St. Paul's Karyn Tomlinson and Rochester's Tiffany Alexandria will bring two distinct perspectives to the beloved Minnesota food series

SAINT PAUL, Minn., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Relish is entering a new chapter with two hosts at the helm for Season 7, premiering on Minnesota PBS in Spring 2027. Acclaimed St. Paul chef Karyn Tomlinson and Rochester food storyteller Tiffany Alexandria will co-host the series, marking the first time Relish will feature two hosts.

Tomlinson is the chef and owner of Myriel in St. Paul where she brings together Midwestern ingredients, French technique, and the food traditions of her Minnesota upbringing. Her cooking draws inspiration from the state's farms, forests, and culinary heritage, offering a distinctly Minnesota perspective on food and hospitality.

"I'm thrilled to join Relish and have the opportunity to explore the incredible food stories happening throughout Minnesota," said Karyn Tomlinson. "Food tells us so much about who we are, where we come from, and what we value. I'm looking forward to meeting the people who are shaping Minnesota's food culture and sharing those stories with viewers across the state."

Based in Rochester, Alexandria is the founder of the Rochester Night Market, a community gathering that celebrates local food, culture, and connection. Originally from Taiwan, she uses food to share her cultural heritage and create connections among Minnesotans. Through pop-up dinners, dumpling classes, photography, and storytelling, Alexandria celebrates local, seasonal ingredients while supporting small businesses and sustainability. Her work brings together cultures and communities and reflects the diverse food traditions that make Minnesota home.

"Food has always been one of my favorite ways to connect people and cultures," said Tiffany Alexandria. "I'm excited to bring my perspective to Relish and to introduce viewers to the people, ingredients, traditions and stories that make Minnesota so special. There is so much happening beyond the places we already know, and I can't wait to get out there and discover it together."

Together, Tomlinson and Alexandria bring complementary perspectives to Relish, drawing on their experiences in Minnesota's food communities and their connections to a range of cultures and communities. Their shared curiosity will help Relish explore the people, places, traditions, and stories that make Minnesota's food culture distinctive — from established culinary destinations to unexpected food stories in communities large and small.

Season 7 of Relish will premiere on Minnesota PBS in Spring 2027. Additional details, including the premiere date and episode lineup, will be announced at a later date.

About Relish

Relish celebrates the rich cultural diversity of Minnesota by exploring heritage, identity, and belonging through the universal language of food. Inviting audiences into home kitchens across the state, the series shares the stories, recipes, and traditions that connect people to their cultures, families, and communities. Along the way, Relish explores how different cultures express hospitality through food traditions, customs, and acts of welcome — fostering understanding and connection across differences — one dish at a time. With humor, heart and plenty of delicious discoveries, Relish invites us to get to know our neighbors through the food that brings us together.

About Minnesota PBS

Minnesota PBS's mission is to enrich lives and strengthen communities through the power of media. Building on nearly 70 years of public media service, Minnesota PBS provides trusted programming, educational resources, and community engagement through broadcast channels, digital platforms, and outreach initiatives that connect with communities across Minneapolis, St. Paul, Austin, and Rochester. Minnesota PBS produces high-impact local films and series that explore the people, places, culture, and ideas shaping Minnesota and develops original content that reaches audiences nationally through PBS and other media platforms. Through innovative storytelling, learning resources, and community activations, Minnesota PBS reflects the diverse voices, experiences, and stories of the communities it serves. Minnesota PBS has been recognized for its originality and creativity with numerous awards, including Peabody Awards and national and regional Emmy® Awards.

Learn more at MinnesotaPBS.org.

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Athlete-founded brand debuts a ready-to-drink formula built for demanding training and competition

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- 2O3, a new performance hydration brand founded by record-holding powerlifter Johnny Kaufman and consumer-products entrepreneur Nelson Cury, today announced that its first ready-to-drink beverage is now available. The beverage combines 1,000 mg of sodium, 340 mg of potassium, and 60 mg of magnesium with honey to support faster hydration and provide both readily available and sustained energy.

2O3 was created around the belief that a complete hydration system should provide the primary electrolytes lost through sweat together with glucose, which supports the absorption of sodium and water. The founders saw a gap in the market for a product that delivered both in meaningful amounts from natural sources.

The 16-ounce, non-carbonated beverage comes in two flavors, Hydro-Lime and Orange Mango, and is made with real fruit. It contains no processed sugars or artificial sweeteners and is designed for use around demanding training and competition.

The idea originated from Kaufman's experience in strength sports, where athletes have long used honey and electrolytes together in informal combinations. Kaufman and Cury developed 2O3 to bring that approach into a consistent and convenient product.

2O3 was built in partnership with the strength community it will serve first. Its founding athlete team includes Kaufman alongside Jamal Browner, Austin Perkins, Rondel Hunte, and Sean Mills. The athletes have helped shape the brand around the needs and experiences of people training and competing at a high level.

"I've always studied record holders and emulated the habits that helped them reach the top," said Kaufman. "Honey and electrolytes became constants in my own training, but getting everything I needed meant piecing it together myself. We built 2O3 so athletes wouldn't have to."

The ready-to-drink beverage is the first format from 2O3. The company has also spent the past three years developing a stable powdered form of honey and plans to use it to expand the 2O3 hydration system into other form factors.

"The conversation around sugar has become too binary," said Cury, whose family has produced sugar in Brazil for four generations. "Performance products often remove it entirely without considering what they may be giving up. With 2O3, we want to explore the many ways honey can be used in modern performance nutrition. That means using carbohydrates purposefully, without relying on processed sugars or artificial sweeteners. This beverage is only the first expression of that idea."

2O3 hosted its official launch event in Houston on September 5. Its RTDs are available at 2o3.com and in select gyms around the country. Follow the brand @drink2o3 on Instagram.

For product information and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].

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2O3 is a performance hydration brand founded by record-holding powerlifter Johnny Kaufman and consumer-products entrepreneur Nelson Cury in partnership with leading athletes from the strength community. Its products combine sodium, potassium, and magnesium with honey to support hydration and performance. For more information, visit 2o3.com. 

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CenTrio Selected as a Houston Business Journal Best Place to Work

HOUSTON, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CenTrio, a leading district energy provider headquartered in Houston, has been named a Best Place to Work by the Houston Business Journal. CenTrio provides heating, cooling, and power solutions in downtown cities and campuses across the United States.

Respect, accountability, and trust are the cornerstones of CenTrio's organization and are reflected in its daily operations, company culture, and relationships with stakeholders and partners.

In May of 2024, CenTrio launched "A Great Company to Work For," an initiative designed to further enhance the workplace experience for all CenTrio team members. The initiative is organized around six primary pillars:

- Embracing a Safety-First Culture

- Fostering Transparent & Regular Communication

- Improving Recruitment & Retention

- Prioritizing Continuous Learning & Development

- Enhancing CenTrio's Corporate Identity

- Strengthening Community Involvement & Engagement

"This recognition is especially meaningful because it is based on employee feedback," said Anderson Lee, General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer of CenTrio. "CenTrio is proud of this achievement and grateful to its team members for the culture they help build every day."

Eric Miller, Chief Executive Officer of CenTrio, also highlighted the recognition during a recent CenTrio Town Hall, emphasizing to employees: "Creating a positive culture where employees are respected and valued for their daily contributions is a focal point at CenTrio. We want to make CenTrio a fantastic place to work and for you to feel motivated, innovative, and collaborative."

The Houston Business Journal's Best Places to Work program uses employee survey results administered by Quantum Workplace across five company size categories to determine honorees and rankings. The Houston Business Journal will announce the final rankings at its 2026 Best Places to Work Awards luncheon on November 5.

About CenTrio

CenTrio is a leading district energy infrastructure platform providing sustainable heating, cooling, and electricity solutions to cities, campuses, and mission-critical facilities across the United States. With operations in Baton Rouge, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Portland, Seattle, Syracuse, and Ypsilanti, CenTrio owns and operates essential energy infrastructure that helps residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional customers improve reliability, resiliency, and sustainability while advancing their decarbonization goals.

To learn more, please visit CenTrio at centrioenergy.com.

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Anderson Lee

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Put a proactive AI analyst to work in minutes: automating the grind, staying on top of what's changing, and helping teams make better decisions, fast.

BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AI has made individuals dramatically more capable. But making each person smarter doesn't automatically make the company run better.

Companies are becoming more complicated. There's too much happening for any person or team to see the full picture. Summation is AI designed for how a business actually operates.

Starting today, Summation's AI analyst is available to everyone. After a year deploying Summation inside companies including Fanatics, Lineage, and Grid, any team can now sign up, connect its data, and put an AI analyst to work in minutes.

"Most businesses aren't short on valuable problems to solve. They're short on the analytical capacity to solve them," said Ian Wong, CEO and Co-Founder of Summation. "We built Summation to put an AI analyst on every team and bring the best of AI to the decisions that drive the business."

The AI Analyst That Stays on Top of the Business

Most AI tools wait for someone to ask the right question. Summation can take responsibility for work that needs to happen whether someone remembers to ask or not.

It can run recurring analytical processes, including reviews, forecasts, and reporting, automatically on your schedule.

Summation can monitor thousands of changes across products, customers, locations, and channels. When something matters, Summation investigates why, shows the evidence, and brings it to the right person.

And it can go beyond analysis into operating decisions. Summation powers applications for planning, pricing, inventory, marketing, and other workflows, helping teams make key decisions and measure what matters.

The result is more capacity to run the business: more questions answered, faster response to change, and better decisions made sooner.

More Than a General-Purpose LLM

Making that work takes more than a great AI model.

Summation learns the context that makes each business different: its data, metrics, definitions, processes, and constraints. Its workflows keep running from one operating cycle to the next, and its work is verified and traceable back to underlying data.

That's what allows Summation to take responsibility for recurring work rather than simply generate a one-off answer. An output from Summation is a boardroom ready deliverable you can trust.

From Sign-Up to Production

Individuals and teams can sign up, connect their data through more than 1,200 integrations, and delegate their first job in minutes. With Summation Workflows, useful work can then run automatically and deliver itself by email or Slack.

For enterprises, Summation's deployment team works alongside customers to make the analyst successful. The team identifies high-value responsibilities to delegate, learns how the business actually operates, and does the last-mile work to put AI into production.

The goal isn't another AI implementation. It's a working analyst driving a real business outcome.

Available Today

Summation is available in two self-serve plans: Pro at $60 per user per month and Max at $200 per user per month.

Enterprise plans include dedicated deployment support, custom integrations, and advanced governance and controls for organizations putting AI analysts into critical operating workflows.

Summation AI analysts are available today. Put one to work at: www.summation.com/try-summation.

About Summation

Summation builds AI analysts that help companies understand what's happening, plan what comes next, and make better operating decisions. Its AI analysts work from live business data and shared company context to automate recurring work, proactively monitor performance, investigate problems, and improve plans.

Companies including Fanatics, Lineage, and Grid run recurring analytical and planning work on Summation today.

Summation is backed by Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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This inaugural report recognizes G-P's maturity in the Employer of Record (EOR) category, emphasizing the company's commitment to providing compliance confidence and fostering long-term strategic partnerships through advanced platform capabilities:

- Unmatched Infrastructure: Supports compliant hiring in 180+ countries, with 100+ wholly owned legal entities.

- Proprietary AI & Global Compliance Engine: Pairs real-time regulatory monitoring via G-P Gia™ with in-country legal and HR experts to deliver proactive compliance guidance.

- Agentic AI Workflows: Uses G-P Assist agentic AI to enable employers and employees to initiate and complete complex workflows within the platform, significantly reducing administrative burden.

"Being recognized (again) as a top technology leader in the EOR space validates our strategy of putting cutting-edge innovation at the center of global employment," said Nat Natarajan, Chief Operating Officer, G-P. "We built our platform to transform how companies scale internationally by embedding intelligent AI and automated compliance into every workflow. We will continue to push the boundaries of global HR technology to solve our customers' most complex global employment and compliance challenges."

The 2026 HR Technology Advice EOR VendorFit Matrix offers a comprehensive evaluation of the leading Employer of Record solutions available to organizations of all sizes. This report assesses the top vendors across four dimensions – Global Coverage and Offering Breadth, Customer Experience and Outcomes, Technology and Integration, and Pricing Transparency – and places them within a two-axis analytical framework that reflects both the breadth of a vendor's global capabilities and the quality of customer experience.

Download the full report and learn more about how G-P is leading the EOR industry here.

About HR Technology Advice

HR Technology Advice is an analyst firm exclusively dedicated to HR technology. Their research is designed to help HR, Finance, and Global Operations leaders make confident, data-backed technology decisions —grounded in independent evaluation. Their reports and analysis are produced without financial influence from any participating vendor.

About G-P

G-P (Globalization Partners) is the recognized leader in global employment, ranked No. 1 in every industry analyst report. G-P's global employment platform delivers everything companies of all sizes need to manage the full employee lifecycle with its trusted Global HR Agent, G-P Gia, and AI-powered Employer of Record (EOR) and Contractor products. G-P supports teams in 180+ countries with more than a decade of global employment experience, the largest team of in-country HR, legal, and compliance experts, and its unmatched proprietary knowledge base.

G-P: Global Made Possible™

To learn more, please visit: g-p.com or connect with us via LinkedIn, X, Facebook or check out our Blog.

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Crisis24 | A single operating model for risk management, combining intelligence, technology and human expertise

Crisis24 helps organizations see critical events first, understand what matters, communicate effectively and respond with confidence. At GSX, Crisis24 is showcasing the latest capabilities of its unified Crisis24 Horizon platform. Crisis24 Horizon combines advanced technology with a global operational footprint that includes a multi-continent network of Global Operations Centers, 24/7 security and medical assistance capabilities and intelligence from more than 230 analysts, the largest private-sector team of its kind. New developments with Crisis24 Horizon include:

- Integration of Dataminr's intelligence and agentic AI capabilities: following the previously announced strategic partnership with Dataminr, this new solution brings Dataminr's real-time intelligence and agentic AI capabilities into the Crisis24 Horizon platform, strengthening Horizon's existing unified intelligence, communications and response capabilities even further for organizations with the most demanding needs.

- Expanded critical event management capabilities: upgraded workflow management tools and the ability to integrate external data such as alarm and camera feeds into the Crisis24 Horizon workspace, so teams can understand what matters and act on it faster.

- Enhanced enterprise mass notification: enabling organizations to communicate both routine and emergency messages to their employees efficiently and effectively, available as a standalone solution or fully integrated within other risk management needs.

- A first-of-its-kind MCP for risk intelligence and resilience: the Horizon MCP (Model Context Protocol) enables organizations to connect Crisis24's trusted intelligence directly to leading AI platforms, and incorporate Crisis24 Horizon context into their existing workflows, giving AI agents richer context grounded in human expertise and real-world risk data.

In addition, Crisis24 is showcasing Crisis24 AiiA Powered by Palantir, which provides state-level anticipatory intelligence for business leaders. Cutting through global complexity and surfacing the signals that matter, Crisis24 AiiA enables C-suite and board members to act ahead of change and capitalize on it.

ECAM | AI-driven video surveillance that prevents losses and disruption

North America's #1 video security provider is showcasing how AI-driven detection combined with trained human operators helps stop incidents before they escalate into losses or operational downtime. Pro-Vigil recently joined forces with ECAM, and the combination of advanced technology, nationwide coverage and industry-leading expertise will deliver even smarter, more effective security solutions. ECAM's GSX highlights include:

- ECAM Central: an operational intelligence platform giving customers real-time visibility into every detection, operator response and outcome across their monitored sites. This provides an auditable performance record of what was detected, deterred and resolved, closing the accountability gap that has historically frustrated the video security market.

- ECAM Market: turns the infrastructure behind ECAM's own operations – including proprietary AI detection and live monitoring – into a platform and operating system the wider industry can benefit from. Through wholesale and white-label solutions, integrators, resellers and partners can deliver ECAM's proven, outcome-driven video security, raising the standard of protection across the entire category.

- Hybrid Security: ECAM's AI-driven video monitoring integrated with security guards on the ground. Live monitoring detects threats early and mobile response directs guards straight to what matters. Verified alerts carry location, video and context, so responding guards' time is prioritized for real incidents. The result is faster intervention, stronger deterrence, and safer people, assets and operations.

GardaWorld Security | A technology backed, people-first approach to security

GardaWorld Security is showcasing its sophisticated, tailored security and technology solutions which are defined by high-touch partnerships and consistently superior service delivery. In a market where inconsistent standards are of increasing concern, GardaWorld Security is committed to impeccable governance, professional care and the well-being of all stakeholders.

- GardaWorld Security – United States remains the only traditional guarding company in the U.S. to earn Great Place To Work Certification™, and the only one to do so for four consecutive years. With a people-centric approach and relentless focus on excellence, the company was also recently named one of America's best workplaces for diversity and inclusion and holds an industry leading 4.2 Glassdoor rating.

- GardaWorld Security – Canada is the country's undisputed leader in the security industry, delivering best-in-class guarding alongside a comprehensive suite of integrated services. Its portfolio spans mobile patrol, consulting and investigations, risk mitigation, crowd management, parking solutions, loss prevention, security systems, training and customer services, allowing clients to rely on a single trusted partner for all their security needs.

Discover how GardaWorld's Global Champion businesses deploy intelligence, technology and people to stop threats before they happen, from the boardroom to the frontline. Visit us at GSX 2026 (September 14-16, Atlanta) at booth 2232. To book a meeting, click here. To discover the presentations at the GardaWorld booth click here.

About Crisis24

Crisis24, a global, AI-enhanced provider of travel risk management, mass communications, critical event management, crisis-security consulting, personal protection solutions and global medical concierge capabilities, allows prominent organizations, disruptive brands and influential people to operate with confidence in an uncertain world. Backed by proprietary AI-enabled SaaS technologies, advanced Global Operations Centers, an extensive global footprint, and the largest team of private sector intelligence analysts in the world, we deliver localized insights and global perspectives alongside medical, security, crisis response, embedded intelligence, and consultancy services as a preferred partner for Fortune 500 corporations. With a uniquely integrated and scalable platform, Crisis24 has an unrivaled financial profile that enables greater investment in technology than industry peers. For more information, visit crisis24.com.

About ECAM

ECAM is a North American leader in AI-driven live surveillance technology solutions, with the continent's largest footprint of monitored mobile and permanent surveillance units. With a vision of Every Camera Always Monitored, ECAM combines the world's most advanced AI-driven live video surveillance technology with human expertise to deliver real-time protection with unmatched precision and vigilance. From R&D to product development and platform innovation, ECAM fully owns and develops its entire operation and technology stack. Headquartered in Dallas, ECAM is a global champion business of GardaWorld. For more information visit ecam.com.

About GardaWorld Security

GardaWorld Security is a global champion and leader in security services. Employing highly-skilled and dedicated professionals across the globe, GardaWorld Security offers sophisticated, tailored security and technology solutions through high-touch partnerships and consistently superior service delivery. With a deep understanding that security is critical to the organizational resilience of business operations and the safety of communities, GardaWorld Security is committed to impeccable governance, professional care and the well-being of everyone. Thanks to a well-earned reputation, GardaWorld Security is the long-standing security partner of choice to some of the most prominent brands and Fortune 500 corporations. For more information, visit garda.com.

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Abacus.AI Launches the Smaug Line of Open-Weight Models Optimized for Enterprise Agentic AI Use Cases

New family of LLMs that gives Enterprises total control of their data, enhanced privacy, and SOTA-level agentic performance

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Abacus.AI is introducing three new LLMs across its enterprise agentic AI platform and Super Assistant. The model family called Smaug optimizes open-source base models for long-running self-improving agentic loops in a cost-efficient manner. These models can easily be hosted by any enterprise within its cloud VPC environment, giving it full control over its data and where its AI is hosted.

Smaug is a novel fine-tuning technique applicable to any open-source base model that improves the performance of its long-running agentic loops by 15-20% without increasing cost. This fundamentally enables companies to deploy self-improving enterprise AI agents at scale at open-source model costs, typically 10–100× lower than those of frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI.

Today, we are releasing Smaug Agentic, Smaug Flash, and Smaug Mini.

All of these models will be available on Hugging Face. They are open-weight and can be downloaded by anyone.

Smaug Flash - This model is highly optimized for personal agents and can connect to messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Telegram, and Slack, and maintain long-running conversations with the user, adapting to their vibes over time. This model has been fine-tuned on DeepSeek Flash.

Smaug Agentic - This model achieves state-of-the-art performance on complex coding loops, is based on Kimi K3, and is a large 2T model. This is an excellent replacement for Opus-class models and is more cost-efficient. Enterprises that are concerned about security and data privacy can host Smaug Agentic on an in-house GPU cluster.

Smaug Mini - Smaug Mini is the efficient option in the line and is a smaller 27B model, optimized for multimodal use cases and smaller reasoning workloads. It delivers strong agentic gains in a compact, cost-effective package. This is an excellent option for simple tasks, great for enterprise chatbots, and can be further fine-tuned on the enterprise's data.

We have also published these models on the popular benchmark LiveBench AI. The comparison to the base models on key categories like agentic coding is available here.

These models deliver meaningful performance gains over their base models across coding, tool use, automation, and long-context reasoning workloads. For complete benchmark results and technical details, read the full technical brief.

Together, the Smaug line of models provides enterprises with a cost-effective option to control their data and automate workloads.

"Open-weight models are rapidly closing the gap to frontier closed models, but still underperform in long-running agent loops. The Smaug line addresses this shortcoming while still being 10-100x cheaper than closed-source models," said Bindu Reddy, CEO of Abacus.AI.

The Smaug line is both a product release and a demonstration of a broader thesis: with the right fine-tuning methodology, open-weight models can compete with and surpass frontier models on Agentic AI tasks. Abacus.AI expects to continue advancing the line as base models evolve and its library of agentic traces grows.

About Abacus.AI

Abacus.AI is an Enterprise SuperAssistant and agentic platform to automate white-collar work. The platform applies 100+ AI models to create self-improving AI workflows, AI-assisted apps, and an enterprise-wide AI brain and is used by over 3M professionals, small businesses, and enterprises.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Abacus.AI is backed by world-class investors, including Coatue, Tiger Global, and Index Ventures. Abacus.AI was started by two Google, Amazon, and Uber veterans, Bindu Reddy ([email protected]) and Arvind Sundararajan ([email protected]).

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New Spatial AI, mobile, and progress tracking innovations help construction teams turn trusted reality data into faster, better decisions

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenSpace, the Visual Intelligence Platform for the built world, today unveiled the next generation of its platform at Waypoint 2026, the company's annual virtual customer event. The new and upcoming capabilities demonstrate how Visual Intelligence is creating a new way to work in construction, moving project teams beyond document-centric workflows toward decisions grounded in visual, real-world data.

In recent years, OpenSpace has become a leading platform that brings together data from 360° cameras, smartphones, drones, laser scanners, BIM models, project schedules and more. OpenSpace enriches that data with location, field context and reality-based progress analytics, making it easier for project teams to coordinate around what is actually happening on-site, communicate across stakeholders, and make faster decisions. This new way of working, with visual reality at the center, is making life easier for field teams, delivering literal ROI, and making AI genuinely more useful for builders.

"Construction doesn't need another disconnected tool or system that asks teams to manually input information into a form," said Jeevan Kalanithi, CEO and Co-Founder of OpenSpace. "The next phase of the industry will be defined by platforms that understand the physical world and make that intelligence available wherever teams already work. Today at Waypoint, we demonstrated how OpenSpace is powering a new way of reality-based work, with an open platform that interoperates with the systems and technologies that work best for our customers' businesses."

A New Way to Work in the Field

At Waypoint 2026, OpenSpace previewed new capabilities designed to make the smartphone a powerful tool for capturing, understanding, and acting on jobsite reality, reducing administrative work and helping teams move more quickly from observation to action.

The company announced a breakthrough in its Autolocation technology, revealing AI Autolocation 2.0 with Live Location. In construction, location of a photo taken is often the most important, but almost always missing, piece of information. OpenSpace made this a priority to solve for their customers. AI Autolocation works like GPS, but inside buildings where GPS does not operate, and it works without the need to install wireless hardware devices like bluetooth beacons. AI Autolocation 1.0 helped users automatically pin issues created on mobile to their location on a drawing. AI Autolocation 2.0 takes it further, allowing users to understand their position in real time, all the time, powering entirely new field workflows.

The technology powers a new mobile experience called Site Mode, which puts a user's live location directly on project drawings and BIM models, even when offline, allowing users in the field to instantly access relevant information, open Field Notes and expedite issue workflows based on exactly where they are on the jobsite.

The technology also powers AI Walk-and-Talk, a capability that allows users to create structured updates by speaking naturally as they move through the jobsite. The images and voice are tagged in real time to jobsite locations, providing a rich data set of site status. Walk-and-Talk powers workflows such as daily reports, with OpenSpace compiling the information into an end-of-day report to reduce significant time spent on administrative work.

Verified Progress, Not Opinions

OpenSpace also showcased major advancements to OpenSpace Track, its reality-based progress-tracking solution for projects ranging from multifamily housing to hospitality projects to some of the most complex, high-value and mission-critical projects. OpenSpace Track helps customers verify installed work, compare actual progress with planned milestones, identify schedule risks, forecast future performance, and view trends across multiple projects at the portfolio level.

Due to high customer demand from mission-critical owners and builders, OpenSpace has expanded its progress tracking offerings with new functionality for quantity tracking, markups and predictive analytics. Combined with the power of the full OpenSpace platform as well as optional walk and pilot services, customers are using these capabilities to build faster and more reliably, with visual reality at the center.

The company also announced its Track API, which allows customers to pull progress tracking data into whatever core system a customer uses — ERP, BI dashboards, or PM tools — and drive more workflows in both the field and office. In particular, the company highlighted customers using Track and the Track API to provide accelerated payments to their subcontractors using a shared visual record that all parties can trust, demonstrating literal ROI impact for the industry as a whole.

"For the construction industry, the field is where money is made or lost, yet progress has traditionally been measured through manual updates, periodic observations, and individual judgment," said Michael Jones, Vice President of Product Management at OpenSpace. "Visual Intelligence replaces opinions with a more objective, timely view of what has actually been completed, which can truly transform the difficult economics of construction. It allows payments and capital to flow more efficiently from lenders to owners to GCs to trades, each and every month."

Giving AI Agents Eyes on the Jobsite

OpenSpace outlined the next generation of AI built for the "real world" economy. Most AI systems are designed to interpret documents and text. Construction, however, takes place in a physical environment that changes every minute, every day. To provide meaningful value, AI must understand not only what was planned, but also what is truly happening in the real, physical world. This type of AI is often labeled "Physical AI," and it represents the cutting edge of AI broadly.

OpenSpace announced the new OpenSpace Agent Ecosystem – an open, interoperable AI agent platform that understands what is happening on the jobsite, and can tackle work that teams have to do. OpenSpace leverages its foundation of processing large amounts of visual data, enriching it with location, meaning and high-level analytics, and is now making that intelligence accessible to AI agents to help tackle real work. OpenSpace is building agentic AI technology capable of understanding reality data that is captured, organized, and mapped to the correct project spatial context. Having analyzed imagery from more than 110,000 construction projects representing over 77 billion square feet, with more than 500 million expert-verified labels and descriptions, OpenSpace has built a foundation of real-world visual and spatial intelligence that can help AI understand how construction actually progresses.

This foundation can enable AI agents – in OpenSpace or in a partner system using OpenSpace via MCP – to assist with everyday workflows like daily logs, routine inspections, and clearing punch lists. OpenSpace is already putting this vision into practice, working with a select group of Early Access customers to build and deploy AI agents against real-world construction workflows.

"AI agents need eyes," said Michael Fleischman, CTO and Co-Founder, OpenSpace. "An agent may be able to read every report associated with a project, and that provides real value. But without visual and spatial context, AI still cannot fully understand the scope of what drives business results for our customers – that data lies in the field. OpenSpace is building that connection between AI and the physical world so agents can become genuinely useful partners to the people delivering projects. This kind of real-world reasoning has been the vision behind OpenSpace from the beginning, and we're excited to now put that capability in the hands of our customers."

Throughout Waypoint 2026, OpenSpace customers shared how they are using Visual Intelligence to improve coordination, reduce administrative work, validate progress, deliver literal ROI through accelerated payments, and make faster decisions.

"OpenSpace puts Autodesk Issues front and center with pinpoint accuracy so we can get them resolved faster. The faster we resolve issues, the greater benefit to the project," said Zeeshan Haider, Director of Business Process, ISEC, Inc. "I worked with one company that could measure job profitability based on the number of days issues stayed open. So, if we can increase the efficiency with which we resolve open issues, that means money to the bottom line. And at the end of the day, that satisfies our customers. They feel like we're on top of things and getting them done faster."

Additional information about upcoming feature availability, participation in Early Access and Beta programs, and general customer access will be shared in the coming months.

To watch Waypoint 2026 and learn more about the innovations announced at the event, visit https://www.openspace.ai/waypoint/.

About OpenSpace

OpenSpace is the Visual Intelligence Platform for the built world, helping teams reduce risk and increase efficiency. Powered by Spatial AI, its image-first platform streamlines coordination between field and office teams, providing reality-based, real-time intelligence for faster decisions and fewer delays. Customers like Suffolk, Comfort Systems, and Tishman Speyer rely on OpenSpace to gain critical insights from their sites, avoid destructive investigations, and finish projects ahead of schedule. To date, general contractors, trades, and owners have relied on OpenSpace to analyze imagery on more than 110,000 construction projects across 132 countries. To learn more, visit www.openspace.ai and follow us on LinkedIn.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hagens Berman, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces it has opened an investigation into CVRx Inc. (NASDAQ: CVRX) regarding potential violations of federal securities laws. The investigation follows disclosures of a U.S. Department of Justice Civil Investigative Demand ("CID"), severe cuts to revenue guidance, commercial sales force disruption, and the sudden termination of the company's Chief Revenue Officer.

CVRx Inc. (NASDAQ: CVRX) Investors: Investors who suffered substantial losses are encouraged to submit your losses now to evaluate their legal rights and recovery options.

- Visit: www.hbsslaw.com/cvrx

- Contact Partner Reed Kathrein: 844-916-0895 | [email protected]

INVESTIGATION OVERVIEW: CVRx Inc. (NASDAQ: CVRX)

CVRx's sole commercial product is Barostim, an FDA-approved implantable neuromodulation device designed to improve symptoms for patients suffering from heart failure. Historically, CVRx assured investors that its growth strategy was anchored by a complete sales force transformation and high approval rates from Medicare Advantage payers.

CVRx repeatedly highlighted a "$10.5 billion market opportunity" with less than 1% penetration, reassuring the market earlier this year that its sales force transformation was "largely complete."

However, after market close on August 6, 2026, CVRx disclosed a series of severe operational and legal headwinds:

- DOJ Civil Investigative Demand (CID): On May 14, 2026, CVRx received a CID from the U.S. Department of Justice investigating whether the company caused the submission of false claims to government health programs by improperly marketing Barostim, paying kickbacks to healthcare providers, or submitting false information.

- Sales Force Deterioration & Guidance Cut: CVRx significantly cut its 2026 revenue expectations and revealed serious problems with its salesforce – sequentially flat growth in sales territories, turnover, and strained onboarding and training.

- Medicare Advantage Approval Collapse: CVRx revealed that its primary Medicare Advantage payer—which historically approved 80% of prior authorizations within 30 days—increased initial denials and reduced 30-day approvals to just 25%.

In response to these revelations, CVRx's stock price cratered 59% on August 7, 2026.

Three days later, on August 10, 2026, CVRx abruptly terminated its Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Robert John.

FOCUS OF THE HAGENS BERMAN INVESTIGATION

"We are investigating whether there is a direct connection between the Department of Justice CID and the immediate termination of the Chief Revenue Officer, as well as whether CVRx may have misled investors regarding the true state of its commercial sales force and Medicare Advantage reimbursement rates," said Reed Kathrein, the Hagens Berman partner leading the firm's investigation.

WHAT CVRx (CVRX) INVESTORS & WHISTLEBLOWERS CAN DO

- Investors: If you invested in CVRx, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVRX) and suffered significant financial losses, you can submit your losses now.

- Whistleblowers: Persons with non-public information regarding CVRx should consider their options to help in the investigation or take advantage of the SEC Whistleblower program. Under the new program, whistleblowers who provide original information may receive rewards totaling up to 30 percent of any successful recovery made by the SEC. For more information, call Reed Kathrein at 844-916-0895 or email [email protected].

About Hagens Berman

Hagens Berman is a global plaintiffs' rights complex litigation firm focusing on corporate accountability. The firm is home to a robust practice and represents investors as well as whistleblowers, workers, consumers and others in cases achieving real results for those harmed by corporate negligence and other wrongdoings. Hagens Berman's team has secured more than $2.9 billion in this area of law. More about the firm and its successes can be found at hbsslaw.com. Follow the firm for updates and news at @ClassActionLaw.

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Risilience Recognized by Verdantix for Market-Leading Physical Climate Risk Capabilities as Financial Impacts of Climate Hazards Mount

Independent assessment highlights Risilience's differentiated asset-level risk analysis, integrated risk modeling and financial quantification as businesses face growing physical climate threats.

CAMBRIDGE, England, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Risilience, the technology company helping businesses turn climate and interconnected risk into actionable financial intelligence, has been recognized for its market-leading capabilities in physical climate risk in the latest Verdantix Smart Innovators: Physical Climate Risk Solutions (2026) report. The evaluation positions Risilience as an industry innovator and market leader, highlighting its differentiated ability to combine holistic risk scenarios with deep financial quantification.

Physical climate risks are growing more frequent and severe, threatening real assets, infrastructure and biodiversity, while their financial toll is mounting. In 2025, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) calculated the global cost of damages from natural hazards at $224 billion. As these hazards intensify, real asset owners, investors and financial institutions must forecast physical climate risks in a timely manner – identifying their sources, quantifying their impacts and implementing mitigation strategies to prepare for a hotter world.

Verdantix's latest report benchmarks eleven physical climate risk solution providers, reflecting a market that is rapidly evolving as businesses move beyond climate risk scores and dashboards towards actionable intelligence that can inform investment, resilience and strategic decisions.

Risilience was awarded the highest rating, "Market-leading functionality, with differentiated offering", for both asset-level risk analysis and integrated climate and non-climate risk analysis. The assessment also identified strong functionality across five additional areas, including long-term hazard modeling, business strategy risk analysis and the production of adaptation-relevant metrics.

"We are proud to be recognized by Verdantix as a market leader in physical climate risk solutions," said Tom Harvey, SVP Product Management at Risilience. "Their independent analysis validates our focus on providing deep, financially quantified insights, highlighting our market-leading capabilities in asset-level risk analysis and integrated climate and non-climate risk assessment."

Risilience's Financial Quantification module, which converts hazard exposure directly into financial impact using sector-specific coefficients, was highlighted by Verdantix as a key differentiator. This reflects a wider shift in the market towards financially grounded climate intelligence that can support investment decisions and business planning.

Verdantix also highlights Risilience's ability to combine climate risk with macroeconomic, cyber and geopolitical scenarios, describing this as a "highly valuable and differentiated capability". This integrated approach enables organizations to assess physical climate risk alongside the wider factors that can shape business performance and resilience.

The report also recognizes RiiseIQ, Risilience's generative AI innovation, which makes complex climate and financial risk data more accessible through natural-language exploration. Together, these capabilities position Risilience as a leader and innovator in the physical climate risk solutions market, with particular differentiation in financial quantification and integrated risk assessment.

"Verdantix's latest report on physical climate risk confirms that the market requires more than just risk scores; it needs financially relevant intelligence," continued Harvey. "We are delighted that the report recognizes Risilience's market-leading ability to translate complex climate hazards directly into financial impacts, empowering businesses to make resilient investment decisions."

To learn more about Risilience or for a demo of the award-winning Riise platform, book a meeting with one of our expert consultants.

About Risilience

Risilience is an enterprise climate and risk analytics company that transforms scientific hazard data into actionable, board-ready business strategy. Spun out from the Centre for Risk Studies at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Risilience combines high-resolution physical hazard modeling, transition scenario analysis, and dynamic financial quantification. The platform empowers global corporations and financial institutions to measure climate risk, safeguard balance sheets, satisfy disclosure mandates (CSRD, TCFD, ISSB), and build long-term operational resilience.

About Verdantix

Verdantix is an independent research and advisory firm providing authoritative data, market evaluations, and insights on software and services across climate risk, ESG, sustainability, and operational excellence. (Source: Verdantix Physical Climate Risk Software Capabilities Assessment)

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