Product Launch

SAN FRANCISCO — November 13, 2026 -- Pine AI released Pine Drama Studio, a free open-source AI filmmaking studio under the Apache 2.0 license, and added phone calling to Pine Computer, 35 days after the platform's Oct. 9 launch. One Australian studio says its output per team member rose from 2-3 minutes of video a day to 30-50 minutes, which works out to a 10- to 25-fold increase by our calculation.

Australian studio reports output rising from 2-3 to 30-50 minutes of video a day

The studio, an Australia-based AI short-drama company, moved production onto Pine Drama Studio in October after a September beta. Its CTO, identified only as Alec, says the same team now produces 10 times more video and runs several episodes in parallel. The figures are the customer's own and were not independently verified. The range of 10 to 25 times comes from dividing the low and high ends of the two daily-output ranges (30 by 3, and 50 by 2).

HOUSTON – November 14, 2026 -- Sino Biological, Inc. (Shenzhen Stock Exchange: 301047.SZ) has launched 4RISE, a high-throughput wet-lab validation service for AI-designed protein binders, with sequence-to-data turnaround of as little as 3 days. Protein expression accounts for 3 of those 72 hours, about 4% by our calculation, so the other roughly 69 hours cover the steps after expression, including binding screening and analysis.

Cell-free platform expresses six protein formats in 3 hours

The expression step runs on Sino Biological's XPressMAX cell-free protein synthesis platform. The company says expression success rates exceed 99% in established workflows, which implies fewer than 1 in 100 expressions fail in those workflows. The platform handles miniproteins, VHHs, scFvs, Fabs, enzymes and cytokines.

WOBURN — November 13, 2026 -- Monotype Imaging Inc. has expanded its Inkwell handwriting type family with four new designs, adding 24 styles to the 42 that the seven original designs provide, an increase of about 57%. The family now totals 66 styles across 11 designs, by our calculation.

The additions are Inkwell Antique, Formal, Chancery and Ornaments. Antique draws on Victorian ornamented lettering. Formal reworks the engraver's script and uses contextual and position-specific characters to keep handwritten variation. Chancery follows Renaissance writing traditions, with swash capitals and contextual alternates. Ornaments covers emoji, illustrations, arrows, pointing hands, musical symbols, weather devices and cartographic elements.

BERLIN – November 14, 2026 -- Director David Leitch ran up to 20 Insta360 X5 cameras at once on individual heist scenes of "How to Rob a Bank", according to camera maker Insta360. A typical shooting day used seven or eight of the 360-degree cameras, so the 20-camera peak is about 2.5 to 2.9 times that load by our calculation.

Insta360 says the film is in cinemas. Its cast includes Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz and Anna Sawai. The camera is also part of the plot: the film's social-media-savvy robbers livestream their heists with the X5, and footage shot on it appears in the finished film.

BIRMINGHAM — November 13, 2026 -- Porter Capital, the Alabama commercial finance company, has launched term loans of $50,000 to $500,000 and lines of credit of $50,000 to $250,000 alongside its invoice factoring and asset-based lending. The largest new loan equals about 1.7% of the $30 million ceiling on its existing facilities, by FairsOnline's calculation.

Porter Capital's new products sit far below its factoring ticket sizes

The term loans carry 24-month terms and a fixed repayment schedule. The lines of credit are revolving. Borrowers draw against an approved limit, pay interest only on drawn amounts and can borrow again as they repay. The top of the credit-line range, $250,000, is about 0.8% of the $30 million facility maximum.

PITTSBURGH – November 13, 2026 -- A Poway, Calif., inventor is offering a patent-pending sports ball backpack for licensing or sale to manufacturers and marketers through InventHelp. The design holds a full-size basketball, or a smaller ball plus diaper-bag items, and has a holder on each side, for two drinks in total.

The inventor, a stay-at-home mother of two, says she developed the bag while walking to a church basketball court with an 18-month-old and a newborn. At the time she carried a basketball, a diaper bag and the baby strapped to her chest. The inventor also lists school supplies as intended contents, and the release describes the bag as suited to school-age children.

HOMER GLEN – November 13, 2026 -- Richards Building Supply has opened a free pilot program for roofing, siding, window and door contractors who want a say in the insurance tools planned for its RBS CRM platform. The company plans to release the features between Q1 and Q3 2027. The distributor set no cap on participants and no enrollment deadline. According to the company, it operates more than 60 branches across 16 U.S. states.

RBS CRM has no insurance-specific tool among its eight listed functions

The release names eight current RBS CRM functions: proposals, material estimating, lead management, financing, project management, scheduling, invoicing and homeowner communication. None of them is built for insurance claims. The 2027 roadmap also contains eight items, and the company says all are planned, not guaranteed:

PITTSBURGH — November 13, 2026 -- An inventor from Downey, Idaho, is offering a patent-pending adjustable-cup bra design, THE ALL INCLUSIVE, for licensing or sale to manufacturers and marketers through InventHelp. The release describes a design, not a product in production, and a pending patent has not yet been granted.

The bra targets women whose breasts differ in size. According to the inventor, the wearer can adjust the size of each cup separately, and the fit also adapts to the body's natural cycle. The inventor says: "My design ensures you have a custom and proper fit."

InventHelp's national sales office received the design and lists it for licensing or sale

The inventor submitted the original design to the National sales office of InventHelp. The release names no buyer, licensee or manufacturer, so the design has no announced commercial partner.

Innsbruck – November 13, 2026 -- Austrian online sports retailer SportOkay.com expects revenue to grow about 15% to more than €45 million in its fiscal year in progress after adding cross-country skiing to its winter range, the company says.

By FairsOnline's calculation, using the company's rounded figures, that implies previous-year revenue of roughly €39 million (€45 million divided by 1.15) and an increase of about €6 million. The company attributes the growth to the new category. It did not disclose how much of the increase it expects from cross-country products.

STOCKHOLM — November 13, 2026 -- Eisai has launched Leqembi Pen, a once-weekly subcutaneous form of lecanemab for early Alzheimer's disease, in Japan. The launch comes 58 days after the September 16, 2026 approval, BioArctic said. Japan is the second country after the US where the subcutaneous formulation is on sale.

Leqembi Pen enters Japan's NHI price list as a 500 mg weekly dose

The product is now on Japan's National Health Insurance (NHI) Drug Price List. The approved dose is 500 mg once a week, given through two autoinjector pens. By FairsOnline's calculation, that is 52 doses and 104 pens a year. The intravenous (IV) option, given every two weeks in a medical facility, works out to 26 infusion visits a year at that interval. The release did not disclose the NHI price.