Wadsworth – October 16, 2026 -- Rohrer Corporation has promoted John Fuchs to Vice President, Commercial, giving him control of the thermoformed packaging maker's commercial strategy, sales organization, business development and customer growth efforts.

Fuchs joins the Executive Leadership Team and reports to the CEO

Fuchs reports directly to Danny Teixeira, President and Chief Executive Officer, and becomes a member of Rohrer's Executive Leadership Team. He will work with that team to support the company's long-term growth objectives and customer relationships.

San Francisco – October 16, 2026 -- Wink, the video and image editing platform of Meitu, has launched a browser-based HD Video Converter that exports enhanced footage at 1080p, 2K or 4K and processes multiple files in a single cloud job.

The tool targets creators, e-commerce sellers, social media teams and everyday users who reuse existing footage. According to the company, video from phones and cameras often passes through several stages before publication, including compressed copies made during transfer and versions downloaded from social platforms. By then, details can be softer, lighting uneven and compression artifacts more visible.

Las Vegas – October 16, 2026 -- PANDAG will show two configurations of its G1 autonomous mower at EQUIP EXPO 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky, from October 21–23, marking its second consecutive appearance at the U.S. professional equipment show.

The G1 has a 48-inch cutting width, covers up to 12 acres per day and operates on slopes of up to 38°. It combines LiDAR, AI Vision, RTK and 4G for autonomous navigation and mowing. Listed features include obstacle detection, automatic return-to-charge and resume, and multi-site management.

PANDAG splits G1 display between indoor and outdoor booths

The G1 M1500 SD (Side Discharge) will be on indoor display at Booth #21062 in the Kentucky Exposition Center. PANDAG positions it for fine-turf work requiring a consistent cut, including golf courses and sports turf.

Milan – October 16, 2026 -- The Americas account for more than 26% of Prosecco DOC exports, with the United States, the denomination's largest market, importing over 130 million bottles, according to the Prosecco DOC Consortium.

Consortium cites U.S. resilience despite inflation and tariffs

Consortium President Giancarlo Guidolin said the U.S. market continues to show resilience and promising growth potential despite inflation and tariffs. The source provides no figures on the impact of tariffs on volumes or pricing.

Canada passes 10 million bottles and grows 17% in first half of 2026

Canada surpassed 10 million bottles in 2025 and recorded 17% growth in the first half of 2026, which Guidolin described as very positive momentum. He also called emerging South American markets dynamic and named Brazil as one of the most promising.

Washington – October 16, 2026 -- The United States now produces just 1% of global aluminum, down from industry leadership 25 years ago, according to a study presented by economist Dr. Adam Hersh at an event hosted by the American Primary Aluminum Association (APAA).

Smelter count falls from 23 to four, none military-grade

In 2000, 23 primary aluminum smelters operated in the United States, against 10 in Canada. Four remain in the US, and none can produce military-grade aluminum. The last US smelter capable of making the high-purity aluminum required for many defense applications closed in 2022, leaving the country reliant on foreign sources.

Hersh, a research fellow at the University of Massachusetts, attributed the decline to foreign government subsidies and unfair trade policies. He called the loss of smelting capacity a market failure that exposes the US economy to supply chain disruption.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence says its oMAC photonic computing processor cuts on-chip latency to below one nanosecond by processing data with light instead of electricity.

oMAC targets Moore's Law limits with photonic linear compute units

The company positions oMAC as a route past the single-chip performance limits of Moore's Law. The processor uses photonic linear compute units to accelerate linear operations, which it says delivers advantages in low latency and high throughput.

The processor sits within Lightelligence's proprietary optoelectronic hybrid computing architecture. The company says the architecture exploits the low latency, low power consumption and high throughput of light. It says it continues to raise the computing power limit of a single card through large-scale optoelectronic integration.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- The Gazelle optical computing evaluation board performs 8×2 fundamental optical matrix computations and is described by its maker as the highest-precision optoelectronic computing device known to date.

Gazelle pairs a programmable optical matrix with an FPGA and a ready-made software stack

The research platform is built on optical principles. An onboard FPGA and an out-of-the-box software stack are meant to let developers start work without building their own tooling. The optical matrix is programmable, and the board supports a range of commonly used debugging interfaces.

Three target workloads span AI inference, scientific computing and combinatorial optimization

For neural networks, Gazelle targets inference of models used in image recognition and object detection. For scientific research, it is positioned to solve scientific computing problems more efficiently than classical paradigms.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence's PACE2 accelerator card combines a 128×128 optical matrix multiplier with more than 40,000 photonic devices, and the company rates both its optical and electronic cores at 32 TOPs peak performance.

Hybrid architecture pairs a photonic core with an electronic core

The card, released in 2025, uses a heterogeneous design. An optical tensor processing unit (PIC core) works alongside an electronic tensor acceleration unit and an optical computing control unit (EIC core). The chip runs at a 1GHz clock speed, and PIC latency is 200ps.

Lightelligence describes the 128×128 matrix as the largest optical computing matrix it has built. Matrix coefficients can be configured dynamically through APIs, so the card is programmable.

Global – October 16, 2026 -- Lightelligence, founded in 2017, reports 446 cumulative patents, with invention patents accounting for 80% of the portfolio, as it markets three optoelectronic computing products to AI and data center customers.

Lightelligence staffs 250+ employees, 170+ of them in R&D

The company counts more than 250 employees worldwide. R&D staff make up over 170 of them, roughly two-thirds of the workforce, which fits a patent-heavy, research-led business model.

PACE 2 accelerator card launched in 2025

PACE 2 is an optoelectronic accelerated computing card released by Lightelligence in 2025. The company lists high performance, programmability, versatility and advanced packaging technology as its key features.

San Francisco – October 16, 2026 -- Gong has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Revenue Action Orchestration (RAO) for the second consecutive year, placing highest on Ability to Execute and furthest on Completeness of Vision among 13 evaluated vendors.

Gong is one of only four Leaders among 13 vendors evaluated

The report, authored by Steve Rietberg, Dan Gottlieb and Alyssa Cruz and dated 13 October 2026, describes RAO as "the primary system of seller action and a single source of truth for sales interactions." Gong attributes its placement to its Revenue AI platform, which combines the Gong Revenue Graph, specialized AI agents and purpose-built applications. Revenue teams can run prospecting, deal execution, forecasting and coaching on one system.