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The HelloNation Athlete Program compensates student-athletes to tell their hometown stories and opens the door to a career in media

BEDFORD, Texas, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HelloNation and Opendorse today announced a partnership to launch the HelloNation Athlete Program, a national NIL initiative that pays college athletes to create short-form video content spotlighting the people, places, and stories that define their hometowns. The agreement, signed March 5, 2026, designates HelloNation as the Launch Partner of the offering; the first program of its kind on the Opendorse platform.

At the center of the program is actor Chris McDonald, widely recognized as Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore, who serves as HelloNation’s national spokesman. McDonald personally invites athletes into the program, framing the opportunity not as a side gig but as the beginning of a career in broadcast media. “HelloNation has over 30,000 opportunities nationwide,” McDonald tells athletes in his welcome message. “We’re actively building out a team of content creators, field correspondents, and brand ambassadors. This is your portfolio. This is your first byline.”

Through the Opendorse platform, including over 225 direct athletic department partnerships, participating athletes receive formal NIL deals and are paid to complete a series of themed video assignments, called Quests, focused on their hometown communities. Topics include memorable teachers and mentors, local small businesses, and the qualities that make their hometowns worth celebrating. Videos run 45 to 90 seconds and are evaluated on communication clarity, storytelling, authenticity, and professionalism, with scores contributing to a national leaderboard.

HelloNation built this program to be more than a one-time NIL deal. Athletes who demonstrate strong performance will be considered for internships and full-time roles within HelloNation’s growing national media network, which spans community-focused digital publications in markets nationwide and is supported by partnerships with the National Governors Association, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the United States First Responders Association. The program is designed to serve as a structured pipeline: athletes earn NIL compensation, build an on-camera portfolio, and open the door to careers in community journalism and media.

“We’re coming to these athletes at exactly the right time,” said Bob Bartosiewicz, CEO of HelloNation. “The job market is shifting fast, and human-essential skills: storytelling, community connection, showing up and doing the work, are exactly what HelloNation is built around. This program gives student-athletes a real NIL opportunity today and a genuine career path for tomorrow. We’re not looking for one video. We’re looking for the next wave of broadcasters, and we believe we’re going to find them.”

Opendorse will support the program through athlete outreach, deal creation, payment processing, tax documentation, disclosure compliance, and campaign administration. The platform will also promote HelloNation to its network of more than 175,000 college athletes through email campaigns, in-app notifications, and athlete-facing content.

“Student-athletes are heroes and role models, not only in their college towns, but their hometowns as well, and their presence is strong as they inspire the next generation,” said Steven Denton, CEO of Opendorse. “Their stories and perspectives are unique. The HelloNation Athlete Program is a great way to tap into athlete influence at scale and create significant value for all parties: athletes, advertisers, and communities. We’re proud to help bring this vision to life and look forward to thousands of unique athlete features.”

For communities, the model is built on authenticity. College athletes are uniquely positioned to speak about the places where they grew up; the businesses, teachers, and traditions that shaped them. HelloNation’s network publishes community-focused content in neighborhood-level digital magazines across every market in the country, giving athletes a platform that extends well beyond social media.

As the program expands, HelloNation and Opendorse plan to introduce monthly career-focused events, including live sessions with guest speakers from media, sports, and business, exclusively available to program participants. The long-term vision is a nationwide network of athlete storytellers who have earned their way into HelloNation’s media ecosystem and are building careers from the communities that made them.

About HelloNation
HelloNation is America’s Good News Network, a premier media platform built on the idea that good news travels faster when real people tell real stories. Through its community-focused digital publications and innovative “edvertising” approach, HelloNation delivers expert-driven, good-news content that informs, inspires, and spotlights the leaders making a meaningful impact in their communities. HelloNation maintains partnerships with the National Governors Association, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the United States First Responders Association.

About Opendorse
Opendorse is a leading NIL technology, data, and services company that helps athletes, schools, collectives, brands, and other organizations activate and manage name, image, and likeness opportunities through compliant, scalable solutions. Opendorse supports a network of more than 175,000 college athletes across all divisions and sports. 

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Project Expected to Provide Mitigation Credits for 14-County Area

LONGVIEW, Texas, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Mitigation Resources of North America^® today announced the acquisition of 958 acres in Wilson County, Tennessee, located east of Nashville, marking a significant expansion into an area experiencing steady economic growth. This project is expected to deliver a new mitigation bank with high-quality stream and wetland mitigation credits. These credits will support continued residential, industrial and infrastructure development around greater Nashville in a 14-county area – double the typical service range for similar mitigation projects.  

Mitigation Resources of North America expects its mitigation bank to deliver significant value across the region and help balance unavoidable environmental impacts from regional development projects. Mitigation banking creates a simple, responsible way to support both progress and environmental stewardship, delivering benefits that will last for generations.

“Securing this property is a transformative moment for the growth and development of our organization,” said Eric Anderson, President of Mitigation Resources of North America. “This market has tremendous growth, and along with it, a significant demand for stream credits that will contribute to future profitability.”

Mitigation Resources will immediately begin restoration planning and coordinating regulatory approvals, with initial credit availability anticipated in 2029.

“This is just the beginning,” Anderson said. “We’re proud to take this important step forward and excited about the lasting impact this project will have for decades to come. This project aligns with our strategy of building a portfolio of mitigation assets in high-growth regions that can deliver mitigation solutions to our customers.”

About Mitigation Resources of North America

Mitigation Resources of North America^® provides a range of ecological restoration services as a business within NACCO Natural Resources, a subsidiary of NACCO Industries^® (NYSE:NC).  More information can be found at www.mitigate.pro. 

About NACCO Industries

NACCO Industries^® brings natural resources to life by delivering aggregates, minerals, reliable fuels and environmental solutions through its robust portfolio of NACCO Natural Resources^® businesses. Learn more about our companies at nacco.com or get investor information at ir.nacco.com.

 

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Cities, developers and investors need to move beyond a short–term project-delivery perspective and focus on social and financial value that lasts for generations. In a new report, Skanska finds that cities that focus on short–term performance risk undermining resilience, competitiveness and long–term economic value.

NEW YORK, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ –The report, Shaping Sustainable Places, points to a growing need to manage risk, protect investment value and meet rising societal expectations. It calls for stakeholders to close the gap between the way urban projects in Europe and the USA are delivered and how places are expected to perform over time.

“Urban development is entering a decisive new phase,” says Claes Larsson, EVP Skanska Group, Commercial Property Development and Investment Properties. “Success today is about creating resilient places that can adapt, endure and continue to deliver real value for people, climate and business long after construction is finished.”

Four actions are identified to secure cities’ long-term prospects: 

• Design for change. Adaptable, resilient design protects asset value, reduces future retrofit costs and strengthens long–term competitiveness.
• Work together. Early alignment and shared stewardship between stakeholders improve predictability and long–term performance.
• Design for and with people. Early engagement with the local society reduces delays, strengthens demand and supports stable occupancy.
• Measure what matters. Integrating social, environmental and economic indicators leads to better decisions and stronger long–term outcomes.

“Investors, insurers and central banks are increasingly integrating climate risks into their processes. Buildings cannot be moved, they must be adaptable to safeguard their future value,” says Lena Hök, EVP Sustainability & Innovation, Skanska Group. “As climate risk is priced into markets, insurance and regulation, value will increasingly follow those who design for change, collaborate early, plan with people and measure what matters, so buildings and districts stay resilient.”

The report targets decision-makers and investors who are committed to creating enduring value in cities and urban environments.

Download the full report and associated material here: www.skanska.com

For further information please contact:
Jacob Birkeland, Head of Media Relation and Public Affairs, Skanska Group,
tel +46 (0)10 449 04 94
Direct line for media, tel +46 (0)10 448 88 99

This and previous releases can also be found at www.skanska.com.

Skanska Group uses its knowledge and foresight to shape the way people live, work, and connect. We are one of the world’s largest construction and project development companies, with 2025 revenue totaling SEK 179 billion. We operate across select markets in the Nordics, Europe and USA. Together with our customers and the collective expertise of our 26,000 teammates, we create innovative and sustainable solutions that support healthy living beyond our lifetime.

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From VoiceAgent to WiseNote to the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees,” Bairong is showcasing not just individual AI features, but a comprehensive, enterprise-grade practice that truly integrates AI into roles, processes, and management systems. Following its previous inclusions in Harvard Business School case studies, Bairong is now entering global frontier discussions with innovative solutions such as “AI employees” and “Silicon-Carbon Co-Governance.”

BEIJING, April 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On March 30, Tsedal Neeley, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA program at Harvard Business School, specifically paid her visit to Bairong Intelligence. During this visit, the two sides engaged in in-depth exchanges on the progress of AI applications, explored the systemic transformation in the AI era, and discussed the commercial practices of “silicon-carbon co-governance.”

At Bairong, Professor Neeley experienced VoiceAgent, WiseNote, and the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees” firsthand, witnessing a real-world example: AI is no longer just answering questions or assisting with work—it is undertaking tasks in real business operations, embedding into processes, accepting performance evaluations, and becoming manageable, collaborative, and sustainably evolving into “silicon-based employees ” under human supervision.

Previously, the firm was selected as one of the flagship Chinese corporate examples in HBS’s case library for its pioneering work in machine learning and decision intelligence. This time, however, Bairong presents an even more cutting-edge and revolutionary topic: the pivot from “AI as a tool” to “AI as the workforce”, and from tactical technology deployment to strategic organizational restructuring.

From “Able to Answer” to “Capable of Working”: Bairong Demonstrates a Complete Company AI Practice

At the beginning of the visit, Professor Neeley experienced Bairong’s VoiceAgent. Faced with multi-turn, multi-scenario, multi-language voice interactions and complex business Q&A, this “silicon-based employee” demonstrated natural, fluent, and professional communication capabilities. From continuous semantic understanding to personalized demand feedback, and from frontline business consulting to complex service scenario responses—the entire interaction process moved beyond the basic “voice assistant” level of Q&A, resembling a true business role capable of undertaking service tasks. Professor Neeley expressed amazement multiple times during the on-site visit, highly praising its naturalness and professionalism. Bairong VoiceAgent is built on the self-developed BR-Voice end-to-end large model, focusing on breaking through the mechanical and fragmented limitations of traditional voice interactions to achieve a natural interaction experience closer to real business environments.

Professor Neeley also experienced WiseNote, an expertise-driven “silicon-based employee.” Unlike the common perception of AI as merely “writing summaries and providing assistance,” WiseNote demonstrates a markedly expanded scope of capabilities. Under natural language instructions, it autonomously integrates and analyzes multi-source heterogeneous data, extracts core trends, constructs logical frameworks, and generates deep insights—producing comprehensive reports grounded in data, professional analysis, and strategic judgment within a short timeframe. After reviewing the in-depth industry report generated by WiseNote, Professor Neeley felt it was no longer simple AI assistance, but closer to an AI expert capable of independently completing high-quality knowledge work. WiseNote represents that AI beginning to possess “standalone” position value in professional knowledge work.

What triggered her organizational-level thinking most was the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees.” In this system, Professor Neeley see a complete management system oriented toward silicon-based employees. Every silicon-based employee has an exclusive employee number, email, position, training records, performance ratings, and transfer and promotion records, reporting directly to a clear carbon-based business supervisor. From “onboarding applications” and “position configuration” to “performance evaluation” and “personnel changes,” there are standardized processes and system support. More importantly, Bairong is not just conceptually proposing “that AI become employees,” but has already applied human resource management, organizational management, and performance mechanisms to the daily operations of its silicon-based employees.

What Bairong Truly Answers is Not Just a Product Question, but an Organizational Question in the AI Era

Following the product experience, Zhang Shaofeng, CEO of the company, led the Bairong team in an in-depth closed-door exchange with Professor Neeley, focusing on technology, business strategy, and organizational practices. Bairong systematically reviewed its long-term deployment of AI Agents, starting in 2014 with “silicon-based risk control employees,” and later in 2017, after the emergence of the Transformer architecture, deploying voice large language models and silicon-based customer service and sales agents. The Company has gradually evolved from MaaS (Model as a Service) and BaaS (Business as a Service) to a result-oriented RaaS (Results as a Service) model, and after 2023, achieved multi-industry, multi-role silicon-based employee coverage. Therefore, what Bairong demonstrates today is not a superficial stacking of short-term trending topics, but organizational practices evolved over more than a decade around “making AI become employees.”

At the technical level, Bairong demonstrated its key capabilities covering layers 3-5 of the AI ecosystem: the self-developed BR-LLM-Proactive domain large model, BR-Voice end-to-end voice model, BR-Vision visual large model, and BR-Next Voice next-generation voice model, achieving rapid Agent construction and operation through AgentOS Baigong, and multi-scenario, multi-role large-scale deployment through AgentStore Baihui.

The value of these numbers is not just to illustrate that “Bairong made products,” but to show that Bairong has already pushed AI from the functional layer to the position layer, and from single-point tools to organizational operational units. Traditional organizations often rely on carbon-based employees as “APIs” between systems, undertaking large amounts of cross-system coordination and repetitive work. While in AI-native organizations, silicon-based employees begin to undertake end-to-end process orchestration and automated execution, allowing carbon-based employees to focus more on strategy, judgment, innovation, and decision-making. The change in AI is not just a technological change, but an organizational design change.

From “AI Tools” to “AI Employees,” “Silicon-Carbon Co-Governance” Creates New Value Propositions for Future Organizations

In the exchange, the “Silicon-Carbon Co-Governance” concept proposed by Bairong became the part that resonated most deeply with both sides. Professor Neeley pointed out that past academic research on AI applications in enterprises mostly remained at the level of “tools assisting humans.” However, Bairong’s practice, especially the combined demonstration of VoiceAgent, WiseNote, and the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees,” allowed her to see a clear leap from “AI tools” to “AI employees.” Silicon-based employees begin to undertake standardized, repetitive, and process-driven operational tasks, while also entering into professional work such as deep analysis and report writing. Meanwhile, carbon-based employees are released from large amounts of tedious affairs, focusing more on strategic judgment, innovation and creation, risk control, and emotional value delivery. Professor Neeley believes this is not a simple replacement, but a new division of labor structure, a new collaborative model, and a governance framework worthy of continuous attention from global enterprise management research.

This view is highly consistent with Bairong’s long-term core philosophy. Bairong believes that company transformation in the AI era is never about simple software upgrades or efficiency tool introductions, but the deep restructuring of organizational models “Silicon-Carbon Co-Governance” is not only Bairong’s internal organizational practice, but also a methodology for AI transformation facing global companies. Therefore, in its own operations, Bairong does not treat silicon-based employees as “plug-in tools,” but as collaborators, executors, and result bearers in real positions, ensuring they operate stably and iterate continuously under human supervision through systematic management.

This is also the true difference between Bairong and many AI companies that only remain at the demo or single-point function level. What Bairong proposes and practices is not “smarter tools,” but “new types of employees that can be absorbed by organizations.” It is not about “local efficiency improvement,” but about “rewriting company operations around positions, processes, governance, and results.” This makes Bairong’s exploration naturally possess research and demonstration value beyond the product itself.

From Chinese Practice to Global Context: Bairong is Becoming a Benchmark of Next-Generation Enterprise AI

As a long-term practitioner in the AI Agent field, Bairong has formed a silicon-based employee matrix covering nearly 200 positions, with deployed scenarios spanning finance, telecommunications, retail, enterprise services, and other industries, and has received attention and recognition from international research institutions such as IDC and Gartner. Within Bairong, silicon-based employee management has also become part of daily operations. Its presentation materials show that Bairong has received market attention in multiple dimensions including domain large models, Agent Builder, finance, marketing and sales, human resources, and legal affairs. The Company has seen multiple RaaS cases incorporated into Gartner-related research, and has also become one of the co-leads of the AI Agent ecosystem working group.

In the future, Bairong will continue to evolve around domain large models and core AI Agent capabilities, continuously optimizing core products such as VoiceAgent, WiseNote, and the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees.” The Company will continuously enrich the position roles and application scenarios of silicon-based employees, promoting them to more widely enter enterprise business practices. Bairong will also continue to transform its long-term exploration in “making AI become employees” into methods and samples that can be discussed, researched, and referenced by the global industry, academia, and business communities.

About Bairong

Bairong AI Inc. (6608.HK) is a leading pioneer in enterprise AI agent solutions. Guided by the mission of “Empowering Every Industry and Home with AI,” it delivers its services through a Result-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, providing institutional clients with tailored AI agent capabilities. At the core of Bairong’s technology stack are its proprietary BR-LLM large language model and the “Bairong CybotStar百融百工” enterprise AI agent operating system, which empower clients to build and deploy their own custom AI agents. Bairong also delivers end-to-end business outcomes via business process outsourcing and position outsourcing services.

To date, Bairong has served over 8,000 institutional clients while maintaining a core client retention rate of 98%. Its clients span diverse sectors including internet, retail, communications, education, healthcare, and more. The company’s solutions address a comprehensive range of use cases: marketing recommendation and sales collaboration, intelligent customer service and outbound calls, contract/bill and regulation analysis, credit approval and anti-fraud, claims settlement and archive management, as well as recruitment operation and training empowerment. Bairong holds over 95% independent intellectual property rights for its products, with a cumulative portfolio of more than 573 patents and software copyrights.

Recognized as a leading innovator in China’s next-generation technology sector, Bairong has earned significant industry acclaim. The company was named one of the “China Top 60 AI Enterprises” in Morgan Stanley’s industry analysis and has been highlighted in annual reports by Kai Yuan and Ping An Securities Technology Team. In IDC’s evaluations, Bairong consistently ranks as a leader across multiple dimensions for large language models and intelligent agents. Furthermore, the company holds the industry’s highest rating for Corporate Governance in MSCI’s ESG assessments.

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From VoiceAgent to WiseNote to the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees,” Bairong is showcasing not just individual AI features, but a comprehensive, enterprise-grade practice that truly integrates AI into roles, processes, and management systems. Following its previous inclusions in Harvard Business School case studies, Bairong is now entering global frontier discussions with innovative solutions such as “AI employees” and “Silicon-Carbon Co-Governance.”

BEIJING, April 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On March 30, Tsedal Neeley, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA program at Harvard Business School, specifically paid her visit to Bairong Intelligence. During this visit, the two sides engaged in in-depth exchanges on the progress of AI applications, explored the systemic transformation in the AI era, and discussed the commercial practices of “silicon-carbon co-governance.”

At Bairong, Professor Neeley experienced VoiceAgent, WiseNote, and the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees” firsthand, witnessing a real-world example: AI is no longer just answering questions or assisting with work—it is undertaking tasks in real business operations, embedding into processes, accepting performance evaluations, and becoming manageable, collaborative, and sustainably evolving into “silicon-based employees ” under human supervision.

Previously, the firm was selected as one of the flagship Chinese corporate examples in HBS’s case library for its pioneering work in machine learning and decision intelligence. This time, however, Bairong presents an even more cutting-edge and revolutionary topic: the pivot from “AI as a tool” to “AI as the workforce”, and from tactical technology deployment to strategic organizational restructuring.

From “Able to Answer” to “Capable of Working”: Bairong Demonstrates a Complete Company AI Practice

At the beginning of the visit, Professor Neeley experienced Bairong’s VoiceAgent. Faced with multi-turn, multi-scenario, multi-language voice interactions and complex business Q&A, this “silicon-based employee” demonstrated natural, fluent, and professional communication capabilities. From continuous semantic understanding to personalized demand feedback, and from frontline business consulting to complex service scenario responses—the entire interaction process moved beyond the basic “voice assistant” level of Q&A, resembling a true business role capable of undertaking service tasks. Professor Neeley expressed amazement multiple times during the on-site visit, highly praising its naturalness and professionalism. Bairong VoiceAgent is built on the self-developed BR-Voice end-to-end large model, focusing on breaking through the mechanical and fragmented limitations of traditional voice interactions to achieve a natural interaction experience closer to real business environments.

Professor Neeley also experienced WiseNote, an expertise-driven “silicon-based employee.” Unlike the common perception of AI as merely “writing summaries and providing assistance,” WiseNote demonstrates a markedly expanded scope of capabilities. Under natural language instructions, it autonomously integrates and analyzes multi-source heterogeneous data, extracts core trends, constructs logical frameworks, and generates deep insights—producing comprehensive reports grounded in data, professional analysis, and strategic judgment within a short timeframe. After reviewing the in-depth industry report generated by WiseNote, Professor Neeley felt it was no longer simple AI assistance, but closer to an AI expert capable of independently completing high-quality knowledge work. WiseNote represents that AI beginning to possess “standalone” position value in professional knowledge work.

What triggered her organizational-level thinking most was the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees.” In this system, Professor Neeley see a complete management system oriented toward silicon-based employees. Every silicon-based employee has an exclusive employee number, email, position, training records, performance ratings, and transfer and promotion records, reporting directly to a clear carbon-based business supervisor. From “onboarding applications” and “position configuration” to “performance evaluation” and “personnel changes,” there are standardized processes and system support. More importantly, Bairong is not just conceptually proposing “that AI become employees,” but has already applied human resource management, organizational management, and performance mechanisms to the daily operations of its silicon-based employees.

What Bairong Truly Answers is Not Just a Product Question, but an Organizational Question in the AI Era

Following the product experience, Zhang Shaofeng, CEO of the company, led the Bairong team in an in-depth closed-door exchange with Professor Neeley, focusing on technology, business strategy, and organizational practices. Bairong systematically reviewed its long-term deployment of AI Agents, starting in 2014 with “silicon-based risk control employees,” and later in 2017, after the emergence of the Transformer architecture, deploying voice large language models and silicon-based customer service and sales agents. The Company has gradually evolved from MaaS (Model as a Service) and BaaS (Business as a Service) to a result-oriented RaaS (Results as a Service) model, and after 2023, achieved multi-industry, multi-role silicon-based employee coverage. Therefore, what Bairong demonstrates today is not a superficial stacking of short-term trending topics, but organizational practices evolved over more than a decade around “making AI become employees.”

At the technical level, Bairong demonstrated its key capabilities covering layers 3-5 of the AI ecosystem: the self-developed BR-LLM-Proactive domain large model, BR-Voice end-to-end voice model, BR-Vision visual large model, and BR-Next Voice next-generation voice model, achieving rapid Agent construction and operation through AgentOS Baigong, and multi-scenario, multi-role large-scale deployment through AgentStore Baihui.

The value of these numbers is not just to illustrate that “Bairong made products,” but to show that Bairong has already pushed AI from the functional layer to the position layer, and from single-point tools to organizational operational units. Traditional organizations often rely on carbon-based employees as “APIs” between systems, undertaking large amounts of cross-system coordination and repetitive work. While in AI-native organizations, silicon-based employees begin to undertake end-to-end process orchestration and automated execution, allowing carbon-based employees to focus more on strategy, judgment, innovation, and decision-making. The change in AI is not just a technological change, but an organizational design change.

From “AI Tools” to “AI Employees,” “Silicon-Carbon Co-Governance” Creates New Value Propositions for Future Organizations

In the exchange, the “Silicon-Carbon Co-Governance” concept proposed by Bairong became the part that resonated most deeply with both sides. Professor Neeley pointed out that past academic research on AI applications in enterprises mostly remained at the level of “tools assisting humans.” However, Bairong’s practice, especially the combined demonstration of VoiceAgent, WiseNote, and the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees,” allowed her to see a clear leap from “AI tools” to “AI employees.” Silicon-based employees begin to undertake standardized, repetitive, and process-driven operational tasks, while also entering into professional work such as deep analysis and report writing. Meanwhile, carbon-based employees are released from large amounts of tedious affairs, focusing more on strategic judgment, innovation and creation, risk control, and emotional value delivery. Professor Neeley believes this is not a simple replacement, but a new division of labor structure, a new collaborative model, and a governance framework worthy of continuous attention from global enterprise management research.

This view is highly consistent with Bairong’s long-term core philosophy. Bairong believes that company transformation in the AI era is never about simple software upgrades or efficiency tool introductions, but the deep restructuring of organizational models “Silicon-Carbon Co-Governance” is not only Bairong’s internal organizational practice, but also a methodology for AI transformation facing global companies. Therefore, in its own operations, Bairong does not treat silicon-based employees as “plug-in tools,” but as collaborators, executors, and result bearers in real positions, ensuring they operate stably and iterate continuously under human supervision through systematic management.

This is also the true difference between Bairong and many AI companies that only remain at the demo or single-point function level. What Bairong proposes and practices is not “smarter tools,” but “new types of employees that can be absorbed by organizations.” It is not about “local efficiency improvement,” but about “rewriting company operations around positions, processes, governance, and results.” This makes Bairong’s exploration naturally possess research and demonstration value beyond the product itself.

From Chinese Practice to Global Context: Bairong is Becoming a Benchmark of Next-Generation Enterprise AI

As a long-term practitioner in the AI Agent field, Bairong has formed a silicon-based employee matrix covering nearly 200 positions, with deployed scenarios spanning finance, telecommunications, retail, enterprise services, and other industries, and has received attention and recognition from international research institutions such as IDC and Gartner. Within Bairong, silicon-based employee management has also become part of daily operations. Its presentation materials show that Bairong has received market attention in multiple dimensions including domain large models, Agent Builder, finance, marketing and sales, human resources, and legal affairs. The Company has seen multiple RaaS cases incorporated into Gartner-related research, and has also become one of the co-leads of the AI Agent ecosystem working group.

In the future, Bairong will continue to evolve around domain large models and core AI Agent capabilities, continuously optimizing core products such as VoiceAgent, WiseNote, and the “Home for Silicon-Based Employees.” The Company will continuously enrich the position roles and application scenarios of silicon-based employees, promoting them to more widely enter enterprise business practices. Bairong will also continue to transform its long-term exploration in “making AI become employees” into methods and samples that can be discussed, researched, and referenced by the global industry, academia, and business communities.

About Bairong

Bairong AI Inc. (6608.HK) is a leading pioneer in enterprise AI agent solutions. Guided by the mission of “Empowering Every Industry and Home with AI,” it delivers its services through a Result-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, providing institutional clients with tailored AI agent capabilities. At the core of Bairong’s technology stack are its proprietary BR-LLM large language model and the “Bairong CybotStar百融百工” enterprise AI agent operating system, which empower clients to build and deploy their own custom AI agents. Bairong also delivers end-to-end business outcomes via business process outsourcing and position outsourcing services.

To date, Bairong has served over 8,000 institutional clients while maintaining a core client retention rate of 98%. Its clients span diverse sectors including internet, retail, communications, education, healthcare, and more. The company’s solutions address a comprehensive range of use cases: marketing recommendation and sales collaboration, intelligent customer service and outbound calls, contract/bill and regulation analysis, credit approval and anti-fraud, claims settlement and archive management, as well as recruitment operation and training empowerment. Bairong holds over 95% independent intellectual property rights for its products, with a cumulative portfolio of more than 573 patents and software copyrights.

Recognized as a leading innovator in China’s next-generation technology sector, Bairong has earned significant industry acclaim. The company was named one of the “China Top 60 AI Enterprises” in Morgan Stanley’s industry analysis and has been highlighted in annual reports by Kai Yuan and Ping An Securities Technology Team. In IDC’s evaluations, Bairong consistently ranks as a leader across multiple dimensions for large language models and intelligent agents. Furthermore, the company holds the industry’s highest rating for Corporate Governance in MSCI’s ESG assessments.

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Limited-edition collaboration brings together sustainability, Bay Area design, and local pride

SAN FRANCISCO, April 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SF Climate Week, Climatebase, Oaklandish, and Blue & Yellow today announced the launch of the first-ever official SF Climate Week merchandise collection: a limited-edition apparel release created in collaboration between four organizations deeply rooted in the Bay Area and united by a shared commitment to community, climate action, and thoughtful design.

The week includes panels, conferences, networking events, tours, art experiences, volunteer opportunities, and community gatherings hosted by hundreds of organizations working across climate and sustainability. Notable speakers this year include:

Limited-edition collaboration brings together sustainability, Bay Area design, and local pride.

• Daniel Lurie (SF Mayor)
• Barbara Lee (Oakland Mayor)
• Hunter Pence (Former SF Giant’s MLB player)
• Alex Honnold (Rock Climber, Activist)
• Tom Steyer (CA Governor candidate)
• Scott Wiener (CA State Senator)
• Katharine K. Wilkinson (co-editor of All We Can Save)
• Jennifer Granholm (16th U.S. Secretary of Energy)
• Nancy Skinner (California Energy Commission)

This year, SF Climate Week is expected to feature more than 700 events across the San Francisco Bay Area and bring together more than 60,000 attendees.

The collection features premium garments supplied by Blue & Yellow, whose sustainably made, high-quality apparel serves as the foundation for the collaboration. The design was created by Oaklandish, the iconic Bay Area apparel company that has spent decades celebrating Oakland, the East Bay, and the culture and creativity of the region.

The resulting design pays homage to the SF Bay Area and offers a subtle nod to some of the region’s legendary sports teams. Drawing inspiration from the typography, energy, and deep local pride associated with Bay Area sports culture, the collection is rooted in the same spirit of community, identity, and hometown pride that defines SF Climate Week itself.

“This collaboration is about much more than merchandise,” said Jesse Hynes, COO at Climatebase, which organizes SF Climate Week. “It’s about creating something that feels authentically Bay Area — something that celebrates the region, honors the community that has built SF Climate Week, and shows that climate culture can be local, joyful, and deeply connected to place.”

The collection is available now on the Blue & Yellow’s website: https://blueandyellowproject.com/collections/men/products/climate-week-tee-shirts

About SF Climate Week
SF Climate Week is a decentralized, community-powered climate summit returning for its fourth year from April 18–26, 2026. What began as a grassroots effort to bring together the Bay Area climate community has grown into one of the largest climate weeks in the world.

SF Climate Week exists to bring the climate community together, showcase solutions, spark new ideas and partnerships, and help accelerate climate action in the Bay Area and beyond. Notable speakers last year included Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie, and many more.

Learn more about SF Climate Week: https://www.sfclimateweek.org/

About Blue & Yellow

Company Overview:
We turn recycled and reused fabrics into premium, sustainable apparel. From production in North America to our shipping practices, every step is designed to minimize environmental impact: Blue & Yellow Make Green.

About Us:
Blue & Yellow’s mission is to set a more sustainable example. Through honesty, transparency, and old-fashioned resourcefulness, we’ve created a whole new kind of clothing company. One that connects your values with thoughtfully crafted high quality basics.

Our journey toward sustainability starts with a holistic approach to how we craft every piece of clothing. We choose to use yarns spun from recycled textiles and surplus fabrics from the apparel industry, which means we don’t waste water or use toxic chemicals growing cotton, producing yarn, or dyeing fabric. It also means all the material we use in our products are nearly 100% sustainable.

Why the company chose to partner on this project:
We are excited to work with mission-aligned organizations such as SF Climate Week as we “Think Globally, Act Locally”. Our goal is that SF Climate Week can bring awareness to the environmental pitfalls and wasteful practices of the apparel industry while showing our community that there is another, better way and feel good about what you are wearing.

Learn more about Blue & Yellow: https://blueandyellowproject.com

About Oaklandish
Oaklandish is the Bay Area’s original civic pride brand, founded in Oakland in 2000. The Bay Area has always been where the future gets made: the birthplace of social movements, the home of innovators, and the place the world looks to when it wants to know what comes next. Supporting SF Climate Week alongside Blue & Yellow is a natural extension of that legacy. With three retail locations, e-commerce at oaklandish.com, an in-house production facility supporting mission-aligned brands at oaklandishmade.com, and a design identity rooted in The Bay’s culture and community, Oaklandish has spent decades turning local pride into wearable form, and that means being at the forefront of what matters most.

Learn more about Oaklandish: http://oaklandish.com 

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FORT CHIPEWYAN, AB, April 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) Chief and Council are pleased with the decision from the Alberta Court of King’s Bench to issue a stay in the Alberta separation referendum campaign.

Justice Leonard’s decision to issue a stay means that Alberta’s chief electoral officer cannot certify the separation petition until after the court has issued a decision in the court cases launched by Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy.

The three Nations submitted their claim to the court stating that any attempt to secede from Canada, especially without consulting the First Nations, is a violation of the sacred Treaties. Further, they argued that the UCP government’s facilitation of the referendum process, including granting separatists more time to collect signatures and lowering the number of signatures required, was a betrayal of the Duty of the Crown to uphold the Treaties.

“Whether the summer of 1812 or the spring of 2026, Canada’s Indigenous people have always been the first and last line of defense against American annexation. While Ottawa sleeps, Alberta’s first inhabitants are doing everything we can to save confederation. We shall never allow our Treaties to be broken, and we will never bend the knee to foreign tyrants or their useful idiots,” said Chief Adam.

“We are standing up for our Treaties, for our people and for the land that is all under threat through this referendum effort,” said Chief Adam. “We are doing this for all Albertans, especially children and youth, who deserve to grow up in a country that respects the rule of law and recognizes the supremacy of the constitution.”

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AAK’W KWÁAN (JUNEAU), Alaska, April 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Sealaska Board of Directors approved a $29.7 million spring 2026 distribution to shareholders at its meeting Friday.

The distribution will be issued Thursday, April 16, and includes $3 million in dividends from Sealaska’s business operations, $3.6 million from the Marjorie V. Young (MVY) Shareholder Permanent Fund, and $23.1 million in Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Section 7(j) natural resource revenue sharing funds for shareholders with Class B or C shares.

“Our work is guided by the understanding that everything is connected,” Chairman Richard Rinehart said. “By aligning strong business results with stewardship of our homelands and meaningful investment in our people, we ensure the value we create continues to support our shareholders and our culture for generations.”

In addition to delivering shareholder value, Sealaska continues to invest in environmental stewardship and climate resilience across Southeast Alaska. This summer, Sealaskawill complete the Mendenhall Barrier Project in Juneau, a flood‑mitigation effort designed to protect community infrastructure and surrounding ecosystems from increasing flood risk.

Over the past two years, Sealaska alongside our partners have completed more than 40 land and habitat projects, restoring nearly 10 miles of salmon streams and 4,400 acres of forest lands. These efforts were carried out in collaboration with Tribes, nonprofits, and state and federal agencies, reflecting a shared commitment to sustainable land management and ecosystem health.

“Our measure of success extends beyond financial performance,” said President Sarah Dybdahl (Aan Shaawátk’i). “Through strong partnerships and long‑term investments in our lands and communities, we are working to ensure resilience, opportunity and stewardship for future generations.”

The spring distribution builds on Sealaska’s mission to strengthen its people, culture and homelands while supporting sustainable economic growth across the region.

About Sealaska
We are Sealaska, the Alaska Native regional corporation for Southeast Alaska formed under federal law in 1971. With more than 27,000 shareholders of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian background our purpose is to strengthen our people, culture and homelands. We invest in and operate businesses that improve the health of our oceans, maintain healthy homelands in Southeast Alaska, and benefit shareholder communities. Learn more at Sealaska.com

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Integrated platform expected to produce one of the lowest carbon intensity fuels in the world.

RUSSELL, Kan., April 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PureField Ingredients announced today that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the company’s request to begin permanent geologic sequestration of CO2 from its Russell, Kansas operations. With this approval, PureField is set to launch one of the most advanced integrated food, fuel, and carbon platforms in the United States.

Following final commissioning, PureField will immediately begin carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) operations, unlocking a step-change reduction in emissions and establishing the company as one of the lowest carbon intensity ethanol producers globally.

“This is a defining moment for PureField to meet our commitment to serve Kansas farmers and our customers in the U.S. and around the world,” said Aaron Buettner, CEO of PureField Ingredients. “By combining our advanced, wheat-based feedstock with carbon capture and permanent storage, we are creating a structurally advantaged platform that delivers some of the lowest carbon fuels in the world while simultaneously producing essential food ingredients.”

A Differentiated, Integrated Model
PureField operates a purpose-built, fully integrated system that maximizes the value of every bushel of grain:

• Kansas-grown wheat is processed into functional ingredients used across a variety of food applications
• Residual wheat starch is converted into ethanol and animal feed
• CO2 generated during fermentation is captured and permanently stored underground

This “nothing wasted” model creates multiple value streams from a single input while delivering a structural carbon advantage versus traditional biofuel pathways.

Game-Changing Carbon Advantage
PureField’s differentiated feedstock, derived from residual wheat starch, starts with a significantly lower carbon intensity than conventional biofuels. The addition of CCS further amplifies this advantage:

• Ethanol pathway positioned among the lowest CI fuels in the market globally

• Potential to achieve net-zero or net-negative carbon intensity under applicable methodologies
• Structural advantage driven by the combination of advanced feedstock + CCS

Together, this represents a step-change in both renewable fuels and food ingredient production.

Strengthening U.S. Agriculture and Enabling Future Growth
PureField’s integrated model with CCS creates a platform for continued expansion of U.S. agriculture and manufacturing:

• Supporting local farmers with a durable demand channel for ~20 million bushels of Kansas wheat and sorghum
• Producing high-quality functional wheat protein domestically, reducing reliance on imports that currently supply ~70% of U.S. demand

“With CCS in place, PureField will be able to deliver more sustainable products at scale, while reinforcing our commitment to Russell and the surrounding region,” Buettner added. “It strengthens our position as a long-term employer, supports local agriculture, and creates a foundation for continued growth and investment—driven by the dedication and capabilities of our team.”

About PureField Ingredients
PureField Ingredients operates a premier U.S.-based integrated food ingredient and advanced biofuels platform. From its Russell, Kansas facility, the company produces high-quality functional wheat protein ingredients and low-carbon biofuels from U.S.-grown crops. With the addition of carbon capture and sequestration, PureField is establishing a new benchmark for carbon performance across both food and fuel markets.

Media Contact:
Andrea Zarate
785-261-0355
andrea.zarate@purefield.com

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Addition of prominent insurance recovery group fuels expansion of the firm’s
national platform in New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, and Atlanta

NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY, April 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — With the addition of a nationally recognized 12-lawyer insurance recovery group, Barnes & Thornburg — a national law firm with more than 850 lawyers in 26 markets — significantly expanded the suite of insurance litigation and risk management services that the firm’s Insurance Recovery Group provides to its clients. The group builds on a solid foundation and tradition of the firm exclusively representing policyholders in coverage disputes and adds a strong East Coast presence to its existing Midwest and West Coast footprint.

“This sophisticated group joins us at a pivotal time as we execute on our vision to build on our national areas of strength and provide crucial, market-leading service to our clients,” said Managing Partner Andrew J. Detherage. “This latest acquisition continues our strategic growth and success as a destination for high-level talent.”

The insurance recovery team joins Barnes & Thornburg from Lowenstein Sandler and is led by partner Lynda Bennett, who will serve as co-chair of Barnes & Thornburg’s Insurance Recovery Group. Partners Arthur Armstrong, Alexander Brown, Craig Dashiell, Rachel Hudgins, Eric Jesse, Jeremy King, and Heather Weaver round out the East Coast additions along with associates Alexander Corson, Madison Diaz, Michael Kleinman, and Madilynne Lee.

“I’m excited to join Barnes & Thornburg as co-chair of its Insurance Recovery Practice in the firm’s New Jersey and New York offices. I’m especially proud that my team of 11 lawyers and two outstanding assistants have joined me in this next chapter,” said Bennett. “Our team is now strategically based across our East Coast offices in New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, with more growth ahead.”

The group represents corporate policyholders in high-stakes insurance coverage litigation addressing leading edge coverage issues across a wide array of coverage lines. They help clients maximize their insurance assets and have secured billions in recoveries for D&O, RWI, Cyber, Product Liability, Environmental, Construction, Employment, Severe Bodily Injury and all other manner of liability claims. Likewise, Barnes & Thornburg is among a select few national law firms that exclusively represent policyholders and manage risk on behalf of clients.

“Our team is highly effective because we are a known quantity within the insurance industry and we understand how the market works. We have deep relationships with insurance brokers and are respected by our adversaries for being strategic and pragmatic,” said Bennett. We are excited to join Barnes & Thornburg because the combination of our two insurance teams creates a coast-to-coast powerhouse of highly skilled coverage practitioners who will leverage the firm’s national platform to serve our clients wherever they need us.”

Bennett joins fellow co-chairs Lilit Asadourian and Kevin Dreher to guide this new team that now includes 50 insurance lawyers and places them across the country from Los Angeles to New York.

“This team’s industry prowess is an incredible addition and asset for our clients. They are extremely knowledgeable about the global insurance industry and seasoned litigators when it comes to insurance coverage and bad faith matters,” said Litigation Department Chair Randy Brown.

The addition of these 12 lawyers follows Barnes & Thornburg recently adding a 39-lawyer Public Finance and Infrastructure group to its Government Services and Finance practice and the associated opening of three new offices in Baltimore, Denver and Phoenix. With the addition of this insurance recovery team, Barnes & Thornburg has now welcomed 85 lawyers to the firm in 2026.

“We are excited for this powerhouse insurance recovery team to join our East Coast offices, particularly in New Jersey and Philadelphia where we have built a substantial presence since opening in 2022 and continue to scale our regional footprint,” said Michael C. Zogby, managing partner of the firm’s office in New Jersey. “Our new colleagues are not only renowned legal strategists but also proven leaders. Their deep roots in New Jersey and Philadelphia, combined with a prominent national profile, reinforces our commitment to excellence for our clients.”

About the Partners

• Lynda Bennett (New Jersey/New York) aggressively litigates, negotiates, and resolves complicated disputes on behalf of corporate policyholders. A “Band-1” Chambers-ranked attorney, Lynda has more than 30 years of commercial litigation experience and has secured billions of dollars in insurance recoveries for her clients. Lynda was named one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business. Beyond her practice, she is a trailblazer in professional development, having founded her previous firm’s Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) and served as Past President of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association.

• Arthur Armstrong (Philadelphia) focuses his practice exclusively on representing corporate policyholders in high-stakes insurance recovery matters. He represents privately held and publicly traded companies against primary and excess insurers to secure and maximize coverage under cyber, property, commercial general liability, directors and officers (D&O), errors and omissions (E&O), and other insurance policies. He has extensive experience counseling clients at all stages of an insurance claim life cycle.

• Alexander Brown (Philadelphia) represents corporate policyholders in high-stakes insurance litigation in both state and federal court and has successfully represented his clients in some of the largest insurance recovery efforts. Brown also represents clients in other commercial contexts, including commercial contract disputes, as well as disputes involving TV and film, music, publishing, and likeness rights.

• Craig Dashiell (New Jersey/New York) is a commercial litigator who focuses on resolving complex financial disputes between companies or between individuals over a wide range of matters, including breach of contract disputes and business divorce, as well as trusts and estates litigation with millions of dollars at stake. Dashiell also has extensive experience litigating insurance coverage disputes on behalf of corporate policyholders across a wide array of coverage lines.

• Rachel Hudgins (Atlanta) represents corporate policyholders in high-value insurance disputes and complex claims, litigating in state and federal courts across the country, including U.S. territories. She is known for balancing litigation strategy with pre-suit resolutions. Rachel is also an active thought leader, frequently presenting at industry conferences and authoring chapters and articles for business and insurance publications.

• Eric Jesse (New York/New Jersey) has advised corporate policyholders for over a decade on an array of insurance issues in mergers and acquisitions, claim disputes with insurers, and the placement and renewal of insurance programs. In particular, he has deep experience with several niche specialty policies, including representations and warranties (R&W) insurance, directors and officers (D&O) policies, and cyber insurance.

• Jeremy King (New York) has obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries for corporate clients in insurance coverage disputes and other civil litigation matters across the country. He regularly represents corporate policyholders seeking to maximize insurance coverage under commercial general liability, directors and officers, crime, property, cyber, and other types of commercial insurance policies. 

• Heather Weaver (New Jersey/New York) is an accomplished litigator who delivers successful outcomes for corporate policyholders in high-stakes insurance coverage and complex commercial disputes across state and federal courts. Her practice spans a broad range of coverage lines, including commercial property, commercial general liability, professional liability, cyber, crime, and product liability, positioning her as a trusted advisor for navigating the most challenging and high-exposure claims.

About Barnes & Thornburg
Barnes & Thornburg operates 26 offices across the United States, enabling more than 850 lawyers to serve clients nationwide. As one of the 100 largest law firms in the country, we provide seamless coast-to-coast coverage for high-stakes litigation, complex transactions and innovative IP matters. Our national reach and knowledge of local markets help clients conduct business confidently wherever opportunities arise. Visit btlaw.com.

Media Contact: stephen.clark@btlaw.com

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