Live Where It Sparkles! New York's Diamond Exchange opens its doors again as a boutique condominium

Nine full-floor condominium apartments for sale in a historic 1894 Financial District skyscraper, priced from just under $2.6 million

NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The address through which most of the diamonds entering America once passed is welcoming residents again. Announced in 1892 as New York's newest skyscraper and completed in 1894, the ten-story Diamond Exchange at 14 Maiden Lane has been transformed into The Diamond Exchange Condominium: nine private full-floor homes and a commercial space in the heart of the Financial District, now complete and ready for occupancy.

Maiden Lane once was the center of the American diamond trade, and the building was designed for it: among the first in the city to feature oversized bay windows, engineered so dealers could examine stones by daylight. It is among the finest surviving works of its architect, Gilbert A. Schellenger. More than 130 years later, those same windows fill every residence with light beneath ceilings that rise up to 12 feet 6 inches.

Each home occupies an entire private floor of approximately 1,300 square feet, with two bedrooms and a flexible third room that can serve as a bedroom or a home office, an open kitchen with Viking, Bosch and Dacor appliances, two full bathrooms including a steam shower, European white oak chevron floors, multi-zone heating and cooling, and a Bosch washer and dryer. In the lobby, a historically significant diamond-shaped chandelier that once hung in Harrods Buenos Aires welcomes residents home.

True to a design philosophy of quality over excess, the building keeps its amenities deliberately lean — a virtual doorman, a package room and optional storage — which keeps carrying costs low and privacy uncompromised. Pricing begins just under $2.6 million, a rare figure for an entire private floor in a historic building.

Steps from Wall Street, the Seaport and the waterfront, residents at 14 Maiden Lane enjoy world-class dining and historic streetscapes by day and a remarkable quiet by night.

"This building sparkled for the jewelers of Maiden Lane, and now it sparkles for the people who live here," said Thomas Guss of NYR.com, the brokerage representing the property. "An entire private floor, flooded with daylight, in one of Manhattan's earliest skyscrapers — at this price and with these carrying costs, nothing downtown compares."

Private tours of The Diamond Exchange Condominium are available by appointment; further details about the property can be found at www.diamondcondo.com.

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New York Residence Inc. (NYR.com) advises private investors and discerning buyers across Manhattan's residential, mixed-use, and historically significant properties.

Contact: Thomas Guss, NYR.com — [email protected] — 212.369.7000 ext. 103

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Oil Market Daily News Commentary

NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The two agencies that set the terms of debate in this market published within a day of each other last week, and they did not agree about much. The International Energy Agency now forecasts global oil demand will fall by 2.5 million barrels a day in 2026, roughly 940,000 barrels a day deeper than it estimated a month earlier. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, in its September 9 Short-Term Energy Outlook, raised its second-half 2026 Brent forecast by $8 to around $90 a barrel, and expects prices to decline to an average of $77 by the second quarter of 2027 as shut-in Gulf production restarts. OPEC, for its part, cut its 2026 demand growth forecast for a fifth consecutive time. Three institutions, three different readings of the same disrupted market, and a week of catalysts ahead that will test all of them.

Active Companies from around the markets with current developments this week include: Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO), Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC), Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), Frontline plc (NYSE: FRO), and Equinor ASA (NYSE: EQNR).

Crude paused its rally to settle around $100 a barrel on Friday after Iranian state media reported that Tehran would meet Gulf states in Oman to discuss the Strait of Hormuz. Gulf Cooperation Council diplomats are expected to meet their Iranian counterpart on Monday to discuss a possible temporary arrangement for managing shipping through the strait. That meeting is the single most consequential item on this week's calendar, and nothing else on it comes close. Despite Friday's decline, crude rose for a second consecutive week.

The rest of the week is macro. The New York Empire State Manufacturing Index opens the data run, the American Petroleum Institute and EIA weekly inventory reports land midweek, and the Federal Reserve delivers an interest rate decision alongside updated FOMC economic projections. August industrial production follows. In an ordinary market the Fed would dominate the week. In this one it competes with a diplomatic meeting in Muscat.

The supply picture underneath is severe and worth stating precisely. The IEA reported global oil production fell by 1.6 million barrels a day month over month to 100.1 million in August, with more than 10 million barrels a day of Gulf output still shut in on security grounds. Total supply is set to fall 5.7 million barrels a day this year, and the agency has now deferred the expected Gulf recovery until 2027, when it projects an 8 million barrel a day rebound. Global observed inventories have fallen by 507 million barrels since the war began, an average draw of 2.8 million barrels a day, with August alone accounting for a 95 million barrel decline.

That inventory drawdown is the mechanism holding prices up, and it is finite. The EIA estimates global stocks fell an average of 3.9 million barrels a day in the second quarter and forecasts further draws of 3.0 million in the third and 1.7 million in the fourth. Buffers built over years are being consumed in months. At the same time, the EIA raised its 2027 U.S. crude production forecast to 14.3 million barrels a day, and the IEA has the Americas adding 1.4 million barrels a day of non-OPEC+ supply in 2026 and another 1 million in 2027. The Atlantic Basin is the pressure valve, and it is being opened.

The complication for anyone trading the headline is that crude is no longer the tightest part of this market. Refined products are. Global refinery throughput hit a summer peak of 81.4 million barrels a day in August, up 960,000 month over month but 4.2 million barrels a day below a year earlier, with losses concentrated across the Middle East, Russia and crude-importing Asia. Refining margins reached record levels in the Atlantic Basin in August, led by sharply higher diesel cracks. Surging freight rates, meanwhile, weighed on Singapore profitability. A shortage of refining capacity and a shortage of ships are doing work that a crude shortage alone would not.

In industry developments and happenings in the market this week:

Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) sits directly in the product squeeze described above. The company reported second-quarter 2026 net income of $3.7 billion, with refining operating income up more than threefold and its realized refining margin roughly doubling year over year. It finished June with $7.9 billion in cash against $9.1 billion of debt, and returned $2.6 billion to shareholders in the quarter at a 59% payout ratio while holding net debt to capitalization at 11%.

Chief Executive Lane Riggs attributed the results to operational and commercial execution rather than to the price environment, saying they reflect "the discipline and consistency of our operational and commercial execution." Chief Operating Officer Gary Simmons told analysts on the July 30 earnings call that the wars have taken roughly 5 million barrels a day of refining capacity offline worldwide. That figure, more than any crude number, explains the margin.

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC) reported a refining and marketing margin that rose from $17.58 to $36.33 per barrel year over year in the second quarter, returned more than $2.8 billion to shareholders through buybacks and dividends, and closed the quarter with $7.8 billion in cash. Between them, Marathon and Valero returned over $5 billion to shareholders in a single quarter.

The caution attached to that performance is structural rather than company-specific. Refining margins of this order are a function of capacity being unavailable, and capacity outages reverse. Nymex 3:2:1 crack spreads were assessed at roughly $69.92 for September against less than $20 in early January, with the August 2027 contract more than 35% lower at $44.38. The ten-year average for the period from February 2016 to February 2026 was $21.68. The forward curve is already pricing a normalization that has not happened yet.

Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) has framed the same conditions from the supply side. Brian Mandell told analysts on the company's August 5 call that refining fundamentals were "very tight and getting tighter" because of the disruptions in Russia and the Middle East.

The tightness is not evenly distributed across the barrel, and that detail matters for the week ahead. Refiners in Russia, Kuwait and Nigeria have been redirecting crude toward diesel and jet fuel, which carry the wider margins, and leaving fuel oil behind. Russian fuel oil exports fell to a record low of 591,000 barrels a day in August against an average above 860,000 in 2025, and Middle East fuel oil exports dropped 45% year on year to about 447,000 barrels a day between March and August. European gasoil stocks sit 24% below their five-year average and jet fuel inventories are down 39%. A single product market can move the whole complex when the others are already stretched.

Frontline plc (NYSE: FRO) is where the rerouting shows up as revenue. The tanker owner reported second-quarter time charter equivalent earnings of $152,700 per day for VLCCs, $111,500 for Suezmax vessels and $92,400 for LR2 and Aframax tankers, declared a quarterly dividend of $2.61 per share, and reported 86% coverage of third-quarter VLCC spot exposure at $156,900 per day.

The company's own disclosure explains the mechanism better than any forecast. Crude exports from inside the Strait of Hormuz fell 82% in the second quarter of 2026 against the same period a year earlier, while Americas to East of Suez crude flows rose 36% from the first quarter to the second. The same barrels travel much further, so effective fleet supply tightens even when trade volumes are flat. Benchmark Middle East to China supertanker earnings reached a record near $800,000 a day this month, and Clarksons Securities has lifted its 2026 weighted average VLCC forecast to $135,000 a day from $75,000 before the crisis, on a base case that assumes Hormuz stays disrupted through the first half of 2027.

Equinor ASA (NYSE: EQNR) offered the plainest summary of the situation from the trading floor. Speaking on the sidelines of the S&P Global Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference in Singapore, Alex Grant, the company's global head of crude, products and liquids trading, said there are "quite a few bottlenecks all at the same time," adding that "the market is quite stressed with all of that, and that's showing up in the shipping rates."

That is the useful frame for the week. This is not one shortage. It is a crude disruption, a refining shortage and a freight shortage arriving through different mechanisms on different timelines, which is why a single development, including a favourable outcome in Oman, would not resolve all three at once.

What to watch this week

Monday brings the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting with Iran in Oman. A temporary shipping arrangement, even a partial one, would take the sharpest edge off the risk premium and would hit tanker rates before it hits crude. No arrangement, or a meeting that ends without a communique, leaves the market where it closed on Friday.

Midweek brings the API and EIA inventory reports, which matter more than usual given that inventories are the balancing mechanism rather than a background statistic. The Federal Reserve decision and the FOMC projections follow, with implications for the dollar and therefore for the price of a dollar-denominated barrel. August industrial production closes the run.

Two things are worth holding in mind against all of it. The closure of the East-West pipeline, which moves oil across Saudi Arabia to Red Sea ports and has capacity of roughly 7 million barrels a day, has become a live variable in its own right. And Houthi threats against Saudi Arabia remain unresolved. Either could override the entire economic calendar on any given morning.

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Evermore Hospitality's Elizabeth Mullins and IHG's Phil Keb to explore culture, purpose and relational wellness in luxury hospitality, as Nobu Hospitality, Microsoft and Honeywell lead a session on AI's real return on investment

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Luxury Hotel Association (ILHA) today announced a new wave of confirmed sessions for INSPIRE 2026, its flagship luxury hospitality conference taking place December 15 to 17 at the JW Marriott Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa in Orlando.

Among the new additions, Elizabeth Mullins, President of Evermore Hospitality, will sit down with Phil Keb, Senior Advisor of Global Capital Investments and Transactions at IHG Hotels & Resorts, for a conversation on culture, purpose and relational wellness in luxury hospitality. The pair will explore how a growing sense of social disconnection, sometimes described as an age of loneliness, could open a golden era for travel, and how hospitality can respond to travelers' deepening desire for genuine connection even as AI reshapes daily life.

"The greatest luxury may simply be time together. In a world that has never been more connected, people are craving real connection. Our opportunity in hospitality is to create the places, experiences and culture that make that connection possible." Elizabeth Mullins, President, Evermore Hospitality

"Guests today aren't just booking a room, they're searching for a sense of belonging. The brands that understand this, that build genuine human connection into every touchpoint, are the ones that will define luxury hospitality's next chapter."

Phil Keb, Senior Advisor, Global Capital Investments and Transactions, IHG Hotels & Resorts

INSPIRE 2026 will also tackle one of the industry's most pressing questions directly: what is AI actually delivering for hospitality businesses today? In "AI at Scale: Building the Business Case for Hospitality," Rodney Linville, Global Head of Information Technology at Nobu Hospitality, and Shane O'Flaherty, Global Director of Travel, Transportation and Hospitality at Microsoft, will join Neha Jaitpal, Global General Manager of Honeywell's Hospitality Vertical, for a candid look at where AI is proving its ROI, where adoption is falling short, and what it takes to move from pilot to scale across teams and operations. Barak Hirschowitz, President of ILHA, will moderate.

Additional confirmed sessions include:

- The Science of Prevention, Performance and Longevity in Luxury Wellness, with Patrick Huey (Hyatt), Alena Stavnjak (Starwood Hotels) and Karlie Intlekofer, Global Research Scientist at Matrix, moderated by Kelleye Martin of Trellis Spa, The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa and ISPA

- Measure What Matters: Why Human Connection Is Your Greatest Amenity, with Robert Grosz, President and Chief Operating Officer of WorldVue

- Travelling for the Experience: How Luxury Hotels Are Making Guest Experience Central to Their Strategy, with Gamal Elfakih (Marriott International), Rémi Delpech (Nikki Beach Hotels & Resorts) and Daniel Hostettler (The Boca Raton), moderated by Rebecca Ward of Agua Caliente

Encore, ILHA's exclusive audiovisual partner for INSPIRE 2026 and provider of AV production across all three conference stages, will also take the stage. In "AI Raises the Stakes on Luxury Event Connectivity, Here's How to Plan for It," Alex Wedesky, Encore's Vice President of Internet Services, will unpack what smarter connectivity means for high-stakes luxury events.

INSPIRE 2026 will also feature a fireside chat with Tina Edmundson, President of Luxury at Marriott International, and Carolyne Doyon, President and CEO of Club Med North America and Caribbean, both announced as part of the conference's opening lineup.

Registration for INSPIRE 2026 is now open. Visit ilha.org/inspire to learn more, or go to ilha.org/inspire/register to secure a place.

About the International Luxury Hotel Association (ILHA)

The International Luxury Hotel Association (ILHA) is the leading trade association uniting the world of luxury hospitality across its three core pillars: real estate, hospitality, and travel. With a global community of more than 1 million professionals and a think tank of over 300 industry leaders, ILHA drives the conversations, partnerships, and innovations shaping the future of luxury experiences. Its ILHA INSPIRE flagship event brings together senior leaders from across the industry for high-level networking, insights, and collaboration, alongside a year-round content platform connecting owners, operators, developers, and brands. For more information, visit https://ilha.org/.

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Most mid-size nonprofits run three to five disconnected systems. The donor records live in one, the gift posts in another, the email tool keeps its own list, and finance closes the month from a spreadsheet. The time spent carrying information between those systems is unpaid staff capacity. StratusLIVE calls it the System Tax, and it built Ignite to remove it.

"Every nonprofit leader we talk to describes the same week: more mission, same team, and hours lost moving data between tools," said Jim Funari, CEO and founder of StratusLIVE. "Ignite puts the whole relationship on one record and gives the team digital teammates that do the research and the drafting. People stay in charge of every decision. That is the only version of AI a nonprofit can put in front of its board."

One platform, one record

Ignite CRM, Ignite Fundraising, Ignite Finance, Ignite Marketing, Ignite Engagement, Ignite Partnerships, Ignite Self-Service, and Ignite Design Studio share a single constituent record, so a gift, an event registration, an email reply, and a finance posting all describe the same person. Ignite Finance carries gifts to the ledger with balanced export files for common accounting systems.

AI teammates, with people in charge

Ignite Intelligence brings AI teammates into the same platform. The roster includes Prospect Research, Major Gift, Retention, and Constituent Support teammates. They work from the organization's own data and inside its workflow, not in a separate tab. Prospect scoring uses evidence-gated bands, and every recommendation carries its sources.

Governance is built in rather than added on: read-only by default, approval gates configured by the organization, and a full audit trail. StratusLIVE maintains a current SOC 2 Type II report, available on request.

"When AI shows up in a discovery call, the first question is never 'what can it do.' It is 'who is accountable for what it does,'" said Debbie Snyder, Chief Revenue Officer at StratusLIVE. "Ignite answers that question the way a board would want it answered."

About StratusLIVE

StratusLIVE builds nonprofit software. Ignite, the Active Intelligence Platform, connects CRM, fundraising, finance, marketing, engagement, and AI teammates on one constituent record. StratusLIVE 365 serves enterprise nonprofits on Microsoft Dynamics 365. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, StratusLIVE is built by a team that comes mostly from nonprofit work.

Grow Capacity. Raise More. Lead with Intelligence. Learn more at stratuslive.com.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Lambda, Inc. ("Lambda"), the Superintelligence Cloud, today announced it has signed the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, affirming its commitment to ensuring that the infrastructure supporting America's artificial intelligence (AI) future delivers meaningful benefits for local communities, while protecting consumers and ratepayers.

The pledge reflects principles that guide Lambda's approach to infrastructure development. The company incorporates community considerations into project planning from the earliest stages, working directly with local partners to strengthen coordination and support responsible development.

"When developed responsibly, data centers can do more than power the technologies of the future, they can create lasting economic opportunities and investments in the communities where they operate," said Michel Combes, Chief Executive Officer of Lambda. "But we know that trust is built over time, and companies must demonstrate a facility's value to a community over time. The Ratepayer Protection Pledge reflects our commitment to ensuring communities benefit from growth while protecting consumers."

Lambda supports ratepayer protection policies that require data center developers to pay for the power their facilities use. The company also supports expanding generation capacity, strengthening the electric grid, maintaining reliable service and protecting ratepayers as demand for AI infrastructure grows. Lambda also invests in technologies designed to reduce local resource demands.

Learn more about Lambda's commitment to responsible AI infrastructure development here.

About Lambda

Lambda, the Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Founded in 2012 by published machine learning engineers, Lambda builds supercomputers for AI training and inference. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

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Seasoned public company and gaming executive brings a proven record of operating discipline, strategic transactions and value creation

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IGT today announced the appointment of Adam Chibib as Chief Financial Officer, effective November 1, 2026, subject to receipt of all required regulatory approvals. Chibib will succeed Fabio Celadon, who will remain CFO through October 31 and then serve as an advisor through December 31, 2026, to support a smooth transition.

Chibib brings more than three decades of financial and operational leadership across public companies, private equity backed businesses and high growth technology organizations, contributing to six successful exits. Most recently, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Raptor Technologies, which was acquired by Warburg Pincus in January 2026 following a significant transformation under the ownership of Thoma Bravo and JMI Equity.

His gaming experience includes serving as President and Chief Financial Officer of Multimedia Games, where he helped double revenue, triple profitability and increase the company's market capitalization from approximately $47 million to more than $1 billion before its $1.2 billion acquisition. He later served as Chairman of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of playAGS through its acquisition in 2025. His earlier experience includes financial leadership roles at Self Financial, NetSpend and several technology companies.

"Adam brings the public company, private equity and gaming experience we need for this stage of IGT's transformation," said Hector Fernandez, Chief Executive Officer of IGT. "His financial discipline and operating mindset will be important as we sharpen execution and strengthen cash flow creation. I also want to thank Fabio for more than two decades of leadership and commitment to IGT. He has helped guide the company through significant change and has been a trusted partner across the business."

"IGT has a strong portfolio, leading market positions and a clear opportunity to create value," said Adam Chibib, incoming Chief Financial Officer of IGT. "I look forward to working with Hector, the leadership team and the Finance organization to strengthen financial and operating discipline, align capital with our highest priorities and build a durable foundation for growth."

IGT is executing a transformation focused on operating discipline, portfolio performance and cash flow creation across its Gaming, Digital and FinTech businesses. As Chief Financial Officer, Chibib will lead the company's global Finance organization and help align financial strategy, capital priorities and business execution to support IGT's long-term objectives.

Celadon's career with IGT and its predecessor companies spans more than two decades. Since becoming Chief Financial Officer of Lottomatica S.p.A. in 2002, he has served in senior leadership roles across finance, strategy, corporate development and international operations in Europe, North America and Asia. Throughout his tenure, he has helped guide the company through periods of significant change.

About IGT

IGT is a leading global provider of gaming, digital and financial technology solutions, formed through the combination of International Game Technology PLC's Gaming & Digital Business and Everi Holdings Inc. IGT and Everi's offering spans gaming machines, game content and systems, iGaming, sports betting, cash access, loyalty and player engagement solutions, enabling it to deliver integrated, customer-centric experiences across land-based and digital environments. Organized into Gaming, Digital and FinTech business units, the organization drives innovation, efficiency and value for casino, digital and hospitality operators worldwide. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas.

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Fourth annual Washington summit, hosted by the Bitcoin Policy Institute and PubKey DC, expands from Bitcoin policy and stablecoins to AI, data centers, energy infrastructure and national security

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Freedom Tech DC, an invite-only policy summit, will convene members of Congress, including Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Ted Budd (R-N.C.); technology, finance and energy industry leaders such as Block CEO Jack Dorsey; and experts and policymakers such as Patrick Witt, executive director of the President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets at the White House, Sept. 22-23 at the National Press Club and PubKey in Washington, D.C. The summit will tackle the nation's most pressing emerging technology challenges — from open-source and open-weight AI and compute to data center development and energy grid resilience, national security and cybersecurity, and the roles of Bitcoin and U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins in the future of money.

The summit arrives at a pivotal moment for America's technology and financial sectors, as AI adoption and regulation, data center development, cybersecurity and privacy, cryptocurrency market-structure legislation, and the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve all rise to prominence ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — topics that experts, lawmakers and BPI staff and fellows will confront directly on stage.

Additional speakers include Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy; Reps. Nick Begich (R-Alaska) and Lance Gooden (R-TX); Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation; Ian Mason, Chief Information Officer at the Federal Trade Commission; Katie Arrington, former Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of War; Matt White, former Global Head of Applied Innovation at The Linux Foundation; and BPI Executive Director Conner Brown and Head of Research Sam Lyman, among others.

Programming runs across two days: Day one, "Establishing the Stakes," features programming at the National Press Club, followed by an inaugural DC Beefsteak reception at PubKey DC. Day two will focus on "Hands-On Policy Work," with daylong programming and a closing party, both at PubKey DC. Highlights include:

- BPI's President David Zell will speak virtually with Jack Dorsey on the case for building on open-source primitives like open-weight AI and Bitcoin.

- BPI's Head of Government Affairs Ken Egan and Patrick Witt will offer a candid look at how the digital asset industry approached Washington, what worked, what didn't, and how those lessons should shape the next major technology policy fight: setting the rules for AI.

- Other panels include: a fireside chat with the CTO of the FTC's Office of Innovation; "Openness as National Strategy" with Matthew Pines (Physical Superintelligence), Matt White (formerly Linux Foundation) and Ben Brooks (Black Forest Labs); "America's Open-Source Future" with Senator Lummis; and "The case for the American Reserve Modernization Act" with Rep. Begich; and remarks from Sen. Budd and Rep. Gooden.

Formerly the Bitcoin Policy Summit, Freedom Tech DC's expanded focus reflects the Bitcoin Policy Institute's (BPI) growth as it takes on freedom technology policy issues, expands its leadership team, and becomes a founding partner in the State Department's new Freedom Tech Excellence Program. More information is available at https://www.btcpolicy.org/summit.

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About the Bitcoin Policy Institute

The Bitcoin Policy Institute exists to prepare America for the rise of Bitcoin and transformative technologies. We publish best-in-class research, engage directly with senior policymakers and their staff, convene key Washington and industry stakeholders, and fund academic scholarship that ties technical expertise into the legislative process. In four years, we've authored the White House's strategic case for a Bitcoin reserve, been cited by name by Beijing's leading monetary think tank, and been recognized by the Vice President for advising the administration.

About PubKey

PubKey Bar and Media Haus is a dive bar, restaurant, and gathering place where big ideas for sound money, monetary policy and technology are taking shape. Inspired by the historical role of taverns as free-thinking hotbeds for revolutions, PubKey launched in New York's West Village in 2022 to bring together the leading financial, policymaking and cultural voices to ideate, innovate, debate and collaborate in a space where conversation can flow as easily as the drinks. PubKey DC (410 7th St. NW) opened in December 2025 as the true "embassy" for bitcoin, AI and conversation located in the heart of the nation's capital. At 12,000 square feet, PubKey DC is home to podcasting and media studios, the Bitcoin Policy Institute, private events, Gemini Live @ PubKey event series, comedy, fundraisers, art parties and more.

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New invention automates region-of-interest placement in infrared thermal imaging while preserving clinician control

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Vizbodx, Inc., a Birmingham, Alabama-based medical technology company, today announced that it has filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a new invention designed to automate region-of-interest (ROI) placement in infrared thermal imaging while keeping the licensed clinician at the center of the clinical workflow.

The application, titled "Clinician-Initiated Region-of-Interest Placement via Anatomical Landmark Registration in Infrared Thermal Imagery," was filed September 2, 2026 (Docket No. 586076-7) and builds directly on the company's patent-pending Clinician-First AI Clinical Workflow.

The invention addresses a longstanding workflow challenge in thermal imaging analysis: manually placing corresponding regions of interest on opposite sides of the body, or across imaging sessions, to calculate temperature differentials (ΔT). Manual placement can be time-consuming and introduce variability, while simple mirror-image reflection can be unreliable because patients are rarely positioned in perfect symmetry.

Using Vizbodx, the workflow begins with the clinician identifying a region of interest that merits further evaluation. The technology then uses anatomical landmark registration and an area-preserving transform to propose a corresponding region — on the opposite side of the body, the same side, or during a later imaging session. The clinician must confirm, adjust, or reject the proposed placement before the measurement is recorded. When appropriate, artificial intelligence may also alert the clinician to other thermal findings within the image for consideration. In each instance, the clinician remains the driver of critical thinking and clinical judgment in the evaluation of the patient.

"AI should sharpen clinical judgment, not substitute for it," said Barry Hix, Co-Founder and CEO of Vizbodx. "Our Clinician-First AI architecture is designed to automate the repetitive and time-consuming parts of the workflow while keeping the medical professional in control of the decisions that matter. This latest filing extends that principle directly into thermal image analysis."

The technology is also designed to support longitudinal tracking. Once a region is confirmed, its location can be stored relative to anatomical landmarks rather than fixed pixel coordinates, allowing the region to be reconstructed at the corresponding anatomical location in future imaging sessions despite differences in patient positioning, capture distance, or imaging equipment.

This approach enables clinicians to evaluate thermal patterns and temperature differentials over time, adding longitudinal context to what has traditionally been a point-in-time measurement and providing insight into a patient's physiological trajectory.

"The challenge is not simply automating region placement. It is making that placement anatomically consistent while accounting for the natural differences in how a person is positioned from one image to the next," said Mayco Anderson Moreira, Chief Technology Officer of Vizbodx and co-inventor. "By registering regions to anatomical landmarks, we can improve consistency across bilateral comparisons and over time while still requiring the clinician to confirm the result."

The application, prepared by Husch Blackwell, names Barry Hix and Mayco Anderson Moreira as co-inventors and is assigned to Vizbodx, Inc. It represents Vizbodx's third patent filing, following earlier applications covering the company's Clinician-First AI Clinical Workflow and Thermal Concordance Protocol.

With its third patent filing, Vizbodx continues to build an intellectual property portfolio around Clinician-First AI, an architecture designed to use artificial intelligence to improve clinical workflow, consistency, and longitudinal insight without transferring clinical judgment from the medical professional to the algorithm.

About Vizbodx

Vizbodx, Inc., a Birmingham, Alabama-based medical technology company, develops infrared thermal intelligence applications for sports and occupational medicine. Built on proprietary Clinician-First AI architecture, the Vizbodx platform visualizes, organizes, and presents thermal data, including bilateral comparisons and longitudinal trend data, for review by licensed medical professionals.

Vizbodx does not render diagnoses or clinical determinations. The platform is designed as a complementary tool to the physical examination, providing additional objective information for medical professionals evaluating athletes, workers, servicemen, and servicewomen.

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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company®, today announced that Jonathan Pong, Realty Income's Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will participate in a live roundtable discussion at Bank of America's 2026 Global Real Estate Conference on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 11:05 a.m. EDT / 8:05 a.m. PDT.

The presentation will be broadcast live via webcast and can be accessed through the Investor Resources section of Realty Income's website at Investor Resources – Event Calendar. A replay of the webcast will be available on the company's website shortly after the conclusion of the live event for a period of approximately 30 days.

About Realty Income

Realty Income (NYSE: O), an S&P 500 company, is real estate partner to the world's leading companies®. Founded in 1969, we serve our clients as a full-service real estate capital provider. As of June 30, 2026, we have a portfolio of over 15,500 properties in all 50 U.S. states, the U.K., and eight other countries in Europe. We are known as "The Monthly Dividend Company®" and have a mission to invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. Since our founding, we have declared 675 consecutive monthly dividends and are a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index for having increased our dividend for over 31 consecutive years. Additional information about the company can be found at www.realtyincome.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. When used in this press release, the words "estimate," "anticipate," "assume," "expect," "believe," "intend," "continue," "should," "may," "likely," "plan," "seek," "will" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include discussions of our activities, business, strategy, portfolio, platform, plans, the intentions of management; and dividends, including the amount, timing and payment thereof. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about us which may cause our actual future results to differ materially from expected results. Some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are, among others, our continued qualification as a real estate investment trust; general domestic and foreign business, economic, or financial conditions; competition; fluctuating interest and currency rates; inflation and its impact on our clients and us; access to debt and equity capital markets and other sources of funding (including the terms, structure and partners of such funding); volatility and uncertainty in the credit and financial markets; other risks inherent in real estate, private capital, credit and mezzanine investments, and joint ventures or co-investment ventures, including solvency, defaults under leases, bankruptcies, potential liability relating to environmental matters, illiquidity of real estate investments (including rights of first refusal or rights of first offer), and potential damages from natural disasters; impairments in the value of our real estate assets; volatility and changes in domestic and foreign laws and the application, enforcement or interpretation thereof (including with respect to tax laws and rates); property ownership through co-investment ventures, funds, joint ventures, partnerships and other arrangements which, among other things, may transfer or limit our control of the underlying investments; epidemics or pandemics; the loss of key personnel; the threat and outcome of any legal proceedings to which we are a party or which may occur in the future; acts of terrorism and war; and the anticipated benefits from mergers, acquisitions, co-investment ventures, funds, joint ventures, partnerships, and other arrangements; and those additional risks and factors discussed in our reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future plans and performance and speak only as of the date of this press release. Past operating results and performance are provided for informational purposes and are not a guarantee of future results. There can be no assurance that historical trends will continue. Actual plans and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in this press release and forecasts made in the forward-looking statements discussed in this press release may not materialize. We do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements or publicly release the results of any forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date these statements were made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

SOURCE Realty Income Corporation

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MURFREESBORO, Tenn., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE: NHI) announced today that management will participate in investor meetings at the BofA Securities 2026 Global Real Estate Conference on September 15, 2026.

In conjunction with the upcoming investor meetings, NHI has updated the status of its recent pipeline developments to include the following:

- The Company currently has approximately $272.0 million of investment opportunities under signed Letters of Intent ("LOI") and approximately $51.7 million pursuant to real estate purchase options. The Company expects to utilize the proceeds from the Section 1031 exchange transaction initiated by the NHC portfolio sale for a significant portion of these opportunities. If completed, these exchanges are expected to defer recognition of a substantial portion of the taxable gain arising from the NHC portfolio sale.

- In addition to the signed LOIs, the Company is currently evaluating a pipeline of approximately $285 million in investments which include SHOP, sale-leasebacks and loans with purchase options primarily for senior housing properties. The pipeline excludes portfolio deals.

About National Health Investors, Inc.

National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE: NHI), established in 1991 as a Maryland corporation, is a self-managed real estate investment trust ("REIT"). The Company owns, leases, operates and finances the development of high-quality real estate properties, focusing on senior housing communities and medical facilities. The Company operates through two reportable segments: Real Estate Investments and SHOP. The Company's investments in real estate properties include independent living facilities, assisted living facilities, entrance-fee communities, senior living campuses, skilled nursing facilities and hospitals. For more information, visit www.nhireit.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements regarding the Company's expected future financial positions, results of operations, cash flows, funds from operations, dividend and dividend plans, financing opportunities and plans, capital market transactions, business strategy, budgets, projected costs, operating metrics, capital expenditures, competitive positions, acquisitions, investment opportunities, dispositions, acquisition integration, growth opportunities, expected rental income, continued qualification as a REIT, plans and objectives of management for future operations, continued performance improvements, ability to service and refinance debt obligations, ability to finance growth opportunities, and similar statements including, without limitation, those containing words such as "may", "will", "should", "believes", "anticipates", "expects", "intends", "estimates", "plans", "projects", "target", "likely" and other similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results in future periods to differ materially from those projected or contemplated in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include those risks and uncertainties which are described under the heading "Risk Factors" in Item 1A of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 and the Company's the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Many of these factors are beyond the control of the Company and its management. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law, and these statements speak only as of the date on which they are made. Investors are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made by the Company in its periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including the risk factors and other information in the above referenced Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Copies of these filings are available at no cost on the SEC's website at https://www.sec.gov or on the Company's website at www.nhireit.com.

Contact: Dana Hambly, Senior Vice President, Finance

Phone: (615) 890-9100

SOURCE National Health Investors, Inc.

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