General News

Irvine, Calif. – September 25, 2026 -- TCL has signed a multi-year partnership with the Minnesota Vikings, becoming the NFL franchise's official "Preferred TV," the companies announced.

Deal grants TCL in-stadium branding across U.S. Bank Stadium displays

The agreement gives TCL prominent placement on displays throughout U.S. Bank Stadium, exposing the brand to tens of thousands of fans at every home game. TCL also secures official use of Vikings marks and logos across its advertising and promotional materials as a designated technology partner.

Austin, Texas – September 25, 2026 -- Oracle has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Trade Finance Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment, a report that evaluated 12 vendors serving corporate banks. The recognition cites Oracle Banking Trade and Supply Chain Finance for running five documented AI agents in live production across letter-of-credit workability, guarantee validation, corporate advisory, supply chain finance program creation, and management functions.

Auburn, Ala. – September 25, 2026 -- NICHOLAS AIR, the largest independently owned Part 135 operator, is sponsoring Auburn University's Business Aviation Days, deploying pilots and a static aircraft display to recruit aspiring aviators and maintenance technicians directly from the school's aviation program.

NICHOLAS AIR ties recruitment to a fast-track jet pilot pipeline

The company's STEEL JET Pathway Program moves low-time pilots from the Cessna Caravan to jet cockpits within two to four years, positioning the sponsorship as a direct talent pipeline rather than a branding exercise.

Longevity incentives include luxury watches and jet cards

NICHOLAS AIR offers a Rolex or Bell & Ross watch to pilots reaching a five-year anniversary and a personal Jet Card at the ten-year mark, part of a home-based pilot model the company says drives retention in a tight aviation labor market.

Hannover – September 25, 2026 -- Giti Tire's GitiSynergyH2 tyres carried a Volkswagen ID.Buzz across 99,800km and through 92 countries, setting a new world record for the longest continuous global tour by a battery-powered electric vehicle.

Rainer Zietlow completes 16-month, 92-country EV expedition on Giti tyres

Professional globetrotter Rainer Zietlow drove the record route in partnership with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, departing Hannover on September 25, 2026 and crossing Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East before finishing at IAA Transportation in Hannover on September 25, 2026, where he received an official world-record certificate.

Toronto – September 25, 2026 -- Jaguar Uranium Corp. (NYSE American: JAGU) has reported assay results from historical drill-core resampling at its Berlin Uranium–Rare Earth Project in Colombia's Department of Caldas, with one interval returning 3,570 ppm total rare earth oxides (TREO) and 607 ppm magnet rare earth oxides (MREO), the highest value from the tested selection.

Selected core intervals confirm polymetallic mineralization combining uranium, vanadium and phosphate

The resampling program, first announced September 25, 2026, tested core drilled between 2010 and 2012 during two historical campaigns by U3O8 Corp. Beyond the top-grade interval in drill hole DDB-041 (0.63 m at 170.57–171.20 m depth), additional selected intervals returned 1.53 m at 2,267 ppm TREO and 329 ppm MREO in DDB-003, 1.00 m at 2,176 ppm TREO and 349 ppm MREO in DDB-015, and 0.50 m at 2,532 ppm TREO and 414 ppm MREO in DDB-068.

Washington, D.C. – September 25, 2026 -- CACI International will donate $250 to America's VetDogs for every blocked shot recorded by the Washington Capitals this NHL season, a partnership projected to fund training for up to eight service dogs annually based on the team's average of roughly 1,300 blocked shots per season.

CACI names retired Lt. Gen. Mike Shields as program ambassador

Shields, a CACI Senior Vice President and 30-year Army veteran, will serve as the public face of the Good Dogs for Great Americans initiative, which operates under the broader CACI On Defense activation with the Capitals.

Beijing – September 24, 2026 -- Wind, solar, energy storage and electric vehicles are expanding rapidly worldwide, but grid integration limits, high financing costs and market-mechanism gaps are constraining the pace of the global carbon neutrality transition, according to the 2026 Global Carbon Neutrality Annual Progress Report launched at Tsinghua University on September 22.

Report tracks 198 countries and regions across 200 indicators

The report, presented by Tsinghua University professor Wang Can, draws on more than 200 indicators to assess progress toward carbon neutrality across 198 countries and regions, identifying the drivers and constraints shaping the transition. The launch coincided with the fifth anniversary of Tsinghua's Institute for Carbon Neutrality (ICON), the sixth anniversary of China's "dual carbon" goals, and the start of China's 15th Five-Year Plan period.

Las Vegas – September 24, 2026 -- BOXABL Inc. (Nasdaq: BXBL) has appointed Timothy Goldsmith, CPA, to its board of directors, naming him chair of the Audit Committee effective Sept. 24, 2026, as the modular housing manufacturer builds out financial and governance infrastructure two months after its Nasdaq debut.

Goldsmith brings two decades of EY audit leadership to BOXABL's board

Goldsmith spent nearly 21 years at EY, serving as audit partner from 2018 to 2026, where he oversaw more than 20 complex public and private company audits and led a team of over 30 audit executives. He directed audit strategy for companies ranging from $200 million to over $3 billion in revenue, with technical expertise spanning U.S. GAAP, IFRS, SEC and PCAOB standards, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and M&A accounting. Earlier in his career he worked as a U.S. SEC capital markets senior in Hong Kong, advising on cross-border IPOs involving U.S. operations.

Princeton, N.J. – September 24, 2026 -- Refuel Agency has introduced Afro-Latino consumers as a standalone research segment for the first time, finding this group leads all measured multicultural audiences in AI tool adoption at 31%, using platforms such as Gemini.

Afro-Latino consumers combine top AI adoption with strong home-centered habits

Despite ranking highest in AI tool usage, 58% of Afro-Latino respondents live in households with children and show a strong preference for entertaining and cooking at home, according to the 2026 Multicultural Explorer study. Refuel's analysts said this combination of digital-forward behavior and traditional household patterns made the segment impossible to keep classified under a broader "other" category.

Princeton, N.J. – September 24, 2026 -- Young adults aged 18-24 have overtaken teens as the primary drivers of brand discovery on TikTok and Instagram, according to Refuel Agency's newly redesigned 2026 Youth, College & Young Adult Explorer study of 1,545 respondents.

Social media engagement now peaks in young adulthood, not the teen years

Young adults lead brand discovery on TikTok at 30% versus 28% for teens, and on Instagram at 29% versus 23%. Adults log nearly double the weekly social media hours of teens -- 40 hours versus 24 -- with college students matching adults at 40 hours weekly. Liz Carmo, EVP Audience & Brand at Refuel Agency, said brand media plans still treating the teen years as the social-media high-water mark are reaching audiences at the wrong intensity.