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Hangzhou, China – September 17, 2026 -- Geely Farizon New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group will make its first appearance at Europe's largest commercial vehicle trade fair, showcasing three all-electric models at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover from September 14-20.

Homtruck heavy-duty electric truck makes its official European debut with 600-kWh battery

Geely Farizon will present the Homtruck, a heavy-duty electric truck built for European operating requirements, delivering over 500 km of range from a 600-kWh battery. The company describes the vehicle as its core technological benchmark, exhibited at outdoor Booth P55 alongside the Farizon SV and V7E.

Amsterdam – September 17, 2026 -- NetActuate has activated NETINT Quadra Video Processing Units (VPUs) in 15 of its global points of presence, offering engineering teams a self-service alternative to hyperscaler transcoding services and direct hardware procurement.

VPU-as-a-Service eliminates hardware procurement for video encoding teams

The expansion builds on a partnership between NetActuate and NETINT Technologies first announced in February 2026. Customers can attach a NETINT VPU directly to a virtual machine or managed Kubernetes node via secure passthrough, gaining full pipeline control, tooling, and observability without buying servers or VPU cards outright. Bare metal integrations are also available, and additional custom deployments can be built in markets beyond the initial 15 locations.

Beijing – September 17, 2026 -- Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE: CMCM) reported total revenue of RMB266.1 million (US$39.2 million) for the quarter ended September 17, 2026, down 9.9% year over year but up 2.7% quarter over quarter, as growth in cloud, AI infrastructure and robotics offset a sharp decline in advertising agency services.

Houston – September 17, 2026 -- Venus Aerospace has officially opened a new propulsion test stand at the Houston Spaceport, expanding its capacity to test rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) technology at higher thrust levels and for longer durations.

Texas Space Commission funding backs new test infrastructure

The facility was funded through the Texas Space Commission's Space Exploration and Aeronautics Research Fund, a state program supporting aerospace and space economy growth. Venus Aerospace completed the stand on time and on budget.

Costa Mesa, Calif. – September 17, 2026 -- Funraise has launched Funraise Events, an integrated fundraising events suite that connects ticketing, auctions, and guest check-in directly to a nonprofit's donor management system, eliminating the manual data re-entry that has long plagued post-event reconciliation.

Funraise builds a single workflow to replace disconnected point solutions

The platform unifies ticketing and registration, table management, live auctions, paddle raises, and real-time reporting into one system tied to a nonprofit's existing donor CRM, campaign sites, and email/SMS communications. Every ticket sale, sponsorship, meal choice, pledge, and paddle raise flows automatically into the same donor record used across an organization's other fundraising tools, removing the need to export and re-import data into separate software.

Redmond, Wash. – September 17, 2026 -- XKL LLC has begun global shipments of its MediaLight Xponder and Muxponder systems, a 1RU optical transport platform offering 100G and 400G capacity with zero recurring software licensing fees, the company announced. The systems started shipping to customers in August 2026, targeting enterprise, cloud, and regional service provider networks facing hardware lead times of 20 to 60-plus weeks industry-wide.

Compact chassis packs 24 license-free transceiver ports into a single rack unit

The MediaLight platform consolidates high-density optical transport into a 1RU form factor, eliminating multi-linecard chassis complexity. Each unit supports 24 license-free QSFP-DD/QSFP28 transceiver ports with soft-configurable 100G and 400G transport, reducing rack space and power consumption compared to legacy multi-card systems.

Providence, R.I. – September 17, 2026 -- Havoc, a U.S. collaborative autonomy company, and CSBC Corporation, Taiwan, the island's largest shipbuilder, have signed a partnership to pursue licensed co-production of autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) for Taiwan's maritime security.

Partnership pairs U.S. autonomy software with Taiwan-built hulls

Under the agreement, Havoc's collaborative autonomy software will be integrated onto ASV platforms built by CSBC in Taiwan, with production and lifecycle sustainment handled locally. The deal targets Taiwan's domestic shipbuilding capacity, headquartered in Kaohsiung with shipyards in Kaohsiung and Keelung, founded in 1973.

Baton Rouge, La. – September 17, 2026 -- APTIM has been selected for a $145 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Contract with the US Department of the Navy to provide Architect-Engineer services for Petroleum, Oils, and Lubricants (POL) systems worldwide, with work scheduled through August 2031.

NAVFAC EXWC awards APTIM engineering role covering global fuel infrastructure

The contract, administered by the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC), covers engineering and design services for POL systems and supporting facilities at Navy and Marine Corps installations globally.

Paris – September 17, 2026 -- Cuprum Metals has won the Grand Prix Scale-Up Award at the World Materials Forum, recognizing technology designed to unlock copper from chalcopyrite ores that have historically constrained global supply.

Cuprum's technology targets copper locked in hard-to-process sulfide ores

The award, presented September 4 in Paris, singles out Cuprum's approach to copper recovery from primary and secondary sulfides, including chalcopyrite, a mineral form that has long limited extraction efficiency across the mining industry.

Irving, Texas – September 17, 2026 -- Michaels plans to hire more than 10,000 seasonal Team Members across the U.S. and Canada, with National Hiring Day events set for Saturday, September 12, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. local time at all store locations.

Nearly half of last year's seasonal hires converted to permanent roles

Michaels reported that nearly 50% of seasonal in-store positions transitioned into regular roles following the 2025 holiday season, creating pathways into store leadership and Support Center teams. The company operates over 1,300 stores across 49 U.S. states and Canada.

Candidates can apply online or interview in person during the hiring event

Applicants may submit applications in advance through Careers.Michaels.com or attend in-store events on September 12, where qualified candidates will be interviewed on the spot.