ATLANTA – October 16, 2026 -- Sumo Championship League (SCL) added 14 athletes to its roster, lifting the total to 59 athletes representing 15 countries as the new professional league builds its competitive depth during its inaugural season.

SCL signs former Japanese Grand Sumo competitors

The new additions include former Japanese Grand Sumo competitors and international champions. Shijirbayar Chimidregzen reached the rank of Maegashira 9 in Japanese Grand Sumo, while Delgersaikhan Uuganbaatar reached Makushita 7.

Individual event fields for the new athletes will be announced in advance, according to the league. Athlete participation will vary by event.

Stuart Snyder, Chairman and CEO of SCL, said the larger roster gives the league more matchups and rivalries, and that fans are responding to the sport's energy.

Portland – October 16, 2026 -- The Green Sports Alliance has released its Sustainable Apparel Playbook, a guide that shows sports organizations how to cut environmental impact across the full apparel lifecycle while supporting revenue growth, cultural influence and customer satisfaction.

Case studies cover procurement, end-of-life and fan marketing

The playbook draws on professional and collegiate sports examples across product procurement, end-of-life solutions, community engagement and impact marketing. The Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix worked with its local school district on a sustainable fashion contest that reimagined outdated race suits as fashion pieces. Oakland Roots' Upcycled Fashion Project teamed with local students to create pieces from outdated jerseys and other upcycled items.

Alexandria, Va. – October 16, 2026 -- A wallet-sized CPR guidance patch from the University of Washington and a radiation-scatter device from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine took the $10,000 first prizes at the 2026 Collegiate Inventors Competition, which drew 25 students from nine U.S. colleges and universities.

Ten finalist teams, five undergraduate and five graduate, presented to a final-round panel of National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) officials. Winning teams receive cash awards plus a USPTO Patent Acceleration Certificate. The competition, established in 1990, is a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and is sponsored by the USPTO.

Quebec City – October 16, 2026 -- Devonian Health Group Inc. (TSXV: GSD; OTCQB: DVHGF) has not set a revised trading start date or closing date for its planned U.S. initial public offering on the NYSE American, according to its third update on the process since July 27, 2026.

Devonian keeps ThinkEquity on the NYSE American IPO preparations

The company said it continues to work with ThinkEquity on the steps needed to complete the offering and list its common shares and warrants on the NYSE American. The proposed ticker symbols are "DHGR" for the shares and "DHGR WS" for the warrants.

The latest statement follows earlier updates dated August 18, 2026, and September 11, 2026. Devonian said it will announce the revised trading and closing dates by press release once they are determined.

Bedford – October 16, 2026 -- Oxipital AI has launched Foreign Material Detection, an AI vision capability that identifies contaminants in real time on high-speed food production lines, with detection accuracy of up to 99% in production environments.

The capability runs on the OX and VX hardware platforms that food producers already use for quality inspection and process automation. It is already operating on food industry production lines and joins quality inspection and vision-guided robotics on the company's unified platform. CEO Mark Chiappetta said customers wanted "fewer vendors, fewer integration headaches" and more confidence in what their inspection systems catch.

San Antonio – October 16, 2026 -- PayrollOrg will host its 39th Annual Educational Institutions Payroll Conference (EIPC) October 18–21, 2026, in Columbus, Ohio, gathering payroll professionals from colleges and universities across the United States to address AI, legislation and financial compliance.

AI and regulatory change drive the EIPC agenda

Dan Maddux, Executive Director of PayrollOrg, said higher education payroll teams "can't afford to fall behind" as regulations evolve and artificial intelligence reshapes the workplace.

Sessions will cover AI in payroll, federal and state legislative developments, payroll and data governance, nonresident alien taxation, and IRS fringe benefit regulations specific to higher education.

Chennai – October 16, 2026 -- Zifo has been named a Gamechanger in Healthcare & Pharma in the enterprise segment at the Nasscom AI Gamechangers Awards 2026, for an AI service accelerator that speeds up master data creation for laboratory information management systems (LIMS).

Zifo's accelerator targets manual master data preparation in LIMS projects

Master data is foundational to configuring and implementing a LIMS. The source information is often scattered across PDFs, specifications, procedures and spreadsheets. Finding it, checking it and converting it into structured master data objects takes significant manual effort. The work must also meet the consistency, traceability and auditability that regulated environments expect.

New York – October 16, 2026 -- The inaugural Lumara Film Festival, presented by MoonPay and Venice, has named six finalists for a Grand Prize worth $32,000 and 3.2 million Venice AI credits, after receiving more than 700 submissions from filmmakers worldwide.

The Jury Selection award carries $20,000 and 2 million Venice AI credits. Winners will be announced live on October 26 at the Roxy Hotel Cinema in New York City. The festival has also named 16 nominees across five category awards.

Submissions drew 700+ films in a seven-week free-entry window

Submissions ran from July 24 to September 15. Entry was free and open worldwide, and filmmakers could use any AI filmmaking platform. Judging criteria were the strength of the idea, the quality of the storytelling and how well the filmmaker used AI.

Irvine – October 16, 2026 -- MFour Data Research named Sean Miller Vice President, First-Party Data Engineering, with a mandate to bring its entire engineering stack in-house, from data collection through the company's own AI model. Miller reports to Chief Technology Officer Aaron Wepler.

Miller takes charge of all first-party data engineering at MFour

Miller will lead engineering for all of MFour's first-party data, which consumers share through transparent consent. The data covers purchases and receipts, app usage, web browsing, location and store visits, desktop activity and LLM conversations. Each stream is connected to the same consumer's own survey answers.

MFour says AI now makes the in-housing work possible in days, not months. The foundation stays the same: behavioral and survey data collected with transparent consent and combined on one platform.

London – October 16, 2026 -- The global ADHD drugs market will grow from USD 14.11 billion in 2025 to USD 22.79 billion by 2035, a compound annual growth rate of 4.91%, according to Credence Research Inc. The figures are the research firm's proprietary estimates, not audited sales totals.

North America holds 60% of value while Asia Pacific grows fastest at 6.34%

North America accounted for 60.0% of 2025 market value. Europe followed with 20.0%, Asia Pacific with 13.0%, Latin America with 4.0% and the Middle East and Africa with 3.0%.

Credence attributes Asia Pacific's 6.34% annual growth to better recognition and access in Japan, Australia and, increasingly, China, from a comparatively small revenue base. In Europe, reimbursement systems and lower net medicine prices restrain value per patient.