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Beijing – – September 29, 2026 -- iHuman Inc. (NYSE: IH) reported a second-quarter net loss of RMB17.5 million (US$2.6 million), reversing a net income of RMB30.7 million in the same period last year, as revenues fell 17.8% to RMB173.4 million (US$25.6 million) from RMB210.9 million.

Revenue Decline Tied to Falling Birth Rates and Cautious Spending

The company attributed the drop directly to China's declining newborn population and more conservative consumer spending. Average total monthly active users fell to 20.72 million from 23.97 million a year earlier, a 13.6% decrease also linked to the demographic downturn.

Plainsboro, N.J. – – September 29, 2026 -- Novo Nordisk reported that adults with type 2 diabetes who escalated their semaglutide dose to 2 mg showed a statistically significant 6% lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) compared with patients who switched to tirzepatide, according to real-world data presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting 2026 in Milan.

Retrospective analysis covers 636,525 patients on semaglutide 1 mg

The COMPETE SWITCH Cardiovascular study used Komodo Health's Healthcare Map claims database, spanning January 2018 to September 2025, to compare outcomes for patients escalating from semaglutide 1 mg to 2 mg against those switching to tirzepatide at doses up to 15 mg. The cardiovascular cohort included 185,705 adults who escalated to semaglutide 2 mg and 23,104 who switched to tirzepatide, tracked via an intention-to-treat approach for death, heart attack, and stroke.

Brown Deer, Wis. – September 29, 2026 -- The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has deployed 14 mobile Wrong-Way Detection Trailers built by TAPCO, part of a statewide push to identify wrong-way driving risk at unsignalized highway ramps before crashes occur. Texas and Arkansas transportation departments have also adopted the mobile trailers since the product launched earlier this year.

Fatal wrong-way crashes nearly doubled nationally over the past decade

Fatal wrong-way crashes on U.S. divided highways rose from 278 a year in 2014 to 520 in 2023, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Over that decade, 4,164 fatal wrong-way crashes killed 5,730 people, with wrong-way fatalities climbing faster than the overall fatal-crash rate.

Uppsala – – September 29, 2026 -- Metacon AB has launched a 20 MW multi-level alkaline electrolysis module designed to cut balance-of-plant costs for large-scale hydrogen production by up to 70% on area-related infrastructure.

Compact design slashes steel and piping costs for hydrogen developers

The Swedish company's new module reduces steel structure costs by up to 30% and piping system expenses by up to 50% compared with conventional building-based electrolysis installations. The stacked design places electrolyser stacks on a lower level with gas-handling equipment and cooling units above, shrinking the plot footprint required per megawatt of installed capacity.

San Antonio – September 29, 2026 -- Alder Renewables has completed 1,000 hours of continuous operation at its integrated industrial pilot, producing on-spec Alder Renewable Crude (ARC) from commercially sourced woody biomass pyrolysis oil. The sustained run validates the company's low-temperature conversion process and generates operating data now feeding into equipment design for its first full-scale commercial project.

Pilot data will size larger commercial units

The 1,000-hour campaign confirmed Alder's integrated process can hold continuous operation while repeatedly meeting product specifications. Alder is applying the results to refine process controls, operating parameters and equipment design for scale-up engineering.

Zurich – September 29, 2026 -- Amcor (NYSE: AMCR, ASX: AMC) confirmed that Graeme Liebelt will step down as Chairman after nearly 13 years, with the Board electing Tom Long as his successor effective at the company's Nov. 11, 2026 annual meeting.

Liebelt exits after leading Amcor through major portfolio transformation

Liebelt will not stand for re-election and will retire from Amcor's Board of Directors at the close of his current term. He chaired Amcor plc and its predecessor entity for nearly 13 years, overseeing expansion of the company's product portfolio and sustainability capabilities.

Tom Long brings CEO track record from MillerCoors and Miller Brewing

Long has served as an independent non-executive director on Amcor's Board since 2017. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of MillerCoors, LLC, and led Miller Brewing Company before its 2008 merger with Coors. Long currently chairs the Board of Wolverine Worldwide, Inc.

Wichita, Kan. – September 29, 2026 -- Landscape architecture firm Hoerr Schaudt has completed a $25 million civic playscape at Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas, featuring what is believed to be the first aviation-themed playground of its scale in the world and one of the largest educational water play environments in the United States.

Adventure Playscape spans 10 themed environments built into a renaturalized riverfront landscape

As master planner and design lead, Hoerr Schaudt organized the site as a continuous riverfront campus of paths, gardens and native plantings rather than a collection of standalone attractions. The project incorporates more than 40,000 plants emphasizing native Kansas species and grasses, 500 tons of Kansas limestone, and 250 new trees alongside preserved existing trees. City water consumption at Exploration Place is expected to decline through revised irrigation design and stormwater management.

NEW YORK – September 29, 2026 -- Software Experts has named CorelDRAW Graphics Suite a leading AI vector generation tool, citing Text-to-Vector capabilities introduced in the September 2026 Update.

Editable output separates CorelDRAW from single-shot AI generators

Software Experts highlighted editability as the deciding factor in its recognition. Text-to-Vector converts written prompts or existing artwork into scalable vector graphics while keeping shapes, curves, colors, and individual objects open for further manual adjustment after generation.

The tool addresses a recurring production bottleneck: AI-generated artwork is typically a starting point, not a finished asset. Logos often need resizing, apparel graphics require color swaps, and icons need reshaping before reaching final production.

Boston – September 29, 2026 -- Atomic, an AI-native supply chain planning platform, closed a $12.5 million Series A led by Klass Capital and Madrona to expand from planning software into a full operating control system for physical goods companies.

Atomic already automates 90% of purchasing for DoorDash's DashMart network

DoorDash's DashMart convenience and essentials business migrated to Atomic in roughly three months with zero business disruption and feature parity with legacy systems. The platform now automates 90% of purchasing decisions across hundreds of DashMart sites. Nick Palefsky, Director of New Business Verticals at DoorDash, said Atomic lets the company apply years of operating judgment across its network daily, including how to sequence primary and backup suppliers.

Austin, Texas – September 29, 2026 -- CyberRatings.org has published new Cloud Network Firewall (CNFW) test results showing security effectiveness among nine evaluated products ranging from 0% to 99.95%, with only four earning a Recommended rating.

Four vendors clear the bar with 99.7% or higher security effectiveness

Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, HPE Juniper Networking vSRX Next Generation Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall, and Versa Networks Next Generation Firewall each achieved 99.7% or higher in Security Effectiveness, earning Recommended ratings. Tests were conducted by NSS Labs, CyberRatings' official testing partner, using the Cloud Network Firewall Test Methodology v4.1.

Stamford, Conn. – – September 29, 2026 -- Tronox Holdings plc (NYSE: TROX) and JX Advanced Metals Corporation (TYO: 5016) have signed a cooperation and investment agreement to jointly fund approximately $32 million on a 50/50 basis for feasibility studies covering new rare earth processing facilities in Australia and the United States.

Companies commit $32 million to feasibility work across two continents

The funding will support a definitive feasibility study for a proposed rare earth cracking and leaching facility in Western Australia and a pre-feasibility study for a rare earth oxide refinery in the United States, alongside development of a US-based pilot plant capable of producing initial quantities of high-purity rare earth oxides.

New York – – September 29, 2026 -- Deloitte analysis projects that shifting U.S. healthcare from reactive treatment to proactive, life-stage-aware care could generate $527 billion in additional potential spending on women's health by 2030 compared with a baseline trajectory.

Deloitte models a 20-year health span gain from earlier intervention

Under a prevention and improved disease-management scenario, Deloitte's actuarial Future of Health model — built on five years of medical and pharmacy claims data from nearly 60 million lives — estimates women's health span could increase by up to 20 years in the long run. The firm's report, "How a $527 billion growth opportunity in women's health can improve health outcomes," compares a baseline 2030 spending trajectory against a scenario emphasizing earlier detection and management across 22 disease states.

Washington, D.C. – September 29, 2026 -- LUNGevity Foundation has committed $2 million to fund two three-year clinical research projects aimed at improving the diagnosis of indeterminate pulmonary nodules (IPNs), a condition affecting more than 1.5 million Americans annually after routine chest CT scans.

The funding, awarded through the 2026 RTFCCR/LUNGevity Early Detection Award in partnership with the Rising Tide Foundation for Clinical Cancer Research (RTFCCR), targets a diagnostic gap that currently forces many patients into unnecessary invasive procedures or prolonged uncertainty when non-invasive tools fail to determine whether a lung nodule is benign or malignant.

Shanghai – September 29, 2026 -- Envision Energy has secured a spot on Fortune's 2026 Change the World list for the third time, recognized for its Mission Gobi initiative pairing AI computing infrastructure with renewable energy in desert regions.

Fortune honors Envision among 50 global companies tackling social and environmental challenges

The 2026 list includes Alphabet, Anthropic and CATL among other honorees. Envision's selection centers on Mission Gobi's approach to converging AI and green energy, positioning abundant renewable resources as infrastructure for next-generation computing.

Mission Gobi targets 5GW of green AI computing capacity by 2030

Launched in June 2026, the initiative aims to build green AI computing capacity across desert and arid regions worldwide, drawing on wind and solar resources in areas historically viewed as energy-constrained.

Berlin – September 29, 2026 -- Huawei has launched Intelligent RAIL 2.0, a portfolio of 20 scenario-based solutions targeting railway construction, passenger and freight transport, and facility maintenance, unveiled at InnoTrans 2026 held September 22-25 in Berlin.

Huawei has already deployed rail technology across 180,000 kilometers of track worldwide

The company says it now serves more than 50 major railway customers and over 300 urban rail lines globally, positioning the new platform as an expansion of an existing large-scale deployment base rather than a market entry.

San Francisco – September 29, 2026 -- Innovent Biologics reported an 84.6% overall response rate for its trispecific antibody IBI3003 at the recommended Phase 2 dose in heavily pretreated multiple myeloma patients, data presented in an oral session at the 23rd International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting 2026.

Trial identifies 360 μg/kg as the optimal dose after testing three dose levels

Among 26 patients treated at 360 μg/kg with a median follow-up of 7.57 months, median progression-free survival has not yet been reached. The cohort produced 11 stringent complete responses, 4 very good partial responses, and 7 partial responses. Response rates climbed to 94.7% among 19 patients who had received only 2 to 4 prior lines of therapy, and 92.3% among 13 patients without extramedullary disease.

London – September 29, 2026 -- Reactive Technologies has launched Nyquist, a technology licensing programme giving utilities, technology providers and equipment manufacturers access to its patented Edge-to-Cloud AI foundation for grid measurement and analytics.

Nyquist opens core sensing and AI technologies to external partners

The programme lets partners integrate Reactive Technologies' proprietary capabilities directly into their own products, covering high-fidelity measurement and waveform capture, precise time-synchronisation, digital signal processing, edge AI, connectivity, data infrastructure and grid analytics. Partners avoid building these complex sensing and processing systems from scratch, cutting development time for grid-monitoring products.

London – September 29, 2026 -- Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L) has agreed to acquire Workera, an AI-native skills intelligence platform used by enterprises including ServiceNow, Accenture and the United States Space Force to verify workforce capability.

Pearson targets enterprise skills verification gap as AI reshapes workforce needs

Workera combines agentic AI, psychometrics and adaptive assessment to measure employee proficiency through role-specific scenarios and simulations, rather than relying on self-reported skills data. The platform gives business leaders a live baseline of workforce capability, including AI fluency, and routes employees to targeted development that closes specific skill gaps. It also verifies whether skills improved post-training, offering measurable ROI on learning investments, and informs hiring, internal mobility and workforce planning decisions.

Taipei – – September 29, 2026 -- ORing Industrial Networking, a Taiwan-based industrial networking specialist with 20 years of market experience, showcased its next-generation IRoN railway Ethernet switch portfolio at InnoTrans 2026.

ORing unveils IRoN switches for onboard rail networks at InnoTrans 2026

ORing's networking equipment has already been deployed in passenger and freight rail projects across Europe, the United States, and Asia. The company positions the IRoN Series as a response to trains carrying more connected devices and data-intensive services, where critical control communications now share infrastructure with video surveillance and passenger information systems.

Kyoto – September 29, 2026 -- Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan (NTCJ) will begin sampling its KA85010UA battery monitoring IC in January 2027, a 26-cell chip that integrates electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) directly on-chip while cutting PCB temperature rise during measurements by approximately 93% compared with conventional methods.

Inductor-based design slashes power loss and heat by 93%

The KA85010UA replaces the industry-standard resistor method with NTCJ's proprietary inductor approach for EIS measurement, reducing both energy loss and PCB temperature rise by roughly 93%, according to company evaluations. The lower thermal footprint allows EIS functionality to be embedded directly into automotive batteries and energy storage systems without dedicated external measurement equipment.