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Grand Rapids – – September 11, 2026 -- Grand Rapids Community College will formally invest Dr. Kathryn A. Rogalski as its 12th president on Sept. 18, making her the first permanent female president in the institution's history since its 1914 founding.

Investiture ceremony to draw national and regional leaders on Sept. 18

The 3 p.m. ceremony at Fountain Street Church will feature Dr. DeRionne Pollard, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, which represents more than 1,000 community colleges nationwide. Guillermo Cisneros, president and CEO of the West Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, will emcee the event.

Mountain View, Calif. – September 11, 2026 -- Cyngn Inc. (Nasdaq: CYN) has flattened a layer of management and consolidated its product and engineering teams as part of a broader restructuring aimed at accelerating enterprise sales of its DriveMod autonomous vehicle technology.

Cyngn cuts management layers to speed product decisions

CEO Lior Tal said the company streamlined its organizational structure, consolidating responsibilities around its highest-priority product, customer and commercial initiatives. Cyngn is expanding AI-assisted tools across engineering and business operations, from software development and simulation to sales operations and customer support, a move it says will improve its cost structure and extend its cash runway.

Rockville, Maryland – September 11, 2026 -- REGENXBIO Inc. (Nasdaq: RGNX) will hold fireside chats at two major investor healthcare conferences in New York this month.

REGENXBIO confirms back-to-back fireside chats on September 15 and 16

The gene therapy company will participate in the Baird 2026 Global Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, September 15 at 8:30 a.m. ET, followed by the Morgan Stanley 24th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, September 16 at 8:30 a.m. ET. Both sessions will take place in New York, NY.

Tamarac, Fla. – September 11, 2026 -- A PuroClean Franchise Owner has surpassed $20 million in gross sales from a single location for the first time in the restoration franchise's history, according to figures disclosed in the company's Franchise Disclosure Document. The milestone underscores accelerating reinvestment across the system, with 20% of PuroClean's 2026 unit growth coming from existing Franchise Owners adding territories.

Multi-unit ownership climbs to 44% of the franchise base

Nearly half of all PuroClean Franchise Owners, 44%, now operate multiple units. The company frames this reinvestment rate as evidence of confidence in its unit-level economics and scalability.

Berlin – September 11, 2026 -- The OECD's PISA 2025 study released today shows Germany's reading and math scores continuing to decline, prompting the SPD parliamentary group to push for expanded funding of its Startchancen-Programm and a new early-childhood quality law.

PISA 2025 shows Germany's core competencies eroding further

Saskia Esken, the SPD's rapporteur for school education, said Germany's school system delivers only middling results in international comparison, with performance in reading and math continuing to drop. She noted that social background determines educational success in Germany more strongly than in almost any other industrialized country, and that disadvantaged children are the ones falling furthest behind.

Hong Kong – September 11, 2026 -- Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672) has initiated a U.S. Phase I trial of ASC36, an oral amylin receptor peptide agonist for obesity, after securing Investigational New Drug clearance from the FDA.

Trial enrolls 86 participants to test safety and dosing

The study will evaluate safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ASC36 across single and multiple ascending oral doses in 86 participants with obesity (BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m2) or overweight status (BMI ≥ 27.0 kg/m2). This marks the fourth Phase I peptide study Ascletis has launched in 2026.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – September 11, 2026 -- Modern Micro Endodontics has opened its ninth New Jersey location at 617 E. Palisades Ave, Suite 3 in Englewood Cliffs, acquiring the practice of longtime local endodontist Dr. Anthony Fasciano, DMD.

Ownership transition adds Bergen County to a nine-office New Jersey network

The deal extends Modern Micro Endodontics' specialty footprint into Bergen County, adding root canal therapy, surgical endodontics, and same-day emergency treatment for area patients and referring dentists. Dr. Fasciano, who led the Englewood Cliffs practice for many years, selected Modern Micro Endodontics as his successor and will remain with the office temporarily to support the handoff; longtime staff will continue in their roles.

Singapore – September 11, 2026 -- Appier's AI Research team has found that large language model accuracy falls by 30% to 50% when the correct response is that no valid answer exists, a gap the company says undermines trust in enterprise Agentic AI deployments.

Rockville, Md. – September 11, 2026 -- Expert.ai has been named one of five Coolest Vendors in Gartner's Coolest Vendor Innovations in Agentic AI for Banking, Part 1 report, published August 26, 2026.

Bank customers report 90% reduction in AML false positives

Expert.ai's AI suite is already deployed at 10 top banks in Italy and by global anti-money-laundering (AML) organizations, which report more than 90% screening accuracy. Customers cite a 90% reduction in AML false positives, up to 70% time savings per alert in KYC screening, and a 40% improvement in customer satisfaction.

Toronto – September 11, 2026 -- Orvana Minerals Corp. (TSX: ORV; OTCQX: ORVMF) said its Bolivian subsidiary Empresa Minera Paitití S.A. (EMIPA) has produced its first doré bar from processing stockpiled oxide material at the Don Mario site in southeastern Bolivia.

First doré bar confirms metallurgical design of expanded plant

CEO Juan Gavidia said the result confirms the metallurgical performance of the expanded Don Mario Plant is in line with design and engineering assumptions. The company is now focused on safely increasing throughput and optimizing plant performance as operations ramp up.

Toronto – September 11, 2026 -- Mayfair Gold Corp. (TSXV: MFG) (NYSE American: MINE) has completed a 23-hole, 6,184-metre condemnation drilling program confirming that its planned infrastructure sites at the Fenn-Gib Project in Timmins, Ontario require no layout changes, the company said.

Condemnation drilling validates infrastructure plan from 2026 Pre-Feasibility Study

The program, which included two redrills, tested locations for key project infrastructure identified in the 2026 Pre-Feasibility Study and confirmed the tested sites remain suitable, removing a potential design risk ahead of permitting.

Singapore – September 11, 2026 -- Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) reported unaudited second-quarter 2026 total revenue of US$31.9 million, down 49% from US$62.7 million in Q1 2026 and 68% below the US$100.2 million recorded in Q2 2025, as bitcoin price weakness and seasonal power constraints hit mining-rig demand.

Digital asset treasury climbs to a record 1,915 BTC and 3,952 ETH

Canaan's cryptocurrency treasury reached its highest level to date at quarter-end, even as the company posted a gross loss of US$29.3 million, widening from a US$22.9 million gross loss in Q1 2026 and reversing a gross profit of US$9.3 thousand in Q2 2025. The company mined 243 bitcoins during the quarter and sold 2.5 EH/s of computing power.

Birkenhead – – September 11, 2026 -- Holiferm and Organica UK have combined operations, backed by continued commercial partnership with Sadorp, to create an end-to-end British biomanufacturing platform spanning ingredient science, product formulation and retail commercialisation.

Holiferm merges biosurfactant fermentation technology with Organica's formulation capability

Holiferm develops and manufactures nature-derived biosurfactants through proprietary fermentation technology at its North West England facilities. Organica formulates biodegradable, non-hazardous household and cleaning products for established UK and international brands. The combined entity now controls the chain from raw ingredient development through finished product manufacturing.

Taipei – – September 11, 2026 -- Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353) posted consolidated revenue of NT$30.18 billion in August, up 38.4% year-on-year, marking the company's strongest August performance in 13 years.

Year-to-date revenue climbs 25.1% to NT$214.81 billion

Cumulative revenue through August reached NT$214.81 billion, a 25.1% increase over the same period last year and also a 13-year high for the January-to-August window.

PC segment growth accelerates on desktop and Chromebook demand

PC revenue rose 40.5% YoY in August and 22.6% YoY year-to-date. Desktop PC sales grew 14.5% YoY in August and 33.4% YoY year-to-date, a gain Acer attributed to increased AI usage. Chromebook revenue surged 166.3% YoY in August, bringing the year-to-date increase to 11.7%. Commercial-line revenue expanded 60.6% YoY in August and 38.9% YoY over eight months.

San Francisco and Nashville – September 11, 2026 -- Parakeet Health and Qualderm have launched an AI-driven scheduling collaboration to reconnect dermatology patients across a network of nearly 160 practices in 17 states, as appointment wait times climb nationwide.

Dermatology wait times rise 6% since 2022, hitting 36.5 days on average

A recent study cited by the companies found patients in 15 major U.S. metropolitan areas now wait an average of 36.5 days for a dermatology appointment, up 6% since 2022. Qualderm, a management services organization supporting medical, surgical and cosmetic dermatology, skin cancer care, and plastic surgery practices, cited this access gap as the driver behind the partnership.

Tampa, Fla. – September 11, 2026 -- GOBEL has launched Gratify, a grateful patient intelligence platform that fuses electronic medical record (EMR) and constituent relationship management (CRM) data to help hospitals and health system foundations identify and prioritize donor prospects.

Gratify merges clinical and philanthropic data into a single Prospect Intelligence Profile

The platform combines clinical signals from EMR systems with giving history and engagement data from CRM systems, using GOBEL's proprietary AI-powered predictive models. Unlike general nonprofit benchmarking tools, these models were trained specifically on combined clinical and philanthropic records for healthcare philanthropy applications.

Pittsburgh – September 11, 2026 -- PNC Bank has launched PNC Workplace Advantage, a workplace banking program targeting employers with 100 or more employees that seeks to boost benefits offerings without adding administrative burden.

PNC ties premium banking tier to workplace direct deposit enrollment

Employees who open a qualifying PNC checking account and set up a qualifying direct deposit method through their employer will be invited to enroll in PNC TotalRewards Silver Tier, a benefit level typically reserved for customers holding at least $25,000 in deposits and investments. The program provides banking rewards, personalized guidance from dedicated financial wellness professionals, virtual or onsite banking access, and financial education through live seminars and on-demand digital resources.

Missouri City, Texas – September 11, 2026 -- Tiger Group will open online bidding Sept. 10 on a complete vinyl window, patio door and insulating-glass manufacturing operation from Showcase Window and Door Company, offering buyers an intact, production-ready plant rather than piecemeal equipment.

Bidding runs one week on a 180,000-square-foot Houston-area facility

The timed auction opens Thursday, Sept. 10, at 10 a.m. CT and closes Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. CT via SoldTiger.com. Assets sit inside a more than 180,000-square-foot manufacturing and inventory facility in Missouri City, Texas, in the Greater Houston market.

Calgary – September 11, 2026 -- Enbridge Inc. (TSX: ENB) (NYSE: ENB) announced that Michele Harradence will become President and CEO effective January 1, 2027, succeeding Greg Ebel, who will retire December 31, 2026.

Board appoints Harradence to CEO role and Board of Directors

Harradence, currently Executive Vice-President and President of Gas Distribution and Storage, will also join Enbridge's Board of Directors upon taking over as CEO. Ebel will remain a Board member through his retirement date and serve as an advisor to the Board and Harradence from January through May 2027.

Los Angeles – September 11, 2026 -- Green Water & Power (GWP) has installed more than 10,000 Autel Energy EV chargers across twelve U.S. states since 2023, making GWP the largest buyer of Autel Energy hardware nationwide.

Network delivers 16.6 million kWh at 99.72% uptime

The combined charging network has delivered 16.6 million kWh to date while maintaining an average uptime of 99.72%. GWP states that energy output is equivalent to avoiding approximately 23,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions.

Deployment spans hotels, apartments, schools and fleet operations

GWP and Autel Energy deployed the chargers across commercial verticals including hotels, apartments, retail centers, schools, medical facilities and fleet operations. Danny Gold, President of Green Water & Power, said uptime matters more to property owners and drivers than installation counts, noting reliability let GWP scale into sectors such as hospitals and schools.