Product Launch

Boston – September 30, 2026 -- Boston Globe Media and Tufts Health Plan have renewed their branded content partnership for a sixth season of "Turning Points: Navigating Mental Health," a five-episode podcast series debuting new installments every Wednesday starting October 7, 2026.

Studio/B produces the series as branded content separate from newsroom operations

The podcast is created by Boston Globe Media's branded content division, Studio/B, in collaboration with Tufts Health Plan, a Point32Health company. The Boston Globe's news and editorial departments have no role in the production, the companies confirmed.

Season six tackles parenting, loss and news-cycle anxiety

The new season addresses parenting in the age of social media, starting over after loss, and managing mental health amid a constant news cycle. Clinical social worker Frantzes Lys returns as host, interviewing guests about personal mental health turning points.

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – September 30, 2026 -- IGEL is working with Omnissa to validate a deployment workflow that lets organizations use Omnissa Workspace ONE UEM and Omnissa Freestyle Orchestrator to prepare Windows endpoints for IGEL Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (IGEL BC&DR). The companies unveiled the integrated workflow at Omnissa ONE 2026 for customers and partners in attendance.

Pleasanton, Calif. – – September 30, 2026 -- Healthcare Triangle, Inc. (Nasdaq: HCTI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Malaysia's AI World Sdn. Bhd. to form a joint venture deploying AI-enabled humanoid nursing robots across North American hospitals, with HCTI taking a 70% ownership stake against AI World's 30%.

Joint venture targets toileting and hygiene care, among the most physically demanding nursing tasks

The proposed venture would hold intellectual property and distribution rights for the robots in North America. The machines are designed to assist with patient toileting and related cleaning and hygiene work under clinical supervision, tasks HCTI says are both physically taxing for staff and sensitive for patients.

Pittsburgh – September 30, 2026 -- Nuventive has launched Executive Summary, a new AI capability within its Improvement Platform designed to cut the time higher education leaders spend surfacing insights from institutional data.

AI Tool Summarizes Institutional Narratives at Scale

Executive Summary uses AI to summarize data-informed narratives across an institution around key strategic initiatives, including learning outcomes, strategic planning, program review, and student success. The tool generates reports that highlight progress across programs, departments, and reporting cycles, using institution-defined prompts to surface information relevant to specific priorities.

Bethesda, Md. – September 30, 2026 -- The Fuerza Aérea Mexicana (FAM) has acquired a second Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Super Hercules tactical airlifter, doubling the response capacity it gained from its first aircraft purchase announced in January 2026.

Mexico becomes a two-aircraft Super Hercules operator within a single year

The January 2026 acquisition made Mexico the first Latin American nation to join the global Super Hercules fleet, which now exceeds 570 aircraft worldwide. The second aircraft continues the FAM's recapitalization of its legacy Hercules fleet, a platform it has operated for more than five decades.

Maple Grove, Minn. – September 30, 2026 -- Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC has launched Fluvoxamine Maleate Extended-Release Capsules in 100 mg and 150 mg strengths, entering a U.S. market valued at approximately $44.6 million according to IQVIA data covering August 2025 through July 2026.

Upsher-Smith secures AB-rated status against branded Luvox CR

The product carries a Therapeutic Equivalence (TE) code of AB, with Luvox CR designated as the Reference Listed Drug. The AB rating allows the generic to be considered therapeutically equivalent and substitutable for the brand-name extended-release formulation in U.S. pharmacy channels.

New York – September 30, 2026 -- Researchers at NYU Langone Health have built an artificial intelligence system that tracks the daily case exposure of radiology residents and flags missing pathologies with more than 90 percent accuracy, according to a study published online in Academic Radiology.

AI system pinpoints training gaps that traditional case logs miss

The tool monitors which conditions residents encounter during clinical rotations and automatically identifies underexposed pathologies, then assigns supplemental teaching cases to close the gap. Study author Vinay Prabhu, an associate professor in NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Department of Radiology, said residents seeing 30 cases in a day typically encounter 29 routine exams and only one uncommon condition, leaving gaps in exposure to rarer diseases they will face throughout their careers.

Louisville, Ky. – September 30, 2026 -- Midea America Corp. has opened an expanded Midea America Research Center (MARC) in Louisville, Kentucky, growing the facility's footprint by approximately 400% to 157,000 square feet and adding 22 new laboratories.

Facility adds 127,000 square feet and 22 laboratories to support appliance development

The expansion includes 127,000 square feet of additional space, a product showroom, an auditorium and dedicated collaboration areas. The center brings consumer research, engineering, product development and testing under one roof, supporting Midea's U.S. product lines across refrigeration, dishwashers, cooking, laundry, air treatment, floor care and small appliances.

Panama City – September 30, 2026 -- Mercan Group has broken ground on Albor at Santa María, a 48-story, 200-unit residential tower marking its first housing development in Panama and pushing the Canada-headquartered developer's country portfolio past US$200 million.

Panama tightens Qualified Investor real estate thresholds

The groundbreaking follows Executive Decree No. 17, issued September 8, 2026, which keeps the minimum investment for new, first-sale real estate at US$300,000 while setting a US$500,000 threshold for secondary-market properties under Panama's Qualified Investor Program. The decree also adds new investment alternatives and streamlines application procedures.

Taipei – – September 30, 2026 -- Advantech has launched the ASR-D501, a compact AI companion computer built to power autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles, delivering up to 12 TOPS of AI performance within a sub-10W power envelope.

Qualcomm QCS6490 chipset enables onboard AI processing without constant cloud reliance

The ASR-D501 runs on the Qualcomm QCS6490, combining CPU, GPU, and NPU compute to handle object detection, semantic segmentation, visual inspection, obstacle awareness, vision-based localization, and sensor-fusion tasks directly on the drone. By offloading perception and mission-level workloads from the flight controller, the platform lets the primary controller focus exclusively on flight stabilization and actuator control. Supported navigation capabilities include VIO, SLAM, and GNSS-denied operation.