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Walnut, Calif. – September 18, 2026 -- ERAYAK Power Solution Group Inc. (Nasdaq: RAYA) is broadening its branded U.S. distribution across Amazon, Walmart Marketplace and direct-to-consumer channels while mapping a product roadmap that scales from portable power stations to 30 kW-class hybrid home energy systems.

ERAYAK deploys a three-channel U.S. retail structure to grow consumer reach

The company sells ERAYAK-branded power products through Amazon, maintains live listings on Walmart's U.S. Marketplace using both Walmart Fulfillment Services and seller-fulfilled capabilities, and operates its own direct-to-consumer e-commerce channel. ERAYAK says this multi-channel approach is intended to diversify customer acquisition and build a stronger North American consumer brand foundation.

San Diego – September 18, 2026 -- A new AI Patient Journey Study from Luth Research finds that roughly 80 percent of patients who use AI for health information pair it with other sources, forming a group the firm labels "hybrid researchers." The study tracked more than 1,500 consumers digitally and surveyed over 500 patients to map movement between AI tools, search engines, and health information sites.

AI speeds initial queries but trusted sites close the decision loop

Patients turn to AI first for speed and plain-language answers: 47 percent use it to explore a doctor's explanation more deeply, and 44 percent say asking AI is easier than asking their physician. When preparing for an appointment or making a treatment decision, reliance shifts to established health information sites trusted for clinical accuracy, which are used by 6 in 10 AI users as a companion source.

Richmond – September 18, 2026 -- Alps Dx has named 26-year diagnostics industry veteran Pam Lacock as vice president of sales and opened a new 2,030-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing hub in Richmond, Virginia, as the company shifts from product development toward broader commercialization of its oral fluid testing platform.

New York – September 18, 2026 -- DanAds, a SaaS provider of automated self-service advertising tools for publishers, has promoted Michael Gelb to the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Growth & Product. Gelb will now control the company's product roadmap and AI strategy while simultaneously leading commercial growth across its enterprise accounts.

DanAds merges commercial and product leadership under a single executive

Peo Persson, Chief Commercial Officer at DanAds, said the decision to combine growth and product functions under one leader ensures the company's roadmap is driven directly by publisher needs rather than internal silos. Gelb joined DanAds in New York as a Senior Account Manager before rising to Head of Account Management, working with major media companies to grow advertising revenue through the platform.

Vancouver, BC – September 18, 2026 -- Reach Systems Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of NameSilo Technologies Corp. (CSE: URL) (OTCQB: URLOF), has posted year-to-date bookings of approximately $2.2 million, up 108% from roughly $1.06 million in the same period last year.

Reach expands manufacturing footprint by 126% to meet demand

The Nanaimo, British Columbia-based marine technology and subsea equipment manufacturer is increasing its operating space from 3,559 square feet to 8,031 square feet, effective October 1. The expansion adds manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity to support the growing order book.

Workforce grows 41% since acquisition

Reach employed 17 people at the February 13, 2026 closing of its acquisition by NameSilo. The team has since grown to 24 employees.

Dublin, Ohio – September 18, 2026 -- Little Diggers, the construction-themed indoor sandbox playspace chain, has signed more than 50 franchise locations across the U.S. and now operates six corporate-owned stores, with additional openings planned before year-end.

Franchise pipeline swells after 2025 launch

Since opening its franchising arm in 2025, the company has fielded thousands of inquiries from all 50 states and more than 85 countries. Signed or in-development locations now span 21 states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. Little Diggers plans to expand into California, with location details to be announced.

West Palm Beach, Fla. – – September 18, 2026 -- UpRight Science has assembled a five-member advisory board to accelerate adoption of its FDA-cleared balance measurement software, timed to Falls Prevention Awareness Week running Sept. 21-25.

Falls remain the top injury cause for older Americans, with 14 million reporting incidents annually

More than 14 million U.S. adults aged 65 and older, roughly one in four, report a fall each year, according to figures cited by the company. UpRight Science positions its technology as a way to make balance measurable and trackable as a clinical biomarker rather than a subjective assessment.

Tel Aviv, Israel – September 18, 2026 -- Lutris Pharma will present updated phase 2 clinical data for its topical B-Raf inhibitor LUT014 at the 35th European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress in Vienna, Austria, running September 30 through October 3.

Oral presentation scheduled for October 2 at EADV Congress in Vienna

The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial results will be delivered in an oral presentation titled 'Acneiform Rash from EGFR Inhibitor Therapy: Durable, Mechanism-Directed Reduction with Topical LUT014 (B-Raf Inhibitor) in a Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.' The session, Free Communication 6: Pruritus/Adverse Drug Reactions, is set for Friday, October 2, 2026, from 11:25 to 11:35 am CET in Hall N. Anisha Patel, MD, professor of Dermatology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, will present the data under Abstract ID AS-1328.

Edmonton – September 18, 2026 -- Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX: ACB) (NASDAQ: ACB) reaffirmed its fiscal 2027 second-quarter guidance for sequential growth in net revenue and adjusted EBITDA, citing new EU-GMP capacity and expanding market share in Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom.

Safari Flower Company adds EU-GMP capacity after July certification

The Canadian medical cannabis producer said its recently acquired Safari Flower Company, which received EU-GMP certification in July, is expected to generate incremental net revenue and adjusted EBITDA in the coming quarters. The certification adds to Aurora's position as one of the world's largest indoor EU-GMP certified producers.

Manitoba – September 18, 2026 -- 1911 Gold Corporation has cleared the path for test mining this fall at its True North Gold Project after completing dewatering of A-Shaft and Level 26, positioning the company for a planned 2027 production decision.

SCR Mining & Tunnelling Mobilizes Crews to Accelerate Underground Development

1911 Gold awarded an underground development contract to SCR Mining & Tunnelling, which has mobilized crews and specialized mobile equipment to lead mining, mechanical and electrical activities at the site. Additional haulage trucks and utility vehicles are scheduled to arrive through September and October to support the ramp-up.

East Lansing, Mich. – September 18, 2026 -- Reseda Group has launched Bolt, a Banking-as-a-Service platform that connects fintech companies directly to MSU Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU) as the Financial Institution of Record, with cash management provider TAPP Engine signed as the platform's first fintech partner.

Bolt links fintechs to MSUFCU through API and SDK infrastructure

The platform, developed by Reseda Group and shaped by MSUFCU's fintech deployment experience, provides APIs, SDKs and software tools supporting account opening, payments, debit card issuance, external account connectivity and embedded finance. Financial institutions can use Bolt to accelerate fintech partnerships and expand digital banking capabilities, while fintechs avoid the regulatory burden of becoming licensed institutions themselves.

New York – September 18, 2026 -- OX Security launched OX Cloud, a cloud security platform built to monitor AI agents that now operate autonomously in production environments, access sensitive data and call tools without human oversight.

OX Cloud adds AI Detection and Response to track agent behavior in real time

The platform's AIDR capability detects and governs AI activity across cloud and runtime environments as it happens, rather than relying on static configuration snapshots. Traditional cloud security tools identify misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and excessive permissions but cannot show security teams what an AI agent is actually doing once it operates inside an environment.

Washington – September 18, 2026 -- Forty-five percent of facial plastic surgeons report an increase in female patients citing menopause or perimenopause as a reason for seeking treatment, up sharply from 28% in 2024, according to the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery's (AAFPRS) 2025 annual member survey.

Survey data shows a 17-point jump in menopause-related consultations year over year

The AAFPRS, representing more than 2,200 facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons worldwide, tracked the shift among its membership base as part of its annual industry survey. The increase indicates a growing willingness among patients to link hormonal transition directly to visible facial changes during consultations.

Deerfield Beach, Fla. – September 18, 2026 -- Aastro Roofing has signed on as a major sponsor of the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce's upcoming golf tournament and as a sponsor of the Chamber's Fall Business Expo, expanding a partnership that began with its Spring Business Expo sponsorship earlier this year.

Roofing firm deepens ties with Boca Chamber after Spring Expo sponsorship

Aastro Roofing, a licensed roofing and general contracting company based in Deerfield Beach, Florida, has served Broward and Palm Beach counties for more than 11 years. The company holds an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and Top Rated status on Angi and Google.

Cambridge – September 18, 2026 -- Nona Biosciences has developed HCAbLM, the first language model trained specifically on fully human heavy-chain-only antibodies (HCAbs), built from a dataset of 31.8 million HCAb sequences drawn from 73 independently immunized transgenic mice. The findings were detailed in a study titled "A foundation model learns the sequence and functional grammar of fully human heavy-chain-only antibodies," published on bioRxiv.

Nona targets the developability bottleneck in AI antibody design

Current AI antibody discovery is limited less by target-binding design than by manufacturability at scale, aggregation risk and stability -- collectively known as developability. HCAbLM was built to learn the underlying sequence grammar that determines whether an HCAb can fold correctly and progress into a viable drug candidate. General-purpose protein models lack this capability because their training data contain almost no HCAb sequences.

Chisinau – September 18, 2026 -- Four Moldovan banks -- Moldindconbank, FinComBank, EuroCreditBank and Victoriabank -- have begun accepting digital identity credentials from EVO, Moldova's national government app, letting clients verify identity without presenting physical documents.

Banks replace paper ID checks with QR-code verification

Under the new integration, customers confirm identity by scanning a QR code and consenting to share only the specific data a bank requests. The verified information transfers digitally, removing the need to photocopy identity documents or manually re-enter data at branch counters.

New York – September 18, 2026 -- Eucalyptus Resources Opportunities Fund 1, LP said its slate of four director nominees at TNR Gold Corp. (TSXV: TNR) has secured support from over 45% of shares ahead of a September 17, 2026, 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time proxy voting deadline, up from roughly 43% disclosed just two days earlier.

Los Alamitos, Calif. – September 18, 2026 -- Boston Lyric Opera has debuted a production at its new Opera + Community Studios in Boston's Fort Point neighborhood that replaces static subtitle screens with animated, projection-mapped typography built into the set itself, using three Epson large venue laser projectors to merge translation and scenic design into a single performance element.

MASARY Studios redesigns opera translation as a scenic element rather than a utility

Boston-based collective MASARY Studios, a neighbor of BLO in the same Fort Point building, was brought in to reimagine how translated "supertitles" function during a live opera. Rather than relegating text to small monitors near the stage, MASARY styled and animated typography to move in time with the singing across a story centered on three characters, embedding the words directly into the scenery.

Indianapolis – September 18, 2026 -- Kristen Nunery, CEO of illumend and founder of myCOI, is urging risk and compliance leaders to demand AI systems that do more than ground decisions in an organization's insurance requirements, arguing that grounding alone leaves compliance determinations vulnerable to costly errors. Nunery outlines her position in a new article, "Grounding Is Half the Answer in COI Compliance," aimed at organizations in construction, commercial real estate, retail, franchising and government that rely on vendors, contractors, tenants and franchisees to maintain contractually required insurance coverage.

Dallas – September 18, 2026 -- American Water, the largest regulated water and wastewater utility in the United States, has selected VertexOne's VXconnect platform to power a mobile-first digital customer experience across its 14-state footprint.

American Water serves 14 million customers and will deploy its first-ever dedicated mobile app

The utility, which serves more than 14 million people across 14 states, said the platform will let customers manage payments, view usage and request services from any device. The app marks American Water's first dedicated mobile offering.

VXconnect's modular design allows American Water to scale onboarding as its footprint grows

American Water VP and Chief Customer Officer Matt Prine said the platform's modular architecture allows the company to extend capabilities over time and onboard new customer populations while maintaining consistent service quality nationwide.