Atlanta – October 19, 2026 -- Scientific Games' U.S. instant scratch game production facility, which serves nearly every U.S. state lottery, has achieved Level 2 certification under the World Lottery Association Security Control Standard 2024 (WLA-SCS:2024). Level 2 is the highest certification level for lottery suppliers under the standard.

The plant, located at the company's global headquarters in metro Atlanta, is the world's largest lottery scratch game production facility. It has held WLA security certification since 2011.

Standard combines ISO 27001:2022 with lottery-specific integrity controls

WLA-SCS:2024 Level 2 merges the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 information security requirements with lottery-specific security and integrity controls set by the WLA. It specifies the practices needed for a security management structure that protects the integrity, availability and confidentiality of information critical to a lottery operator.

Mexico – October 19, 2026 -- AIC Hotel Group has appointed Alliance Connection to lead public relations, influencer marketing, content collaborations, executive thought leadership and resort launch campaigns in the North American trade and consumer markets, extending a relationship that began 16 years ago when AIC became the agency's first client.

Agency to support launches and rebrandings across the AIC portfolio

Alliance Connection will run integrated campaigns designed to build anticipation, consideration and conversion among North American travelers. The mandate covers several portfolio milestones:

New York – October 19, 2026 -- Andover Properties has acquired a self storage facility of nearly 46,000 net rentable square feet (NRSF) in Pinehurst, Texas, expanding its Texas portfolio to 48 assets.

The property at 35335 State Highway 249 was built in 2015 and offers a mix of climate-controlled and drive-up units. A local, independent owner previously operated it.

Pinehurst site sits in Houston corridor growing more than 2.4% a year

The facility is located in one of the Houston metro's fastest-growing corridors. Population there is rising by more than 2.4% annually, and median household income exceeds $102,000, according to the company.

The site is a 15-minute drive from another Andover-owned Storage King USA location. Andover says this proximity lets it apply local market intelligence and operating efficiencies across both facilities.

New York – October 19, 2026 -- Amsterdam Nursing Home has been ranked #36 among New York nursing homes with 150 beds or more in Newsweek's America's Best Nursing Homes 2027, its fourth consecutive year on the list.

Newsweek and Statista screen 14,693 facilities to select 1,325

The 2027 ranking recognizes 1,325 of the nation's top nursing homes out of 14,693 analyzed, meaning roughly 9% of the facilities evaluated made the cut. Newsweek compiles the list each year with the global data research firm Statista.

The evaluation draws on performance data, peer recommendations, accreditations and satisfaction metrics. It also uses data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Las Vegas – October 19, 2026 -- Coinbase will integrate Thunes' Direct Global Network for fiat payouts, while Thunes will run its stablecoin infrastructure on Coinbase's stablecoin solutions, the companies announced at Money20/20 USA.

Coinbase customers gain direct access to local clearing systems

Under the agreement, Coinbase will add Thunes' network to its platform. This gives it direct payout access to local clearing systems and alternative payment methods. Thunes will provide real-time last-mile delivery to mobile wallets and bank accounts, so Coinbase customers can send funds to more countries and currencies. The companies say this includes regions with limited banking infrastructure.

Thunes says its network operates in over 140 countries and more than 90 currencies.

Atlanta – October 19, 2026 -- The Weather Company has made Weather Story Assist generally available on its Max Cloud platform, giving station groups an AI co-pilot that builds localized weather stories from a single forecast without adding headcount.

The tool targets linear television, streaming, web, social and mobile output. Local meteorologists keep full editorial authority over every story, graphic and script, and nothing is published or aired without a meteorologist's explicit approval.

Weather Story Assist automates story research and asset search inside Max Cloud

The product ships with two functions. The first, "Grounding the Story in Minutes," surfaces historical content, record data and story angles behind a forecast. Each item is traced to its source, so meteorologists can build narratives without starting from scratch.

Austin – October 19, 2026 -- Digital Turbine (Nasdaq: APPS) will report its fiscal 2027 second-quarter financial results and operating progress on Monday, November 2, at 4:30pm ET (1:30pm PT) in a conference call and webcast.

CEO Bill Stone and Interim CFO Josh Kinsell host the earnings call

Chief Executive Officer Bill Stone and Interim Chief Financial Officer Josh Kinsell will lead the session. Investors can join by webcast or by telephone using separate U.S. and international dial-in numbers.

Webcast archive stays online for one year, replay runs through Nov. 9

A live and archived webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of Digital Turbine's website. The webcast will be archived for one year.

A telephone replay will be available through November 9, 2026, for those who cannot join the live call.

Boca Raton – October 19, 2026 -- Empyrean Medical Systems has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Vektra, its robotically assisted brachytherapy and intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) system, completing a planned milestone in the company's move into clinical radiation oncology.

Vektra targets a segment treating about 15% of radiation oncology patients

Empyrean describes Vektra as the world's first robotically assisted, rapid beam-sculpting X-ray photon platform for brachytherapy and IORT. The system is designed to deliver conformal doses to malignant tumors while limiting dose to healthy tissue and organs at risk. Brachytherapy and IORT together treat approximately 15% of patients receiving radiation oncology care, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) figure cited by the company.

Stanford – October 19, 2026 -- Stanford University PhD student Samuel King used a generative AI model in 2025 to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses, a preliminary answer to whether AI can design new life forms. The work is not yet an example of AI-generated life, though that could be the next step.

MIT Technology Review puts King in a subscriber-only roundtable

MIT Technology Review senior AI reporter James O'Donnell interviewed King, a bioengineering PhD candidate at Stanford University and the Arc Institute. The session was recorded on Friday, October 16, 2026, and is available only to subscribers.

King's virus work earned an Innovators Under 35 selection

MIT Technology Review named King one of its Innovators Under 35. The conversation covers his research, the recognition and what the publication describes as new ways of seeing biology.

United States – October 19, 2026 -- Six of the largest hyperscalers are on track to spend more than $700 billion on computing infrastructure this year, about double the record set in 2025, as gains from shrinking transistors fade and performance is bought by building bigger systems.

Brute-force scaling replaces transistor shrinkage as the main source of progress

The spending goes into new data center sites faster than the electrical grid can feed them. Progress now comes mostly from adding chips, memory, power and cooling rather than from smaller transistors. In AI, training compute has doubled roughly every six months since 2010, far faster than Moore's Law allows, and little of that growth comes from shrinking.