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San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- ScamAdviser's Watchmen platform won the Scam Fighter Award at the Global Anti-Scam Summit (GASS) America 2026, organized by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) in San Francisco, for its role in cutting fraud detection-to-takedown times from weeks to under 8 hours.

Watchmen deployments contributed to a 38% drop in investment scam financial losses

In deployments with financial regulators, law enforcement agencies, and municipal governments, Watchmen demonstrated national-level impact, including a 38% reduction in the share of investment scam financial losses. The system uses multi-layered filtering, expert rule engines, and Large Language Model (LLM) semantic analysis to monitor corporate communication channels and social media platforms for brand impersonation, triggering automated takedown mechanisms once threats are confirmed.

New York – September 22, 2026 -- Evoto AI unveiled Evoto 8.0 at its annual launch event, opening a creator marketplace for photographers to sell presets and creative assets, backed by a $500,000 reward pool. The release spans Evoto Desktop, the Evoto App and Evoto Video, adding an Asset Hub, in-timeline portrait retouching for DaVinci Resolve, story-based culling for high-volume shoots, reusable workflow templates and a production-grade SDK.

Pittsburgh – September 22, 2026 -- Viam will debut BoxBot, a robot arm that opens taped cardboard boxes, at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, running September 27 through October 3. The system was trained on just 125 teleoperated demonstrations collected in roughly five hours over four days, using a fine-tuned open-source vision-language-action model with no custom architecture required.

BoxBot combines visual servoing with a fine-tuned SmolVLA model on one data path

The robot uses image-based visual servoing to guide a cutting tip along tape seams typically 1 to 2mm wide, since no two sealed boxes present identical geometry. A fine-tuned SmolVLA model then handles the contact-rich task of peeling open and adjusting four box flaps. Both systems run as native services on the same machine, with the VLA policy inferring locally on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano through Viam's ML model service.

Los Angeles – September 22, 2026 -- Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has expanded Zum's AI-powered CMX platform to its in-house school bus fleet starting this school year, unifying technology across both district-operated and Zum-operated vehicles.

Zum already operates 450 buses across 405 routes for LAUSD

The company currently runs approximately 450 buses covering 405 routes for the district. The 2026-2027 school year expansion extends Zum CMX to LAUSD's own fleet, creating a single connected platform regardless of which entity operates a given bus.

Kennedy Space Center, Fla. – September 22, 2026 -- The International Space Station National Laboratory's Orbital Edge Accelerator has expanded its second-year cohort to eight startups, up from six in 2025, while raising available per-startup funding to a range of $500,000 to $750,000, up from a prior cap of $500,000.

Investment partners drive higher funding ceiling for space startups

A network of global investment partners -- CIRI, Context Ventures, Draper Associates, Draper University, E2MC, and Stellar Ventures -- backed the increased capital pool, according to the ISS National Lab. The expanded funding and cohort size reflect strengthened investor engagement in space-enabled technology ventures targeting low Earth orbit.

Aurora, Colo. – September 22, 2026 -- University of Colorado Anschutz has received an anonymous $50 million gift, one of the largest in campus history, to expand its CSF Leak Program into a world-leading center for diagnosis, treatment and research of cerebrospinal fluid leaks.

Patient survey reveals systemic diagnostic failures across the field

CU Anschutz researchers, working with the Spinal CSF Leak Foundation, conducted the largest patient survey ever done on the condition. Nearly 80% of patients reported being misdiagnosed, seeing a median of more than six clinicians before an accurate diagnosis. More than 60% said long waitlists blocked access to specialized care, forcing many to travel across state lines for treatment.

Newark – September 22, 2026 -- Medscape has expanded its strategic partnership with the Brazilian Society of Clinical Oncology (SBOC) under a new two-year agreement to widen access to global oncology insights for physicians across Brazil.

Two-year deal targets Portuguese-language oncology content for Brazilian clinicians

The agreement will focus on developing and publishing Portuguese-language educational and medical content aimed at supporting the day-to-day clinical practice of oncology professionals in Brazil. It builds on an editorial partnership first announced in 2022 to combat misinformation in online health content.

Delray Beach – September 22, 2026 -- The global modular data center market is projected to grow from $41.0 billion in 2026 to $93.6 billion by 2031, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 18.0%, according to a new MarketsandMarkets report. The market stood at $34.9 billion in 2025, underscoring an accelerating pace of adoption driven by AI workloads and cloud infrastructure buildouts.

Solution segment dominates as AI deployment demand climbs

The solution segment is set to command $29.85 billion of market value by 2026, the largest share among segment categories. All-in-one modular data centers, which integrate IT racks, power distribution, cooling, fire suppression and security into a single prefabricated enclosure, are forecast to post the highest CAGR at 19.6% through 2031. Skid-mounted systems will grow even faster, at 21.2% annually, as operators seek compact, self-contained infrastructure for rapid rollout in remote and edge locations.

Atlanta – September 22, 2026 -- IPitomy Communications LLC, a subsidiary of Clarion Communications LLC, has released Resolvix, a new suite of AI-powered voice and chat agents built for its proprietary Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) platform.

Resolvix delivers round-the-clock call and chat coverage for SMB clients

The tool set provides 24/7 coverage for phone calls and website live chat, automated lead qualification with accurate intake, and scheduling and next-step automation. Resolvix also supports natural, business-specific dialogue with multilingual capability, targeting small and mid-sized business customers across North America.

"Our customers are looking for practical ways to use AI to improve their customer experiences and employee productivity without adding complexity," said IPitomy CEO Joseph Haines, Sr., adding that the strategy centers on a unified platform combining communications, customer engagement and AI.

Noida – September 22, 2026 -- Scanova, the QR Code platform operated by Trycon Technologies India, has released the largest update in its history, shifting its product from measuring scan counts to tracking the business outcomes that follow a scan.

Conversion tracking now follows visitors past the scan

The update extends conversion tracking onto a brand's own website, reporting pages opened, links clicked and actions completed after the code is scanned. This lets businesses distinguish codes that generate traffic from codes that generate action, placing QR performance on comparable terms with other marketing channels. Scanova integrates with 14 marketing and sales tools, feeding this data directly into systems companies already run.