ways to generate music and sound effects: describe what they want in text, or provide a video and let the model create audio that fits the scene,” commented Daisy Cai, General Partner at B Capital. “That model-native approach, combined with Shawn’s deep expertise in multimodal music generation and the team’s focus on the creator workflow, gives Sonilo the opportunity to define a new category in generative media. We’re excited to support the team as they build the audio layer for the next generation of video.”

Sonilo’s platform generates music and sound effects directly from footage or text for short-form and short-drama creators, developer platforms building AI video workflows, and enterprise production teams. The platform also offers AI dubbing with synchronized lip-syncing, enabling short-drama and content studios to localize video across languages without manual post-production. Early distribution partners include TapNow, an AI creator aggregator, and ComfyUI.

The company is also building its commercial music infrastructure around licensed source material, with Shutterstock as an early licensing partner. Sonilo’s models are trained on licensed music datasets, with licensing fees and revenue share flowing to rights holders and artists. Sonilo is finalizing master recording and publishing deals with major rights organizations, with agreements expected to close in the coming weeks. Sonilo plans to launch a consumer app in Q4, bringing its video-to-music generation technology directly to individual creators.

About Sonilo

Sonilo builds video-native generative audio models for creators, developers, and media platforms. Its technology generates music and sound effects directly from footage or text, creating soundtracks built for each video’s story rather than pulled from a library. Sonilo is building a future where every video can have its own soundtrack, because when music truly fits a story, people don’t just watch. They feel. Sonilo is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by B Capital. Learn more at sonilo.com.

About B Capital

B Capital invests globally in extraordinary founders and businesses shaping the future through technology. With more than $9 billion in assets under management and dedicated stage-based funds, the firm focuses on seed to early- and late-stage venture growth investments, primarily in the technology, healthcare and resilience tech sectors. Founded in 2015, B Capital has an integrated, global team across nine locations in the U.S. and Asia. The firm’s value-add platform, together with the consulting expertise of its strategic partner, The Boston Consulting Group, provides entrepreneurs with the tools and resources to scale quickly and efficiently, expand into new markets and build market-leading businesses.

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Teradata Announces 2026 Third Quarter Earnings Release Date

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Earnings conference call to begin at 1:30 p.m. PT on Thursday, November 5, 2026

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) today announced that it will release its third quarter 2026 financial results after the market closes on Thursday, November 5, 2026. Teradata will host a conference call and live webcast to discuss its results and provide a business and financial update.

Conference Call Details
The conference call will begin at 1:30 p.m. PT on November 5, 2026. Investors and participants may attend the call by dialing (585) 542-9983 and entering access code 896184734. For investors and participants outside the United States, see global dial-in numbers here, and use access code 896184734.

The live webcast, as well as a replay, will be available on the Investor Relations page of the Teradata website at investor.teradata.com. 

About Teradata
Teradata empowers enterprises to turn intelligence into autonomous action, grounding AI agents in deep business context and trusted data. As AI agents multiply, Teradata is the context foundation, governance layer, and performance backbone that companies need now. The Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform puts AI into production across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Learn more at Teradata.com.

The Teradata logo is a trademark, and Teradata is a registered trademark of Teradata Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and worldwide. 

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Genpact Limited Board Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

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NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Genpact (NYSE: G), the Agentic Operations company, today announced that its board of directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.1875 per common share for the fourth quarter of 2026. The dividend is payable on December 23, 2026 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 10, 2026. The declaration of any future dividends will be at the discretion of the board of directors.

About Genpact

Genpact (NYSE: G) is the Agentic Operations company, where applied AI meets context-rich process intelligence. We run and transform mission-critical operations for global enterprises. Genpact’s Agentic Operations are grounded in decades of operating core business processes at scale across finance, supply chain, banking, insurance, and more. Our flywheel of advanced technology, trusted data foundations, and deep ecosystem partnerships moves enterprises rapidly from experimentation to scale. AI agents bring speed and precision, human experts bring judgment, and together they deliver outcomes clients can measure.

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Statements in this press release regarding Genpact’s intention to pay dividends on its common shares from time to time are forward-looking statements, as defined in the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking statements. These include, among others, Genpact’s cash flows from operations, macroeconomic uncertainty, U.S. and global trade and tariff policies and general economic conditions, political, economic or business conditions in countries in which we operate, any deterioration in the global economic environment and its impact on us or our clients, our ability to develop and successfully execute our business strategies, highly competitive markets and any inability to compete effectively, technological innovation, our ability to anticipate, develop and incorporate advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence (“AI”) technologies, such as generative and agentic AI, into our solutions and services as well as our internal operations and to compete in the rapidly evolving technological environment and successfully implement and generate revenue from new solutions and services, our ability to effectively price our services and maintain pricing and employee utilization rates, general inflationary pressures and our ability to share increased costs with our clients, wage increases in locations in which we have operations, our ability to attract and retain skilled professionals, the economic and other impacts of geopolitical conflicts, as well as any potential expansion or escalation of these conflicts or resulting economic disruption beyond the current scope, changes in tax rates and tax legislation, tax audits, investigations and tax proceedings, claims and lawsuits, including by clients, employees or other third parties, and other factors identified in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with the SEC. Genpact undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of Genpact.

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PROCOMER highlights Costa Rica as a strategic destination for the semiconductor industry at SEMICON West

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The agency presented Costa Rica’s strategy to expand the pipeline of specialized talent to international industry leaders.Eight companies from Costa Rica’s business ecosystem are showcasing integrated solutions to prospective investors.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As part of its ongoing efforts to attract investment in the semiconductor industry, Costa Rica is participating in SEMICON West 2026, taking place October 13–15 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. The event brings together more than 35,000 attendees and approximately 850 exhibitors, including semiconductor companies, technology innovators, engineering professionals, researchers, policymakers and business leaders.

For the third consecutive year, the Trade and Investment Promotion Agency of Costa Rica (PROCOMER) is representing the country at this international event. The agency aims to strengthen relationships with industry leaders, identify new foreign direct investment (FDI) opportunities and showcase Costa Rica’s capabilities in semiconductor design, assembly, testing and advanced packaging.

“In an industry with long investment cycles and highly specialized decision-making, trust and a sustained presence are essential. Since 2024, SEMICON West has given us the opportunity to engage directly with global industry players and demonstrate, year after year, that Costa Rica can meet their needs with skilled talent, technical capabilities and a strong ecosystem. This year, in addition to showcasing the country’s capabilities and business climate, we are highlighting how we are developing the talent this industry needs to keep growing,” said Mónica Umaña, PROCOMER’s Foreign Direct Investment Attraction Manager.

As part of the event’s official program, PROCOMER delivered a presentation titled “The Talent Strategy: How Costa Rica Is Driving Growth in the Semiconductor Industry.” Carolina Sánchez, Director of PROCOMER’s Investment Promotion Office in Silicon Valley, spoke to international leaders and specialists about the country’s efforts to make talent development a competitive advantage.

The presentation addressed the shortage of specialized workers as one of the main challenges to the industry’s global growth. It also outlined Costa Rica’s efforts to expand the pool of qualified talent through training incentives, internship programs and strategic partnerships with internationally recognized institutions, including Arizona State University and Purdue University.

The Costa Rican delegation includes PROCOMER, and eight companies listed in the agency’s FDI Supplier Directory. They provide specialized services in areas such as legal and tax advisory, real estate and banking, along with other solutions that help international companies establish and grow operations in Costa Rica.

Through this participation, PROCOMER and Costa Rica’s investment ecosystem are building on the strategy launched at SEMICON West 2024. The goal is to show that Costa Rica has the talent, suppliers and business climate to support investors from the establishment through the expansion of their operations, attract new investment and help the semiconductor industry grow.

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