Olympia – October 13, 2026 -- Fungi Perfecti, LLC has published the first complete genome of the endangered Agarikon fungus, a 28.76-megabase nuclear assembly estimated to be 99.4% complete, in the peer-reviewed journal G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.

The study, led by mycologist Paul Stamets and company scientists, is titled "Genomic characterization of the endangered medicinal polypore agarikon (Laricifomes officinalis syn. Fomitopsis officinalis)." Until now, Agarikon lacked a comprehensive genomic reference for genetic investigation.

Researchers annotate 8,717 predicted genes in the Agarikon nuclear genome

Fungi Perfecti researchers assembled and annotated both the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. Of the 8,717 predicted genes, 8,604 are protein-coding.

The team also identified 287 genes across 27 candidate biosynthetic gene clusters, including genes associated with pathways that produce specialized metabolites.

Evansville – October 13, 2026 -- Heart to Heart Hospice's Evansville, Indiana office has received the 2026 Hospice CAHPS Honors Elite designation, the highest recognition level in the Hospice CAHPS Honors program.

Evansville office joins a limited group of top-rated US hospice providers

The distinction places the office among a select group of hospice providers nationwide that have demonstrated outstanding performance and a sustained commitment to care experiences for patients and families.

Elite tier requires beating national benchmarks across multiple care measures

Hospice CAHPS Honors Elite goes beyond high family satisfaction scores. It recognizes agencies that also exceed national performance benchmarks across multiple measures of care. The program is regarded as one of the industry's most respected gauges of hospice quality and patient experience.

Seattle – October 13, 2026 -- CenTrio is advancing engineering design for a 25-megawatt electric boiler at its Western Avenue plant, a project that could cut emissions by more than 60%, or about 42,000 tons a year, at maximum utilization.

The boiler will deliver roughly 85,000 pounds of steam per hour to buildings on CenTrio's Seattle district energy system. It is the first phase of the plant's decarbonization plan.

Construction is planned for 2027, with operations about two years later

CenTrio has engaged Affiliated Engineers (AEI) to complete the engineering design. It is working with Seattle City Light to secure the power the boiler requires. Construction will begin after engineering, permitting, utility coordination and final approvals are complete. The boiler is expected to be operational roughly two years after construction starts.

Houston – – October 13, 2026 -- Nightpeak Energy has closed financing on and brought online its 150 MW, two-hour Bocanova 2 battery storage project in Southeast Texas, doubling the Bocanova site to 300 MW as data centers and other large loads drive electricity demand growth on the ERCOT grid.

Bocanova 2 reached commercial operation on September 17

The project is the second phase of Nightpeak's battery development in Brazoria County, near the Houston metropolitan area. The first 150 MW phase, Bocanova 1, began commercial operation in August 2025. The site is located in what the company describes as one of the country's fastest-growing electricity load centers.

Tesla Megapack 2 XL systems anchor the 150 MW build

Bocanova 2 uses Tesla's Megapack 2 XL battery storage systems. It operates under a long-term offtake agreement with an investment-grade counterparty, which the source does not name.

Toronto – October 13, 2026 -- Jaguar Uranium Corp. (NYSE American: JAGU) has published a maiden independent Mineral Resource Estimate for its Laguna Salada project in Chubut Province, Argentina, totalling 4.2 million lbs of Indicated and 10.1 million lbs of Inferred U3O8, alongside 31.1 million lbs of Indicated and 57.3 million lbs of Inferred V2O5.

The estimate, effective October 5, 2026, complies with SEC Regulation S-K 1300 and NI 43-101. It was prepared by Caracle Creek Chile SpA and Atticus Geoscience Consulting Ltd. No Measured resources have been classified.

Indicated and Inferred tonnage grades 119 ppm and 170 ppm U3O8 Eq

The Indicated category covers 21.1 Mt at 119 ppm U3O8 equivalent. The Inferred category covers 34.0 Mt at 170 ppm U3O8 equivalent. The footprint spans about 4.3% of the 210,284 ha project, which comprises 28 mining concessions in central Patagonia.

Washington – October 13, 2026 -- China installed 295,000 industrial robots in 2024, 54% of the global total, versus 34,200 in the United States, according to the preliminary report of the National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing, an initiative of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP).

The Commission is co-chaired by Senator Ted Budd (R-NC), Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and SCSP President Ylli Bajraktari. It finds that the U.S. leads in the technologies forming the "brain" of robotics, including AI, computer vision, autonomy and software. It lacks the scale to deploy robots, produce robotic systems and manufacture critical components domestically.

San Francisco – October 13, 2026 -- Speakeasy, the AI control plane vendor, and Tailscale, the identity-first networking company, have partnered to let enterprises run the Speakeasy Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway as a node on their own Tailscale tailnet. The integration is available now to Enterprise organizations on the Speakeasy AI Control Plane and is rolling out per organization.

Speakeasy says many MCP deployments still rely on publicly reachable endpoints. Under the new setup, every MCP server is served on the tailnet, the public route can be closed entirely, and every request carries the Tailscale user and device it came from. The gateway that governs how AI agents reach company tools is reachable only from devices and identities the company's network already trusts.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- CyberTAN Technology has unveiled a liquid-cooled Ethernet switch platform architecture built around Marvell's 102.4 Tbps Teralynx T100 silicon, and says a live demonstration at OCP Global Summit 2026 reached a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1.

Pallas Series targets 1,000-watt heat loads with direct-to-chip cooling

The Pallas Series 1.6T platform is designed to accommodate the 3nm Marvell T100 and its 25% energy-saving advantage. CyberTAN pairs the silicon with its proprietary Direct-to-Chip (D2C) liquid-cooling engineering. The company says the design can manage more than 1,000 watts of localized heat dissipation while keeping port density high.

CyberTAN frames the work as a response to thermal and power limits in AI clusters, where generative AI and hyperscale workloads are driving demand for more efficient silicon and rack-level cooling.

Birmingham – October 13, 2026 -- Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC) will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results before the NYSE opens on Thursday, October 29, 2026, and hold its earnings conference call the same day at 9:00 a.m. CT (10:00 a.m. ET).

Vulcan schedules live webcast and dial-in access for the October 29 call

Investors and other interested parties can follow the call through a live webcast on the company's website. Phone participants can dial in about 10 minutes before the 9:00 a.m. CT start, using separate numbers for U.S. and international callers and a conference ID of 5524133. A webcast replay will be posted on the company's website after the call.

Cranberry Township, Pa. – – October 13, 2026 -- The Inner Circle has named Dr. Miles H. Fuller, VP of Transformation and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Westinghouse Electric Company, an Inner Circle Lifetime Member for his work in clean energy innovation and nuclear technology.

Fuller moved from Boston Consulting Group to Westinghouse's senior leadership team

Fuller began his career as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group. He later joined the senior leadership team at Westinghouse, where he works on safe, scalable nuclear technologies tied to global energy security and decarbonization. His remit covers strategy, operations and transformation, and supports large-scale programs aimed at improving quality, safety and execution in complex global environments.