By Market & Region

Novato, Calif. – September 05, 2026 -- Sentric Specialty has entered an exclusive strategic relationship with Neumann Advisory Services, LLC (NAS) to pair specialty insurance coverage with hands-on product safety consulting for food and beverage manufacturers.

Sentric policyholders gain exclusive access to NAS's regulatory and recall expertise

Under the arrangement, eligible Sentric Specialty policyholders will receive direct access to NAS's advisory services covering product safety, regulatory compliance, food safety, recall preparedness, crisis management and enterprise risk reduction. The relationship is structured to support clients both before and after a product safety incident, rather than only after a claim is filed.

Northbrook, Illinois – September 05, 2026 -- Kalohexis, Inc. has appointed Garry Menzel, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors, adding an executive who raised more than $500 million while leading oncology company TCR2 Therapeutics before its 2023 merger with Adaptimmune.

Menzel brings deal experience spanning $100 billion in biotech transactions

Menzel currently serves as an Operating Partner at Global Healthcare Opportunities (GHO) Capital, a European healthcare-focused private equity firm. He previously worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, where he led global biotechnology franchises and worked on transactions totaling more than $100 billion, including IPOs and M&A deals.

Boulder, Colo. – September 05, 2026 -- Ascend Analytics now optimizes more than 5.2 gigawatts (GW) of operating battery energy storage capacity through its SmartBidder platform, positioning the firm as the largest independent provider of bid optimization services to the U.S. storage market.

Portfolio spans three ISOs and over 30 customers

The operating fleet includes roughly 4 GW under management in ERCOT, 1 GW in CAISO and 200 megawatts (MW) in PJM, spread across more than 30 customers. Ascend crossed the 5 GW threshold in the second quarter of 2026 following the onboarding of storage assets for California Community Power, a Joint Power Agency, and San Diego Community Power, a Community Choice Aggregator.

Plano, Texas – September 05, 2026 -- Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN) has expanded its critical infrastructure portfolio with two new routers, the NPT 1022M and NPT 2104, targeting utilities that must modernize grid communications without disrupting live operations.

New routers add capacity while preserving legacy operational technology support

The NPT 1022M and NPT 2104 build on Ribbon's existing NPT 1012D and NPT 2714 platforms, adding support for 100GbE and 400GbE interfaces alongside legacy 64 kbit/s PCM circuit emulation. The combination lets utilities run TDM-based teleprotection and SCADA systems on the same network as IP-MPLS and segment routing traffic, avoiding a hard cutover from decades-old infrastructure.

Kansas City, Mo. and Seattle – September 05, 2026 -- SmartConnect Medicare Business Solutions and Benepicks have launched a nationwide partnership that embeds Medicare guidance directly into Benepicks' ICHRA platform, with employers averaging a 15% reduction in healthcare spending, according to recent data cited by the companies.

Standard ICHRA platforms leave 65-plus employees without Medicare support, companies say

Most individual coverage HRA (ICHRA) platforms are built for Marketplace insurance shopping, leaving Medicare-eligible workers to navigate enrollment deadlines and plan selection alone. The gap has produced costly errors for employees, administrative bottlenecks for HR teams, and friction for benefits brokers as employer adoption of ICHRAs accelerates amid rising healthcare costs.

CARY, N.C. – September 05, 2026 -- Organizations that embed trustworthy AI practices are 15 times more likely to report strong or high ROI from AI projects than those that don't, according to a new report from SAS with research insights by IDC.

Governance leaders report 62% strong ROI versus 4% for laggards

The second annual Data and AI Impact Report: The New Economics of Trust surveyed 2,699 decision-makers across 28 countries and four industries -- banking, insurance, life sciences and the public sector. Organizations with the strongest governance, data quality and auditability practices reported at least double the ROI of peers, while fewer than one in 20 'laggard' organizations achieved comparable results. AI leaders with trustworthy practices realize 1.85 times greater gains across 13 business outcomes, including revenue growth, cost savings and customer experience, and 85% of these leaders are increasing investment by more than 10% this year.

Madrid – September 04, 2026 -- Monteloeder, SL, a subsidiary of SuanNutra, SA, has published preclinical data showing its nutricosmetic ingredient Elissara® increases human dermal papilla cell proliferation to roughly 2.5 times that of untreated controls, extending the compound's known scalp benefits into follicular biology.

Boulder, Colorado – September 04, 2026 -- Odyssey Energy Solutions has secured $74 million in new financing, combining $27 million in equity with $47 million in debt, to expand its platform financing distributed renewable energy projects across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

New investors join round to fund solar and battery procurement infrastructure

The equity tranche drew new backers Broadscale Group, FMO, and Al Mada Ventures, alongside existing investors Union Square Ventures, Equal Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Twelve Below, FJ Labs, MCJ, and Transition Ventures. Debt financing came from British International Investment, BIO, the Facility for Energy Inclusion via Cygnum Capital, and the Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund via TripleJump.

NEW YORK – September 04, 2026 -- Logan Bus Company Inc., the largest private school bus provider for the New York City Department of Education, has launched an AI-powered phone system built on Cisco technology to give parents faster answers on bus location, delays and arrival times.

Logan Bus serves 20% of New York City schoolchildren riding its buses daily

The company transports roughly 30,000 general education students each day across the city. The new phone system links a student's specific bus route to the parent's caller ID, allowing families to get location updates without navigating a menu of phone prompts.

AI assistants pull data directly from Logan Bus's GPS tracking system

The system is designed to minimize wait times by giving the AI assistant direct access to real-time GPS tracking, while parents can reach a live agent with a single button press. The agent will already have the child's route information on file.

Ewing, N.J. – September 04, 2026 -- Ninety-four percent of U.S. adults say they are concerned about the frequency of food recalls, up from 93% in 2025, according to a new consumer survey commissioned by GS1 US. Confidence in recall effectiveness has simultaneously dropped, with only 80% of respondents believing recalls protect public health, down from 85% a year earlier.

Consumers increasingly avoid entire product categories after recalls

Sixty-seven percent of consumers said they avoided an entire food product category following a recall, up from 60% in 2025. Sixty-six percent reported hesitancy to repurchase the same product or brand, compared with 59% last year, while 59% discarded recalled food even when their own state or region was unaffected, up from 57%. Women showed sharper pullback than men, with 71% avoiding a whole category versus 63% of men.

Raleigh, N.C. – September 04, 2026 -- RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDHL) has acquired exclusive global commercialization rights to Ferring Pharmaceuticals' Rebyota and exclusive U.S. rights to Clenpiq, two FDA-approved gastrointestinal drugs that together generated approximately $37.5 million in 2025 net sales.

RedHill pays $12 million upfront, fully funded by prior Talicia sale

Under the agreement, RedHill paid Ferring $12 million upfront plus tiered royalties on net sales and potential future milestones. The payment was fully covered by RedHill's previously announced $18 million divestiture of Talicia, which also carries up to $35 million in potential additional upside. Ferring retains Rebyota's manufacturing facilities and will continue supplying the product through the term of the agreement.

Indianapolis – September 04, 2026 -- Calumet, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLMT) has slashed the remaining capital requirement for its Montana Renewables sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) expansion to $137 million, down from the $1.2 billion originally contemplated under a Phase 2 plan backed by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Capital spend drops as Calumet repurposes idle refinery equipment

The reduction comes from redeploying a hydrotreater, hydrogen plant and naphtha splitter from the adjacent Calumet Montana Refining (CMR) asphalt facility under a long-term lease, rather than building new capacity from scratch. The tied-in hydrotreater creates a dual-reactor system running in a lower-yield-loss "polishing" configuration instead of standard "cracking" service.

Delray Beach, Fla. – September 04, 2026 -- The global automotive test equipment market is projected to grow from $4.47 billion in 2026 to $5.92 billion by 2033, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 4.1%, according to MarketsandMarkets.

Middletown, Delaware – September 04, 2026 -- The global racing tires market will grow from USD 2.921 billion in 2025 to USD 3.929 billion by 2035, a compound annual growth rate of 2.85%, according to a new study by Radial Insights. The market is projected to reach USD 3.051 billion in 2026 as exclusive control-tire contracts continue to anchor manufacturer revenue.

Control-tire contracts add 0.5 percentage points to market growth through 2035

Radial Insights estimates that exclusive series-supply agreements contribute roughly 0.5 percentage points to overall CAGR by allowing manufacturers to align production, compound development and logistics with fixed racing calendars. In June 2026, Formula 1 and the FIA extended Pirelli's role as sole tire supplier for Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 3 and F1 Academy through 2028. Goodyear maintains a parallel multi-year exclusive supply arrangement across NASCAR's Cup, Xfinity and Truck series.

Sheridan, Wyoming – September 04, 2026 -- VALOR Network Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, has selected RADIN Health's cloud-based radiology platform to power teleradiology services for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of War, with Total Medical Imaging supplying nationwide physician coverage through its network of more than 60 board-certified radiologists.

VALOR taps RADIN's secure cloud platform for federal imaging workflow

RADIN will deploy its radiology platform within a secure government-cloud environment built to meet federal healthcare security and operational requirements. The platform integrates enterprise imaging, PACS, RIS, intelligent worklists, diagnostic reporting, clinical communications, workflow automation, analytics and AI-assisted tools in a single system.

London – September 04, 2026 -- 50 Best has published its extended ranking of hotels placed No.51 to No.100, covering 23 territories and 40 cities ahead of the main World's 50 Best Hotels 2026 ceremony set for Paris on September 15. The expanded list includes 10 independent properties and precedes the top-50 announcement broadcast live on 50 Best's YouTube channel at 20:00 Paris time.

Asia dominates with 20 ranked properties, led by Japan's seven entries

Japan places Park Hyatt Tokyo at No.53, Hotel The Mitsui in Kyoto at No.79, and Waldorf Astoria Osaka at No.89. Mainland China enters the list with two hotels: Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen at No.90 and The Peninsula Shanghai at No.99.

Cambridge, Mass. – September 04, 2026 -- Physical Superintelligence (PSI) launched with $58 million in seed funding to industrialize physics discovery at machine scale, starting with a founding role in the first privately funded interstellar space mission and commercial deployment of a data center optimization platform.

Breakthrough Energy Ventures leads $58 million seed round for AI-native physics lab

The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and joined by Dragon Global, Robot Ventures, Solari, Susa, Ron Conway's SV Angel, Valkyrie, Balaji Srinivasan, and Anthony Scaramucci, alongside individual investors from OpenAI, NVIDIA, SoftBank Energy, Oracle, Hugging Face, JUMP Capital, and the a16z Scout Fund. PSI was founded by Matt Pines, Alex Klokus, and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross to build higher-fidelity world models and engineer physical systems beyond human design capacity.

Las Vegas – September 04, 2026 -- BOXABL Inc. (Nasdaq: BXBL) has entered a multiyear purchase agreement with LC Vegas Acquisitions, LLC for up to 1,500 factory-built homes over three years, marking the company's largest announced residential purchase arrangement to date.

Deal structure calls for roughly 500 homes delivered annually

Under the agreement, purchases are expected to occur in phases, with approximately 500 homes anticipated each year, subject to project schedules, site readiness, and regulatory approvals. The agreement does not require that any purchases be made and remains subject to conditions, contingencies, and performance requirements.

NEW YORK – September 04, 2026 -- NYU Langone Health has appointed William Gordon Frankle, MD, MBA, as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, effective September.

Frankle succeeds Marmar after 17-year tenure

Dr. Frankle takes over from Charles R. Marmar, MD, who completed 17 years as chair and will continue as director of the Center for Precision Psychiatry within NYU Grossman School of Medicine's faculty. Frankle previously served as vice chair of the department and chief of psychiatry service at NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, and holds the title of professor of psychiatry.

Hamburg, Germany – September 04, 2026 -- Körber AG has achieved Platinum status in the 2026 EcoVadis sustainability rating, moving up from Gold a year earlier and placing the global technology company in the top 1 percent of all firms assessed worldwide.

The result marks Körber's fourth consecutive EcoVadis assessment and the first time it has reached the top tier across all four rated categories: Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement.