Product Launch

VANCOUVER – – November 05, 2026 -- Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) will debut its FCmove-SC fuel cell engine in series production in the new-generation Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen transit bus, with the engine rated at up to 80kW and a specified lifetime above 25,000 operating hours.

The milestone follows an extension of the long-term supply agreement between Ballard and Solaris. The extension also broadens the scope of their cooperation.

FCmove-SC raises power density 57% and cuts part count 40%

Ballard says the engine is designed for city transit duty cycles. Integrated DC/DC packaging lifts volumetric power density by 57%. An internal DC/DC converter and power controller reduce external interfaces, which simplifies vehicle integration.

Zurich – November 05, 2026 -- Swiss AI consultancy Rinascai has launched Konditionswerk, a service that renegotiates supplier terms for a fee of one-third of verified savings during the first 12 months, after which all savings stay with the client.

Konditionswerk is Rinascai's first "task vertical", an offering built around one clearly defined, recurring corporate task. Here, the task is renegotiating supplier terms in both direct and indirect procurement.

Human buyers negotiate with large suppliers while AI agents prepare smaller ones

Experienced procurement managers negotiate in person with large suppliers, working alongside the client's own purchasing team. AI agents analyze contracts and invoices and prepare the approach to smaller suppliers, which are contacted on a rule-based basis.

Contract changes take effect only after the client gives written approval.

Geneva – November 05, 2026 -- Infomaniak has launched an S3-compatible object storage service in its Swiss sovereign public cloud. It contractually guarantees 99.99% availability when customers enable automatic replication to a second Swiss data center. Without the replica, the guaranteed availability is 99.9%.

Infomaniak bills storage hourly and includes 10 TB of monthly outbound traffic

Customers pay only for the storage they use, by the hour and without contract commitments. Queries are not charged, and 10 TB of outbound data traffic per month is included. Data copied to the second data center is billed as storage. For testing, Infomaniak offers a CHF 300 or EUR 300 public cloud credit valid for three months.

Stockholm – November 05, 2026 -- Swedish company 2D Fusion AB says its fusion power plant products are commercially available, with first deliveries of reactor elements and control systems scheduled for Q3 2029 and a first 1 GW plant expected in commercial operation by 2032.

2D Fusion estimates power costs below €0.02/kWh in the short term

The company puts the total production cost of electricity from plants built on its products and technology at less than €0.02 per kilowatt-hour. The figure is a company estimate for the short term. The source gives no breakdown of the assumptions behind it.

Deuterium-deuterium process draws fuel from natural water and yields only helium-4

According to 2D Fusion, the nuclear fuel is extracted from natural water. The company states that the process leaves no radioactive waste, because it produces only helium-4 besides energy. It describes helium-4 as a harmless inert gas.

San Antonio – November 05, 2026 -- The RK Group (RKG), a hospitality company with 15+ integrated brands, has launched Workforce Support Solutions, a unit that bundles housing, dining, temporary infrastructure and security for construction, government and technology projects under a single point of contact.

Three pillars anchor the turnkey workforce offering

The unit is built on camp housing and management, 24/7 chef-led dining programs, and rapid-deploy temporary infrastructure. Housing covers climate-controlled billeting, executive lodging and housekeeping. Food service is prepared from scratch and scheduled around multiple shifts. Infrastructure options include industrial warehousing, OFCI storage structures, field offices and strategic logistics.

San Francisco – November 05, 2026 -- Tessell, a multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider, has launched three specialized agents built on Google's Gemini that let enterprise teams run Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL workloads through natural-language commands. Google showed the agents live at Oracle AI World on Oct. 28.

Database administrators, site reliability engineers, platform owners and migration teams can use the chat interface as a conversational control plane. On Google Cloud, all underlying infrastructure operations route automatically to Google hardware, including memory-optimized M4/M4N Compute Engine series and Hyperdisk Extreme/Balanced storage.

Knutsford – November 05, 2026 -- PortSwigger, the company behind Burp Suite, has made Burp AT available to enterprises. The agentic pentesting product lets security teams delegate anything from guided investigations to autonomous execution of defined tests, while Burp's tooling layer, not the AI model, enforces scope and permissions.

Burp AT gives AI agents professional pentesting tools and research-led methods

Burp AT combines specialist Burp tools, pentesting skills developed with PortSwigger Research, and application context. Agents plan their testing approach, use Burp's web security testing tools, and adapt as they learn. The tools are built to handle the malformed traffic and unusual behaviour inherent to security testing.

An orchestration layer ties the tools into a complete test, and agents follow defined pentesting methodologies. PortSwigger says this produces consistent, comparable results across every application tested.

Taipei – November 05, 2026 -- Taiwantrade, the B2B sourcing platform operated by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), has launched ASTRA, an AI assistant that matches international buyers with Taiwanese suppliers from plain-language requests.

Buyers no longer need exact keywords or manual comparison of product listings. They can describe a sourcing need, including a long or complex business request. ASTRA interprets the requirements, recommends matching products and suppliers, and moves the buyer from inquiry to discovery.

ASTRA offers three functions covering search, recommendation and quotation

Semantic Search reads natural-language requests, including product specifications and applications, and returns recommendations with the rationale for each match.

Smart Recommendation runs multi-round conversations in which buyers clarify requirements, explore sourcing options and identify suitable products and suppliers.

Chicago – November 05, 2026 -- Keeper Security has launched Self-Managed Keeper, a self-hosted deployment of its Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform that runs without any external cloud dependency, extending the vendor into air-gapped and Operational Technology (OT) networks.

Self-Managed Keeper runs in Docker containers on customer-controlled Linux infrastructure

The platform delivers credential management, secrets management and privileged session management through the KeeperPAM Gateway. The package also includes KeeperDB, the Keeper Admin Console and Keeper APIs.

Customers can deploy on-premises, in private cloud, in fully air-gapped networks or in OT environments. They decide where the system runs, how it is networked and who can access it.

ZAGREB – November 04, 2026 -- AlphaESS has installed more than 300 TB125 battery systems across Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, totaling over 80 MWh of storage capacity. The company disclosed the figure at Green Energy Fair 2026, held October 28-29 at Arena Zagreb.

Croatia took over 100 TB125 units in 2026, mainly for frequency regulation

Each TB125 unit is rated at 125 kW / 261 kWh. AlphaESS said the Croatian deliveries were primarily for frequency regulation projects, which support grid stability and create new revenue opportunities for operators. It cited energy policy changes, rising solar adoption, and demand for grid flexibility as the drivers of the Adriatic market.

AlphaESS debuts the STORION-LC-TB150 C&I system in Croatia

The TB150 uses dual liquid cooling for both batteries and the power conversion system (PCS). AlphaESS lists the following specifications: