05/22/2026 14:18
Avanzanite Bioscience’s Partner Agios Announces PYRUKYND® (mitapivat) Approval in the European Union for Adults with Thalassaemia

Avanzanite Bioscience B.V., a rapidly growing commercial-stage European specialty pharmaceutical company focused on rare diseases, today reported that its partner, Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGIO), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts focused on delivering innovative medicines for patients with rare diseases, announced that the European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for PYRUKYND® (mitapivat), an oral pyruvate kinase (P...

AFP wins top prize at Africa Fact Check Awards

AFP digital investigation reporter Samad Uthman won the coveted “Fact Check of the Year” award in the professional fact-checker category at the Africa Facts Summit, held in Dakar on October 1-2.

AFP digital investigation reporter Samad Uthman won the coveted “Fact Check of the Year” award in the professional fact-checker category at the Africa Facts Summit, held in Dakar on October 1-2.
06/25/2026 16:02

HeyGen, the identity-first AI video platform, today announced it has surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue, doubling in eight months. The milestone reflects a rapid shift in how individuals, small businesses, and enterprises adopt AI video: as a scalable layer for human communication across languages, formats, and audiences. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260625305891/en/HeyGen passes $200M in ARR HeyGen...

06/25/2026 17:31

Burjeel Holdings, a leading super-specialty healthcare group in the GCC listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, priced its inaugural USD 500 million Regulation S 5-year senior unsecured Sukuk offering due 2031 under its newly established USD 1.5 billion Senior Unsecured Sukuk Programme. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260625449702/en/Burjeel Holdings’ inaugural Sukuk was priced at a 7.000 % profit rate and a yiel...

AFP: Two journalists arrested by the Libyan army

AFP has learned this morning of the arrest of two of its journalists in Libya as well as a photographer for its partner Getty Images.

AFP has learned this morning of the arrest of two of its journalists in Libya as well as a photographer for its partner Getty Images.
Anglais
06/01/2026 14:00
Interactive Brokers Integrates AI into Client Portfolios – Informed by Agentic Technology, Controlled by the Client

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global broker, today announced agentic trading through direct integration with Claude, one of the world's leading AI platforms. Available through the AI platform’s certified connector marketplace, the integration lets clients manage their accounts and access more than 170 global markets. "Interactive Brokers has used technology for over four decades to help investors make more informed decisions and interact more efficiently with markets," said...

06/02/2026 07:55
Smartstream Launches Smart Agents for Back-Office Operations, Proven Across Tier 1 Pilots

Smartstream, a trusted data solutions provider for leading global financial institutions and enterprises, today announced the availability of Smart Agents, its agentic AI solution designed for bank operations. Proven in Tier 1 pilot deployments and natively integrated with Smart Reconciliations, it can be deployed immediately without changes to client infrastructure and is purpose built for regulated environments. Financial institutions dedicate up to 70% of operational effort to exception wo...

06/02/2026 12:00
Perpetuals Reports $4.5 Billion in UpsideOnly Volume and Signs Exchange Agreement With Datavault AI for Tokenized Commodities

Perpetuals.com Ltd (Nasdaq: PDC) today reported strong early results for its breakout UpsideOnly trading and market prediction platform and announced an agreement with Datavault AI Inc. (Nasdaq: DVLT) to list tokenized real-world commodity assets on the Perpetuals platform. In its first two weeks, traders flocked to the UpsideOnly platform, attracting more than 30,000 active users, generating $4.5 billion in cumulative platform volume across 186,000 fills and 25 instruments. Reflecting the wi...

06/02/2026 12:00
Phenom Positioned as Strategic Leader in Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition Sixth Consecutive Year

Phenom, the leader in applied AI with an infrastructure built specifically to redesign work operations, has been positioned as a Strategic Leader in the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition for the sixth year in a row. The positioning reinforces Phenom’s focus on sustained execution and customer impact at a moment when most enterprises remain stuck between AI ambition and AI that works. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/...