By Market & Region

Cleveland – September 18, 2026 -- Tiger Pistol has been badged as a TikTok Channel Sales Partner within the Marketing Technology category of the TikTok Marketing Partners Program, extending its automated local advertising platform to short-form video on the platform.

Tiger Pistol Adds TikTok to Its Design-Once, Deploy-Everywhere Model

The badge builds directly on Tiger Pistol's AI-driven Creative Automation Studio (CA-Studio), which already lets franchise and multi-location brands design a single ad and automatically generate location-specific image and video variations. The system inserts store names, local promotions, and regional visuals within brand-approved guardrails, cutting production timelines and creative costs for clients. With the new badge, that engine now extends specifically to TikTok's short-form vertical format, alongside existing capabilities on Instagram and Facebook Reels.

Tulsa, Okla. – September 18, 2026 -- Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: ARLP) has named the winners of its 2026 Alliance Coal Scholars Program, bringing cumulative awards under the initiative to $627,000 distributed to 283 college-bound students and teachers since 1997.

Top three seniors secure $2,000 renewable scholarships

Emalee Barton of Frankfort Community High School, daughter of Hamilton County Coal, LLC employee Tony Barton, will attend John A. Logan College. Paige Mullis of F.J. Reitz High School, daughter of Matrix Design Group, LLC employee Brett Mullis, will enroll at the University of Southern Indiana. Addy Sutton, a Sutton Homeschool graduate and daughter of CR Services, LLC employee George Sutton, will attend Southeastern Illinois College.

Crystal Springs, Mississippi – September 18, 2026 -- Hitachi Energy will build a $528 million transformer manufacturing facility in Gallman, Mississippi, marking the company's largest single U.S. investment to date and pushing its total American manufacturing commitment to roughly $1.5 billion.

New Gallman plant will more than double transformer output

The facility, located about 6.5 miles from Hitachi Energy's existing Crystal Springs plant, will be more than twice the size of the current site and create over 700 jobs, more than double the area's existing workforce. Construction is set to begin in late 2026, with transformer production scheduled to start in 2029. Once operational, production will shift from Crystal Springs to Gallman, with the older facility repurposed for warehousing and training.

Brooklyn, N.Y. – September 18, 2026 -- First Student and Con Edison have completed the first phase of an electric school bus infrastructure project in New York City, cutting charging infrastructure construction costs by 13% through a trenchless deployment method.

Trenchless charging technology avoids underground trenching costs in dense boroughs

The project's core innovation, First Student's First ChargeTM system, is a trenchless, modular charging infrastructure solution that bypasses traditional underground trenching. The approach reduced construction costs by 13% while minimizing disruption in Brooklyn and Queens, two of the most logistically complex urban environments in the United States for utility work.

San Diego – September 18, 2026 -- Lytx Inc. has launched the Lytx 360 Hub Kit, a hub and auxiliary camera system that adds up to eight HD camera views around a vehicle's sides, rear, cargo area, and blind zones, extending its fleet video platform beyond forward-facing monitoring.

Lytx expands camera coverage to eight HD views per vehicle

The 360 Hub Kit integrates up to four HD auxiliary camera views out of the box, expandable to eight, covering sides, rear, cargo, and blind-zone perspectives. Footage is automatically surfaced in Lytx Video Search and synchronized with the company's existing DriveCam recordings, giving safety teams a single vehicle timeline instead of separate video streams.

Lititz, Pa. – September 18, 2026 -- Listrak has launched Listrak Studio, a Figma plugin that converts email designs directly into ready-to-send, cross-client-tested campaigns, cutting production time and potentially saving retailers over 250 hours a year in email build work.

Listrak Studio removes the manual handoff between design and deployment

The plugin allows marketing teams to design emails in Figma and transfer them directly into Listrak's platform, eliminating the need to rebuild HTML from scratch or wait on developer translation. Designs are converted into responsive emails validated across major clients including Outlook and Gmail, then saved directly into Listrak accounts ready to attach to campaigns.

Roswell, Ga. – September 18, 2026 -- HealthIQ Solutions, LLC and Eirion.ai have entered a strategic technology partnership to embed predictive AI models into remote patient care platforms, targeting early detection of heart attacks, strokes and acute kidney failure before symptoms appear.

Partnership integrates predictive AI into remote monitoring dashboards

The collaboration will fuse Eirion.ai's predictive modeling architectures with HealthIQ Solutions' remote patient care infrastructure, giving treating physicians forward-looking clinical risk alerts rather than post-event data. The joint initiative targets real-time predictive risk scoring embedded directly into provider dashboards used across ambulatory networks and health systems nationwide.

United States – September 18, 2026 -- Mindray North America has launched the SV70 non-invasive ventilator in the United States, targeting respiratory departments left scrambling after Philips withdrew its V60 device, the previous clinical standard in non-invasive ventilation.

Philips V60 withdrawal forces hospitals into fleet-wide equipment replacements

The exit of the V60 from the market has created operational and financial strain on respiratory departments, pushing hospitals into large-scale replacement cycles while they try to preserve clinical familiarity, workflow continuity and patient safety. Mindray designed the SV70 specifically to absorb that transition without disrupting existing clinical routines.

Dallas – September 18, 2026 -- Lightbeam Health Solutions has appointed Thomas P. McCarrick, MD, MBI, as Chief Medical Officer, effective August 31, 2026, bringing more than four decades of clinical and healthcare leadership experience to the AI-enabled population health company.

Physician executive joins with dual informatics and value-based care credentials

Dr. McCarrick is board certified in family medicine, geriatric medicine, and clinical informatics. His background spans primary care, population health, care coordination, and value-based healthcare delivery, according to the company.

Los Angeles – September 18, 2026 -- Planet Nine Private Air will send executives and operational leaders to four aviation industry events this fall, spanning safety training, market economics, and regional networking.

Company Confirms Attendance at NBAA-BACE, SCAA, CJI Miami and Bombardier Safety Standdown

The private jet management and charter operator's fall 2026 schedule includes the National Business Aviation Association Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), the Southern California Aviation Association (SCAA) Golf Tournament, Corporate Jet Investor (CJI) Miami, and the Bombardier Safety Standdown in Wichita, Kansas.

Bombardier Safety Standdown Marks 30th Anniversary Milestone

Planet Nine team members will attend the Wichita seminar, which marks its 30th anniversary this year, to reinforce crew training protocols and safety culture.

Grants Pass, Ore. – September 18, 2026 -- Becklin Holdings has acquired Chief Avionics, an FAA-certified avionics repair station based at Grants Pass Airport (3S8) in Southern Oregon, adding certified aircraft maintenance capabilities and a physical airport footprint to its aerospace and defense portfolio. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Acquisition adds FAA-certified repair station status to Becklin's growing platform

Chief Avionics' FAA certification authorizes the company to perform specialized maintenance and alterations on aircraft and aviation equipment under federal requirements. The company will retain its name and continue operating from its Grants Pass Airport location, providing avionics installation, upgrades, service, and over-the-counter product sales to general aviation aircraft owners and operators. Its core focus spans navigation, communications, and other advanced aircraft electronic systems.

Silicon Valley – September 18, 2026 -- MapUp, Inc. has expanded its NavGuru navigation platform to embed live truck parking, weigh station, wash and low-bridge data directly into fleet routing screens, aiming to close a compliance gap that costs a 3,000-truck fleet an estimated $5 million a year.

Fuel-plan compliance jumped from 74% to 98% in four months

At one dedicated carrier operating more than 2,500 trucks, fuel-prescription compliance rose from 74% to above 98% within four months of integrating the fuel plan into driver navigation, according to MapUp. The company says a plan followed only three-quarters of the time forfeits a quarter of its projected savings before any results are booked.

Ann Arbor – September 18, 2026 -- Merge has launched MergeIQTM, an artificial intelligence layer embedded across its imaging platform, targeting radiology, cardiology, pathology and other imaging specialties without adding standalone systems for IT teams to manage.

Two AI applications debut inside Merge Workflow Orchestrator

The first MergeIQ applications, RelevancyIQTM and NaviIQ, are now available within Merge Workflow Orchestrator, the platform that unifies enterprise worklists for caseload management, interpretation and collaboration. RelevancyIQ identifies and ranks prior reports by relevance to the current case, while NaviIQ searches within those prior reports to surface findings and historical context. Both tools are embedded directly into the radiologist's diagnostic reading workflow, delivering supporting data at the point of interpretation rather than requiring clinicians to search across disconnected systems.

Maryland – September 18, 2026 -- Savvas Learning Company and University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) have struck a strategic alliance that lets high school students earn UMGC-accepted college credits through Savvas's Outlier dual-enrollment platform, with qualifying students receiving a 25 percent discount on out-of-state tuition for most UMGC undergraduate programs.

UMGC will accept Outlier college credits earned by high schoolers

The Outlier by Savvas solution delivers asynchronous online college courses to K-12 districts, allowing students to simultaneously bank high school and college credit that UMGC will recognize. UMGC, part of the University System of Maryland, serves more than 100,000 learners annually and is the second-largest public university in the U.S. as of 2026, offering skills-based programs in AI, business, cybersecurity, and healthcare.

Atlanta – – September 18, 2026 -- Roughly 350 high school student-athletes will gather at Atlanta's Loudermilk Conference Center on Sept. 26, 2026, for the inaugural AJT Academy Student-Athlete Leadership Conference presented by Truist, a program built around the AJ Terrell Jr. Foundation founded by Atlanta Falcons All-Pro cornerback AJ Terrell Jr.

Truist funds leadership program spanning three Atlanta-area high schools

Students from Westlake High School, Frederick Douglass High School and Benjamin E. Mays High School will attend the five-hour event, running 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 40 Courtland St NE. Katie Saez, Truist regional president for Georgia and Alabama, said the bank's partnership with the AJ Terrell Jr. Foundation aims to give young people tools that extend beyond athletics.

Denver – – September 18, 2026 -- WellBiz Brands, Inc., franchisor of five beauty and wellness brands, has appointed Benjamin Marmor as chief financial officer effective Aug. 10, bringing more than 25 years of finance and strategy leadership to the multi-brand franchise platform.

Marmor previously oversaw an $840 million restaurant portfolio

Marmor most recently served as chief financial and strategy officer at Diversified Restaurant Group, the largest Taco Bell franchisee by revenue, where he led finance, accounting and strategy across 370 restaurants generating $840 million in revenue.

Hackensack, N.J. -- September 15, 2026 -- Hindsait, Inc. has been approved for the Electronic Prior Authorization category within the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem, placing the clinical AI firm among organizations working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to modernize prior authorization ahead of the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F), which takes effect in 2027.

CMS ecosystem brings payers and providers together on interoperable workflows

The Electronic Prior Authorization initiative unites payers, providers, EHR vendors, and digital health developers to shift prior authorization toward end-to-end interoperable processes before the 2027 deadline.

Dallas – September 18, 2026 -- E Source has launched advanced scenario planning capabilities within its GridInform® Vegetation Intelligence software, allowing electric utilities to model multi-year vegetation management strategies and quantify reliability, risk, and cost tradeoffs before deploying field crews or capital.

New tool cuts vegetation planning timelines from months to minutes

The software lets utilities run long-term planning scenarios directly within the platform rather than relying on static, point-in-time analyses or external studies. Planners can evaluate vegetation investment strategies over five- to ten-year horizons by integrating infrastructure data, vegetation conditions, weather exposure, and outage history.

Users can compare cycle-based maintenance against targeted work programs and test how changes in funding levels and prioritization affect future reliability outcomes and cost trajectories.

Delray Beach, Fla. – September 18, 2026 -- The global transformer oil market is projected to grow from $2.18 billion in 2026 to $2.87 billion by 2031, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 5.6%, according to MarketsandMarkets. The market stood at $2.07 billion in 2025.

Grid modernization and renewable integration drive new demand

Utilities and grid operators are accelerating investment in transmission and distribution infrastructure, replacing aging transformers and expanding high-voltage networks to evacuate renewable power. This buildout is fueling demand for insulating fluids used for electrical insulation and heat dissipation in both new and refurbished transformers.

New York – September 18, 2026 -- Qloo has secured a spot in the top-tier "Set Diamonds (Front Runners)" category of a Gartner report on synthetic population and behavioral simulation, ranking as one of just two companies in the upper-right segment among 33 vendors profiled.

Gartner report singles out Qloo among 33 profiled AI vendors

The recognition comes from Gartner's "Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race: Startups to Watch in Synthetic Population and Behavioral Simulation" report, authored by analyst Vibha Chitkara. Qloo's placement in the highest-maturity category distinguishes it from the broader field of startups tracked in the space.