Las Vegas – September 22, 2026 -- GMA Consulting has appointed Alisa Mirabal and David Robins as Senior Advisors, adding operational expertise in casino marketing technology and hospitality management to its client-advisory bench spanning public gaming companies, tribal operators, banks and government agencies.
San Jose, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- The OpenSearch Software Foundation has recorded a 140% year-over-year jump in global project downloads, surpassing 2.4 billion total, as the vendor-neutral search and analytics platform expands its enterprise backing.
The Foundation announced three new General Members -- Adelean, Intel, and Sidecar -- who will now engage with working groups and help guide technical initiatives. Intel's membership extends its existing open source contributions to OpenSearch, which have focused on hardware-level acceleration to optimize performance.
San Diego – September 22, 2026 -- BRIJ Medical reported zero documented cases of wound dehiscence, infection, allergic dermatitis, adhesive-related skin injury or wound-related reoperation across a 100-case retrospective study of its Brijjit Force-Modulating Tissue Bridges in sports medicine incision management.
The study, published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Experience & Innovation (Volume 7, Issue 2), evaluated 100 consecutive outpatient sports medicine procedures performed by a single surgeon, John A. Grotting, MD, between January 2023 and December 2025. Cases spanned ACL, knee, shoulder, elbow and ankle procedures, with co-author Ege Karadag.
Ottawa – September 22, 2026 -- Nearly 60% of Ottawa's occupied private dwellings were built in 1990 or earlier, placing them squarely within the era when asbestos was commonly used in construction, according to a housing-age analysis published by PatchBoyz Asbestos Removal. Statistics Canada's 2021 Census counts 243,080 of Ottawa's 407,250 occupied private dwellings as built in 1990 or earlier, equal to 59.7%.
San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- Minerva University secured three No. 1 rankings in the 2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges list, marking its debut appearance in the annual survey.
The university ranked No. 1 overall, tied for No. 1 among private institutions, and No. 1 in Best Value Schools within the Regional Colleges West segment. U.S. News evaluated the category using up to 13 factors, including graduation rates, first-year retention, peer assessment, faculty resources and financial resources.
Minerva reports a 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio, with 87% of classes enrolling fewer than 20 students. The university's four-year graduation rate stands at 79%.
San Jose, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- GS Microelectronics U.S. (GSME) and Teradyne, Inc. (NASDAQ: TER) have signed a multi-year strategic partnership to build a semiconductor test and evaluation center at GSME's new 42,000-square-foot Silicon Valley headquarters, with the facility set to open in Q4 2026.
The center will deploy Teradyne's latest test handlers, probers, and automated test systems to support customer demonstrations, device evaluations, engineering development, pilot production, and technical training. Target applications include AI hyperscaler devices, silicon photonics, automotive semiconductors, power management, and RF technologies.
New York – September 22, 2026 -- Ande, an AI-native network for corporate entertainment, emerged from stealth with more than $52 million in seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Duration Ventures, and Sierra Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures.
Client dinners, team outings, catering, sporting events, and gifting are currently managed across credit cards, accounts payable systems, and consumer apps, creating a manual reconciliation burden for corporate finance teams.
East Rutherford, N.J. – September 22, 2026 -- MetLife Stadium has signed a multi-year partnership with ready-to-drink spirits brand Sun Cruiser, naming it an official Proud Partner of the venue, the New York Jets and the New York Giants.
The deal grants Sun Cruiser exposure on gate pylons, video board integrations and daily highway marquees at the 82,500-seat stadium, the largest capacity venue in the NFL. MetLife Stadium ranked No. 1 in the U.S. for both tickets sold and ticket revenue in 2024, according to Pollstar.
San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- Lumos has released MCP Governance, a new capability that checks an AI agent's permissions at the exact moment it attempts an action and blocks it if policy does not allow it, starting with support for Claude Code and Codex.
"We spent twenty years learning to govern humans, and we still have not finished," said Andrej Safundzic, CEO and co-founder of Lumos. "Now we have agents doing the same work ten times faster. That kind of scale is impossible to track with old methods."
An AI agent inherits the permissions of the employee who launched it but then operates at machine speed, meaning an error that might cause a human to delete one Salesforce record could see an agent delete a thousand records in seconds.
San Francisco – September 22, 2026 -- Hotel Nikko San Francisco has partnered with guest technology provider SONIFI to install a new in-room interactive TV system across the Union Square property, deepening the hotel's push toward integrated luxury tech.
The system embeds SONIFI's patented casting solution directly into guest room TVs, giving access to more than 5,000 streaming apps without additional devices. The platform also delivers international programming, premium sports packages, and still-in-theater and early-release movies on demand.
New York – September 22, 2026 -- YELL, a payments platform serving consumers and small businesses, has appointed Raphael Blunschi as Chief Executive Officer as the company surpasses 27,000 customers as of September 2026.
Blunschi spent more than 30 years across Swiss banking, institutional asset management, and digital assets. He was a founding member of UBS's prime brokerage business and, at RMF/Man Group, built a multi-billion-dollar global managed account platform designed to make hedge fund exposures transparent and institutionally scalable. He then spent 13 years at K2 Advisors, a Franklin Templeton investment company, serving as Chief Administrative Officer, Executive Committee member, and fund board director for eight private funds.
Amsterdam – September 22, 2026 -- Telit Cinterion demonstrated an integrated cellular-GNSS positioning system achieving 1-2 centimeter average precision, using cellular-delivered correction data instead of dedicated satellite hardware. The IoT solutions provider is showcasing the technology at Booth M6 during The Things Conference 2026, running Sept. 22-23 at De Kromhouthal in Amsterdam.
The demonstration runs on a CMB100 development kit built around Telit Cinterion's CMB100 LTE Cat 1 bis module. Using AT commands processed through the kit's onboard ST microcontroller, the module establishes a network connection via a Telit Cinterion NExT SIM and downloads Skylark Nx RTK MSM5 GNSS correction data from Swift Navigation through NTRIP (Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol).
Wilmington – September 22, 2026 -- U.S. Bank ranked first overall among 17 leading U.S. retail banks in Keynova Group's Q3 2026 Mobile Banker Scorecard, topping both mobile app and mobile web experience categories.
Keynova found that only U.S. Bank's Smart Assistant and Bank of America's Erica currently support native in-app voice interactions for tasks including bill payment scheduling, transfers, card controls and credit score display. Erica additionally handles Zelle transaction display and P2P payment initiation via vocal commands. Across the broader panel, 35% of Scorecard banks now offer advanced text-based virtual assistants using natural language processing, though voice capability remains rare.
Malibu, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- BIRKENSTOCK Americas has opened its 24th company-owned US retail location in Malibu, California, marking a continued expansion of its direct-to-consumer footprint on the West Coast.
The store is situated at Cross Creek Ranch, 23465 Civic Center Way, Suite #850, a recently opened retail and dining destination in Malibu's Civic Center. The location carries the full BIRKENSTOCK range for women, men and kids, including sandals, clogs, sneakers, shoes and boots, alongside the brand's Care Essentials line and a new plant-based nail polish collection.
Hallandale Beach – September 22, 2026 -- The Hallandale Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (HBCRA) has authorized up to $11.2 million in proposed payments to Vessel Technologies to build 53 affordable homes across two HBCRA-owned properties, marking the housing product company's first-ever partnership with a community redevelopment agency and its entry into South Florida.
The HBCRA Board of Directors voted at its September 14 meeting to move forward with Vessel on developments at 128-132 S.E. 2nd Terrace, planned for 23 units, and 414 S.E. 3rd Ave., planned for 30 units. Both sites are HBCRA-owned properties identified for affordable housing redevelopment, putting underutilized land back into productive use.
Dallas – September 22, 2026 -- Integrity, LLC, a Dallas-based distributor of life and health insurance and wealth management solutions, has partnered with Mint Health Insurance Agency, a Southern California independent marketing organization led by Miriam and Albert Vega. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The partnership gives Mint's agents access to IntegrityCONNECT, which provides on-demand leads, instant quoting, application and enrollment tools, and ongoing plan management. Integrity also offers its voice-activated digital assistant, Ask Integrity, which delivers real-time coverage recommendations and policy lifecycle reminders.
Charlottesville, Va. – September 22, 2026 -- RIVANNA has filed its 100th patent, U.S. application #64/080,862, covering an AI-powered ultrasound pathology detection pipeline for automated computer-aided diagnosis on its Accuro XV platform, marking 15 years of continuous intellectual-property development at the medical technology company.
New York – – September 22, 2026 -- New York City Regional Center (NYCRC) has closed $20 million in New Markets Tax Credit financing to fund construction of an 87,000-square-foot healthcare facility in the South Bronx.
The $20 million transaction draws on a $75 million New Markets Tax Credit allocation from the U.S. Department of Treasury to NYC Regional Community Development, an entity managed by NYCRC. To secure the allocation, NYCRC had to demonstrate a track record of directing investment capital into low-income communities.
Arlington, Va. – September 22, 2026 -- 2U has partnered with CodeSignal to bring more than 400 hands-on, practice-based courses to its edX online learning platform, marking CodeSignal's first appearance on edX. The initial courses are live now, with the full catalog set to roll out by year-end.
A 2U survey found 58% of workers report a lack of AI expertise in their industry, while nearly two-thirds of managers plan to upskill their teams to keep pace with demand.
Philadelphia – September 22, 2026 -- Health Union and DTC Perspectives have launched a strategic partnership to stage an invitation-only executive summit focused on redefining commercial models for rare disease and niche oncology marketing.
The Rare Marketing Summit: Redefining the Commercial Model for Rare Disease will run from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA, followed by a cocktail reception. Attendance is capped to preserve intimate peer exchange among senior-level biopharma marketing leaders.