Tokyo – October 11, 2026 -- NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS and stc group have launched an in-country IoT connectivity solution for Komatsu construction equipment in Saudi Arabia, a market that restricts long-term roaming and permanent services by foreign operators without a local telecom license.

Saudi rules bar unlicensed foreign operators from permanent connectivity

The regulatory constraint is the core issue. Saudi Arabia is classed as a country that restricts or prohibits long-term roaming or permanent telecommunications services by foreign operators lacking a domestic license. The solution is built to give Komatsu stable connectivity that meets those local requirements.

Tokyo – October 11, 2026 -- NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc. will propose and sell Classiq's quantum software development platform to Japanese enterprises under a memorandum of understanding with Classiq Technologies G.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Classiq Technologies Ltd.

Partners split roles between platform supply and enterprise deployment

Classiq will supply the platform plus technical support on quantum algorithms and quantum software. NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, formerly NTT Communications Corporation, will bring its experience deploying advanced technologies in enterprise environments. Together they will help customers identify, develop and validate quantum computing use cases through joint engagements, build enterprise quantum readiness and facilitate access to quantum computing resources.

Western New York – – October 11, 2026 -- National Grid has committed $2 million over five years to Northland Workforce Training Center, funding a new Clean Tech Lab and Experience Center that held its formal ribbon cutting on Sept. 25.

National Grid's 2025 grant targets electrical construction and clean energy students

The money, pledged in 2025, supports students pursuing careers in electrical construction and clean energy. It is distributed over five years and flows through National Grid's Sustainability organization, where the Social Impact and Community Engagement team invests in nonprofits across the utility's service area.

Buffalo – October 11, 2026 -- National Grid has completed a $32 million modernization of its 110-year-old Perry Street substation in Buffalo, adding 13,200-volt delivery to a site that previously supplied only 4,160 volts. The project is the first of about a dozen substations the utility plans to modernize or rebuild in the coming years.

Perry Street station adds 13,200-volt delivery for Larkinville and First Ward loads

The upgraded facility went online this past summer. It now serves some large loads in the Larkinville and First Ward areas of the city. The original substation was built in 1916, before large electricity loads were commonplace or anticipated.

National Grid Regional Director Ken Kujawa said the renovations responded directly to load growth in those districts, including projects that exceed 1 megawatt.

Tilbury – October 11, 2026 -- National Grid's tunnel boring machine (TBM) Caroline completed a 2.2km drive beneath the River Thames 49 days ahead of the original programme, ending the tunnelling phase of the Grain to Tilbury project, part of The Great Grid Upgrade.

The breakthrough came on Sunday 27 September. Caroline excavated a new high-voltage electricity cable tunnel between Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent.

Caroline installs more than 10,000 segments across nearly 1,700 rings

The tunnel lining consists of more than 10,000 concrete segments assembled into nearly 1,700 tunnel rings. In her most productive month, Caroline advanced 926 metres and installed 712 lining rings. Peak weekly progress reached 229 metres, and the best single day delivered 41 metres of excavation and 31 installed rings in 24 hours.

Los Angeles – October 11, 2026 -- FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. (NASDAQ: FFR) and Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) will host a joint launch event on October 14, 2026, unveiling four products spanning humanoid robotics, Physical AI education and developer tools.

FFR and FFAI line up four launches for October 14

The lineup includes FF Nova, described as FF's first embodied AI humanoid robot for developers and educational institutions. It will debut at an exclusive, invitation-only event. FF will also introduce FF Nova Mini, a humanoid robot for foundational Physical AI education, together with the EAI Education Ecosystem Brain and Curriculum Skills 2.0.

The fourth launch is the FF Nova Developer Reinforcement Learning Platform, which will offer exclusive early access to the developer community. A full video will be available on October 15 at 5:00 p.m. PDT.

Jersey City – October 11, 2026 -- Subcutaneous (SC) infliximab delivered clinical remission in 71.4% of matched patients with ileum-dominant Crohn's disease at Week 54, against 51.4% for intravenous (IV) infliximab, according to a late-breaking analysis Celltrion USA will present for ZYMFENTRA (infliximab-dyyb) at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.

Matched analysis shows wider endoscopic gap for SC infliximab at Week 54

The pooled analysis used individual patient data from four infliximab registrational studies. Of 884 patients, 200 with ileal or ileocolonic Crohn's disease met eligibility criteria. They received either SC infliximab 120 mg every two weeks or IV infliximab 5 mg/kg every eight weeks. A 1:1 propensity score-matched analysis included 70 patients per arm.

SC infliximab outperformed IV infliximab on all three measures in the matched population:

Braintree, Mass. – October 11, 2026 -- Braintree Laboratories, part of Sebela Pharmaceuticals, reported that its investigational P-CAB tegoprazan delivered statistically significant gains over placebo in both heartburn and regurgitation in the 783-patient Phase 3 TRIUMpH-NERD study. The company describes it as the first P-CAB to show clinical improvement in both hallmark non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) symptoms in a prospective U.S. Phase 3 trial.

Both tegoprazan doses meet primary and key secondary endpoints

TRIUMpH-NERD (NCT05587322) was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study. Patients received tegoprazan 50 mg, tegoprazan 100 mg or placebo once daily for four weeks, followed by a 20-week extension. The primary endpoint was the percentage of 24-hour heartburn-free days through Week 4. Days without nighttime heartburn was a key secondary endpoint, and regurgitation was a prespecified exploratory endpoint.

Macao – October 11, 2026 -- Sands China and NBA Cares closed their five-day Community Impact Week with a basketball carnival that drew about 200 participants to NBA HOUSE at Cotai Expo, The Venetian Macao, on the final day of the NBA China Games 2026.

Sports figures and Sands executives join the closing carnival

NBA legend Chris Bosh, a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and two-time NBA champion, attended alongside Sands Global Ambassador Sir David Beckham. Chinese women's national team player Zhang Ziyu and short track speed skating Olympic gold medalist Wang Meng also took part, as did Las Vegas Sands and Sands China executives, Sands Cares Ambassadors and members of Macau Special Olympics.

Hong Kong – October 11, 2026 -- Phase I of the October 2026 Global Sources Hong Kong Shows opened at AsiaWorld-Expo with more than 4,000 booths and over 2,100 Asian suppliers, running October 11 to 14. The Consumer Electronics Show and Gaming Show are held concurrently, covering PC peripherals, gaming peripherals, audio-visual equipment, automotive electronics, personal transporters, photography accessories, and batteries and power products.

Greater Bay Area makers anchor the PC accessory and gaming floor

The floor features more than 1,600 PC accessory booths and nearly 500 gaming peripheral booths. Another nearly 1,900 booths cover audio-visual equipment, automotive electronics, personal transporters, photography accessories, and batteries and power consumer electronics.