Events

Atlanta – September 29, 2026 -- Corgi Insurance has appointed Stephen Segroves as Head of Pricing, tasking him with building rating models for its trucking program and commercial lines nationwide.

Segroves brings nearly two decades of actuarial and pricing experience to Corgi's underwriting build-out

Segroves most recently served as Senior Director, Actuary at Nirvana Insurance, where he oversaw insurance analytics and pricing operations. Prior to that role, he spent three years as Senior Director of Data Science at VoyageWorks, leading a cross-functional team of data scientists, actuaries, and data engineers to develop predictive and machine learning models aimed at improving commercial auto profitability.

Singapore – September 29, 2026 -- MagPro, operating as Nanjing CIPU Technology Co., Ltd., has launched the AeroLev 1850, a 1.85 MW-class air-cooled magnetic-bearing chiller designed to cut water use in AI data centers built in arid, high-ambient regions.

Platform eliminates cooling towers to remove water dependency

AeroLev 1850 uses a cooling-tower-free, oil-free magnetic-levitation architecture paired with intelligent controls, removing evaporative cooling water as an operational constraint for facilities in water-stressed markets. The chiller is rated to operate at ambient temperatures up to 45°C.

London – September 29, 2026 -- Nearly a third of the most AI-capable employees say they are very or extremely likely to quit their employer within a year, even as access to learning and development resources for the broader workforce dropped 8 percentage points, according to PwC's 2026 Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey of nearly 50,000 workers across 48 countries.

AI use jumps 10 points while training access shrinks

Some 64% of workers report using AI at work in the past 12 months, up 10 points year on year, and daily Generative AI use rose from 14% to 22%. Yet only 51% say they have access to the learning and development resources they need, down from 59% last year.

St. Helier – September 29, 2026 -- Petrus Advisers, which holds roughly 3.8% of Iveco Group N.V. shares, has publicly rejected Tata Motors' all-cash voluntary tender offer of €14.10 per share, arguing the bid fails to reflect fair value for Iveco shareholders.

Petrus says the offer undervalues Iveco against industry peers

In a presentation released today, Petrus Legal Strategies (Jersey) Limited and Petrus Advisers Limited outlined three core objections to the transaction. The investment firm argues the €14.10 price sits below comparable valuations for peer companies in the commercial vehicle sector.

Seoul – – September 29, 2026 -- SEMIFIVE has signed a contract worth approximately KRW 70.3 billion ($52 million) with a U.S.-based AI fabless company to develop a next-generation AI inference accelerator, marking the South Korean custom ASIC provider's largest single contract to date.

Deal size dwarfs prior order volumes

The contract alone equals more than 40% of SEMIFIVE's total 2025 orders of KRW 168.4 billion and roughly 60% of the KRW 118.9 billion in new orders booked during the first half of 2026. It also marks the company's first "Spec Hand-off" engagement in North America.

Los Angeles – – September 29, 2026 -- Congress has passed the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies (ACT) for ALS Reauthorization Act of 2026 (H.R. 8205), sending the bipartisan bill to the President's desk just two days before the underlying program was set to expire on September 30, 2026.

Senate approval follows House passage, clearing the path for a presidential signature

The legislation cleared the U.S. House of Representatives before the Senate gave final approval, moving the bill to the President for signature. Once enacted, the law will extend core ACT for ALS programs through 2031, continuing federal support for ALS research infrastructure and expanded access to investigational therapies.

Singapore – September 29, 2026 -- Castrol has launched Castrol CORE, an integrated thermal management offer that shifts the company from selling standalone cooling products to providing end-to-end design, deployment and lifecycle services for data centres.

Castrol moves from product sales to full-service thermal management partnerships

Under Castrol CORE, the company will engage customers earlier in data centre infrastructure development, adding design capabilities to its existing deployment, start-up, operation and maintenance support. Castrol says the change responds to industry research showing growing demand for integrated thermal management solutions that cut the complexity of coordinating multiple suppliers, alongside concerns over supply chain disruption and the high cost of cooling-system failure.

Kaohsiung – September 29, 2026 -- Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd., known as SUNON, will present a full chip-to-rack liquid cooling portfolio at the OCP Global Summit 2026, running October 12-15 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in California.

SUNON targets rising AI chip power densities with a three-tier cooling architecture

Under the banner "Build to Chill," SUNON's booth A19 display spans chip-level, server-level, and rack-level liquid cooling technologies. The company positions the integrated stack to address a range of power densities, operating environments, and system requirements as AI accelerators push thermal loads beyond the limits of traditional air cooling.

Atlanta – September 29, 2026 -- Hitron Technologies and Airties unveiled a joint connectivity platform at SCTE TechExpo26 designed to help internet service providers monetize small and medium business customers, a segment the companies say has been underserved by existing residential and enterprise offerings.

The solution pairs Hitron's high-performance SMB gateways with Airties Pro software, targeting the gap between low-cost residential broadband and complex, expensive enterprise-grade systems. Hitron and Airties are already working with several service providers to bring the combined offering to their SMB customer bases.

Shanghai – September 26, 2026 -- IASO Biotechnology reported a 90% objective response rate and 90% minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity rate for its BCMA-targeted in vivo CAR-T therapy IASO206, generated via a single intravenous infusion without lymphodepleting chemotherapy, in first-in-human Phase 1 data presented as a late-breaking oral session (LBA-11) at the 2026 International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting.

Guangzhou – – September 28, 2026 -- Overseas attendance at the 2026 China (Guangzhou) International Building Decoration Fair reached 11,473 visitors, up 33.4% year on year, with participants drawn from 147 countries and regions despite broader market pressures on the sector.

Exhibitor numbers grow as fair concludes at Canton Fair Complex

The 2026 edition wrapped at the Canton Fair Complex with exhibitor growth reported even as the home furnishing and building decoration industry navigates a shift away from a property-driven growth model toward renovation and upgrading. Chen Penghan, Sales Head of CBD Fair, said new opportunities lie in renovation, quality upgrades, intelligent innovation and broader channel development, pointing to early-stage brand globalization, supply-procurement mismatches and incomplete service chains as ongoing challenges.

Calgary, AB – September 28, 2026 -- Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPRC), the wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (TSX: CP) (NYSE: CP), is issuing C$1.8 billion in notes across four tranches, guaranteed by parent CPKC.

CPRC structures debt sale across four maturities from 2030 to 2056

The offering comprises C$500 million of 4.20% Notes due 2030, C$550 million of 4.60% Notes due 2033, C$300 million of 4.90% Notes due 2037 and C$450 million of 5.40% Notes due 2056. The staggered maturity profile spans 4 to 30 years, giving CPKC a blended long-term debt structure.

Net proceeds target refinancing of existing CPRC debt

CPKC stated the funds will be used primarily for refinancing outstanding indebtedness and for general corporate purposes. Until deployed, unused proceeds may be parked in short-term investment-grade securities, money market funds or bank deposits.

Pittsburgh – September 28, 2026 -- Sharpa unveiled three flagship dexterous-manipulation products at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026: the D01 integrated robot, the W02 tactile dexterous hand and the AE01 haptic exoskeleton data glove, expanding its hardware portfolio for human-environment robotics.

D01 integrates arms, hands and full-body electronic skin for tactile manipulation

D01 combines Sharpa Wave dexterous hands with seven-degree-of-freedom arms and whole-body electronic skin. The robot achieves an approximately 1:1 arm payload-to-weight ratio, a maximum end-effector speed exceeding 10.5 meters per second, communication frequency of 1,000 Hz and end-effector repeatability of 0.2 millimeters. Its electronic skin operates at a 100 Hz tactile sampling rate with 0.2 newton force resolution, extending contact sensing across the robot's body.

Syracuse – – September 28, 2026 -- Fuse Oncology and Associated Medical Professionals of NY (AMP), an affiliate of U.S. Urology Partners, a General Atlantic company, have launched a proof of concept for FuseRx, a clinical workflow platform for radiation oncology, at AMP's Center of Advanced Radiation Excellence in Syracuse.

Prostate cancer volume drives the test case

The American Cancer Society projects about 333,800 new U.S. prostate cancer cases in 2026, making it the most common cancer in American men after skin cancer. Roughly a third of men with localized disease receive radiation as primary treatment, a pathway that typically starts with a urologist diagnosis before crossing into separate oncology systems.

Singapore – – September 28, 2026 -- The Responsible Fintech Institute (RFI) has appointed Professor Lawrence Loh, Associate Professor Eugene K.B. Tan, Professor Louis Chen and Ms Farah Jaafar as Executive Fellows, while elevating Distinguished Professor Patrick H. M. Loh to Co-Founder.

RFI expands leadership bench as digital finance regulation intensifies

The nonprofit, based in Singapore, said the appointments deepen its expertise in law, governance, digital policy and cross-border capital markets as regulators and institutions push to ground digital asset, AI and cross-border payment innovation in legal and ethical frameworks.

Washington – September 28, 2026 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to evaluate changes to its application framework for new tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches, aiming to simplify the pathway for these products to reach the market.

Truth Initiative warns weakened review could undermine public health protections

Kathy Crosby, CEO and President of Truth Initiative, said any changes that reduce the scientific evidence required or diminish the review process would compromise the FDA's regulatory role. The law currently requires the agency to assess a product's components, ingredients, toxicological profile and health impact, alongside risks and benefits to the broader population, including youth and non-users.

Hong Kong – – September 28, 2026 -- Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672) reported a 48.9% placebo-adjusted reduction in psoriasis area and severity index (PASI) scores from a 28-day U.S. proof-of-concept trial of ASC50, an oral small molecule IL-17A inhibitor positioned as a needle-free alternative to injectable antibody therapies for plaque psoriasis.

Once-daily 200 mg dosing matched published efficacy benchmarks for injectable IL-17A antibody secukinumab

The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase I study (NCT07024602) enrolled mild-to-moderate plaque psoriasis patients who received once-daily 200 mg oral ASC50 for 28 days. Ascletis said the PASI reduction was comparable to published secukinumab data, though the comparison was not conducted head-to-head.

Göttingen, Germany – September 28, 2026 -- University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) has become the first hospital in Germany and the European Union to deploy MDClone's ADAMS platform, layering advanced data utilization tools onto its existing UMG-MeDIC data integration center.

UMG becomes first EU adopter of internationally deployed ADAMS model

ADAMS is already operational at institutions including UChicago Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, and Sheba Medical Center. UMG's rollout marks the model's first entry into a German or EU university hospital, building directly on infrastructure established under Germany's national Medical Informatics Initiative (MII).

London – September 28, 2026 -- UK-based AI platform company askelie has launched askVERA, an AI-powered service that converts complex documents and communications into Plain English and Easy Read formats for consumers and businesses.

askVERA launches in two versions targeting individuals and organisations

The consumer (B2C) version allows individuals to upload or paste documents such as tenancy agreements, insurance policies or official letters to receive an instant simplified version. The business (B2B) version integrates into an organisation's existing workflows, enabling companies to simplify customer-facing content at scale and reduce queries caused by unclear communication.

Cornwall Council already piloted the technology before wider rollout

Ahead of the public launch, askVERA had already been deployed with organisations including Cornwall Council to make official documents more accessible.

Oakland – – September 28, 2026 -- Blue Shield of California has pledged a $300,000 multi-year investment to Alameda County Community Food Bank (ACCFB), marking the first deployment under the nonprofit insurer's new statewide Food as Health initiative.

Blue Shield becomes the first and largest corporate sponsor of ACCFB's Food as Medicine program

The funding will expand a program that delivers medically supportive food and nutrition education to eligible Medi-Cal members managing chronic conditions. The investment strengthens infrastructure, data collection, and evaluation systems needed to scale the model beyond its current reach.