NetBox Labs Announces Infrastructure Intelligence Platform With New Capabilities Spanning Entire Network and Infrastructure Lifecycle

Celebrating 10 years of NetBox, the company announces flagship NetBox conference to lead the next evolution of infrastructure innovation for the AI Era

NEW YORK, June 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NetBox Labs today launched its infrastructure intelligence platform, a unified system that lets technology infrastructure teams model their intent, see what’s procured and how it’s deployed, act through AI-accelerated automation, and govern every change with guardrails for humans and AI agents.

With hundreds of thousands of deployments, NetBox is the industry standard system of record that sits at the core of the NetBox Labs Platform. Already critical to the operations of neoclouds, hyperscale AI datacenters, enterprises, and OT operators worldwide, companies like ARM, Cisco, CoreWeave and J.P. Morgan Chase rely upon the NetBox Labs Platform to manage complex, fast-evolving infrastructure at enormous scale. The platform’s breadth is reflected in how customers use it: more than a third rely on multiple NetBox Labs products to run their infrastructure operations.

Today, NetBox Labs is rapidly expanding its platform to address full-spectrum infrastructure intelligence needs for its massive install base. As networks and infrastructure have become more complex, teams need more than just a network source of truth to help them make sense of their increasingly complicated footprint. With today’s array of new capabilities, the NetBox Labs Platform extends infrastructure intelligence to organizations at any stage in their modernization journey to model, see, act upon, and govern their infrastructure with confidence.

MODEL: The World’s Infrastructure data

NetBox Data Exchange (NDX) is the world’s largest curated catalog of infrastructure component metadata, covering tens of thousands of device types across hundreds of manufacturers. Instead of digging through vendor PDFs, teams pull lifecycle, environmental, operational, and observability metadata directly into the NetBox Labs Platform, ready for planning, automation, compliance, and AI-driven workflows. More here.

NetBox Asset Lifecycle is a native procurement pipeline connecting network design to physical deployment. It generates and manages bills of materials (BOMs), purchase orders, shipments, and spares against planned DCIM objects – creating one auditable thread from approval through installation in the system of record teams already trust. More here.

SEE: Continuous Visibility from Intent to Reality

NetBox Assurance shows teams what’s deployed, how it’s changing, and where operational reality differs from intended design. The product’s discovery capabilities eliminate manual data entry and detect drift, while NetBox Assurance continuously validates that your system of record matches what’s running, so teams can understand and fix drift, ensuring automation always runs on current, accurate data. More here.

ACT: The Infrastructure Data Layer for AI Agents

The NetBox Labs Platform MCP Server and a new array of official agent skills for the NetBox Labs ecosystem make infrastructure readable and writable by AI agents. With comprehensive tools for every platform capability, per-user authentication, and data management guardrails with branching and change approval gates, any MCP-compatible agent can operate the NetBox Labs Platform, and the open library with dozens of agent skills teaches it to do so correctly. Now, any agent can work with NetBox Labs, complementing the platform’s embedded agent, NetBox Copilot. More here.

GOVERN: Compliance and Resilience, Validated before every Change

NetBox Validation brings continuous compliance auditing, pre-change safety verification, and infrastructure resilience analysis into the NetBox Labs Platform. It combines three engines — intent validation, configuration analysis, and infrastructure resilience — to answer two questions: “Is this change safe to deploy? and “What breaks if this fails?” With NetBox Validation, teams gain compliance and audit readiness. Meanwhile, AI agents gain critical guardrails and self-correction capabilities enabling agentic operations with confidence. More here.

The NetBox Labs Platform news comes as the company and the NetBox community celebrate a decade since the open source network source of truth was first released. Since its start in 2016, NetBox has earned 20,000+ GitHub stars, with more than 350 releases and 15,000+ commits from nearly 400 contributors, making it the world’s most widely adopted system of record for complex networks and infrastructure.

In 2023, NetBox Labs was founded as the commercial steward of NetBox with the mission to make it easier to build and manage complex networks and infrastructure. Over the last three years, the company has announced innovations spanning operations, observability, drift management, AI, and much more, rapidly extending the impact of the NetBox Labs Platform and driving accelerating growth and adoption. The company has raised more than $55 million from world class investors, and developed strategic partnerships across the global system integrator ecosystem including WWT, AHEAD, Presidio, and more.

“Ten years ago, NetBox solved a critical problem by giving infrastructure teams an authoritative source of truth,” said Kris Beevers, CEO and cofounder of NetBox Labs. “But today, enterprises of all maturity levels need more than just a source of truth. They need a system of record that delivers a trusted, continuously updated understanding of infrastructure that both humans and AI can operate against safely and confidently. Whether just starting out with agents or well on your way to an automated infrastructure management stack, NetBox Labs is the foundational platform for running infrastructure at any scale. We are proud of how far NetBox has come and thankful for our community. NetBox Labs will always invest in open source, while continuing to quickly expand our commercial platform to help organizations manage growing complexity with greater speed, confidence, and control.”

To mark the 10th birthday of open source NetBox, NetBox Labs will be hosting NetBox Evolve, its inaugural conference for the community, customers and partners, on October 13, 2026 at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Florida. Those interested in learning more can visit netboxevolve.com.

About NetBox Labs
NetBox Labs simplifies the full infrastructure lifecycle for the world’s most demanding technical environments. As the commercial steward of NetBox, the open-source infrastructure system of record trusted by 10,000+ organizations for more than a decade, NetBox Labs streamlines infrastructure procurement, modeling, deployment and management for both humans and agents. The company’s infrastructure intelligence platform powers business-critical systems at companies like ARM, CoreWeave, J.P. Morgan, Kaiser Permanente, and Riot Games trust NetBox Labs to manage the networks and infrastructure critical to their business. Headquartered in New York City, NetBox Labs is backed by NGP, Notable Capital, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce, and Two Sigma. Visit netboxlabs.com.

 

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O2 and Mavenir successfully trial technology to improve call clarity for people with hearing loss

  • O2 has successfully trialled new technology to provide clearer phone calls for customers with hearing loss
  • The trial was carried out with Mavenir and created a personalised hearing profile for each participant, allowing the network to automatically optimise calls in real time
  • Working seamlessly in the background, the technology helped overcome the everyday frustration of struggling to follow phone conversations

READING, United Kingdom, June 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — O2 has carried out a proof-of-concept trial using cutting-edge technology designed to improve phone calls for customers with hearing loss.

The operator partnered with cloud-native network software provider, Mavenir, to test the capability which works seamlessly in the background. Participants use their existing phone and number as usual, with the technology working to improve call clarity by tailoring the call audio to their individual hearing needs in real time.

Participants first completed a short, automated hearing test to identify how they perceive different sound frequencies. This generated a personalised hearing profile, securely linked to their mobile number, enabling the technology to adapt how speech is delivered during calls, so conversations are clearer and easier to follow.

Unlike device-based accessibility features or third-party apps, the optimisation took place within O2’s network, allowing participants to make and receive calls as normal while benefiting from clearer, more intelligible audio.

Following the trial, nearly 90% of participants reported improvements in call clarity, helping conversations feel easier to follow and leading to fewer misunderstandings. Participants also noted reduced listening effort and a more natural calling experience.

While still at an early stage, the proof-of-concept trial demonstrates how network-based technology could help improve accessibility and everyday communication for people with hearing loss.

Mary Higgins, who is profoundly deaf and took part in the trial, said: “I usually find phone calls tiring and stressful, even with hearing aids. Making a call without them is almost impossible. Using the technology was a completely different experience, as I could hear clearly without my hearing aids and didn’t need to keep asking people to repeat themselves.”

Jorge Ribeiro, Director of Core Networks, Virgin Media O2, said: “For many people with hearing loss, making a phone call can be a difficult and frustrating experience. This trial is about using the intelligence within our network to improve that experience without asking customers to do anything differently. We are encouraged by the early results from this proof-of-concept and are excited to explore how this type of technology could support more accessible services for our customers in future.”

Brandon Larson, SVP & General Manager, Cloud, AI & IMS Business Strategy, Mavenir, said: “Core networks are a powerful platform for innovation of services and delivering new value to customers. Our partnership with Virgin Media O2 in improving the call experience for their customers with hearing loss is a great example of that.”

About Mavenir
Mavenir is enabling intelligent, automated, programmable networks through the development of telco-first, cloud-native, AI-by-design software solutions for mobile operators. The company’s deep telco domain expertise has been proven through deployments with 300+ operators globally in over 120 countries, which together serve more than 50% of the world’s subscribers. Mavenir combines its deep telco experience with the cloud and IT expertise and data science skillsets essential to solving real customer challenges. Its proven software solutions are AI by design, delivering the AI-native future and operators’ evolution to TechCos. ​For more information, please visit www.mavenir.com

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Bitget CFD Rolls Out Zero-Fee Mode Amid Daily Volume Growth Toward $10B

Bitget CFD Rolls Out Zero-Fee Mode Amid Daily Volume Growth Toward $10B

Bitget CFD Rolls Out Zero-Fee Mode Amid Daily Volume Growth Toward $10B

Bitget CFD Rolls Out Zero-Fee Mode Amid Daily Volume Growth Toward $10B

 

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), today announced the launch of Zero-Fee Mode for Bitget CFD, introducing a commission-free account option designed to make CFD trading more flexible, transparent, and accessible.

The launch comes as Bitget CFD continues to scale rapidly, with daily trading volume reaching $8 billion in May and moving closer to the $10 billion milestone. This growth reflects rising demand for multi-asset trading access, as users increasingly seek efficient ways to trade global markets within a unified platform.

Bitget CFD now offers a dual-account structure that gives users greater control over how they trade. The existing ECN Mode remains available for professional, short-term, and high-frequency traders who prefer tighter spreads with volume-based commissions, while the new Zero-Fee Mode is designed for users who favor a more straightforward cost structure with standard spreads and no trading commissions.

The update is driven by growing user demand and feedback around more intuitive trading experiences. Rather than imposing a single model, Bitget CFD now gives users the flexibility to choose the account type that best matches their capital size, trading strategy, experience level, and personal preferences.

“Multi-asset access is becoming the new standard for trading platforms, and CFD is central to how Bitget is delivering that future,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget“By introducing Zero-Fee Mode, we are providing users with greater flexibility to engage in global markets, further advancing our mission to make financial opportunities more accessible within a single, integrated ecosystem.”

This introduction follows a string of successes for Bitget CFD, including its debut industry honor as the Best Global Multi-Asset Trading Platform at the Online Trading Expo. Previously, the platform noted that non-crypto assets accounted for up to 40% of trading activity on certain days this year. Gold and U.S. indices, such as the NAS100, remain the platform’s two most popular trading products, driving overall volume growth.

Within Bitget’s UEX vision, Bitget CFD plays a key role in connecting crypto and traditional market access through one integrated trading ecosystem. The addition of Zero-Fee Mode strengthens Bitget’s broader effort to make multi-asset trading more accessible, flexible, and aligned with different user needs.

For more information about the launch, visit here.

About Bitget

Bitget is the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry’s lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

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Bitget Continues Stock Spot Expansion With 30 New Listings Across Leading Market Themes

Bitget Continues Stock Spot Expansion With 30 New Listings Across Leading Market Themes

Bitget Continues Stock Spot Expansion With 30 New Listings Across Leading Market Themes

Bitget Continues Stock Spot Expansion With 30 New Listings Across Leading Market Themes

 

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange, has expanded its stock spot lineup with the listing of 30 new stock spot assets, further widening users’ access to traditional market opportunities under the recent launch of Stock 2.0. The newly listed assets include rNASA, rBMNR, rDIS, rROKU, and rLCID, and were made available on June 8, 2026.

The latest additions cover a diverse range of companies and investment themes, spanning space innovation, entertainment, consumer brands, enterprise technology, healthcare, defense, cloud infrastructure, education technology, and electric vehicles. The newly supported assets include Tema Space Innovators ETF, BitMine Immersion Technologies, AbbVie, Automatic Data Processing, BlackSky Technology, BWX Technologies, CAVA Group, Celsius Holdings, Cognex, CRISPR Therapeutics, The Walt Disney Company, DigitalOcean, Duolingo, Guidewire Software, Himax Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, The Coca-Cola Company, Lucid Group, and Lockheed Martin, among others.

Following the recent integration of 49 U.S. equities and ETFs, as well as the expansion of the Bitget Unified Trading Account to include tokenized stocks as margin assets, this latest update provides users with even broader exposure to established global corporations and emerging growth companies across high-activity market sectors. Bitget enhances the accessibility of traditional financial products alongside its robust crypto and market instrument suites, enabling a more comprehensive investment experience through a single, unified platform.

The addition further strengthens Bitget’s Universal Exchange strategy, which brings together crypto assets, stocks, ETFs, commodities, foreign exchange products, precious metals, derivatives, and tokenized financial instruments within a unified trading environment. The platform currently offers access to more than 100 tokenized stocks and ETFs, alongside a growing suite of traditional financial products designed to help users navigate opportunities across global markets.

The announcement follows Bitget’s continued expansion across stock perpetuals, CFDs, IPO Prime products, tokenized equities, and Reality, its regulated real-world asset issuance platform. Together, these developments reflect Bitget’s broader vision of creating a more connected trading experience across both digital assets and traditional financial markets.

For more information, visit here.

About Bitget

Bitget is the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry’s lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

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Risk Warning: Digital asset prices are subject to fluctuation and may experience significant volatility. Investors are advised to only allocate funds they can afford to lose. The value of any investment may be impacted, and there is a possibility that financial objectives may not be met, nor the principal investment recovered. Independent financial advice should always be sought, and personal financial experience and standing carefully considered. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Bitget accepts no liability for any potential losses incurred. Nothing contained herein should be construed as financial advice. For further information, please refer to our Terms of Use.

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Bitget Launches Anti-Scam Month 2026, Recovers $32.3 Million for Users

Bitget Launches Anti-Scam Month 2026, Recovers $32.3 Million for Users

Bitget Launches Anti-Scam Month 2026, Recovers $32.3 Million for Users

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched Anti-Scam Month 2026 under the theme “More Assets, Stronger Shield. Stay Safe in the Multi-Asset Era.” The annual initiative focuses on helping users navigate an increasingly complex threat landscape as digital asset platforms expand beyond crypto into broader multi-asset ecosystems.

The campaign is accompanied by the release of key security and fraud prevention results from 2025. During the year, Bitget intercepted more than 150 million malicious attack requests, identified over 13,000 high-risk malicious IP addresses, and handled 18,135 user protection cases. The platform’s security team also helped users recover approximately $32.3 million linked to security incidents and fraudulent activity.

“The industry is entering a multi-asset era where users can access a wider range of products and markets through a single platform. As that access expands, security responsibilities increase too,” said Hon Ng, Chief Legal Officer at Bitget. “Protecting users requires continuous risk monitoring, rapid response mechanisms, security education, and close cooperation across the industry. Anti-Scam Month reflects the importance of building those protections alongside product innovation.”

Throughout 2025, Bitget continued to strengthen its security framework across account protection, asset custody, fraud prevention, and platform risk management. The platform expanded Passkey authentication capabilities based on FIDO2 and WebAuthn standards, enhanced multi-factor authentication coverage for high-risk account actions, strengthened anti-phishing protections, and improved device management controls that allow users to monitor and manage account access in real time.

Bitget also expanded its real-time threat detection and web security infrastructure in 2025. Security systems recorded more than 2.8 billion interceptions through custom protection rules and mitigated over 1.5 billion DDoS-related attack attempts. The platform’s monitoring capabilities were further enhanced through machine learning-based behavioral analysis designed to identify suspicious activity and emerging threats across multiple layers of the ecosystem.

User education remained a major focus of Bitget’s security strategy. Anti-Scam Month campaigns conducted across 2024 and 2025 reached approximately 1.38 billion users globally through security awareness content, educational resources, and community engagement initiatives. The company also expanded its Anti-Scam Hub, maintained its public bug bounty program, and introduced interactive initiatives such as the Smarter Eyes Challenge, which attracted close to 50,000 participants through simulated phishing and scam detection exercises.

Bitget continued to collaborate with leading blockchain security organizations, including SlowMist and Elliptic, to support threat intelligence sharing, anti-fraud research, and broader industry awareness efforts. Through a combination of platform security, user education, and industry cooperation, the company continues to invest in creating a safer environment for users navigating digital and tokenized financial markets.

Read our CLO’s letter here: https://www.bitget.com/blog/articles/bitget-clo-letter-more-assets-mean-more-responsibility

For more information, visit: https://www.bitget.com/events/antiscamhub

About Bitget

Bitget is the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry’s lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

For more information, visit: Website | Twitter | Telegram | LinkedIn | Discord

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Space42 Expands Earth Observation Capabilities as Three Foresight Satellites Enter Full Operation

Space42’s Three Foresight Satellites Enter Full Operation

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  • Foresight-3, -4, and -5 are now in service following their November 2025 launch 
  • Expanded coverage increases revisit rates across high-demand regions
  • Integrated Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and AI capabilities deliver fast, reliable, all-weather intelligence

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company with global reach, today announced that the Foresight-3, Foresight-4, and Foresight-5 satellites are fully operational. This milestone advances the Foresight Earth Observation (EO) constellation, now comprising five Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, enabling continuous data acquisition and decision-grade geospatial intelligence.

The three satellites were manufactured in partnership with ICEYE in Finland, supporting technology transfer and sustainable access to capabilities, while localizing the supply chain. Aligned with this mandate, critical integration and testing processes were completed at Space42’s Space Systems’ Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) facility in Abu Dhabi.

Hasan Al Hosani, CEO of Smart Solutions at Space42, said: “With Foresight-3, -4, and -5 now live, we are expanding sovereign Earth observation with greater speed and consistency to governments, industries, and partners worldwide. The collaboration with ICEYE and proven operational success within the Space42 Space Systems facility, has strengthened national capability to a level that competes with and scales across global markets. The constellation further delivers against our strategy to become the preferred partner for premium geospatial data, while growing the UAE’s position in a dynamic, mission-critical industry.”

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Expanded Coverage and Faster Insight
Foresight-3, -4, and -5 were launched into mid-inclined, Low Earth Orbit to extend coverage, strengthening monitoring across strategically important regions where more than 90% of the world’s population resides. The Foresight constellation provides SAR imagery to Space42’s AI-powered geospatial intelligence platform, GIQ, which converts raw data into decision-grade intelligence within minutes. By operating across complementary orbits, the system maintains consistent performance at all times of day.

It delivers 25-centimeter resolution and all-weather imaging, enabling reliable detection of small-scale changes on Earth from space. GIQ processes this data into actionable outputs, helping reduce emergency response times by up to 90%, predictive maintenance costs by up to 30%, and operational inefficiencies by up to 25%.

Global Demand and UAE Leadership
Demand for EO is accelerating as governments and industries rely on geospatial intelligence to manage risk, optimize operations, and support climate and security objectives. By 2030, EO insights are projected to generate more than $700 billion in economic value and contribute to emissions reduction across multiple sectors.

The UAE is positioning itself as a leading supplier of advanced EO capabilities, supported by its National Space Strategy 2030 and investments in sovereign infrastructure, AI integration, and local manufacturing. The expansion of Space42’s Foresight constellation supports this ambition by combining space-based data acquisition with AI-driven analytics.

About Space42
Space42 (ADX: SPACE42) is a UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company that integrates satellite communications, geospatial analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities to enlighten the Earth from space. Formed in 2024 by the merger of Bayanat and Yahsat, Space42’s global reach allows it to address the rapidly evolving needs of its customers in governments, enterprises, and communities. Space42 comprises two business units: Space Services and Smart Solutions. Space Services focuses on upstream satellite operations for both fixed and mobility satellite services. Smart Solutions integrates geospatial data acquisition and processing with AI to inform decision-making, enhance situational awareness, and improve operational efficiency. Major shareholders include G42, Mubadala and IHC.

For more information, visit: www.space42.ai; follow us on LinkedIn: Space42
For investor inquiries, please contact: [email protected]

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