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America Achieves Congratulates Local Coalitions Forming Regional Tech Hubs and Building Good Jobs Economies

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Out of hundreds of applicants to the bipartisan Tech Hubs program, 12 Tech Hubs to receive implementation grants totaling $504 million

America Achieves calls for additional appropriations, already authorized by Congress with bipartisan support, to meet local demand for Tech Hubs nationwide

NEW YORK, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — America Achieves congratulates the 12 regions winning Tech Hub implementation grants today. We are proud to have provided in-depth technical assistance to 6 of these 12 Tech Hubs. 

The Biden-Harris Administration announced grants today through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA). This program was enabled by Congress’ bipartisan $10 billion authorization of the Tech Hubs program as part of the CHIPS and Science Act in 2022 and an initial down payment of just over $500 million in appropriations. 

America Achieves is calling on Congress to appropriate an additional $2 billion this year – 20% of bipartisan authorization levels – to fully fund all 31 of the designated Tech Hubs and enable a second funding competition. Further appropriations would put Americans to work in hundreds of thousands of good jobs that grow local industries of the future and strengthen U.S. competitiveness and national security.

“In rapidly changing local economies, communities across America are investing in local businesses, good jobs, and quality training for their residents to solve problems, grow the economy, and advance national security and competitiveness,” said America Achieves CEO Jon Schnur. “Today’s announcement – funded by the bipartisan Tech Hubs program – responds to surging local interest and leadership aiming to build vibrant Tech Hubs and a ‘Good Jobs Economy’ that creates new, good jobs and ensures that local residents have fair access to good jobs.” 

Nearly 400 local coalitions submitted applications in the first round of the Tech Hubs competition last year. Of those applicants, 31 became designated Tech Hubs in October 2023. Today’s announcement provided a total of $504 million in funding to 12 of these Tech Hub designees. America Achieves also celebrates the incredible work of the 31 designated Tech Hubs that are poised to help communities compete globally, drive economic growth locally, and create good jobs; the EDA announced that all of them will receive significant benefits, regardless of whether they received federal funding this round.

The regions supported by America Achieves in their applications and receiving funds today include: The Tulsa Hub for Equitable & Trustworthy Autonomy (THETA) (Oklahoma); Headwaters Hub (Montana); the South Florida Climate Resilience Tech Hub; the Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub; and the Nevada Tech Hub

After working closely with these coalitions, America Achieves feels confident that the Tech Hubs grantees will deliver on their potential by using funds effectively and creating Good Jobs Economies in their communities – growing a local economy that equips local residents with the skills, pathways, and support to get and keep good jobs that deliver on the Tech Hub promise.

America Achieves was a trusted partner supporting our hub throughout this process,” said Wendy Harris, Regional Innovation Officer of the Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub. “From their expertise in workforce and economic development to their hands-on assistance with our application, they helped us lay the foundation for the Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub and our work to come.” 

“Making Tulsa’s Tech Hub a reality was no small feat,” said Jennifer Hankins, managing director of Tulsa Innovation Labs, which led Tulsa’s Tech Hubs strategy, “and required contributions from partners across the country. America Achieves brought invaluable expertise and capacity to our team and was integral to developing a proposal that ultimately resulted in a historic investment to secure Tulsa’s economic future.”

A clear pathway toward fully funding the Tech Hubs program is essential to sustain the momentum that local leaders around the country have generated. In 2022, Congress provided bipartisan authorization for $10 billion to support the Tech Hub funding competition created by the CHIPS and Science Act and the Department of Commerce. To date, Congress has appropriated $541 million – just 5% – of this funding. This funding, while significant, is a first step that has only supported 3% of this first round of Tech Hubs applications. To fulfill the potential of this program and build Tech Hubs that create good jobs across the country, Congress must build on this down payment and appropriate the full amount authorized.

About Some of the Regions Supported by America Achieves

The Tulsa Hub for Equitable & Trustworthy Autonomy (THETA) will transform the Tulsa, OK region into a globally competitive hub for the development, testing, manufacturing, and deployment of cyber-secure autonomous systems, such as drones. Tech Hubs funding will create up to 56,000 new jobs, with half these jobs going to Tulsans who have been historically underrepresented and excluded from the benefits of regional economic growth. THETA will build on Tulsa’s legacy of aerospace manufacturing, significant investments in the local drone industry and nationally unique testing facilities to build the Tulsa Tech Hub. In addition, THETA includes partnerships with Tribal nations and Black Tech Street to meaningfully engage underrepresented communities in advanced technologies and expand economic opportunity to these communities.
 The Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub aims to draw on Wisconsin’s storied manufacturing history to position the state as a global leader in personalized medicine, an emerging healthcare approach that tailors tests, treatments, and therapies informed by a patient’s unique genetic code, medical record, and environment. 
 Headwaters Hub seeks to establish Montana as a global leader in the development and production of “smart photonic sensors” – primarily optical and laser technologies – and ways that local businesses and workers can ensure cutting-edge technology, in combination with artificial intelligence and machine learning, can be applied to self-driving vehicles, emissions tracking, and farm and wildfire management, among other applications. Montana’s proposal centers rural and tribal communities and seeks to ensure that these communities help lead Hub projects and share in their expected benefits, particularly with regard to job creation.
 The South Florida Climate Resilience Tech Hub – a consortium led by Miami-Dade County – will advance gains that the region has already been making in sustainable climate technology and filling local jobs engaged in high tech efforts.
 The Nevada Tech Hub will put local residents to work by drawing on the region’s rich sources of lithium and materials needed for electrification, to further establish the state as an international hub for the processing and recycling of self-sustaining batteries that can power electrical vehicles, among other uses.

About America Achieves

America Achieves is a nonprofit organization that partners with local communities to support a blend of economic growth and economic mobility – creating Good Jobs Economies that create good jobs in high-growth sectors and ensuring that participation in those jobs much more closely reflects the diversity of local communities than it does today. For more than a decade, America Achieves has incubated high-performing initiatives, launched new nonprofit organizations, and partnered with local leaders focused on making their communities better places to live, learn, work, and raise a family. In recent years, our nonprofit organization has helped design, shape, and secure federal funding for a series of new programs and policies supporting place-based economic and workforce development. America Achieves helped regional coalitions that applied for this funding, with a combined success rate more than four times greater than the national average.

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CreateAI Announces Results of 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — CreateAI Holdings Inc., formerly TuSimple Holdings Inc. (OTCMKTS: TSPH) (“CreateAI” or the “Company”), a global artificial intelligence technology company, today announced shareholder voting results for its annual meeting of stockholders held on December 20, 2024 (the “Annual Meeting”).

As of October 28, 2024, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were a total of 232,618,399 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, comprised of 208,618,399 shares of Class A Common Stock (each with one vote per share) and 24,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock (each with ten votes per share). At the Annual Meeting, holders of 207,347,538 shares of common stock, representing 423,347,538 votes, entitled to vote at the meeting were represented in person or by proxy and, therefore, a quorum constituted of the majority of the voting power of the shares of common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting was present.

The following is a brief description of each matter voted upon at the 2024 Annual Meeting and the numbers of votes cast for, withheld, or against, the number of abstentions, and the number of broker non-votes with respect to each other, as applicable.

1. Election of six nominees to serve on the Board of Directors (the “Board”) for a term which will expire at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders, or, if Proposal Two is adopted, to hold office until the annual meeting of stockholders in accordance with the class of director to which each nominee will be assigned. The following six directors were elected by the votes as indicated below.

 
 

For

 

Withheld

 

Broker Non-Votes

Cheng Lu

 

208,949,915

 

164,765,0191

 

49,632,604

Mo Chen

 

208,946,146

 

164,768,7881

 

49,632,604

James Lu

 

209,109,928

 

164,605,0061

 

49,632,604

Zhen Tao

 

209,158,316

 

164,556,6181

 

49,632,604

Albert Schultz

 

348,895,0191

 

24,819,915

 

49,632,604

Jianan Hao

 

209,021,652

 

164,693,2821

 

49,632,604

The totals above include the 240,000,000 votes represented by the Class B shares of Common Stock. 12,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock (representing 120,000,00 votes) were voted “FOR” and 12,000,000 shares of Class B Common stock (representing 120,000,00 votes) were voted “WITHHELD” for each of the Directors other than Albert Schultz. All shares of Class B Common Stock were voted “FOR” the election of Albert Schultz. Excluding the 240,000,000 votes from the 24,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock from the totals above, the 183,347,538 shares of Class A Common Stock were voted as indicated below.

 
 

For

 

Withheld

 

Broker Non-Votes

Cheng Lu

 

88,949,915

 

44,765,019

 

49,632,604

Mo Chen

 

88,946,146

 

44,768,788

 

49,632,604

James Lu

 

89,109,928

 

44,605,006

 

49,632,604

Zhen Tao

 

89,158,316

 

44,556,618

 

49,632,604

Albert Schultz

 

108,895,019

 

24,819,915

 

49,632,604

Jianan Hao

 

89,021,652

 

44,693,282

 

49,632,604

2. Amendment to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to classify the Board of Directors into three classes, with directors in each class to serve staggered three-year terms. Pursuant to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, Proposal Two must receive the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, since directors representing two-thirds (2/3) of the total number of authorized directors have already approved. The amendment was not approved2 by the votes as indicated below:

For

 

Against1

 

Abstain

 

Broker Non-Votes

208,955,668

 

164,659,652

 

99,614

 

49,632,604

Because Proposal Two was not approved, the six directors elected pursuant to Proposal One will serve on the Board for a term which will expire at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.

3. Ratification of the appointment of UHY LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. The selection was ratified by the votes as indicated below:

For

 

Against1

 

Abstain

 

Broker Non-Votes

255,504,371

 

155,923,768

 

11,919,399

 

Note 1: Includes 120,000,000 votes of the 12,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock held by White Marble LLC and White Marble International Limited (together, the “White Marble Entities”) controlled by Dr. Xiaodi Hou.

Note 2: The White Marble Entities have filed an action in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking a declaratory judgment that the voting agreement between White Marble and Mo Chen is invalid and White Marble, not Mo Chen, controls the vote. White Marble LLC v. Chen, C.A. No. 2024-1208-PAF (Del. Ch.) On December 13, 2024, the Court entered an order that allows the Company to hold the vote on Proposal Two, and ordered that if Proposal Two is not approved at the Annual Meeting but the Court determines in the Action that Mo Chen, not the White Marble Entities, control how the White Marble Entities’ Shares are voted, then the White Marble Entities’ shares shall be deemed to have been voted in favor of Proposal Two at the Annual Meeting and that such vote shall stand. The vote totals above include the votes of the shares held by the White Marble Entities as voted by the White Marble Entities. If the shares held by the White Marble entities reflected in the totals above are deemed to have been voted in favor of Proposal Two, the Proposal will have passed. Accordingly, if the Court rules in Mo Chen’s favor, Proposal Two will be deemed to have passed and the Company would be permitted to amend its Certificate of Incorporation to implement Proposal Two and each of the directors elected pursuant to Proposal One will serve on the Board until the annual meeting of stockholders in accordance with the class of director to which each nominee is assigned.

About CreateAI

CreateAI (formerly TuSimple) is a global artificial intelligence company with offices in US, China, and Japan. The company is pioneering the future of digital entertainment content production, seamlessly blending cutting-edge generative AI technology with the creativity of world-class talent. Our mission is to redefine the boundaries of what’s possible in digital storytelling by developing immersive, captivating, and visually stunning experiences that resonate with audiences on a global scale.

Investor Relations Contact:
ICR for CreateAI
CreateAI.IR@icrinc.com

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O3 Mining Grants Security-Based Compensation For 2024

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TSXV:OIII – O3 Mining

TORONTO, Dec. 23, 2024 /CNW/ – O3 Mining Inc. (TSXV: OIII) (OTCQX: OIIIF) (“O3 Mining” or the “Corporation”) announces its ordinary course security-based compensation awards for the year ended December 31, 2024. Effective December 23, 2024, the Corporation has granted to certain officers, directors and/or employees of the Corporation an aggregate of (i) 878,817 restricted share units of the Corporation (“RSUs”), and (ii) 230,750 deferred share units of the Corporation (“DSUs”). The RSUs will vest in their entirety over three years from the date of grant, with one-third of the RSUs vesting on each of the first, second and third anniversaries of the date of grant. The DSUs will vest in accordance with the Corporation’s DSU plan.

The Corporation anticipates the vesting of RSUs and DSUs will be accelerated in connection with the initial deposit period for the previously announced cash offer of $1.67 per common share of the Corporation by an affiliate of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (“Agnico Eagle”) to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Corporation not already owned, directly or indirectly, by Agnico Eagle (the “Offer”). The Offer has been made in accordance with the support agreement between Agnico Eagle and O3 Mining dated December 12, 2024, a copy of which is available on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca) under O3 Mining’s issuer profile.

About O3 Mining Inc.

O3 Mining Inc. is a gold explorer and mine developer in Québec, Canada, adjacent to Agnico Eagle’s Canadian Malartic mine. O3 Mining owns a 100% interest in all its properties (128,680 hectares) in Québec. Its principal asset is the Marban Alliance project in Québec, which O3 Mining has advanced over the last five years to the cusp of its next stage of development, with the expectation that the project will deliver long-term benefits to stakeholders. Further information can be found on our website at https://o3mining.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

This news release contains “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation that is based on current expectations, estimates, projections, and interpretations about future events as at the date of this news release. Forward-looking information and statements are based on estimates of management by O3 Mining, at the time they were made, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information or statements. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding vesting of RSUs and DSUs, including any accelerated vesting thereof; the anticipated next stage of development of the Marban Alliance project; and the expectation that the Marban Alliance project will deliver long-term benefits to stakeholders. Although the forward-looking information contained in this news release is based upon what O3 Mining believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable expectations and assumptions, there is no assurance that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking information, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended, and neither O3 Mining nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of any such forward-looking information. No assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements included in this news release should not be unduly relied upon. O3 Mining does not undertake, and assumes no obligation, to update or revise any such forward-looking statements or forward-looking information contained herein to reflect new events or circumstances, except as may be required by applicable law. These statements speak only as of the date of this news release. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to be a forecast, projection or estimate of the future financial performance of O3 Mining.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.

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CreateAI Announces Results of 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — CreateAI Holdings Inc., formerly TuSimple Holdings Inc. (OTCMKTS: TSPH) (“CreateAI” or the “Company”), a global artificial intelligence technology company, today announced shareholder voting results for its annual meeting of stockholders held on December 20, 2024 (the “Annual Meeting”).

As of October 28, 2024, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were a total of 232,618,399 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, comprised of 208,618,399 shares of Class A Common Stock (each with one vote per share) and 24,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock (each with ten votes per share). At the Annual Meeting, holders of 207,347,538 shares of common stock, representing 423,347,538 votes, entitled to vote at the meeting were represented in person or by proxy and, therefore, a quorum constituted of the majority of the voting power of the shares of common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting was present.

The following is a brief description of each matter voted upon at the 2024 Annual Meeting and the numbers of votes cast for, withheld, or against, the number of abstentions, and the number of broker non-votes with respect to each other, as applicable.

1.     Election of six nominees to serve on the Board of Directors (the “Board”) for a term which will expire at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders, or, if Proposal Two is adopted, to hold office until the annual meeting of stockholders in accordance with the class of director to which each nominee will be assigned. The following six directors were elected by the votes as indicated below.

 
 

For

 

Withheld

 

Broker Non-Votes

Cheng Lu

 

208,949,915

 

164,765,0191

 

49,632,604

Mo Chen

 

208,946,146

 

164,768,7881

 

49,632,604

James Lu

 

209,109,928

 

164,605,0061

 

49,632,604

Zhen Tao

 

209,158,316

 

164,556,6181

 

49,632,604

Albert Schultz

 

348,895,0191

 

24,819,915

 

49,632,604

Jianan Hao

 

209,021,652

 

164,693,2821

 

49,632,604

The totals above include the 240,000,000 votes represented by the Class B shares of Common Stock. 12,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock (representing 120,000,00 votes) were voted “FOR” and 12,000,000 shares of Class B Common stock (representing 120,000,00 votes) were voted “WITHHELD” for each of the Directors other than Albert Schultz. All shares of Class B Common Stock were voted “FOR” the election of Albert Schultz. Excluding the 240,000,000 votes from the 24,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock from the totals above, the 183,347,538 shares of Class A Common Stock were voted as indicated below.

 
 

For

 

Withheld

 

Broker Non-Votes

Cheng Lu

 

88,949,915

 

44,765,019

 

49,632,604

Mo Chen

 

88,946,146

 

44,768,788

 

49,632,604

James Lu

 

89,109,928

 

44,605,006

 

49,632,604

Zhen Tao

 

89,158,316

 

44,556,618

 

49,632,604

Albert Schultz

 

108,895,019

 

24,819,915

 

49,632,604

Jianan Hao

 

89,021,652

 

44,693,282

 

49,632,604

2.       Amendment to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation to classify the Board of Directors into three classes, with directors in each class to serve staggered three-year terms. Pursuant to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, Proposal Two must receive the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all of the then-outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, since directors representing two-thirds (2/3) of the total number of authorized directors have already approved. The amendment was not approved2 by the votes as indicated below:

For

 

Against1

 

Abstain

 

Broker Non-Votes

208,955,668

 

164,659,652

 

99,614

 

49,632,604

Because Proposal Two was not approved, the six directors elected pursuant to Proposal One will serve on the Board for a term which will expire at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.

3.       Ratification of the appointment of UHY LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024. The selection was ratified by the votes as indicated below:

For

 

Against1

 

Abstain

 

Broker Non-Votes

255,504,371

 

155,923,768

 

11,919,399

 

Note 1: Includes 120,000,000 votes of the 12,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock held by White Marble LLC and White Marble International Limited (together, the “White Marble Entities”) controlled by Dr. Xiaodi Hou.

Note 2: The White Marble Entities have filed an action in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking a declaratory judgment that the voting agreement between White Marble and Mo Chen is invalid and White Marble, not Mo Chen, controls the vote. White Marble LLC v. Chen, C.A. No. 2024-1208-PAF (Del. Ch.) On December 13, 2024, the Court entered an order that allows the Company to hold the vote on Proposal Two, and ordered that if Proposal Two is not approved at the Annual Meeting but the Court determines in the Action that Mo Chen, not the White Marble Entities, control how the White Marble Entities’ Shares are voted, then the White Marble Entities’ shares shall be deemed to have been voted in favor of Proposal Two at the Annual Meeting and that such vote shall stand. The vote totals above include the votes of the shares held by the White Marble Entities as voted by the White Marble Entities. If the shares held by the White Marble entities reflected in the totals above are deemed to have been voted in favor of Proposal Two, the Proposal will have passed. Accordingly, if the Court rules in Mo Chen’s favor, Proposal Two will be deemed to have passed and the Company would be permitted to amend its Certificate of Incorporation to implement Proposal Two and each of the directors elected pursuant to Proposal One will serve on the Board until the annual meeting of stockholders in accordance with the class of director to which each nominee is assigned.

About CreateAI

CreateAI (formerly TuSimple) is a global artificial intelligence company with offices in US, China, and Japan. The company is pioneering the future of digital entertainment content production, seamlessly blending cutting-edge generative AI technology with the creativity of world-class talent. Our mission is to redefine the boundaries of what’s possible in digital storytelling by developing immersive, captivating, and visually stunning experiences that resonate with audiences on a global scale.

Investor Relations Contact:
ICR for CreateAI
CreateAI.IR@icrinc.com

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