Chicago – October 14, 2026 -- Rothschild Wealth Partners and Singularity Financial Partners have launched Rothschild Financial Partners, a newly registered investment adviser owned by its partners, with client assets across three partner firms expected to reach approximately $750 million by year end.

The firm has no private-equity capital. Its owners are Rothschild Wealth Partners, Singularity Financial Partners and the advisors who join. Three partner firms have joined since September 2026, and more are expected by year end. Each will be introduced in the coming weeks.

San Jose – October 14, 2026 -- xFusion is showing a 155 kW liquid-cooled rack, cold plates rated above 4,000 watts per chip and a prototype 800V high-voltage DC power supply for up to 1.2 MW at the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, which runs October 12–15 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center (Booth A33).

The company is targeting power density, which it describes as the main constraint on AI data center scaling. Single-chip power consumption is trending toward 3,000 watts and beyond, while rack-level density is moving from hundreds of kilowatts toward the megawatt class.

Greenwich – October 14, 2026 -- WIN, a fertility and family support benefit company, has appointed three senior leaders to newly created roles as its supported population grows from more than 500,000 to nearly one million families over two years.

Claudio Stefan joins as Chief Growth Officer, Stacey Zeltner as Chief People Officer, and Dr. Michael Meighu as Vice President of Artificial Intelligence. The company says the hires will help it scale employer and health plan partnerships, build the organization to support that growth, and apply emerging technology to benefits delivery.

WIN reports 900 employer clients covering 9.5 million lives

The employer base has grown 20% in two years. WIN also expanded from 55 to 124 countries, a 125% increase.

Dallas – October 14, 2026 -- HighLevel, the AI-powered operating system for businesses, agencies and founders, has appointed Grubhub founder and former CEO Matt Maloney to its Board of Directors, adding a leader who spent 17 years scaling a technology marketplace.

Maloney led Grubhub from startup through its merger with Seamless and its multibillion-dollar acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway.com in 2021. He brings more than 20 years of experience building and scaling technology-enabled businesses.

HighLevel's three founders back Maloney's operating record

HighLevel's founding triumvirate of Shaun Clark, Varun Vairavan and Robin Alex said in a joint statement that Maloney's founder instinct and operating experience will be valuable as the company builds its technology and ecosystem. Maloney said he sees the same opportunity at HighLevel that Grubhub offered independent restaurants, but on a broader scale.

San Francisco – October 14, 2026 -- Mesh, a crypto payments network, has launched Link Chat, an AI-powered feature in Mesh Link that lets users start financial actions with a natural-language request such as "Deposit 50 USDC into my account." The capability is live and rolling out to partners.

Mesh plans to extend Link Chat across its product stack, including payments and additional transaction types.

Forrester data shows 31% of consumers use conversational AI for finance questions

Nearly one in three consumers (31%) across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada regularly use conversational AI to ask personal-finance questions and compare financial products, according to Forrester. Nearly a quarter (24%) of those users do so through tools outside their bank's app.

Completing a financial action still requires the right accounts, assets and payment rails to work together behind the scenes, the company said.

White Plains – October 14, 2026 -- Rockbridge Growth Equity-backed FormativGroup has acquired Saige Consulting, an AI and technology consulting firm, to add AI implementation and software engineering capacity to its application and data architecture business. The announcement did not include financial terms.

FormativGroup combines application platforms with Saige's AI delivery

FormativGroup brings application platforms, workflow development and data architecture. Saige adds technology strategy, software development and AI implementation. The companies say the combined offer covers a client engagement from strategy through scalable delivery.

Saige works with public and private sector organizations on cloud, data, AI and workflow automation. It has experience embedding AI and automation in core business workflows, which the companies describe as moving clients from aspirational thinking to repeatable use cases.

Boston – October 14, 2026 -- Aura Business, the business division of Aura (ASX: AXQ), has signed a distribution partnership with Climb that gives Climb's network of resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) access to Aura Business's new identity-centric BYOD security solution.

Climb is a global specialty technology distributor focused on security, data management, connectivity, cloud and software. Its customers can access Aura Business immediately through the Climb marketplace.

Omdia data shows 55% of MSPs have had a BYOD-related security incident in 24 months

Aura cited Omdia research to frame the opportunity. According to the figures, 65% of MSPs are seeing demand for BYOD management, yet only 24% monitor employee-owned devices. Some 55% have experienced a BYOD-related security incident in the past 24 months.

Tucson – October 14, 2026 -- Siensmetrica, Inc. has changed its name to Tessa AI, Inc. effective October 7, aligning the company with the brand of its AI research evaluation platform, Tessa, and signaling a push beyond paper scoring into tools for the full lifecycle of scientific research.

Tessa AI has served biomedical users since a May 2026 launch

Since its May 2026 launch, the Tessa platform has been used by researchers, clinicians, and biopharma professionals to evaluate biomedical studies. Each score comes with the evidence behind it. The company said customers, partners, and its own team already called it Tessa.

The former name was a coined word meaning roughly "knowledge measurement," reflecting the company's origin as a system for scoring published research. Siensmetrica.com now redirects to tessaai.co.

Tulsa – – October 14, 2026 -- Eighty of 100 U.S. small businesses landed in the lowest "Ghosted" tier of a new AI-visibility benchmark, averaging 50.9 out of 100, according to Modern Asset Lab, which today launched its Match ProtocolTM framework for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).

Benchmark ran up to 32 blind buyer conversations per business

The Match ProtocolTM Benchmark tested 100 businesses across 10 industries and 11 metro areas in the South, West and Midwest. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini answered an average of 27.8 buyer conversations per business, without the business being named in the questions. Industries covered HVAC, plumbing, roofing, dental, med spa, personal injury/family law, auto repair, independent restaurants, CPA/accounting and landscaping.

The company cautions that at n=100, results are directional rather than nationally representative.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – October 14, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) and the Deloitte Center for Integrated Research have introduced a collaboration built around a guide that sorts enterprise AI workloads into six archetypes and maps each to one of four physical infrastructure models.

The Vertiv Designing Infrastructure for Enterprise AI Guide was developed by Vertiv and STL Partners, a digital infrastructure research firm. It is aimed at business, IT and facilities leaders who must decide where AI workloads should run and whether available infrastructure can support them before they commit to an infrastructure plan.