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Darwinbox, a leading global provider of HR, payroll and talent management solutions, today announced that Darwinbox Cortex™, its AI-native human capital management (HCM) platform, is now available on the Slack Marketplace. Via Slack, Darwinbox customers can now retrieve workforce data, raise requests, complete approvals and get answers without leaving the thread. This increases the usage and adoption of agents and processes designed to optimize workforce efficiency.

Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, reminds investors of the October 20, 2026 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has been filed against Fractyl Health, Inc. (“Fractyl” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: GUTS).

Ironwood Warranty Group, a leading provider of comprehensive warranty and service contract solutions, today announced the appointment of Wayne Davis as Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, Davis will lead Ironwood’s commercial strategy across sales, business development, marketing, brand and strategic partnerships.

Up Capital Management ("Up"), a fee-only fiduciary Registered Investment Advisor (RIA), today announced a strategic partnership with Modelist, an institutional investment research and custom model portfolio firm.

Concurrent Investment Advisors, LLC (“Concurrent”), an integrated registered investment adviser platform, announced its partnership with Proxima Wealth Partners LLC (“Proxima”), an independent advisory firm founded by former Raymond James executives Chris Davitt and Anupam Singh.

Northern Trust Asset Management, a leading global investment management firm with US$1.6 trillion in assets under management as of June 30, 2026, announced the addition of eight new maturity options to its lineup of Distributing Ladder ETFs.

KBRA releases a report examining the credit implications of the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure across the AI-7 companies—modern AI infrastructure leaders including Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Oracle.

New research from Barna Group, in partnership with Gloo, released today finds that while pastors and Christians alike express concern about AI getting Scripture wrong, there may be value in leveraging AI to better understand it. Part of the 2026 State of the Church series on Faith & AI, the findings may give Christians the guidance on AI they’ve been looking for. Other Barna research from July 2026 found that one in three practicing Christians want their pastor’s guidance on AI.

AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in defense technology, autonomous systems and precision strike solutions, today announced receipt of a $51 million delivery order from the United States Army for additional Switchblade® 600 Block 2 loitering munition systems. The order also includes Switchblade 600 Block 1 systems in support of a Foreign Military Sale to a key United States ally.

Integrated Partners (“Integrated”), a national financial planning and registered investment advisory (RIA) firm, today announced it has surpassed $30 billion in assets under advisement (AUA) as the firm celebrates its 30th year in operation.

Paradromics Inc., a leader in neurotechnology and developer of the world’s highest-data-rate brain-computer interface platform, today announced that it has received an approval letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanding the types of computing devices that may be used with its investigational BCI system. The approval creates a pathway for Paradromics to support compatible personal, internet-connected devices through Convey™, its user-facing system for translating decoded neural intent into communication and computer control.

America's frontline workers take pride in their work, but they don't feel seen doing it. Seventy-seven percent are proud to tell people what they do, 68% say their manager regularly or sometimes asks for their input, and 63% feel respected by the customers they serve.

Growth in data center development is fueling an increasing share of U.S. industrial demand, according to a new report from CoStar, the leading global provider of online real estate marketplaces, information and analytics in the property markets.

QueryStory today emerged from stealth, launching a new agentic data platform designed to close the gap between company data and decisions. The company's founders, veterans of Google, Chronicle, EvolutionIQ, and Accenture, have spent more than two decades building large-scale data systems. QueryStory is backed by Brightmind Partners, with participation from New York Life Ventures.

Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global leader in managed network and payment solutions, has revealed a significant investment to its extensive acceptance and payment orchestration platform designed to help businesses increase payment acceptance, lower transaction costs and reduce the complexity of managing payments across multiple channels and markets.

As states move from planning to deployment of $50 billion in federal Rural Health Transformation Program funding, a new model for rural healthcare delivery is gaining traction, with health systems and community partners across several states turning to the OnMed CareStation™ as a scalable way to close critical healthcare access gaps.

impact.com, the global infrastructure for partnership-driven commerce, today reported second-quarter results marked by Minecraft's launch of its first affiliate program, a slate of AI-powered platform innovations unveiled at its annual iPX event, and continued global customer growth. During the second quarter, impact.com welcomed more than 700 new customers, growing its global customer community to more than 6,500 brands that rely on impact.com to power partnership-driven commerce.

Conti Federal Services, LLC, a leading federal construction and design-build firm, has been awarded a $15.96 million firm-fixed-price contract by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific (NAVFAC Pacific) to construct the P-859, Consolidated Headquarters Phase II, at Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, Guam.

Magnolia Advanced Materials, Inc., a custom formulator of high-performance epoxy systems for aerospace, defense and industrial applications, today announced that its recently formed Research and Development (R&D) team has refined a complete product suite of advanced materials needed for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) manufacturing. The materials are designed to allow extended battery-powered range and aid faster production times. They are qualified for immediate use by eVTOL manufacturers.

OIF will bring together 39 of its member companies at the ECOC 2026 Exhibition, September 21–23 in Malaga, Spain, to showcase the interoperable building blocks required to scale AI-era networks.

TD SYNNEX (NYSE:SNX) continues its expansion of PartnerFirst, its digital customer experience, with new data-driven commerce capabilities available in North America that give partners greater visibility, automation and insight across the customer lifecycle.

Lyceus Group, a high-touch boutique public relations firm specializing in financial services, is proud to announce that it has been named a finalist for Public Relations Campaign at the 2026 ThinkAdvisor Luminaries Awards. The recognition highlights Lyceus’ long-term communications campaign supporting F/m Investments’ introduction of the industry’s first operational dual share class ETF structure. Three additional finalist honors were awarded to Lyceus clients F/m Investments and The Mather Group (TMG), recognizing their work across product innovation and executive leadership.

SeatGeek, the technology company that has put data at the center of the live event experience from day one, today announced the launch of Ask SeatGeek, a conversational AI search experience built directly into the SeatGeek marketplace. Fans can now turn search into a conversation, describing what they're looking for the way they'd describe it to a friend, such as "cheapest club seats for weekday Mets games" or "popular outdoor concerts this week under $100” and get a complete, tailored answer.

Furthering its position as the nation’s only fully integrated real estate ecosystem, HomeServices of America today announced that Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC, its wholly owned mortgage company, is adding mortgage servicing to the HomeServices portfolio of services, extending the company’s relationship with consumers from the beginning of their home search through the life of their mortgage.

Ascendant Network today announced an all-star speaker lineup for SHOWCASE, the world’s first retail + commerce media upfront. Taking place on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at The Times Center in New York City, the invite-only gathering will convene decision-makers across major holding company agencies, brand marketers, and retail and commerce media networks representing over $1 trillion in annual retail sales.

Kestra Private Wealth Services (Kestra PWS), a registered investment adviser subsidiary of Kestra Financial, Inc. that specializes in supporting breakaway advisors, today announced that veteran advisor Rocco Russo has joined its community of independent financial professionals, in partnership with Alexandria, Virginia-based HF3 Wealth Partners ("HF3"). A rapidly growing firm, HF3 joined Kestra PWS in 2022 and is led by Founder and Managing Partner David Tovey.

Five9 (NASDAQ: FIVN), provider of the Intelligent CX Platform, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Agentic Contact Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS) Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment (#US54117326, August 2026).

Principal Financial Group® (Nasdaq: PFG) today announced an expansion of the Principal® Featured Partner Program to support private market strategies within retirement plans, helping plan sponsors and financial professionals pursue broader diversification and long-term retirement outcomes for participants.

Guardrail Technologies, the leading provider of AI security and governance software for enterprises building with AI, today released The AI Cyber-Disclosure Gap Report, the first study to measure how S&P 500 companies describe their use of artificial intelligence against how they document managing its cybersecurity risk. The first of its kind, the report is what Guardrail intends to make an ongoing benchmark, revisited on a recurring basis as filings update and disclosure practice evolves.

i2c Inc., a global financial technology innovator, today announced it has been named Best Fraud Prevention and Detection AI Provider at the MEA Finance Banking Technology Awards 2026.

Galux, a South Korean biotechnology company pioneering AI-powered protein therapeutics design, has been named to ‘Forbes Asia 100 to Watch 2026’, an annual list recognizing promising companies across the Asia-Pacific region.

SentinelOne® (NYSE: S), the AI security leader, and Tenable® Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TENB), the exposure management company, today released joint research that suggests a growing disconnect between vulnerability discovery, disclosure and actual exploitation. The research draws on Tenable's exposure data across thousands of organizations and remediation telemetry with SentinelOne's endpoint and post-exploitation detection data. Together, both views produce a prioritized picture of where risk is concentrating, with lessons ripe for the Frontier AI era. The most critical takeaway: Both nation state and criminal threat actors are focusing on vendors and susceptible points in the attack surface more than specific CVEs.

TRex Bio, Inc. (“TRexBio”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on tissue Treg biology for the discovery and development of immunoregulatory medicines, today announced unblinded topline results from the first-in-human Phase 1a portion of its ongoing Phase 1a/b clinical trial of TRB-061. Across the single (“SAD”) and multiple (“MAD”) ascending dose cohorts, TRB-061 was generally well tolerated and showed consistent pharmacokinetics. In addition, following single and multiple dose administration of TRB-061, selective, reproducible activation and expansion of exploratory biomarkers including regulatory T cells (“Tregs”) was observed, supporting proof of mechanism and dose selection for the ongoing Phase 1b trial in patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis.

FindBob and Kovack Financial Network (KFN) today announced the launch of the KFN Succession Center, a private, invitation-based platform that helps Kovack advisors plan the next chapter of their practice — whether that means acquiring a book of business, bringing on a junior partner, or preparing for an eventual transition on their own terms. The launch builds on KFN's long-standing commitment to supporting independent advisors and the businesses they have worked hard to build.

Tavant, a leading Platform-Powered AI Transformation Specialist, announced today that it has been named a Leader in AIM Research's AI Service Providers for Financial Services PeMa Quadrant 2026, with Tavant Platform™ — the company's agentic engineering and enterprise AI automation foundation — as a central driver of its placement.

Arc'teryx Equipment, the global design company specializing in technical high-performance apparel and equipment, today introduced System 0™, a new framework that reimagines how products can be designed, manufactured, used, repaired, and ultimately regenerated. System 0 represents the next evolution for sustainability in the outdoor industry, as it embeds circular thinking across an entire product lifecycle while maintaining the uncompromising performance standards that define the Arc’teryx brand.

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR), the global commerce technology provider powering the experience economy, today announced that Talisa’s on Main, a boutique wine bar and tasting room in Taunton, Massachusetts, has been selected as the winner of its third annual Shift4 Rescue Mission contest. Run in partnership with hospitality expert and Bar Rescue star Jon Taffer, the contest awards a community-focused restaurant or bar owner facing operational and financial challenges with a $100,000 prize, an in-person business consultation with Jon Taffer, and Shift4 Dine, Shift4’s all-in-one restaurant technology platform.

Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT) today announced it has been named North America Growth Partner of the Year for 2026 by Palo Alto Networks. These annual awards celebrate an elite group of partners demonstrating exceptional performance, deep expertise, and an unwavering commitment to securing joint customers.

Xsolla, a global commerce company, today announced a landmark five-year strategic partnership with the Global Esports Federation (GEF), the world-convening body for esports. As GEF's exclusive partner for commerce, payments, wallet, loyalty, and distribution, Xsolla will power the entire GEF ecosystem, including the flagship Global Esports Games, pro-series Global Esports Tour, global GEFcon, and 180+ Member Federations across five continents.

Dialpad, the AI platform for customer experience, today announced a new integration with enterprise AI leader Glean, that connects the intelligence captured in customer conversations with the broader enterprise knowledge employees and AI systems rely on every day. The launch builds on the companies’ expanding partnership, with Dialpad also joining the newly launched Glean Partner Network.

groundcover, the world’s leading bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC), eBPF and OpenTelemetry (OTel)-native observability platform, today announced a major expansion with groundcover Dashboards, adding natural-language dashboard and widget creation built on its new query language, gcQL, alongside a deeper set of visualization and governance capabilities. The release runs counter to a widely held industry assumption that AI agents make dashboards obsolete by moving everything into chat.

Vena Solutions, a leader in Microsoft-native financial and operational planning, today announced the general availability of Vena Financial Consolidation, an advanced Excel-native solution built for complex multi-entity consolidation. It gives finance teams a purpose-built consolidation engine for governed close and audit-ready reporting, with the option to connect consolidated actuals directly to planning, reporting and decisioning within Vena.

Komodo Health®, an AI-powered healthcare intelligence company, today announced a multi-year strategic effort with the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) to modernize how healthcare quality measures are developed, validated, and continuously improved.

North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) has appointed Sara Chouraqui as General Counsel, with Elizabeth Collery and Victoria Jacobson each joining as Deputy General Counsel.

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BCG Pension Risk Consultants | BCG Penbridge (“BCG”) today announced publication of The Pension Accounting Pushback Challenge, a follow-up article to its February 2026 paper, The Structural Bottleneck in the U.S. Jumbo PRT Market — Feast or Famine. The new article introduces a targeted industry survey designed to clarify the drivers behind today’s pension risk transfer (“PRT”) market dynamics for defined benefit plan sponsors and other key industry stakeholders.

Noetik, an AI company building foundation models of human biology to redefine clinical outcomes in oncology, today announced that it has met the first near-term milestone under its five-year strategic collaboration and licensing agreement with GSK, first announced in January 2026.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, today announced it has crossed 10,000 customers worldwide and surpassed $600 million in annual recurring revenue, as organizations standardize on open observability for the AI era.

Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO), a leading technology platform serving the faith and flourishing ecosystem, today announced that the company will report financial results for the second quarter ended July 31, 2026, on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 after close of market. On that day, management will host a conference call and webcast at 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the company’s business and financial results.

groundcover, the world’s leading bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC), eBPF and OpenTelemetry (OTel)-native observability platform, today revealed that the business pipeline sourced through its partner ecosystem has grown eightfold over the past year and now represents more than 10% of the company's overall pipeline.

Longview Research Partners, an investment management firm on the leading edge of evidence-based investing products, announces the firm and chief investment officer Matt Zenz are finalists for ThinkAdvisor’s Luminaries Awards 2026.

Nintex, a global leader in process management and workflow automation, today announced a major evolution of the Nintex Automation CE platform, introducing a unified platform experience and Nintex Solutions, a new capability that enables organizations to package, govern, deploy, and scale intelligent automation across the enterprise. The launch brings workflows, forms, apps, documents, orchestration, and AI agents together in a single, connected experience, advancing Nintex’s vision for agentic business orchestration.

Element Science, a pioneering health technology company and creator of the Jewel® Patch Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator (Patch-WCD) to monitor and protect patients at high-risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), today announced several strategic appointments to its executive leadership team. These key hires bring extensive industry experience across commercial strategy, operations, finance, and human resources to drive the company's next phase of growth.

General Mills (NYSE: GIS) today announced that all General Mills cereals in the U.S. are now made without certified colors, completing this milestone in line with the company’s summer 2026 commitment. This moment builds on the company’s March 2026 achievement of removing certified colors from all K-12 school foods.

NWN, the leading AI-powered technology services provider, today announced it has been named Palo Alto Networks 2026 North America State, Local and Education Partner of the Year, recognizing NWN’s leadership helping public sector organizations simplify cybersecurity operations, strengthen resilience, and achieve measurable outcomes through managed services, platform innovation, and deep Palo Alto Networks expertise.

Ryan, a leading global tax services and software provider, has been recognized by Crain’s Cleveland Business as one of the Best Places to Work in Ohio for the 16th consecutive year. This remarkable achievement reflects the Firm’s long-standing commitment to creating an exceptional workplace where team members are empowered to grow and succeed with meaningful impact.

FlightSafety International Inc. (FSI), a leading global provider of aviation training and simulation technology, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Acron Technologies, a portfolio company of TJC LP, to acquire its Commercial Training Solutions (CTS) business, including its Training Systems, Training Services, Aviation Academy, and Driver Training portfolio. The agreement marks a significant expansion of FSI’s capabilities in the commercial aviation market, broadening and complementing its simulator manufacturing capabilities and global training footprint.

FuboTV Inc. (NYSE: FUBO) today announced the expansion of its college sports offering with the launch of ACC Network Extra (ACCNX) and SEC Network+ (SECN+) on the Fubo streaming service at no extra cost to subscribers. ACCNX and SECN+ are currently available within the Hulu + Live TV streaming service.

The technology industry is racing towards AI agents that can browse, choose and buy on a consumer’s behalf, but American shoppers are not there yet. They want AI to help them find products, save money and remove friction from checkout, but they still want a human hand on the final purchase. New research from NMI®, a global leader in embedded payments infrastructure, reveals a significant gap between the industry hype surrounding agentic commerce and the authority consumers are currently prepared to give AI.

Waites Sensor Technologies, Inc. (Waites), the leader in AI-driven and analyst-verified prescriptive maintenance solutions, today announced a strategic series of expanded technology capabilities and solutions to support global manufacturing teams in optimizing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) in the mission to eliminate downtime for good. These latest advancements underscore Waites’ commitment to creating a world where nothing breaks®.

Sempresto, Inc., a medical device company focused on transforming access to emergency medications, today announced that its smartphone-integrated epinephrine auto-injector concept has received a 2026 Red Dot Design Award.

Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO), the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States (the “Company”), today announced its participation in the Barclays 2026 Global Consumer Staples Conference. The session will take place on September 9, 2026, at 8:15 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Tekmetric, the all-in-one auto repair platform used by more than 15,000 shops nationwide, today announced the appointment of Kristen Young as its first chief financial officer (CFO). The hire reflects how fast Tekmetric is growing and the company's commitment to building the financial foundation, the product depth and the operational scale to match.

Hoopla Digital, the only all-in-one digital media app for public libraries and their patrons, today announced a new partnership with TED to bring short-form, expert-led talks and animated educational lessons for patrons of all ages to enjoy at no cost with their library card.

GK Software, a global leader in cloud-native retail technology, is introducing GK Agentic, an agentic AI framework and agent library purpose-built for the unique requirements of enterprise-scale retail operations at NRF Europe in Paris.

Regions Bank on Wednesday announced the launch of Regions Whole Loan Advisory (RWLA), a specialized advisory team within Regions Securities LLC designed to help financial institutions strategically buy, sell and manage whole-loan portfolios across multiple asset classes.

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

ALIS, the leading senior living clinical and operational software platform, announced its first acquisition of the Ella and elbi technology platforms from TapRoot Interventions & Solutions. These technologies are aimed at providing AI-native, real time and personalized guidance to care staff navigating complex, day-to-day care interactions with residents with dementia and behavioral needs.

GoFundMe Pro today announced an expansion of its recurring giving solution, designed to help nonprofits drive more predictable revenue, deepen donor relationships, and grow long-term impact. Built on GoFundMe Intelligence and informed by insights from one of the world’s largest giving data sets, the new capabilities help nonprofits create smarter, more strategic donor experiences that sustain support over time.

Square today announced that Cascadia Pizza Co., the American Crafted Wood Fired Pizza ™ brand founded in Washington state in 2015, has returned to Square as its unified commerce platform after reevaluating the platform’s evolved restaurant and franchise capabilities. What began as a single food truck has grown into a multi-format operation spanning 17 corporate restaurants, additional franchise locations, food trucks, and event catering units across Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Arizona, and Texas. Cascadia returned to the platform in 2026, consolidating its core restaurant technology fully within Square by deploying Square for Restaurants, Square Franchise Suite, and a full ecosystem of hardware across every operating format.

Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces an investigation on behalf of Fractyl Health, Inc. (“Fractyl” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: GUTS) investors concerning the Company’s possible violations of federal securities laws.

Anaconda Inc., the trusted foundation for AI-native development, today announced the appointment of Stewart Grierson to Chief Financial Officer. Grierson will lead Anaconda's finance organization, reporting to Chief Executive Officer David DeSanto.

LuxTronic, the leading provider of AI and ML-powered computer vision systems for high volume manufacturing, today announced the launch of FinalCheck™, an intelligent end-of-line monitoring platform that brings continuous, automated inspection to the final stages of production prior to shipment. Designed for aluminum can producers, glass bottle manufacturers, and broader CPG packaging operations, FinalCheck solves one of the last remaining blind spots in manufacturing quality control: the path from production line to pallet.

Socotra today announced the free public release of Socotra Skills, a set of reusable instructions and workflows that help AI agents interact more accurately and efficiently with Socotra. Insurers can now build products and execute insurance workflows in Socotra using their preferred AI agent, including Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, Cursor, and more.

On July 13, the Pentagon suspended CMMC Phase 2, pausing mandatory third-party certification requirements while the Department conducts a 60-day review of the program. The announcement created immediate questions across the defense industrial base (DIB) about what changed, what did not, and what contractors should expect next.