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Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR) (“Better” or the “Company”) today announced that its Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $30 million of the Company’s Class A common stock. Better intends to begin repurchases with an initial $10 million phase.

Mediacom Communications today announced the appointment of Chris Rouser as Executive Vice President, Human Resources.

Hello Heart, the leader in AI-powered preventive heart health, today announced that Charles “Chuck” MacGlashing has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer as Hello Heart enters its next stage of growth.

SentinelOne® (NYSE: S), the AI Security leader, today announced it has been named "SIEM Solution of the Year" in the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards 2026 program. This award recognizes Singularity AI SIEM, SentinelOne’s innovative data offering for helping security teams defenders detect, investigate and stop threats through the use of real-time security data and automated workflows.

SagePoint Capital Partners today announced its formal launch as a relationship-led family office firm serving entrepreneurs, multigenerational families, professional athletes, entertainers, creators, and other high-profile clients with complex wealth needs.

Suki, the leader in Ambient Clinical Intelligence (ACI), today announced the availability of Ask across Epic, Oracle Health, athenahealth, and MEDITECH, bringing patient-specific information and trusted clinical intelligence from UpToDate into the Suki for Clinicians app. Ask allows clinicians to use spoken natural language or typed questions to quickly surface information such as medications, allergies, vitals, lab results, and chronic conditions without manually searching through the EHR.

SullivanCotter, the nation’s leading independent consulting firm in the assessment and development of total rewards programs, workforce solutions, and data products for health care and not-for-profits, has released the latest benchmarks from its 2026 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey. This survey includes data from nearly 2,600 organizations representing 2.6 million clinical and non-clinical employees – making it one of the industry’s most comprehensive health care staff compensation resources for hospitals and health systems.

Contractor Connection®, Crawford & Company’s managed repair network of vetted and credentialed contractors, today released the first installment of its 2026 Managed Repair Market report, revealing that 58% of restoration contractors are absorbing higher labor costs to keep pricing consistent.

United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) will hold its third quarter 2026 conference call with Matt Flannery, chief executive officer, and Ted Grace, chief financial officer, on Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

Simulations Plus, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLP) (“Simulations Plus” or the “Company”), a global leader in model-informed and AI-accelerated drug development that advances biopharma innovation, today announced a funded partnership with a global large pharmaceutical company to apply Turin, its AI-enabled scientific engine for quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP), within an active therapeutic development program. The collaboration will evaluate how AI-enabled exploration of mechanistic model structures can substantially reduce the time required to build and evaluate QSP models, supporting far broader use within model-informed drug development (MIDD) workflows.

Frontdoor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FTDR), the nation’s leading provider of home warranties, today announced it will release its third quarter financial results and hold a conference call on Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 7:30 a.m. Central time (8:30 a.m. Eastern time).

Boxlight Corporation, a leading provider of interactive technology solutions, today announced the availability of CleverLive® Suite, the next generation of its subscription-free CleverLive digital signage platform for Clevertouch® displays. CleverLive Suite helps users create, connect, control, and communicate, turning compatible Clevertouch displays into a powerful communication channel across offices, facilities, campuses, and other shared spaces. Designed to support a wide range of customers and verticals, CleverLive Suite gives organizations a simple, flexible way to communicate across their physical spaces.

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), the intelligent AI infrastructure company, today announced a strategic collaboration with Fireworks to develop the Athena Inference Model (AIM), a collection of specialized open-weight models powering specific AthenaOS use cases, designed to help customers generate insights faster, improve efficiency and scale specialized AI across the enterprise.

Today at Zeta Live 2026, Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), the intelligent AI infrastructure company, announced AthenaOS, its enterprise intelligence operating system. Built on the Zeta Data Cloud, AthenaOS combines enterprise knowledge with Zeta’s intelligence about who will buy, what they want and what they will do next. It connects that combined intelligence with Zeta’s intelligent AI infrastructure and then dynamically builds around an enterprise team’s objective, helping teams identify growth opportunities, take action and measure results.

T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) today announced the Top 40 Division Finalists in its Friday Night 5G Lights competition, kicking off an exciting new phase where small-town schools across the country will compete division by division for a shot at the ultimate prize: a $1 million home field upgrade.

Rugs.com, one of America’s largest online rug retailers with over six decades of industry expertise, announced the launch of an expanded collection of hand-knotted rugs and its highly anticipated consumer resource, A Complete Guide to Hand-Knotted Rugs.

As enterprises worldwide pour billions into artificial intelligence, a stark reality has emerged: few AI investments deliver meaningful business results. Today, Kotter announces the AI Value Accelerator, a rapid, unified engagement toolset designed to break leadership teams out of the cycle of siloed AI activity and drive tangible, bottom-line value.

Abridge today announced an enterprise-wide agreement with University of Texas REAL Health AI to expand access to Abridge’s clinician intelligence platform across the UT System. The agreement provides a systemwide framework through which UT health institutions can access Abridge while preserving local decision-making and supporting responsible implementation of purpose-built AI for healthcare.

AI is increasing the capacity of engineering organizations, but technology leaders are largely using those productivity gains to build more rather than reduce headcount or lower costs, according to new research from Karat conducted by The Harris Poll.

Today, Amperity introduced Pér, an AI agent that helps brands go from a question about their customers, campaigns, and audiences to an answer, a recommendation, and, with approval, action — all inside the tools they already use. Pér replaces a process that can span dashboards, data requests, manual analysis, meetings and activation tools with one governed workflow.

CentralSquare Technologies, a leading provider of public sector software, today announced it has been named a 2026 AWS Champion, recognizing the company’s innovative use of cloud technology to help government agencies modernize mission-critical systems while preserving years of customized reporting.

Paradromics Inc., a neurotechnology company developing high-data-rate brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to restore and enhance human capabilities, today announced that its brain-computer interface has demonstrated more than four years of stable neural recording and decoding performance.

Zenity Labs today disclosed AgentCorruption, new research identifying a chain of security flaws in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Using a single prompt to one public-facing agent, researchers took over all AgentCore agents within the same AWS account and region, accessed private conversations and cloud credentials and persistently manipulated agent behavior. The underlying vulnerabilities discovered by Zenity Labs were systemic to AgentCore and affected any agent equipped with built-in tooling across AWS accounts.

Munchkin, the infant feeding brand supporting families across breastfeeding, bottle feeding and formula feeding, today announced they will bring Infant Formula products to TikTok Shop in the US for the first time.

Kaytee, a pioneer in pet care and nutrition for small animals and birds, and part of the Central Garden & Pet Company portfolio, announced that Kaytee NutriDelight, a complete daily food for pet birds available in three species-specific formulas, is now available at retailers nationwide. Softer than traditional pellets, its colorful pieces and natural fruit flavors are designed to give birds opportunities to rip, tear and explore their food. The line launched for broad retail availability in August 2026.

UKG®, the AI-first Workforce Operating Platform for HR, payroll, and workforce management, today announced the addition of Cash App to the UKG Frontline Worker Network, expanding the curated ecosystem of partners that connects frontline workers with benefits and support directly in the flow of their UKG work, pay, and collaboration experience.

Growth in recorded lodging nights slowed to low single digits over the summer, following a strong first half of 2026, according to new proprietary expense data from Emburse. A fixed cohort of 586 U.S.-headquartered customer organizations, encompassing approximately 25,000 lodging-expense submitting employees, showed lodging nights in the 10 highest-volume U.S. cities rose 16.6% year over year in the first half, before slowing to low single-digit growth by summer. Because recent expense records can arrive after the reporting period, the summer figures should be viewed as an observed pattern rather than a definitive measure of demand.

KIOXIA America, Inc. has introduced its first E1.L form factor SSD built with KIOXIA BiCS FLASH™ generation 8 QLC flash memory. Designed for high-density 1U servers and read-intensive storage applications, the new KIOXIA LD4 Series targets hyperscale data center-class workloads and scale-out environments.

Zayo, the leading digital infrastructure network provider, today announced the appointment of Mariana Agathoklis Schlock as its first-ever Executive Vice President, Chief Communications & Marketing Officer (CCMO), reporting to Zayo Chief Executive Officer, Sowmyanarayan Sampath. She joins Zayo to elevate the company's brand and commercial visibility as the rapid expansion of the AI economy reshapes global infrastructure demands.

AscendRural, a program of Sourcewell, announces registration is now open for the AscendRural 2026 National Summit, taking place November 30-December 2 at the Omni Viking Lakes Hotel in Eagan, Minn. The three-day national gathering will bring together rural thought leaders, community problem-solvers, healthcare and technology innovators, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore what's working, what's next, and the partnerships needed to transform federal investments in rural America into lasting impact.

Coupa, the leading platform for agentic spend management, released its Q3 2026 Coupa Business Spend Index™ (BSI) Report, which builds on the original Index published in June 2026 and tracks five U.S. sectors: High Technology, Manufacturing, Business Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Financial Services. It reads the economy from inside procurement, built from purchase orders approved, contracts signed and renewals executed across a Coupa community network of more than 11.5 million buyers and suppliers, captured at the moment each commitment is made. That spend commitment is the earliest point business intent can be measured – and increasingly the same real-time signal Coupa’s AI agents already act on inside customers’ spend programs.

MeridianLink®, a leading provider of lending technology for community financial institutions, today announced that MeridianLink® Intelligence Doc Agent for Mortgage is now live with early access customers, bringing embedded AI-powered document intelligence into real-world mortgage lending workflows. Following its initial customer deployments, MeridianLink expects Doc Agent for Mortgage to reach General Availability in late Q4 2026. MeridianLink will expand MeridianLink Intelligence across the lending lifecycle, with Doc Agent for Consumer planned for early 2027.

Parlay, the AI-native Loan Intelligence System (LIS) and nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO), the platform for agentic AI banking, today announced a partnership to streamline intake for America's 1,400 Small Business Administration (SBA) lenders. Parlay now connects directly into nCino's Commercial and Small Business Solutions, replacing the manual paperwork that has slowed SBA lending for decades.

Swimlane, the leader in agentic AI automation for every security function, today announced it earned the strongest position among the startups and small and medium-sized technology companies evaluated in the MarketsandMarkets AI Security Operations Center Market Company Evaluation Matrix. The recognition comes as organizations look to expand security operations capacity with AI while maintaining visibility and control over how investigations are conducted and decisions are made.

Hitachi Digital Services, the global systems integrator powering mission-critical platforms, announced results of an independent Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting. Based on a composite organization representing interviewed customers, the study reveals that Hitachi Application Reliability Centers (HARC) generated a 29 percent return on investment with $7.6 million in total financial benefits over three years. When considering the required upfront investment, the study reports a net value of $1.7 million over the same time period with a 17-month payback period among other non-quantifiable benefits.

Stonebranch, a leading provider of service orchestration and automation solutions, today announced the Hybrid Orchestration Control Plane, a new solution powered by Stonebranch Universal Automation Center™ (UAC) version 8.1. It lets enterprises run traditional automation, AI tasks, autonomous agents, and human decisions as one end-to-end workflow, with consistent permissions, approvals, service levels, audit trails, and recovery controls.

Sweetgreen, Inc. (NYSE: SG), the mission-driven restaurant brand serving healthy food at scale, today announced the appointment of Lauren Crowley as Chief People Officer, effective October 26, 2026. Crowley will report directly to Co-Founder and CEO Jonathan Neman.

TD SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX) today announced the launch of FinOps Fusion, a new offering designed to help partners manage the cost of AI consumption. Part of TD SYNNEX’s Destination AI™ enablement framework, FinOps Fusion provides partners with greater visibility into their end customers’ AI token usage, enabling them to more easily identify inefficiencies, optimize spending and establish governance practices that support scalable, sustainable AI deployments.

11:11 Systems (“11:11”), a leading managed infrastructure solutions provider, today announced it has completed the acquisition of select IBM VMware Cloud Service Provider enterprise customers.

FUJIFILM Corporation today announced that its U.S.-based subsidiary for semiconductor materials, FUJIFILM Electronic Materials U.S.A., Inc. (Fujifilm), will participate in SEMICON West 2026, an international exhibition of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and materials, to be held in San Francisco, CA, from October 13-15, 2026, where it will highlight its broad portfolio of semiconductor materials (South Hall, booth #2049).

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i80 Group (“i80”), a global investment firm focused on asset-based finance (“ABF”), today announced the opening of its San Francisco office, expanding the firm’s U.S. presence to the West Coast.

As workforce needs are being redefined in historic ways, state and local leaders face rising pressure to turn public workforce investments into measurable economic results. Doing so requires sustained employer engagement at scale—a longstanding challenge for many public workforce systems.

Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces an investigation on behalf of Lennar Corporation (“Lennar” or the “Company”) (NYSE: LEN) investors concerning the Company’s possible violations of federal securities laws.

Definian, a leader in data and AI solutions and a Renovus Capital Partners portfolio company, today announced the appointment of Steve Lyerly as Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2026.

Starfighters Space, Inc. ("Starfighters" or the "Company") (NYSE American: FJET), the space company operating the world's only commercial fleet of flight-ready Mach 2+ supersonic aircraft, today announced the completion of its first flight hardware manufactured under a production agreement with Italian engineering company Robby Moto Engineering S.R.L. ("RME"), marking an important milestone in the Company's continued development of its previously announced reusable airborne testing platform, Wind Tunnel in the Sky™.

Alsym Energy, a developer of high-performance, non-flammable, low-cost sodium-ion battery cells, has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech 2026 in the Energy and Sustainability category. The award honors Alsym’s sodium-ion battery cells for advancing safe, scalable energy storage that is critical to global power grids and AI data center infrastructure.

FundingShield, a financial technology company helping mortgage and real estate finance participants manage risk, compliance and fraud, today announced the appointment of Adam Chaudhary as Chief Operating Officer, continuing to report to Chief Executive Officer Ike Suri.

Solink®, a leader in AI Vision Intelligence, today announced two executive promotions and a strategic new role, adding Chief Product Officer, Chief Corporate & Legal Officer, and Head of Communications & Government Relations roles for its fast-growing AI Vision Intelligence business. The company has elevated Chris Sisto to Chief Product Officer and Jamie Greenberg to Chief Corporate & Legal Officer. Kiel Hume has also joined the company as its first Head of Communications and Government Relations.

Community banks and credit unions are moving beyond AI experimentation and focusing on practical applications that deliver measurable business value, according to the 2026 AI Priorities Benchmark Report from MeridianLink®, a leading provider of lending technology for community financial institutions.

Xsolla, a global commerce company, is enabling eligible Citi Mastercard cardmembers to use Citi ThankYou® Points toward video game and in-game digital goods purchases through Xsolla Checkout.

Brightwood Capital Advisors, LLC ("Brightwood"), a private credit firm focused on middle-market companies, today announced it has priced Brightwood Capital MM CLO 2026-1 Ltd., a $253.55 million collateralized loan obligation (CLO). This transaction represents the tenth CLO issued by Brightwood since 2019.

Thermedical®, a developer of advanced thermal-ablation technologies, today announced the members of the independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB), clinical events committee (CEC) and arrhythmia core lab overseeing its pivotal clinical study of the Saline Enhanced Radiofrequency (SERF) Ablation System with the Durablate® Catheter. The study is evaluating SERF ablation in patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) that continues despite medications and prior ablation procedures.

Emapta, a global outsourcing and workforce solutions company specializing in offshore AI-ready dedicated staffing and intelligent workforce transformation solutions, has been recognized as one of HR Asia’s Best Companies to Work For in Asia for the fifth consecutive year.

Peppermint, an AI-powered platform that streamlines financial operations and accelerates growth for clinical research teams, today announced $4.7 million in seed funding led by Moxxie, with participation from Homebrew, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Layout Ventures, Digital Health Venture Partners, Night Capital, and angel investors Benjamin Mann and Evan Moore. The funding will further enable the founding team, who previously built payments and reconciliation infrastructure for Robinhood, to transform clinical research into a scalable engine for financial growth and scientific discovery.

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the Super Intelligence Control Tower for business reinvention, today announced that the City of Raleigh is the first municipal government to put ServiceNow’s IT Service Desk AI Specialist into production. Raleigh is adding new residents everyday, and that steady growth has created more requests, tickets, and pressure on a lean team. The city is keeping pace, while increasing productivity, with AI agents and specialists built on the ServiceNow AI Platform.

INTX Insurance Software today announced that it has been named to the 2026 InsurTech100, recognizing the world’s most innovative technology companies transforming the insurance industry.

Stable Asset Management (“Stable”), one of the largest and most-tenured GP stake builders focused on GP seed and acceleration investing, today announced a $100 million seed investment to support the launch of Alchemist Capital (“Alchemist”), a newly established New York-based biotechnology investment firm founded by Andy Tran.

Serenity Mental Health Centers, a behavioral health provider specializing in evidence-based treatment for depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD and other mental disorders, has opened its newest mental health clinic at 2221 Lakeside Blvd, Suite 1225, in Richardson. The new outpatient clinic is Serenity's newest location in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro, expanding access to advanced psychiatric care for residents across Richardson, Plano and is in the heart of the Telecom Corridor.

8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), a leading global business communications platform provider, has announced two leadership appointments designed to strengthen execution of the company’s strategy and sharpen its focus on growth opportunities. Jamie Snaddon has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Samuel Wilson, and Nerea Gandarias has been named Managing Director, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa), succeeding Snaddon.

SRS Acquiom, (or “The Company”) which provides a comprehensive platform to help manage merger and acquisition transactions and bilateral and syndicated loan facilities, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Pantarai, a leading provider of specialized loan solutions supporting broadly syndicated loans and private credit markets globally.

Velotic today announced that Houman Behzadi has joined its Board of Directors. With more than two decades of enterprise software leadership, Behzadi brings deep experience taking AI from technology into enterprise deployment. That experience will support Velotic as it builds on its proven industrial software foundation and advances its vision for Industrial Intelligence.

United Bankshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: UBSI) today announced its expansion into Florida with plans to establish a new office in Palm Beach, marking the Company’s entry into one of the nation’s premier banking and wealth markets and advancing its long-term growth strategy across the Southeast.

Factory, the global leader in self-improving software development, announced today that Connor Maloney joined as Head of Federal to lead the company’s expansion into the public sector.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, today announced that Kate Schuelke, a veteran technology executive and public company director, has joined the firm as an Executive Advisor in its Executive Advisory Program (EAP). Based in the firm’s Palo Alto office, Schuelke will advise general counsel, senior executives, and boards on complex legal, governance, and strategic business matters as companies grow, transform, and navigate periods of significant change.

Cleerly, a leader in advanced cardiovascular imaging analysis, and Clear Heart and Lung Imaging, a leader in outpatient imaging care, have taken a cardiac-capable mobile CT scanner across the southern United States to expand access to cardiovascular research and enable communities and clinics to participate in Cleerly's TRANSFORM Trial. From July through September 2026, the CT scanner traveled through Arizona, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida, bringing cardiovascular imaging and clinical trial access to communities with limited access to cardiac imaging.

RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RICK) reported club and sports bar sales for the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and year ended September 30, 2026. Sales do not include non-core operations and are subject to final closing. All comparisons are year over year except where noted.

Outro, the first neuroscience-based platform helping Americans safely discontinue psychiatric medications, today announced $7 million funding across pre-seed and seed rounds, with participation from Listen Ventures, Cake Ventures, Jason Calicanis’s LAUNCH, Actions Capital, Hannah Grey VC, SemperVirens, Brock Recovery Group, Pave Health Ventures, and more.

The Sentinel Real Estate Fund (SREF) has earned a 5-Star GRESB Rating and ranked #1 among 139 residential real estate entities across the Americas, as well as #1 among 42 funds in our US core multifamily peer group, in the 2026 GRESB Real Estate Benchmark. SREF achieved an overall score of 91.6 out of 100, an improvement of 2.3 points from the previous year. The GRESB Benchmark provides insight into relative performance across areas such as management practices and property-level sustainability performance, including energy, greenhouse gas emissions, water, waste and other sustainability indicators.

Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces an investigation on behalf of Fervo Energy Company (“Fervo” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: FRVO) investors concerning the Company’s possible violations of federal securities laws.

Western Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: WDC) plans to announce its first quarter fiscal year 2027 financial results after the market closes on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The company will host a conference call with the investment community to discuss these results on October 22, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. Pacific / 4:30 p.m. Eastern. A live audio webcast and a webcast replay of the conference call will be available at investor.wdc.com.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in oral healthcare, today announced the formation of the Philips Sonicare Global Clinical Advisory Board, a group of external oral healthcare experts established to help shape the future of Philips Oral Healthcare through science, clinical insight and meaningful innovation.

As crypto-enabled financial crime grows in scale and sophistication, ACAMS, the global leader in certification and intelligence for anti-financial crime (AFC) professionals, has launched an enhanced Certified Cryptoasset AFC Specialist (CCAS) program to help practitioners manage these risks. The CCAS program is the first major ACAMS certification to feature content from a global partner, blockchain data and analytics platform Chainalysis, and arms participants with the skills to investigate, monitor and manage complex crypto-related financial crime risk using real-world blockchain expertise.

Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces an investigation on behalf of Webull Corporation (“Webull” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: BULL) investors concerning the Company’s possible violations of federal securities laws.

AI has become the first channel between brands and consumers that can both inform people and act for them, and Americans are letting it despite their doubts. Only 17.6% of Americans say AI agents are a good idea, yet 40.1% would let one handle at least one everyday task for them, according to The State of AI Adoption in America, a new report from Channel V Media, a PR and communications agency that builds market momentum for established enterprises and venture‑backed innovators.