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In a significant step toward transforming pediatric critical care, Aster CMI Hospital today announced the launch of PEARL (Pediatric Emergency and Advanced Response for Liver Care) – Karnataka’s first dedicated Pediatric Liver Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This specialized unit has been purpose-built to exclusively manage children with severe and life-threatening liver conditions, bringing a new level of focused, timely, and highly specialized care to pediatric healthcare. The unit was inaugurated by M Maheshwar Rao (IAS), Chief Commissioner, GBA, Karnataka, in the presence of senior leadership and clinical experts from Aster Hospitals.

 

The launch of PEARL marks a paradigm shift in pediatric healthcare, moving beyond generalized ICU care to a focused liver-centric model tailored specifically for children. Pediatric liver emergencies often escalate rapidly, leading to complications such as brain swelling, infections, organ failure, and metabolic disturbances. Addressing these complexities requires coordinated, specialist-led approach centered on liver health. Equipped with advanced monitoring systems and supported by a multidisciplinary team of pediatric hepatologists, liver transplant surgeons, intensivists, anesthetists, infectious disease specialists, and specially trained liver ICU nurses, PEARL enables rapid response, precision care, and continuous monitoring during critical moments.

 

Speaking on the launch, Prof. (Dr.) N. Karthik Nagesh, Program Director – Pediatric Centre’s of Excellence, Aster CMI Hospital, Karnataka, said, “In pediatric liver emergencies, every minute is crucial. With PEARL, we are able to initiate early, targeted interventions and provide continuous, liver-focused critical care tailored specifically for children. This approach significantly improves clinical outcomes and, in some cases, supports recovery without the need for liver transplantation.”

 

Dr Sonal Asthana, Program Director, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Multiorgan Transplantation, Aster CMI Hospital, Karnataka, said, “The Aster Integrated Liver Care Team is Karnataka’s largest liver care and transplant provider, treating more than 7000 patients with liver disease annually. The ILC performs more than 100 liver transplantation procedures in Bangalore annually, of which a significant number are for Pediatric liver failure. Many children from non-affordable families are offered lifesaving transplants under an innovative affordable liver transplant program. The launch of a dedicated Pediatric liver ICU highlights our commitment to providing world class interdisciplinary care for these very sick children.”

 

Dr. Prashanth N, CEO – Aster Hospitals, Karnataka, added, “The launch of PEARL reflects our commitment to redefining pediatric critical care. By establishing a dedicated liver ICU backed by expert multidisciplinary teams, we are strengthening our ability to deliver timely, specialized, and comprehensive care for critically ill children, while setting new benchmarks in pediatric healthcare.”

 

Unlike conventional ICUs, PEARL is structured entirely around the unique needs of children with liver failure, ensuring that every aspect of care, from monitoring and medication to intervention protocols is precisely aligned. This focused approach enables early detection, faster intervention, and improved recovery outcomes, which may avoid the requirement for transplantation in some children. The unit also emphasizes family-centered care, offering clear communication, emotional support, and guidance to families during critical times.

 

With the launch of PEARL, Aster CMI Hospital is reshaping the pediatric healthcare landscape by introducing a dedicated, highly specialized liver care ecosystem combining clinical expertise, advanced technology, and compassionate care to improve outcomes for children across the region.

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The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is hosting seven mega events, including Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair, Home InStyle and Fashion InStyle (27-30 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, HKCEC); the Hong Kong International Printing & Packaging Fair and DeLuxe PrintPack Hong Kong (held concurrently at AsiaWorld-Expo); and the Hong Kong International Licensing Show and Asian Licensing Conference (27-29 April at the HKCEC). These events bridge Hong Kong’s creative industries with Chinese Mainland and global markets, reinforcing the city’s role as a regional creative hub.

 

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Trendsetting Gifts Ignite Sourcing

 

The Gifts & Premium Fair will feature the acclaimed Hall of Fine Designs, a key showcase for leading design brands from around the world. This edition will welcome the debut of Shanxi Pavilion, alongside an expanded Zhejiang Pavilion, led for the first time by the Department of Commerce of Zhejiang Province. In addition, Smart Design Global will present its shortlisted entries, leveraging the fair as a platform to promote original Hong Kong designs to international markets.

 

 

Leading Houseware Trends

 

 

Home InStyle continues to showcase innovative materials in houseware. Building on last year’s success with novel home solutions for the silver market, the fair brings these elements together in the Gerontech and Innovative Material Pavilion, funded by the HKSAR Government’s Innovation and Technology Commission.

 

 

Redefining the Material Frontier at Fashion InStyle

 

 

Fashion InStyle marks the return of NEXT@Fashion InStyle, a premier HKTDC spotlight zone sponsored by the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) of the HKSAR Government. Featuring the Philippines as this year’s Featured Partner, the zone unites around 60 global exhibitors showcasing how next-gen materials drive industry transformation. Guided by Project Consultant Han Chong (Self-Portrait founder), it presents five cross-disciplinary projects by six emerging Hong Kong designers.

 

 

Two PrintPack Fairs: Smart + Sustainable

 

 

The Printing & Packaging Fair will feature smart packaging & new materials alongside its green offerings, meeting rising demand for innovation and sustainability. DeLuxe PrintPack Hong Kong will focus on premium printing and packaging solutions for luxury items, with dedicated themes for industries.

 

 

The events will feature a wide range of thematic seminars, buyer forums, product promotion and launch events and fashion parades, covering market analysis, cultural creative design, smart industry, the silver economy, and sustainability.

 

 

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Canva, the world’s leading all-in-one visual communication platform, today announced the next chapter in its two-year strategic collaboration with Anthropic, bringing Canva directly into the newly launched Claude Design by Anthropic Labs, one day after unveiling Canva AI 2.0 to a crowd of 6,500 people at Canva Create in Los Angeles..

 

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Canva is also today introducing HTML importing, a new capability that makes it easy to bring interactive content generated in tools like Claude into the Canva editor for drag-and-drop collaboration, refinement, and publishing.

 

The collaboration makes it easier for Claude Design users to turn AI-generated drafts and ideas into fully editable designs in Canva, where they become collaborative, on-brand, and ready to scale and publish. It helps address one of the biggest gaps in today’s AI landscape: turning AI-generated content into real, usable work.

 

 

“It’s never been easier to start an idea, but bringing it to life is still too complex and fragmented. We’ve been solving this for more than a decade, and today, more than a quarter of a billion people use Canva every month to turn their ideas into real, usable work. We’re excited to extend our platform even further through this collaboration with Claude Design, making it seamless to turn AI-generated content into fully editable, collaborative, and scalable designs, ready to publish.”       – Melanie Perkins, Co-Founder and CEO at Canva

 

From AI-Generated Drafts to Fully Editable Designs


 

Since launching the Canva MCP in Claude last July, millions of people have used Canva through Claude to create, resize, and summarise content using simple text prompts. Today’s announcement builds on this momentum, making it even easier to move from drafts and ideas to presentations, documents, social posts, infographics, and more in Canva.

 

 

Powered by Canva’s Foundation Design Model, content exported from Claude Design is instantly turned into structured, fully editable designs in the Canva Editor, built for collaboration, iteration, and scale. Unlike traditional AI outputs that are static and fragmented, each design is ready to refine, share, and build on.

 

 

Introducing HTML and Artifact Editing in Canva


 

 

From landing pages to widgets and interactive experiences, AI tools are making it easier than ever to generate complex content using HTML. But these outputs are often locked in code, making them difficult to edit, refine, or adapt without starting over.

 

 

To solve this, Canva is also launching HTML importing and editing, expanding its platform to support code and AI-generated artifacts within its simple drag-and-drop editor. This makes Canva the first platform to unify visual, document, and interactive content creation in a single collaborative editor.

 

 

Now, Claude Artifacts can be brought directly into Canva and edited like any other design. Swap colours, layouts, and elements without regenerating code with each change. Then collect data with Canva Forms into Sheets, or publish your creation as an interactive website with a custom domain, all without leaving Canva.

 

 

Expanding Canva’s Role in the AI Ecosystem


 

 

Today’s announcement marks the latest step in Canva’s rapid expansion across the AI ecosystem, where the company is fast becoming the default destination for design.

 

 

As AI accelerates the pace of content creation, millions of people are looking for ways to move beyond ideas and static outputs, turning generated content into real, usable designs. Since launching in March 2026, Canva’s Magic Layers product, which breaks static images into fully editable components, has been used more than nine million times, highlighting strong demand to turn AI-generated content into adaptable, scalable work.

 

 

This growing demand has helped make Canva the third most-used AI platform in the world, and the fastest growing in customer spend on AI products among leading software companies, according to new research from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

 

 

“We’re excited to see AI tools like Claude Design integrating with Canva to make it even easier to turn drafts and ideas into real, usable work. This announcement builds on more than two years of close collaboration with Anthropic, where Canva has become one of the most used apps. We’ve loved working closely with their team and share a deep alignment in making complex things simple for millions of people.”       – Danny Wu, Head of AI Products at Canva

 

Canva now powers design for more than a quarter of a billion people every month, bringing more than 420 designs to life every second. The company’s AI products and foundation models have been used more than 27 billion times to date.


 

A New Era for Creativity


 

 

Today’s announcement builds on a momentous week for Canva. Yesterday, the company unveiled Canva AI 2.0, the most significant evolution of its platform since launching more than a decade ago.

 

 

Announced at Canva Create in Los Angeles in front of more than 6,500 attendees and millions tuning in globally, this week marks a new era for Canva as the company expands beyond design generation to become the system at the centre of how work gets done.

 

 

 

 

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A pioneer in smoke-free tobacco products, Philip Morris International is the only company that has received modified risk tobacco product authorizations for heated tobacco products.

 

In their order, FDA concluded that: “Scientific studies have shown that switching completely from conventional cigarettes to the IQOS system significantly reduces your body’s exposure to harmful or potentially harmful chemicals”

 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has authorized the renewal of modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) orders previously granted to PMI for two versions of the IQOS device and three variants of the tobacco consumables, commercialized under the HEETS brand. This renewal allows PMI to continue sharing reduced-exposure information with U.S. adults 21+ who use traditional tobacco products, such as combustible cigarettes.

 

The agency concluded that renewing the IQOS and HEETS MRTP authorizations is appropriate to promote public health and is expected to benefit the health of the population as a whole taking into account both users of tobacco products and persons who do not currently use tobacco products.

 

 

“As the only company to have successfully secured and maintained MRTP authorizations for heated tobacco products in the U.S., we are confident that our science-based alternatives can help adult smokers transition away from combustible cigarettes,” said Stacey Kennedy, CEO, PMI U.S. “This decision from the FDA reflects both the rigorous scientific foundation supporting IQOS and our ongoing commitment to responsibly deliver smoke-free choices to adult consumers.”

 

 

In issuing the MRTP renewal orders for IQOS, the FDA reaffirmed that “the scientific evidence that is available without conducting long-term epidemiological studies demonstrates that a measurable and substantial reduction in morbidity or mortality among individual tobacco users is reasonably likely.”

 

 

The IQOS 2.4 system was the first heated tobacco product authorized via the FDA’s MRTP process in 2020 as “appropriate for the promotion of public health,” following its authorization through the premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) process in 2019. The IQOS 3 system secured MRTP authorization in 2022, following premarket authorization in 2020. The FDA continues to review PMTAs for IQOS ILUMA and given its strong application and demonstrated track record converting legal age smokers to a better alternative, PMI believes the application warrants expeditious FDA action.

 

 

PMI’s MRTP submission included an extensive body of scientific evidence indicating that the IQOS system produces aerosol with substantially lower levels of harmful and potentially harmful constituents compared with cigarette smoke. While no tobacco product is risk-free, a growing body of real-world data—including from markets such as Japan—indicates that the availability of heated tobacco products has been associated with notable reductions in combustible cigarette consumption.

 

 

Heated tobacco products, such as IQOS, heat tobacco without burning it, significantly reducing the formation of the harmful chemicals created by combustion while delivering real tobacco taste and nicotine satisfaction. The renewed authorization covers the following products:

 

 

• IQOS 2.4 System Holder and Charger
• IQOS 3.0 System Holder and Charger
• HEETS: Amber, Green Menthol, Blue Menthol

 

PMI U.S. is focused on providing better options than traditional tobacco products to America’s 45 million legal-age nicotine consumers—approximately 25 million of whom still smoke cigarettes, by far the most harmful way to consume nicotine.

 

Since 2008, PMI has invested over $16 billion globally to develop, scientifically substantiate, and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise smoke, with the goal of completely ending the sale of cigarettes.

 

 

PMI first entered the U.S. market in 2022, following its acquisition of Swedish Match—a leader in oral nicotine delivery—creating a global smoke-free champion. PMI’s ambition is that all adults who would otherwise continue to smoke leave cigarettes behind for good by either quitting altogether or switching completely to scientifically substantiated smoke-free products as soon as possible. Regulatory policies and decisions can substantially accelerate the speed and magnitude of this historic change.

 

 

Philip Morris International: A Global Smoke-Free Champion

 

 

Philip Morris International is a leading international consumer goods company, actively delivering a smoke-free future and evolving its portfolio for the long term to include products outside of the tobacco and nicotine sector. The company’s current product portfolio primarily consists of cigarettes and smokefree products, including heat-not-burn, nicotine pouch and e-vapor products. Our smoke-free products are available for sale in over 105 markets, and as of December 31, 2025 PMI estimates they were used by over 43 million legal-age consumers around the world, many of whom have moved away from cigarettes or significantly reduced their consumption. The smoke-free business accounted for 41.5% of PMI’s full year 2025 total net revenues. Since 2008, PMI has invested over $16 billion to develop, scientifically substantiate and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke, with the goal of completely ending the sale of cigarettes. This includes the building of worldclass scientific assessment capabilities, notably in the areas of pre-clinical systems toxicology, clinical and behavioral research, as well as post-market studies. Following a robust science-based review, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the marketing of Swedish Match’s General snus and ZYN nicotine pouches and versions of PMI’s IQOS devices and consumables as appropriate for the protection of public health – the first-ever such authorizations in their respective categories. Versions of IQOS devices and consumables and General snus also obtained the first-ever Modified Risk Tobacco Product authorizations from the FDA. With a strong foundation and significant expertise in life sciences, PMI has a long-term ambition to expand into wellness areas. References to “PMI”, “we”, “our” and “us” mean Philip Morris International Inc., and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.pmi.com and www.pmiscience.com.

 

 

PMI U.S.: Invested in America

 

 

Philip Morris International Inc.’s U.S. businesses are invested in America’s future and advancing a smoke-free nation. The businesses are committed to providing the approximately 25 million legal-age consumers who smoke cigarettes with better, smoke-free alternatives and to ensuring the products are marketed responsibly. From PMI’s global headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, and other locations nationwide, PMI U.S. contributes leadership, jobs, investment, and innovation in the U.S. The U.S. businesses employ more than 3,000 people across America and operate product manufacturing facilities, including in Owensboro, Kentucky, and Wilson, North Carolina. For more information, please visit www.uspmi.com.

 

 

Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements

 

 

This press release contains projections of future results and goals and other forward-looking statements, including statements regarding expected performance, regulatory outcomes, business plans and strategies. Achievement of future results is subject to risks, uncertainties and inaccurate assumptions. In the event that risks or uncertainties materialize, or underlying assumptions prove inaccurate, actual results could vary materially from those contained in such forward-looking statements. Pursuant to the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, PMI is identifying important factors that, individually or in the aggregate, could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements made by PMI.

 

 

PMI’s business risks include: marketing and regulatory restrictions that could reduce our competitiveness, disrupt our SFP commercialization efforts, eliminate our ability to communicate with adult consumers, or ban certain of our products in certain markets or countries; excise tax increases and discriminatory tax structures; health concerns relating to the use of tobacco and other nicotine-containing products; litigation related to tobacco and/or nicotine products and intellectual property rights; intense competition; inability to anticipate changes in adult consumer preferences; use and reliance on third-parties; the adverse effects of global and individual country economic, regulatory and political developments, natural disasters and conflicts; geopolitical instability affecting international trade; the impact and consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; changes in adult smoker behavior; continued decline of tax-paid cigarettes; lost revenues as a result of counterfeiting, contraband and cross-border purchases; governmental investigations; unfavorable currency exchange rates and currency devaluations, sustained periods of elevated inflation, and limitations on the ability to repatriate funds; adverse changes in applicable corporate tax laws; disruptions in the credit markets or changes to its credit ratings; recent and potential future tariffs imposed by the U.S. and other countries; adverse changes in the cost, availability, and quality of tobacco and other agricultural products and raw materials, as well as product components for our electronic devices; and the integrity of its information systems and effectiveness of its data privacy policies. PMI’s future profitability may also be adversely affected should it be unsuccessful, in key markets or systemically, in its efforts to introduce, commercialize, and grow smoke-free products or if regulation or taxation do not differentiate between such products and cigarettes; if it is unable to successfully introduce new products, promote brand equity; if there are prolonged disruptions of facilities used to produce its products; if it is unable to enter new markets or improve its margins through increased prices and productivity gains; if other market participants are more successful in their SFP commercialization efforts; if it is unable to attract and retain the best global talent; or if it is unable to successfully integrate and realize the expected benefits from recent transactions and acquisitions. Future results are also subject to the lower predictability of our smoke-free products performance.

 

 

PMI is further subject to other risks detailed from time to time in its publicly filed documents, including PMI’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2025. PMI cautions that the foregoing list of important factors is not a complete discussion of all potential risks and uncertainties. PMI does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that it may make from time to time, except in the normal course of its public disclosure obligations.

 

 

 

 

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Experian has been named a 2026 CIO 100 Award winner by Foundry’s CIO for its enterprise workplace transformation, which integrates artificial intelligence and modern digital tools to improve productivity and decision-making across its global workforce.

 

For more than 40 years, the CIO 100 Awards have honored companies that drive business value through technology leadership.

 

 

“The organizations we’re recognizing this year are not simply maintaining operations, they are actively shaping business outcomes,” said Richard Smith, head of event content for the CIO 100 Awards and Conference. “Artificial intelligence, data, security and cloud capabilities now converge under a single leadership vision. This year’s winners reflect what is possible when those elements are fully aligned.”

 

 

Powering an AI-Enabled Workforce

 

 

A central component of the initiative is Experian’s focus on trusted, well-governed data, reinforced by strong guardrails to ensure AI and analytics deliver secure, reliable insights. Experian uses AI responsibly, with human oversight where appropriate, and takes no shortcuts when it comes to governance, privacy and security. The company has expanded its use of enterprise-grade AI tools, enabling employees to automate tasks and work more efficiently.

 

 

“Receiving the CIO 100 Award highlights how Experian is bringing together artificial intelligence, a modern digital workplace and trusted data to drive innovation across our global workforce,” said Alex Lintner, CEO of Technology and Software Solutions at Experian. “By equipping employees with these capabilities, we’re improving productivity, accelerating decisions and delivering better outcomes for our customers while advancing as a data- and AI-driven organization. This progress reflects the strong execution of our digital workplace team in delivering a modern, AI-enabled employee experience.”

 

 

From Transformation to Tangible Results

 

 

Led by the digital workplace team, the transformation is delivering measurable results across the organization. More than 17,000 employees now use AI-powered tools, generating over one million interactions each month. Onboarding readiness exceeds 90%, while employee satisfaction scores average 4.5 or higher. First-call resolution rates have improved to approximately 85%.

 

 

These gains are supported by a global operating model and are expected to deliver significant cost savings over three years. The initiative builds on Experian’s broader technology strategy, including a cloud-first transformation with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that has improved scalability and accelerated AI innovation.

 

 

Scaling Innovation Across a Global Enterprise

 

 

Experian also continues to expand its AI capabilities through the Experian Ascend Platform™, which supports customer decisioning with machine learning and real-time data insights. The platform is used by more than 1,400 users globally, processing millions of credit reports daily and billions of transactions each year. In addition to the evolution of EVA, Experian Virtual Assistant™ that expands personalized, conversational financial guidance to millions of consumers.

 

 

Experian executives and others from winning organizations were recognized at the CIO 100 Awards and Conference.

 

 

About Experian

 

 

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

 

 

We operate across financial services, healthcare, automotive, agrifinance, insurance, and other industries.

 

 

A FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have 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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Canva, the world’s leading visual communication platform, today announced its most significant evolution since launching in 2013 with the introduction of Canva AI 2.0, ushering in a new era of AI-powered creation as the company transforms itself into the system where work gets done.

 

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Just over a decade ago, Canva ushered in a new generation of design, transforming complex, expensive desktop software into a simple, powerful, and interoperable platform in the browser. It replaced intimidating blank pages with millions of templates, and manual, pixel-by-pixel editing with intuitive drag-and-drop creation, becoming one of the most widely used platforms in the world, with more than a quarter of a billion people now using Canva every month. Today’s announcement, unveiled at the company’s flagship Canva Create event in Los Angeles, marks the beginning of the next era of creation.

 

Powered by Canva’s frontier AI lab and years of investment in foundation models for design, Canva AI 2.0 transforms Canva into a conversational, agentic platform where teams can go from idea to execution in one place. The result is a powerful creative partner across the entire process, from the spark of an idea to the final output.

 

 

A Powerful New Architecture Layer

 

 

Canva AI 2.0 introduces a powerful new architecture layer that reimagines the entire design process, making it easier than ever to bring an idea to life. It marks Canva’s biggest shift since bringing design from complex desktop software into the browser.

 

 

Here’s what’s new:

 

 

• Conversational Design brings ideas to life from natural language prompts or dictation. Creation is no longer limited to a blank page or the perfect template. Just describe an idea, goal, or rough structure, and Canva AI generates a fully editable design with structure, brand, and layout from the start. Unlike traditional AI tools that produce a single output and stop there, Canva AI 2.0 stays with you throughout the entire creative process. It maintains context as your ideas evolve, helping you brainstorm, refine, and iterate at every step.
• Agentic Orchestration unlocks AI that finally works with you. Describe a goal, share a rough sketch, or provide a brief, and Canva AI brings it to life through a single conversation. Behind the scenes, a new orchestration layer brings together Canva’s full suite of tools to turn ideas into complete outcomes. It understands your intent, selects the right tools, and coordinates them to create everything you need, in every format. Ask it to “create a multi-channel campaign plan to launch our latest summer products,” and it will generate everything, ready to refine or publish.
• Object-Based Intelligence enables precise editing without starting over.Ask Canva AI to change something, and only that changes. Swap an image, adjust a headline, or refine a font without affecting anything else. Powered by Canva’s foundational Design Model, everything Canva AI 2.0 creates remains layered and fully editable, just as if it were built in the editor from scratch. Teams can jump in to collaborate, comment, and iterate as the work evolves.
• Living Memory gets smarter with you. With persistent memory, Canva AI understands how you work, keeping every project on brand, applying your style automatically, and evolving over time. It learns from your work and adapts to you and your team’s preferences and goals, becoming more helpful with every use. Personalise it with your existing designs to generate a custom memory library and an “About Me” profile that continuously tailors your experience.
• Canva AI is available across the Visual Suite where it can be used to create and edit presentations, documents, spreadsheets, social media posts, and more through a simple conversational interface.

 

Intelligent New Workflows

 

Canva AI 2.0 goes beyond design generation to become the system at the centre of how work gets done. From a quick design to a full campaign, it brings everything together in one place, unifying tools, workflows, and outputs to supercharge everyday work, making Canva the place where teams start and end their day.

 

 

• Connectors: Bring Your Work Together. Instead of being scattered across dozens of apps, Canva AI brings everything together, so you have everything you need to create. Connect tools like Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar, and Canva AI can draw on your conversations, content, and schedule to create exactly what you need. Generate meeting summaries from Zoom transcripts, turn customer emails into personalised sales pitches, or create company newsletters based on activity across Slack. Initial connectors include Slack, Notion, Zoom, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar, with more to come.
• Scheduling: Work On Autopilot. Set tasks once, and Canva AI runs them automatically in the background, even while you’re offline. Generate a full batch of social content every Friday, tailored for every channel and translated into the top ten languages spoken in the United States. Or have Canva AI scan your emails each morning and create briefing documents for your upcoming meetings based on your calendar. The work gets done in the background, ready when you log in, compressing hours of effort into seconds.
• Web Research: Insights, Built In. Web Research brings insights directly into your work. Run research on demand or schedule it in the background, and Canva AI gathers and structures information from across the web. From business proposals to market exploration, everything is delivered into your design as structured, editable content, ready to refine and share.
• Brand Intelligence: On Brand By Default. Brand Intelligence ensures every design starts and remains on-brand. Just connect your data or describe what you need, and Canva AI automatically applies your fonts, colours, and style to every design. You can also instantly update existing work by asking Canva AI to apply your latest brand, turning hours of manual updates into a single step done in seconds.
• Canva Code 2.0: Now with HTML Importing. Describe any interactive idea and Canva AI builds a complete, responsive experience, structured, interactive, and designed to work across every device. Now with HTML importing, Canva unlocks one of the fastest-growing AI formats. Instead of regenerating code for every change, you can bring any HTML file or AI-generated experience into Canva and edit it with Canva’s visual editor, no rebuilds required. From there, everything happens in one place. Add forms that collect responses in Canva Sheets, drop interactive elements into presentations, or publish to your own domain with SSO protection.
• Sheets AI: Smarter Spreadsheets Without the Hassle. Describe what you need and Canva AI 2.0 generates a fully structured, beautifully-designed sheet, populated with real data and research. From budget trackers to project timelines, content calendars to research tables, your sheet arrives structured, designed, and with all of the right data.
• Template Remix: An Infinite Library of Inspiration. Canva’s template library has always been vast, but now, it’s truly infinite. Canva AI 2.0 introduces an endless source of inspiration you can explore, remix, and make your own. Start with anything that catches your eye, then use Canva AI to shape it into exactly what you need. Every template becomes a starting point, not a limit.

 

A Rapidly Advancing Frontier AI Lab

 

At the core of Canva AI 2.0 is Canva’s rapidly advancing frontier AI lab, where more than 100 researchers across Canva Original Research and Exploration (CORE) are building a new class of multimodal foundation models purpose-built for design.

 

 

This investment has unlocked a major acceleration in Canva’s research velocity. The company’s first generation of models took over two years to develop. Today, new models are being trained, evaluated, and deployed in as little as a month, driven by advances in training infrastructure, model architectures, and closed-loop reinforcement learning systems.

 

 

Today, Canva’s research efforts span the full stack of visual AI, from image, video, and style transfer to structured design generation and evaluation. The company’s proprietary models are optimised not just for output quality, but for speed, editability, and real-world workflows.

 

 

Canva’s models are up to 7x faster and 30x cheaper than comparable frontier alternatives:

 

 

• Canva Proteus, which enables Style Transfer, is 2x faster and 23x cheaper.
• Canva Lucid Origin, which enables image generation, is 5x faster and 30x cheaper.
• Canva I2V, which enables image to video, is 7x faster and 17x cheaper.

 

To support the scale of this work, Canva is building a vertically integrated AI stack, including self-hosted training, large-scale reinforcement learning pipelines, and optimised inference infrastructure to bring this technology to its more than a quarter of a billion monthly active users.

 

Expanding Across the AI Ecosystem

 

 

Canva also announced the ability to bring AI-generated artifacts directly into Canva. From there, they become instantly editable and collaborative using Canva’s simple drag-and-drop editor, and can be published as fully functional websites in just a few clicks.

 

 

As AI reshapes how content is created, leading platforms are integrating Canva to help users move from draft generations to fully editable, structured, and scalable work. This growing demand has propelled Canva to become the third most-used AI platform in the world, and the fastest-growing in customer spend on AI products among leading software companies, according to new research from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

 

 

Research Preview Launching April 16

 

 

Starting April 16, Canva AI will launch as a research preview, rolling out to the first one million people who discover it on the Canva homepage. From there, access will expand progressively to more users over the coming weeks.

 

 

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SVE 108 Pvt. Ltd. built one of India’s first real estate exhibitions inside that moment. Airport Property Fest 2026 — concluded at the T3 Domestic Departure terminal, Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, Lucknow — is among the first property events in Indian history executed beyond security check-in, inside a live airside terminal.

Lucknow airport sees approximately 10,000 departing passengers every single day. Not footfall. Not impressions. Not clicks. Real people — business owners, entrepreneurs, senior executives and high net worth individuals — physically present, security cleared, and completely undistracted. Over four days, that is 40,000 moments of direct access to an audience that premium real estate brands spend enormous budgets trying to reach through conventional channels.

Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport made this platform possible. Eldeco, Omaxe BeTogether, and Ekana — names that have earned the trust of serious buyers across decades — chose to meet that audience here. Their participation said everything about where premium real estate marketing is heading.

No expo hall. No cold traffic. Just India’s most valuable audience — and the brands worthy of them.

Innovation. Growth. Dreams.

Business Wire India

Max Smart Speciality Hospital, Saket, announced the launch of a newly built 400-beds tower designed to deliver world-class healthcare and set new standards in advanced medical care in Delhi-NCR.

 

The new facility integrates advanced medical technology, intelligent digital systems, and globally benchmarked care standards, strengthening the hospital’s ability to deliver high-quality, patient-centric care while reinforcing its position as a leading destination for both domestic and international patients.

 

The new tower is expected to significantly enhance the hospital’s capacity to meet rising healthcare demand in Delhi-NCR while also supporting India’s growing international medical value travel sector in line with the government’s ‘Heal in India’ vision. Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, is the network hospital of Max Healthcare. With a long-term strategy to build Centres of Excellence and expand its bed capacity to 10,000 over the next four years, Max Healthcare aims to effectively address rising patient volumes and consistently high occupancy levels across its network.

 

Commenting on the launch, Mr. Abhay Soi, Chairman and Managing Director, Max Healthcare Institute Ltd., said, “This state-of-the-art new facility brings together cutting-edge technology, world-class infrastructure, and the finest Indian clinical talent to deliver exceptional patient care for people across the globe. I am confident that this new facility will help establish Delhi-NCR as the hub for medical value travel. This is in line with the Government’s vision to establish India as the leading destination for medical tourism, supported by the ‘Heal in India’ initiative.”

 

With the addition of the new tower at Max Hospital, Saket complex will have a total capacity of over 1,160 beds, delivering care across 35+ specialties. The new tower houses over 120 critical care beds, 10 modular operating theatres, and advanced Cath Labs, enabling high-acuity care across disciplines such as Cardiac Sciences, Oncology, Renal Sciences, Neurosciences, Gastroenterology, Paediatrics, Robotic Surgery, and Organ Transplants.

 

Strengthening its position as a centre of excellence, the hospital is equipped with advanced technologies, including the Da Vinci Xi Surgical Robot and Mako Total Knee Replacement Robot, enabling enhanced precision, minimally invasive procedures, and improved patient outcomes.

Business Wire India

Hirohama India successfully hosted the prestigious Miss Sake India 2026 contest at Robata – Kuuraku, Mumbai. crowning Ms. Nishita Yogesh Antarkar from Mumbai as the new cultural ambassador for Japanese sake in India.

The elegant ceremony was graced by distinguished guests, including H.E Mr. Toshihiro Kaneko, Acting Consul General of Japan in Mumbai; Ms. Chisato Tateno, Miss Sake Japan 2025; Ms. Mika Onishii, Chairperson of Miss Sake Association; Ms. Akansha Shrivastava, Miss Sake India 2025; and Ms. Mika Eoka, a renowned sake sommelier also known as “Sake Mom India.”

The event commenced with an insightful introduction by Mr. Kojiro Honda, Co-owner and Founder of Hirohama India Pvt. Ltd. and Kuuraku India Pvt. Ltd., said they are organizing this event in India for the third consecutive year. Also, He emphasized that Miss Sake is not just a competition, but also a platform for cultural exchange between India and Japan.

H.E Mr. Toshihiro Kaneko, the Acting Consul General of Japan, emphasized the cultural similarities between India and Japan, noting that these shared values are deeply rooted in history. In the current scenario, Japan is actively collaborating with India to promote regional development through an environmentally friendly approach.

This was followed by the introduction of seven exceptional finalists competing for the coveted title.

During the event, attendees were introduced to the renowned sake brand Hakutsuru, originating from Kobe—one of Japan’s most celebrated sake-producing regions. Known for its pure water, rich heritage, and exceptional craftsmanship, Hakutsuru is enjoyed in over 50 countries worldwide.

After a rigorous selection process evaluated by a distinguished jury, Ms. Nishita Yogesh Antarkar—a business owner and a certified Visharad Kathak dancer with 16 years of experience and a strong passion for language and cultural exchange—was crowned Miss Sake India 2026 by her predecessor, Akansha Shrivastava.

Ms. Priyanka Sarkar, a chef based in Bangalore, and Ms. Sakshi Khari, a storyteller and Japanese language learner from Delhi, were announced as the runners-up.

In her acceptance speech, Ms. Nishita emphasized that “Sake is not merely an alcoholic beverage; it is culture itself, symbolizing the history and spirit of Japan.” She spoke passionately about the immense beauty and value of Japanese tradition, expressing her commitment to expanding the reach of sake’s charm throughout India expressed her commitment to promoting sake culture across India and encouraging more people to explore this refined beverage. 

Other finalists included Ms. Disha (sales professional), Ms. Salwadi Nandini (marketing professional), Ms. Purva Ninad (project coordinator), and Ms. Shivani Thakur (restaurant management professional specializing in Japanese cuisine).

As Miss Sake India 2026, Nishita will engage in promotional activities across the country and represent India at the Miss Sake Japan Finals to be held in June 2026 in Japan.

For updates on Miss Sake India’s journey and upcoming events promoting Japanese sake culture in India, follow @miss_sake_india on Instagram.

Business Wire India

Byondis B.V., an independent biopharmaceutical company creating innovative targeted medicines for patients with cancer, will profile the Company’s first-in-class antifolate and phosphonate antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology platforms in poster sessions at the American Society for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2026 in San Diego, CA, from today through to 22 April.

 

Wim Dokter, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Byondis, said: “The research we are presenting at AACR highlights the potential of two of our state-of-the-art ADC technology platforms to address significant limitations with current therapeutic approaches in cancer treatment. Our first-in-class antifolate linker-drug platform features an orthogonal mechanism of action based on clinically validated biology. This approach is engineered to address acquired resistance that can develop with current ADC treatments, positioning it for use across treatment lines. Our phosphonate linker-drug platform offers a complementary mechanism that can provide new treatment options for patients, including those who may not respond to immune therapy. Both platforms underscore our mission to deliver breakthrough solutions and enable a new generation of cancer therapeutics for patients.”

 

 

Antifolate ADCs, a novel linker-drug platform for targeted therapy with a clearly differentiated mechanism of action (abstract #: 3178/13)
Session Category: Experimental and Molecular Therapeutics
Session Title: Targeting Cell Surface Vulnerabilities to Overcome Therapeutic Resistance
Time: 20 April, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

 

 

Resistance to widely used ADC payloads, such as topoisomerase-I and tubulin inhibitors, is increasing, underscoring the need for differentiated approaches. Byondis has revisited the clinically validated antifolates class and developed a proprietary antifolate linker-drug platform that provides a differentiated and validated mechanism of action with a payload designed to overcome systemic side effects.

 

 

The optimized payload demonstrates low- to sub-nanomolar potency, strong inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), and broad in vitro cytotoxicity cell lines. It also shows no interaction with key resistance-associated transporters (BCRP, PGP) and favorable physicochemical properties, supporting GMP-scale manufacturing and ADC compatibility. A glucuronide-based linker enhances therapeutic index while maintaining favorable physicochemical properties, preserving ADC stability and enabling potential dual-payload strategies.

 

 

Byondis’ lead antifolate ADC, targeting an undisclosed tumor antigen, has shown strong in vitro activity and achieved robust tumor regressions in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patient-derived xenograft models, with no significant toxicity at active doses. This differentiated profile supports broad tumor applicability, positioning it for use from first-line therapy through to combination approaches.

 

 

Phosphonate antibody-drug conjugates, an innovative, immunostimulatory class of ADCs that drive inside-out activation of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells, enabling selective tumor cell killing (abstract #: 6921/2)
Session Category: Immunology
Session Title: Antibody-Drug Conjugates 2
Time: 22 April, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

 

 

Addressing a critical need for patients who do not respond to immune therapy, Byondis’ linker-drug platform, ByonBoost™, is engineered to activate Vγ9Vδ2 (γδ) T cells in the tumor microenvironment, enabling targeted delivery with an immunologic antitumor effect and compatibility with single and dual-payload concepts.

 

 

Gamma delta (γδ) T cells are potent cytotoxic effectors that eliminate tumor cells independently of MHC presentation and are associated with improved clinical outcomes. However, prior approaches to activate Vγ9Vδ2 T cells have been limited by lack of tumor specificity and short half-life.

 

 

To address these limitations, Byondis has developed tumor-targeting phosphonate ADCs that selectively deliver payloads to tumor cells, enabling inside-out activation of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells. These ADCs combine a tumor-associated antigen (TAA)-targeting antibody with a cleavable phosphonate payload and have been successfully applied across multiple targets, including CD123, CD20, TROP2, and HER2. They drive robust and targeted immune activation, inducing cytokine release, degranulation and tumor cell killing in vitro, including in studies where primary patient material was used. In non-human primate models, the lead candidate displayed excellent tolerability with no clinical signs of cytokine release syndrome (CRS), even at high doses.

 

 

This modular platform enables the dual mechanisms of action of direct tumor targeting and immune activation while preserving antibody effector function. With broad applicability across tumor types and compatibility with multiple antibodies, it represents a differentiated and scalable approach to targeted immunotherapy.

 

 

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About Byondis

 

 

Driven to improve patients’ lives, Byondis is an independent, fully integrated biopharmaceutical research and development company creating innovative targeted medicines for cancer. The company is developing new biological entities (NBEs) with a focus on antibody-drug conjugates.

 

 

Byondis’ development portfolio leverages expertise in linker-drug (LD) technology, antibody-drug conjugation and disease biology. Byondis’ fully integrated drug development capabilities cover all stages from pre-clinical and clinical R&D, production of clinical batches of the selected product candidates and regulatory filings, which are all done in-house.

 

 

The company has a dedicated team of more than 200 staff working in its state-of-the-art R&D and GMP manufacturing facilities in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. For more information visit www.byondis.com.

 

 

 

 

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