April in Review: 11 Top Technology Press Releases

A roundup of the most newsworthy tech announcements from PR Newswire, including Deloitte's collaboration with Walt Disney Studios, Nuro's $6B series E financing and Lockheed Martin's CFO transition.

NEW YORK, May 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each month, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help tech journalists and consumers stay on top of the month's most popular releases and newsworthy trends, here's a recap of some of the past month's most read- and engaged-with stories.

The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.

1. Sony Electronics Announces the World's Smallest and Lightest Miniature Precision LiDAR Depth Sensor
   In addition to its ability to accurately measure distances both indoors and outdoors, the sensor's compact, lightweight design and rigid aluminum housing allow for integration into a wide range of devices, such as food service robots in restaurants, autonomous mobile robots in warehouses, and drones used for inspections and surveys.
2. Nuro Announces Series E Financing at $6B Valuation, Backed by Leading Financial and Strategic Investors
   With more than eight years of development and four years of real-world deployments in California and Texas, Nuro is one of the few companies to have successfully deployed driverless technology at city scale with no safety driver.
3. Palo Alto Networks Announces Intent to Acquire Protect AI, a Game-Changing Security for AI Company
   Protect AI's solutions and team of experts will enable Palo Alto Networks to more quickly and comprehensively accelerate its vision for Prisma AIRS™, the industry's most complete AI security platform. Prisma AIRS will offer customers unparalleled protection for one of the most transformative technologies of our time.
4. Deloitte Announces Collaboration with The Walt Disney Studios' StudioLAB to Propel Innovation in the Media and Entertainment Industry
   This collaboration will help shape the moments that entertain and inspire by equipping the storytellers at Disney with the next generation of tools to bring their creative visions to life leveraging Deloitte's emerging technology capabilities and deep sector knowledge of its Media & Entertainment Practice.
5. CHAI Claims the Crown in Social AI -- Beats Character AI in Ratings
   While Character AI users have recently voiced growing dissatisfaction — particularly over aggressive content filters and delayed response times — CHAI users are celebrating the app's steady improvements and immersive chat experience. 
6. Fidelis' AtmosClear signs agreement with Microsoft for high-quality carbon removal from project in Louisiana
   The plant will use sustainable materials like sugarcane bagasse and trimmings from prudent forest management to produce clean energy while capturing 680,000 metric tons of biogenic carbon dioxide per year for permanent storage or beneficial use, like as a feedstock for low-carbon natural gas or other synthetic fuels.
7. Lockheed Martin Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition 
   "Over his 26 years at Lockheed Martin, Evan [Scott] has earned the utmost respect as an experienced finance and operations leader, with deep understanding of our business and mission. I am confident he is the right choice to drive our continued growth and lead our finance organization with excellence," said Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO James Taiclet.
8. CoreWeave Achieves New Record-Breaking AI Inferencing Benchmark with NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips
   These results further demonstrate CoreWeave as an industry-leading cloud infrastructure services provider. This year, the company became the first to offer general availability of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-based instances.
9. GTCR Announces Sale of Worldpay to Global Payments for $24.25 Billion in Conjunction with Transformative Three-Way Transaction
   "This milestone marks a tremendous collective effort from the entire Worldpay team, and we are enthusiastic about the future with Global Payments," said Charles Drucker, CEO of Worldpay. "The progress over the past two years was made possible thanks to the invaluable partnership with GTCR."
10. Google and Sphere Announce Technology Partnership and Reveal New Details on the AI Technology Behind Upcoming The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
    To present The Wizard of Oz at Sphere, which opens in Las Vegas on August 28, 2025, Google Cloud and Google DeepMind are working together to deploy fine-tuned Gemini models, Veo 2, and Imagen 3 to intelligently enhance the film's resolution, extend backgrounds, and digitally recreate existing characters who would otherwise not appear on the same screen.
11. Quantum Gears to Showcase HiTrust r2 Certified Agentic AI Platform at Gartner's Security & Risk Management Summit in United Arab Emirates
    "Our agentic platform –already deployed and optimizing mission critical workflows in highly regulated industries – satisfies all 276 r2 control requirements, including the 51 new AI risk management factor control requirements," said Mamoon Yunus, CEO of Quantum Gears.

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Trending Topics

Among the technology news that was distributed in April, the PR Newswire team was able spot several larger stories that highlight the trends shaping the industry.

• Space technology: NASA had important announcements in April including welcoming Bangladesh as an Artemis Accords signatory and its participation at the 40^th Space Symposium in Colorado. It also launched a summer high school engineering program to provide essential career readiness tools for work in the aerospace sector. NASA also announced the completion of astronaut Don Pettit's mission to the ISS as well as the launch of the 32^nd SpaceX resupply mission. Apart from NASA, space technology news included United Launch Alliance's successful launch of Amazon's Kuiper-1 mission and Voyager's Clear Dust-Repellent Coating (CDRC) landing on the moon.
• Acquisitions: Major technology sector acquisition news also dominated the wire in April. Siemens announced multiple acquisitions, including DownStream Technologies, Wevolver and AdvantageGo. Other announcements included IBM acquiring Hakkoda Inc., ABC Technologies' acquisition of TI Fluid Systems and Marvell Technology announcing the acquisition of its Automotive Ethernet business for $2.5 billion.
• RSAC: The 34^th RSA Conference, the world's largest and most influential cybersecurity conference, ran April 28-May 1 in San Francisco. In the lead up to the conference, the company announced a membership platform with resources and tools to support the cybersecurity community and also showcased its lineup of prominent keynote speakers for the conference. The company also hosted its annual Innovation Sandbox Contest, which named ProjectDiscovery as the "Most Innovative Startup."

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