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Ned Curic Highlights Customer-First Approach to Technology and Product Development
Stellantis technology executive emphasizes practical innovation, integrated engineering and the importance of building technology around real customer needs.
Illinois, CA, 4th September 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, As artificial intelligence, advanced computing and connected technologies become increasingly important to product development, Ned Curic believes the value of innovation should still be measured by a straightforward standard: whether it makes the product better for the person using it.
Curic, who is responsible for Product Development & Technology at Stellantis and is a member of the Stellantis Leadership Team, has spent his career working across engineering, software and automotive technology.
His approach places the customer at the center of technology decisions rather than treating new technology as an objective on its own.
“Technology only matters if it makes life better for people,” Curic has said.
The principle has become increasingly relevant as companies gain access to more powerful artificial intelligence, computing systems and development tools. The challenge is no longer simply whether a technology can be built or incorporated into a product. Companies must determine where it creates meaningful improvements for customers.
Building Technology Around the Product
For the automotive industry, that distinction is especially important.
Modern vehicles bring together mechanical engineering, electronics, computing, software, design, manufacturing and increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence. Customers, however, experience those individual technologies as one product.
Curic has publicly emphasized the importance of viewing the vehicle as a complete system rather than allowing any individual technology to become the product’s defining purpose.
That philosophy also influences how Stellantis approaches product development.
In February 2025, Stellantis integrated its software activities into the Product Development & Technology organization led by Curic. The company said the change was intended to streamline the process of bringing products and services to market across its brands and markets.
The organizational structure brings technologies that increasingly influence the customer experience closer to the broader engineering and product-development process.
Rather than separating software from the rest of vehicle development, the approach reflects the reality that customers ultimately judge how all parts of a vehicle work together.
From Technical Capability to Customer Value
The rapid development of artificial intelligence provides another example of the distinction between technical capability and practical value.
Stellantis has been exploring AI across areas including engineering, manufacturing, vehicle technology and customer interaction.
Curic has consistently framed those efforts around tangible results.
When Stellantis expanded its collaboration with Mistral AI in 2025, Curic said the companies were exploring applications of artificial intelligence that could enhance product development and the customer experience while delivering real benefits.
That focus places a higher standard on innovation than novelty alone.
A new technology may be technically impressive, but its long-term value depends on whether it can improve quality, simplify an experience, accelerate development, increase capability or address another genuine customer or business need.
The same principle applies as AI becomes a larger part of engineering and product-development workflows.
Technology can help teams analyze information, test ideas, improve development processes and create new experiences. The objective, however, remains the product rather than the technology used to create it.
Innovation Requires Integration
Curic’s perspective has been shaped by a career spanning several technology-intensive industries.
He began his career in Engineering Systems at Northrop Grumman in 1996 before joining Microsoft in 2000, where he held positions in consulting, product, security and advisory functions.
He entered the automotive industry in 2013 as Group Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Toyota Motor North America. In 2015, he became a co-founder of Toyota Connected, serving as Executive Vice President, Technical Director and Board Member.
Curic joined Amazon in 2017 as Vice President of Alexa Automotive, spearheading the company’s efforts in the automotive industry.
In August 2021, he joined Stellantis as Chief Technology Officer. His responsibilities later expanded to encompass engineering and research and development before Stellantis brought software activities into the Product Development & Technology organization in 2025.
Across those roles, Curic has worked in environments where multiple technologies, teams and disciplines must contribute to a single product or customer experience.
That experience underpins an approach to innovation based on integration rather than technology in isolation.
A Practical Standard for Emerging Technology
The number of technologies available to product-development organizations will continue to grow.
Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. Computing capability continues to increase. Development tools are becoming more sophisticated, and vehicles are incorporating increasingly complex electronics and connected functions.
For Curic, those developments do not change the fundamental purpose of technology.
The relevant questions remain practical ones: Does it improve the product? Does it make something easier for the customer? Does it solve a genuine problem? Does it enable an experience that people actually value?
Those questions can also help organizations distinguish lasting innovation from short-term technology trends.
The companies best positioned to benefit from emerging technologies may therefore be those that are most selective about how they use them—integrating technology where it improves the complete product rather than adding capability simply because it is available.
As the automotive industry continues to evolve, Curic’s approach keeps the emphasis on an outcome that is easy to understand even when the technology behind it is increasingly complex: building better products for the people who use them.
About Ned Curic
Ned Curic is responsible for Product Development & Technology at Stellantis and is a member of the Stellantis Leadership Team. He previously served as Vice President of Alexa Automotive at Amazon, Group Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Toyota Motor North America, and held roles in consulting, product, security and advisory functions at Microsoft. He began his career in Engineering Systems at Northrop Grumman.
Curic studied Informatics and Computer Science and received an MBA from Pepperdine University’s George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management in 2012.
For more information, visit NedCuric.com.
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Press Release
UPrime Capital Announces Technology-Led Brand Strategy Focused on a More Personalised Trading Experience
London, United Kindom, October 23rd, 2026, FinanceWire
The strategy brings a refined identity to international trading, with an emphasis on technology, clear communication and the needs of discerning market participants.
UPrime Capital is announcing a brand strategy centred on a personalised trading experience, financial technology and international markets. The direction establishes a consistent approach to the company’s identity and communications, combining a premium visual presentation with a focus on explaining the tools, terminology and considerations behind online trading.
The strategy places professionalism and clarity at the centre of the UPrime Capital brand. Its intended audience includes experienced market participants and individuals researching trading technology who want substantive information alongside a considered digital experience.
Rather than defining sophistication through appearance alone, the positioning connects it with the quality of information presented: how trading tools are described, how market developments are explained and how clearly prospective clients can understand the nature of a service.
Technology With A Clear Purpose
AI trading and automated investing are central themes within the company’s proposed communications direction. UPrime Capital’s strategy calls for these subjects to be addressed through practical explanations of their functions, applications and limitations.
The distinction matters. Automation can follow predefined instructions, while AI-based systems may use models trained on data to generate outputs or inform a process. Neither term, by itself, establishes the quality of a system or its suitability for an individual.
UPrime Capital’s positioning emphasises a more informed conversation about financial technology, including the importance of evaluating functionality, oversight and the conditions under which a tool operates.
A Timely Perspective On International Trading
The announcement comes as UK market participants continue to assess inflation, monetary policy and their implications for sterling and global financial markets.
As checked on 19 October 2026, the Bank of England lists Bank Rate at 3.75%, its current inflation measure at 3.1% and its next interest-rate announcement for 5 November. These reference points provide a timely backdrop for discussions about forex market analysis and changing expectations.
For currency pair trading, the significance of an economic release depends partly on how it compares with expectations and on developments affecting both currencies. Similarly, understanding gold, equity indices or commodities requires attention to the instrument being considered as well as the broader economic environment.
UPrime Capital’s brand direction places this relationship between information and understanding at the centre of its communications.
A Consistent Identity Across Digital Channels
The strategy also sets a creative direction for the brand’s digital presence. Clean layouts, restrained design and precise language are intended to establish a recognisable identity across company materials.
Personalisation is a guiding principle within that direction, reflecting the different levels of experience, interests and research needs that individuals bring to financial markets. Any specific service or functionality will need to be described through its actual scope and applicable terms.
Through this positioning, UPrime Capital is setting out its ambition to build recognition through a consistent combination of professional presentation, useful information and a considered approach to trading technology.
Further company information is available at uprimecapital.com.
About UPrime Capital
UPrime Capital is developing a brand identity focused on international trading, financial technology and a personalised trading experience. Its stated positioning emphasises professionalism, innovation and clear communication for individuals researching global financial markets.
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AVIP Lists on Binance and Explores Collaboration with Leading AI and Chip Technology Companies
AVIP Announces Binance Listing, Exploring Synergies Between Computing Infrastructure and Large-Model Applications Through AI Agent Value Assessment and Incentive Pricing
United States, 23rd Oct 2026 – AVIP recently announced its official listing on Binance, marking a milestone in its global market expansion. Building on this development, AVIP will continue to expand its international trading channels, with listings on additional major global digital asset trading platforms among its next-stage objectives, gradually broadening the project’s international reach.
The listing provides more users with a new channel to learn about and participate in AVIP, while creating opportunities for the project to connect with communities interested in artificial intelligence, AI agent collaboration, and digital assets. As its market reach expands, AVIP will further improve its community engagement and developer participation mechanisms, promoting technical exchange, application exploration, and ecosystem collaboration.
Alongside the expansion of its trading channels, AVIP will continue to explore AI agent value assessment and incentive pricing, focusing on synergies among computing infrastructure, large-model applications, and contribution allocation mechanisms. The project aims to gradually move its peer-to-peer intelligence marketplace from mechanism research toward validation in practical use cases.

AVIP Explores a Development Path for an AI Agent Value Marketplace, Focusing on Synergies Between Computing Infrastructure and Large-Model Applications
As artificial intelligence applications evolve from services provided by individual models toward collaboration among multiple agents, identifying the actual contributions of different agents and establishing incentive mechanisms aligned with service quality are becoming important areas of exploration. AVIP (Allocate Value, Incentivize Pricing) addresses this challenge by proposing an internet-based, peer-to-peer intelligence marketplace. Through participant evaluations, digital-ledger records, and economic incentives, the project seeks to explore ways to identify value and allocate contributions among intelligent systems.
At the hardware level, potential collaboration between AVIP and leading chip technology companies could focus on GPU computing resources, node deployment, and cluster operating efficiency. An AI agent marketplace needs to continuously process task requests, generate model outputs, and evaluate the performance of different participants. As the number of participating nodes and the scale of tasks increase, computing throughput, response speed, video memory capacity, and communication efficiency between nodes will all affect the network’s service capabilities.

The technical strengths of leading chip companies lie in GPU-accelerated computing and the supporting hardware and software ecosystem. Their GPUs, interconnect technologies, and related software can support large-model training and inference, providing infrastructure options for high-concurrency computing tasks. AVIP’s proposed value-assessment and incentive mechanisms could give these computing resources concrete application scenarios: nodes would provide services for real tasks, while the project explores how rewards could be allocated according to service performance.
If the parties confirm a collaboration in the future, initial work could begin with node hardware compatibility, benchmarking, and small-scale pilots. These efforts would assess task-processing capacity, response latency, and cost per task under different configurations before any decision to expand deployment. For AVIP, this could strengthen the network’s capacity; for the technology ecosystem associated with leading chip companies, it could create a new use case for AI agent collaboration and distributed evaluation. At the large-model level, AVIP could explore collaboration with leading AI companies in model-service integration, task understanding, tool calling, and evaluation assistance. Function-calling mechanisms enable AI models to connect with external tools and data through applications, providing a technical pathway for building agents capable of carrying out specific tasks.
Building on these capabilities, AVIP could explore converting user requirements into clearly structured tasks for different agents to process. For example, in information organization, content generation, or business workflow assistance, large models can help interpret task requirements, call external tools, and return results in specified formats. AVIP would focus on researching ways to record contributions and allocate incentives based on output quality, completion efficiency, and task suitability.
The potential complementary value of such collaboration lies in connecting large-model capabilities with measurable task contributions. Model services from leading AI companies could support task understanding and execution, while AVIP’s proposed mechanisms would focus on answering two questions: which results are more valuable, and which participants should be rewarded.
In designing the evaluation process, large models could serve as auxiliary tools, but reward allocation would still need to incorporate verifiable results, independent testing, and human spot checks to reduce the effects of model bias, collusive scoring, or deliberate score manipulation.
Access to trading markets also affects participation channels within the AVIP ecosystem. More broadly, computing infrastructure, large-model services, and value-assessment mechanisms each address different needs: hardware supports task execution, large models support task understanding and execution, and AVIP explores how contributions can be recorded, compared, and allocated. If these three components work effectively together in pilot programs, they could help move the AI agent marketplace from conceptual validation toward practical application.
A practical next step would be to test tasks with clearly defined scopes and verifiable outcomes, gradually evaluating node operating costs, model service quality, and reward rules before expanding developer participation and application coverage. For AVIP, establishing an intelligence marketplace that can operate continuously, deliver credible evaluations, and maintain traceable contribution records will be a key part of its development path.
About AVIP
AVIP (Allocate Value, Incentivize Pricing) is a project exploring mechanisms for AI agent value assessment and incentive pricing. It proposes an internet-based, peer-to-peer intelligence marketplace in which participants evaluate one another through neural networks, record scores on a digital ledger, and provide economic rewards to higher-ranked participants according to applicable rules. The project aims to explore ways to identify value and allocate contributions among intelligent systems.
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Oceanic Iron Ore CEO Chris Batalha Talks About the No Railway Needed Operational Advantage
The PEA highlights that Oceanic will not require a railroad to get its iron ore to market, significantly reducing capital expenses and operating costs.
Canada, 23rd Oct 2026 – Global Stocks News – Sponsored content disseminated on behalf of Oceanic Iron Ore. On October 22, 2026, Oceanic Iron Ore (TSXV: FEO) issued a shareholder message titled “No Railway Needed: Our Operational Advantage”.
Oceanic is focused on the development of its 100% owned Hopes Advance, Morgan Lake and Roberts Lake iron ore projects located on the coast, in the Labrador Trough in Québec, Canada.
The flagship Hopes Advance Project has a NI 43-101 Measured & Indicated resource of about 1.36 billion tonnes at a head grade of 32.1% Fe. The project is located at tidewater. The PEA highlights that Oceanic will not require a railroad to get its iron ore to market, significantly reducing capital expenses and operating costs.

No Railway Needed: Our Operational Advantage
Chris Batalha
CEO of Oceanic Iron Ore
The world’s biggest iron ore mines and mining complexes are situated in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, northern Brazil’s Amazon basin, Guinea’s Simandou mountain range, Canada’s Labrador Trough, South Africa’s Northern Cape, and Sweden’s Arctic north. Located far from industrial steel plants, these massive deposits require dedicated heavy-haul rail corridors stretching anywhere from 170 to 900 kilometres to reach specialized deep-sea ports for international markets.
Oceanic’s iron ore assets are located in Northern Québec, close to tidewater. We anticipate that our iron ore concentrate will be transported from the mine to the port via truck along a 26 km access road. This gives us a significant cost, operational and logistical advantage.
Railroad construction costs per kilometre of track vary based on location, the cost of labour, materials and topography. Freight trains can handle a maximum slope of 1.5%. Anything more than that, they lose traction or stall. That’s not a problem if you are building a trans-Saskatchewan rail line. Hills, valleys, mountains and rivers create expensive engineering and construction challenges.
Case in point: The new Simandou iron ore project in Guinea requires a 552-kilometre railway to move its iron ore from a mine site in the mountains 1,200 metres above sea level to the Atlantic coast. An 11-kilometre tunnel was needed to bypass a steep vertical drop. More than 20 bridges were built.
Railroads pose bigger engineering challenges than highways. A single loaded railcar weighs about 130 metric tonnes. To make the tracks stable, construction crews in Guinea had to reinforce the track subgrade across multiple soil profiles. The railway terminates on the Atlantic coast in shallow water. To accommodate Panamax-sized shipping berths, Simandou must build a 20-kilometre-long pier into deeper water.
The cost of building the Simandou iron ore railway and port infrastructure was shared by a consortium of multinational miners, Chinese state-owned steel giants, and the Guinean government. The total bill was approximately US$15 billion. That’s about 10 X our entire projected capex. With no requirement to build a railroad, Oceanic Iron Ore can achieve an attractive payback period with a smaller production profile.
We are based in the Labrador Trough in Quebec, where other iron ore producers require hundreds of kilometres of shared railway. This infrastructure bottleneck leaves operations dependent on third-party scheduling. In addition to upfront capital expenditures for rail development, project economics are heavily influenced by the ongoing operational expenses and fixed tariffs imposed per tonne of ore transported.
A 2019 Technical Report on the Hopes Advance property projected construction costs, mine pre-stripping costs, pre-operational capitalized costs, indirect costs, closure and contingency costs at $1.193 billion.
Major line items in the capex include construction of the mineral processing area ($206.9 million), port ($181.8 million), mine infrastructure ($159.2 million), electric power ($47.6 million) and a mining fleet ($30.3 million). Starting in year five, the total expansion capital cost is estimated at $690 million.
With rising costs of engineering, labour and machinery, our capex today would be higher than the costs cited in the 2019 Tech Report. But with no railroad requirement, we are in a strong position to build a profitable mine delivering high-grade, low-impurity iron ore to the green steel market.
In the next message, I will introduce you to our leadership team.
By Chris Batalha
CEO of Oceanic Iron Ore
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