Red Hat AI 3, a major evolution of its enterprise AI platform designed to simplify and scale AI inference across hybrid environments. The platform unifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), Red Hat OpenShift AI, and the Red Hat AI Inference Server to help organizations move from AI experimentation to measurable business outcomes.

Bridging the AI ROI Gap

Despite billions spent on AI initiatives, most enterprises struggle to see returns. A recent MIT NANDA report revealed that 95% of organizations fail to achieve measurable financial outcomes from AI investments.
Red Hat AI 3 aims to bridge this gap by providing CIOs with a consistent, open, and hardware-agnostic platform to operationalize AI across cloud, datacenter, and edge environments.

Enterprise-Grade Inference with llm-d

At the heart of this release is llm-d, a distributed inference system that redefines how large language models (LLMs) are deployed on Kubernetes. By integrating technologies such as vLLM, NVIDIA Dynamo, and DeepEP Mixture of Experts (MoE), llm-d enables:

• Intelligent model scheduling and disaggregated serving

• Improved cost efficiency and latency reduction

• Cross-platform support for NVIDIA and AMD accelerators

This innovation transitions AI from training-heavy experimentation to scalable, cost-effective inference — the “doing” phase of enterprise AI.

Unified Collaboration with Model-as-a-Service (MaaS)

Red Hat AI 3 introduces a Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) framework that lets IT teams serve and manage models centrally, ensuring compliance and privacy.
Its AI Hub provides a curated catalog of validated models, while the Gen AI Studio offers an interactive environment for model prototyping, testing prompts, and deploying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications.

Laying the Groundwork for Agentic AI

With enterprises shifting toward AI agents, Red Hat AI 3 lays a strong foundation for agentic AI systems through a Unified API layer built on Llama Stack and early adoption of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — an emerging standard that governs how models interact with external tools.
The platform also introduces a modular AI customization toolkit leveraging InstructLab and Docling for fine-tuning and data processing.

Industry Backing and Strategic Partnerships

The release drew strong endorsements from partners like AMD, NVIDIA, and ARSAT, underscoring its enterprise relevance.
AMD’s Dan McNamara praised Red Hat’s move to production-grade inference, while NVIDIA’s Ujval Kapasi highlighted its alignment with open acceleration technologies.
According to IDC’s Rick Villars, Red Hat AI 3 arrives just as enterprises are shifting “from AI pilots to production outcomes,” marking 2026 as a key inflection point for measurable AI ROI.

By converging open standards, hybrid flexibility, and distributed inference, Red Hat AI 3 represents a decisive step in operationalizing generative and agentic AI at scale. It enables businesses to control costs, maintain sovereignty, and transform experimentation into enterprise-ready performance — all through one unified platform.

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Force Management, a leader in sales effectiveness and revenue acceleration, has launched Ascender AI, a new AI-powered capability within its Ascender® platform. Designed to enhance how sales teams learn, execute, and perform, Ascender AI delivers intelligent, real-time coaching and personalized content recommendations that help sellers reinforce training and improve outcomes across their organizations.

AI-Powered Coaching Meets Proven Sales Methodologies

Built on Force Management’s gold-standard methodologies—including MEDDICC and Command of the Message®—Ascender AI acts as a personal learning assistant for every seller. Unlike generic AI tools, Ascender AI draws insights from proprietary training materials and user learning histories, providing targeted guidance and skill reinforcement.

“Ascender AI acts as a personal learning assistant inside the platform, using our courses, articles, and materials to answer questions and recommend content,” said Morgan Haley, Vice President of Product Development at Force Management. “It’s like a coach and a search tool combined—tailored to each learner’s history to make every seller more confident, consistent, and self-sufficient.”

Scalable Enablement and Real-Time Learning

The assistant is available directly within the Ascender platform, which supports ongoing sales enablement and eLearning across industries. By embedding AI-driven guidance into sellers’ daily workflows, Ascender AI ensures on-demand access to the right knowledge at the right time—helping sales professionals apply training insights to real-world challenges.

“Ascender AI gives sellers instant access to the guidance they need to solve real-world selling challenges,” added Paul Giaconia, Chief Product Officer at Force Management. “It’s like having a personal coach that’s always available—ready to reinforce skills, answer questions, and help sellers apply Force Management methodologies in the moment.”

For organizations, the new feature means scalable coaching, stronger sales alignment, and measurable performance impact.

Three Years of Ascender: A Growing Learning Ecosystem

The launch of Ascender AI marks the third anniversary of the Ascender platform. Since its inception, Ascender has achieved 25% year-over-year subscriber growth, issued thousands of Command Series and Elite Selling™ certifications, and expanded its library to nearly 300 courses across multiple curricula.

“We’re adding new courses each month, along with articles, podcasts, and videos from our subject matter experts every day,” said Giaconia. “The reservoir of knowledge behind our AI tool will continue to grow, making our gold-standard methodologies even more accessible to sellers worldwide.”

Ascender subscriptions are included in Force Management’s enterprise training engagements and available separately for individuals and organizations seeking access to its premium sales curriculum.

With Ascender AI, Force Management brings the next phase of sales enablement to life—merging trusted methodology with intelligent automation. By delivering real-time, context-aware learning within the Ascender platform, the company aims to empower every seller to perform with confidence, consistency, and command.

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FullPAC, Inc., a leading nonpartisan campaign technology provider serving over 5,000 political organizations and nonprofits, has acquired Advocacy Lab LLC, an emerging AI-optimized platform redefining how political campaigns create content. The acquisition strengthens FullPAC’s leadership in AI-driven voter engagement by merging Advocacy Lab’s creative automation tools with RoboCent, FullPAC’s flagship voter outreach solution.

Bringing AI Creativity to Political Campaigning

Founded by a team of Gen Z entrepreneurs, Advocacy Lab enables campaigns to generate high-quality branded content—from social media posts and text messages to direct mail and video assets for TikTok, YouTube, TV, and X—within minutes. Since its summer launch, the startup has onboarded over 600 consultants and campaigns, converting nearly 200 to paid users with minimal marketing spend and no external funding, signaling strong organic traction in the political tech market.

“Advocacy Lab is transforming how campaigns communicate, much like television reshaped political strategy in the 1960s,” said Travis Trawick, CEO and Founder of FullPAC. “By pairing their AI-driven content creation with RoboCent’s voter outreach capabilities, we’re enabling campaigns to deliver personalized, high-impact messaging to voters at scale—for as little as one cent per voter.”

A Unified Platform for Modern Campaigns

The integration of Advocacy Lab’s AI-generated templates with RoboCent’s P2P messaging, voice outreach, voter microtargeting, and direct mail systems creates an end-to-end solution for campaigns seeking both creative efficiency and direct voter access. This synergy offers political organizations the ability to produce, personalize, and distribute campaign materials rapidly—while maintaining strict compliance with election regulations.

FullPAC’s nonpartisan platform, supported by Gold Membership in the American Association of Political Consultants, is trusted by campaigns from grassroots efforts to national organizations. With this acquisition, FullPAC aims to expand its footprint ahead of the 2026 election cycle by offering data-driven, AI-powered tools that empower campaigns to reach and mobilize voters more effectively.

By acquiring Advocacy Lab, FullPAC unites the creative power of AI with the operational efficiency of voter outreach technology—positioning itself as a one-stop platform for modern political campaigning. As AI continues to redefine digital engagement strategies, this move signals a new era for scalable, data-informed political communications.

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The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has officially opened registration for the 2026 OOH Media Conference, set to take place May 11–13, 2026, in Dallas, Texas. The annual event—the largest gathering in the out of home (OOH) advertising industry—will unite marketers, media owners, and creative leaders to explore the future of real-world media.

‘The Human Medium’: OOH’s Power to Connect

This year’s theme, “The Human Medium,” celebrates OOH’s unique ability to create authentic, human-centered moments that drive real connections—whether through a billboard on a morning commute or a mural that becomes a local landmark. As the fastest-growing traditional media channel in the U.S., OOH continues to bridge physical and digital worlds, amplifying the reach of campaigns across mobile, social, and digital channels.

“The OOH Media Conference isn’t just another industry meetup—it’s where marketers gather to see what’s next in the real world,” said Anna Bager, President & CEO of OAAA. “OOH reaches people in ways no screen can—on the street, in transit, and in moments that matter. Attendees will leave with fresh ideas, practical insights, and inspiration for campaigns that do more than get noticed—they get remembered.”

Keynote Lineup: John Morgan, Meredith Counce, and Rishad Tobaccowala

The 2026 OOH Media Conference will feature an impressive lineup of keynote speakers, including:

• John Morgan, Founder of Morgan & Morgan, one of the nation’s largest law firms and a top investor in OOH advertising. In 2024, the firm ranked among the top 10 OOH advertisers, underscoring its belief in the medium’s unmatched ability to drive awareness and measurable results.

• Meredith Counce, SVP, Brand & Marketing for the Dallas Cowboys, who will share insights on brand building, fan connection, and cultural impact from one of the most influential brands in sports and entertainment.

• Rishad Tobaccowala, Author and Senior Advisor at Publicis Groupe, recognized by TIME Magazine as one of five “Marketing Innovators” and celebrated for his human-centered approach to brand transformation and storytelling.

Additional keynote speakers and panels—featuring top brand marketers and creative innovators—will be announced in the coming months.

Connecting the Industry in the Heart of Dallas

The 2026 conference promises three days of ideas, creativity, and collaboration, bringing together the full OOH ecosystem to explore new ways to connect brands and consumers in the physical world.

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At its first-ever JoyConf, Storyblok unveiled a suite of new product features and partnerships designed to help brands manage, automate, and optimize content in the age of AI search.

CEO and Co-Founder Dominik Angerer highlighted the shift from traditional content strategies to AI-driven discovery, noting that outdated or irrelevant content can now harm brand trust. “AI search is the new front door to your brand,” he said. “We’re giving companies the confidence to manage content debt and improve AI visibility.”

Storyblok Strata, launching next year, introduces a vector data layer that maps and connects content to enhance transparency, eliminate redundancy, and improve personalization. By understanding the relationships between content elements, Strata helps brands strengthen AI-driven discoverability and streamline customer experiences.

FlowMotion, arriving in Q1, serves as an automation and integration hub powered by n8n. It connects Storyblok’s CMS to over 500 enterprise tools, allowing users to create visual workflows and automate repetitive tasks—effectively putting “content on autopilot.”

To expand its ecosystem, Storyblok also announced two key partnerships:

• Netlify: Enables instant, global deployment of Storyblok-managed content through Netlify’s AI-native web platform.

• OtterlyAI: Allows brands to monitor and optimize how their content performs across AI search engines, including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot.

Additional tools on the roadmap include an Enterprise Content Planner (Q4), Global Asset Library (Q1), and Environment Spaces (Q1). A Figma Connect plugin and an open-source React Native Live Preview, developed with Virgin Media O2, will also enhance developer and content workflows.

“All of these innovations turn Storyblok into the single source of truth for all your content,” Angerer added. “In today’s AI-first world, structured content isn’t just about management—it’s about confidence.”

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SSNC, an information-protection company founded in 2018, today announced Fire.ONE, the first solution in its Breezeway suite of secure, unified platforms. Designed to streamline IT security operations, Fire.ONE leverages artificial intelligence to simplify firewall management, reduce human error, and enhance policy enforcement across complex enterprise environments.

The platform addresses a critical need for organizations facing staffing shortages and increasingly complex security landscapes. By automating firewall operations—from policy application to auditing—Fire.ONE enables IT teams to focus on strategic tasks rather than routine, error-prone manual processes.

AI-Driven Firewall Optimization

Fire.ONE integrates with diverse firewall ecosystems, supporting both legacy and next-generation devices. Its AI engine analyzes traffic patterns and existing rules, recommending optimized policy sets while standardizing management across multivendor environments. The platform ensures end-to-end automation, covering every stage of the firewall lifecycle, including deployment, adaptation, diagnostics, and ongoing verification.

Enhanced Compliance and Transparency

The solution includes post-implementation consistency analysis and policy verification, with results presented through intuitive visual dashboards. This feature strengthens compliance oversight, administrative control, and operational transparency, giving security teams a clear understanding of policy effectiveness.

Seamless Security Operations

By combining predictive analytics with AI-driven decision-making, Fire.ONE reduces the operational burden on personnel responsible for firewall policies. Its automation capabilities improve efficiency and minimize risk, mitigating vulnerabilities that often arise in high-pressure IT environments.

“Fire.ONE is more than an automation tool; it’s a next-generation solution that intelligently transforms enterprise security operations,” said an SSNC spokesperson. “By reducing complexity, minimizing human error, and applying AI-driven insights, organizations can achieve safer and more efficient firewall management.”

Looking Ahead

SSNC plans to expand its Breezeway platform with additional AI-powered solutions, continuing to drive innovation in information security. With Fire.ONE, enterprises can confidently navigate evolving cyber threats while maintaining efficient, compliant, and resilient operations.

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FADEL®, a global leader in brand compliance and licensing software, has announced its next major leap — FADEL solutions powered by agentic AI, built on the AWS Bedrock Agentic AI platform. This marks a pivotal shift from data management to intelligent automation, redefining how brands govern rights, licensing, and marketing operations.

A New Era of Intelligent Automation

Set to roll out by the end of 2025, FADEL’s agentic AI will transform how organizations handle operational workflows. Rather than manually interpreting data, teams will leverage AI-driven systems capable of initiating actions, analyzing insights, and automating decision-making in real time.

“Harnessing the power of agentic AI, we’re taking intelligent automation to the next level,” said Tarek Fadel, Founder and CEO of FADEL. “Our goal is to deliver solutions that not only inform decisions but act on them — simplifying complex licensing processes and improving how teams work.”

Building on a Legacy of AI-Driven Innovation

FADEL’s journey toward AI-powered transformation began in 2019. Each year since has brought tangible innovation across digital rights management, brand protection, and marketing compliance.

• 2019 – AI-Powered Digital Content Tracking: Automated monitoring and rights protection across platforms.

• 2022 – Visual Search Intelligence: Faster asset discovery and response to copyright claims.

• 2023 – Video Recognition & Tracking: Cross-platform video identification enabling rights renewals and takedowns.

• 2024 – Music Identification: Detection of licensed melodies within video content.

• 2025 – Business Insights & AI Assistants: Predictive analytics, natural language prompts, and real-time user support through AI chatbots.

• 2025 – Product Approval & Contract Automation: Streamlined submissions and licensing workflows with AI ingestion of contract data.

Building an AI-First Organization

FADEL’s evolution isn’t limited to technology. The company has embedded AI throughout its operations — establishing an AI Governance Council, hosting AI Summits, and running educational workshops that cultivate AI literacy across departments. This integrated approach has improved internal efficiency by 30%.

Strategic Partnerships Amplify Growth

A new collaboration with Labra, a Cloud GTM platform, and AWS Bedrock is further accelerating FADEL’s AI ambitions. The partnership allows FADEL to deploy adaptive, autonomous AI agents on AWS Marketplace, enabling enterprises to automate licensing approvals, manage compliance, and generate actionable insights faster than ever.

Expanding Thought Leadership

FADEL continues to position itself at the forefront of AI thought leadership. Through webinars like AI Strategies for Digital Compliance, public speaking engagements, and upcoming competitions such as the “AI Playoff” at DAM NY, the company is actively shaping the conversation around AI’s role in digital governance.

Agentic AI: The Future of Brand Compliance

FADEL’s move into agentic AI reflects a broader industry trend — the shift from passive automation to proactive, self-directed AI systems that augment human decision-making. With this evolution, FADEL aims to empower businesses to not only manage compliance but anticipate risks and act autonomously.

By the end of 2025, the company promises a platform that doesn’t just manage workflows but thinks, learns, and acts alongside teams — signaling a major step toward fully intelligent enterprise operations.

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Vonage, a part of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), has launched Vonage Agentforce Identity Insights and Fraud Detection, a powerful new solution built to help contact centers identify fraud, verify customers, and validate communication channels — all in real time. Powered by Vonage Communications APIs and Network APIs, the solution integrates directly into Salesforce Agentforce, delivering seamless fraud prevention and efficiency for agents using Vonage Premier for Salesforce Voice.

Uniting CX and Security in the Contact Center

The new offering introduces a crucial balance between customer experience and security — two goals that often clash in fast-paced contact centers. By using Identity Insights and Fraud Detection APIs, the system enables AI and human agents to collaborate on fraud prevention without slowing operations.

With real-time intelligence such as SIM Swap checks, agents can automatically flag potentially fraudulent numbers, validate contacts before outreach, and verify numbers during lead creation — improving both lead quality and trust.

“CX and security are critical to every business’ success, and today’s customers demand both,” said David Myron, Principal Analyst at Omdia. “By leveraging network intelligence, Vonage Agentforce Identity Insights and Fraud Detection offers a seamless verification process that’s invisible to customers — tackling fraud while maintaining loyalty.”

Seamless Integration with Salesforce Agentforce

Kishan Chetan, EVP & GM of Agentforce Service at Salesforce, added, “Agentforce provides the foundation for partners like Vonage to transform the agent experience by combining real-time data, automation, and AI insights. The network capabilities embedded in Identity Insights and Fraud Detection bridge the gap between CX and security for our joint customers.”

This integration ensures organizations can verify number validity, confirm number types, and identify the most effective communication channel — mobile or landline — for each customer.

Real-Time Intelligence in Action

The Vonage solution offers a detailed layer of phone intelligence, including number type, carrier, validity, caller ID name, and SIM swap status. This allows contact centers to:

• Detect potential fraud through SIM swap monitoring and alert escalation.

• Verify identities by matching caller ID with CRM records, securing interactions without customer friction.

• Optimize outreach by automating messages for mobile users and targeting landline customers through calls.

• Enhance lead quality by validating phone numbers at creation, eliminating outdated contacts.

• Boost engagement by sending reminders and notifications only to verified numbers.

Smarter Workflows through Programmable APIs

By embedding programmable APIs directly into existing workflows, Vonage’s solution reduces manual verification steps, enabling agents to focus on complex cases. Actionable data appears instantly within Agentforce, helping teams avoid failed outreach and incomplete calls caused by invalid or inactive numbers.

Empowering Agents Against Digital Fraud

“Fraud continues to be an ongoing challenge for businesses in today’s digital landscape, underscoring the need for constant innovation in prevention technologies,” said Reggie Scales, President and Head of Applications at Vonage. “With Vonage Agentforce Identity Insights and Fraud Detection, we’re giving agents the tools to automate verification at scale. Leveraging programmable capabilities and network intelligence is the new frontier of fraud protection.”

As contact centers increasingly rely on AI-driven workflows, Vonage’s new solution represents a significant step toward real-time, embedded trust — where fraud prevention happens invisibly, and customer experience never takes a hit.

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