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Stock to Watch: Cognizant (CTSH - Free Report) Headquartered in Teaneck, NJ, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is a leading professional services company. The company was spun off from Dun & Bradstreet in 1996 and went public in 1998.

CTSH is a #3 (Hold) on the Zacks Rank, with a VGM Score of B.

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Two analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for fiscal 2026, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.00 to $5.70 per share. CTSH also boasts an average earnings surprise of +4.8%.

With a solid Zacks Rank and top-tier Value and VGM Style Scores, CTSH should be on investors' short list.

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With a solid Zacks Rank and top-tier Growth and VGM Style Scores, CTSH should be on investors' short list.

, /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) has released the following notice:

HERMAN JONES LLP
SERINA M. VASH
153 Central Avenue #131
Westfield, NJ 07090
[email protected]
Telephone: (404) 504-6516
Facsimile: (404) 504-6501

[Additional Counsel on Signature Page]

Attorneys for Plaintiff

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY

VISWANATHA PALEMPALLI,

Derivatively on Behalf of COGNIZANT
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORPORATION,

Plaintiff,

v.

MICHAEL PATSALOS-FOX, JOHN

N. FOX, JR., MAUREEN BREAKIRON-
EVANS, LEO S. MACKAY, JR., ZEIN
ABDALLA, FRANCISCO D'SOUZA,
KAREN MCLOUGHLIN, RAJEEV MEHTA,
GORDON J. COBURN, STEVEN
SCHWARTZ, RAMAKRISHNAN
CHANDRASEKARAN, JOHN E. KLEIN,
JONATHAN CHADWICK, THOMAS M.
WENDEL, LAKSHMI NARAYANAN, and
ROBERT E. WEISSMAN,

Defendants,

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Case No. 2:21-cv-12025-EP-SDA

SUMMARY NOTICE OF PENDENCY
AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF
STOCKHOLDER DERIVATIVE ACTION

EXHIBIT B-2

TO: ALL OWNERS OF THE COMMON STOCK OF COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ("COGNIZANT" OR THE "COMPANY") CURRENTLY AND AS OF NOVEMBER 25, 2025:

THIS NOTICE RELATES TO THE PENDENCY AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF STOCKHOLDER DERIVATIVE LITIGATION. PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY. IF YOU ARE A COGNIZANT STOCKHOLDER, THIS NOTICE CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS.

THIS DERIVATIVE ACTION IS NOT A "CLASS ACTION." THUS, THERE IS NO COMMON FUND UPON WHICH YOU CAN MAKE A CLAIM FOR MONETARY PAYMENT. IF YOU DO NOT OBJECT TO THE TERMS OF THE PROPOSED SETTLEMENT, THE AMOUNT OF ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES, OR THE AMOUNT OF THE SERVICE AWARD DESCRIBED IN THIS NOTICE, YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO TAKE ANY ACTION.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the parties to the above-captioned stockholder derivative action have reached an agreement to settle the derivative claims brought on behalf of and for the benefit of Cognizant.

The terms of the settlement are set forth in a Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement dated November 25, 2025 (the "Stipulation").1 This notice should be read in conjunction with, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the text of the Stipulation, which has been filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. A link to the text of the Stipulation and the full-length Long-Form Notice of Pendency and Proposed Settlement of Stockholder Derivative Action may be found on the "Investors" page of Cognizant's website at http://investors.cognizant.com.

1 All capitalized terms herein have the same meanings as set forth in the Stipulation.

Under the terms of the Stipulation, as a part of the proposed Settlement, the Defendants shall cause their insurers to pay to Cognizant a sum of $5.5 million (the "Settlement Fund"), minus the court-approved Fee and Expense Amount. Defendants acknowledge that Plaintiff's and Plaintiff's Counsel's demand, litigation, and settlement efforts caused Defendants' insurers to agree to make the cash payment to Cognizant.

In consideration of the substantial benefit conferred upon Cognizant as a direct result of the Settlement and the efforts of Plaintiff and Plaintiff's Counsel in the Derivative Action, Plaintiff's Counsel will request Court approval of an award of attorneys' fees and expenses not to exceed $1,830,000 (or approximately 33% of the Settlement Fund). Plaintiff's Counsel also will apply to the Court for a service award of up to $15,000 to Plaintiff, subject to Court approval, which will be paid from any approved Fee and Expense Amount.

A hearing will be held on SEPTEMBER 14, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. before the Honorable Stacey D. Adams of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey at the Frank R. Lautenberg Post Office and U.S. Courthouse, 2 Federal Square, Courtroom 9, Newark, New Jersey 07102 (the "Settlement Hearing"), at which the Court will determine whether to approve the Settlement.

Any Current Cognizant Stockholder has a right, but is not required, to appear and to be heard at the Settlement Hearing, providing that he, she, or it is a stockholder of record or beneficial owner of Cognizant common stock and was a stockholder of record or beneficial owner of Cognizant common stock as of November 25, 2025. Any Current Cognizant Stockholder who satisfies this requirement may enter an appearance through counsel of such stockholder's own choosing and at such stockholder's own expense, or may appear on his or her own. However, you shall not be heard at the Settlement Hearing unless, no later than August 31, 2026, you have filed with the Court a written notice of objection containing the following information:

Your name, legal address, and telephone number; The case name and number (Palempalli v. Patsalos-Fox, et al., Case No. 2:21-cv-12025-EP-SDA); Proof of being a Cognizant stockholder currently and as of November 25, 2025; The date(s) you acquired your Cognizant stock; A statement of each objection being made; Notice of whether you intend to appear at the Settlement Hearing (you are not required to appear); and Copies of any papers you intend to submit to the Court, along with the names of any witness(es) you intend to call to testify at the Settlement Hearing and the subject(s) of their testimony. If you wish to object to the proposed Settlement, you must file the written objection described above with the Court on or before August 31, 2026. All written objections and supporting papers must be filed with the Clerk of the Court, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, at the Martin Luther King Building and U.S. Courthouse, 50 Walnut Street, Newark, N.J. 07101, and served by that date on each of the following Settling Parties' counsel:

Counsel for Plaintiff:

Stephen J. Oddo

ROBBINS LLP

5060 Shoreham Place, Suite 300

San Diego, CA 92122

Counsel for Defendants:

Daniel Roeser

Charles A. Brown

GOODWIN PROCTER LLP

The New York Times Building

620 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10018

James Holsey Keale

TANENBAUM KEALE LLP

Three Gateway Center, Suite 1301

100 Mulberry Street

Newark, New Jersey 07102

Nina Yadava

Sarah D. Efronson

JONES DAY

250 Vesey Street

New York, New York 10281

Andrew J. Ehrlich

Alison R. Benedon

PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON &
GARRISON LLP

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019

YOUR WRITTEN OBJECTIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED OR ON FILE WITH THE CLERK OF THE COURT NO LATER THAN AUGUST 31, 2026.

Only stockholders who have filed and delivered valid and timely written notices of objection will be entitled to be heard at the Settlement Hearing unless the Court orders otherwise. If you fail to object in the manner and within the time prescribed above, you shall be deemed to have waived your right to object (including the right to appeal) and shall forever be barred, in this proceeding or in any other proceeding, from raising such objection(s).

Inquiries may be made to Plaintiff's Counsel: Robbins LLP, 5060 Shoreham Place, Suite 300, San Diego, California 92122, telephone: (619) 525-3990.

PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT
OR DEFENDANTS REGARDING THIS NOTICE

DATED: June 29, 2026

BY ORDER OF THE COURT

U.S. DISTRICT COURT OF NEW JERSEY

About Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an AI builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

Investor Relations Contact:
Tyler Scott, SVP, Investor Relations, (551) 220-8246, [email protected]

Media Contact:
Jeff DeMarrais, SVP Corporate Communications, (475) 223-2298, [email protected]

SOURCE Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

A sharp rotation trade has taken over markets to start the second half of 2026, with investors dumping the year’s biggest winners and piling into beaten-down names. 

Bespoke Investment Group’s Thursday update titled "Selling Winners, Buying Losers" highlights the strong rotation that has taken hold in July.

INTC stock is up today. See the real-time price action here. Technology — the clear leader through the first half — has stumbled out of the gate in July, falling 4.8% in the first five trading sessions, making it the worst-performing sector. 

In contrast, Energy has surged 4.7%, leading a group of cyclical and defensive sectors including financials, healthcare and consumer staples that are all posting July gains.

The shift reflects a classic "sell the rips, buy the dips" dynamic, driven less by fundamentals and more by positioning and rebalancing flows, according to Bespoke’s analysis. 

At the stock level, the reversal has been even more dramatic. The 22 S&P 500 companies that more than doubled in the first half are down an average of 16.3% so far in July, with 20 of the 22 trading lower. 

The six biggest winners — each up more than 250% earlier this year — have dropped an average of 18.3%, according to Bespoke. 

Buying LosersMeanwhile, laggards are catching a bid. Of the 29 S&P 500 stocks that fell more than 20% in the first half, 26 are higher this month, posting an average gain of 5.3%. 

Among the most notable rebounds, Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) has jumped 10.2%, leading the bounce among previously beaten-down names.

Lululemon athletica (NASDAQ:LULU) is the lone notable decliner among prior laggards, slipping just 0.5%.

The Bottom LineThe scale and speed of the reversal point to institutional rebalancing as a key driver, according to Bespoke. After a highly concentrated rally led by a narrow group of winners, funds and ETFs appear to be reducing exposure to extended names and rotating into underperformers.

Investors will have to decide whether this is a temporary, flow-driven reset or the early stages of a broader shift away from tech and momentum and toward value and cyclicals.

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Cognizant's Frontier workforce model to create the human infrastructure that turns AI investment into enterprise outcomes Backed by decades of running technology and operations at enterprise scale, Cognizant's human capital operating model embeds outcome-owning Frontier talent inside client operations Cognizant Frontier talent operates across any cloud, any model to help close the gap between AI capability and enterprise results , /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading AI Builder and technology services provider, today announced it was committing to scaling its Frontier-certified workforce, the human and operational infrastructure enterprises need to convert AI capability into measurable business results, to 5,000 Frontier Certified Engineers and 10,000 Frontier Business Operators.

Cognizant's people investment will yield its first cohort, which will be both Frontier-assessed and deployment-ready, by fourth quarter, 2026. Cognizant also plans to augment its own Frontier talent pipeline through annual direct hires of Frontier-native talent from American and global universities.

This human capital investment is focused on solving an urgent problem facing enterprises today: most organizations have spent more on AI than on any technology in a generation, and most have little to show for it. Cognizant measures the gap between what AI can deliver and what enterprises actually realize at $4.5 trillion. That gap is not a compute problem. It is a people and process problem, and it will not be closed by provisioning more infrastructure. The required investment is skilling and deploying more Frontier-ready talent into client-oriented delivery to help clients realize a return on their technology investment.

"Closing the AI outcome gap demands talent who not only understands a client's industry deeply but can also reimagine the way work is structured and take end-to-end responsibility for delivering results in collaboration with clients, on any model or cloud the client selects," said Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S. "That is what a Frontier workforce does. By taking accountability for outcomes rather than stopping at technology deployment, we can help clients accelerate measurable results while managing risk. Cognizant's industry context and experience position us uniquely to unlock the value that has remained out of reach during this shift toward outcome-based delivery and a new chapter in human capital."

Cognizant's Frontier workforce is model- and cloud-agnostic by design. Its teams build an organization's unique context into whatever stack the client has already chosen, across a partnership footprint that spans Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, AWS, NVIDIA, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. The result is durable capability designed for enterprise ownership and portability across environments, otherwise known as solutions that are geared towards the problems being experienced by our client, not the closest thing a proprietary platform can accomplish.

"AI has exposed 93% of jobs to change, and the associated labor value remains untapped because the workforce architecture built for a pre-AI world cannot capture it. So we rebuilt the architecture for the world we are in now," said Cognizant Chief People Officer, Kathy Diaz. "Industry domain depth is a core strength of Cognizant, and we bring enterprise-scale experience across technology, processes and operations. We know how to take these powerful frontier tools and turn them into real business value, and we are training our workforce to do it at scale."

Cognizant Chief Learning Officer, Thiru Arohi said: "We are developing a new professional identity for the AI era. We are investing in the infrastructure behind this identity: the Academy, the assessment architecture, the certification pathway, and the talent pipeline from campus to senior practitioner. What we are scaling is not headcount, but a workforce capable of closing the outcome gap that no model, platform, or deployment engineer can close alone."

This Frontier model is anchored in six principles: interdisciplinary capability; a direct linkage to customer value; building, deploying, or working alongside agents as routine; end-to-end accountability; delivery through a small operational pod; and a single, unified Cognizant experience for the client. The workforce will be organized as a single premium job family of seven roles across two complementary tracks, Frontier Certified Engineers and Frontier Business Operators:

Frontier Certified Engineers: Frontier Certified Engineers architect and build agentic systems, engineer the retrieval and context layers that keep those systems grounded in domain reality, and orchestrate multi-agent pipelines into live production, remaining accountable for every system they deploy, including ongoing monitoring, tuning and improvement cycles that follow go-live. They are where industry domain expertise, full-stack AI engineering and production accountability converge in a single practitioner. They enter a client environment already fluent in its regulatory constraints, operational failure modes and business logic, and use that fluency to determine not just what AI can do, but what it should do, and how it must be governed to be trusted in alignment with client requirements. Frontier Business Operators: Frontier Business Operators are responsible for delivering operational outcomes in collaboration with client stakeholders in environments where the workforce is simultaneously human and digital, managing agent fleets and human teams against a committed outcome, in real time, with no separation between the two. Their edge is not technical configuration; it is the judgment that comes from having run the operations floors, claims pipelines, and service workflows that AI agents are now being asked to take on. They know how to feed every exception and override back into agent calibration, so the system is continuously refined to improve reliability over time. What sets these roles apart from being forward deployed engineers is permanence, accountability and something that cannot be trained overnight: Cognizant's deep industry domain expertise and the hard-won experience of an AI builder running enterprise operations at scale. The model is already live — a two-person Engineer-and-Operator pod recently reimagined a large food service company's account-management workflow into seventeen production AI agents, reclaiming roughly eleven hours per account manager each week while cutting handoff cycles by about 60 percent and nearly tripling their revenue per engagement.

Underpinning the commitment is a model built to scale and to reach the client. Cognizant stands up local capacity inside client clusters so certified pods deploy close to the work they own, while its global capability centers supply the talent base behind them. The elevation funnel narrows at each stage: from a broad base of AI-fluency skilling across hundreds of thousands of associates, through structured AI-Bridge programs to 40,000 in Frontier certification, credentialed directly by the frontier-model companies, including GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, and OpenAI's Codex. Today's announced investment will expand Cognizant's SkillSpring™ capacity, deliver AI-fluency and responsible-AI training across the workforce, and fund embedded client engagements worldwide.

For enterprises, the payoff is measured where it matters most: AI investment converted into business results, delivering value from the technology stack they already run, with accountability through an AI builder firm that lasts well beyond go-live. In committing to the people who deliver those outcomes, Cognizant is making a strategic bet that the defining edge of the AI era will be human and operational, and positioning its clients to pursue the financial return from their technology investment which has eluded them. That is the future of AI: not just capability, but outcomes that endure.

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

For more information, contact:

SOURCE Cognizant Technology Solutions

7.7.2026 19:00

Index Dow Jones -0,34 % na 52874,68 b. S&P 500 -0,31 % na 7514,09 b. Nasdaq Composite -0,71 % na 25936,59 b.

US indexy se pohybují v červeném pásmu, část ztrát se jim ale již podařilo smazat. Nejméně klesá index S&P 500, kde je nejslabším sektorem průmysl. GE Vernova klesá o 8,8 %, Deere & Co ztrácí 6,1 % a Caterpillar, který je i nejslabší emisí indexu Dow Jones odepisuje 5,5 %.

Dalším klesajícím sektorem je sektor informačních technologií. Akcie společností zaměřených na umělou inteligenci se ocitly pod tlakem v důsledku poklesu akcií společnosti Samsung o 7 % na domácí korejské burze. Samsung ráno oznámil předběžné výsledky za druhé čtvrtletí, v nichž očekává tržby ve výši přibližně USD 112,7 mld. a provozní zisk USD 59 mld. Oba tyto údaje výrazně překonaly konsensus, což však nestačilo k pozitivní reakci trhu. Dobrou náladu nepřinesla ani zpráva o čínské společnosti DeepSeek, která začala vyvíjet vlastní čip pro umělou inteligenci. Intel odepisuje 9,5 %, Micron Technology a AMD odepisují přibližně 6 %.

Fiserv roste o 1,9 % po informacích o možném budoucím prodeji její platební sítě STAR konsorciu bank, jako je JPMorgan Chase, anebo Bank of America. Získání vlastní sítě na zpracování plateb by bankám snížilo náklady a podpořilo například věrnostní programy pro debetní karty.

SpaceX (- 4,9 %) se dnes stal součástí indexu Nasdaq 100. Po připojení do indexu se objevilo hned několik investičních doporučení. Např. JP Morgan má cílovou cenu USD 225, Goldman Sachs akcie doporučuje k nákupu s cílovou cenou USD 205 a UBS má cílovou cenu USD 210.

Hormuzský průliv byl dnes místem útoku Iránu na tanker na zkapalněný zemní plyn. V reakci mírně stoupá cena ropy. Futures kontrakty na WTI rostou o 2,8 % na úroveň pod USD 70,5 a po sérií poklesů stoupají i Exxon Mobil (2,2 %) a Chevron (1,5 %).

Index S&P 500 -0,31 % na 7514,09 b. Nejsilnější sektory S&P Změna Nejslabší sektory S&P Změna Reality +1,7 % Průmysl -2,3 % Zdravotní péče +1,5 % Informační technologie -1,1 % Energie +1,3 % Základní materiály -1 % Nejsilnější akcie S&P Změna Nejslabší akcie S&P Změna Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp (CTSH) +6,3 % Teradyne (TER) -10 % Gartner (IT) +5,8 % Generac Holdings (GNRC) -10 % Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) +5,4 % Intel Corp (INTC) -9,5 % GoDaddy (GDDY) +5,3 % GE Vernova (GEV) -9,1 % ServiceNow (NOW) +5,0 % Sandisk Corp (SNDK) -8,9 %
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Cognizant Technology Solutions expands its AI portfolio with OpenAI to strengthen AI-powered cybersecurity for enterprises.

Ce partenariat associe l'infrastructure d'IA souveraine de Domyn, qui va de la puce jusqu'à l'application, à l'expertise de Cognizant en intégration d'entreprise et à sa présence sectorielle dans la région EMEA, permettant ainsi aux organisations soumises à une réglementation de déployer l'IA en toute sécurité sur site et au sein d'environnements souverains

, /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ : CTSH) et Domyn, leader européen des infrastructures d'IA souveraine pour les secteurs réglementés, ont annoncé un partenariat stratégique visant à mettre à la disposition des entreprises de la région EMEA des capacités d'IA souveraine. Ce partenariat aidera les organisations évoluant dans des secteurs fortement réglementés à déployer des solutions d'IA performantes qui garantissent le maintien des données au sein d'environnements contrôlés par les clients et facilitent la mise en conformité avec les cadres réglementaires européens.

Le système d'IA de bout en bout de Domyn (qui englobe la puissance de calcul, les modèles propriétaires, la gouvernance et les agents) a été spécialement conçu pour relever ce défi. Le rôle de Cognizant en tant que développeur d'IA et intégrateur de systèmes mondial de confiance, fort de relations solides avec les entreprises de la région EMEA, en fait le partenaire idéal pour déployer ces capacités à grande échelle.

Dans le cadre de ce partenariat, Domyn fournira la couche d'infrastructure d'IA, en proposant des LLM pouvant être déployés dans les environnements des clients, que ce soit sur site ou dans des configurations de cloud privé, tandis que Cognizant assurera la couche d'exécution des applications, de l'intégration et des domaines. Cognizant se chargera de former et d'adapter les modèles de Domyn pour en faire des modèles plus petits et spécifiques à un domaine (SLM), de développer des agents et des applications sur mesure pour des cas d'utilisation sectoriels précis, et de gérer la mise en place du pipeline de données existant, le nettoyage des données et les travaux d'alignement des modèles nécessaires au déploiement en entreprise. Ensemble, les deux entreprises mettront en œuvre une stratégie commerciale commune ciblant les entreprises du Royaume-Uni et d'Irlande, de la région DACH, d'Europe du Nord, d'Europe du Sud et du Moyen-Orient.

Pour les entreprises, ce partenariat leur donne accès à une offre d'IA souveraine entièrement intégrée. Les entreprises ont ainsi accès à des modèles d'IA et à une infrastructure de pointe sans pour autant renoncer au contrôle de leurs données, tout en bénéficiant de la capacité avérée de Cognizant à gérer les transformations complexes au sein des entreprises, à mettre en place des cadres de conformité intégrant l'intervention humaine et à générer des résultats commerciaux mesurables à grande échelle. Selon Gartner®, « la géopolitique est le principal moteur de la demande en solutions et services d'IA véritablement souverains, ce qui a un impact négatif sur les fournisseurs de cloud mondiaux proposant des services d'IA, tels que les fournisseurs de cloud hyperscale. Compte tenu de la situation géopolitique actuelle, les fournisseurs de cloud locaux proposant des services d'IA deviendront des concurrents de plus en plus importants et gagneront des parts de marché. » D'ici 2029, la géopolitique poussera 50% des charges de travail d'IA sur le cloud vers des modèles de déploiement d'IA sur des clouds souverains, contre 5% en 2025.1

« L'IA souveraine représente l'une des opportunités de croissance les plus importantes dans la région EMEA, et Cognizant a toutes les cartes en main pour en être le fer de lance », déclare Manoj Mehta, président de Cognizant pour la région EMEA. « Les organisations soumises à une réglementation dans toute l'Europe ont besoin d'une IA capable de générer des résultats transformateurs sans compromettre la souveraineté des données, la conformité réglementaire ou la sécurité. Notre partenariat avec Domyn allie une infrastructure d'IA de classe mondiale à l'expertise approfondie de Cognizant, qui permet de transformer cette infrastructure en solutions concrètes et adaptées à chaque secteur d'activité. Ensemble, nous donnons aux entreprises la confiance nécessaire pour aller de l'avant rapidement dans le domaine de l'IA, selon leurs propres conditions et dans le respect de leurs frontières. »

« La prochaine vague d'IA en Europe sera remportée par ceux qui possèdent et contrôlent l'intelligence au cœur de leur activité », déclare Uljan Sharka, CEO de Domyn. « Grâce au vaste réseau de partenariats sectoriels de Cognizant dans la région EMEA, nous serons en mesure de développer notre vision et d'offrir aux organismes les plus exigeants les bases nécessaires pour s'engager résolument dans l'IA et s'approprier pleinement l'intelligence sur laquelle ils s'appuient. »

Ce partenariat s'inscrit dans le cadre de la stratégie AI Builder en trois volets de Cognizant (permettre l'hyperproductivité, industrialiser l'IA et agentifier l'entreprise) et apporte plus de 60 brevets liés à l'IA, plus de 1 500 agents spécifiques à différents secteurs d'activité, ainsi qu'un laboratoire dédié à l'IA réparti entre San Francisco et Bangalore. Cela marque également une étape importante dans la mission de Domyn, qui consiste à aider les entreprises soumises à une réglementation à détenir, gérer et faire confiance aux données intelligentes qui alimentent leurs processus les plus critiques. Ce partenariat se concentrera dans un premier temps sur les clients de la région EMEA.

À propos de Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ : CTSH) est un développeur en IA et un fournisseur de services technologiques qui établit une passerelle entre l'investissement en IA et la valeur d'entreprise en mettant au point des solutions d'IA complètes pour nos clients. Notre expertise approfondie du secteur, des procédés et de l'ingénierie nous permet d'intégrer le contexte unique d'une organisation à des systèmes technologiques qui exploitent pleinement le potentiel humain, génèrent des bénéfices tangibles et maintiennent les entreprises internationales au premier plan dans un monde en constante évolution. Plus d'informations sur www.cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.

À propos de Domyn
Domyn développe des solutions d'IA responsables destinées aux secteurs réglementés, notamment les services financiers, le secteur public et l'industrie lourde. Domyn accompagne les entreprises grâce à des solutions propriétaires et entièrement contrôlables, reposant sur une architecture d'IA modulable, comprenant notamment de grands modèles de langage et des agents d'IA spécialisés dans des domaines spécifiques. L'entreprise construit l'un des plus grands supercalculateurs basés sur l'IA dans les secteurs réglementés, en partenariat avec NVIDIA et les Émirats arabes unis.

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Cognizant and Domyn Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Sovereign AI Solutions Across EMEA PR Newswire LON

, /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading AI builder and technology services provider, will announce results for the second quarter of 2026 on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 before market open.

Following the release, Cognizant management will conduct a conference call at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern) to discuss operating performance for the quarter. To participate in the conference call, domestic callers can dial 877-810-9510 and international callers can dial 201-493-6778 and provide the following conference passcode: Cognizant Call.

The conference call will also be available live on the Investor Relations section of the Cognizant website at http://investors.cognizant.com.  Please go to the website at least 15 minutes prior to the call to register and to download and install any necessary audio software.

For those who cannot access the live broadcast, a replay will be available by dialing (877) 660-6853 for domestic callers or (201) 612-7415 for international callers and entering 13760925 from two hours after the end of the call until Wednesday, August 12, 2026. The replay will also be available at Cognizant's website http://investors.cognizant.com for 60 days following the call.

About Cognizant

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an AI builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

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Cognizant deepens AI partnerships and sees strong bookings growth, but macro uncertainty and soft demand cloud its near-term outlook.

Cognizant and Pearson joint study finds 6 in 10 HR leaders admit L&D programs are failing to keep pace as AI rapidly reshapes entry-level roles

, /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) and Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L) today revealed new findings from their joint study, The AI Workforce Pulse, signaling that entry-level roles are being reimagined by AI, and work is evolving faster than organizations can redesign how they hire, develop and support talent.

The findings point to four interconnected shifts shaping the AI workforce ahead:

Entry-Level Work Remains Essential: 94% of HR Leaders Expect AI to Create New Entry-Level Roles, Cognizant and Pearson Study Reveals Roles are Being Reinvented
Entry-level roles are expected to evolve toward supervising and collaborating with AI systems rather than executing routine tasks.

Nearly all (96%) HR leaders expect entry-level roles to evolve into positions where employees supervise or manage AI systems within the next five years. Nearly all HR professionals (94%) expect AI will generate new entry-level roles in the next five years that didn't exist before. More than 90% of respondents say middle managers are instrumental to redefining job roles as AI changes the day-to-day work of team members. Demand for AI Skills is Outpacing Readiness
While demand for AI training is accelerating, most organizations lack the learning infrastructure to keep pace.

Ninety-one percent report employee requests for AI training have increased in the past year. Yet 46% of organizations are not proactively arranging AI training. Sixty percent say their company's learning and development programs cannot keep pace with how fast AI is transforming jobs. AI is Redefining Candidate Pools
As AI takes on routine work, employers are shifting hiring toward non-traditional skillsets.

Nearly seven-in-10 (69%) state broad, interdisciplinary backgrounds are more important for early career talent than deep, specialized skillsets or focused degrees. Two-in-three HR professionals (67%) report they value liberal arts degrees more than they used to in light of AI advancements. Nearly all (97%) report soft skills matter more than ever, reflecting a need for adaptability, problem-solving, and human judgment. The Race for AI-Ready Talent Is Accelerating
Across industries, the rapid pace of AI adoption is creating a disconnect between the skills organizations have and the skills they need, making talent strategy one of the defining challenges of the moment.

Sixty-four percent of respondents believe they can't find the right talent because AI is rapidly changing what skills they need to hire for. Almost all surveyed organizations are planning to redefine job roles to reflect AI's impact on day-to-day work. Only about half (54%) proactively arrange AI upskilling training in anticipation of roles evolving. "AI is reshaping the talent landscape and exposing the limits of traditional talent and learning models," said Kathy Diaz, Chief People Officer, Cognizant. "With the fundamental shift in entry-level tasks and skill requirements changing rapidly, organizations must rethink how they hire and develop talent at pace."

The new findings build on Cognizant's earlier New Work, New World 2026 study, which found that AI is already impacting 93% of jobs, underscoring the urgency for employers to prepare for changing role expectations. Cognizant sees early-career talent as increasingly important in an AI-enabled workforce. After hiring 20,000 fresh graduates in 2025, the company expects to exceed that number in 2026, reflecting its continued investment in early-career talent and skill development as work evolves.

"As work evolves, the most successful organizations will focus less on replacing tasks and more on building the capabilities that help humans and AI work together. That starts with early-career talent," said Ali Bebo, Chief Human Resources Officer, Pearson. "The future belongs to organizations that combine AI innovation with a deep understanding of how people learn, develop, and apply new skills in the real world."

Through their partnership, Cognizant and Pearson are working together to help recent graduates, apprentices, and mid-career professionals build skills in AI, cloud, and digital technologies. Pearson supports Cognizant's existing workforce development programs, including Synapse and its Immersive Learning Center in Chennai, to help create stronger development paths for the workforce.

Methodology: Wakefield Research surveyed 750 HR professionals at the director level and above, at companies with at least 1,000 employees, across the United States, United Kingdom and India, between March 23 and April 3, 2026.

To view the complete study and learn more, please visit https://www.cognizant.com/us/en/insights/insights-blog/adapting-roles-for-an-ai-workforce.

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Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an AI builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

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At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. That's why our c. 18,000 Pearson employees are committed to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are the world's lifelong learning company, serving customers in nearly 200 countries with digital content, assessments, qualifications, and data. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. Visit us at plc.pearson.com.

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Cognizant is severely undervalued after a broad IT services sell-off, trading below 8x P/E and yielding over 3%. CTSH fundamentals remain solid with revenue growth, strong bookings, and tangible GenAI profit progress, despite margin and FCF pressures from project costs and compensation. Risks include overconcentration in North America and potential AI-driven business cannibalization, but the downside is limited unless multiple adverse scenarios materialize.

As a launch partner for Rubrik Agent Cloud, Cognizant intends to be one of the first global systems integrators to operationalize the offering, embedding it as a governance layer within Cognizant Neuro® AI and AI Factory The aim is to give enterprises visibility into agent actions, real-time policy enforcement, and the ability to reverse unintended agent activity in defined scenarios , /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) announced an expanded strategic alliance with Rubrik to help enterprises run autonomous AI safely at scale. As a launch partner for Rubrik's Project Hourglass, an alliance with leading Global Systems Integrators (GSIs) to deliver agentic resilience for enterprise AI coding agents, Cognizant intends to be one of the first global systems integrators to operationalize the offering as a governance layer within its delivery platforms.

Enterprises are moving agentic AI from pilots into production, where AI agents increasingly write code, move data and act on systems with varying degrees of human oversight. In tandem, the challenge enterprises face is shifting away from building agents and towards governing them. The expanded alliance positions Cognizant's industrialized delivery platforms with Rubrik's ability to monitor agent actions, enforce policy and support reversal of an agent's actions when something goes wrong.

"Enterprises everywhere are working to operationalize AI, and many reach the same point of friction: they need greater visibility into what their agents are doing, and they need the ability to reverse course when an agent acts in error," said Sriram Kumaresan, Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Services, Cognizant. "By embedding Rubrik Agent Cloud into our Neuro® AI platform and AI Factory, we intend to give clients the confidence to let agents act, because agent actions can be seen, governed and, if necessary, reversed."

Cognizant and Rubrik collaborated on developing the implementation approach for Rubrik Agent Cloud within Cognizant's delivery ecosystem. Initial joint work focuses on regulated sectors, including healthcare, life sciences, financial services and insurance, where auditability and operational control are central requirements.

"With the increase in agents in the workforce, the biggest question enterprise leaders are asking is, 'how do we let AI agents write and deploy code without introducing significant new risk?'" said Alok Agrawal, Chief Solutions Officer, Rubrik. "We built Rubrik Agent Cloud to give organizations visibility into what their agents do, control over what they are allowed to do and undo what may have been done in error. Cognizant is among the first to put that control layer to work at enterprise scale."

The integration spans two layers of how Cognizant delivers AI. Within Cognizant Neuro® AI, Rubrik Agent Cloud is intended to govern the AI agents Cognizant manages on behalf of clients, tracking each action, scoping the potential impact of an agent-initiated change and designed to enable rollback when an agent executes an unintended action, aiming to support more resilient AI-driven IT operations.

Within Cognizant's AI Factory, the same control layer is designed to keep client AI agents inside defined guardrails by enforcing access and action policies, identifying when an agent operates outside approved boundaries and maintaining an auditable record of what each agent did and why, with controls aligned to recognized AI governance standards such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001.

Together, the two layers are intended to let enterprises move agents into production without giving up oversight. Agents act, every action is recorded and governed, and unintended actions can be reversed in defined scenarios.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant. 

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New roles being developed at scale and backed by proprietary SkillSpring training platform, advance Cognizant's AI Builder strategy to close the $4.5 trillion gap between AI capability and enterprise results

, /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) a leading AI builder and technology services provider, today announced the creation of two new job categories; Frontier Certified Engineer and Frontier Business Operator, purpose-built for the AI era. The roles represent a significant expansion of Cognizant's workforce strategy and are designed for a new generation of talent at the forefront of enterprise AI transformation.

The announcement is a direct extension of Cognizant's AI Builder strategy, which is built on a single, urgent fact: most organizations have yet to translate AI into measurable business outcomes. Cognizant's research measures the gap between what AI can deliver and what enterprises are realizing at $4.5 trillion, a figure reflecting a shortage of the people and processes capable of meaningfully putting AI to work.

Frontier Engineers will work directly with client organizations to reimagine and realign business processes for an AI-enabled environment.  Frontier Certified Engineers will specialize in rethinking how work gets done — identifying where AI can reshape operations, eliminate friction, and create lasting competitive advantage. The role requires both strategic thinking and technical fluency, making it one of the most consequential pivot points into the AI-era workforce.

Frontier Business Operators take an equally critical approach. Tasked with taking full ownership of operational results, they will manage a blended workforce of human and digital labor including deploying AI agents, automation, and human judgment in concert to drive business outcomes. Where Frontier Certified Engineers redesign the map, Frontier Business Operators navigate it in real time.

Thirumala Arohi, Senior Vice President and Head of Learning and Development at Cognizant said, "The question every enterprise is asking is why AI results aren't showing up yet. The answer is talent and process. AI has exposed 93% of jobs to automation, yet the $4.5 trillion in labor value that represents remains uncaptured. The reason is not the technology; it is the workforce architecture. The pyramid was built for a pre-AI world. Frontier Certified Engineers who design for agentic outcomes and the Frontier Business Operators who own them are a new kind of professional, trained from day one to turn AI capability into business reality. The most important innovation of this decade will not come from AI. It will come from empowering every worker to use it."

Central to the initiative is SkillSpring, Cognizant's proprietary training platform built to onboard and develop talent for emerging AI-era roles. The Frontier Certified Engineer and Frontier Business Operator tracks, which are being built at scale, will undergo structured learning paths combining AI fluency, process design, data interpretation, and operational leadership — equipping them to use and orchestrate AI tools in high-stakes enterprise environments.

SkillSpring is designed to compress the traditional ramp time for associates, giving Cognizant clients faster access to job-ready talent while providing associates with a credentialed, career-defining foundation in human-AI collaboration.

"We are making a deliberate bet on the next generation," said Kathy Diaz, Chief Human Resources Officer of Cognizant. "Frontier Certified Engineers and Frontier Business Operators are roles that are being designed from scratch and at scale for the world we are in now. SkillSpring gives us the ability to rapidly develop associates who can lead in an AI-first environment. This is how we build a workforce that isn't just ready for what's next but is actively shaping it."

The development of these roles underscores Cognizant's position as an AI builder, a company that builds the human and operational infrastructure enterprises need to make AI work at scale. As organizations across every sector grapple with the challenge of turning AI investments into bottom-line results, Cognizant is investing in the talent model that makes that transition possible.

For more information about the AI builder strategy and SkillSpring, visit cognizant.ai.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant. 

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Cognizant deepens its partnership with CrowdStrike, bringing the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to its AI Factory and Managed Cybersecurity Services to help enterprises secure AI across every layer.

, /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) announced an expanded strategic alliance with CrowdStrike to help enterprises secure artificial intelligence across its lifecycle, from the AI agents and models to the foundational infrastructure that supports the entire AI ecosystem. Building on a partnership established in 2025, Cognizant is bringing the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to its AI Factory and its Managed Cybersecurity Services, powered by the Cognizant Neuro® Cybersecurity platform.

The expansion arrives at an inflection point for enterprise AI. Organizations are no longer deciding whether to deploy autonomous AI agents; they are deploying them at scale, across operations, IT and core business processes, and across every environment they run in, from public and private cloud to the edge. That shift widens the enterprise attack surface in ways traditional tooling was not built to address. Adversaries are accelerating attacks with AI, exploiting unsanctioned "shadow AI", manipulating models through prompt injection and probing the new entry points that agentic architectures create. Security has become the decisive factor in whether enterprise AI scales with confidence or stalls.

"AI Builder is about putting AI to work inside the workflows that run a business, and that only scales if the AI is secure from the start. An unsecured AI agent isn't a productivity gain, it's an open door," said Surya Gummadi, President, Americas, Cognizant. "By bringing the CrowdStrike Falcon platform together with our AI Factory and Neuro Cybersecurity platform, we're giving clients a way to build, run and secure autonomous AI across the agent, the model and the infrastructure beneath it. That's what it takes to move AI into real enterprise operations with an approach aligned to the assurance expectations of boards, regulators and customers."

Cognizant's AI Builder approach is about putting AI to work where it matters, embedding intelligent agents into the workflows that run the enterprise. For that to scale, the AI has to be secure, governed and trustworthy. This alliance aims to deliver on both, across three capabilities:

AI-native managed security operations: Cognizant is bringing the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, including Charlotte AI™ and CrowdStrike's Agentic Security Workforce, and Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM, to its managed cybersecurity services, orchestrated through the Cognizant Neuro® Cybersecurity platform. The result brings always-on AI agents supporting functions such as alert triage, threat intelligence, vulnerability prioritization and data onboarding into Cognizant's delivery operations, within guardrails set by Cognizant's security architects. Security and governance across AI Factory: Within Cognizant's AI Factory, CrowdStrike Falcon® capabilities support the governance layer that is designed to keep AI agents and applications operating inside defined security and compliance boundaries. Falcon® AI Detection and Response (AIDR) helps protect the prompt and agent interaction layer, while AI model scanning and shadow AI detection give clients visibility into every model, tool and agent in their environment. These capabilities are delivered in collaboration with clients and operate within client-defined governance, risk and compliance frameworks. A security layer for private, sovereign AI: For regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and government, Cognizant's private AI Factory deployments aim to deliver sovereign, on-premises AI infrastructure hosted within a client's own data center. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform serves as a security layer across these deployments, extending unified protection to the compute, containers and data pipelines that power private models. These capabilities build on Cognizant being named CrowdStrike's 2026 Americas Velocity Partner of the Year, recognizing Cognizant's measurable pipeline and delivery success and the speed at which it has brought joint capabilities to market with CrowdStrike.

"The future enterprise will be powered by AI agents. The challenge isn't building them, it's securing them," said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. "Together, CrowdStrike and Cognizant are helping organizations move AI from experimentation to enterprise adoption with the confidence that every agent, model and workload is protected by the Falcon platform. That's how businesses innovate faster, deploy AI securely and stop breaches in the AI era."

Together, Cognizant and CrowdStrike are aiming to give enterprises a path to deploy autonomous AI with confidence that every agent, model and interaction is protected, governed and resilient by design.

About Cognizant
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Resources Investor Relations Journalists Agencies Client Login Send a Release News Products Contact , /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading AI builder and technology services provider, today announced its participation in the following investor conference:

2026 Nasdaq Investor Conference in Association with Jefferies

Presenter:

Jatin Dalal, Chief Financial Officer

Date:         

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 

Time:           

9:00AM EST | 2:00PM BST

A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available at Cognizant's website:
http://investors.cognizant.com. A replay of the webcast will remain available on the company's website for 90 days. 

About Cognizant 

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is an AI builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

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New integration pairs ServiceNow's visibility and governance with Cognizant's agentic intelligence and control platform, providing a path to help enable the continuous application of responsible AI principles across the full AI lifecycle

, /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) announced the integration of Cognizant Neuro® AI Trust with ServiceNow, enhancing one of the most widely adopted enterprise AI platforms with a continuous AI assurance infrastructure purpose-built for enterprise scale. The integration is designed to give organizations a single, interoperable environment in which AI governance is not only visible and managed but actively enforced through responsible AI agents operating across every stage of the AI lifecycle.

AI deployment is no longer the constraint. The constraint is trust: the ability to confidently demonstrate, at scale, that AI running inside regulated processes, customer-facing systems and core operations is aligned with its intended purpose and defined controls. Without that assurance layer, enterprises hesitate at the threshold of real transformation.

The integrated offering is designed to offer users a fundamental shift in how they manage and scale AI. Where teams once struggled with fragmented visibility, manual compliance and slow deployment cycles, they now stand to gain a unified, real-time view of every AI asset in operation, with governance and risk controls embedded directly into their workflows. The result is designed to support faster, more confident AI deployment, audit readiness and the ability to demonstrate measurable business value to leadership, regulators and customers.

The vision is one where, when AI systems fail or drift, organizations know immediately, respond automatically and can demonstrate they were operating responsibly, shifting AI from a source of operational and reputational risk into a trusted business capability.

"The market has solved AI access. What enterprises now need is the ability to operate AI responsibly at the scale and speed their businesses demand," said Sriram Kumaresan, Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Services, Cognizant. "With this integration, customers gain not just a platform for visibility, but an active operating layer that helps organizations operationalize and monitor responsible AI behavior continuously as their systems learn, adapt and act."

The ServiceNow AI Control Tower is designed to provide the unified governance and observability backbone, unifying strategy, controls and performance management across every AI system, agent and workflow. Cognizant Neuro AI Trust extends this foundation with real-time assurance across the full AI enterprise stack, deploying a library of responsible AI and Guardian agents that orchestrate dynamically to support the application of fairness, safety, security, transparency and compliance principles throughout AI development and operation. The platform is built for interoperability, extending governance across third-party agentic networks to support consistent enforcement regardless of where AI systems operate. Together, the integrated solution is designed to move enterprises from periodic compliance to more continuous, observable AI assurance.

"The agentic AI terrain is expanding quickly in scope and in business impact, and yet the visibility gap is palpable. AI Control Tower gives organizations a single command center to govern every model, every agent and AI asset, and their identities and associated permissions across the enterprise, not just inside ServiceNow," said John Aisien, senior vice president and general manager, Central Product Management, Security & Risk at ServiceNow. "Together with Cognizant, we're closing this gap: connecting deployment to accountability, through a unified approach to governance. With a comprehensive framework for discovering, monitoring, managing and scaling AI, organizations can accelerate innovation while maintaining trust and control across their operations."

The integration is designed for the realities of regulated enterprise AI. Cognizant's platform comes with a library of leading standards, regulatory frameworks1 and guardrails with pre-built compliance content designed to compress the time from policy to operational implementation. The combined offering supports a three-phase operating model: plan with clarity, onboard with governance and operate with confidence. For enterprises facing the persistent challenge of closing the distance between AI investment and measurable business outcomes, governance becomes a source of speed rather than friction.

"The hard part of AI governance was never writing the policy; it's enforcing it as systems learn and act. Clients increasingly want that gap closed automatically and tied to business outcomes. The pairing of Cognizant Neuro AI Trust with the ServiceNow AI Control Tower reflects where enterprise AI governance is headed: from static oversight to continuous, execution-driven operations," said Nitish Mittal, Partner at Everest Group.

The combined offering reflects Cognizant's broader strategy as an AI builder: helping enterprises move from AI experimentation to production by ensuring AI in production stays accountable to the people, policies and regulators that depend on it. More details on Cognizant Neuro AI Trust's control and intelligence layers are expected to be announced in the near future.

For more information about Cognizant's partnership with ServiceNow, visit this page.

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Establishes industry leading sovereign Physical AI Platform-as-a-Service, built on the Cognizant® Intelligence Spine Unifies Cognizant's engineering, AI, industry capabilities for Physical AI across eight core verticals , /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) today launched an industry leading sovereign Physical AI Platform-as-a-Service, an integrated capability that moves autonomous systems from experimentation into core enterprise infrastructure. Built on the Cognizant Intelligence Spine, the offering connects disparate physical systems, including industrial sensors, IoT devices, factory automation and energy infrastructure, into a single coherent intelligence fabric, helping enterprises scale Physical AI across their operations.

Cognizant Launches Sovereign Physical AI Platform-as-a-Service Physical AI brings advanced multimodal intelligence, including vision, sensing, positioning and low-latency communication, into the operating layers of a business, allowing enterprises to direct physical action with greater visibility and control. After two decades in which industrialization centered on software, autonomous systems are now expanding into factories, warehouses, agriculture, healthcare and mobility, opening what the Grand View Research has estimated to be close to a trillion-dollar opportunity across service and utility robotics, autonomous vehicles and humanoid systems by 2033.

"In some ways, this is the iPhone moment for robotics and Physical AI," said Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant. "Advanced vision sensors, precise positioning, low-latency secure communication and new multimodal AI innovations are the constituents that bring AI into the physical world. Over the next few years, autonomous systems are expected to move from experiments to infrastructure. As an AI builder, our role is to help embed AI-powered digital intelligence into the physical and operating layers of a business, so enterprises can direct physical action with confidence. The enterprises we serve are at an inflection point, and we have built the cognitive foundation they need to move forward."

The shift is documented in Cognizant's New Work, New World 2026 study, which found that AI exposure in physical work has accelerated faster than long-range forecasts anticipated. In transportation, AI exposure climbed from 6% to 25%, and in construction it rose from 4% to 12%. The study also found that the most human-centered parts of physical work now have meaningful potential for digital enhancement, reinforcing the case for embedding AI directly into operational layers rather than leaving it confined to digital systems.

"Engineering and AI capabilities are distributed across companies and industries, and the opportunity in front of us is pervasive," said Vijay Narayan, Cognizant's newly appointed Global Head for Physical AI, who also leads the company's Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy and Utilities business. "Bringing them together lets us give clients a coherent way to put AI to work where their operations actually run. The differentiator is not a single model or sensor. It is the discipline to connect what physical systems observe, reason about it, act on it and keep that intelligence owned and governed by the enterprise as an asset that compounds over time. As AI builders, our role is to help embed intelligence into the physical and operating layers of a business, not to leave it confined to digital systems. We believe the companies that will lead the Physical AI era are not the ones waiting for proof-of-concept experiments to mature; they are the ones building governed, scalable systems into their physical and operational cores today, and that is what Cognizant is uniquely positioned to deliver."

Built on the Cognizant Intelligence Spine

The central challenge in Physical AI is no longer building capable use cases but scaling and connecting them. The proliferation of AI models and equipment makers across the ecosystem leaves enterprises without shared context, a unified reasoning layer, or institutional knowledge they truly own, a condition that leaves an enterprise able to sense everything yet reason about little of it. Cognizant's thesis is that this is an architectural problem.

The company's answer is the Cognizant Intelligence Spine, an industry leading sovereign institutional AI platform-as-a-service for Physical AI. The Spine sits between the physical edge, including sensors, cameras, robots and AI twins, and the agentic layer that reasons and acts, connecting physical AI systems with agentic AI into a single institutional mind that is designed for enterprise ownership and governance.

In physical environments, where failure carries safety, compliance or operational consequences rather than just a poor user experience, this governed and sovereign approach is increasingly critical for many enterprise use cases. Cognizant builds the sovereign layer that makes physical AI institutional: unified across every system, connected to agentic AI, governed by the client's rules and deepening with every decision, so each AI system deployed contributes to a unified institutional intelligence the enterprise owns, governs and expands over time.

Capabilities Across Eight Core Verticals

Cognizant is deploying this capability across sectors, aligning its engineering, AI and industry expertise to deliver production value at-scale. From predictive maintenance and mission-critical system integration to clinical operations and intelligent energy grids, the applications are as diverse as they are impactful. The Cognizant Intelligence Spine is available for enterprise engagements with immediate applicability across eight core verticals including:

Utilities: Grid modernization, wildfire prevention, predictive asset maintenance, distributed energy management. Oil & Gas: Pipeline integrity monitoring, autonomous inspection, safety-system intelligence, environmental compliance. Manufacturing: Autonomous quality control, predictive maintenance, robotic process integration, yield optimization. Logistics: Autonomous warehouse operations, fleet intelligence, last-mile optimization, supply chain visibility. Transportation: Autonomous fleet operations, infrastructure monitoring, port operations, real-time routing intelligence. Aerospace & Defense: Autonomous inspection, mission-critical AI, sovereign systems with full institutional governance. Healthcare & Life Sciences: Autonomous lab operations, clinical robotics, supply chain intelligence, capabilities for regulatory traceability. Consumer, Retail and CPG: Safety-critical monitoring, regulatory compliance automation, process inspection, digital-twin governance. About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @Cognizant.

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This press release includes statements that may constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the accuracy of which are necessarily subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. These statements include, but are not limited to, express or implied forward-looking statements relating to the opportunity value of Physical AI, the effects and speed of impact of AI on physical work and the economy and Cognizant's ability to successfully deploy its Physical AI offerings in client environments. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees but include findings of the report discussed above and remain subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Cognizant's control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Factors that could cause outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied include general economic conditions, the impact of technological development and competition, the competitive and rapidly changing nature of the markets Cognizant and its clients compete in and the other factors discussed in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cognizant undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities law.

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ZipRecruiter (NYSE:ZIP) is back in the chatter as retail traders bet the soft labor market is about to turn, with the stock bouncing 13.29% in the past month. But here’s what you should actually be watching.

The ZipRecruiter Trade Is a Trap The bull case for ZipRecruiter requires you to believe a hiring rebound is imminent. The data says otherwise. Unemployment sat at 4.3% in April 2026, up from 3.9% two years earlier. CEO Ian Siegel himself described a “persistently soft labor market” with quits and total hires near their lowest levels since 2015.

The financials confirm the structural decay. Q1 2026 revenue fell to $107.5 million, down 2.3% year over year, with a GAAP net loss of $4.74 million. Full-year 2025 revenue slid 5.27% to $449 million, producing a $33 million net loss. Management is guiding to flat revenue in 2026. Shares have shed 44.99% over the past year and 84.58% over five. At a $264 million market cap with negative book value, this is a structurally shrinking micro-cap dressing up an AI matching engine to distract from the core business burning out.

The Smarter Play: Cognizant The real macro shift is enterprise automation, and Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:CTSH | CTSH Price Prediction) is built precisely for the moment when corporations stop hiring bodies and start overhauling tech stacks. The stock has pulled back 29.47% over the past year to $55.76, trading at just 12x trailing earnings and 10x forward. Three reasons retirement investors should care.

1. Profitable growth at scale. Q1 2026 revenue hit $5.41 billion, up 5.8% year over year, with adjusted EPS of $1.40 beating the $1.33 consensus and earnings growing 13.8%. Financial Services surged 12.4% to $1.644 billion. Quarterly bookings rose 21% year over year, with trailing bookings of $29.6 billion at a 1.4x book-to-bill. ZipRecruiter is shrinking and losing money. Cognizant is compounding.

2. AI with actual cash flow. The partnership roster is real: OpenAI Codex, Google Cloud Diamond, Palantir, and the 3Cloud acquisition for Microsoft Azure. CEO Ravi Kumar S is using these to bridge what he calls the “AI Velocity Gap”, with over 5,000 AI engagements and roughly 40% of code AI-assisted. All of it is funded by $2.665 billion of FY25 free cash flow, up 45.87%. This is AI you can underwrite.

3. Shareholder returns ZipRecruiter cannot match. Cognizant plans $1.6 billion in 2026 capital returns, including $1 billion in buybacks, with the quarterly dividend raised to $0.33. Project Leap is targeting $200 to $300 million in 2026 savings, lifting adjusted operating margin guidance to 16.0% to 16.2%. The analyst target sits at $72.52, well above the current quote.

Close Cognizant on the watchlist, and let the labor-market crowd keep arguing about ZipRecruiter.

Recognition reflects more than 30 Cognizant-powered Pega Blueprint deployments across banking and capital markets, insurance, healthcare and life sciences, demonstrating the ability to compress transformation timelines from months to days.

, /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) announced today it has been recognized with the Blueprint Pioneer Award at PegaWorld 2026 by Pegasystems Inc., the enterprise AI software company for mission-critical work. The award recognizes Cognizant's mastery and innovation in leveraging Pega Blueprint™ across more than 30 enterprise deployments to help clients advance from AI experimentation to production outcomes.

Many enterprises remain stuck in AI pilots that don't scale. Closing the gap between AI capability and production value often depends on the context. Embedded industry knowledge, human-AI handshake in workflows and operational discipline are key factors in making AI work effectively in the real conditions of an enterprise. The Blueprint Pioneer Award recognizes Cognizant for that work.

The recognition builds on the strategic collaboration the two companies expanded in May 2025, when Cognizant and Pega extended their two-decade partnership to bring AI-led transformation to enterprise legacy modernization. That collaboration integrates Cognizant's agentic AI services with Pega Blueprint to help joint clients reimagine workflow-heavy legacy systems and accelerate cloud-ready transformation.

"Just dropping AI into a complex enterprise environment will never deliver at enterprise scale," said Prashant Gaonkar, SVP, Enterprise Platforms, Cognizant. "Pega Blueprint is powerful because it is infused with deep industry knowledge, human-AI handshake in workflows and operational discipline. That is the AI Builder approach in practice, and it is the work this award recognizes."

Cognizant-powered Pega Blueprint is in active deployment across banking and capital markets, insurance, healthcare and life sciences. The work follows a two-phase model that operationalizes the AI Builder approach. In the first phase, Cognizant produces an initial Blueprint to demonstrate what is possible for a given business function. In the second, client-specific knowledge, rules and Cognizant process IP are layered in, secured in the client's environment and used to enable scaled delivery.

"Congratulations to Cognizant for receiving the Blueprint Pioneer Award," said Dan Kasun, Global Head of Partner Ecosystem, Pega. "This achievement demonstrates exceptional mastery and innovation in leveraging Pega Blueprint™ throughout the entire sales and delivery cycle. We look forward to our continued collaboration."

In one example, Cognizant tailored its standard healthcare Blueprints to a client's specific operational context, modernizing a complex legacy workflow into an integrated, end-to-end process. Built-in compliance checkpoints, pre-mapped process steps and reusable IP from prior client engagements help drive quality and consistency across new deployments.

Cognizant is showcasing its Pega Blueprint-driven industry solutions at PegaWorld 2026 in Las Vegas, where Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S will join Pega Founder and CEO Alan Trefler on the mainstage for a conversation on the future of agentic AI in enterprise transformation.

For more information about Cognizant's partnership with Pega, visit Cognizant's Pega Platform Services and watch a recorded conversation between Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S and Pega Founder and CEO Alan Trefler.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.ai or @cognizant. 

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Global professional services leader will leverage embedded AI to enhance hiring experiences and scale recruiting across 60+ countries

, /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant, a leading global professional services company and longstanding Oracle partner, has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting, part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), to help power a more AI-driven approach to talent acquisition. With Oracle Recruiting, Cognizant aims to transform its talent acquisition journey, improve hiring efficiency, and scale recruiting operations to support its global workforce.

Cognizant is one of the world's leading AI Builder and technology service providers helping clients modernize technology, reimagine processes, and transform experiences to stay ahead in a fast-changing world. With operations in over 60 countries and plans to grow its 350,000+ global workforce, Cognizant required a more advanced recruiting platform to support its changing talent needs. After careful evaluation, Cognizant selected Oracle Recruiting for its embedded AI capabilities, flexibility to build and extend AI across systems, global scalability, and support for both standardized and geo-specific hiring processes.

"The candidate experience is often the first interaction people have with our organization, and we needed a recruiting platform that could deliver a more seamless and engaging experience while giving us the flexibility to build AI capabilities that align with our business objectives. Oracle stood out for its ability to deliver all of this within a unified platform," said Roshan Subudhi, senior vice president, Enterprise Platform Services, Cognizant.

With Oracle Recruiting, Cognizant will be able to leverage embedded AI and automation to streamline recruiting workflows and deliver more personalized, efficient hiring experiences. Cognizant also plans to leverage Oracle AI Agent Studio, a complete development platform for building, connecting, and managing AI agents and agentic applications, to build custom AI agents tailored to its unique business processes.

"Organizations with a vast footprint like Cognizant need AI-powered solutions that can scale globally and help them build a future workforce," said Nagaraj Nadendla, senior vice president, HCM product development, Oracle. "With Oracle Recruiting, Cognizant can take advantage of a unified recruiting platform with embedded AI to improve hiring efficiency, enhance candidate engagement, and support its long-term growth."

Oracle Recruiting, together with Oracle Recruiting Booster, help organizations enhance the candidate experience, grow talent pools, drive internal mobility, and streamline the hiring process through embedded AI and automation. To learn more about Oracle Recruiting and Oracle Recruiting Booster, visit oracle.com/human-capital-management/recruiting/

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant. 

About Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications 
Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications provide an integrated suite of AI-powered cloud applications that enable organizations to execute faster, make smarter decisions, and lower costs. Oracle Fusion Applications include: 

Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Provides a comprehensive suite of AI-powered finance and operations applications that help organizations increase productivity, reduce costs, expand insights, improve decision-making, and enhance controls.  Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM): Provides a unified AI-powered HR platform that connects people, processes, and data to help organizations automate the employee lifecycle, enhance the employee experience, and drive better business outcomes with a human-agent workforce.   Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM): Provides a unified AI-powered platform that integrates supply chain and operations processes and helps organizations enhance resilience and quickly adapt to market changes.  Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX): Provides a suite of AI-powered applications that help organizations manage marketing, sales, and service processes to win business, build stronger customer relationships, and improve customer experiences.  About Oracle 
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com. 

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