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Something sweet comes to the top attraction in NYC. The Empire State Building (ESB) announced today that it will partner with Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, beloved chocolate and ice cream shop located on the ground floor of the building, to bring a one-of-a-kind 95^th anniversary pop-up to the 86th Floor Observation Deck each day from April 10 through May 10.

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The Empire State Building To Celebrate Its 95th Anniversary With a Sweet New Pop-Up Experience From Ghirardelli

 

To mark the milestone anniversary, Ghirardelli Chocolate & Ice Cream Shop created the exclusive Kong Sundae that features smooth vanilla ice cream crowned with Ghirardelli’s signature handcrafted hot fudge, whipped cream, diced almonds, a cherry, and a Chocolatey Kong on top. Crafted with the richness and quality for which Ghirardelli is known, the sundae will be available exclusively on the Observation Deck for a limited time before it arrives at the ground-floor shop later this spring.

“We are pleased to celebrate the Empire State Building’s 95^th anniversary with our guests, and we cannot think of a better way than with an exclusive Ghirardelli sundae served ESB-style with a special appearance by Kong,” said Dan Rogoski, observatory general manager.

The Kong Sundae ($18) and Classic Hot Cocoa ($11) will be available from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily as guests take in the panoramic views from New York City’s only 360-degree outdoor observation deck. Guests can also visit the Ghirardelli Chocolate & Ice Cream Shop, located on the ground floor of the Empire State Building at 16 W 34th Street, to explore the full menu of sundaes, cocoa, shakes, and chocolate offerings.

“The Kong Sundae was created to celebrate our home at the Empire State Building, and we are thrilled that Observatory guests will be the first to experience it,” said Lacey Zane, vice president of restaurant & retail at Ghirardelli Chocolate Company.

Hi-res images of the popup offerings, and the Empire State Building Observatory, can be found here.

Tickets to the Empire State Building Observation Deck can be found online.

About the Empire State Building

The Empire State Building, the “World’s Most Famous Building,” owned by Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (ESRT: NYSE), soars 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan from base to antenna. The $165 million reimagination of the Empire State Building Observatory Experience created an all-new experience with a dedicated guest entrance, an interactive museum with nine galleries, and a redesigned 102nd Floor Observatory with floor-to-ceiling windows. The journey to the world-famous 86th Floor Observatory, the only 360-degree, open-air observatory with views of New York and beyond, orients visitors for their entire New York City experience and covers everything from the building’s iconic history to its current place in pop culture. The Empire State Building Observatory Experience welcomes millions of visitors each year and is ranked the #1 Top Attraction in New York City for the fourth consecutive year in Tripadvisor’s 2025 Travelers’ Choice Awards: Best of the Best Things to Do, “America’s Favorite Building” by the American Institute of Architects, the world’s most popular travel destination by Uber, and the #1 New York City attraction in Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel List. Since 2011, the building has been fully powered by renewable wind electricity, and its many floors house a diverse array of office tenants such as LinkedIn and Shutterstock, as well as retail options like STATE Grill and Bar, Tacombi, and Starbucks. For more information and Observatory Experience tickets visit esbnyc.com or follow the building’s Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Weibo, YouTube, or TikTok.

About The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company

Ghirardelli is passionate about quality bean-to-bar chocolate and all the ways its fans enjoy it. Founded in San Francisco in 1852, the company takes pride in producing premium chocolate products with the highest quality ingredients. Ghirardelli is one of the few large-scale U.S. chocolate companies that controls the entire manufacturing process, from cocoa bean sourcing and production to finished product. This approach, combined with Ghirardelli’s proprietary bean blend and unique methods of roasting and processing, ensures customers are rewarded with the highest quality and richest products. Ghirardelli makes life A Bite Better! For more information, visit ghirardelli.com.

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Strategic acquisition establishes an immediate, localized footprint in Japan, advancing Energy Vault’s global own & operate strategy in a high-growth, underpenetrated market

Transaction includes onboarding of a proven local Japanese development team and 350 MW of advanced-stage projects targeted to reach Notice to Proceed (NTP) in H2 2027, with Commercial Operation Dates (COD) expected in mid-2028

Acquisition brings total MWs for Energy Vault’s owned assets acquired, under construction and in operation to over 1 GW across all asset classes and geographies, expected to yield over $180M+ in annual recurring EBITDA run rate ahead of previous guidance

Energy Vault Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NRGV) (“Energy Vault” or the “Company”), a global leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage and AI compute infrastructure solutions, today announced its formal entry into the Japanese market through a binding agreement to acquire a pipeline of BESS projects from a leading domestic energy storage developer. The transaction includes the integration of an established team of local energy experts and the acquisition of a high-quality, 850 MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) development portfolio, positioning Energy Vault to capitalize on one of the fastest growing and structurally-advantaged energy storage markets among developed economies.

The acquired portfolio consists of 350 MW of advanced-stage BESS projects targeted to commence construction in H2 2027 and reach commercial operations beginning in H2 2028. The portfolio also includes 500 MW of early-stage BESS projects, providing a robust, multi-year growth pipeline that positions Energy Vault for long-term leadership in the Japanese energy storage market.

This acquisition establishes Energy Vault’s immediate presence in Japan, directly capitalizing on a uniquely attractive market driven by increasing grid constraints, rapid renewable penetration, and a projected 50%+ CAGR in BESS capacity. A critical component of this entry strategy is the onboarding of the local development team into Energy Vault, securing invaluable on-the-ground expertise in Japanese land rights, complex permitting, and utility interconnections. By combining this local development savvy and execution capability with our global integration, supply chain and asset ownership expertise, Energy Vault is uniquely positioned to support Japan’s 2050 carbon-neutral goals while delivering diversified returns across the country’s highly attractive wholesale arbitrage, capacity, and balancing markets.

“Entering the Japanese market is a key component of our high growth markets expansion strategy and represents one of the most compelling energy storage growth opportunities globally,” said Robert Piconi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Energy Vault. “This acquisition provides us with a foundational leadership position in Japan with advanced stage, attractive storage IPP projects coupled with critical local execution capabilities necessary to deliver at the highest performance levels within the Japanese BESS market. By combining our proprietary VaultOS™ energy management software and global supply chain with a proven local team, we are uniquely positioned to accelerate the deployment of the flexible capacity that the Japanese grid urgently requires. Furthermore, we expect to leverage our new solutions in the high-growth AI Compute segments to further compound growth opportunities within the market to enhance delivery of predictable, high-margin, long-term revenue streams ahead of our previously stated growth targets.”

The Japanese energy market is undergoing a fundamental structural shift toward “revenue stacking,” where BESS assets are increasingly required to generate diversified yields from wholesale arbitrage, capacity markets, and critical balancing services to ensure system stability. To meet these specific market dynamics, which demand exceptionally high energy density and stringent safety profiles, Energy Vault intends to leverage its technology-agnostic approach. This includes deploying its B-VAULT™ AC Technology Platform and integrating alternative chemistries, building upon the Company’s recently announced partnership with Peak Energy to commercialize next-generation sodium-ion battery technology.

“Despite being a highly developed economy, Japan’s energy storage market remains significantly underpenetrated and is now entering a period of accelerated growth driven by renewable expansion and structural grid constraints. Importantly, storage demand in Japan is not tied to load growth, but to the increasing need for flexibility, resilience, and system stability—creating a powerful, long-duration growth tailwind for our broad portfolio of solutions,” added Piconi.

Energy Vault’s platform creates a fully integrated value chain spanning the complete infrastructure lifecycle, from initial development through long-term operations, enabling the Company to generate stable, recurring cash flows from owned assets. By self-performing critical functions including engineering, procurement, construction, and ongoing service agreements, Energy Vault produces diversified revenue streams while maintaining strategic flexibility to deploy capital where it delivers optimal returns.

Energy Vault’s active global portfolio of owned assets now encompasses over 1 GW of critical energy and AI digital compute infrastructure in operation or under construction, including newly announced expansions in “powered land” and “powered shell” modular data centers in the US market. These assets announced to date are expected to yield over $180M+ in annual, recurring EBITDA streams once fully constructed and operational in the next 12-36 months, well ahead of our previously stated guidance.

About Energy Vault
Energy Vault® develops, deploys and operates utility-scale energy storage solutions designed to transform the world’s approach to sustainable energy storage. The Company’s comprehensive offerings include proprietary battery, gravity and green hydrogen energy storage technologies supporting a variety of customer use cases delivering safe and reliable energy system dispatching and optimization. Each storage solution is supported by the Company’s technology-agnostic energy management system software and integration platform. Unique to the industry, Energy Vault’s innovative technology portfolio delivers customized short, long and multi-day/ultra-long duration energy storage solutions to help utilities, independent power producers, and large industrial energy users significantly reduce levelized energy costs while maintaining power reliability. Since 2024, Energy Vault has executed an “Own & Operate” asset management strategy developed to generate predictable, recurring and high margin tolling revenue streams, positioning the Company for continued growth in the rapidly evolving energy storage asset infrastructure market.Please visit www.energyvault.com for more information.

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Reltio, a leader in AI-powered context intelligence, today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Master Data Management Solutions. Reltio was also positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.

The evaluation was based on specific criteria that analyzed the company’s overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.

Reltio’s MDM platform, Reltio Data Cloud, is a cloud-native, multitenant, multidomain MDM platform built on an intelligent data graph that unifies entities, relationships, interactions and groups. Reltio models master data as an entity graph, capturing attributes, relationships and interactions across domains such as person, organization, product and location. This supports flexible schemas, resolve-on-read patterns and consistent operational and analytical profiles exposed directly through APIs.

As organizations look to connect trusted data across operational, analytical and AI use cases, modern MDM platforms are increasingly expected to support flexible data models, real-time access and broader enterprise interoperability.

“Enterprises are under pressure to turn fragmented data into trusted, usable context for operations, analytics and AI,” said Manish Sood, CEO, Founder and Chairman of Reltio. “We believe this recognition from Gartner as a Leader, and our position being the furthest for Completeness of Vision, which we feel reflects Reltio’s long-standing commitment to helping customers unify data across the enterprise in real time and at scale. At Reltio, that vision is centered on context intelligence: giving organizations the ability to connect trusted data, relationships and interactions across the business so they can make better decisions, move faster and power AI with greater confidence.”

Reltio provides agent-based automation through its AgentFlow layer, offering prebuilt agents for data management and business processes, with extensibility for custom agents. The platform can also extract attributes from unstructured content, such as documents, and link them to the entity graph with lineage and traceability. In addition, Reltio offers industry-specific velocity packs for life sciences, healthcare, financial services and insurance, and for B2B, B2C, product and supplier use cases, with preconfigured data models and integrations that support faster deployments and time to value.

Reltio also extends connectivity across the enterprise through the Reltio Integration Hub, helping customers integrate with more than 1,000 enterprise applications.

“Master data management today must do more than create clean records. It must connect trusted data across operational, analytical and AI use cases,” said Ansh Kanwar, Chief Product Officer at Reltio. “Reltio Data Cloud was built as a cloud-native, multidomain platform for that purpose. We believe this recognition underscores the strength of our architecture, from our intelligent data graph and API-first data access to AgentFlow, unstructured data enablement and industry-specific accelerators.”

To learn more, access a complimentary copy of the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Master Data Management Solutions report here.

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About Reltio

Reltio is a leader in data unification and management, delivering cloud-native, AI-native master data management (MDM) to help enterprises create trusted data and unlock context intelligence for analytics, automation, and agentic AI. Designed for complex, multi-vendor environments, Reltio helps organizations unify, cleanse, harmonize, govern, and activate core data from multiple sources in real time—across SAP and non-SAP systems. The Reltio Data Cloud uses advanced entity resolution, continuous data quality, and relationship intelligence within an intelligent data graph to connect data across systems and reveal the full context behind customers, products, suppliers, and other key business entities. This enables organizations to reduce data friction, improve operational execution, and accelerate time to trusted decisions. For more information, visit reltio.com

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Experian has been recognized as one of the top vendors in retail banking analytics in Chartis Research’s inaugural Retail Banking Analytics50 2025. The report highlights leading companies that help financial institutions leverage analytics to inform strategy, modeling and go-to-market decisions. Experian also received awards for Best Overall Strategy and Retail Analytics Governance Framework.

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Experian has been recognized as one of the top vendors in retail banking analytics in Chartis Research’s inaugural Retail Banking Analytics50 2025.

“Experian continues to set a benchmark in retail banking analytics,” said Anish Shah, Research Director at Chartis Research. “Its cloud-native, AI-powered platform delivers fast, transparent and accurate risk decisioning – as reflected in its top 3 placing in Chartis’ Retail Banking Analytics50 2025 ranking.”

Experian’s foundational AI-driven solution, Experian Ascend Platform™ integrates advanced analytics, trusted data and decisioning capabilities. The platform allows clients to seamlessly navigate between data exploration, model deployment and monitoring, and model governance to enable more robust and compliant analytics.

“For more than 15 years, our AI-powered solutions have enabled financial institutions around the world to transform data into actionable insights, applying advanced analytics and modeling to drive smarter decisions and bring consumer-centric offerings to market,” said Vijay Mehta, EVP, Global Solutions and Analytics at Experian. “This recognition underscores our continued innovation in helping customers streamline decision-making, strengthen fraud prevention, and maintain compliance with evolving data privacy regulations.”

To learn more about the Chartis Retail Banking Analytics50 2025 ranking and award winners, visit: https://www.chartis-research.com/analytics/7947428/retail-banking-analytics50-2025#.

About Chartis

Chartis Research is the leading provider of research and analysis on the global market for risk technology. Our goal is to support companies as they drive business performance through improved risk management, corporate governance and compliance, and to help clients make informed technology and business decisions by providing in-depth analysis and advice on virtually all aspects of risk technology. For more information, visit www.chartis-research.com.

About Experian

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, deliver digital marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realize their financial goals and help them to save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agrifinance, insurance, and many more industry segments.

We invest in talented people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data and to innovate. A FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 25,200 people across 33 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

Experian and the Experian marks used herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Experian and its affiliates. Other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today announced it will acquire the Lyve Cloud business from Seagate Technology LLC (NASDAQ: STX), a leading innovator of mass-capacity data storage. Under the terms of the agreement, Seagate will receive equity in Wasabi and become a shareholder of the company. Additional financial terms were not disclosed.

“This acquisition strengthens our position as the world’s leading pure-play cloud storage vendor,” said David Friend, co-founder and CEO of Wasabi Technologies. “Seagate has built a loyal enterprise customer base for Lyve Cloud storage, and we welcome those customers to Wasabi. We are focused on supporting their growth with our global network of data centers, innovative security features such as Covert Copy, AI-ready capabilities, partner integration tools, and technical support.”

“This transaction is aligned with Seagate’s strategic focus on its core mass-capacity storage business to meet the surging demand for data storage, while ensuring Lyve Cloud customers continue receiving exceptional support through Wasabi, a dedicated, independent cloud storage provider,” said Gianluca Romano, chief financial officer of Seagate Technology.

Strengthening Enterprise-Grade Cloud Storage

AI initiatives, analytics, video workloads, and longer data retention requirements are driving rapid growth in enterprise storage demand. As data volumes scale into the petabytes, organizations are re-evaluating cloud economics and seeking to reduce vendor complexity. Increasingly, they are choosing providers that deliver predictable pricing, strong security, and global performance at scale.

Lyve Cloud has long been positioned as an enterprise-ready storage platform with strong security and compliance capabilities. Combined with Wasabi’s focused execution, channel reach, and straightforward pricing model, the acquisition creates a powerful independent option for enterprise customers seeking predictable, cost-efficient storage deployments.

Expanded Ecosystem and Simplified Backup Integrations

Wasabi and Lyve Cloud share strong integration partnerships with leading data protection and backup providers, including Veeam, Rubrik, and Commvault. The combination simplifies the landscape for customers and channel partners by reducing the need to manage multiple S3-compatible storage vendors. The transaction strengthens Wasabi’s ability to serve enterprise backup and recovery workloads while maintaining cost-effective, predictable pricing outside the hyperscalers.

About Wasabi Technologies:

Recognized as one of the technology industry’s fastest growing companies, Wasabi is on a mission to store the world’s data by making cloud storage affordable, predictable and secure. With Wasabi, visionary companies gain the freedom to use their data whenever they like without being hit with unpredictable fees or vendor lock-in. Instead, they’re free to build best-of-breed solutions with the industry’s fastest-growing ecosystem of independent cloud application partners. Customers and partners all over the world trust Wasabi to help them put their data to work so they can unlock their full potential. Visit wasabi.com to learn more.

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NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced the inclusion of César Cernuda, President at NetApp, in the esteemed 2026 HITEC 100 list honoring 100 technology leaders of all backgrounds whose leadership and innovation are shaping the future of the global technology ecosystem. The list recognizes executives whose impact extends beyond their organizations and advances opportunity by embracing underleveraged, forward‑thinking talent.

As part of its ongoing commitment to growth, excellence, and measurable impact, HITEC also announced a strategic evolution of the HITEC Awards program. The HITEC 100 award will continue to embody the organization’s Architects of Growth ethos by celebrating exceptional industry leaders whose influence extends beyond their organizations. These honorees are setting industry direction, driving innovation at scale, and expanding opportunity through inclusive leadership.

“At NetApp, I have had the opportunity to transform the technology industry by enabling enterprises to build Intelligent Data Infrastructure that unlocks the full value of their data,” said César Cernuda, President at NetApp. “Being recognized as a 2026 HITEC 100 honoree reflects how our approach is helping lead the industry into the AI era. I hope that my work at NetApp inspires the next generation of technology leaders to take an active role in shaping the future of the industry.”

The 2026 HITEC 100 honorees include some of the most respected technology leaders from Fortune 100 and global enterprises, spanning roles such as CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology executives across diverse disciplines. This year’s class reflects the breadth and strength of the technology ecosystem, with leaders representing multiple industries, geographies, and organizations.

“I am so proud of the 2026 HITEC 100 honorees—they are at the top of their game and demonstrating what it means to be an Architect of Growth in a global, technology-driven world,” said Miriam Hernandez-Kakol, Chair of the HITEC Board of Directors. “They create collaborative networks rooted in shared values and a culture of excellence. Their leadership shows what it takes to create enduring value across a broader ecosystem.”

The HITEC 100 reflects a rigorous and comprehensive recognition process designed to honor the most impactful technology leaders across the global ecosystem. Honorees are selected based on leadership impact, scope and scale of influence, contributions to innovation and technology, and a demonstrated commitment to developing future leaders.

To view the complete HITEC 100 list, please click here. For more information about NetApp, visit: https://www.netapp.com/

For more information, please contact Cristin Aguilera, Programs Director, at cristin@hitecglobal.org.

About NetApp

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Andersen Global continues to strengthen its presence in the Caribbean as JD Consulting adopts the Andersen brand and becomes a member firm, launching Andersen in Grenada.

Andersen in Grenada is a professional services firm providing accounting, tax, and business advisory services to private clients, owner-managed businesses, SMEs, and organizations across a range of industries. Led by Managing Director Johnson Dion, the firm combines strong local insight with globally recognized professionals and delivers tailored, practical solutions that support financial stability, operational efficiency, and sustainable growth.

“Adopting the Andersen brand marks an important step in our firm’s growth,” said Managing Director Johnson Dion. “Our focus has always been on delivering high-quality, client-focused advisory services rooted in integrity and excellence. Becoming a member firm enhances our ability to support clients with broader capabilities while preserving the personalized approach that defines our practice.”

“The launch of Andersen in Grenada reflects the firm’s long-standing role in the local market and its evolution over time,” said Mark L. Vorsatz, global chairman and CEO of Andersen. “Johnson has built a practice grounded in integrity and consistency, and his leadership supports our continued expansion across the Caribbean.”

Andersen Global is an international association of legally separate, independent member firms comprised of tax, legal, and valuation professionals around the world. Established in 2013 by U.S. member firm Andersen Tax LLC, Andersen Global now has more than 50,000 professionals worldwide and a presence in over 1,000 locations through its member firms and collaborating firms.

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Global energy technology company SLB (NYSE: SLB) announced that its SLB OneSubsea joint venture was awarded a contract by Beacon Offshore Energy (BOE) Exploration and Production LLC to deliver a high‑pressure, high‑temperature (HPHT) multiphase boosting system for the Shenandoah field in the Gulf of America.

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SLB (NYSE: SLB) announced that its SLB OneSubsea joint venture was awarded a contract by Beacon Offshore Energy (BOE) Exploration and Production LLC to deliver a high‑pressure, high‑temperature (HPHT) multiphase boosting system for the Shenandoah field in the Gulf of America.

 

The award reflects continued investment in deepwater developments, where advanced subsea systems are being applied to improve recovery. SLB OneSubsea’s HPHT multiphase boosting system is engineered to operate reliably above 15,000 psi, addressing operating conditions that exceed the limits of conventional subsea solutions.

“Our engagement with BOE began in January 2025, enabling us to design a subsea boosting solution tailored to the field’s operating conditions,” said Andreas Fjellbirkeland, vice president, Processing Systems, SLB OneSubsea. “As operators continue to invest in deepwater projects in the Gulf of America, this type of technology plays a critical role in accelerating production and improving recovery.”

Key points

• SLB OneSubsea has been awarded a contract by BOE Exploration & Production LLC to deliver a multiphase boosting system for the Shenandoah field in the Gulf of America
• The system is engineered to reliably operate above 15,000 psi, surpassing conventional subsea solutions and addressing advanced HPHT field demands
• SLB OneSubsea’s processing technology supports enhanced oil recovery, faster production, and increased field value for BOE

About SLB

SLB (NYSE: SLB) is a global technology company that has driven energy innovation for 100 years. With a global footprint in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating oil and gas, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition. Find out more at slb.com.

About SLB OneSubsea

SLB OneSubsea is driving a new subsea era leveraging digital and technology innovation to optimize our customers’ oil and gas production, reduce emissions in subsea operations, and unlock the large potential of subsea solutions to shape a sustainable energy future. SLB OneSubsea is a joint venture backed by SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7 headquartered in Oslo and Houston, with 10,000 employees across the world. Find out more at onesubsea.slb.com.

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Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) and Anthropic today announced that Moody’s Agentic Solutions (MAS) will be available natively in Anthropic’s Claude environment – including Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, and Claude Enterprise – through a purpose-built Model Context Protocol (MCP) application. Together, the companies are bringing Moody’s decision-grade risk intelligence into Anthropic’s frontier AI environment, delivering trusted, auditable outputs at the scale and speed regulated institutions demand.

“The institutions that will lead in an AI-driven world are those that build on intelligence that can be trusted, defended, and acted upon,” said Cristina Pieretti, Head of Digital Content and Innovation at Moody’s. “Moody’s provides that intelligent layer – connected, decision-grade, and now available directly in the Claude environment where our customers are already working.”

Separately, Moody’s is deploying Claude Enterprise, Claude Code, and Claude Desktop in its own operations to accelerate the product development lifecycle that powers its AI roadmap.

“Claude is built for work where the stakes are high and the outputs need to be defensible, and that’s exactly what credit and compliance teams face every day,” said Kate Jensen, Anthropic Head of Americas. “Moody’s is going all in by bringing Moody’s Agentic Solutions natively into Claude for their customers and deploying Claude in their own operations.”

At launch, Moody’s purpose-built agents will support credit analysis for financial institutions – including memo generation, peer comparisons, and scorecard assessments – as well as compliance workflows spanning entity profiling, ownership structure mapping, adverse media screening, and sanctions checks. All will be rendered as interactive reports directly within Claude through a dedicated MCP integration that connects Moody’s intelligence at the protocol level, enabling agents to run natively in the Claude environment and produce outputs inline without requiring customers to move between systems.

For a credit analyst at a financial institution, workflows that previously required hours of data gathering across multiple platforms – assembling ratings, research, and financial data into a defensible memo – can now be executed conversationally inside Claude, with outputs that carry the same sourcing, explainability, and audit trail that regulated environments require. For KYC and compliance professionals, entity screening workflows that span ownership structure mapping, adverse media analysis, and sanctions checks are available as a single, integrated workflow rendered directly in the Claude interface.

Today’s launch is the first in a series of Moody’s agentic workflows planned for the Claude environment, with additional capabilities across risk monitoring and portfolio intelligence to follow.

Each agent is grounded in Moody’s connected intelligence – a unified architecture spanning 600 million entities, 2 billion ownership links, and interconnected risk intelligence across credit, compliance, and operational domains. Outputs are valid, explainable, and auditable to meet the standard required for high-stakes decision-making in regulated environments.

To learn more, visit http://moodys.com/agenticsolutions.

About Moody’s Corporation

In a world shaped by increasingly interconnected risks, Moody’s (NYSE:MCO) data, insights, and innovative technologies help customers develop a holistic view of their world and unlock opportunities. With a rich history of experience in global markets and a diverse workforce of approximately 16,000 across more than 40 countries, Moody’s gives customers the comprehensive perspective needed to act with confidence and thrive.

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INNIO Group today announced the signing of a strategic gas engine framework agreement with Rehlko, securing 1.25 gigawatts (GW) of engine capacity over the next three years. This agreement formalizes and expands Rehlko’s existing firm reservation of 700 MW, which is included as part of the secured multi-year allocation. It is designed to support rapidly growing demand from data center and flexible generation projects across key global markets.

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INNIO and Rehlko announce framework agreement for 1.25 GW of gas engine capacity

 

Dr. Olaf Berlien, President and CEO of INNIO Group, commented: “With this framework agreement, we are strengthening our partnership with Rehlko and creating long‑term planning certainty in a market with rapidly growing demand. It ensures that our customers can continue to rely on proven technology and dependable execution, even in highly critical applications such as data centers and grid‑stabilization projects.”

“This agreement strengthens our ability to support customers making long‑term investments in data‑center infrastructure and flexible power generation. Securing multi‑year supply enhances visibility and confidence in delivery at a time when demand is being driven by structural, rather than cyclical, market forces,” said Brian Melka, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rehlko.

Rehlko will deliver these projects through Clarke Energy, its in-house engineering, delivery, and lifecycle solutions platform. Clarke Energy brings more than 30 years of collaboration with INNIO and supports a global installed base of over 10 GW, much of it covered by long-term service agreements.

The framework agreement provides Rehlko and its customers with long-term access to supply at a time of unprecedented growth in both data center development and grid resilience investment. A significant portion of the secured capacity is intended to address continued demand from hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data center operators undertaking rapid and multiphase expansion.

About INNIO Group

INNIO Group is a leading energy solution and service provider that empowers industries and communities to make sustainable energy work today. With its Jenbacher and Waukesha product brands and its AI-powered myplant digital platform, INNIO Group offers innovative solutions for data center power infrastructure, distributed power generation, and compression applications. With its flexible, scalable, and resilient energy solutions and services, INNIO Group enables its customers to drive the energy transition across the energy value chain and helps ensure reliable energy supply even where the grid is not available.

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