Events

Newington, New Hampshire – September 23, 2026 -- SIG SAUER unveiled the P385 pistol at its invitation-only SIG NEXT event, claiming a 20 percent or greater reduction in muzzle rise depending on the model variant.

New Recoil System Cuts Muzzle Rise Across Five Model Variants

The P385 integrates a new SIG Recoil Dampening System, a low bore axis, and a precision-cut carbon steel barrel engineered for accuracy. The striker-fired pistol will ship in five configurations -- P385-MACH3D, P385-COMP, P385-FULL, P385-CARRY, and P385-COMPACT -- available in black and coyote brown finishes starting this fall and into early winter.

Gold Coast – – September 23, 2026 -- Carbon Trade eXchange (CTX) has launched CTX Corporate One, an invitation-only trading account that waives its account-opening fee for the first time in the exchange's 18-year history and replaces percentage-based commissions with a flat US$0.10 charge per credit, per side.

The move targets institutional-scale buyers and sellers of high-quality carbon credits, typically priced above US$10 per tonne of CO2e, rather than smaller retail or SME participants. CTX is extending invitations during New York Climate Week, inviting eligible organisations to 'request an invitation'.

CTX drops standard 2%-5% commission structure for its largest members

Standard CTX membership charges buyers 2% and sellers 5% of trade value plus an annual account fee. Corporate One eliminates both the account-opening fee and minimum balance requirement, replacing them with a flat per-credit fee that holds regardless of price movement.

Los Angeles – September 23, 2026 -- Brahma AI has raised $150 million through a preferred share issuance, anchored by a $100 million investment from Multiples Alternate Asset Management, with an additional $100 million in investor interest still pending allocation.

Funding will fuel R&D and a new Silicon Valley presence

The capital will accelerate research and development, expand Brahma AI's global go-to-market operations, and establish a significant presence in Silicon Valley. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. served as sole placement agent on the financing.

Anchor customers span entertainment, sports and healthcare

Brahma AI operates across four verticals: media & entertainment, sports, healthcare and advertising. Global anchor customers include Warner Bros, the NBA and Mayo Clinic, while strategic distribution partners include Google, Hakuhodo and DNEG.

Seoul – September 23, 2026 -- KT&G Corporation closed its participation in InterTabac 2026, the world's largest tobacco trade fair, after operating an exhibition booth roughly four times larger than its 2025 footprint at the Dortmund, Germany event held September 15-17.

KT&G expands booth fourfold to showcase combustible and next-generation product lines

The Korean manufacturer organized its expanded space into four themed zones by product category, displaying combustible cigarette brands ESSE and BOHEM alongside next-generation products (NGP), vapor devices and nicotine pouches. InterTabac drew roughly 800 companies from more than 70 countries across 12 exhibition halls this year.

Atlanta – – September 23, 2026 -- BlueCollar Cloud has secured a platinum sponsorship of SuiteWorld 2026, Oracle NetSuite's flagship user conference set for October 25-28 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas.

BlueCollar Cloud will staff Booth 637 to pitch construction-specific ERP add-ons to NetSuite users

The company will meet contractors, project-based businesses, and NetSuite partners at the booth to demonstrate BlueCollar Projects, its NetSuite-native construction management and accounting layer. Discussions will target job costing, AIA-style billing, retainage, WIP reporting, cost codes, change orders, subcontracts, and project budgets -- functions BlueCollar Cloud says remain spreadsheet-heavy and manual for many contractors operating on NetSuite.

Indianapolis – September 23, 2026 -- eHealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: EHTH) has partnered with benefits administration platform BerniePortal to connect more than 5,000 employers and over 1,000 insurance brokers to individual health coverage options under the newly renamed Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense Arrangements, or CHOICE.

CMS renamed ICHRA to CHOICE arrangements as of September 3, 2026

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services officially rebranded Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements as CHOICE arrangements earlier this month, a shift now embedded in the eHealth-BerniePortal distribution model. Under CHOICE, employers provide employees a defined contribution toward individual health coverage rather than a traditional group plan, shifting cost predictability and plan selection to the employee level.

Miami Beach, Fla. – September 23, 2026 -- Benjamin Eskenazi MD, FACS, founder of Avabello Aesthetics, has been named to the faculty of the 14th Annual IAFA Aesthetic Symposium, set for the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on November 6-7, 2026.

Dr. Eskenazi will co-instruct a pre-symposium injection masterclass on November 5

The five-hour Anatomy & Injection Masterclass runs from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m. and is led by Professor Sebastian Cotofana, MD, PhD, PhD. The course combines cadaver dissections with live patient injection demonstrations and real-time facial ultrasound, covering neurotoxin treatment of the forehead, glabella and crow's feet, and filler treatment of the temples, tear troughs, cheeks, nasolabial folds, lips, chin and jawline. Dr. Eskenazi will perform live injections alongside co-instructors Terry Alford, DMD; Lanna Cheuck, DO; Barbara Brandt, APRN; Jill Campbell, MSN, FNP-C, CANS; and Shanna Concepcion, RN, CANS.

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho – September 23, 2026 -- Star Gold Corp. (OTCQB: SRGZ) will present to individual and institutional investors at the Emerging Growth Conference on September 24, 2026, giving shareholders and analysts a live, interactive session with the company's leadership.

CEO Lindsay Gorrill takes questions in 30-minute fireside chat

Gorrill is scheduled to speak at 1:45 PM Eastern time for 30 minutes, participating in a Q&A/fireside chat format. Investors can submit questions in advance or during the live event, with an archived webcast to follow on EmergingGrowth.com and the Emerging Growth YouTube Channel for those unable to attend in real time.

Boston – September 23, 2026 -- ArcLight Capital Partners has appointed Peter Podurgiel as President and Board Director of portfolio company Advanced Power, adding a developer who has commercialized more than 11 GW of generation to a platform now advancing a 15 GW pipeline of power infrastructure for utilities, hyperscalers and data center operators.

San Francisco – September 23, 2026 -- Instacart (Nasdaq: CART) and Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) have launched a partnership to offer same-day delivery of the discount retailer's products through the Instacart App and website, with plans to scale to roughly 20,000 stores across 48 states this fall.

Pilot program covers 7,000 stores in six states before national expansion

The rollout begins with a pilot at approximately 7,000 Dollar General and pOpshelf stores in six states, with delivery available in as fast as one hour. Customers will be able to order food and snacks, household essentials, and health and beauty products through the platform.

San Jose, Calif. – September 23, 2026 -- Cisco and Omdia research finds that 95% of enterprises say their existing AIOps tools cannot keep pace with current network demands, while more than half have already shifted to AgenticOps, where AI agents act autonomously in production network environments.

Daily alert volumes have outpaced human capacity to respond

The average organization generates about 4,100 monitoring alerts and events daily, more than half of them network related. Clearing that backlog manually would require roughly 100 IT specialists. Nearly half of network alerts are closed without investigation, and a similar share of investigation time is spent chasing false positives.

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 23, 2026 -- Companies offering AI-specific skills training jumped from 25% to 58% over the past year, but 56% of employees still say they get no time during work hours to build those skills, according to Workera's 2026 State of Skills Intelligence Report.

AI training spending rises sharply across U.S. enterprises

The survey of 1,000 salaried employees at U.S. organizations with 5,000 or more staff found 80% now believe their company is on track for an AI-enabled future, up from 67% in 2025. Employees using AI tools multiple times per week rose from 40% to 68% year-over-year, and companies feeling confident about their competitive AI position climbed from 19% to 30%.

New York – September 23, 2026 -- SureDone has introduced Taska AI, an artificial intelligence listing agent now live with select pilot customers on its multichannel e-commerce platform, designed to automate listing creation and error resolution across connected sales channels.

Taska AI merges product data, channel integrations and listing workflows into a single conversational tool

Sellers can direct Taska to examine products, refine titles and descriptions, prepare channel-specific fields and generate scoped listing plans for review before submission.

The system tracks marketplace outcomes and flags rejections after listings go live

Once a seller authorizes a plan, Taska executes the listed actions and distinguishes a mere submission from a verified marketplace result. Eligible fixes proceed automatically within the authorized workflow, while issues requiring seller judgment are returned to the team.

Plano, Texas – September 23, 2026 -- Ten US streaming service profiles were phased out in the second quarter of 2026 as providers rebrand, consolidate content, or shift to alternative distribution models, according to Parks Associates' Streaming Video Tracker.

Paramount Skydance folds BET+ into flagship Paramount+ platform

Paramount Skydance ended BET+ as a standalone service, migrating its content library into Paramount+ under a dedicated BET Hub. The move reflects a broader industry pattern of consolidating niche streaming brands into larger flagship platforms rather than maintaining separate apps.

Jiaozhou – September 23, 2026 -- Jiaozhou, an industrial city in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, is converting manufacturing sites into tourist attractions, with more than 15,000 industrial enterprises and over 1,000 above designated size operating in the city, the highest count among cities of its tier in the province.

Local authorities push industrial firms into cultural tourism

A growing number of manufacturers in Jiaozhou are opening production lines to visitors, converting factory floors into sightseeing routes and study-tour venues, a shift encouraged by local government policy to expand industrial chains and boost brand influence.

Berlin – September 23, 2026 -- CRRC, the world's largest rail equipment manufacturer, unveiled three full-size vehicles at InnoTrans 2026, targeting urban transit, mainline freight and intermodal logistics with new low-carbon and AI-enabled technology.

CRRC launches VELLINK platform with industry's first embodied AI metro train

The flagship digital-intelligent metro train under the new VELLINK urban rail platform uses integrated multi-source sensors to create a real-time sensing network that monitors tracks and identifies potential failures, cutting lifecycle maintenance costs. Lightweight materials and deep system integration reduce total vehicle weight by approximately 18% and cut energy consumption by more than 10% compared with conventional trains. The train's industrial design has won the international iF Design Award, with cabin features including panoramic windows and rotatable seating.

Shanghai – September 23, 2026 -- Leekr Technology has logged more than 4.5 billion kilometers of on-road testing for its intelligent chassis systems, secured nominations for over 60 vehicle programs, and now supplies more than 16 automakers worldwide.

Brake-by-wire systems reach mass production status

The company has achieved mass production and delivery of both its DHB-LK Decoupled Hydraulic Braking System (Two-box) and IHB-LK Integrated Intelligent Hydraulic Braking System (One-box), while advancing industrialization of next-generation Electro-Mechanical Brake (EMB) systems.

Espoo – September 23, 2026 -- Valmet has secured an order to supply a complete coated board making line, automation, and lifecycle services to a customer in Asia, with the new machine scheduled to start up in 2028.

Valmet delivers full production scope from stock preparation to winders

The order covers stock preparation and a complete board machine spanning headboxes to reel and winders. Lifecycle performance will be secured through automation, digital services, and paper machine clothing and spare parts packages.

Customer targets leadership in premium coated board segment

The line will produce premium-quality coated board grades, supporting the buyer's ambition to strengthen its position as a leading producer in the segment. Valmet stated the delivery is designed to combine quality and production efficiency beyond the customer's current capabilities.

Brussels – September 23, 2026 -- Unregulated online gambling operators generated an estimated €91.6 billion in gross gaming revenue (GGR) from EU 27 consumers in 2025, accounting for 72% of Europe's €128.0 billion online gambling marketplace, according to a new report from Gaming Compliance International (GCI) commissioned by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling (CFG).

Unregulated revenue jumped 74% in two years, from €52.6 billion to €91.6 billion

The report, titled 'Online Gambling 2024–2025: EU 27 Europe,' tracks the rise in GGR generated outside local regulatory perimeters across member states, exposing gaps in consumer protection, taxation, licensing and oversight.

Gothenburg – September 23, 2026 -- Mölnlycke Health Care has released The Hidden Capacity Report, an international study identifying significant untapped capacity in day surgery that could improve surgical throughput and reduce waiting times across healthcare systems.

Survey of 256 healthcare professionals across ten countries exposes adoption gaps

The report draws on a review of international literature, a survey of 256 healthcare professionals across ten countries, expert interviews and guidance from an international expert panel of key opinion leaders. Despite strong clinical evidence supporting day surgery, adoption remains inconsistent across countries, healthcare organisations, specialties and individual clinical teams.