Dispatch, the AI entry point to Lightyear’s platform, arrives alongside the company’s first two operational AI agents, beginning a broader rollout that will bring AI agents to every stage of the telecom lifecycle by 2027. NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lightyear today launched the first agentic platform for enterprise telecom, beginning with Lightyear Dispatch and its first two operational AI agents. Dispatch, the entry point to AI across Lightyear, lets any team query network data and build custom reports in natural language. The Quoting Agent and Implementation Agent take on the carrier coordination behind sourcing and installing telecom services, the first step…
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Cloud-native platform extends continuous, policy-based access control to AI agents across networks, applications, and infrastructure AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Portnox, a provider of cloud-native enterprise access control, today announced expanded capabilities to help organizations continuously secure and govern the growing number of AI agents and other non-human identities accessing enterprise networks, applications, and infrastructure. A new integration with Microsoft Defender joins existing integrations with CrowdStrike and SentinelOne, completing a three-partner enforcement layer that converts AI-generated risk signals intelligence into automatic access enforcement for all identities – human and non-human. When any of these platforms detects elevated risk, suspicious activity, or…
Managed upskilling program helps engineering teams build and verify advanced AI coding skills WESTLAKE, Texas, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pluralsight, the leading technology skills development company, today announced the launch of Pluralsight AI Ready, a fully managed upskilling program designed to turn AI coding tool investments into stronger engineering performance. Through live instruction, hands-on practice, and verified assessment, AI Ready helps teams build, apply, and prove advanced AI skills. While many organizations invest heavily in generative AI software, they often struggle to move beyond basic code autocomplete and experimentation. Research has found that 95% of AI pilots fail. This failure can often be attributed…
Advancement to Leader Highlights MHC’s AI-Driven Platform Pace & Momentum MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MHC, a provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions for document, customer communications, and payment automation, today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Aragon Research Globe™ for Workflow and Content Automation (WCA). The recognition marks MHC’s advancement from Contender to Leader, placing the company among just five Leaders in this year’s Globe. Aragon defines Leaders as providers with comprehensive strategies that align with industry direction, market demand, and perform effectively against those strategies. MHC named a Leader in the 2026 Aragon Research Globe™ for Workflow…
The acquisition marks Checkr’s entry into Government verification and strengthens its Mortgage business SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Checkr, the AI-powered verification platform for high-stakes decisions, today announced its acquisition of Truv, a leader in consumer-permissioned income, employment, and asset verification. Checkr adds Truv as it continues its pursuit across a $45 billion market opportunity in identity, workforce, mortgage, and tenant verifications. Over the past year, Checkr has accelerated its evolution into the data platform for high-stakes decisions. As AI-powered fraud continues to increase the need for stronger identity and income verification, Checkr has expanded its offerings with new Mortgage, Tenant, and Personal verification solutions, now serving more…
Aquila extends Alterion’s runtime control plane from cloud systems to employee endpoints, offering security, risk, compliance, and engineering teams unified AI oversight across the enterprise. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Alterion, the runtime control platform for enterprise AI, today announced Aquila, a new solution that helps enterprises control and govern how AI is used on employee devices. Employee devices have become one of the biggest blind spots in enterprise AI. As developers and employees increasingly rely on coding assistants, browser-based AI tools, and local AI applications, more critical AI-driven actions—many of them high-risk—are now happening directly on laptops and workstations. These actions often…
The new product verifies both the AI agents that talk to customers and the agents that act on systems, generating test scenarios directly from code, grading every action against real evidence, and reporting an assurance gap for everything it could not verify SAN FRANCISCO and NOIDA, India, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest), the world’s first Agentic AI-native Quality Engineering platform, announces Agent Assurance, a product built to answer the question every engineering team shipping AI agents now faces: is this agent safe to ship? Agent Assurance covers both kinds of agent in one product: the Conversational Agent category – which evaluates human-facing…
Pre-configured for Epic payer workflows to accelerate integration, automation, and interoperability BOSTON, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Rhapsody, a global leader in infrastructure for agent-ready interoperability, announced the availability of its Rhapsody Payer Interoperability Suite in the Connection Hub on Epic Showroom. Purpose-built for organizations using Tapestry UM/CM, Claims, and the Epic Payer Platform, the Suite combines pre-configured payer interoperability workflows with Rhapsody Axon, the company’s AI-powered integration agent. Rhapsody already supports hundreds of Epic customer environments and a growing roster of health plans on the Epic Payer Platform. The Rhapsody Payer Interoperability Suite supports key payer workflows including: Pre-configured templates and test data help…
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Most companies now use AI. Very few operate as AI-native businesses. The gap between the two is where Converge AI is building. Converge AI is bringing its specialized AI products together into a unified AI-native platform. With Converge Work now available at work.converge.ai, the platform’s knowledge-work layer is live for business teams alongside Enter Pro, Framia Pro, and Combos Fun, with Concat Pro joining as integration continues. Across the suite, Converge AI’s products operate on a shared context layer, allowing knowledge, work, and decisions created in one part of the business to carry forward into the next. The first wave of business…
NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announces that Mari Grace and Kendall Howell are joining the firm’s Data Strategy & Security practice, based in the New York and Washington, D.C. offices, respectively. Ms. Grace advises clients on artificial intelligence issues arising in litigation and investigations, including the legal, procedural and evidentiary implications of emerging technologies, and on AI governance and ethics. Mr. Howell advises banks, broker-dealers, money services businesses and fintech companies on AI governance, AI-related commercial transactions, banking regulation, BSA/AML compliance and sanctions. He also represents financial institutions in federal and state enforcement actions and regulatory investigations. Together, Ms.…