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Sai Life Sciences Limited (BSE: 544306 | NSE: SAILIFE), one of India’s leading integrated contract research, development, and manufacturing organizations (CRDMOs) has secured the EcoVadis Platinum Rating 2026, placing it among the top 1% of companies assessed worldwide for sustainability performance. With an overall score of 87/100 and a 99th percentile ranking, Sai Life Sciences has achieved Platinum Medal in ‘Manufacture of Basic Pharmaceutical Products and Pharmaceutical Preparations’ category.

Olio announces a new partnership with WeCare Centers, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation operator with nine facilities primarily across Western Pennsylvania. Known for its commitment to compassionate, high-quality care, WeCare is adding Olio to bring the same rigor to what happens after a patient leaves the building. The partnership gives WeCare the infrastructure to formalize its outbound referral workflows, gain post-discharge visibility into home health and hospice partner performance, and demonstrate to payer and hospital partners a consistent, outcomes-driven approach across the full continuum.

Plaud, the company building real-world AI interface for professionals, today announced it has scaled from $1M to $100M in ARR within two years, placing it among the fastest AI companies globally to reach the milestone. Plaud is the only hardware-enabled AI company in a cohort otherwise dominated by software-only players, and now serves more than 2 million professionals across 170+ countries.

As creators and brands gear up for Amazon Prime Day 2026 [June 23rd - 26th], new findings from URLgenius, the App-Open Standard for creators and marketers using patented deep linking technology, reveal that the creator economy is splitting into two distinct social commerce ecosystems and rapidly professionalizing around paid amplification and AI-powered workflow support on a compressed timeline, with 92% planning Prime Day content within four weeks of the event.

Divcon LLC, a leading independent provider of mission-critical Building Management System (BMS) and Electrical Power Monitoring System (EPMS) solutions, today announced the expansion of its leadership team to support continued growth, operational excellence, and product innovation across the rapidly growing data center market.

LongRange Capital (“LongRange”), a private equity firm with a customer-centric and operationally-oriented approach to building and growing businesses, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pizza Hut, excluding Mainland China, from Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) (“Yum!”).

Mantis Innovation, a national leader in facility performance and energy efficiency consulting, today announced its acquisition of E4E Solutions, expanding its ability to design and deliver complex mechanical and energy efficiency projects from concept through implementation.

Ripple Fiber®, a leading 100% fiber-optic internet provider and network operator, today announced the hiring of Chris Peeples as its new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), effective June 15, 2026. In this role, he will leverage his experience in omnichannel execution, data-driven campaign development, and strategic leadership to lead the company's go-to-market strategy, drive revenue growth, strengthen sales and marketing alignment, and accelerate customer acquisition across all channels and markets.

Gozio Health, an industry-leading location-aware mobile health platform, announced that UK HealthCare is now live with a completely new wayfinding experience embedded in MyChart. The integration, powered by Gozio’s blue-dot wayfinding technology, improves patient experience and satisfaction while reducing late arrivals and staff interruptions.

Forescout Technologies, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced it has joined the Operational Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center (OT-ISAC), a global community focused on securing operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) through intelligence sharing and collective defense. OT-ISAC connects operators, governments, and partners to translate raw threat signals into actionable decisions that protect critical operations. Forescout has been collaborating with OT-ISAC for several years, and as an official member, will continue to contribute threat intelligence from Forescout Research – Vedere Labs and collaborate with industry leaders.

bioAffinity Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIAF; BIAFW), a biotechnology company advancing cancer diagnostics including CyPath® Lung, the Company’s commercially available test for early-stage lung cancer, announced a webinar on July 21, 2026, featuring clinical experts discussing emerging approaches to lung health screening and early detection for veterans at increased risk for lung cancer and other respiratory diseases.

Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment insights, today released “The State of Semiliquid Funds 2026,” highlighting a rapidly evolving market approaching $600 billion in assets that is entering a new phase as investor demand shifts and key risks become more apparent.

SEEQC, Inc. (“SEEQC” or the “Company”), a developer and manufacturer of scalable, energy efficient digital chips for quantum computing systems, today announced its participation in a four-year Microelectronics Commons Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub (NORDTECH) program. As one of eight U.S. Microelectronics Commons hubs, NORDTECH collaborates with regional partners across New York State and the United States to enable innovative R&D projects and advance critical lab-to-fab innovations in direct support of Department of War objectives, while also supporting workforce development goals.

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As an advocate of positive, joyful living, Comfort Keepers®, a market-leading provider of uplifting home care for seniors and adults who need assistance, is celebrating its eighth annual National Day of Joy by unveiling new insights from a national survey, revealing that while family caregiving is often associated with stress and sacrifice, it is also a profound source of joy, purpose, and connection.

Agiliti, a leading manufacturer and provider of medical device solutions to the U.S. healthcare industry, today announced its exclusive agreement with VitalGo Systems Ltd., to become the exclusive U.S. provider of the Total Lift Bed® (TLB). This agreement builds on Agiliti’s portfolio of solutions for the ICU where the company is supporting hospitals in the early mobilization of critically ill patients to reduce length of stay and improve care outcomes.

DataVisor, the leading AI-powered fraud and AML platform, today announced that Tru Cooperative Bank (formerly First West Credit Union) has selected DataVisor’s AI-powered fraud and risk platform to protect members in real time across the banking journey. Delivered through DataVisor’s pre-integrated deployment with VeriPark’s VeriChannel digital banking platform, the solution brings seamless, out-of-the-box fraud protection to Tru’s digital banking environment and builds on DataVisor’s strategic partnership with VeriPark.

Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), a pioneer in digital identity and authentication solutions, today announced that it is extending its agent-native provenance and verification infrastructure capabilities to the leading platforms used to build and deploy autonomous systems, including LangChain, ServiceNow Action Fabric, Salesforce Agentforce, Google Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. These extensions of the Digimarc platform seamlessly allow any AI agent created in these agentic ecosystems to cryptographically stamp outputs at the moment of creation, establish authenticity of ingested content before taking action via submission to Digimarc’s multi-layered verification engine, and retrieve a complete lineage chain from the Digimarc Lineage Vault for audit, incident response, and compliance reporting.

Claros today announced that it is collaborating with Samsung Foundry on process technology and semiconductor manufacturing to launch high-volume production of Claros’s integrated voltage regulator (IVR). The company’s IVRs are designed to deliver power directly to processing units in data centers, representing a novel approach to managing energy at the chip level inside AI infrastructure.

VIVA Finance, a leading credit platform for the American workforce, today announced a strategic distribution partnership with BenefitHub, the world’s leading lifestyle benefits portal and discount marketplace. This collaboration names VIVA Finance as the preferred personal loan partner on BenefitHub’s Benefits+ voluntary benefits platform, embedding responsible credit solutions directly into the benefits packages of millions of workers.

Revenue Analytics, a leader in AI-powered revenue and margin optimization, today announced the general availability of Commercial Margin Intelligence (CMI), the first Commercial Margin Operating System purpose-built for industrial companies. CMI is a continuously running, agentic AI platform built to help manufacturers, distributors, and industrial companies — including those backed by private equity — identify where margin is leaking across price, customer, product, cost, and sales behavior, explain why, and drive the specific commercial actions required to recover it. CMI establishes an always-on commercial management layer above ERP and CRM systems, built for the complexity of industrial businesses.

Takara Bio USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc. ("Takara Bio"), today announced that the company’s Trekker Single-Cell Spatial Mapping Kit, a platform-agnostic, instrument-free spatial biology solution, will be showcased at the Human Cell Atlas 2026 General Meeting, June 16–18, in Boston. Trekker technology is agnostic to single-cell next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation technology, allowing it to be plugged into any single-cell workflow, thus democratizing spatial biology.

Skylark Bio (“Skylark”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing targeted genetic medicines for hearing loss, and Forge Biologics (“Forge”), a leading manufacturer of gene therapies and member of Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, today announced a strategic AAV development and cGMP manufacturing partnership.

Rehlko, a global energy resilience leader delivering innovative solutions across industrial energy systems, powertrain technologies, and home energy applications, today announced that its UK business, formerly WB Power Services, has been fully brought onto the Rehlko platform, strengthening the company’s UK and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operating model and expanding its ability to deliver end-to-end lifecycle solutions for mission-critical power applications.

The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and Omdia today released Volume VIII of the Life and Times of Cybersecurity Professionals, the longest-running annual study of the cybersecurity workforce. As attackers leverage AI to scale attacks and organizations invest in AI-powered security tools, the professionals using them are burning out, being left out of decisions, and thinking about leaving the field.

CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE American: CVM) today highlighted its dual-track strategy to bring Multikine® (Leukocyte Interleukin, Injection)* to patients with newly diagnosed locally advanced head and neck cancer through parallel regulatory initiatives in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

Black Hat, the cybersecurity industry’s most established and in-depth security event series, today announced the release of its Summits schedule for Black Hat USA 2026. This year's Summits will take place on August 4, 2026, and include the Healthcare Summit, CISO Summit, The AI Summit, Financial Threat Summit, Innovators & Investors Summit, and Omdia Analyst Summit. The Summits will bring together C-suite executives, security innovators, and industry analysts for intensive, focused programming during Black Hat USA (August 1–6).

Parallel Works, a provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for hybrid multi-cloud computing, today announced that the Department of Defense (DOD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has awarded the company a contract to provide DoD scientists, engineers, and acquisition engineering professionals with a single, unified interface for accessing on-premises and cloud computational resources to address complex technical challenges.

Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF), the global leader in AI and augmented reality (AR) beauty technology, today announced the expansion of its YouCam API platform to feature the industry’s most comprehensive AI Hair & Beard API portfolio. With 11 dedicated hair and beard APIs now available, Perfect Corp. is the only provider on the market to offer a complete suite spanning both virtual try-on and AI-powered hair diagnostics in a single, developer-ready integration.

EcoOnline, a leading provider of safety and sustainability software, today announced a global strategic alliance with J.S. Held, a consulting firm specializing in risk advisory and mitigation. The partnership helps organizations strengthen operational visibility and readiness in the face of broadening workplace risk by pairing EHS (environmental, health, and safety), crisis management, and lone worker software with J.S. Held’s field advisory expertise.

Today, Spinwheel published new data from its analysis of $2.9B in consumer debt across more than 20,000 borrowers from Nov 2025 to May 2026. The research shows how different debt types coexist, compound, and interact within individual financial lives.

Hadron Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: HDRN) (“Hadron” or the “Company”), an advanced nuclear technology company, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published the Company’s first patent application, “Micro Integral Nuclear Reactor” (Publication No. US 2026/0128185 A1), on May 7, 2026. The application is the foundational technical disclosure behind Hadron’s flagship Halo Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR) and the first entry in the Company’s growing intellectual property portfolio. Filed October 31, 2025 and claiming priority to a November 1, 2024 provisional application, it names Founder and Chief Executive Officer Samuel Gibson and Chief Nuclear Officer Ross Ridenoure among its inventors, alongside Christopher R. Neal and Andrew M. Ward.

Varist today introduced its DICOM Detection Engine™, a specialized system designed to safeguard healthcare communications networks, electronic health records (EHR) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) used in medical imaging from malware, including AI-powered malware that employs artificial intelligence to automate, scale and customize cyberattacks. The Varist malware detection engine combines large-scale file scanning with real-time simulation of suspicious files to quickly detect and analyze emerging threats within milliseconds.

Nile, a pioneer and leader in secure and autonomous networking-as-a-service (NaaS), today announced that Glean -- the Enterprise AI platform helping organizations find, create and automate knowledge across the enterprise -- is using Nile’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform to support its rapid growth, AI-driven operations and commitment to delivering exceptional employee experiences.

The Real Brokerage Inc. (NASDAQ: REAX, “Real”), a leading real estate technology platform redefining the industry through innovation and culture, today released results from its May 2026 Agent Survey, revealing a spring housing market that has fallen short of expectations for many agents, prompting both buyers and sellers to adjust their strategies.

LaunchPad Home Group (“LaunchPad”), a leading platform of residential inspection and home services companies, today announced two significant leadership appointments that further strengthen the company's executive team and position the organization for its next phase of growth.

Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) today announced that its connected intelligence is now available in Amazon Quick – a personalized, proactive AI assistant – through a dedicated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The integration gives customers operating in Amazon Web Services (AWS) direct access to ratings and research from Moody’s Ratings, as well as Moody’s curated data on more than 600 million public and private entities, including firmographics, ownership, financials, macroeconomic forecasts, economic data, and news sentiment.

Cornelis, a provider of high-performance networking solutions, today announced the successful deployment of the “Lynx” supercomputing cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

Trivest Partners (“Trivest”), a private investment firm focused exclusively on partnering with founder- and family-owned businesses, today announced the formation of AquaVerse, a platform created to support, grow, and unify a family of pool service brands across multiple markets.

JLens, a Registered Investment Advisor that empowers investors to align their capital with Jewish values, today urged shareholders of Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) (“Cloudflare” or “the Company”) to vote WITHHOLD on the election of two members of the Board of Directors at the Company’s annual meeting, which is scheduled for June 30, 2026.

ONE Nuclear Energy LLC ("ONE Nuclear"), an independent developer of large-scale energy solutions powered by natural gas and advanced nuclear technologies, today announced it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Sunshine Partners US LLC (“Sunshine Partners”) to evaluate the joint development of power generation projects across a portfolio of five sites representing approximately 18,275 acres located in West Texas.

Uplift Investors (“Uplift”), a middle-market private equity firm with a business model-centric focus on services investing, today announced that John Foy & Associates will become a co-founding partner of Orion Legal MSO (“Orion”), Uplift’s managed service organization (“MSO”) serving plaintiff law firms. The partnership supports the continued expansion of Orion’s national platform, building on its founding partnership with Dudley DeBosier Injury Lawyers, and most recently, Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers.

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) today announced that Jason VanWees, Vice Chairman, will present at the TD Cowen 3rd Annual U.S. Corporate Access Day Conference at the TD Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Wednesday, June 17.

The American Battery Leadership Coalition (ABLC), led by Alsym Energy and Peak Energy alongside Batri, ESS Tech, Inc., Ingevity, Mana, NAION, Re:Build and Microporous, and other leaders across the sodium-ion battery ecosystem, today announced the launch of a new industry coalition dedicated to establishing sodium-ion batteries as an essential battery technology for U.S. energy storage, manufacturing competitiveness, and national security strategy.

CRH (NYSE: CRH), the leading provider of building materials, today announced the election of Mr. Tony Will, 60, to the CRH Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2026.

Intrepid Fiber Networks, the nation's leading wholesale open-access fiber infrastructure platform, today announced a significant expansion of its California network with a substantial investment to build fiber-to-the-premises infrastructure across the cities of Corona and Riverside in Riverside County. The deployment will bring symmetrical multi-gigabit broadband to over 50,000 homes and businesses, delivering the open-access fiber connectivity that Southern California communities deserve.

Radian Arc, a Submer Group company, today announced a strategic partnership with PureColo and Carrier Connect Data Solutions (“Carrier”) to deploy next-generation GPU edge infrastructure across North America, supporting both consumer cloud gaming services and enterprise AI workloads.

Scienaptic AI, the world's leading AI-powered credit decision platform provider, today announced its partnership with Socure, the leading global AI-native trust infrastructure for identity and risk intelligence. This collaboration brings together identity intelligence and credit decisioning, to reduce friction for good customers and prevent fraud at the point of origination.

Catalent, Inc., the leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) dedicated to helping people live better and healthier lives, today announced the launch of Qai, an enterprise AI tool designed to elevate the best quality management systems and processes across Catalent’s network.

Helion, a Washington-based fusion energy company, today became the first company in the world to secure the regulatory licenses needed for a fusion power plant, following receipt of two licenses from the Washington Department of Health (DOH). The licenses – Radioactive Materials License (RML) and Radioactive Air Emissions License (RAEL) – mark a major milestone for the company, confirming Helion has the facilities, trained personnel, and safety programs in place at its Orion facility in Malaga, WA, to meet the rigorous safety standards required for fusion operations.

Mode.Inc, a consumer technology platform that acquires and scales mobile apps and returns value to the people using them, today announced the acquisition of Trimbox, an email inbox management app, and QR Code Reader, a leading utility app. Together, the deals add low eight figures in annual revenue and create opportunities to scale EarnOS, Mode’s proprietary monetization engine, across a growing portfolio that now reaches more than 100 million monthly active users.

Roblox Corporation (NYSE: RBLX) today announced the global rollout of Roblox Kids and Roblox Select accounts, new age-based experiences for users under 16, with protections designed to evolve as children grow.

Ent, intent-aware Workspace Security company, today emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed financing. The company is pioneering a new approach to cybersecurity built around the simple belief that AI compresses the time between compromise and impact; prevention must once again become the primary objective of security. Ent’s platform helps organizations understand and intervene in risky actions by humans and AI agents before they become incidents.

HappyCo, a leading provider of maintenance operations software, today announced the launch of Sourcing by HappyCo, an AI procurement platform purpose built to help multifamily property management companies (PMC) identify vendor contracts and run competitive bids to lower their costs. The new product extends HappyCo’s proprietary JoyAI platform into the vendor sourcing process, providing multifamily teams with much-needed assistance to improve efficiency and drive NOI.

Kantata, a leading provider of Professional Services Automation (PSA) solutions, today introduced Expertise Agent, the professional services industry’s first AI superagent, alongside new agentic capabilities in the Kantata Expertise Engine™ - including embedded generative business intelligence, self-executing workflows, and a proprietary PSA knowledge graph - designed to make autonomous resource planning and project management a reality.

Surescripts®, the nation’s leading health intelligence network, released a new report with the results of a national survey of 1,007 U.S. adults conducted by The Harris Poll, revealing that more than half (56%) of patients experience challenges when accessing prescriptions, citing cost, delays and prior authorizations as significant barriers.

Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics, a subsidiary of Innoviva, Inc. (Nasdaq: INVA), today announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution and licensing agreement with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., a global pharmaceutical company, for the development and commercialization of XACDURO® (sulbactam for injection; durlobactam for injection), co-packaged for intravenous use, in South and Central America, the Caribbean, Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. In the United States, XACDURO® is approved and indicated for the treatment of hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (HABP/VABP) caused by susceptible isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex (Acinetobacter).

KnowBe4, the global leader in digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans, today announced the appointment of Alex Callihan as chief technology officer. Callihan has been with the organization for more than nine years as senior vice president of engineering and in his new role will lead innovation of new products, driving the next generation of KnowBe4’s agentic research and development.

Rejoni, Inc., a privately held clinical-stage company based in Bedford, MA, dedicated to elevating uterine health through innovative biomaterial therapies, today announced the closing of a $25 million financing, with new and existing investors including Clavyst Bio, Amed Ventures, Ascension Ventures, Catalyst Health Ventures, Delos Capital, FemHealth Ventures, Iyengar Capital, and Sparta Group.

PiLogic, the company building explainable artificial intelligence for complex space systems, has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to apply its AI technology to diagnosing and predicting electrical and power failures on spacecraft platforms.

Easterly Clear Ocean (“ECO” or “the Company”), a maritime investment platform and Strategic Partner of Easterly Asset Management, today announced the successful exit of all vessels in its inaugural investment fund, ECO Tranche I. All remaining vessels were sold in Q2 2026 and will be delivered to buyers by Q3 2026. ECO I is expected to achieve an estimated 63% net Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and an estimated 4.25x net multiple at close, subject to final audit and verification. Since its inception on August 4, 2021, the fund has already delivered a 297% Distributed to Paid-In Capital (DPI) to investors, representing the highest DPI among 2021 vintage buyout funds based on Preqin data. i

PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: PFSI) (Pennymac), one of America's leading U.S. mortgage lenders and servicers, is expanding its strategic agreement with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), to accelerate its transformation into an AI-driven mortgage technology leader. Building on years of successful collaboration, Pennymac is now leveraging AWS’ generative AI capabilities to upgrade the mortgage application and servicing processes. As part of this digital transformation, the company has developed conversational AI-powered virtual assistant capabilities, powered by Amazon Nova Sonic, to elevate the borrower experience. Additionally, the expanded agreement accelerates the cloud modernization of Plaisse, Pennymac’s mortgage servicing platform, across its operations.

U.S. Bank announced today that Daniel Farley, CFA, is its new chief investment officer (CIO) for the Wealth Management Asset Management Group.

Altruist, the tech-forward wealth platform for independent advisors, today announced that Holistic Planning, a Texas-based advisory firm with $1.25 billion in assets under management, has selected Altruist as their preferred custodial partner. The firm has committed to moving approximately $450 million in assets to Altruist.

SOLVE, the leading provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income securities markets, today launched cohort-based Relative Value Analysis, allowing institutional fixed income traders and portfolio managers to evaluate bonds against dynamically defined peer groups and market segments. The rollout broadens the existing platform’s analytical framework, moving beyond isolated bond-to-bond comparisons into a configurable decision-support tool grounded in live market data.

Protillion Biosciences, Inc., a leader in lab-in-the-loop AI drug design, today announced the signing of a multi-target discovery collaboration and license agreement with Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada. The agreement combines Protillion’s proprietary platform with Merck’s global expertise in the discovery of novel therapeutic candidates.

BARK (NYSE: BARK), the world's most dog-centric company devoted to making all dogs happy, today announced a new collaboration with food icon and, more importantly, devoted dog lover Guy Fieri. The BARK x Guy Fieri collection brings Guy's legendary flavor-forward energy and love of a good time directly to dogs, in the form of a limited-edition line of toys, treats, and a wearable so your pup can roll out to playtime looking like the Mayor himself.

Arima Genomics, Inc., a cancer diagnostics company bringing DNA sequence and structure together to advance cancer therapy selection, today announced that the Company’s Aventa™ Lymphoma test has been selected by Fast Company as an honoree for its 2026 World Changing Ideas Awards. Now in its ninth year, the World Changing Ideas Awards celebrate organizations and projects that are delivering measurable impact across industries—from climate solutions and AI advancements to health, social justice, and beyond.

Sagewind Capital (“Sagewind”), a defense and government technology-focused private equity firm, today announced the appointment of Dalia Khanafseh as Principal, Portfolio Operations. In this newly created role, Khanafseh will work directly alongside the leadership teams of Sagewind’s portfolio companies to support their growth and long-term success.

Tricentis, a global leader in agentic quality engineering, today announced a major expansion of its software licensing program (SLP) contract with the State of California. State and local government users in California are now able to secure Tricentis’ complete agentic quality engineering platform, including its recently introduced Tricentis AI Workspace that serves as a single, unified control plane for organizations to design, deploy, govern, and scale AI agents that perform quality engineering work. The company has been an approved vendor of the California Department of General Services (DGS: www.dgs.ca.gov) since 2020, allowing state and local public sector entities to procure Tricentis products and services via a simplified process involving pre-negotiated terms and conditions.

Assurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ), a global company that redefines the boundaries of protection – safeguarding and servicing connected devices, homes, automobiles, and commercial equipment in partnership with the world’s most successful brands, today released its Q1 2026 Mobile Trade-In and Upgrade Industry Trends Report. Insights from the report show that consumers received $1.63 billion in value through mobile trade-in programs in the first quarter of 2026, up 31% from the same period in 2025.

The secondary loan market processes trillions of dollars in annual volume, yet most institutions still manage trade workflows through manual processes and systems designed for other asset classes, creating settlement risk, audit exposure, and compounding operational drag. To address this, global financial technology leader FIS® has today announced the launch of FIS Trade & Distribution Manager, a purpose-built secondary loan trading platform that automates the full trade lifecycle. The solution forms part of the FIS Commercial Lending Suite™, and connects every stage of the commercial loan lifecycle in a single ecosystem.

Toshiba America Business Solutions is outfitting businesses large and small with stout and sturdy multifunctional printers (MFPs) featuring next-gen security and cloud functionality to tackle today's document workflow applications.

Today, sleep technology company Kimba announced its launch and $6.5 million funding round led by Selva Ventures, introducing a clinically validated, AI-powered approach to improving sleep through adaptive scent therapy. Developed alongside leading sleep and neuroscience researchers, Kimba sits at the intersection of consumer health and sleep science and is designed to actively improve sleep rather than simply track it. By using the olfactory pathway, the only sensory channel capable of influencing the brain during sleep without causing wakefulness, Kimba delivers personalized scent interventions designed to support deeper, more restorative rest without drugs or disruption.

NCR Atleos Corporation (NYSE: NATL) (“Atleos”), a leader in expanding self-service financial access for financial institutions, retailers and consumers, today announced that Global Credit Union (“Global”) is deploying Atleos ATMs at its newly established branch in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the northernmost city in the United States. The deployment supports Global’s presence in the North Slope region of the state and reflects the use of Atleos self‑service banking technology in some of the world’s most remote environments.