Product Launch

LOS ANGELES – October 31, 2026 -- Hozpitality.com has launched Hozpitality Stories, a content feature that stays visible for 48 hours, twice the typical 24-hour window on conventional social platforms. It is available to the platform's more than 1.3 million registered hospitality members.

Stories reach followers worldwide and non-followers within the same country

Members' Stories are visible to their followers worldwide, regardless of location. Other Hozpitality members in the same country can also discover a Story without following its author.

When a member engages with a Story, the platform's discovery mechanism can introduce it to that member's international follower network. Hozpitality says this lets professional content reach audiences across multiple countries.

PALO ALTO – October 31, 2026 -- KRAFTON subsidiary Ludo Robotics presented Ludi 0.2, the second iteration of its robotic intelligence system, at the 2026 Bay Area Robotics Symposium (BARS) at UC Berkeley, and confirmed that a next-generation foundation model, Ludi 1.0, is in development.

Ludi 0.2 adds five capabilities to August's Ludi 0.1 release

Ludi 0.1, introduced in August 2026, combined a vision-language model for reasoning and dialogue with specialized navigation and manipulation functions. It was built to interpret spoken instructions, maintain conversational context, ask clarifying questions and adapt to changing tasks in supported environments.

Ludi 0.2 extends that base in five areas:

San Francisco – October 30, 2026 -- The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) launched mischief 1, an image-to-video AI model that generates video 5x faster than its base model, on the fal and OpenRouter marketplaces. TBC says it is the lowest-priced image-to-video model on both platforms.

The model is priced at half a cent per second of video. A five-second clip costs 2.5 cents, and 100 clips cost $2.50.

TBC builds mischief 1 on Wan 2.2 and says quality matches the base model

Mischief 1 is built on Wan 2.2, a widely used open-weight video model. TBC says it matches the base model's quality while cutting generation time fivefold and cost to a fraction of the original.

SHENZHEN – October 30, 2026 -- TerraMaster is paying developers up to $30 per eligible app listed in its TOS App Center by April 30, 2027, as the NAS maker launches its TOS Developer Platform and App Listing Reward Program.

The company is targeting independent developers, open-source project maintainers, homelab users and self-hosting advocates worldwide. Approved applications will be published in the global TOS App Center and distributed to TerraMaster NAS users. Rewards scale with the number of eligible apps a developer publishes.

Platform accepts Debian and Docker packages with automated validation

The platform provides development documentation and packaging templates for Debian (.deb) and Docker. Developers can submit online, track review status and use API access to connect submissions to existing CI/CD release workflows. Automated validation is built into the process.

HANGZHOU, China – October 30, 2026 -- Hikvision introduced its Pro-Series UHD cameras, including 16 MP dual-lens models with a seamless wide-angle view, at its third annual SMB event, alongside eight converged security solutions aimed at small and midsize business customers and their installers.

Guanlan AI models move from object detection to scenario-specific alerts

Hikvision said its Guanlan large-scale AI models now cover scenario-specific analytics rather than basic object detection. SMB operators can set automated alerts by describing what matters at their site. The AcuSeek tool lets them find post-incident footage with a typed or spoken query.

To offset the added storage demand of higher-resolution video, the company highlighted Guanlan Encoding.

NEW YORK – – October 30, 2026 -- AndX Global has launched Manila One, a $100 million USD-denominated offering that tokenizes a 54-hectare, development-stage land project in Metro Manila and opens it to eligible retail and institutional investors in more than 190 countries.

The company says it is the first to tokenize a large-scale land development project and offer it globally from day one. The deal is originated in the Philippines and structured through a U.S.-based investment framework.

Offering pays 8% annual preferred return over a three-year term

The preferred return is 8% per year, simple and non-compounding, or 24% over the term. Investors also get an additional 100% return on investment tied to appreciation of the underlying land, subject to offering terms. The preferred return is not guaranteed.

NEW YORK – October 30, 2026 -- Bravo Property Trust, the direct lending affiliate of HUD lender Bravo Capital, is offering mezzanine loans of $500,000 to $20 million, with terms of up to 36 months, to owners and operators of skilled nursing, assisted living, multifamily and build-to-rent properties nationwide.

Interest-only mezzanine loans fill the gap between senior debt and sponsor equity

Each loan is secured by a pledge of the ownership interests in the property-owning entity rather than by a mortgage. It sits between the senior loan and the sponsor's equity, so owners can buy, recapitalize or reposition properties with less cash in the deal. Payments are interest only.

Kortrijk – October 30, 2026 -- Barco will open its first HDR by Barco auditorium in Belgium on November 18 at Kinepolis Kortrijk, close to the company's headquarters, extending a premium cinema format that is already running in six countries.

Belgian debut follows rollout in six existing markets

HDR by Barco already operates in the U.S., U.K., Germany, India, Italy and the Netherlands. The most recent additions were three new sites in Germany. Construction in Kortrijk is underway.

The format was introduced to moviegoers in fall 2024 and made its commercial debut in early 2025. Barco says it has since been deployed rapidly across major film markets in the U.S. and Europe.

TAICHUNG – October 30, 2026 -- Taiwan King Lung Chin PTC Co., Ltd. (KLC Corporation) is promoting Thermal Test Vehicle (TTV) solutions for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) chip-wafer validation, alongside high-voltage coolant heaters for electric vehicles rated up to 12,000 W.

TTV units simulate thermal loads for cold plate and liquid cooling tests

KLC's TTV solutions provide controllable heat sources that replicate thermal loads in high-power electronic devices and advanced semiconductor architectures. Engineers can use them for early-stage chip-wafer layout and architecture verification, and to evaluate cooling performance in cold plates and liquid cooling systems.

The company cites rising power densities in AI infrastructure and HPC systems as the driver of demand for thermal validation. Target applications include AI servers, GPU platforms, advanced packaging and semiconductor wafer devices.

BEIJING – October 30, 2026 -- Benewake has put its 18-channel SR18 360° 3D LiDAR into mass production at a price of US$299, with worldwide availability starting November 30, 2026. The SR18 is the first model in the new SR Series, which will also include a 96-channel variant, the SR96.

SR18 weighs 190 g and draws no more than 5 W on average

The SR18 measures 71.8 mm in diameter and 64 mm in height. Benewake targets robot developers with tight space and power budgets, including makers of commercial cleaning robots, robotic lawn mowers, quadruped robots, embodied AI platforms, last-mile delivery robots and industrial mobile robots.