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Lexington, Ky. – September 13, 2026 -- Valvoline Global Operations has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Luval S.A., a Chilean manufacturer and distributor of high-performance lubricants, greases, and maintenance products, deepening its footprint in Latin America. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Deal builds on 37-year partnership between the two companies

Valvoline Global and Luval have maintained a commercial relationship spanning 37 years, with Luval serving as the brand's representative in the Chilean market. The acquisition formalizes that relationship by merging Valvoline Global's fluid technology leadership with Luval's local operational and commercial infrastructure.

Boston – September 13, 2026 -- Duck Creek has secured a Luminary rating, the highest possible score in Celent's Technical Capabilities Matrix, along with two XCelent Awards for Advanced Technology and Breadth of Functionality in the research firm's 2026 Claims Systems Vendors: North America P&C Insurance report.

Celent names Duck Creek Claims a top performer for third consecutive year

The recognition marks the third consecutive time Duck Creek has received Celent honors for its claims solution. Celent evaluated vendors on functionality, technology architecture, and customer base and support, reserving the Luminary distinction for the strongest performers across both technical criteria.

Provo, Utah – September 13, 2026 -- Qualtrics has introduced its XM Data & AI Platform, a system designed to close what the company calls the "Experience Gap" -- a divide between customer expectations and delivery that it estimates puts close to $3 trillion in sales at risk globally.

Qualtrics builds new platform on data from 18,000 organizations and 41,000 healthcare facilities

The platform consolidates more than two decades of Qualtrics experience data across 18,000 organizations with four decades of healthcare experience data from Press Ganey, spanning over 41,000 facilities. Qualtrics acquired Press Ganey Forsta in May 2026 for $6.75 billion, a deal the company says added regulatory-grade governance and anonymized health data to its experience dataset.

Los Angeles – September 13, 2026 -- BLAZE has launched the BLAZE E-Commerce API, a headless commerce solution giving licensed cannabis dispensaries and multi-state operators full creative and technical control over their online storefronts while retaining compliance, inventory, and payment infrastructure required in regulated retail.

API grants developers full access to product, cart, order, and compliance data

The BLAZE E-Commerce API allows teams to build fully custom websites or in-store kiosks. It connects natively with BLAZE Retail POS, syncing inventory, pricing, and order data between a dispensary's physical and digital storefronts with minimal maintenance.

Moriarty, New Mexico – September 13, 2026 -- Sceye's ST1 high-altitude platform completed a nearly 30,000 km round-trip flight from New Mexico to Japan and back, re-entering continental U.S. airspace on September 4, 2026 and reaching Moriarty, New Mexico on September 5, 2026, where the company conducted final vehicle testing and a planned descent.

ST1 marks Sceye's first flight to Asia in partnership with SoftBank

The month-long mission was conducted with SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434) and represents Sceye's first flight into Asian airspace. ST1 carried SceyeCELL, described as a first-of-its-kind stratospheric "cell tower in the sky" built to deliver wide-area mobile broadband directly to standard devices. At full scale, one Sceye HAPS is designed to cover an area equivalent to roughly 500 terrestrial towers.

Moriarty, New Mexico – September 13, 2026 -- Sceye's ST1 high-altitude platform station has completed a nearly 30,000-kilometer round trip between New Mexico and Japan, re-entering the continental United States on September 4, 2026, and reaching the company's Moriarty headquarters airspace on September 5 for final tests and controlled descent.

ST1 marks Sceye's first flight into Asian airspace under a SoftBank partnership

The month-long mission, conducted with Japanese telecom operator SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434), represents a commercial milestone for high-altitude platform station (HAPS) deployment. ST1 operated in Japanese airspace for more than seven days, maintaining continuous position over Japan's coast with a station-keeping radius of just 5 kilometers at altitudes between 16.5 and 17 km.

Salt Lake City – – September 13, 2026 -- Netcraft now provides digital risk protection to seven of the top 12 U.S. financial institutions after five additional banks selected the firm in 2026, the cybercrime detection company announced. The company also serves nine of the world's top 15 banks.

Netcraft surpasses 4.1 million takedowns for 2026, exceeding its full 2025 total

Netcraft passed 4.1 million takedowns for the year in early September 2026, a figure that already eclipses its entire 2025 output. The company attributes the surge to accelerating new customer growth, rising volumes of AI-driven attacks, and expanded coverage through Preemptive Domain Disruption, Phone Scam Disruption, and enhanced social media protection.

Miami – September 13, 2026 -- Acqualina Resort & Residences, a Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five Diamond property named USA Today's "No. 1 Best Destination Resort" for the sixth time in 2026, has relaunched its website in partnership with Miami-based agency Digital Silk.

Digital Silk rebuilt Acqualina's site around four business priorities: revenue, brand awareness, credibility and guest loyalty.

The redesign followed a full audit of positioning, audiences and business goals, producing a new brand book, style guide and custom CMS. The final build integrates a booking engine, interactive maps, event calendars and a live beach camera, with distinct navigation paths for accommodations, dining, spa and events.

Houston – September 13, 2026 -- Nauticus Robotics, Inc. (NASDAQ: KITT) has commercially released Nauticus ToolKITT, a licensed autonomy software suite that retrofits onto remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) already deployed on live subsea projects, the company confirmed during its most recent earnings call.

Software cuts pilot workload without replacing existing ROV fleets

Nauticus ToolKITT is offered with a Pilot Assist module designed to hold vehicles steady, compensate for currents, and support waypoint navigation while the pilot retains full operational supervision. The system integrates with a vehicle manufacturer's existing OEM control software rather than replacing it, allowing operators to add autonomous functions without purchasing new vehicles.

Los Angeles – September 13, 2026 -- Hyper3D has launched WorldGen, a world-generation model that converts a single image into a 3D scene made up of independent, editable objects, extending the company's generative 3D technology beyond single-object creation into full scene reconstruction for robotics, filmmaking and game development.

Cambridge, Mass. – September 13, 2026 -- Solstice Oncology has launched with a $225 million Series A financing led by RA Capital Management, with participation from Canaan Partners, Forbion and other investors, to advance a second-generation CTLA-4 antibody into earlier-stage cancer treatment.

Solstice secures $225 million to fund neoadjuvant immuno-oncology program

The clinical-stage company is focused on treating cancer in the neoadjuvant setting, before tumors have hardened resistance to therapy. Its lead candidate, porustobart, is a differentiated, Fc-enhanced CTLA-4 antibody being developed across two clinical indications, including microsatellite-stable (MSS) colon cancer and a second, undisclosed indication.

Lufkin – September 13, 2026 -- Lemon Seed Marketing will host its seventh annual Lemon Seed Conference, themed "Into the Wilderness," on March 3-6, 2027, at Timber Creek Church's Lufkin, Texas campus.

Event combines two days of education with three days of networking for home service leaders

The conference targets home service business owners and leaders, offering sessions on finance and operations, leadership and team building, and community engagement alongside a vendor expo. Crystal Williams, co-owner and lead strategist at Lemon Seed, said the "wilderness" theme reflects how independent home service owners navigate a competitive marketing landscape.

Los Angeles – September 13, 2026 -- Partillion Bioscience has secured a two-year, $2.1 million NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), pushing the company's total non-dilutive federal funding past $8 million.

Tenth SBIR grant matches private capital raised to date

The award, Partillion's 10th SBIR grant, was competitively secured through NIH's Direct-to-Phase II mechanism and roughly matches the company's private investment total, with no additional equity exchanged. The funding, awarded under grant number R44GM165220, will support development of the company's Cell-Cell-seq workflows over two years.

Whites Creek, Tennessee – September 13, 2026 -- Brennan Investment Group has commenced construction on a 210,000 square-foot, Class A speculative industrial facility on 17 acres in Whites Creek, Tennessee, with completion targeted for the second quarter of 2027.

Site sits eight miles from downtown Nashville with direct interstate access

The property is located less than a half-mile from the Interstate 24 interchange at Old Hickory Boulevard, giving future occupiers access to Nashville's three major interstates. Andrew Mazey, Brennan's Senior Vice President for the Nashville and Atlanta regions, said the location will draw last-mile and regional distribution users, and sits a 30-minute drive from Clarksville, Tennessee, a fast-growing manufacturing market.

Singapore – September 13, 2026 -- SuperX AI Technology Limited (NASDAQ: SUPX) repurchased 119,360 ordinary shares on September 8, 2026, at an average net price of US$7.7691 per share, a transaction valued at roughly US$927,000.

Board authorizes $20 million buyback program through August 2027

SuperX's Board of Directors approved the 2026 Repurchase Program on August 6, 2026, granting management authority to repurchase up to US$20 million of ordinary shares over the following twelve months. The company stated the move reflects Board and management confidence that current market valuation does not fully capture the firm's intrinsic value and long-term growth potential.

New York – September 13, 2026 -- Eddid Securities USA Inc., a FINRA-registered introducing broker-dealer, has secured FINRA-approved correspondent clearing arrangements with tZERO Group under FINRA Rule 4311, granting its clients regulated access to digital asset securities trading and custody.

Eddid USA gains access to tZERO Securities ATS for eligible digital asset securities

Eddid USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Eddid Financial, has entered agreements with tZERO's regulated broker-dealer subsidiaries covering trading, clearing, and custody. As a subscriber to the tZERO Securities ATS, operated by tZERO Securities, LLC, Eddid USA can now facilitate customer trading in eligible securities, including digital asset securities.

Toronto – September 13, 2026 -- Cardiol Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRDL) (TSX: CRDL) will hold a fireside chat at the H.C. Wainwright 28th Annual Global Investment Conference in New York on September 14, 2026, at 10:30 a.m. EDT.

Cardiol schedules investor session at Lotte New York Palace Hotel

The session takes place in the Louis Room on the fourth floor of the venue. A live webcast will be available under the Events & Presentations section of the company's investor website.

Company advances Phase III trial for recurrent pericarditis treatment

Cardiol's lead candidate, CardiolRx, is being evaluated in the pivotal Phase III MAVERIC trial (NCT06708299) for recurrent pericarditis, following the completed Phase II MAvERIC-Pilot study (NCT05494788). The U.S. FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation to CardiolRx for pericarditis, including the recurrent form of the disease.

Sydney – September 13, 2026 -- Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: KZIA) has dosed the first patient in Arm A of PNOC035, a Phase 2 platform study testing paxalisib combined with gemcitabine for recurrent or progressive atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), an aggressive pediatric brain cancer with no approved therapies.

Preclinical data showed the combination nearly quadrupled median survival in an AT/RT model

In an orthotopic AT/RT preclinical model, the paxalisib-gemcitabine combination extended median survival from 22 to 82.5 days (p0.0001) and showed complementary anti-tumor activity across multiple AT/RT cell lines. These findings, previously presented at ISPNO, AACR and Neuro-Oncology meetings, formed the scientific basis for advancing into the multicenter PNOC035 trial.

New York – – September 12, 2026 -- Brand Engagement Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNAI) and Cataneo GmbH will present an AI-enhanced version of the MYDAS advertising platform at IBC2026, targeting broadcasters and media companies still running on legacy on-premises systems.

MYDAS already processes inventory for more than 1,000 media brands

Cataneo's cloud-native MYDAS platform manages advertising sales, scheduling, traffic, content management, monetization, analytics, CRM integration, and real-time reporting across more than 1,000 media brands and over 200 broadcast and digital channels worldwide, including major U.S. film studios.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the largest financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region, has confirmed the program for the inaugural Dubai Future Finance Week, running from November 2 to 6, 2026, with more than 850 speakers and over 85 events across 14 stages in the city.

DIFC schedules 12 specialized forums under a single financial-sector platform

The event, themed "Finance Reinvented: Converging Innovation, Strategy and Purpose," is structured around six focus areas: fintech, tokenization, Islamic finance, wealth management, sustainable finance and private capital. Each forum is designed to connect global companies, market operators and regulators around a specific segment of financial-sector transformation.