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Dallas – September 21, 2026 -- Solidion Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: STI) has combined its Chairman and CEO roles, appointing Jaymes Winters to the dual position effective September 16, 2026, while naming Mark N. Schwartz as Lead Independent Director.

Winters adds Chairman title to CEO role effective September 16

Winters, who brings more than 15 years of chief executive experience across oil and gas, telecommunications and retail, will retain the CEO title while assuming board chairmanship. He previously served as CEO of Nubia Brand International Corp, a special purpose acquisition company, and founded United Energy Inc., which he grew to nearly $100 million in revenue. Winters also taught business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital for more than 9 years as an adjunct professor at Portland State University's School of Business.

New Taipei City – September 21, 2026 -- UD info's DB Series SSD Drives have achieved FIPS 140-3 validation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Cryptographic Module Validation Program, with NIST Certificate No. 5479 issued August 12, 2026, confirming Overall Level 2 status.

Certificate confirms Overall Level 2 validation for DB Series cryptographic module

The validation provides independent third-party assurance that the DB Series meets federal cryptographic security requirements, addressing procurement mandates in government, critical infrastructure, and other regulated sectors. NIST CMVP validation is a common prerequisite for federal and defense-adjacent storage procurement in the United States.

Singapore – September 21, 2026 -- MetaOptics Ltd (Catalist: 9MT) has secured an investment facility of up to US$10 million from White Lion Capital LLC, marking the Singapore-listed metalens maker's first institutional backer from the United States.

White Lion gains rights to up to 40 million new shares under warrant deed

Under the warrant deed, Los Angeles-based White Lion may exercise warrants at its discretion to raise up to US$10 million by issuing up to 40,000,000 new ordinary shares in MetaOptics. The deal arrives one year after MetaOptics listed on the Catalist board of the Singapore Exchange, and follows what the company describes as a period of design and evaluation requests from customers alongside shipped sampling units.

Melbourne – September 21, 2026 -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, NASDAQ: TLX) has signed a strategic agreement to merge with ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE in a deal valuing ITM at US$1.65 billion upfront on a cash-free, debt-free basis, with up to US$700 million in additional contingent consideration tied to regulatory and sales milestones.

Deal structures $1.25 billion in Telix stock alongside debt assumption

Under the agreement, ITM shareholders will receive approximately US$1.25 billion in the form of 105.8 million Telix shares priced at US$11.84 per share, released as Nasdaq-listed ADRs following escrow periods of up to 15 months. Telix will additionally assume US$302 million of ITM net debt at closing, with US$96 million allocated to management equity rollover and transaction expenses. Upon completion, existing Telix shareholders will hold roughly 76.3% of the combined company, with ITM shareholders holding approximately 23.7%.

Southlake, Texas – September 20, 2026 -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) has moved nearly 80 customers into piloting or full production on its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, a year after launching the technology that lets AI agents book, sell and service travel directly on the company's data and inventory.

Sabre launched its MCP server in September 2025, a full year ahead of rivals now announcing similar agentic AI plans

The server acts as a connective layer allowing AI agents to transact directly against Sabre's travel data and inventory. Clients using the technology include Virgin Australia, Flight Centre, and Internova — spanning its Global Travel Collection, Nexion, ALTOUR and Travel Leaders Network brands — with the company citing real bookings and cost savings already realized.

Armonk, N.Y. – September 20, 2026 -- Seventy-one percent of Chief Human Resource Officers say the ability to supervise, validate and override AI outputs is now the most essential workforce skill, yet only 29% of employees rank judgment as important, according to a new global study from the IBM Institute for Business Value.

Benguerir, Morocco – September 20, 2026 -- Envision Energy has energised Morocco's first large-scale lithium iron phosphate battery storage system, a 25 MW / 125 MWh unit installed at OCP Green Energy's Benguerir mining site.

System cuts peak-hour electricity costs by roughly 25% at industrial site

The battery storage system, supplied and commissioned by Envision Energy under a contract signed in late 2025, shifts surplus daytime solar power to peak consumption hours. The company integrated the BESS with the site's solar generation, grid conditions and industrial load profile, and the system is now undergoing testing before entering commercial operation.

Hong Kong – September 20, 2026 -- Reap has launched Sentry, a managed fraud and risk service that eliminates the need for card-issuing clients to build in-house fraud teams or license separate monitoring tools.

Global card fraud losses hit $33.41 billion in 2024, Nilson Report data shows

Payment card fraud losses worldwide totalled USD 33.41 billion in 2024, tied to global card volume of USD 51.920 trillion, according to The Nilson Report's January 2026 figures. Reap cites the millisecond nature of authorisation decisions as the reason fraud must be intercepted at the point of transaction rather than remediated afterward.

Shanghai – September 20, 2026 -- Abbisko Therapeutics Co., Ltd. (HKEX: 02256.HK) reported that its oral FGFR2/3 inhibitor lavengratinib achieved a mean increase of 2.4 cm/year in annualized height velocity among children with achondroplasia in the lowest-dose cohort of a Phase II trial, with a 100% responder rate.

Seven children in the first dose cohort completed six months of treatment with no serious adverse events

All seven participants aged 6 to 12 in cohort 1 of the ABSK061-202 study received lavengratinib at 0.064 mg/kg once daily for 27 weeks. Responders were defined as achieving at least a 25% improvement in annualized height velocity from baseline, a threshold every participant in the cohort met.

Seoul – September 20, 2026 -- LG Display has begun mass production of a 24.5-inch Gaming OLED panel with a 720Hz refresh rate, the highest ever achieved in a gaming OLED display, alongside a 0.02ms response time.

LG Display sets new refresh-rate benchmark for esports monitors

The panel is the first OLED display built specifically for the esports segment, where 24-inch class monitors dominate because they let players view the full screen at a glance. To hit 720Hz at FHD (1920x1080) resolution, LG Display developed a proprietary driving algorithm and an integrated design spanning panel construction to the driving system, reducing motion blur and ghosting in fast-paced genres such as first-person shooter and racing games.