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Denver – September 07, 2026 -- AirDNA has launched Adapt, an AI-native revenue management system for short-term rental (STR) hosts and property managers, drawing on data from 15 million listings the company tracks to set nightly rates and minimum stays.

More than 14,000 listings tested Adapt before public launch

The tool was developed after feedback from thousands of STR hosts identified a recurring problem: operators often cannot tell whether their pricing is working or why a rate changed. AirDNA connected more than 14,000 listings to Adapt during private and public betas to refine the product.

Tiffin, Ohio – September 07, 2026 -- Nickolas Asset Management and Kreate will invest $100 million in a 542,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility at 458 Second Avenue in Tiffin, Ohio, creating approximately 120 jobs. Production is scheduled to begin October 1, 2026, with the first machines already delivered to the site.

Facility deploys 32 ENGEL molding machines with AI-driven quality control

The plant will operate 32 new ENGEL injection-molding machines equipped with iQ weight-control technology, integrated with pick-and-place robots, FANUC collaborative robots, autonomous guided vehicles and automated packaging. Krevera's read-write computer-vision AI platform will connect production equipment, quality systems and factory operations, inspecting output and enabling machines to make autonomous real-time corrections.

Frederick, Md. – September 06, 2026 -- ITHAKA, the nonprofit behind JSTOR, has achieved a 98% accessibility check pass rate while cutting remediation costs by more than 97% through an on-demand PDF pipeline built on Amazon Web Services using PDFix structural tagging, according to a new AWS Public Sector Blog article highlighted by PDFix-US.

ITHAKA's 20 million PDFs would cost up to $624 million to remediate manually

ITHAKA's digital corpus spans approximately 20 million PDFs and 156 million pages, with materials dating back to 1550. The AWS article estimates manual remediation of the full collection would cost between $156 million and $624 million, a scale that made conventional, upfront remediation financially impractical.

Boone, Iowa – September 05, 2026 -- AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO) launched the Fendt 1100 Vario MT Gen2 Track Tractor and the Fendt Momentum 80-Foot Planter globally at the 2026 Farm Progress Show, marking Fendt's first-ever global tractor debut staged in the United States. The company also unveiled the North American debut of the Fendt 300 Vario Gen5 line, expanding its full-line portfolio across high-horsepower, planting and compact-tractor segments.

Fendt stages global tractor launch in U.S. for the first time

Stefan Caspari, Senior Vice President of Customer Success & North American Ag at AGCO, said hosting the launch in the U.S. reflects the company's regional investment strategy, noting that North American farmers prioritize power, productivity, efficiency and total cost of ownership.

Juneau, Alaska – September 05, 2026 -- A public Wi-Fi network built for Alaska's capital has offloaded more than 20 to 30 terabytes of cellular traffic and served over 103,000 unique users during a single 30-day peak-season stretch, more than three times Juneau's year-round population, without adding a single employee to run it.

Cruise crowds overwhelmed carrier networks and city payment systems

Up to 16,000 extra visitors a day during cruise season jammed downtown Juneau's cellular capacity, knocking out point-of-sale terminals, parking kiosks and basic phone calls. Crowds gathered outside the downtown library, the only reliable signal source, just to get online. With carriers offering no fix, the City and Borough of Juneau opted to build its own network and hired Northriver IT to design, deploy and manage it.

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.

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.

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.

Hamburg, Germany – September 04, 2026 -- Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. will offer a new SOLION-100 terminal built on Iridium Certus 100 technology, combining GMDSS, Ship Security Alert System and Long-Range Identification and Tracking capabilities into a single platform for newbuild and retrofit vessels.

Furuno adds Iridium GMDSS to its maritime safety portfolio

The announcement, made jointly with Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM), gives shipowners and shipyards an additional certified option for regulated maritime distress and safety communications equipment.