DETROIT – November 02, 2026 -- Ally Financial (NYSE: ALLY) earned the top overall spot in two Money Best Banks 2027 categories, National Bank and Online Bank, and collected recognition from five other organizations covering workplace culture, leadership and corporate trust.

Money ranks Ally Bank best overall among national and online banks

Money evaluated more than 115 retail banks, credit unions and regional institutions for its national bank category. It cited Ally's competitive rates, absence of monthly maintenance fees and strong JD Power customer satisfaction scores.

California – November 02, 2026 -- A local-inference benchmark on an AMD Strix Halo machine found that gemma-3-27b delivers a correct answer for 729 joules at 98% accuracy, while the faster, leaner trinity-nano needs 1,004 joules at 39% accuracy.

The test covered 27 local models on 190 small tasks with checkable answers, each run under two prompts, with a power meter running. Energy was priced at California summer rates of 34 cents per kilowatt-hour off-peak and 58 cents on-peak. The rank correlation between energy per token and energy per correct answer is +0.27, close to no relationship.

St. Louis – November 02, 2026 -- Spire Missouri has filed a rate case with the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) that would raise the average residential gas bill by about 11% in western Missouri and 15% in eastern Missouri if approved as filed.

Western and eastern Missouri face different increases

Assuming current natural gas market conditions, the average western Missouri residential bill would climb about $10 per month. In eastern Missouri, the average residential bill would rise about $13 per month. New rates would take effect next fall, because the PSC typically completes its review within about eleven months of filing.

Spire Missouri serves more than 1.2 million customers in the state. President Steve Mills said the utility's focus is on delivering "affordable natural gas service" safely and reliably.

SAN DIEGO – November 02, 2026 -- Neurocrine Biosciences (Nasdaq: NBIX) grew third-quarter 2026 revenue 41% year over year to $1.1 billion, up from $795 million, and raised its full-year INGREZZA net sales guidance to $2.9 billion to $2.925 billion.

The prior INGREZZA range was $2.825 billion to $2.875 billion. Net product sales topped $1 billion for the first time, according to the company.

INGREZZA sales rise 17% to $801 million on double-digit volume growth

INGREZZA growth reflected record TRx and NRx and high persistency rates. CRENESSITY contributed $211 million, with approximately 80% reimbursement for dispensed prescriptions. VYKAT XR added $107 million.

Neurocrine acquired VYKAT XR through its purchase of Soleno Therapeutics, which closed in May 2026. The company recorded about $2.2 billion of VYKAT XR intellectual property on its balance sheet, to be amortized over an expected 16 years.

MANAMA – – November 02, 2026 -- Beyon will power a third data centre entirely with renewable energy once Phase 5 of its Beyon Solar Park programme is completed, an investment of about BD544,500 that is expected to generate 2.5 GWh of clean energy a year.

Phase 5 adds 2,292 panels and 1.5 MWp of capacity across 14,000 square meters

Beyon developed the phase with Almoayyed Solar. The installation is expected to cut carbon emissions by more than 1,585 tonnes of CO2 annually. Completion is due in the coming months.

Beyon announced the milestone at Gateway Gulf 2026, in the presence of Beyon Group Chairman H.E. Shaikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Khalifa.

Beyon extends solar programme beyond data centres with Bahrain's first green contact centre

During 2026, Beyon completed Phase 4, which brought renewable power to Total CX's Customer Contact Centre. Beyon describes it as the first green contact centre in Bahrain.

Sheridan, Wyoming – November 02, 2026 -- The global industrial automation market is valued at USD 266.7 billion in 2026 and will reach USD 410.3 billion by 2031, a CAGR of 9%, according to a new study by Wissen Research. The market is moving from isolated, hardware-oriented machine control toward connected, software-based production that combines control hardware, robotics, industrial software and real-time analytics.

Factories installed a record 603,000 industrial robots in 2025

The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) reports that installations rose 11% year on year, lifting the global operational stock to 5.079 million units. IFR forecasts a further 9% increase in 2026, to about 655,000 units.

Demand now extends beyond the car plant. In 2025, installations in metal and machinery grew 22%, while automotive and electronics each rose 10%. Collaborative robots accounted for 66,000 new installations, about 11% of the total.

Menlo Park – November 02, 2026 -- Hippocratic AI has launched Polaris 6 Ultra, a healthcare language model that runs a 7.4-trillion-parameter safety constellation 1.3 times faster end to end than its predecessor, Polaris 5, as patients experience it.

The company says the model is the first in healthcare to read a patient's emotional state and plan its next sentence while the previous one is still being spoken. Polaris 5 ran at 5.0 trillion parameters.

Polaris 6 Ultra reaches the first sentence in 0.28 seconds against 0.71 to 0.94 for rivals

On byte-identical prompts on a 671B-parameter LLM, Hippocratic AI's serving stack reaches the first sentence in 0.28 seconds. The four fastest commercial providers took 0.71 to 0.94 seconds. Time to first sentence for the LLM stays at 278 milliseconds.

Buenos Aires – November 02, 2026 -- Pampa Energía's third-quarter net income attributable to shareholders reached US$129 million, six times the Q3 2025 level, as lower deferred income tax expense and improved operating margins outweighed reduced FX gains.

Sales rise 34% to US$790 million on wholesale market normalization

Q3 2026 sales grew 34% year-on-year. The normalization of the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) supported higher spot energy prices and B2B sales. Gas sales to the company's combined-cycle plants also increased, as did crude oil sales and Reformer prices.

Lower gas deliveries under the Plan Gas GSA and to industrial customers, together with the impact of crude oil hedges, partially offset these gains. Sales exclude the affiliates CTBSA, Transener and TGS.

STOCKHOLM – November 02, 2026 -- BioArctic AB will keep the full USD 30 million upfront payment from Novartis Pharma AG after Novartis terminated their Option, Collaboration and License Agreement, the Nasdaq Stockholm-listed company (BIOA B) announced.

Novartis drops the program, not the technology

The agreement was signed in August 2025. It covered a potential new treatment combining BioArctic's proprietary BrainTransporter technology with an undisclosed Novartis proprietary antibody. Novartis notified BioArctic that it decided to discontinue the program. According to BioArctic, the decision is unrelated to the BrainTransporter technology.

BioArctic books the remaining upfront payment as 2026 revenue

Because of the termination, BioArctic will recognize the remaining unrecognized portion of the USD 30 million upfront payment as revenue in 2026. The company did not disclose the size of that portion.

WILMINGTON, Del. – November 02, 2026 -- The Chemours Company (NYSE: CC) has launched Faizeon, a five-fluid portfolio for two-phase liquid cooling in AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and high-density data centers. In independent third-party testing, a two-phase direct-to-chip system using Faizeon 200 kept a GPU up to 19 degrees Celsius cooler than a single-phase, water-based fluid, at a lower coolant flow rate.

Chemours splits the Faizeon range into four direct-to-chip fluids and one immersion fluid

The portfolio covers both two-phase direct-to-chip and two-phase immersion cooling. The fluids absorb heat by changing from liquid to vapor, which removes heat from high-power processors and servers as chip power and rack densities rise.

The range breaks down as follows: