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Toronto – September 28, 2026 -- Daedal Systems has raised US$4.035 million to build and deploy its first standardized plasma diagnostic systems with pilot customers in the fusion industry. OMERS Ventures led the round, joined by Garage Capital, Panache Ventures, Ripple Ventures, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund and a group of angel investors.

Funding will build three diagnostic systems for pilot deployment

Daedal will use the capital to construct its first three diagnostic systems and deploy prototypes under contract with pilot customers. The company has also established a research partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Riyadh – September 28, 2026 -- Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) has awarded China's Gotion High-Tech 6 GWh of battery storage capacity in the kingdom's first utility-scale energy storage program, giving the supplier roughly 75% of the total tender.

Gotion secures all three core sites in $1.16 billion G1 project

The G1 project totals 2 GW/8 GWh and carries an estimated value of $1.16 billion. Gotion secured all three anchor sites—Al Muwayah, Haden and Al Kahafa—each rated at 500 MW/2 GWh, making it the single largest technology supplier in the program. The award marks the first international large-scale deployment of Gotion Grid, the company's utility-scale storage system.

Melbourne – September 28, 2026 -- Heidi, the AI Care Partner used across global health systems, unveiled Heidi II, a platform upgrade that executes the administrative work surrounding patient visits rather than merely documenting them, the company announced.

Heidi supports 2.8 million weekly patient visits and surfaces 10 million follow-up tasks

Until now those tasks were handed back to clinicians to complete manually. The average doctor spends 8.7 hours a week, or 16.6% of working hours, on administration spread across four to six separate systems per visit, according to Heidi.

Heidi's Scribe has recorded 175 million visits and 67 million clinical hours to date

Heidi Evidence has answered more than 10 million clinical queries since launch, and the platform has surfaced over 400 million follow-on tasks since February 2024.

Alexandria, Va. – September 28, 2026 -- ISC2, the nonprofit membership organization representing more than 270,000 certified cybersecurity professionals, has appointed Brionne Dawson as Executive Vice President for Advocacy, tasking her with elevating practitioner voices in policy debates over AI adoption, cyber resilience and workforce development.

Dawson joins ISC2 from Google after leading government affairs across 120-plus markets

Dawson brings more than two decades of experience in technology policy, government affairs and commercial diplomacy. She most recently led international government affairs for emerging markets across more than 120 countries at Google, later serving as Head of Middle East and Africa, where her portfolio covered AI policy, cybersecurity, cloud computing, digital trade and cross-border data flows.

SAN FRANCISCO – September 28, 2026 -- More than 4 in 5 adults in the United States (85%) and United Kingdom (86%) say cost-of-living pressures have stopped them from donating or donating more over the past six months, according to a new Harris Poll survey of over 3,000 adults commissioned by nonprofit lender Kiva.

Despite the squeeze, 77% of U.S. and 80% of UK adults still gave money in some form during the same period, the survey found. The data lands against a backdrop tracked by Giving USA, which recorded record total charitable giving of $617.20 billion even as individual donors' share of that total slid from roughly 80% in past decades to 64% today.

Houston – – September 28, 2026 -- Submer Group has launched Corenix, a modular data center infrastructure company targeting neoclouds, hyperscalers, and AI operators, and named former Johnson Controls executive Martin Renkis as chief executive.

Corenix builds AI data center modules on NVIDIA reference designs

Corenix designs, manufactures, and factory-tests complete data center modules covering IT, power, cooling, and networking before shipping them to project sites for installation, commissioning, and operational readiness. The company positions itself at the deployment layer of AI infrastructure, offering a single accountable team from factory integration through on-site go-live.

Phoenix – September 28, 2026 -- Paze will replace PayPal as the Official Jersey Patch Partner of the Phoenix Suns starting with the 2026-27 NBA season, under a multi-year deal announced by the team and Early Warning Services, LLC, the Arizona-based company behind Paze and Zelle.

Paze logo takes upper-left jersey position previously held by PayPal

The Paze logo will appear on the upper left side of all Suns uniforms once the new season tips off. Suns and Phoenix Mercury CEO Josh Bartelstein said the patch process was competitive, with Early Warning selected for its Arizona roots and payments history spanning Zelle to Paze.

McLean, Va. – September 28, 2026 -- ID.me, the digital identity wallet serving over 170 million users, has appointed Susannah Stroud Wright as Chief Legal Officer and Darragh Whelan as Executive Vice President of Engineering, expanding its executive team as the company scales AI-driven identity verification across federal and state agencies.

San Francisco – September 28, 2026 -- The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP), an open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, has achieved compliance with IEC 62443-4-1 and IEC 62443-4-2, becoming one of the first open source initiatives to reach this level of industrial cybersecurity alignment.

CIP compliance cuts adopter security work by up to 70%

CIP estimates that manufacturers building on its security processes, technical capabilities and reusable artifacts can reduce their IEC 62443 compliance effort by up to 70%, while retaining responsibility for requirements specific to their own products and deployments.

Charlotte, N.C. – September 28, 2026 -- Parking activity near SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Los Angeles, jumped 100% or more above baseline on several match days during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to new data released by curb management technology provider Passport.

The company tracked parking payments, enforcement and permitting activity across five U.S. and Canadian host cities -- Boston, Kansas City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Seattle -- during the tournament, finding sharply divergent patterns in how match days affected local curb operations.

Kansas City parking rose on five of six match days, peaking at 45% on July 11

Kansas City saw parking activity increase above baseline on five of its six World Cup match days, with a 45% spike recorded on July 11. Passport also supported the city's mobile payment operations as it prepared for the six matches.