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Louisville, Colo. – September 15, 2026 -- JumpCloud Inc. has extended its identity and access management platform to govern AI agents alongside human employees and devices, addressing a gap where only 21% of IT teams have adopted governance controls for autonomous agents.

JumpCloud ties every AI agent to a verified human owner and lifecycle record

The platform now treats each AI agent as a distinct identity, tracked from creation to retirement. Agents registered in JumpCloud cannot operate without an assigned human owner, giving IT teams a centralized view of every agent in use across the organization.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center has named Sean L. Berry, PhD, vice chair of physics and dosimetry in its Department of Radiation Oncology, recruiting a 20-year veteran of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to lead treatment-planning quality and safety programs.

Berry moves from a regional physicist role overseeing multi-site radiation oncology operations

Before joining NYU Langone, Berry served as regional lead physicist and associate attending physicist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, managing clinical physics operations across outpatient sites in Westchester County, New York, and Bergen County, New Jersey. His duties included supervising faculty physicists, staff physicists and dosimetrists, regulatory readiness, accreditation activities, budget oversight, linear accelerator commissioning and standardizing radiation oncology practice across multiple locations.

Lexington, Mass. – September 15, 2026 -- Relate, an AI relationship intelligence platform, has named Kristy McCann Flynn as Co-Founder, adding a 25-year HR technology operator to its leadership team as the company scales its customer base and product roadmap.

McCann Flynn brings a $15 million fundraising track record from prior venture

McCann Flynn previously co-founded and served as CEO of SkillCycle, where she raised more than $15 million and guided the company to multiple years of Inc 5000 growth recognition. Her prior senior HR and transformation roles span Pearson, Constant Contact, MoneyLion, Richemont, and Western Asset Management.

Elmhurst – September 15, 2026 -- Saltbox will open its first Chicago-area co-warehousing facility this fall in Elmhurst, Illinois, adding a 114-suite operations hub to its 13-location U.S. network and launching a $5,000 grant for a local product-based business.

Elmhurst facility gives Chicago-area businesses 114 flexible warehouse and office suites

The facility at 934 N. Church Rd. offers suites ranging from 88 to 1,809 square feet, with smaller units holding roughly four pallets for one or two people and larger suites accommodating up to 125 pallets for full fulfillment teams. Members get month-to-month access to loading docks, daily carrier pickups, conference rooms, a content studio, 24/7 security and an on-site operations team that receives inventory and supports carrier handoffs.

Limassol – – September 15, 2026 -- NuxGame, a B2B iGaming software provider founded in 2018, will host operators, affiliates and partners at Stand A326 in Hall 1 of SBC Summit Lisbon 2026, running Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 at the Feira Internacional de Lisboa.

NuxGame sponsors the summit's Networking Lounge in Hall 1

The company's stand doubles as the event's Networking Lounge, giving operators direct access to NuxGame's product and commercial teams for one-on-one sessions across all three days.

Osaka – – September 15, 2026 -- EFM, an ICAT Company, managed more than 100 shipments and moved an estimated 300 to 400 metric tons of air freight for Saudi Arabia's pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, a logistics operation that began with site surveys in late 2024, months before the pavilion's April 2025 opening.

Pavilion draws 3 million visitors and wins Gold Award for Architecture

The Saudi pavilion attracted more than three million of the 28 million total visitors to Expo 2025 Osaka during its 184-day run, which closed on October 13, 2025, and took the event's Gold Award for Architecture and Landscape.

Toronto – September 15, 2026 -- A new viewpoint paper published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research argues that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs fail long-term without paired digital behavioral coaching, citing high patient dropout and rapid weight regain as persistent industry problems. The paper, authored by Noom CEO Geoff Cook, introduces a "habit window hypothesis" and calls for a formal research agenda to test whether digital health apps can extend the durability of pharmacological weight loss.

Boca Raton, Fla. – September 15, 2026 -- deviceWISE, a Telit Cinterion company, will run three live production demonstrations at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, September 14-19, showing agentic AI that detects faults on a live robotic cell and guides automated recovery.

Three live demonstrations show layered factory automation at Booth 236475

Visitors will see visual inspection, robotic sorting and automated assembly running on the deviceWISE platform. A visual inspection station using deviceWISE Visual Intelligence will check circuit boards and other objects for defects or missing components. A robot will sort colored cubes in an agentic AI and digital twin demonstration, while a second robot performs a FANUC AI auto assembly of industrial parts.

Baltimore – September 15, 2026 -- Morgan State University has secured high-performance GPU compute resources through a new collaboration with Google Public Sector, aiming to reach Carnegie R1 research classification and establish a national blueprint for HBCU digital transformation.

Google's Program for Accelerated Research grants Morgan State advanced GPU infrastructure

The partnership, formed through Google Public Sector's Program for Accelerated Research (GPAR), gives Morgan State faculty and students access to high-performance computing for work in AI, cybersecurity, climate science and health sciences. The university is targeting Carnegie R1 status, the top classification for "very high research activity," which would unlock additional federal funding and attract research talent.

Windham, N.H. – September 15, 2026 -- SQAIRZ, a biomechanically driven performance footwear company, has launched SQAIRZ Medical, a new division targeting fall risk among aging adults through a combined footwear and clinical assessment platform.

Fall injuries cost the U.S. healthcare system more than $80 billion annually

One in four U.S. adults over age 65 falls at least once a year, a figure that rises to one in two for adults over 80, according to SQAIRZ. The company positions SENTRX, its purpose-built Balance & Stability footwear, as the centerpiece of a broader clinical framework aimed at reducing that risk.

Mies, Switzerland – September 15, 2026 -- Marelli has become a partner of the FIM Racing Motorcycle Museum in Mies, Switzerland, contributing a dedicated exhibit that traces two decades of Engine Control Unit development for motorcycle racing.

Museum showcases more than 40 official motorbikes across nine themed areas

Created by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, the Racing Motorcycle Museum covers seven disciplines -- Circuit Racing, Motocross, Enduro, Rally, Trial, Track Racing and Electric -- organized around three pillars: Heroes, Technologies, and From Race to Road.

Reedsburg, Wis. – September 15, 2026 -- More than 40 Teamsters at Foremost Farms' butter production facility in Reedsburg, Wisconsin have ratified a new four-year contract delivering a 27 percent wage increase.

Workers secure retroactive pay and preserved health coverage

The agreement, reached by members of Teamsters Local 120, includes retroactive pay, additional vacation time, and preservation of TeamCare health coverage. It also delivers improved overtime protections, enhanced paid leave provisions, and measures addressing chronic staffing shortages at the plant.

Successor clause shields workers from ownership changes

The contract contains strong successor language designed to protect workers in the event of a plant sale, transfer, or change in ownership at the dairy cooperative facility.

Tustin, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Healthcare Success has partnered with Inlets.ai to help hospitals and multi-location health systems monitor and improve how they appear when patients search using AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI.

Patient discovery shifts from search engines to AI chat platforms before hospital websites are ever visited

Patients increasingly research providers, treatments, and hospitals through AI platforms before reaching a healthcare organization's website, according to the companies. This shift creates a new challenge for health systems: understanding what AI tools are telling prospective patients about their physicians, locations, service lines, and brands.

Delray Beach, Fla. – September 15, 2026 -- The global biological safety cabinet market is projected to grow from USD 0.26 billion in 2026 to USD 0.36 billion by 2031, a 6.6% CAGR, according to MarketsandMarkets.

Pharma investment and biosafety upgrades drive containment equipment demand

Expansion of drug discovery, biologics, cell and gene therapy, and vaccine development is pushing laboratories to replace aging cabinets with certified, higher-performance containment systems. Rising biosafety requirements for handling infectious agents and hazardous materials are accelerating both new installations and equipment upgrades across clinical, academic, and pharmaceutical labs.

Denver – September 15, 2026 -- VASA Fitness has become the newest HYROX enterprise partner in North America, rolling out dedicated HYROX Training Clubs at 10 locations across five states as the fast-growing functional fitness racing format expands into mainstream gym networks.

Ten clubs across Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Oklahoma and Illinois gain HYROX-specific equipment

Participating VASA locations include Colorado Springs, Aurora and Thornton in Colorado; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Kaysville, Sandy and Orem in Utah; Chandler, Arizona; and Crystal Lake and Romeoville in Illinois. Each site will feature wall-ball target zones, competition-spec weighted medicine balls, push/pull sleds on VASA turf, and battle ropes to support HYROX-style training and competition preparation.

Sartell, Minn. – September 15, 2026 -- Niron Magnetics marked a construction milestone at its 287,000-square-foot Sartell, Minnesota facility with a steel-raising ceremony, alongside a new investment from Honda Motor Co. through its Honda Xcelerator Ventures program. The financial terms of Honda's investment were not disclosed.

Sartell plant will produce 1,500 tons of rare-earth-free magnets annually by 2027

CEO Jonathan Rowntree joined Sartell Mayor Ryan Fitzthum, Mark Ford of Ryan Companies and John Shaw of Wood to raise a ceremonial steel column at the plant, which is slated to become operational in 2027. At full capacity, the facility will manufacture up to 1,500 tons of permanent magnets per year and employ 175 full-time workers, representing the first commercial-scale phase of Niron's manufacturing platform.

Portland, Ore. – September 15, 2026 -- Material wealth was cited in fewer than 10 percent of conversations about prosperity in five of six countries surveyed, according to a new report from Prosper Global, formerly Mercy Corps.

Research spans 1,100 people across six conflict- and climate-affected nations

The report, titled "What It Means to Prosper," draws on 396 individual and group conversations with more than 1,100 people in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Indonesia, Kenya, Syria, and Ukraine. Rather than impose a definition, researchers asked participants to describe prosperity and its barriers in their own words.

Boston – September 10, 2026 -- Tomorrow.io has unveiled the full instrument architecture for DeepSky, a next-generation satellite constellation designed to close a global atmospheric data gap affecting more than 5 billion people who currently live without radar coverage.

Ocean coverage gap leaves 5 billion people without radar warning

Roughly 71 percent of Earth is covered by ocean with virtually no ground-based weather radar, according to the company. Storms frequently intensify over these unmonitored waters, giving coastal communities and global supply chains minimal notice before extreme weather strikes.

Bengaluru – September 15, 2026 -- Mitti Labs will supply Google with one million high-integrity carbon credits by 2030 under the largest rice methane offtake agreement to date, a five-year deal covering 100,000 hectares of smallholder rice farms across India.

Deal converts 70,000 farmers to methane-cutting irrigation methods

The agreement will transition more than 70,000 farmers to water- and methane-saving irrigation practices, targeting elimination of 3 million tons of near-term warming impact measured on a GWP20 basis, equivalent to 1 million tons under GWP100 metrics. Rice paddies under continuous flooding account for more than 10% of global methane emissions, according to Mitti Labs.

Port Clinton, Ohio – September 15, 2026 -- LogistiQ has launched FlowLogiQ L11, a large package singulator that achieves a 1.5% error rate while processing 15,000 packages per hour, targeting parcel distribution centers under pressure to boost pre-sort throughput.

System handles packages up to 70 pounds using triple the drive motor density of rival solutions

FlowLogiQ L11 converts disorganized bulk flows of cartons and bags into a single-file, gapped line ready for induction to automated sorters. The system processes items up to 70 pounds and 30 inches long, and in test applications with an average parcel length of 27 inches and a 12-inch product gap, it delivered the 1.5% error rate at 15,000 packages per hour. LogistiQ uses three drive motors per 10 feet of belt, compared with one per 10 feet in alternative systems, giving operators finer speed control during singulating and gapping and simplifying restarts after jams or maintenance.