Seoul – October 12, 2026 -- Lunit (KRX: 328130) has partnered with Discovery Life Sciences, a lab that supports more than 350 active clinical trial programs, to roll out the Lunit SCOPE suite across biopharmaceutical research.

The AI-powered pathology platform will run inside Discovery's biomarker and tissue analysis workflows. Both companies will tailor it to each client program's design, working directly with pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers.

Discovery brings 25 years of assay experience and 2,000 trial programs to the deal

Discovery has delivered biomarker services for more than 2,000 clinical trial programs. Its specialty laboratory services cover the drug development lifecycle end to end. The partners expect the combination of Discovery's global biospecimen network and Lunit's AI image analysis to broaden worldwide access to the SCOPE platform.

Macon, Ga. – October 12, 2026 -- KaMin and CADAM will raise prices on their kaolin products by up to 9.5% effective December 1, 2026, with the size of the increase depending on grade and region.

Inflation across mining, materials and labor outpaces cost savings

The companies cite broad inflationary pressure across mining, purchased raw materials and labor. Significant increases in energy costs are also hitting the business, they said.

KaMin and CADAM say efficiency improvements and cost-control initiatives have not kept pace. Inflationary pressures continue to exceed those savings, which the companies describe as making the adjustment necessary to sustain product quality, supply reliability and long-term customer support. The cost categories they name as rising are mining, energy, chemicals, logistics, environmental and regulatory.

Kingston, Mass. – October 12, 2026 -- Distributed Energy Infrastructure (DEI) has completed the first-ever agrivoltaic cranberry harvests at two Massachusetts wetland solar sites with a combined 5.4 MW of solar capacity and 16.2 MWh of installed storage energy.

The Black Cat Agrivoltaics Project in Plymouth and the Ring Road Agrivoltaics Project in Kingston are owned by developer Greenbacker Renewables and were installed by DEI, an EPC provider for utility-scale solar and storage. DEI describes the harvests as a milestone for extending agrivoltaics into wetland environments.

Two projects pair 5.4 MW of solar with battery storage

The Black Cat project totals 1 MW and includes an energy storage system rated at 500 kVA with 2,700 kWh of installed energy capacity. The Ring Road project totals 4.4 MW and is paired with a 13.5 MWh battery energy storage system.

Tracy, California – October 12, 2026 -- MachineryMax will sell more than 700 lots of late-model cabinet manufacturing equipment from Volumetric Building Companies' (VBC) Tracy facility in a two-day online auction, with bidding closing October 28 and 29.

VBC releases equipment as it expands modular manufacturing capacity

VBC is selling the assets as it expands its modular manufacturing capacity. MachineryMax is running the sale with Holland Industrial Group. Targeted buyers are cabinet makers, millwork shops, furniture manufacturers and panel processors.

Nairobi – October 12, 2026 -- Vallar Advanced Systems, a U.S. manufacturer of water-based road-building chemicals, has presented its alternative to asphalt to the Government of Kenya, targeting the country's unpaved secondary and rural road network.

Vallar presents soil-stabilization plan to Kenyan officials during AmCham visit

The company's team attended an American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Kenya event in Nairobi. It also met senior government and civil society leaders and officials at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.

Vallar says it will continue talks with Kenyan government stakeholders and partners in the coming months. The source discloses no contract value, pilot project, or timeline for a deal.

Las Vegas – October 12, 2026 -- ShopView has launched AccountingHub, a native accounting add-on that lets independent truck, trailer, diesel, and equipment repair shops keep their books in the same system that holds their work orders, invoices, and payments.

Most repair shops run separate shop management and accounting systems. Office teams must transfer transactions, reconcile records, and maintain parallel account structures. AccountingHub links invoices, payments, purchases, deposits, fees, and refunds directly to a general ledger through configurable account mappings.

AccountingHub automates statements, aging reports, and vendor bills

Shops can schedule customer statements and review aging reports with invoice-level detail. They can also manage bills, vendor credits, and payments, with visibility into upcoming due dates.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Texas Instruments (Nasdaq: TXN) unveiled the ADC34DSO75, a 3 gigasamples-per-second analog-to-digital converter that it says enables 24/7, low-power, event-based remote monitoring at nanosecond resolution, thousands of times faster than current solutions.

The company debuted the device at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit alongside two other analog products aimed at AI data center power instability, inadequate real-time monitoring and signal degradation. TI says these problems can lead to costly downtime.

ADC34DSO75 targets nanosecond power-rail glitches that cause downtime

TI says existing monitoring tools often miss nanosecond-level power-rail glitches behind unplanned outages. The ADC34DSO75 combines ultra-high-speed sampling with on-chip digital signal processing in a small form factor to detect and capture transient fault events in real time.

New York – October 12, 2026 -- Canyon Partners, a $30 billion global alternative investment manager, has appointed Chris Hansen as Partner and Chief Information Officer, tasking him with integrating artificial intelligence and alternative data across its investment platform.

Hansen takes charge of technology strategy and infrastructure from New York

Hansen oversees the firm's technology strategy and infrastructure. His remit covers information technology, business technology, engineering, data architecture, and the integration of AI and alternative data.

He will work with Canyon's investment and operating teams to embed technology and data in investment research, underwriting, portfolio management, and firmwide operations.

Beijing – October 12, 2026 -- Benewake has launched the NOVA20, a solid-state multi-point LiDAR that weighs less than 5g and draws less than 1W, built to cover the one-meter zone around robots where existing sensor stacks leave gaps.

NOVA20 delivers 20-point sensing across a 40° field of view

The sensor covers a detection range of 0.05-1m, rated at 1m against 10% reflectivity targets under 100 klux ambient light. It has no mechanical moving components. It outputs physical distance data directly and generates no 2D images, which Benewake says reduces image data collection and host-level vision processing requirements.

The compact form factor allows mounting on the chassis, body, wrist, waist, knee and ankle of a robotic platform.

Benewake targets three blind spots in current robot perception

Benewake identifies three limitations in existing architectures:

New York – October 12, 2026 -- Diraq will deploy up to $300 million to support independent verification and validation of its quantum computing solution after the U.S. Defense Research Projects Agency selected it to advance to the final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative.

Diraq targets first shared-data-center silicon spin quantum computer by end of 2026

The company says it will deploy the world's first silicon spin quantum computer to operate in a shared commercial data center before the end of 2026. The item was part of the New York Stock Exchange's pre-market update on October 12, delivered by Kristen Scholer from the NYSE Trading Floor.

Earnings season and inflation reports drive the week's market agenda

The NYSE flagged earnings season and inflation reports as the headline market events this week.