OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 27, 2026--
Today mimik announced a strategic collaboration with Intel to optimize mimOE, mimik’s purpose-built Agentix Operating Engine, for AI PCs powered by Intel processors. With mimOE, Intel-based AI PCs are enabled to act as Device-First infrastructure nodes for Agentix-Native (aka Agentic AI) workloads, providing public cloud-like governance, resilience, security, and privacy that enterprises expect, directly on existing client hardware. Workloads run seamlessly on device, across devices, and through gateways and data centers, without being tethered to cloud. Enterprises gain growth with the right unit economics, simplicity, and no per-token charges.
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The Agentix era is moving execution onto the device. Employees install AI agents on their laptops and into their browsers, editors, and email clients today. Like new employees, those agents must operate within the governing boundaries of the enterprise, but on hardware the IT and DevOps stack was never designed to reach. Firewalls do not see them. The cloud-native control plane stops at the device. mimOE closes that gap on client hardware and extends the same operating engine across AI PC and cloud-based environments.
Every agent gets a verifiable identity distinct from the user. Authorization is context-aware and enforced at the moment of action. Every agent action streams into the security and observability systems IT already runs. Personal and enterprise contexts are separated on the same machine. Intel-powered AI PCs become infrastructure nodes in the IT and DevOps fabric, with the same control plane discipline as cloud.
mimOE enables agents to compute, network, and execute intelligently on the device, with zero-touch configuration and zero-trust security built in. No central orchestrator. Open APIs and ecosystem support, including MCP, let agents interoperate with the enterprise's legacy systems and emerging AI tools, smoothing the transition and future-proofing the investment. Sovereignty stays with the enterprise.
The collaboration gives enterprises a lightweight yet powerful operating engine to test, execute, operate, and scale Agentix-Native solutions on the Intel-powered AI PC platforms they already trust, accelerating rollout and time to market with the certainty, control, and flexibility that they need. Through mimOE's automatic discovery and intelligent routing, these solutions run inference on Intel's OpenVINO toolkit for optimized performance.
“Intel-powered AI PCs offer enormous compute capability. With mimOE, that compute becomes resilient infrastructure. The real shift is the seamless fabric, where every Intel AI PC works well alone, well with peers, and well across gateways and data centers as one continuum,” said Sam Armani, Senior Vice President of Business Development at mimik. “Software has fundamentally changed, and the architecture stack has to change with it. We operationalize our own Agentix systems on the mimik platform every day, and with Intel, enterprises get an architecture built for this era, so they can scale with peace of mind.”
“From AI PCs to the edge, data center, and cloud, Intel helps to power today’s enterprise,” said Dennis Luo, Senior Director and General Manager, Worldwide Developer Relations & Innovation at Intel. “mimik delivers an enterprise-ready way to discover, route, and govern Agentic AI workloads, with OpenVINO optimizing performance across Intel-based AI PCs. The result is a better experience on Intel silicon: lower latency, stronger governance and privacy, and lower cloud cost.”
For the CEO, AI investment now produces growth with the right unit economics. For the CFO, AI infrastructure moves from recurring cloud spend to capex already in the refresh cycle. For the CTO, Agentix systems roll out with the flexibility and certainty to iterate and scale. For the CIO, IT, and DevOps, the same control plane discipline as cloud now reaches the device. For developers, this is a new sandbox environment to test and iterate without enterprise cost.
mimOE and its Agentix-Native Integrated Suite are available for download today on the mimik developer portal.
About mimik
mimik is an Agentix-Native company, a pioneer in Device-First Continuum AI and Compute. mimik's software platform is the operating engine for enterprises and developers to scale Agentix-Native systems with certainty, with full flexibility, on their own terms. The company has partnered with major chip vendors, device OEMs, cloud providers, and system integrators, working closely with them to enable fast-track, scaled delivery of AI to organizations in manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, retail, smart buildings, and physical AI more broadly. The outcome is business efficiency across multiple dimensions.
mimOE, mimOE Studio, Agentix Operating Engine, and Device-First Continuum AI are trademarks of mimik Technology Inc. ©Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
mimOE™ and its Agentix-Native toolsets give enterprises a governed path to scale Agentic AI with certainty on Intel-powered AI PCs and cloud-based environments - the continuum.
SEATTLE (AP) — A suspect arrested after a shootout that killed three people and left at least four others injured at a crowded food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle over the weekend is 15 years old, the city’s mayor said Monday.
The teen was being held in juvenile detention for investigation of firearms violations and first-degree assault and was due to appear in court Monday afternoon, Mayor Katie Wilson said at a news conference.
Authorities said Monday they are still looking for a second suspect, but could not rule out whether the second suspect was among those killed.
“We are trying to identify who that person is,” said Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes. Police did not have a description of the potential outstanding suspect.
Investigators believe the two individuals were shooting at each other. Police said late Sunday night it was not clear whether any of the victims had been involved in the confrontation between the two shooters.
Two people died at the scene and a third died at a hospital. They were described as two men, ages 19 and 44, and a woman, 56.
The four wounded included a 2-year-old boy, who was in satisfactory condition Monday. The others — two men, ages 23 and 27, and a woman, 39 — were discharged, a hospital spokesperson said.
Vendors who had abandoned their food booths were cleaning up Monday. A candlelight vigil was planned Monday night at the center’s International Fountain.
The gunfire erupted around 6 p.m. Sunday in the waning hours of the Bite of Seattle. The annual three-day festival draws hundreds of food and retail vendors and performers to Seattle Center, a sprawling park and event space in the shadow of the Space Needle. Many attendees rushed into campus buildings or ran from the park at the sound of the shots.
Dozens of officers were providing security at the event and some saw one of the suspects firing, authorities said. A large number of police and emergency crews responded and began evacuating the area. Police then searched an IMAX theater on the grounds where they initially believed a second shooter had fled.
Festival attendee Faith Adia Hunter said she and her friends had just gotten food from a crepe vendor when gunfire broke out.
“We were about to start eating, then heard someone yell something, then we saw people start to run,” Hunter said. “So we took off running, too.”
“We were right next to him when it started, so we took off running,” Hunter added.
Hunter said that in the scramble to find safety, she and others ran into the nearby Seattle Children’s Museum.
Roberto Ramirez, a vendor at the event, said he heard what sounded like firecrackers before people began yelling “shooter” and frantically running.
“Suddenly everything was empty,” he said. “People were freaked out.”
After the initial panic, new guests continued to arrive, unaware of what had happened. Police told them to leave, he said.
Estan Wakonabo said he and his girlfriend were waiting in line for a photo booth when he was shoved from behind and turned to see a rush of people fleeing.
“People were hiding, were pushing, people were falling on the ground, baby strollers were falling,” Wakonabo said, adding that was when he heard gunshots.
“Once I heard a ‘pop, pop, pop,’ that’s when I knew it was a shooter,” he said.
After he escorted his girlfriend to safety, he returned to the scene to take photos and saw multiple victims on the ground, Wakonabo said.
The festival started in 1982 and draws 350,000 attendees, according to its website.
Associated Press journalists Manuel Valdes and Lindsey Wasson in Seattle, Annika Wolters in Bangkok and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
The U.S. flag flies at half staff at the Space Needle as cleanup continues the day after a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A worker cleans blood off the pavement the day after a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
The U.S. flag flies at half staff as cleanup continues at the Space Needle the day after a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A man walks near the scene, a day after a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A Seattle Police officer sets up police line tape at the site of a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday, July 26, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
An unidentified man is led into the scene by police after they responded to a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday, July 26, 2026, in Seattle, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, center, speaks at a news conference after a shooting at the Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday, July 26, 2026, in Seattle, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Police respond to a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday, July 26, 2026, in Seattle, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
An unidentified man is led into the scene by police after they responded to a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday, July 26, 2026, in Seattle, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A Seattle Police officer walks through tents with colorful toys at the scene of a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday, July 26, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A crime scene photographer arrives as law enforcement examines the scene following a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday, July 26, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
