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Shenzhen – September 15, 2026 -- XtraMaker has surpassed $500,000 in Kickstarter pledges for its M1 Series desktop DTF printer, with the campaign set to close on September 13 at 8:45 AM PDT.

Super Early Bird pricing offers up to 54% off before tiers sell out

Backers who order before the deadline lock in discounted rates and qualify for exclusive final-countdown giveaways tied to the closing hours of the campaign.

M1 Series positions itself as the industry's first desktop DTF printer

The system prints designs onto PET film and transfers them onto fabric via hot-melt adhesive and heat pressing, targeting T-shirts, shoes and canvas bags. It combines printing, powdering, curing and air purification into a single compact unit, and includes G7-certified color accuracy, automatic white-ink circulation and built-in power backup.

Birmingham, Ala. – September 15, 2026 -- Tom Beckbe, the Birmingham-based outdoor apparel maker, has secured a minority investment from Cox Outdoors, the newest division of Cox Enterprises.

Cox Enterprises Backs Family-Run Outdoor Brand

Cox Outdoors was created to partner with leading outdoor consumer brands, targeting conservation initiatives and long-term generational growth rather than short-term returns. Alex Taylor, chairman and CEO of Cox Enterprises, said the partnership reflects shared family values and a conservation ethic between the two companies.

Founders Retain Control, Team and Operations

Tom Beckbe was founded in 2015 by Radcliff and Mary Menge and will continue to be independently run by its founders with the same team and values. Radcliff Menge, co-founder, said the Cox partnership will allow the company to deepen its focus on product quality, customer service and conservation support.

Colorado Springs – September 15, 2026 -- Children's Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs will be renamed Children's Hospital Colorado, Golisano Children's Hospital, Colorado Springs, effective immediately, following a $40 million gift from entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Golisano.

Gift marks largest philanthropic donation in Children's Colorado history

The $40 million contribution, dedicated exclusively to the Colorado Springs facility, accompanies the hospital's induction into the Golisano Children's Alliance, a national initiative launched in 2025 that coordinates strategic funding across member children's hospitals to expand pediatric services and strengthen collaboration.

Sheridan, Wyo. – September 15, 2026 -- The global AI in virtual medical assistant market is set to expand from $2.6 billion in 2026 to $12.3 billion by 2031, a compound annual growth rate of 36.5%, according to a new study by Wissen Research.

EHR-integrated systems dominate the market with 42-48% share

EHR/EMR-integrated systems led the market by offering type in 2025, accounting for an estimated 42-48% of global revenue, as healthcare providers favor solutions embedded directly into existing clinical workflows over standalone applications.

Bellevue, Wash. – September 15, 2026 -- Summation Technologies opened general access to its AI analyst platform on September 10, offering self-serve pricing at $60 per user monthly for its Pro plan and $200 per user monthly for Max, after a year of enterprise deployments at Fanatics, Lineage, and Grid.

Self-serve access replaces year-long enterprise-only rollout

Any team can now sign up, connect data through more than 1,200 integrations, and deploy an AI analyst within minutes, according to the company. Enterprise customers retain access to dedicated deployment teams that identify high-value tasks to automate and handle custom integrations.

Global – September 15, 2026 -- G-P has been named a top technology leader in the inaugural 2026 HR Technology Advice EOR VendorFit Matrix, a report evaluating Employer of Record (EOR) vendors across global coverage, customer experience, technology integration and pricing transparency.

G-P operates 100+ wholly owned legal entities across 180+ countries

The company's infrastructure supports compliant hiring at scale, positioning it among the vendors with the broadest global operational footprint assessed in the report.

G-P pairs its Gia AI engine with in-country legal experts for real-time compliance monitoring

The proprietary system combines automated regulatory tracking with human legal and HR expertise to flag compliance risks before they affect employer operations.

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- Abacus.AI has released a new family of open-weight large language models, Smaug, claiming 10-100x lower operating costs than frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI while improving long-running agentic loop performance by 15-20%.

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- OpenSpace unveiled a new AI agent platform and mobile tracking tools at its Waypoint 2026 customer event, aiming to shift construction workflows from document-based reporting to real-time visual data drawn from more than 110,000 projects.

OpenSpace introduces AI Autolocation 2.0 to track workers' live position without GPS or beacons

The company's upgraded Autolocation technology allows field teams to see their exact position on drawings and BIM models in real time, including offline, without installing bluetooth beacons or other wireless hardware. The tool powers a new mobile interface called Site Mode, which surfaces location-specific project information and opens Field Notes directly from a user's position on the jobsite.

Cambridge, England – September 15, 2026 -- Risilience has been rated "market-leading" by independent analyst firm Verdantix in both asset-level risk analysis and integrated climate/non-climate risk analysis, the highest tier awarded in the newly published Verdantix Smart Innovators: Physical Climate Risk Solutions (2026) report.

The benchmark evaluated eleven physical climate risk solution providers as financial losses from natural hazards escalate globally. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) put the 2025 global damage cost from natural hazards at $224 billion, intensifying pressure on real asset owners, investors and financial institutions to forecast and price physical climate exposure.

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- Shareholder rights firm Hagens Berman is investigating International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) for potential securities law violations after CEO Arvind Krishna disclosed a Q2 2026 earnings shortfall on July 14, 2026 that wiped out over $68 billion in market capitalization in a single trading day, sending IBM shares down 25%.

IBM's Z mainframe business drove a sudden reversal from prior growth guidance

On April 22, 2026, IBM reported quarterly revenue gains of 15% in Infrastructure, 28% in Hybrid Infrastructure, and 51% in IBM Z, with management projecting constant-currency revenue growth of "5-plus percent" for 2026 and a similar growth rate for the second quarter. Executives at the time called it a "tremendous start" and a "record start" for the z17 mainframe, launched in April 2025 as IBM's flagship system for large-scale AI processing.