HANOI, Vietnam--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2026--
Global IT Corporation FPT has secured three wins at the 2 nd Annual 2026 Globee® Awards for Artificial Intelligence, a global awards program honoring achievements in AI, machine learning, automation, and AI-driven innovation across industries and organizations.
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Its solutions were recognized in the following categories:
The award-winning solutions demonstrate FPT’s expanding AI capabilities across conversational intelligence, software engineering, and healthcare analytics. IvyChat, accredited in the Intelligent Chatbot & Conversational AI category, is an enterprise-grade agentic AI platform that enables secure conversational intelligence and workflow automation for regulated industries.
In automotive engineering, FPT’s Automotive AI-powered Test Generation solution streamlines the software validation lifecycle through an end-to-end AI pipeline that improves testing efficiency, scalability, and engineering productivity. Meanwhile, PX Insights, awarded for AI innovation in healthcare, transforms fragmented patient feedback into actionable intelligence through GraphRAG architecture and multi-agent AI orchestration, helping healthcare organizations enhance patient experience and operational decision-making.
“AI is redefining how organizations operate, innovate, and create value across the global economy. Through our AI-First strategy, FPT is shaping a future where intelligence is seamlessly integrated across industries, empowering enterprises to transform faster, safer, and more resiliently. These accolades reflect the growing strength of our AI portfolio and reinforce our commitment to delivering scalable, responsible, and enterprise-grade innovation worldwide.” said Dao Duy Cuong, FPT Software Executive Vice President and Chief Digital & Technology Officer, FPT Corporation.
San Madan, President of the Globee Awards, commented: “Congratulations to the 2026 winners for their achievements in artificial intelligence across industries and organizational roles. Your accomplishments reflect innovation, measurable impact, and the growing role of AI in shaping business and technology.”
The Globee® Awards for Artificial Intelligence is a global recognition program honoring excellence and innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, intelligent systems, and AI-driven business solutions. In its second edition, the 2026 program received more than 730 nominations evaluated through a rigorous and transparent judging process supported by industry expertise and AI-assisted assessment methodologies.
About FPT
FPT Corporation (FPT) is a globally leading Vietnam-headquartered technology and IT services provider, with operations spanning more than 30 countries and territories. Over more than three decades, FPT has consistently delivered impactful solutions to millions of individuals and tens of thousands of organizations worldwide. With a strong focus on mastering strategic technologies, FPT continues to drive innovation across industries. As an AI-first company, FPT is committed to elevating Vietnam’s position on the global tech map and delivering world-class AI-enabled solutions for global enterprises. In 2025, FPT reported a total revenue of USD 2.66 billion and a workforce of over 54,000 employees across its core businesses.
For more information about FPT's global IT services, please visit https://fptsoftware.com.
FPT Secures Triple Wins at the 2026 Globee® Awards for Artificial Intelligence
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for the killing of a 77-year-old retired college professor.
Edward Busby Jr. was pronounced dead at 8:11 p.m. following a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay over his disabilities claims. The execution capped a series of last-minute legal efforts by Busby's attorneys seeking to spare his life.
Busby was condemned for the suffocation death of Laura Lee Crane, a retired professor from Texas Christian University. Prosecutors said she was abducted from a grocery store parking lot in January 2004 and left to suffocate in the trunk of her car with duct tape wrapped heavily around her face, covering her mouth and nose.
The execution was the 600th in Texas since it resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982. Busby also was the fourth person executed this year in Texas and the 12th nationwide. Earlier Thursday, Oklahoma executed Raymond Johnson for killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter nearly 20 years ago.
When asked by the warden if he had a final statement, Busby repeatedly apologized and asked for forgiveness.
“I am so sorry for what happened,” he said while strapped to the death chamber gurney. “Miss Crane was a lovely woman. I never meant anything bad to happen to her.” He said he wished he could “take it all back” and added he had “no right to get in that car.”
“I’ll take the blame if that helps."
He said he had surrendered his life to God and urged a sister, who was praying and watching through a window a short distance away, to find a church and “pick up your cross.”
"I’m here because this is the will of God,” he said before the injection got underway.
As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began flowing, he took a sharp breath, closed his eyes and gasped. Then he made snoring sounds that got progressively quieter. Within 40 seconds, all movement and sounds ceased. He was pronounced dead 38 minutes afterward.
Busby’s execution had been in doubt after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week issued a stay of execution to further review his claims of intellectual disability. But the Supreme Court overturned the stay Thursday at the request of the Texas Attorney General’s Office. The attorney general’s office had argued that similar appeals were previously rejected and were “meritless” and based on “conflicting evidence.”
Busby’s lawyers quickly sought another stay but it was denied by a lower court.
The Supreme Court in 2002 had barred the execution of intellectually disabled people. But it has given states some discretion to decide how to determine such disabilities.
Busby's attorneys had argued against putting him to death because a defense expert as well as one hired by the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted the case, both found he was intellectually disabled.
The district attorney’s office had previously recommended Busby’s sentence be reduced to life in prison. But the trial judge in Busby’s case disagreed with the findings of intellectual disability and in 2023 upheld the death sentence.
In a statement Wednesday, the district attorney's office said it requested Thursday's execution date because it believed that under current law Busy was not intellectually disabled.
Two other prior execution dates for Busby had been delayed by courts.
Prosecutors have said Busby and his co-defendant, Kathleen Latimer, abducted Crane in her car from a Fort Worth grocery store parking lot and later put in her vehicle’s trunk as they drove around. Prosecutors said she died in the trunk after suffocating from having 23 feet (7 meters) of duct tape wrapped over her entire face.
Busby was subsequently arrested in Oklahoma City driving Crane’s car and led authorities to her body in Oklahoma just north of the state line with Texas.
Latimer is in prison serving a life sentence for murder.
Bryan Mark Rigg, an author and historian who represented the Crane family as a witness to the execution, said they “neither support or oppose the death penalty. However, they are united in their respect for the rule of law.”
Rigg said as a child he was a student of Crane's, who for decades helped children overcome learning disabilities and “was discarded in a field like a piece of trash.” He said the execution was not about vengeance but “accountability under the law and about remembering the life of an extraordinary educator.”
Lozano reported from Houston. Follow Juan A. Lozano: https://x.com/juanlozano70
FILE - Edward Busby Jr., left, confers with attorney Steve Gordon on the second day of his capital murder trial, Nov. 10, 2005, in Fort Worth, Texas. (Rodger Mallison/Star-Telegram via AP, Pool, File)
