<p><strong></strong></p><p class="bwalignc"><strong> <i>Partnership brings AI/ML-enabled autonomous capabilities to defense platforms, optimized for the Qualcomm® QCS8550 and scalable across Qualcomm’s IoT processor portfolio</i> </strong></p><p></p><p>LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 7, 2026--</p><p> OKSI and Qualcomm Government Technologies, Inc. (QGOV), a division of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., today announced a collaboration to deploy OKSI's OMNISCIENCE^TM autonomy software portfolio on Qualcomm technologies. OMNISCIENCE delivers AI/ML-enabled capabilities through computer vision — including visual navigation, object detection and recognition, mission execution and more — purpose-built to bring autonomy to unmanned platforms operating in complex, communications-constrained environments. The software portfolio has been optimized for the Qualcomm^® QCS8550 processor and is designed to scale across Qualcomm Technologies’ broader IoT processor portfolio, providing platform developers and defense system integrators with a flexible, production-ready path to deploying edge AI capabilities at scale. The collaboration will be showcased at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting 2026, taking place Oct. 12-14 in Washington, D.C. </p><p id="news-body-cta">This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261007150553/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261007150553/en/</a></p><div id="bwbodyimg" style="width: 480px; float:left; padding-left:0px; padding-right:20px; padding-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px;"><img src="https://mms.businesswire.com/media/20261007150553/en/2925978/4/qualcomm_logo_rgb_blue.jpg" alt="Together, OKSI and Qualcomm Technologies are enabling a new class of edge-intelligent autonomous platforms designed for reliable performance in the most demanding environments."><p style="font-size:85%;">Together, OKSI and Qualcomm Technologies are enabling a new class of edge-intelligent autonomous platforms designed for reliable performance in the most demanding environments.</p></div><p> OKSI’s OMNISCIENCE is offered as either individual containerized capabilities or tightly coupled, interoperable modules providing next-level autonomy and adaptability to virtually any air platform. Users can operate truly autonomous missions. Qualcomm technologies deliver the on-device AI inference, computer vision processing and advanced image signal processor (ISP) capabilities that OMNISCIENCE relies on for real-time autonomous decision-making at the edge. </p><p class="bwmarginl1"> <i>"With OMNISCIENCE on the Qualcomm QCS8550 processor, autonomy stops being a multiyear development program and becomes a design-in decision,” said Chris HolmesParker, CEO, OKSI. “Platform developers can source at volume against manufacturing infrastructure that already exists. They will be equipped to upgrade autonomy across a fielded fleet or stand up an entirely new product line from the same proven portfolio, moving at the speed of a software release and the scale of a production supply chain."</i> </p><p> The Qualcomm QCS8550 processor’s heterogeneous compute architecture supports dynamic performance and power scaling, enabling optimized size, weight and power (SWaP) profiles suited to space- and energy-constrained deployments. Platform providers leveraging Qualcomm processors with OMNISCIENCE benefit from an open Ubuntu Linux-based software environment with access to Qualcomm acceleration technologies and compatibility with widely used open-source AI and computer vision frameworks — reducing integration complexity and accelerating time to deployment. Together, OKSI and Qualcomm Technologies are enabling a new class of edge-intelligent autonomous platforms designed for reliable performance in the most demanding environments. </p><p class="bwmarginl1"> <i>“The industry is entering a new era in which intelligent systems do more than respond — they understand context, make decisions and take action,” said Kim Koro, Senior Vice President, Qualcomm Government Technologies, Inc. “Making that vision real requires an ecosystem, efficient edge compute and platforms that can scale across devices and missions. Together with OKSI, Qualcomm Technologies is helping move autonomy beyond demonstrations and toward deployable, mission-ready capabilities that can operate across connected fleets and demanding environments.”</i> </p><p> <b>About OKSI</b> </p><p> For over 35 years, OKSI has applied relentless engineering to develop and field custom EO/IR sensors with integrated AI/ML. They have taken AI and revolutionized its application in life as we know it, from augmenting human decision-making to true system autonomy – on the battlefield, into deep space and the depths of the ocean. Their autonomous and intelligent solutions rapidly analyze, identify and communicate actionable insights, enabling critical decision-making, action prioritization and outcome optimization. OKSI stands alongside our nation’s warfighters, delivering novel technologies to fill capability gaps and provide them with overmatch when and where they need it most. </p><p> OKSI is a privately held small business headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Learn more at<i> </i><a rel="nofollow" href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oksi.ai&amp;esheet=54617753&amp;newsitemid=20261007150553&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=www.oksi.ai&amp;index=1&amp;md5=b1ca75ef390efcd9c4c414dbf572025a" shape="rect">www.oksi.ai</a> </p><p> LinkedIn: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Foksi-ai&amp;esheet=54617753&amp;newsitemid=20261007150553&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Foksi-ai&amp;index=2&amp;md5=3201f9098bd8ec5ac87c7f97378986b4" shape="rect">https://www.linkedin.com/company/oksi-ai</a> </p><p> <b>About Qualcomm Government Technologies</b> </p><p> Qualcomm Government Technologies is a division of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., providing advanced wireless, computing, and AI technologies adapted for government and defense applications. For more information, visit <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fqualcomm.com%2Fgovernment&amp;esheet=54617753&amp;newsitemid=20261007150553&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=qualcomm.com%2Fgovernment&amp;index=3&amp;md5=87d768e910a7baaee329b52fc0b4c912" shape="rect">qualcomm.com/government</a>. </p><p> Qualcomm is a trademark or registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. 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<p><strong></strong></p><p><strong> <i>Commitment secures UK GPU capacity to process regulated customers' data in the United Kingdom</i> </strong></p><p><strong> <b>Key Highlights:</b> </strong></p><ul class="bwlistdisc"><strong> <li> <b>Sovereign UK Infrastructure:</b> Guarantees dedicated GPU capacity in the United Kingdom to keep sensitive financial data within the UK region. </li> <li> <b>Next-Gen AI &amp; Compute Growth:</b> Builds on Civo's UK edge data centre expansion and NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform rollouts. </li> <li> <b>Zero Data Retention:</b> Compute sold through affiliated Gigatokens provides frontier AI inference with default zero data retention for regulated entities. </li> </strong></ul><p></p><p>LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 7, 2026--</p><p> Behavox, the AI-native controls platform for financial institutions, today announced an $8 million commitment with UK sovereign cloud and AI platform Civo. The agreement secures dedicated UK GPU capacity to process highly sensitive customer data locally. </p><p> Behavox's customers – global banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity traders and insurers – trust it with some of their most sensitive data, including employee communications and trading records. Under the commitment, Behavox secures GPU capacity in the United Kingdom to run the AI models behind its products so that this data can be processed in the UK. </p><p> The agreement follows Civo's announcement on September 22, 2026, of its flagship edge data centre in Hertfordshire—the first of 40 planned UK sites—and its deployment of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform targeted for 2027, alongside Behavox's $175 million preferred equity investment from HPS Investment Partners (part of BlackRock) in June 2026. </p><p> The Civo commitment is part of a wider build-out, as Behavox secures AI compute with other neoclouds in response to very strong demand from regulated industries for affordable tokens and for agentic AI built for regulated entities. That capacity is sold through its affiliated company Gigatokens (gigatokens.ai), which offers frontier models on UK sovereign infrastructure with zero data retention by default. </p><p> <i>"The world's largest regulated institutions rely on Behavox for compliance software and trust us with their most sensitive data. UK data protection law is the gold standard, and clients around the world trust it. Civo lets us process that data in the UK on British infrastructure, and we are delighted to partner with a great example of the best of British,"</i> <b>said Kiryl Trembovolski, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Behavox.</b> </p><p> <i>"It's great to see British innovators like Behavox stepping up and driving the sovereign cloud agenda forward. Behavox is a prime example of top-tier British AI talent, trusted by the world's most heavily regulated financial institutions, and by bringing their AI processing onto infrastructure built and operated right here in the UK, together we are proving the UK can offer a true, high-performance alternative to the dominance of overseas tech giants," </i><b>said Mark Boost, CEO of Civo.</b> </p><p> <b>About Behavox:</b> Behavox is the Unified AI Controls Platform for global banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and commodity firms — built to prevent misconduct, detect risk, and prove control. </p><p> Its AI-native platform covers the full controls lifecycle on one stack: directive controls (Pathfinder — regulatory change management and policy), preventive controls (Poseidon, Trident, Cross-Border — control room, conflicts of interest, and cross-border rules), detective controls (Quantum, Polaris, Falcon — communications, trade, and insider-threat surveillance), and corrective and operational controls (Intelligent Archive and Digital Employees — evidence, records, and automated workflows). </p><p> Behavox has operated at institutional scale since 2014, serving more than 120 of the world's most complex institutions, including 70 global banks, a central bank, and a national regulator. Headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Washington, Montreal, Toronto, Tokyo and Milan, Behavox serves clients across North America, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America. </p><p> <b>About Gigatokens:</b> Gigatokens (gigatokens.ai) is a Behavox company headquartered in London. It provides frontier AI inference to regulated institutions and enterprises from dedicated GPU clusters in the United Kingdom, with UK sovereign data processing, zero data retention by default, no training on customer data, and an OpenAI-compatible API. </p><p> <b>About Civo:</b> Civo is a UK sovereign cloud and AI platform delivering high-performance Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure from data centres located entirely within the United Kingdom. Trusted by world-class institutions and global industry leaders, including the University of Oxford, Mercedes-Benz, and Orbital, Civo enables organisations to build, deploy, and scale applications with full data residency, security, and compliance, ensuring true UK sovereignty. </p><p><img alt="" src="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=bwnews&amp;sty=20261007174016r1&amp;sid=ventb&amp;distro=nx&amp;lang=en" style="width:0;height:0"><span class="bwct31415"></span></p><p id="mmgallerylink"><span id="mmgallerylink-phrase">View source version on businesswire.com: </span><span id="mmgallerylink-link"><a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261007174016/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261007174016/en/</a></span></p><p> <b>Media contacts: </b><br>Behavox: Fahreen Kurji, <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:media@behavox.com" shape="rect">media@behavox.com </a><br>Civo: Babel PR, <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:civo@babelpr.com" shape="rect">civo@babelpr.com</a> </p>

<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 7, 2026--</p><p> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwoi.eco%2F&amp;esheet=54617727&amp;newsitemid=20261007795394&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=WOI.eco&amp;index=1&amp;md5=85253500ad0c6ef1efcc5d9be46aa0ab" shape="rect">WOI.eco</a> expands venture operations across five markets through venture studios and ecosystem infrastructure in the UAE, India, Kenya, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, under the leadership of founder and chair Shafi Shoukath. The organisation treats unsolved national problems as an undiscovered market map, with an emphasis on identifying people who understand those problems in detail and building companies around their knowledge. </p><p> The standard way to start a company is to find a market and then find someone who understands it. Shafi Shoukath is arguing for the reverse order — find the people who already understand a problem in painful detail and build the company around them. </p><p> That inversion is the operating logic of WOI.eco, the organisation Shoukath founded and chairs, which is now running venture studios and ecosystem infrastructure across the UAE, India, Kenya, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. </p><p> <b>The Market Map Nobody Has Drawn</b> </p><p> Shoukath’s premise is that a country’s unsolved problems are an undiscovered market map. A healthcare gap is a health-tech company waiting to exist. An agricultural inefficiency is an agritech platform. Exclusion from credit is a fintech thesis. A broken logistics corridor is a mobility business. </p><p> “Every nation has problems,”<b> he said. </b>“But every nation also has people who understand those problems better than anyone else.” </p><p> The people he means are not typically in the founder pipeline: the farmer who has absorbed every inefficiency in a supply chain, the clinician who can name exactly where a health system breaks, the small-business owner locked out of a credit system. Development programs treat them as beneficiaries.<a rel="nofollow" href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwoi.eco%2F&amp;esheet=54617727&amp;newsitemid=20261007795394&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=WOI.eco&amp;index=2&amp;md5=203287bb141c412c39079fd1155684fd" shape="rect"> WOI.eco</a> treats them as technical co-founders with unusually good product intuition. </p><p> <b>The Studio Model and the Accelerator Model</b> </p><p> The distinction matters operationally. Accelerators wait for applications and select from whatever arrives. WOI.eco’s studios co-build — the organisation supplies structure, technical depth through centres of excellence, and, critically, corporate partners who sign on as first customers rather than as sponsors. </p><p> That last piece is the one enterprise readers should watch. Early revenue from an industrial buyer is what separates a company from a funded experiment, and it is the failure mode that has killed most government-backed startup programs: products built for a grant cycle instead of a purchase order. </p><p> <b>The AI Argument Underneath It</b> </p><p> Shoukath’s bet has a second layer that is squarely on VentureBeat’s territory. As AI collapses the cost of acquiring knowledge, he argues, knowing more becomes a depreciating advantage. What appreciates is the ability to imagine, question, create, adapt and act. </p><p> WOI.eco calls the deliberate development of those capabilities Human Being 2.0. Stripped of the branding, it is a claim most enterprise leaders will recognize from their own org charts: if models handle retrieval, synthesis and increasingly execution, the scarce input becomes judgment about what is worth building. </p><p> The strategic implication he draws is that domain proximity beats credentialed expertise, because the credential is the part AI is commoditizing fastest. </p><p> <b>The Network is the Actual Product</b> </p><p> The five markets are deliberately unalike. The UAE anchors capital and mobile talent. India brings scale and engineering depth. Kenya offers one of Africa’s most inventive fintechs and agritech environments. Malaysia pairs industrial capability with Southeast Asian access. Sri Lanka has talent and position that have not converted into companies. </p><p> Routing is the point: capital raised through the UAE reaching founders in Kenya, agritech proven in Nairobi deployed in Southeast Asia, a Malaysian company entering a new market through a sister ecosystem. Shoukath frames it as the difference between a development program and an export industry. </p><p> <b>Potential Obstacles</b> </p><p> Three things, and they are not obscure. Studio models are capital-intensive and slow to show marks. Cross-border product transfer is harder than it looks once regulation, payment rails and procurement cycles are involved. And ecosystem-building has a long record of reporting cohort counts instead of surviving companies. </p><p> Shoukath’s own risk list overlaps with the skeptics’: ecosystems mature over years rather than funding cycles, founders need patient capital most structures do not provide, and investors need credible opportunities rather than curated optimism. He says the model should be judged on companies built, capital returned, and industries created. </p><p> <b>Key Considerations</b> </p><p> The metric that will settle this is not cohort size or countries entered. It is whether any WOI.eco-built company reaches sustained revenue with customers outside the network and survives the withdrawal of institutional support. </p><p><img alt="" src="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=bwnews&amp;sty=20261007795394r1&amp;sid=ventb&amp;distro=nx&amp;lang=en" style="width:0;height:0"><span class="bwct31415"></span></p><p id="mmgallerylink"><span id="mmgallerylink-phrase">View source version on businesswire.com: </span><span id="mmgallerylink-link"><a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261007795394/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261007795394/en/</a></span></p><p> Lulu Sainudeen <br><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:support@woi.eco" shape="rect">support@woi.eco</a> </p>