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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-018855"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYN"
cik: "0001874097"
company_name: "Cyngn Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T00:04:13.335915+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cyngn CEO Lior Tal awarded $1M in bonuses: $300K contractual, $700K discretionary

## Summary
- Compensation Committee approved $300,000 bonus per CEO Lior Tal's employment agreement.
- Discretionary bonus of $700,000 also awarded to CEO Lior Tal.
- Total $1,000,000 in CEO bonuses approved on February 24, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-018855
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYN
- cik: 0001874097
- company_name: Cyngn Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874097/000121390025018855/0001213900-25-018855-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874097/000121390025018855/ea023250701-8k_cyngn.htm

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