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Almaty – September 10, 2026 -- The Bulat Utemuratov Foundation has allocated 460 million tenge (approximately US$1 million) to fund the gasification of private residential homes in Almaty, partnering with the city's Akimat (Mayor's Office) on the project.

Foundation funding targets coal-to-gas conversion for private homes

Under a newly signed memorandum, the Almaty City Akimat will inspect private residences, consult with residents on connection procedures and coordinate the transition to natural gas heating. Qualified contractors will then carry out the construction and installation work required to connect each home to the gas network.

Pembroke Pines, Fla. – September 10, 2026 -- Alocity, the AI Operating System for physical spaces, has announced support for Mercury Security's open access control platform, integrating Mercury's controller infrastructure with Alocity's cloud-native access control, AI Video, intercom, and visitor management software.

Alocity pairs Mercury's open hardware with its AI operator Aimee

The integration lets integrators and enterprise customers combine Mercury's established access control foundation with Alocity's AI-driven software layer, avoiding a choice between legacy infrastructure and modern cloud tools. Marco Quintero, Founder and CEO of Alocity, said Mercury represents the open infrastructure and customer choice the physical security industry needs, and that Alocity can now pair that foundation with a new generation of AI-driven software.

Hsinchu – September 10, 2026 -- Spirox Corporation (TWSE: 3055) has launched the SP7000G High-Speed TGV Crack Inspection System, a tool capable of scanning a full 510 mm x 515 mm glass substrate panel in under 20 minutes to detect internal microcracks in high-volume Glass Core and Through Glass Via (TGV) manufacturing.

New system targets microcrack detection after critical build-up processes

The SP7000G is designed to identify internal microcracks that emerge after metallization and Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF) processes, key stages in advanced packaging production. Spirox positions the system to improve inspection efficiency, monitor process quality and defect distribution, and optimize manufacturing yield as TGV technology scales toward high-volume output.

Shanghai – September 10, 2026 -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has graduated Karmada, an open source engine that coordinates applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters, clouds, and regions without requiring changes to the applications themselves. The milestone was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026, where three foundations shared a single stage in China for the first time.

Karmada v1.19 advances scheduling for distributed AI training workloads

The release adds multi-component scheduling for distributed AI training jobs and promotes priority-based scheduling to Beta status, enabled by default, ensuring critical workloads are scheduled ahead of lower-priority tasks. Short for Kubernetes Armada, the project extends the standard Kubernetes API with centralized placement, propagation, failover, and multi-cluster autoscaling.

Frankfurt – September 10, 2026 -- The German agricultural industry association IVA has dismissed a new study by the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) claiming more than 400 million pesticide-related poisoning cases occur globally each year, calling the figure scientifically indefensible.

IVA says PAN conflates exposure with confirmed poisoning

The Industrieverband Agrar e.V. (IVA) argues the PAN study fails to define what qualifies as a poisoning, relying heavily on self-reported symptoms rather than medically confirmed diagnoses. According to IVA, this methodological gap means exposure and actual poisoning are not properly separated, inflating the headline figure. A previous PAN study on global poisoning cases was withdrawn after similar criticism of its methodology and data sources.

Guangzhou – September 10, 2026 -- GAC's overseas exports of proprietary brands hit 26,978 units in August, up 177% year-on-year, as the Chinese automaker's cumulative exports from January to August reached 172,008 units, a 136% YoY increase. GAC's total exports to date have approached 600,000 units.

Africa emerges as GAC's fastest-growing market with 881% YoY retail sales surge

August retail sales in Africa soared 881% year-on-year, making it GAC's fastest-growing overseas market this month. GAC International signed a localized production agreement in Egypt with Jameel Motors and officially entered Ghana, introducing a model lineup that includes the S7, GS8, and AION V.

Calgary – September 10, 2026 -- Canadian Energy Metals Corp. (CEM) has achieved proof-of-concept for producing Smelter Grade Alumina (SGA) from a non-bauxite resource, marking a potential shift in North America's aluminum supply chain, and has formally commenced its Prefeasibility Study (PFS) for the Thor Project in northeast Saskatchewan.

CEM's process converts black shale into alumina matching Bayer Process purity standards

The company's testing process converts boehmite, derived from precursors linked to High Purity Alumina (HPA) and Chemical Grade Alumina (CGA), into SGA that consistently matches the purity and specifications of alumina produced through the Bayer Process, the current industry standard for refining bauxite. SGA is the principal feedstock for aluminum metal production, and CEM's results were achieved without relying on bauxite, the conventional ore source.

Calgary, AB – September 10, 2026 -- Canadian Energy Metals Corp. (CEM) has demonstrated proof-of-concept for producing smelter grade alumina (SGA) from a non-bauxite resource, matching the purity and specifications of SGA produced via the industry-standard Bayer process.

CEM converts boehmite into SGA matching Bayer-process purity

The process, tested at CEM's Thor Project in northeastern Saskatchewan near Tisdale, converts boehmite derived from high-purity alumina (HPA) and chemical-grade alumina (CGA) precursors into SGA -- the primary feedstock for aluminum metal production. Samples consistently met the purity and specification benchmarks of Bayer-process SGA, the current global standard for smelter feedstock.

Calgary, AB – September 10, 2026 -- Canadian Energy Metals Corp. (CEM) has validated a proof of concept for producing smelter-grade alumina (SGA) from a non-bauxite resource, and has formally launched a prefeasibility study (PFS) for its Thor project in northeastern Saskatchewan, near Tisdale.

CEM's boehmite conversion process matches Bayer-process alumina purity

Testing on boehmite derived from precursors linked to high-purity alumina (HPA) and chemical-grade alumina (CGA) consistently produced samples matching the purity and technical characteristics of SGA made via the Bayer process, the current industry standard for bauxite refining. SGA is the primary feedstock for metallic aluminum production.

Berlin – September 10, 2026 -- Ninety-three percent of organizations worldwide now discuss digital sovereignty at board level, yet 59% consider full technological independence an unrealistic goal, according to a new Capgemini Research Institute report based on a survey of 1,300 business and technology executives conducted in April 2026.

The report, titled "Digital Sovereignty: From Policy Ambition to Executive Imperative," finds that two-thirds of organizations globally define digital sovereignty as "resilient interdependence" rather than complete self-sufficiency, favoring targeted control over critical technologies and strategic partnerships instead.