NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- Yale School of Medicine has secured a nearly $25 million grant from the Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) initiative to build the first high-resolution map of the developing human brain and pinpoint where autism diverges from typical neural development.

The award, part of ARIA's Human Developmental Neurobiology Research Hub, funds two Yale-led projects within a four-project collaboration that also involves Harvard University. Combined, the initiative targets a gap researchers say has stalled autism drug and diagnostic development for decades: no detailed reference map exists for how the human brain wires itself in the first years of life.

BEIJING -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- Walnut Coding placed No. 44 among 500 companies in TIME's World's Top EdTech Companies 2026 ranking, the only China-based youth coding education firm to break into the global top 100. The Beijing-founded company ranked sixth among 23 China-based firms on the list, which TIME compiled with market data provider Statista after screening roughly 6,500 education technology companies worldwide.

Financial strength drives 70% of the scoring methodology

Statista weighted revenue, funding and market capitalization at 70% of each company's total score, pulling from public disclosures and company-reported data. The remaining 30% covered industry impact, measured through product reach, alignment with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, intellectual property holdings and website traffic.

BOSTON -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- Stockpress, a Boston-based Digital Asset Management (DAM) provider, launched Content Portals, a feature that converts stored brand assets into branded, self-updating web destinations for external audiences. The company's internal research found 67% of teams work outside their designated DAM system, often because retrieving content elsewhere proves faster, while 53% cite collaboration with clients, agencies, and partners as their biggest operational bottleneck.

Content Portals replace static file links with live, branded pages

Instead of distributing folder links, marketing and brand teams can now assemble assets from across a Stockpress workspace into a single page styled with approved colors, fonts, and calls to action. The pages pull directly from underlying files and Collections, so updates to a File Version or a rules-based Smart Collection propagate automatically without manual rebuilding.

NEW YORK -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- Optimizely unveiled Virtual Teammates, a lineup of role-specific AI agents designed to work as persistent digital coworkers rather than one-off prompt tools, at its Opticon conference on Aug. 31, 2026.

The launch responds to a fragmentation problem the company documented in a global study of more than 2,000 B2B marketing leaders: 81% said they personally switch between two or more disconnected AI tools weekly, and 19% juggle four or more. Optimizely CEO Alex Atzberger framed the shift as a departure from task-based automation. "A Virtual Teammate learns how your organization works once, then keeps going," he said, calling it the biggest advance since AI agents first appeared in marketing software.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- Corvex, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOVE) will boost its critical IT power capacity more than fivefold, from roughly 1.5 MW to approximately 8 MW by year-end 2026, backed by a $33 million private placement led by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer & Co.

Expansion adds 3,000 GPUs across two data centers

The buildout doubles capacity at Corvex's existing Mid-Atlantic facility and establishes a new operation at an enterprise-scale Midwest site. Combined, the two locations are expected to bring approximately 3,000 latest-generation GPUs online -- 2,000 at the Midwest site and 1,000 at the Mid-Atlantic location. Both sites are slated for service readiness in the fourth quarter of 2026, with revenue generation targeted for the first quarter of 2027.

MUNICH, Germany -- August 31, 2026 -- Amgen's Repatha (evolocumab) reduced all-cause mortality by 20% in high-risk patients who had never suffered a heart attack or stroke, according to a pre-specified analysis of the Phase 3 VESALIUS-CV trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2026 and published simultaneously in Circulation.

Trial data show mortality benefit emerging after 18 months of treatment

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- September 01, 2026 -- Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has signed a $6.5 billion multi-jurisdiction financing package, the largest such deal for a privately held tower company in the wireless infrastructure sector.

CHAM, Switzerland  -- September 01, 2026 -- EYKON officially unveiled its new brand today, completing a separation from Landis+Gyr EMEA and establishing itself as an independent utility infrastructure technology company serving more than 75 markets.

AMSTERDAM -- September 01, 2026 -- SWI Group, an Amsterdam-listed investment firm with 3.6 gigawatts of electrical capacity across Europe and the United States, announced on August 31, 2026 that it has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) program as a preferred partner. The designation places SWI Group in a limited circle of NVIDIA partners with validated AI infrastructure skills. Membership gives the firm access to NVIDIA's reference architectures and validated configurations for rolling out NVIDIA-certified compute capacity as its platform expands.

HONG KONG -- September 01, 2026 -- Fosun International reported a 160.3% year-on-year surge in first-half profit attributable to owners of the parent to RMB1.72 billion, the conglomerate said at an interim results presentation held in Hong Kong on Aug. 28. Total revenue for the six-month period reached RMB86.96 billion, with overseas markets contributing RMB49.16 billion, or 56.5% of the total. The briefing marked Fosun's first in-person results presentation in Hong Kong in six years, attended by Chairman Guo Guangchang, Co-Chairman Wang Qunbin, Co-CEOs Chen Qiyu and Xu Xiaoliang, and CFO Gong Ping.

Four Core Units Generate 73.5% of Group Revenue

Fosun Pharma, Yuyuan, Portuguese insurer Fidelidade, and the group's tourism segment together accounted for 73.5% of total revenue in the first half, the company disclosed. Pharmaceutical and insurance operations delivered the strongest performance among the four units.