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Bamako – September 12, 2026 -- DoGo Power has officially entered the Malian market, deploying grid-forming energy storage systems (ESS) for commercial and industrial (C&I) users and utility-scale power plants as the country's national electrification rate remains below 50%, dropping under 30% in rural areas.

Diesel supplies more than 80% of Mali's electricity, driving up costs and outages

More than 80% of Mali's power generation currently relies on diesel, a costly fuel source, while frequent blackouts tied to weak grid stability have become a major constraint on local economic development. Mali averages over 3,000 hours of sunshine annually, providing a strong resource base for solar-plus-storage deployment.

Hanover – September 12, 2026 -- CDTL will present its EA5000NP distributed electric axle and an electromagnetic braking system for commercial vehicles at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hanover, running from September 15 to 20, with a press day on September 14.

CDTL frames actuation as the missing link for autonomous trucks and buses

Under the theme "Electric Drive + Electromechanical Braking — Defining Actuation Systems for Autonomous Commercial Vehicles," Hangzhou Contemporary e-Drive Technology Co., Ltd. (CDTL) will argue that as commercial vehicles become more electrified, software-controlled and automated, the industry's core challenge has shifted from perception and decision-making to reliably converting digital commands into physical vehicle motion.

Kansas City, Mo. – September 12, 2026 -- Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a one-petabyte AI resource containing molecular-effect predictions for more than 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes across the human genome, giving researchers browser-based access to the largest catalogue of its kind without writing code.

Atlas condenses billions of genetic variants into a single searchable score

The human genome's approximately 3 billion DNA letters create over 9 billion possible single-letter substitutions, a scale impossible to test experimentally in a lab. AlphaGenome Atlas assigns each variant thousands of molecular-effect predictions across hundreds of human cell types and tissues, feeding into a new AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score that combines AlphaGenome, AlphaMissense and evolutionary conservation data to rank variants across both protein-coding and non-coding regions.

Frederick, Md. – September 12, 2026 -- PeerTrust has launched a public researcher due-diligence service, PeerTrust.Report, that flags anomalies in citation records used by universities, research funders, insurers and science investors to make hiring, funding and partnership decisions.

Know Your Scientist tool screens for three citation anomaly types

The new Know Your Scientist (KYS) module examines coauthor network concentration, reciprocal citation relationships, and abrupt publication velocity changes. PeerTrust weighs these signals into an evidence-based report intended for human review rather than automated verdicts. An unusual pattern does not constitute a finding of misconduct, as legitimate factors such as consortium publishing or rapid team growth can also generate anomalies.

New York – – September 12, 2026 -- FouAnalytics has launched FouAnalytics Practitioners Spotlight, a weekly LinkedIn series profiling hands-on advertising and digital marketing professionals rather than ranking them by follower count.

FouAnalytics moves beyond 'Top 100' rankings to profile individual practitioners weekly

Dr. Augustine Fou, founder of FouAnalytics, said the volume of skilled professionals in advertising, adtech and digital marketing exceeded what a single ranked list could capture, prompting the new format focused on individual contributions instead of aggregate lists.

Each profile targets practical problem-solving over follower metrics

Every one-page Spotlight will introduce a practitioner, describe the specific problems they solve, and outline lessons other professionals can apply directly to their own work. The series is built on real campaign examples rather than abstract career advice or generic credentials.

San Diego – September 12, 2026 -- Regpack, an online registration and payment platform, has launched Program Insights, a real-time dashboard that tracks enrollment and family retention while a program season is still underway.

Dashboard tracks enrollment fill rates and returning families in real time

Program Insights lets directors watch enrollment percentages populate by class as sign-ups come in, identify which sessions are nearing capacity, and see which families from the previous season have re-enrolled and which have not.

Tool flags exact drop-off points in registration forms

The platform identifies where prospective participants abandon the sign-up process. If a class loses most of its interest at a specific step, that step becomes visible, allowing directors to adjust the form, wording, or pricing and measure whether subsequent sign-up groups complete registration.

New York and Munich – September 12, 2026 -- Cataneo GmbH, a division of Brand Engagement Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNAI), will showcase its AI-enhanced MYDAS enterprise media platform at IBC2026, the global broadcast and technology exhibition running September 11-14 at RAI Amsterdam.

MYDAS already manages ad inventory across 1,000-plus media brands and 200-plus channels

The cloud-native platform handles advertising sales, scheduling, traffic, content management, monetization, analytics, CRM integration and real-time reporting for major global media organizations, including leading U.S. film studios.

New York – September 12, 2026 -- Moonshot AI, the autonomous eCommerce website optimization platform founded in 2023, has rebranded as Shuttlebase after a naming collision with the China-based Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi AI models, created market confusion during that company's global expansion.

Name collision with Chinese AI firm forces New York startup to rebrand

Co-founders Aviv Frenkel and Evyatar Segal said the switch was not planned but became necessary once the unrelated Chinese firm's expansion began overlapping with their brand identity in the market. "We didn't plan on changing our name, but the collision forced us to think about what we're actually building," said Frenkel, Co-Founder and CEO. "Shuttlebase captures that vision. We want to build the launchpad that allows eCommerce brands to continuously improve and move faster."

Pleasanton, Calif. – September 12, 2026 -- Alif Semiconductor launched a new family of low-cost evaluation boards priced at an MSRP of $49, aimed at lowering the barrier to on-device AI/ML inference for developers.

StartKit boards target two MCU families for edge AI development

The SK-E1C board supports Alif's Ensemble microcontrollers, while the SK-B1 targets the BLE wireless Balletto family. Both boards ship with a superset configuration combining a 160MHz Arm Cortex-M55 CPU core with Helium vector processing extension, an Ethos-U55 NPU, and 2MB of tightly coupled SRAM and MRAM.

NPU delivers inference speeds up to two orders of magnitude faster than traditional MCUs

Alif states the Ethos-U55 NPU included in both boards accelerates inference performance by up to 100x compared to running identical workloads on a conventional MCU core, positioning the StartKit line for battery-powered, always-on AI applications.

New York – September 12, 2026 -- Wella Company will place four haircare brands -- Wella Professionals, Sebastian Professional, Nioxin and Briogeo -- into Target Beauty Studio, a new prestige beauty retail concept launching September 10 across more than 600 stores and on Target.com.

Target Beauty Studio debuts with 90 curated brands and 1,600 products

The retail format spans skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance, bath and body, and nails, combining specialty-level merchandising with dedicated Beauty Advisors and Target Circle promotional offers. Wella's four brands enter as part of this curated prestige and emerging-brand assortment.