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DALLAS -- September 01, 2026 -- Visual One Intelligence on Aug. 31, 2026 secured FinOps Certified Platform status from the FinOps Foundation, the Linux Foundation body that oversees the FinOps Framework and the FOCUS specification. The certification confirms the Dallas-based Hybrid FinOps and IT Operations Management platform passed a 90 percent threshold across weighted capability criteria set by the Foundation. Visual One Intelligence submitted a recorded product demonstration as evidence and met staffing requirements for FinOps Certified Practitioners, Professionals, and FOCUS Analysts.

Montreal -- September 01, 2026 -- Global Spatial Technology Solutions announced on Aug. 31, 2026 that it will now operate as OCIANA, unifying the company under the name of its flagship maritime intelligence platform. The rebrand covers all products, services and customer touchpoints, with GSTS.ca now redirecting to OCIANA.com. Richard Kolacz, chief executive of OCIANA, said the change marks the company's shift toward delivering maritime intelligence outcomes rather than only maritime domain awareness.

OCIANA Splits Its Platform Between Defense Agencies and Port Operators

For defense and security organizations, OCIANA fuses sensor data, historical trends and real-time feeds into a predictive intelligence layer. The system is built to help agencies flag behavior that warrants investigation, detect threats earlier, interpret intent faster and act across maritime, air and intelligence units.

MONTREAL -- September 01, 2026 -- Global Spatial Technology Solutions (GSTS) announced on Aug. 31, 2026 that it is renaming itself OCIANA®, adopting the name of its flagship maritime intelligence platform. The Montreal-based company said the change unifies its corporate identity with the product customers already use. GSTS.ca began redirecting to OCIANA.com immediately, while products, services, and points of contact remain unchanged under the new name.

Kolacz says the company now delivers intelligence, not just awareness

"Instead of just delivering maritime domain awareness, we are delivering powerful maritime intelligence," said Richard Kolacz, Chief Executive Officer at OCIANA®. The company traces its roots to satellite-based maritime monitoring before expanding into data fusion and predictive analytics.

BOSTON -- September 01, 2026 -- Stockpress, a Boston-based digital asset management platform, launched Content Portals on Aug. 31, 2026, a feature that converts files stored inside its DAM into branded, shareable web destinations. The tool lets marketing and brand teams pull assets from across their workspace into a single curated page for sales staff, partners, customers or press, rather than sending links to folders of raw files. Every Stockpress plan now includes one Content Portal, and customers on the Premium plan can build an unlimited number for different teams and audiences.

SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- September 01, 2026 -- Diffraqtion capped its pre-seed funding round at more than $10 million after Lockheed Martin Ventures and Presidio Ventures, the venture arm of Sumitomo Corporation, joined as strategic investors, the MIT and University of Maryland spinout announced Aug. 31, 2026. The Somerville, Massachusetts-based company builds quantum camera platforms for defense and space sensing. The new capital follows on-sky demonstrations, progress under a DARPA SBIR program, and two NASA awards covering orbital debris tracking and orbital edge computing.

South Jordan, Utah -- September 01, 2026 -- Opalescence Whitening launched Opalescence Go Advanced, a prefilled take-home whitening tray built on a redesigned UltraFit tray that eliminates the outer placement tray used in prior generations. The company, which markets itself as the top-selling professional teeth whitening brand worldwide, said the new product ships ready to use directly from the package. Opalescence has whitened more than 150 million smiles globally since its formula first reached the dental market 35 years ago.

AUSTIN, Texas -- September 01, 2026 -- DPR Construction completed the 74-story Waterline tower at 98 Red River Street two months ahead of its original 50-month schedule, finishing the job in 48 months. The 1,025-foot structure now stands as the tallest building in Texas, DPR announced on Aug. 31, 2026. The 2.7 million-square-foot tower, co-developed by Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential, combines residential, hotel, office, retail and parking uses on a footprint of more than three acres in downtown Austin.

DPR Deploys 6,800 Workers Across 4.5 Million Labor Hours

More than 150 trade partners and roughly 6,800 skilled workers logged approximately 4.5 million hours on the project, with about 1,000 workers onsite during peak construction. Crews placed more than 150,000 cubic yards of concrete, a volume DPR compares to 46 Olympic-sized swimming pools, and built 92 individual sculptural columns, including 15 installed on the roof.

NEW YORK -- September 01, 2026 -- Optimizely unveiled Virtual Teammates on Aug. 31, 2026 at its Opticon conference, a new class of AI coworkers built to take on defined marketing roles instead of responding to individual prompts. The launch includes five role-specific digital coworkers: Chief of Staff, SEO & AI Search Analyst, Marketing Analyst, Personalization Strategist, and CRO Manager. Each retains organizational context over time and operates across marketing tools under its own identity and permissions.

81% of B2B Marketing Leaders Juggle Multiple Disconnected AI Tools Weekly

A global Optimizely study of more than 2,000 B2B marketing leaders found that 81% personally switch between two or more disconnected AI tools each week, including 19% who use four or more. Optimizely said Virtual Teammates are built to function as ongoing members of the marketing team rather than an additional standalone tool marketers have to operate.

MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J. -- September 01, 2026 -- Yorkville America Equities, LLC launched the Yorkville America MANGOS Plus Index ETF, trading under ticker FRUT on NYSE Arca and NYSE Texas, the firm announced Aug. 31, 2026. The fund combines six AI platform companies with seven hardware and infrastructure suppliers inside a single rules-based index, charging a 0.50% expense ratio with quarterly distributions. Tidal Investments, LLC serves as sub-adviser, and PINE Distributors LLC acts as distributor.

FRUT commits 80% of assets to twelve named AI companies

At least 80% of the fund's net assets go toward what Yorkville America calls the MANGO Plus Group: Meta Platforms, NVIDIA, Alphabet, SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, plus SanDisk, Marvell, Micron, Intel, Dell, AMD and Broadcom. Exposure comes through direct holdings, private securities or total return swaps, with direct private-security holdings capped at 5% of net assets.

Frankfurt (Oder), Germany -- Klinikum Frankfurt (Oder) opened a new hybrid operating room on Aug. 31, 2026, backed by roughly 6 million euros in investment, RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG announced. The facility, one of five hospitals in the Rhön-Klinikum network, will serve as the primary site for vascular surgery and cardiology teams treating complex vascular and cardiac cases across eastern Brandenburg. Hospital managing director Christian Petersen and chief medical officer Prof. Richter-Ehrenstein presented the room as a step toward offering high-end interventional procedures rarely available outside specialized centers.

ARLINGTON, VA. -- September 01, 2026 -- Corvex, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOVE) said it will lift critical IT power capacity fivefold, from roughly 1.5 megawatts to approximately 8 megawatts by year-end 2026, backed by a $33 million private placement led by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer & Co. The Arlington, Virginia-based AI infrastructure provider is doubling its existing Mid-Atlantic data center and standing up a second facility in the Midwest, with both sites expected ready for service in the fourth quarter of 2026. A right of first refusal on 12.5 additional megawatts at the Midwest site could push total capacity past 20 megawatts, a 13-fold jump from current levels.

REHOVOT, Israel -- September 01, 2026 -- CollPlant Biotechnologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CLGN) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LightSolver Ltd., an Israeli developer of laser-based computing hardware, in a deal expected to close this week. The transaction moves CollPlant, a regenerative-medicine company known for recombinant collagen products, into supercomputing and photonic computing. LightSolver's technology has already been tested by Boeing, a top-tier global financial institution and unnamed defense, energy and engineering-software companies.

CARY, N.C. -- September 01, 2026 -- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals dosed the first participant on Aug. 31, 2026, in its Phase 2 RENGEVITY-201 trial testing pegrizeprument, an investigational immunosuppressive drug, against tacrolimus in kidney transplant recipients. The Cary, North Carolina-based company, a unit of Asahi Kasei Corporation, will enroll up to 120 de novo kidney transplant patients across multiple sites in the randomized, partially blinded study registered as NCT07290777. Patients will receive one of two pegrizeprument doses or tacrolimus, each layered on top of rATG, corticosteroids and mycophenolate maintenance therapy.

Boise, Idaho -- September 01, 2026 -- Perpetua Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: PPTA; TSX: PPTA) said dual autoclaves for its Stibnite Gold Project in central Idaho are now being fabricated at a custom facility in Europe, one of several construction milestones the company detailed on August 31, 2026. Four drill rigs have completed roughly 5,800 meters of a 10,000-meter 2026 exploration program that has returned high-grade gold, antimony and tungsten intercepts. The update follows an August 18, 2026 ruling by the U.S. District Court of Idaho upholding federal approvals for the project, and a July 29, 2026 ribbon-cutting for a military antimony processing plant at Idaho National Laboratory.

Delray Beach, Fla. -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- The global transformer monitoring market will grow from $3.11 billion in 2026 to $4.98 billion by 2031, a 9.9% compound annual growth rate, according to MarketsandMarkets. The firm placed the 2025 market size at $2.84 billion. Utilities and industrial operators are driving the expansion by prioritizing transformer reliability and asset health as aging fleets and rising renewable integration strain existing grid infrastructure.

VANCOUVER, BC -- September 01, 2026 -- NameSilo Technologies Corp. reported record second-quarter revenue of C$18.8 million for the period ended June 30, 2026, up 16.6% from C$16.1 million a year earlier, the domain registrar announced Aug. 31, 2026. Total bookings climbed 40.7% to a record C$22.6 million from C$16.1 million in Q2 2025. Net income rose to C$1.44 million from C$1.17 million, while gross margin expanded to 28.5% of revenue from 25.6% a year earlier.

Gross Profit Rises to $5.35 Million as Domain and Marketplace Revenue Grows

Gross profit reached C$5,350,193 in the quarter, up from C$4,122,496 in Q2 2025. NameSilo attributed the revenue increase to growth in domains under management, marketplace transactions, ancillary services, and contributions from its two operating subsidiaries, SewerVue Technologies and Reach Systems. NameSilo LLC now manages roughly 6.2 million active domains across approximately 160 countries.

INDIANAPOLIS and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- Eli Lilly and Company agreed to pay up to $2.875 billion in cash to acquire Merida Biosciences, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company developing antibody-degrading therapies for autoimmune and allergic diseases. The figure includes an upfront payment plus contingent milestone payments under a definitive agreement announced by both companies. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Shanghai -- September 01, 2026 -- TCL CSOT opened its exhibition at the Display Innovation China Expo 2026 in Shanghai on Aug. 31, presenting a lineup of OLED, Micro LED and automotive display technologies. The company said its inkjet-printed (IJP) OLED technology has already reached mass production in the professional display sector and is now being validated with device brands for consumer laptops and monitors. Executives cited industry data projecting the global display market to grow from $123 billion in 2022 to $156 billion by 2030.

NEW YORK -- September 01, 2026 -- Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. hired Joel Berry II as a Financial Advisor to its Robinson Private Client Group in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the firm announced on Aug. 31, 2026. Berry arrives from Truist Financial to expand the team's advisory work with current and former athletes navigating Name, Image and Likeness deals and revenue-sharing arrangements. The Robinson Private Client Group, led by Managing Director Tanner G. Robinson, oversaw more than $6 billion in client assets as of June 30, 2026.