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Hannover – September 24, 2026 -- Giti Tire's GitiSynergyH2 tyres carried a Volkswagen ID.Buzz across 99,800km and through 92 countries, setting a new world record for the longest continuous global tour by a battery-powered electric vehicle.

Rainer Zietlow completes 16-month, 92-country EV expedition on Giti tyres

Professional globetrotter Rainer Zietlow drove the record route in partnership with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, departing Hannover on July 1, 2025 and crossing Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East before finishing at IAA Transportation in Hannover on September 14, 2026, where he received an official world-record certificate.

Changzhou – September 24, 2026 -- Segway gathered more than 160 guests, including representatives from over 60 shared mobility operators, at its Changzhou facility this month to unveil new hardware and a fleet-economics framework aimed at shifting the shared micromobility industry from fleet-size growth toward profitability.

Segway launches third-generation R1 e-scooter and C Series e-bikes

The company introduced the R1, its third-generation shared e-scooter, alongside new C Series shared e-bikes including the C100 and C200. The R1 features a modular architecture, integrated IoT, improved positioning and rider-assistance technologies, while the C Series applies a comparable platform approach with greater component commonality and maintenance-focused design. Segway also presented the F100, an e-bike built for delivery applications as it expands into first- and last-mile logistics use cases.

Vancouver – September 24, 2026 -- OceanaGold Corporation (TSX: OGC) (NYSE: OGC) reported new drill results from its Wharekirauponga project in New Zealand, including an intercept of 6.3 metres grading 97.2 g/t gold, among the highest-grade results returned to date at the deposit.

Sixteen new holes confirm high-grade continuity at Wharekirauponga's East Graben Vein

The 16 holes, completed since an April 1, 2026 update, targeted the East Graben (EG) Vein and adjacent Hanging Wall (HW) structures. Results included 8.5 m at 41.5 g/t gold from 399.0 metres depth, 9.6 m at 18.5 g/t gold from 401.0 metres, and 6.6 m at 24.0 g/t gold including a 1.2 m section at 107.7 g/t gold. The company said the intercepts extend the southern high-grade zone up-dip and along strike, an area currently outside reported reserves.

London and Boston – September 24, 2026 -- Basecamp Research has closed a $140 million oversubscribed Series C financing to train new EDEN foundation models and push a pipeline of AI-designed therapeutics toward clinical development.

S32 leads a syndicate spanning NVIDIA, Anthropic-adjacent backers and sovereign funds

The round was led by S32, with participation from NVIDIA, Menlo Ventures' Anthology Fund, Catalio Capital Management, European Tech Collective, Firebrand River Capital, Inception Fund, King Philanthropies, NATO Innovation Fund, PostScriptum, Redalpine, The Rockefeller Foundation, Singular, Sovereign AI and True Ventures. Andy Conrad, General Partner at S32 and former CEO of Google's Verily, joins Basecamp's Board of Directors.

Dover, Del. – September 24, 2026 -- Clywedog Therapeutics, Inc. reported that its investigational menin inhibitor balomenib produced a placebo-adjusted mean HbA1c reduction of 0.77% at Week 12 (p0.01) and 0.70% at Week 16 (p0.05) in a Phase 1b trial, effects recorded three months after the drug's final dose following just three weeks of treatment.

Sugar Land, Texas – September 24, 2026 -- Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI) will showcase a live 3.0GHz proof-of-concept demo at next week's SCTE TechExpo in Atlanta, pushing cable network capacity planning beyond the industry's current DOCSIS 4.0 target of 1.8GHz.

The demo, called Quantum30, runs at booth H1448 during the event from September 29 to October 2 and demonstrates live downstream operation at 3.0GHz over a coaxial plant using a concept amplifier, SC-QAMs, OFDM channels, and a 3.0GHz DOCSIS signal generator.

Toronto – September 24, 2026 -- Jaguar Uranium Corp. (NYSE American: JAGU) has reported assay results from historical drill-core resampling at its Berlin Uranium–Rare Earth Project in Colombia's Department of Caldas, with one interval returning 3,570 ppm total rare earth oxides (TREO) and 607 ppm magnet rare earth oxides (MREO), the highest value from the tested selection.

Selected core intervals confirm polymetallic mineralization combining uranium, vanadium and phosphate

The resampling program, first announced March 17, 2026, tested core drilled between 2010 and 2012 during two historical campaigns by U3O8 Corp. Beyond the top-grade interval in drill hole DDB-041 (0.63 m at 170.57–171.20 m depth), additional selected intervals returned 1.53 m at 2,267 ppm TREO and 329 ppm MREO in DDB-003, 1.00 m at 2,176 ppm TREO and 349 ppm MREO in DDB-015, and 0.50 m at 2,532 ppm TREO and 414 ppm MREO in DDB-068.

Washington – September 24, 2026 -- The Block and The Hill will launch Capitol Crypto Forum, a new event series pairing Washington policy access with digital asset industry expertise, debuting November 19 in Washington, D.C.

Debut event follows midterm elections to catch new Congress

The inaugural gathering, Capitol Crypto Forum: First Look, is an invitation-only, half-day event scheduled shortly after the 2026 midterm elections, timed to reach lawmakers as a new Congress takes shape.

Event to convene regulators and industry executives on market structure, stablecoins

The forum will bring together lawmakers, regulators, policymakers and senior executives from digital asset and financial services firms for keynote conversations, roundtables and smaller discussions. Topics will include digital asset market structure, stablecoins, tokenization, financial innovation and blockchain's role in the financial system.

Beijing – September 24, 2026 -- Cloopen Group Holding Limited (OTC: RAASY) shareholders approved a merger agreement that will take the Chinese cloud communications provider private, with approximately 99.98% of votes cast at an extraordinary general meeting backing the deal.

Shareholders clear merger with SpringX Holdings and related entities

The Merger Agreement involves SpringX Holdings Limited as Parent, AutumnX Holdings Limited as HoldCo, and SummerX Holdings Limited as Merger Sub, all exempted companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Under the structure, Merger Sub will merge into Cloopen pursuant to Part 16 of the Cayman Islands Companies Act, with Cloopen surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of HoldCo.

Washington, D.C. – September 24, 2026 -- CACI International will donate $250 to America's VetDogs for every blocked shot recorded by the Washington Capitals this NHL season, a partnership projected to fund training for up to eight service dogs annually based on the team's average of roughly 1,300 blocked shots per season.

CACI names retired Lt. Gen. Mike Shields as program ambassador

Shields, a CACI Senior Vice President and 30-year Army veteran, will serve as the public face of the Good Dogs for Great Americans initiative, which operates under the broader CACI On Defense activation with the Capitals.