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New York – September 23, 2026 -- Noma Security has been named a Market Shaper in Gartner's Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security among startup vendors, placing it in the category Gartner defines as "Full-Spectrum, Context-Aware Agentic Security."

Gartner flags a new runtime risk as AI agents gain autonomy

The Gartner report states that vendors in this quadrant analyze the full spectrum of AI agent behaviors, including user intent, agent instructions, memory, tool use, data access, and system modification actions, comparing intended permissions against real-time behavior to flag deviations or misuse. Gartner notes security vendors are refining least-privilege enforcement and intent-drift detection as agents chain actions autonomously across long sessions without continuous permission verification.

Hefei – September 23, 2026 -- More than 900 companies showcased over 10,000 products and technologies at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention, which opened Sept. 20 at the Hefei Binhu International Convention and Exhibition Center and runs through Sept. 23 under the theme "Intelligent Manufacturing for a Better Future."

The 70,000-square-meter event allocated 20,000 square meters to manufacturing innovation displays and 50,000 square meters to commercial exhibits, organized around interconnected value chains rather than standalone product booths.

Anhui's mining robotics cluster demonstrates eight automated underground applications

A three-dimensional model in the smart mining equipment area showcased Huainan's robotics cluster, anchored by T.SPEC and Tangxing Technology, covering excavation, roof support, roadway tunneling, materials handling, hydraulic-support transport, shaft-rope replacement and coal-bunker cleaning.

Ho Chi Minh City – September 23, 2026 -- STARCARES, the corporate social responsibility programme of global multi-asset broker STARTRADER, delivered gift sets, household essentials and cash support to 213 people at SOS Children's Village Ho Chi Minh City in Go Vap during a Mid-Autumn Festival event called "A Full Moon for Every Child."

Aid reaches 60 children and 213 total beneficiaries at the Go Vap village

Every child at the village received a gift set containing a lantern, cookies, a water bottle, a milk pack and a colouring kit. Hygiene, cleaning and pantry supplies were distributed to village houses, alongside financial support for operating costs, reaching house mothers and staff among the 213 recipients.

Oak Brook – September 23, 2026 -- UPG Enterprises LLC has filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, securing up to $6.1 million in debtor-in-possession financing from Firehorse Capital LLC to fund continued operations during a court-supervised sale process.

UPG targets a 60-day sale timeline under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code

The industrial operator, which runs steel processing, manufacturing, distribution and logistics businesses across more than twenty North American locations, is marketing its assets to multiple interested parties and expects the Chapter 11 filing to attract additional bidders. Chief Restructuring Officer John Sordillo said the process is designed to maximize value through going-concern sales while preserving relationships with customers, employees and partners.

Shanghai – September 23, 2026 -- Huawei used a dedicated session at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 to lay out a new architecture for wide area networks (WAN) built for AI-driven traffic, unveiling its Stellar AI Integrated Data WAN Solution and a jointly published white paper with GlobalData on intelligent WAN design for the agentic AI era.

Legacy WAN architecture cannot absorb AI's unpredictable traffic spikes, GlobalData warns

Dustin Kehoe, Head of AMEA Tech Research at GlobalData, told attendees that AI workloads generate massive, real-time data flows that conventional networks were never designed to handle. He said AI requires distributed, edge-enabled frameworks that process data closer to its source to cut latency and optimize bandwidth, alongside deterministic performance guarantees at a granular level.

Ventura County – September 23, 2026 -- Ventura County's nonprofit sector generated more than $3.6 billion in economic activity in 2024, roughly 5% of the county's GDP, yet 46% of operating nonprofits recorded an operating deficit that year, the highest rate in a six-year study period, according to a new report from the Center for Nonprofit Leadership (CNL) at California Lutheran University.

Nonprofit revenue per resident trails California by 63%

The 2026 Ventura County Nonprofit Sector Report found nonprofit revenue per resident stood at approximately $4,388 in 2024, about 37% of California's statewide level. Nonprofit assets per resident reached roughly $5,836, only 29% of the state figure, despite Ventura County having a comparable number of nonprofits per capita as California overall.

Shanghai – September 23, 2026 -- PATEO (02889.HK) has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding with Arm to jointly develop physical AI applications for the automotive sector, targeting next-generation perception- and interaction-driven computing workloads for vehicles.

PATEO's AI revenue jumps 588.6% year-on-year in first half of 2026

The company reported approximately RMB 209 million in AI-related revenue for H1 2026, a 588.6% increase from the prior-year period, as its physical AI initiatives move from proof-of-concept to scaled deployment.

Vancouver – September 23, 2026 -- Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSX/NYSE American: SVM) has postponed its annual general and special meeting from September 25 to October 2, 2026, after its Board approved a broadened package of Articles amendments beyond the Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing alignment originally proposed in the August 12 management circular. The proxy voting deadline has been pushed to September 30, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time to give shareholders time to review the expanded resolution.

Shenzhen, China – September 23, 2026 -- Tencent Cloud has launched Tencent Cloud DataBuddy, an agent-native Data + AI workbench that cuts model deployment time from 30 days to 7 and delivers 5x to 10x efficiency gains across enterprise data teams.

DataBuddy joins CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy as Tencent Cloud's third assistant-class product

The fully managed platform embeds intelligent agents directly into core operations, enabling them to understand business logic, execute tasks, and operate within a governed, auditable framework rather than as bolt-on tools.

Hong Kong – September 23, 2026 -- TECNO has demonstrated a tailored deployment of its mobile AI agent, EllaClaw, built in partnership with technology media outlet Digital Trends to automate workflows for content creators and journalists.

TECNO builds four customized AI workflows for content professionals

The collaboration produced four representative use cases addressing bottlenecks across the content creation cycle: News Background Research, Research-to-Script, Personal Writing Style, and Social Media Risk-Word Check. News Background Research allows EllaClaw to autonomously scan trusted sources, compile a structured brief with historical context and stakeholder perspectives, and save it to a phone's Notes app with an audio version for playback.