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Stockholm – September 10, 2026 -- Autoliv, Inc. (NYSE: ALV) has onboarded Toyota as the first customer for its new Human Body Model (HBM) Safety Suite, a virtual crash-testing platform designed to accelerate vehicle safety development.

Toyota begins evaluating Autoliv's virtual crash simulation platform

Toyota has started using the HBM Safety Suite to assess its capabilities as part of its own virtual safety development activities, according to Autoliv. The platform combines an advanced Human Body Model -- a detailed digital representation of human anatomy -- with dedicated software for analysis, visualization, and decision-making during crash simulations.

Milton Keynes, England – September 10, 2026 -- Rockwell Automation has launched a new cybersecurity-focused season of its ROKStudios video series, as fresh data shows nearly half of manufacturers reported a cyber incident in the past year.

Rising IT/OT convergence drives operational risk for manufacturers

The new season, drawing on Rockwell's 11th Annual State of Smart Manufacturing Report, documents how increasing connectivity between IT and operational technology environments is expanding the attack surface for industrial operators. The company states that cyber risk has shifted from an episodic concern to an ongoing operational requirement as manufacturers scale AI, automation and connected systems.

Hangzhou – September 10, 2026 -- Hikvision's Guanlan large-scale AI models have cut false perimeter alarms by 90% while doubling detection range compared with traditional cameras, more than a year after the platform's launch.

DeepinViewX cameras halve repeated alarms on the same target

The edge-deployed DeepinViewX cameras run the Guanlan model directly, reducing false triggers from animals, weather and vegetation that plague legacy perimeter systems. Detection range doubles versus conventional cameras, and repeated alarms on a single target drop by half. The system pairs optical sensors for short perimeters with thermal, radar and fiber-optic sensing for longer distances.

Roorkee – September 10, 2026 -- Avathon and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) have launched the Avathon Physical AI Lab (Avathon PAL), a research initiative aimed at advancing Physical AI for industrial operations, to be housed in IIT Roorkee's Department of Computer Science & Engineering.

Avathon pairs industrial autonomy expertise with IIT Roorkee's research talent

The lab will focus on optimization, machine learning, knowledge representation, and multi-agent systems, targeting problems such as supply planning, logistics at scale, and continuously learning autonomous systems for the industrial economy.

London – September 10, 2026 -- Replit has opened its first international office outside the United States, selecting London's King's Cross Knowledge Quarter as the hub for its European operations. The agentic software creation platform, which counts more than 60 million users worldwide and reaches 85% of the Fortune 500, marked the launch with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

Replit plans to double headcount and investment in the coming year

The San Francisco-based company said it expects to double its headcount and investment over the next 12 months as it scales operations with small businesses and enterprises across Europe. Founded in 2016, Replit has expanded its enterprise customer base in the region to include PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Mercedes-Benz Group, TrustPilot and Hg, alongside existing U.S. clients such as Accenture, Visa and Zillow.

Paris – September 10, 2026 -- Airties has launched Airties Aura, an Agentic AI engine that autonomously diagnoses and fixes connectivity issues for homes and small businesses across the ISP customer lifecycle. Turknet, described as Türkiye's next-generation telecommunications operator, is the first operator to deploy Aura within its existing Airties Home platform across households.

Aura consolidates Airties' AI automation features into a single reasoning engine

Aura stands for Agentic AI that Understands, Reasons and Automates, and powers all Airties platforms managing connectivity, device, and application data from connected homes and businesses. "We have combined and evolved our existing AI automation features into one agentic AI engine which transforms connectivity insights and actions into autonomous data intelligence," said Metin Taskin, CEO and co-founder of Airties.

Denver – September 10, 2026 -- Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) has signed a multi-year agreement with A+E Global Media to centralize video-on-demand distribution for the A&E, HISTORY, and Lifetime brands using its Comcast MediaExpress platform.

Comcast MediaExpress consolidates content ingest across seven major distribution partners

The deal establishes a single point of ingest for A+E Global Media's premium video titles and metadata, feeding distribution to Amazon, Apple Channels, Xfinity, Cox, Mediacom, DIRECTV and DISH. The 24/7 managed service, part of the broader Comcast Media360 portfolio, is built to cut operational complexity in content preparation, packaging and delivery.

Shenzhen – September 10, 2026 -- FILM & TAPE EXPO 2026 will gather more than 1,200 exhibitors and brands and 60,000 professional buyers in Shenzhen from October 27-29, 2026, positioning the event as a major sourcing hub for global functional film, adhesive tape, coating and converting industries. Organized by Kuozhan Exhibition Services (Shanghai) Limited as part of ASIA MATERIAL WEEK, the fair will occupy 80,000 square meters at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center in Bao'an.

The show is expected to feature more than 200 new product launches and 30-plus technical forums, covering the full supply chain from raw materials to manufacturing equipment.

Hangzhou – September 10, 2026 -- FastGPT, an open-source AI orchestration platform, has released multiple updated versions -- v4.8.10, v4.9.2 and v4.16.0 -- adding conditional workflow logic and revised self-hosted deployment requirements.

New user selection node enables Confirm/Cancel branching in workflows

The update introduces a user selection node allowing conditional branching via Confirm/Cancel prompts, though the feature is limited to workflow use and incompatible with plugins, tool calls, or Debug mode. Additional workflow changes include automatic edge and center alignment for dragged nodes, local editing history with undo/redo shortcuts, and workflow version renaming. Migrated application call nodes, plugin usage description configuration, and HTTP node support for text/plain mode and timeout settings round out the design updates.

San Antonio – September 10, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan has appointed Janesh Janardhanan as Global Partner and Head of its Subscriptions business, giving him P&L leadership over the firm's analytics operations, subscriptions platform, and Growth Generator data platform.

Janardhanan takes P&L control of Frost & Sullivan's recurring-revenue subscription portfolio

The appointment covers three commercial units: the company's analytics business, its subscriptions platform, and the Growth Generator data platform. These offerings provide clients with continuous access to intelligence, growth opportunity analytics, and decision-support tools on a recurring-revenue basis.