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Vertice Launches AI Cost Optimization to Tackle Unchecked AI Spend

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May 29, 2026

Vertice Launches AI Cost Optimization to Tackle Unchecked AI Spend

Consumption-based pricing models are driving costs 40% beyond budget, and catching out enterprise finance teams including at Uber and Microsoft

Vertice, the AI procurement platform built for the modern enterprise, has launched AI Cost Optimization in response to businesses’ inability to track, predict or control AI usage and spend.

Earlier this month, Uber admitted it had exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by April, after usage among its 5,000-strong engineering team climbed from 32% to 84% in just one month. Meanwhile. Microsoft is urgently cancelling most of its non-GitHub AI licenses by 30 June 2026, after token-based billing made its costs unsustainable.

Accessible through Vertice’s award-winning intelligent procurement platform, AI Cost Optimization creates a unified view of spend, usage and commitments across all AI providers, with automated projections, pre-emptive alerts and intelligent cost control recommendations.

Vertice’s analysis of $75bn+ spend across 250k+ negotiated contracts – the largest global dataset of software pricing – has revealed that in just the last 12 months, the proportion of SaaS vendors offering seat-based pricing plans has plummeted from approximately half to a third – with the remaining two-thirds of all plans now either consumption-based or hybrid.

Vertice’s analysis has also revealed that consumption-based pricing:

Offers less negotiation leverage, resulting in 42% lower discounts versus seat-based models.
Costs on average 37% more per user than seat-based pricing.
Is 3X more likely to incur overage charges than seat-based models.
Typically exceeds budgets by nearly 40%, versus just 5% for seat-based.

“Consumption-based pricing is a perfect storm for finance, procurement and IT teams. AI usage has driven demand to unprecedented levels, creating an AI arms race in every SaaS vertical. The economics of AI infrastructure have meant that pricing models have radically changed too. Which means as companies’ boards demand AI adoption and encourage experimentation, usage is skyrocketing – and so are costs.”
Eldar Tuvey, Founder and CEO, Vertice.

Vertice’s AI Cost Optimization tool has been designed to solve this exact problem for finance, procurement and IT teams.

All AI usage and spend in a single dashboard, broken down by department, vendor and even individual AI models, showing the internal teams and applications consuming the most tokens and driving the highest spend.
Granular usage views, showing token usage, requests and completed prompts.
Budget utilization rates and 90-day usage and cost forecasts based on recent usage patterns.
Usage versus commitment trackers for every vendor, with commitment thresholds extracted automatically from contracts.
Cost optimization recommendations, based on the individual business’s usage patterns and needs, the contracts’ terms, and Vertice’s real-time dataset of 32,000+ SaaS vendors’ pricing data, commercial terms and negotiation intelligence.
Customizable alerts to flag risk of upcoming threshold breaches, such as usage surges or commitment breaches.

“Traditional cost optimization tools were designed to manage seat-based spend. But this doesn’t hold up when you are paying by the task or token, and your usage shifts every day. Our AI Cost Optimization not only helps teams control and predict their spend, but also creates an accurate usage precedent to inform future purchases, internal token allocations and usage policies.”
Eldar Tuvey, Founder and CEO, Vertice.

Vertice’s AI Cost Optimization tool is fully integrated within the Vertice Intake-to-Procure platform, from which renewals, contracts and approval workflows are also managed. This allows finance, procurement and IT teams to act immediately when usage is approaching a threshold, ranging from accessing the contracts’ terms and triggering a renegotiation workflow to reallocating usage.

“We are giving finance, procurement and IT teams the control they need. For years, buyers have lacked the pricing benchmarks and vendor intelligence to negotiate the best price and terms with vendors. To now add unpredictable AI pricing models on top just compounds the imbalance. Our AI Cost Optimization is the next step in Vertice’s mission to level the playing field.”
Eldar Tuvey, Founder and CEO, Vertice.

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Tradeverifyd Names Amanda Greene Chief Operating Officer to Lead Next Phase of Scale

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Tradeverifyd Names Amanda Greene Chief Operating Officer to Lead Next Phase of Scale

Former Airbnb and Oyster HR operations leader brings two decades of experience scaling AI-enabled, high-growth companies

Tradeverifyd, the AI-native platform for supply chain risk and compliance intelligence, recently named Amanda Greene as Chief Operating Officer. Greene joins as Tradeverifyd accelerates its push to give global enterprises real-time visibility into supplier risk.

Greene spent over five years at Airbnb, where she led Global Operations Strategic Planning & Analysis through the company’s expansion from $400M to $5B in revenue. She later served as SVP of Operations and Customer Experience at Oyster HR, helping grow revenue 5x and reach a $1B valuation, and most recently led a 150-person operations org at Pirate Ship, where she rebuilt core workflows around AI to materially improve throughput and margin.

“Amanda has done the hardest version of the job we’re hiring for, scaling operations at companies where the product, the market, and the technology were all moving at once,” said Mike Prorock, CEO of Tradeverifyd. “She has also been ahead of most operators on using AI to change how teams actually work, which matters enormously for a company like ours.”

“Supply chain risk is one of those problems where the data exists but the answers don’t, and that gap is exactly what Tradeverifyd is closing,” said Greene. “What drew me in was a seasoned team building at the leading edge of what AI can actually do for risk and compliance, on top of a technical foundation serious enough to support real enterprise workloads. Every executive I talk to is being asked harder questions than their current tools can answer, and the companies that close that gap first are the ones that will define this category.”

Greene holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Cornell University. She serves on the boards of VIAS Campus Management and the Oyster Recovery Partnership.

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Gary Vaynerchuk and District Announce Strategic Partnership

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Gary Vaynerchuk and District Announce Strategic Partnership

Serial entrepreneur joins forces with AI commerce platform to help brands create interactive commerce experiences

Gary Vaynerchuk, serial entrepreneur, investor, and digital marketing pioneer, and District, an AI commerce platform, announced a strategic partnership to advance the future of online commerce. As part of the partnership, Vaynerchuk will serve as an advisor to District, bringing his conviction in community-driven commerce and his expertise in live selling, brand building and digital culture to the company.

Vaynerchuk brings both his experience building VaynerX into a global enterprise and his track record of early bets on companies like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Venmo, Coinbase, and Uber. As a strategic advisor, he will provide guidance to the District team as the platform scales, opening doors with enterprise brands and larger commerce businesses looking to own their customer relationships. Pairing Vaynerchuk’s strategic acumen with District’s technology, the partnership will connect brands with the infrastructure that leverages commerce-AI agents to rapidly build custom live shopping platforms that they own outright, complete with multi-casting, buy-now listings, real-time and multi-day auctions, flash sales, and other next-generation commerce formats.

“Too many brands and creators are building on platforms where they don’t actually own the customer relationship. That’s a vulnerability,” said Gary Vaynerchuk. “What I love about District is they’re giving people the infrastructure to own the community, the commerce, and the attention all in one place. That’s where this is all going, and that’s why I’m excited to be involved.”

“Gary has an unmatched ability to see where attention and behavior are going before the rest of the market,” said Eddie Koai, CEO and co-founder of District. “He immediately understood that commerce is shifting toward live, social, and community-first experiences, and that businesses need to own those relationships. That’s exactly what we’re building. Having Gary’s perspective as we grow is incredibly valuable.”

Brands are prioritizing direct relationships with their audiences, communicating with them through community chats, DMs, subscriber channels, live-selling and more. Building those experiences has historically required months of coding and teams of engineers. With District, brands use their proprietary AI commerce technology to create custom, interactive commerce experiences all in a single platform – giving them full ownership of their customer relationships and data, and the flexibility to innovate and test new selling methods without building from the ground up.

District recently launched in general availability after building for three years and has already grown to power over 1,000 businesses. The company has raised $14.7M in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kindred Ventures with participation from Greylock Partners, former Depop CEO Maria Raga, Gokul Rajaram, and others.

In the coming months, District and Vaynerchuk plan to collaborate on initiatives designed to help sellers build, grow, and own their businesses in this new era of commerce.

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SmartCommerce Appoints Gregory Taylor as Chief Executive Officer to Lead Its Next Era of Global Growth

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May 28, 2026

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SmartCommerce Appoints Gregory Taylor as Chief Executive Officer to Lead Its Next Era of Global Growth

Proven growth CEO and enterprise technology operator with a unicorn exit joins as SmartCommerce scales its commerce platform into a global brand and commerce intelligence engine for the AI era.

SmartCommerce today announced the appointment of Gregory Taylor as Chief Executive Officer, marking the company’s next era of growth. Gregory joins as SmartCommerce scales a platform already trusted at enterprise scale, built around the data, connectivity, and intelligence brands need to turn consumer demand into measurable commerce outcomes. As AI-driven discovery and agentic commerce reshape how products are found and purchased, SmartCommerce is expanding its role as a global brand and commerce intelligence engine built to help brands protect and grow performance.

Jennifer Silverberg, SmartCommerce’s founder, will continue as Founder and Board Director, remaining deeply connected to the company’s brand, customers, and strategic relationships. Gregory will lead company strategy, commercial scale, and operational execution. Together with Anj Yamsani, who was recently appointed Chief Technology Officer, SmartCommerce now has the leadership team to match the size of its opportunity.

SmartCommerce is scaling from a position of strength. To date, SmartCommerce-enabled experiences have driven more than $20 billion in carted value and helped add more than one billion products to retailer carts. The company is accelerating innovation with its market-leading Commerce Graph, which connects product catalogs, retailer availability, inventory signals, and consumer behavior across billions of shopping journeys.

With continued investment in agentic AI, SmartCommerce is expanding that data foundation into a first-of-its-kind global commerce intelligence layer for brands, media partners, and retailers. As AI reshapes how products are discovered, evaluated, and purchased, that intelligence layer becomes increasingly valuable.

Gregory brings more than two decades of experience as a CEO and senior operating executive across enterprise technology companies. Most recently, he served as CEO of Mobot, an agentic AI platform for complex test automation. Prior to that, he spent seven years as CEO of Orion Labs, a Voice AI platform for connected frontline workforces, where he raised $50 million in capital, grew the company’s patent portfolio from 28 to 62 issued patents, and led the company through a strategic pivot and acquisition by Constellation Software. Previously, he notably served as EVP of Global Operations at Triple Point Technology, where he drove revenue from $22 million to $188 million and $66 million in EBITDA, sourced and integrated seven acquisitions, and played a central role in the company’s $940 million unicorn exit to ION – one of the largest enterprise software deals of 2013. He also served as President and COO of HighQ, more than doubling the business from $15 million ARR, and tripling average contract values before the company was acquired by Thomson Reuters. He holds a BA from Connecticut College and serves on the boards of Connor Industries and The Everest Leadership Academy.

“SmartCommerce has built something rare: a trusted platform with the data advantage, retailer connectivity, and brand relationships to define the next era of commerce intelligence,” said Gregory Taylor, Chief Executive Officer of SmartCommerce. “As AI-driven discovery and agentic commerce reshape the commerce ecosystem, brands will need a new intelligence layer to protect visibility, shoppability, and performance wherever products are found, recommended, and purchased. SmartCommerce is built for that service, and I’m energized to partner with Jennifer, Anj, and the leadership team to scale the company into a global category leader.”

– Gregory Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, SmartCommerce

“SmartCommerce was built around a simple idea: make it easier for people to buy the products they want, from the brands they love, wherever they happen to be inspired,” said Jennifer Silverberg, Founder and Board Director of SmartCommerce. “Greg has repeatedly helped companies scale through defining moments, and he brings the customer focus and operating discipline to help us grow without losing what makes SmartCommerce special. I’m excited to build what comes next with him and Anj.”

– Jennifer Silverberg, Founder and Board Director, SmartCommerce

“The Board and Argentum have known Greg for years through our work together at Orion Labs,” said Walter Barandiaran, Chairman of the Board of SmartCommerce. “He brings the clarity, discipline, operating experience, and founder-partnership instincts that growth-stage technology companies need at moments like this. SmartCommerce is solving one of the hardest and most valuable problems in commerce. With Greg as CEO, Anj Yamsani as CTO, and Jennifer Silverberg continuing as Founder and Board Director, the company has the leadership team to scale its platform and data advantage into a global commerce intelligence leader.”

– Walter Barandiaran, Chairman of the Board, SmartCommerce

With this appointment, SmartCommerce enters its next era ready to turn its platform and data advantage into global commerce intelligence leadership.

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Clio and Carahsoft Partner to Deliver Enterprise-Grade Legal AI to the Public Sector

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May 28, 2026

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Clio and Carahsoft Partner to Deliver Enterprise-Grade Legal AI to the Public Sector

A modern, AI-powered legal platform built for efficiency, visibility and better service delivery is now available to Government legal teams

Clio, the global leader in legal AI, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider^®, today announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Clio’s Public Sector distributor, making the company’s modern legal technology available to the Public Sector through Carahsoft’s reseller partners and National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint, The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS), OMNIA Partners and E&I Cooperative Services Contract contracts.

The partnership expands Public Sector access to Clio’s Intelligent Legal Work Platform and powerful legal AI, enabling Government legal teams to adopt a more scalable, secure and efficient approach to legal operations through Carahsoft’s established procurement channels. Clio provides technology designed for high-stakes legal environments, including Government legal departments, public counsel offices, regulatory agencies and justice-sector organizations where accountability, transparency and public trust are essential.

“The future of legal work will be defined by connected systems, verifiable legal sources and the ability to move with greater precision,” said Ronnie Gurion, COO at Clio. “Through our partnership with Carahsoft, we’re helping Government legal teams adopt technology built for the scale, complexity and standards their work demands.”

Clio’s legal AI platform is purpose-built for legal work. Pairing the platform with Carahsoft’s Public Sector expertise creates a clear path for Government agencies to move beyond legacy systems and adopt innovative approaches to legal operations. Together, the organizations support Public Sector legal teams with the expertise, guidance and enablement needed to confidently evaluate and adopt AI-driven technology within highly regulated environments.

Clio’s Intelligent Legal Work Platform enables legal professionals to centralize the legal lifecycle, from matter intake and case management to document review, court scheduling, secure communications and reporting. With an AI-powered platform specifically designed for legal environments, Government agencies can streamline routine analysis and decision-making while maintaining the strict oversight, accuracy and accountability required in Public Sector operations.

“Clio’s Intelligent Legal Work Platform helps teams streamline case management, document automation, billing and more,” said Michael Shrader, Vice President of Intelligence and Innovative Solutions at Carahsoft. “By automating routine tasks, the platform’s AI capabilities enable teams to improve efficiency and better manage caseloads. Carahsoft and our reseller partners look forward to working with Clio to deliver secure, AI-powered legal technology to the Public Sector.”

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Parry Labs Names Don Claussen Chief Executive Officer

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May 28, 2026

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Parry Labs Names Don Claussen Chief Executive Officer

Founder JD Parkes Assumes Role of Executive Chairman

Parry Labs today named Don Claussen chief executive officer. The appointment is the next step in a leadership structure Parry has been building toward as the company scales. Founder, John “JD” Parkes assumes the role of executive chairman, remaining full-time and focused on strategy, investor relationships, and the long-term direction of the company.

Claussen brings more than 20 years of executive experience leading defense and technology organizations, including senior roles at L3Harris and Viasat and most recently as CEO of ST Engineering iDirect, a global communications technology company, deploying dual use technology with their commercial and U.S. government customers. A U.S. Army veteran, he served in uniform before his executive career. He later deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq on tactical communications programs and spent years working directly on deployed C4ISR systems.

“For the past decade, as a founder and CEO, I have been focused on building a defense technology company to solve our nation’s security challenges. Now more than ever it is paramount to build mission outcomes at speed and scale. As we, Parry, have continued to grow, I am happy to bring a new CEO and leader that will help us do that. The right leader for Parry will operate with humility, is driven by the mission, and has the proven experience to lead defense technology organizations to tremendous levels. I am confident Don is the right leader for Parry Labs,” said John “JD” Parkes, executive chairman of Parry Labs.

“His proven ability to lead technology driven organizations through massive growth, emerging technologies changes, and drive long term value is clear. I look forward to diving in as executive chairman and helping Don maximize the impact Parry Labs can have for our country.”

“I came to Parry because I believe the mission needs Parry Labs’ technology,” said Don Claussen, Chief Executive Officer of Parry Labs. “As the DoW shifts its priorities, I am excited to help position Parry within this evolving opportunity space. The defense industry needs exactly these capabilities right now: open architecture, edge compute, C2, and integrated systems with the warfighter at the center.”

“My job is to help scale the company while preserving the speed, technical excellence, and mission focus that made Parry successful in the first place. Having served in uniform and worked directly with defense systems in the field, I understand how important it is to deliver capability that works when and where it matters.”

“I am honored to join JD, the Board, the leadership team, and the entire Parry organization as we continue expanding the impact Parry can have for our customers and the warfighter.”

Under the new leadership structure, Claussen will assume responsibility for operating the business day to day, including execution, organizational alignment, and driving Parry’s operating model across its five sites in Virginia, Alabama, Maryland, Texas, and Iowa. Parkes will remain full-time as executive chairman, focused on strategic growth, investor relationships, and the company’s long-term direction.

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TeamViewer Appoints Peter Ruchatz as Chief Marketing Officer

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TeamViewer Appoints Peter Ruchatz as Chief Marketing Officer

TeamViewer today announced the appointment of Peter Ruchatz as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), effective September 2026. Ruchatz is an accomplished B2B software marketing leader with a proven track record of delivering strong growth in Enterprise and SMB segments. He will join TeamViewer’s Senior Leadership Team and lead the global marketing organization across brand, product marketing, demand generation, channel marketing, and pricing.

Ruchatz brings more than two decades of executive experience in international software marketing at category creators and technology companies such as Microsoft and Salesforce. As CMO of Veeam Software he built deep familiarity with the IT professional audience TeamViewer addresses. At Celonis, he served as SVP Demand Generation, overseeing global pipeline programs at enterprise scale. Further leadership roles include CMO at Thinkproject and VP Marketing EMEA Central at Salesforce. As Senior Director for Business Solutions at Microsoft, he spent five years in Redmond gaining first-hand insight into the US market.

“Few executives match TeamViewer’s profile as squarely as Peter does. He has repeatedly delivered outstanding results across sales-led Enterprise and product-led SMB motions,” said TeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil. “Peter knows how to structure and scale marketing organizations that win on both brand and pipeline. He will play a pivotal role in translating our TeamViewer ONE platform strategy into commercial momentum.”

“I’m joining one of Europe’s most exciting software companies,” said Peter Ruchatz. “TeamViewer has a transformative opportunity to deliver industry-leading AI innovation and to expand its addressable market meaningfully. I look forward to shaping a go-to-market motion that captures this significant potential for the next phase of growth across Enterprise and SMB customers globally.”

Spring-Green Enterprises Promotes Matt Jevne to Chief Technology & Marketing Officer

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May 28, 2026

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Spring-Green Enterprises Promotes Matt Jevne to Chief Technology & Marketing Officer

Spring-Green Enterprises Inc., parent company to the SpringGreen and Pet Butler franchise brands, is pleased to announce the promotion of Matt Jevne to Chief Technology & Marketing Officer (CTMO), expanding his leadership role following his time as Vice President of Information Technology.

The newly created CTMO role brings the company’s Marketing and Information Technology departments together under one leadership structure to support continued growth, innovation, and franchise success across the SpringGreen and Pet Butler brands.

Since joining Spring-Green five years ago, Jevne has helped strengthen the organization’s technology infrastructure, improve operational scalability, and lead several key modernization initiatives across the business.

“Matt has been a valuable leader for our organization and has consistently demonstrated strong strategic vision and collaboration across departments,” said Ted Hofer, CEO of Spring-Green Enterprises. “As the needs of the business continue to evolve, we are excited to see Matt step into this expanded leadership role.”

In his new position, Jevne will introduce and oversee the execution of strategic initiatives for both Marketing and Information Technology that will align brand strategy, digital platforms, data capabilities, and technology projects in support of franchise system objectives for SpringGreen and Pet Butler.

“I’m grateful for the opportunity and excited for what’s ahead,” said Jevne. “There is a strong team in place across both departments, and I look forward to continuing to build systems, strategies, and experiences that support the long-term success of our brands and franchise owners.”

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Lenovo and Frore Systems collaborate to bring Future Innovation to market with AirJet®Mini

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May 28, 2026

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Lenovo and Frore Systems collaborate to bring Future Innovation to market with AirJet®Mini

***AirJet Mini, the world’s most advanced solid-state active cooling chip, will be appearing in* *Lenovo products following collaboration with Lenovo’s Innovation Accelerator***

Frore Systems, today announced their collaboration with Lenovo’s Innovation Accelerator to explore collaborating on future innovative products and solutions.”. Frore Systems is excited to be collaborating with Lenovo, contributing to their bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All. Lenovo, the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services, invests in world-changing innovation to build a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere.

AirJet is a great example of the way our Innovation Accelerator identifies new and valuable technologies that support our bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All.” said Vico Song, General Manager of Lenovo’s Innovation Accelerator. “We are excited to be working with Frore Systems to enhance AI performance and build a smarter future.”

“We are honored to be collaborating with Lenovo’s Innovation Accelerator,” said Seshu Madhavapeddy, CEO and Founder of Frore Systems. “AirJet^®Mini removes thermal barriers, that have traditionally limited ultra-compact systems, allowing consumer products like super slim notebooks, tablets, and wearables to think longer, run faster, and operate in silence. We are excited to bring the many advantages of AirJet solid-state active cooling to some of Lenovo’s premium products, unlocking the new AI Thermal Stack that will enable the next generation of ultra-compact Edge AI devices.”

AirJet Mini continues to receive industry recognition in 2026 including at COMPUTEX with a Best Choice Award, and at CES with its third consecutive Innovation Award, underscoring continued industry recognition for solid-state active cooling technologies that remove thermal limits from next-generation AI systems. These honors recognize AirJet Mini’s outstanding functionality, innovation, and market potential. Frore Systems’ most powerful chip to-date, AirJet Mini G2 replaces conventional fans and heatsinks with a compact chip that removes 7.5W of heat.

AirJet^® – Built for the Rise of AI Reasoning Models

As Edge AI evolves from simple inference toward AI reasoning models and Agentic services, workloads are becoming sustained and compute intensive. These models spend more time “thinking” and “orchestrating,” placing significantly greater thermal demands on edge devices.

AirJet^®Mini G2 is designed specifically to support this shift – enabling processors to sustain higher performance levels without throttling. This advance aligns with Frore’s Law, the company’s long-term vision to double thermal performance every two years – keeping pace with AI compute demand.

AirJet^®Mini G2 Technical Highlights

Heat dissipation: 7.5 W (50% increase over AirJet Mini G1)
Dimensions: just 27mm × 41.5mm × 2.65 mm, supporting ultra-compact form factors
Back pressure: 1,750 Pa (~10x higher than a fan), enabling dustproof and water-resistant devices
Noise level: 21 dBA, enabling silent operation
Design: solid-state, with no moving mechanical parts, delivering long life

AirJet^®Mini G2 generates high-velocity pulsating air jets that efficiently eject heat from compact enclosures, enabling sleek, light, ultra-compact, silent, vibration-free, dustproof, and water-resistant device designs. AirJet enhances performance across numerous devices from notebooks, tablets, Mini-PCs, smartphones, 5G WiFi Hotspots, cameras and SSDs, to the tsunami of consumer and industrial IOT devices.

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Kinaxis Convenes Global Supply Chain Leaders at Kinexions North America to Advance Agentic AI and Decision Orchestration

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Kinaxis Convenes Global Supply Chain Leaders at Kinexions North America to Advance Agentic AI and Decision Orchestration

Annual conference brings customers, partners, and industry leaders together to explore how enterprises are turning decisions into coordinated action

Kinaxis®, a global leader in end-to-end supply chain planning and orchestration, is set to host Kinexions North America kicking off next week from June 1-3 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The company’s flagship conference will bring together global supply chain, business and technology leaders for three days of product innovation, customer insights, and peer networking as Kinaxis continues to advance its focus on AI-driven decision making across the supply chain industry.

“Supply chains don’t struggle because of a lack of data; they struggle because decisions are disconnected,” said Razat Gaurav, CEO of Kinaxis.

This year’s event will spotlight how organizations are applying agentic AI and orchestration, moving beyond insight to execution, and increasingly from decisions to coordinated action. Speakers from global organizations including Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, Unilever, British American Tobacco, Qualcomm, ExxonMobil, The Hershey Company, Scotts Miracle-Gro, and Veolia, will join Kinaxis executives to share how they are navigating disruption and improving operational outcomes.

Kinaxis CEO, Razat Gaurav is set to deliver his first Kinexions keynote alongside Chief Product Officer, Andrew Bell and Chief of Agentic Solutions, Manik Sharma who will outline the company’s latest advancements in agentic capabilities and the continued evolution of the Maestro™ platform and ecosystem.

Key themes of the conference include:

Agentic AI in practice: How Maestro Agents support decision-making across planning and execution, enabling teams to act with speed while maintaining control
End-to-end orchestration: Connecting decisions across functions, partners, and time horizons to reduce latency and improve alignment
From insight to coordinated action: Customer-led sessions demonstrating how global organizations are turning real-time visibility into measurable operational outcomes

Those unable to attend in person can experience the opening keynote in real time as it is livestreamed globally on June 2 via LinkedIn Live.

“Supply chains don’t struggle because of a lack of data; they struggle because decisions are disconnected,” said Razat Gaurav, CEO of Kinaxis. “What’s changing is that AI is no longer just informing decisions; it’s becoming part of how decisions are made and executed. That requires a way to bring people, data, and AI together so decisions can be aligned and acted on in an orchestrated way across operations. As organizations introduce agentic AI, there is an opportunity for us to transform our ways of working and create a shift from reacting to change to operating with intelligence and continuously adapting as conditions evolve. I’m looking forward to diving deeper into this topic at Kinexions.”

The event will also feature keynote perspectives from Peter Hinssen, a bestselling author and expert on leading through constant disruption, and Michelle Mace Curran, former U.S. Air Force Thunderbird pilot, who will share lessons on decision-making under pressure. Their sessions will complement a broader agenda of customer discussions, expert panels, and product deep dives focused on how supply chain leaders are building more adaptable operations.

Kinexions is supported by partners including Genpact, Accenture, EY, Scott Sheldon, 4flow, Bristlecone, Deloitte, Google Cloud, PlanetTogether, Microsoft, PwC, and Workday and will feature networking experiences and live programming throughout the event, including a performance by globally renowned DJ and music icon Steve Aoki.

Supply chain leaders face persistent disruption, fragmented data, and pressure to act quickly without sacrificing accuracy or accountability. While many have invested in AI, most have yet to operationalize it across the workflows that determine how supply chains respond to change or trust it to drive coordinated, governed action. Kinexions offers a front-row seat to the future where AI, orchestration and execution converge to deliver real outcomes that matter.

Consumption-based pricing models are driving costs 40% beyond budget, and catching out enterprise finance teams including at Uber and Microsoft

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Former Airbnb and Oyster HR operations leader brings two decades of experience scaling AI-enabled, high-growth companies

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Serial entrepreneur joins forces with AI commerce platform to help brands create interactive commerce experiences

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Proven growth CEO and enterprise technology operator with a unicorn exit joins as SmartCommerce scales its commerce platform into a global brand and commerce intelligence engine for the AI era.

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A modern, AI-powered legal platform built for efficiency, visibility and better service delivery is now available to Government legal teams

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Founder JD Parkes Assumes Role of Executive Chairman

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AirJet Mini, the world’s most advanced solid-state active cooling chip, will be appearing in Lenovo products following collaboration with Lenovo’s Innovation Accelerator

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***AirJet Mini, the world’s most advanced solid-state active cooling chip, will be appearing in* *Lenovo products following collaboration with Lenovo’s Innovation Accelerator***