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Wimbledon has launched a‘ Match Chat’ assistant that allows tennis fans to ask for and receive real-time insights and analysis during ladies’ and gentlemen’ s singles matches. Created in collaboration with the All England Lawn Tennis Club and IBM, the new and enhanced AI-powered digital experience will be coming to The Championships, Wimbledon 2025. Making its debut is‘ Match Chat’, an interactive AI assistant that can answer fans’ questions during live singles matches. The‘ Likelihood to Win’ tool is also being enhanced, offering fans a projected win percentage that can change throughout each game.
Nokia has been selected to lead PROACTIF, a project funded by the European Union’ s Chips Joint Undertaking. The project will boost Europe’ s technology resilience and leadership in ECS technologies and support the autonomy of the European Drone and Robotics industry. The consortium anticipates generating around € 90 million in revenue, 50 products, and more than 15 new industry patents by 2035, enabling increased market share and leadership. The project’ s additional impact includes dozens of new collaborations, hundreds of new jobs, and over € 40 million of additional investments.
The solutions, which leverage match data and generative AI on watsonx, are the latest in the All England Club and IBM’ s mission to provide tennis fans with innovative and unique ways to engage across The Championship fortnight.
Usama Al-Qassab, Marketing and Commercial Director at the All England Club, said:“ The innovations we have introduced in recent years, driven by generative AI, in conjunction with IBM, allow us to provide more exciting ways for our hundreds of millions of fans around the world to interact with The Championships.”
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The OpenID Foundation( OIDF) has announced that Norway’ s HelseID, an identity and access management platform by the Norwegian Health Network( NHN), is the first nationwide healthcare system to fully deploy the FAPI 2.0 security profile. The implementation establishes a new global benchmark for API protection, extending beyond its traditional use in financial services.
NHN, a state-owned entity under Norway’ s Ministry of Health and Care Services, now mandates that all hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and municipal health services adopt this high-assurance standard. The move mirrors the robust security protocols found in leading digital banking ecosystems worldwide.
Gail Hodges, Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation, stated that NHN’ s decision to deploy FAPI 2.0 at a national scale in healthcare demonstrates the profile’ s maturity, scalability and security value in a real-world setting. She added that NHN’ s leadership illustrates to other health communities in both public and private sectors that FAPI 2.0’ s benefits are not limited to Open Banking, Open Finance and Open Insurance, where the protocols are currently widely used. NHN has also become the OpenID Foundation’ s newest member.
“ Nokia’ s extensive expertise has helped establish drone technology best practices and transform drones into daily helpers for public safety and mission-critical operations. We are honoured to lead this project. It demonstrates Nokia’ s commitment to fostering innovation and resilience across Europe. By collaborating with leading organisations, this initiative will address critical challenges in security and sustainability, delivering real-world benefits for society,” said Thomas Eder, Head of Embedded Wireless Solutions, Nokia.
The PROACTIF consortium brings together 42 partners and four affiliates from 13 countries with a focus on critical infrastructure surveillance and emergency management in Europe. Under Nokia’ s leadership, the groundbreaking venture will redefine how emergency situations and critical infrastructure are managed in Europe.
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Deutsche Bank has collaborated with Silverflow to introduce a new cloud-native payments platform across Europe. The partnership aims to redefine card acquiring and digital payments. The integration has significantly reduced deployment times compared to traditional systems, accelerating merchant onboarding for Deutsche Bank. Authorisation rates have remained consistently high, even during peak transaction periods, safeguarding merchant revenues and reducing failed transactions.
The solution combines Silverflow’ s API-first, cloud-based platform for flexible card acquiring and individual BIN setups with Deutsche Bank’ s role as acquirer, offering optional PSP and cash management services. This allows merchants to customise transaction costs, settlement timings and risk parameters. Kilian Thalhammer, Global Head of Merchant Solutions at Deutsche Bank, highlighted the enhanced agility and prompt dispute resolution achieved through the partnership, enabling a unified banking, treasury and payments service. Robert Kraal, Co-Founder of Silverflow, affirmed that their platform enabled rapid merchant onboarding, maintained high authorisation rates and automated chargeback processes, demonstrating the transformative potential of modern payments infrastructure in banking.
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