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Austin, Texas – September 29, 2026 -- CyberRatings.org has published new Cloud Network Firewall (CNFW) test results showing security effectiveness among nine evaluated products ranging from 0% to 99.95%, with only four earning a Recommended rating.

Four vendors clear the bar with 99.7% or higher security effectiveness

Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, HPE Juniper Networking vSRX Next Generation Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall, and Versa Networks Next Generation Firewall each achieved 99.7% or higher in Security Effectiveness, earning Recommended ratings. Tests were conducted by NSS Labs, CyberRatings' official testing partner, using the Cloud Network Firewall Test Methodology v4.1.

Stamford, Conn. – – September 29, 2026 -- Tronox Holdings plc (NYSE: TROX) and JX Advanced Metals Corporation (TYO: 5016) have signed a cooperation and investment agreement to jointly fund approximately $32 million on a 50/50 basis for feasibility studies covering new rare earth processing facilities in Australia and the United States.

Companies commit $32 million to feasibility work across two continents

The funding will support a definitive feasibility study for a proposed rare earth cracking and leaching facility in Western Australia and a pre-feasibility study for a rare earth oxide refinery in the United States, alongside development of a US-based pilot plant capable of producing initial quantities of high-purity rare earth oxides.

New York – – September 29, 2026 -- Deloitte analysis projects that shifting U.S. healthcare from reactive treatment to proactive, life-stage-aware care could generate $527 billion in additional potential spending on women's health by 2030 compared with a baseline trajectory.

Deloitte models a 20-year health span gain from earlier intervention

Under a prevention and improved disease-management scenario, Deloitte's actuarial Future of Health model — built on five years of medical and pharmacy claims data from nearly 60 million lives — estimates women's health span could increase by up to 20 years in the long run. The firm's report, "How a $527 billion growth opportunity in women's health can improve health outcomes," compares a baseline 2030 spending trajectory against a scenario emphasizing earlier detection and management across 22 disease states.

Washington, D.C. – September 29, 2026 -- LUNGevity Foundation has committed $2 million to fund two three-year clinical research projects aimed at improving the diagnosis of indeterminate pulmonary nodules (IPNs), a condition affecting more than 1.5 million Americans annually after routine chest CT scans.

The funding, awarded through the 2026 RTFCCR/LUNGevity Early Detection Award in partnership with the Rising Tide Foundation for Clinical Cancer Research (RTFCCR), targets a diagnostic gap that currently forces many patients into unnecessary invasive procedures or prolonged uncertainty when non-invasive tools fail to determine whether a lung nodule is benign or malignant.

Shanghai – September 29, 2026 -- Envision Energy has secured a spot on Fortune's 2026 Change the World list for the third time, recognized for its Mission Gobi initiative pairing AI computing infrastructure with renewable energy in desert regions.

Fortune honors Envision among 50 global companies tackling social and environmental challenges

The 2026 list includes Alphabet, Anthropic and CATL among other honorees. Envision's selection centers on Mission Gobi's approach to converging AI and green energy, positioning abundant renewable resources as infrastructure for next-generation computing.

Mission Gobi targets 5GW of green AI computing capacity by 2030

Launched in June 2026, the initiative aims to build green AI computing capacity across desert and arid regions worldwide, drawing on wind and solar resources in areas historically viewed as energy-constrained.

Berlin – September 29, 2026 -- Huawei has launched Intelligent RAIL 2.0, a portfolio of 20 scenario-based solutions targeting railway construction, passenger and freight transport, and facility maintenance, unveiled at InnoTrans 2026 held September 22-25 in Berlin.

Huawei has already deployed rail technology across 180,000 kilometers of track worldwide

The company says it now serves more than 50 major railway customers and over 300 urban rail lines globally, positioning the new platform as an expansion of an existing large-scale deployment base rather than a market entry.

San Francisco – September 29, 2026 -- Innovent Biologics reported an 84.6% overall response rate for its trispecific antibody IBI3003 at the recommended Phase 2 dose in heavily pretreated multiple myeloma patients, data presented in an oral session at the 23rd International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting 2026.

Trial identifies 360 μg/kg as the optimal dose after testing three dose levels

Among 26 patients treated at 360 μg/kg with a median follow-up of 7.57 months, median progression-free survival has not yet been reached. The cohort produced 11 stringent complete responses, 4 very good partial responses, and 7 partial responses. Response rates climbed to 94.7% among 19 patients who had received only 2 to 4 prior lines of therapy, and 92.3% among 13 patients without extramedullary disease.

London – September 29, 2026 -- Reactive Technologies has launched Nyquist, a technology licensing programme giving utilities, technology providers and equipment manufacturers access to its patented Edge-to-Cloud AI foundation for grid measurement and analytics.

Nyquist opens core sensing and AI technologies to external partners

The programme lets partners integrate Reactive Technologies' proprietary capabilities directly into their own products, covering high-fidelity measurement and waveform capture, precise time-synchronisation, digital signal processing, edge AI, connectivity, data infrastructure and grid analytics. Partners avoid building these complex sensing and processing systems from scratch, cutting development time for grid-monitoring products.

London – September 29, 2026 -- Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L) has agreed to acquire Workera, an AI-native skills intelligence platform used by enterprises including ServiceNow, Accenture and the United States Space Force to verify workforce capability.

Pearson targets enterprise skills verification gap as AI reshapes workforce needs

Workera combines agentic AI, psychometrics and adaptive assessment to measure employee proficiency through role-specific scenarios and simulations, rather than relying on self-reported skills data. The platform gives business leaders a live baseline of workforce capability, including AI fluency, and routes employees to targeted development that closes specific skill gaps. It also verifies whether skills improved post-training, offering measurable ROI on learning investments, and informs hiring, internal mobility and workforce planning decisions.

Taipei – – September 29, 2026 -- ORing Industrial Networking, a Taiwan-based industrial networking specialist with 20 years of market experience, showcased its next-generation IRoN railway Ethernet switch portfolio at InnoTrans 2026.

ORing unveils IRoN switches for onboard rail networks at InnoTrans 2026

ORing's networking equipment has already been deployed in passenger and freight rail projects across Europe, the United States, and Asia. The company positions the IRoN Series as a response to trains carrying more connected devices and data-intensive services, where critical control communications now share infrastructure with video surveillance and passenger information systems.