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Linkalpha hires former Coupang Pay CFO Na Hye-won as COO

Linkalpha, an AI-native financial intelligence company, said on Sept. 1 it has hired Na Hye-won (나혜원), a former Coupang Pay chief financial officer, as chief operating officer. Na previously worked at KB Kookmin Bank and Morgan Stanley and held COO and CFO roles at IT platform and content companies. Linkalpha plans to upgrade its finance and operations systems and strengthen organisational competitiveness as it expands globally.

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Microsoft releases Agent Lightning v1.0 agent reinforcement learning framework

Microsoft has released its agent reinforcement learning framework, Agent Lightning v1.0, on GitHub. The framework centers on a production harness that handles context building, tool execution and the agent-environment interaction loop, while the training engine observes only LLM Q&A logs. Microsoft said it used 6,000 training examples to train a Qwen3.5-9B model and raised its SWE-Bench Verified score to 56.4 from 41.8. Researchers cited benefits and cautioned about reward design and infrastructure needs.

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AWS to acquire DuckLabs, expand embedded analytics with DuckDB

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is acquiring DuckLabs, the developer of the open-source analytics database DuckDB. SiliconANGLE reported on Aug. 26 that the deal could be completed as soon as next month. After the acquisition, the DuckLabs team will work with AWS to expand AWS and DuckDB data service capabilities globally. The non-profit DuckDB Foundation will continue to run the project.