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Scobey, Montana – September 16, 2026 -- Daniels Memorial Healthcare Center, a full-service rural hospital in northeast Montana, is expanding a student-to-employee training pipeline as it plans a new hospital facility to counter chronic nursing shortages in frontier communities. The 1952-founded facility will be featured in an upcoming segment of the Public Television series "All Access hosted by Andy Garcia," which examines how local workforce development sustains emergency and primary care access in isolated regions.

Tokyo – September 16, 2026 -- Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will stage the Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka from October 5 to 7, opening a direct channel for overseas venture capital firms into the country's startup and investment ecosystem.

METI targets deep tech commercialization as the event's central theme

Organized under the concept "Deeptech - from breakthrough to industry," GSE2026 is structured to move beyond exhibition format toward measurable industrial outcomes. The ministry frames the event as addressing a gap between capital deployment and market implementation, arguing that lasting impact requires technologies to reach commercial scale and generate sustainable economic value.

Amherst, Mass. – September 16, 2026 -- Myrias Optics has won the 2026 SIVA Award for "Optical Technology Breakthrough of the Year" at the China International Optoelectronic Expo, the company announced.

Judges recognize Myrias Optics' nanoimprint lithography platform for AR waveguide manufacturing

The SIVA Awards are established honors within China's virtual and augmented reality industry. The judging panel cited Myrias Optics' proprietary all-inorganic nanoimprint lithography platform for its potential to enable scalable manufacturing of high-performance AR waveguides and meta-optics.

Technology targets smartglasses, co-packaged optics, and quantum computing applications

The company positions its wafer-level optical solutions for use across consumer smartglasses, co-packaged optics, and quantum computing hardware, integrating advanced nanostructures with high-throughput manufacturing processes.

Gstaad – September 16, 2026 -- Tomonari Abe, President of 295-year-old Abe Yoando Pharma Co., Ltd., has become the first Japanese speaker in the history of the Longevity Investors Conference, running September 14-17, 2026 in Gstaad, Switzerland.

Global longevity market poised to hit $8 trillion by 2030

The healthy longevity sector is projected to reach approximately $8 trillion by 2030, according to a UBS Chief Investment Office research report cited by the company. International investors are increasingly focused on Japan's aging population as a testing ground for longevity science and market validation ahead of other nations.

Riyadh – September 16, 2026 -- Thunes has expanded its Direct Global Network to add payout services across six Middle East markets, giving Members faster and more transparent access to bank accounts, mobile wallets, and cash pickup points in Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman, South Yemen, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates.

Members can now process payouts in local currencies through direct API integration with Thunes or via existing Swift connectivity, extending reach into millions of bank accounts and mobile wallets across the region. The rollout follows Thunes' September 2025 expansion of real-time payments in Saudi Arabia.

Dublin – September 16, 2026 -- Davion Healthcare Plc has secured admission of a £30 million senior secured bond to trading on the Vienna MTF, operated by Wiener Börse AG, giving the Irish healthcare group a dedicated capital pool to fund acquisitions.

Bond carries 10.5% fixed coupon over five-year term

The bond, issued through financing subsidiary Davion Healthcare Finance Ltd, commenced in August 2026 and carries a fixed annual coupon of 10.5%. It trades under ISIN GB00BTH2SB89, with a denomination of £100,000 per unit.

Proceeds target acquisitions across five healthcare segments

Davion plans to deploy the capital toward acquiring established, cash-generative businesses in medical devices, diagnostics, medical distribution, healthcare technology and healthcare services. Proceeds are released on an acquisition-by-acquisition basis through Davion Healthcare Finance Ltd, with security granted over each acquired asset.

Aubonne – September 16, 2026 -- Intuitive has secured CE mark approval for its da Vinci SP surgical system to perform transvaginal gynecologic procedures, marking the first such indication for the Single Port platform anywhere in the world.

Approval widens da Vinci SP's European surgical scope beyond five existing categories

The new indication adds to da Vinci SP's current CE-marked applications in Europe, which cover endoscopic abdominopelvic, thoracoscopic, transoral otolaryngology, transanal colorectal, and breast procedures. The system now supports natural orifice surgery across transoral, transanal, and transvaginal routes.

Washington – – September 16, 2026 -- Elveo Mobile and Apex have agreed to establish a dedicated spacecraft factory in the United States to scale production of Elveo's direct-to-device (D2D) satellite constellation, using Apex's Factory X manufacturing model to compress timelines for the company's first satellite production facility.

Apex's Factory X model gives Elveo a vertically integrated production blueprint

Apex, known as The Spacecraft Platform Company, will supply proven spacecraft platforms and high-rate manufacturing expertise to help Elveo stand up and operate its own U.S. facility. Elveo plans to replicate this blueprint with regional partners to expand manufacturing into Europe and Asia, building what the company describes as a global supply chain for its low-Earth orbit (LEO) network.

Shanghai and Hong Kong – September 16, 2026 -- Antengene Corporation Limited (SEHK: 6996.HK) has published preclinical data showing that combining its CD73 inhibitor ATG-037 with selinexor suppressed tumor growth by 62% in a multiple myeloma mouse model, versus 31% for ATG-037 alone and 43% for selinexor alone. The peer-reviewed paper, developed with the Department of Hematology at Peking University Third Hospital, appears in Cancer Gene Therapy, an SCI journal under Springer Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41417-026-01078-9).

San Francisco – September 16, 2026 -- The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) has launched the Model Context Protocol Associate (MCPA), the first official certification validating engineers' understanding of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), as monthly downloads of MCP's Tier 1 SDKs approach half a billion.

MCP usage has surged to nearly half a billion monthly downloads

Both the TypeScript and Python SDKs for MCP have each surpassed 1 billion total downloads. MCP tool calls from ChatGPT users reached 98 times their January level by August 2026, while email API provider Resend passed one million MCP calls in a single month.