HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 22, 2026--
Wiley (NYSE: WLY) today announced its membership in the Genesis Mission Consortium, the public-private partnership supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Genesis Mission, joining organizations including Nvidia, AWS, Microsoft, IBM, and AMD. Wiley is the only scientific publisher among the consortium's members and has been invited to demonstrate its work today at the Genesis Mission Annual Summit in Washington, D.C.
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The Genesis Mission is a Department of Energy initiative to build the American Science and Security Platform, an AI-driven infrastructure designed to accelerate scientific discovery and harness AI to deliver real-world impact on the most pressing science and technology challenges. Wiley’s participation builds on decades of engagement with the DOE and other federal science agencies on research infrastructure.
As a consortium member, Wiley plans to make its research intelligence tools available to researchers at all DOE national laboratories and will offer DOE leadership and industry partners an early look at potential applications at today's Summit. Wiley's planned contribution to the Genesis Mission draws on its editorial networks and domain expertise across the sciences and evidence-linked scientific content that supports provenance and reproducibility, alongside operational support to help integrate these capabilities into laboratory environments.
“The Genesis Mission is a terrific opportunity for Wiley to apply some of our early breakthrough work in AI and Data Analytics to a program of national importance,” said Matthew Kissner, CEO of Wiley. “We are proud to work alongside other members of the Genesis Mission Consortium to help ensure the AI systems shaping science are built on expert-validated workflows and grounded in our rich corpus of authoritative, peer-reviewed content. Accelerating scientific impact requires AI based on trusted evidence – that's the principle behind Wiley's AI platforms, workflows, and partnerships.”
Founded in 1807, Wiley is the largest U.S. scientific publisher and the world’s leading publishing partner to scientific societies, publishing the peer-reviewed research that underpins scientific progress across disciplines and upholding the provenance and credibility of the published scientific record. Wiley's participation in the Genesis Mission Consortium is the latest in a series of global partnerships and initiatives, including collaborations with OpenEvidence, IQVIA, Microsoft, Anthropic, and AWS to bring trusted, peer-reviewed content into leading AI platforms across medicine, life sciences, and research.
“Our membership in the Genesis Mission Consortium reflects Wiley's belief that trusted, peer-reviewed content must be at the foundation of any responsible AI infrastructure,” said Deirdre Silver, EVP & General Counsel of Wiley. “We're contributing our expertise, the application of trusted scientific knowledge, and the standards and frameworks that will define how science and AI come together to serve the public interest.”
Leaders and subject matter experts on Wiley’s AI & Data Analytics team will participate in Genesis Mission working groups including those focused on how AI models are validated against scientific evidence and how scientific data is managed. Wiley will also help shape the Consortium's foundational knowledge layer concept, drawing on content and data that are already among the most frequently cited, licensed, and integrated in scientific AI applications worldwide, extending that role into the federal research infrastructure supporting the DOE and its national laboratories.
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Wiley Joins U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission Consortium to Advance AI-Powered Scientific Discovery
AUSTIN, Texas & BAKU, Azerbaijan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 22, 2026--
Polygraf AI, the AI security company that created the AI Behavioral Control Plane (AiBC), today announced a Memorandum of Understanding with the Innovation and Digital Development Agency (IDDA) of the Republic of Azerbaijan to establish a regional Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence in Baku. The agreement marks Polygraf AI’s second sovereign-AI operation, following its recent expansion into Japan, and opens direct access to governments, enterprises, and critical-infrastructure operators across one of the world's fastest-emerging technology regions.
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The Center will operate under Polygraf Labs, the company's wholly owned subsidiary, based in Azerbaijan. Its mandate is not to resell or transfer Polygraf's U.S. products, but to build a new set of AI security capabilities designed for the operational, regulatory, linguistic and market realities of Azerbaijan and the surrounding region. The initiative advances Azerbaijan's national Artificial Intelligence Strategy and its Action Plan for Accelerating Digital Development, both of which name artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure and technology exports as national priorities.
Why Regional AI Centers of Excellence Matter
The hardest problem in AI is no longer capability. It is trust. Governments and enterprises are deploying systems they did not build and cannot fully observe, and paying twice: first in capital, then in exposure of their most sensitive data. Polygraf's entire business is built around bridging that gap, making AI behavior observable, explainable and controllable in real time.
For a security leader, that means AI risk is enforced where the data lives, rather than inferred after the fact. For the region, it means AI that can be audited on the ground, in local languages, under local rules instead of a foreign black box operated from another continent. And for Polygraf, Azerbaijan is both a proof point and an accelerator: evidence that sovereign AI capability can be built rather than merely bought, and a template the company intends to repeat.
Two Commitments: Sovereign Capability and Proven Protection
Polygraf's presence in Azerbaijan will advance along two complementary tracks.
The new Center of Excellence, run by Polygraf Labs, will build new sovereign AI security solutions for the region, built in the region. That includes support for regional languages global AI providers have long overlooked, compliance built for local rules, and AI that can be audited on the ground.
Separately, Polygraf will bring its existing enterprise products to regional customers. It will work with technology companies and critical-operations teams to secure their AI and data using its AI Behavioral Control Plane and Secure LLM Protocol, backed by the engineers who run Polygraf's U.S. operations. It is a similar approach to the one Polygraf AI took to enter Japan, where it built Japanese-language models solely for local customers.
A Bet on Building Sovereign, Region-Owned AI
Polygraf AI operates on a simple premise: trust cannot be outsourced. Sovereign AI capability is a nation's ability to build, secure, and govern AI on its own terms. This will increasingly separate the countries that shape the AI era from those that merely consume it. To build that capability locally, Polygraf plans to hire more than 200 people in the region, building a team specializing in artificial intelligence, engineering, cybersecurity, data privacy, and AI governance, and creating a pipeline that carries ideas from research through to real-world deployment.
"This region is neither the US nor Europe, and its culture and languages are unique. Therefore, making AI behavior observable, explainable, and controllable in real time natively is a huge challenge. In Azerbaijan, today we are committing to building that capability at home rather than importing it," said Yagub Rahimov, founder and CEO of Polygraf AI, who was born in Azerbaijan.
"We built Polygraf AI in the U.S., but we know this region intimately. What we're doing in Baku isn't just a subsidiary; it is local engineers building security and compliance with regional policies, culture, and languages in mind. Trust can only be built by the people who truly understand the context. If you’re a local AI engineer, we invite you to build technology that will put your country on the global AI and cybersecurity map.”
Azerbaijani officials described the partnership as a step forward in the country's national AI ambitions.
Rashad Nabiyev, Minister of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan, said, "The expansion of Polygraf AI's operations in Azerbaijan will contribute to strengthening our country's domestic capacity and regional position in the field of artificial intelligence. The regional Center of Excellence to be established in Baku as part of this initiative will make a significant contribution to the development of AI solutions, the training of local professionals, extensive knowledge and experience exchange with international experts, and the access of Azerbaijani technology companies to global markets."
Farid Osmanov, Chairman of Innovation and Digital Development Agency ( IDDA), said, "IDDA's partnership with Polygraf AI, a globally recognized technology company founded by an Azerbaijani entrepreneur, is of exceptional importance for the development of our country's artificial intelligence potential. Simultaneously, the regional Center of Excellence to be established in Baku through the partnership between IDDA and Polygraf AI will serve as a platform for knowledge and experience exchange among the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East."
About Polygraf AI
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Polygraf AI created the AI Behavioral Control Plane (AiBC) - a category of AI security that makes AI behavior observable, explainable and controllable in real time. Polygraf's proprietary, premise-agnostic Small Language Model (SLM) technology helps critical-operations teams detect and mitigate AI risks using local, explainable and auditable AI.
Learn more at https://polygraf.ai.
About the Innovation and Digital Development Agency
The Innovation and Digital Development Agency is a public legal entity operating under the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Agency organizes, coordinates, and implements initiatives in digital development, innovation, high technology, digital skills, and technology entrepreneurship.
Yagub Rahimov, CEO and Founder of Polygraf AI, and Farid Osmanov, Chairman of IDDA, signing the MOU
