Company builds on record business momentum with expanded leadership team, platform innovation and strategic partnerships

KIRKLAND, Wash.,, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Adaptiva today announced an expanded investment in its go-to-market organization to accelerate growth amid rising demand for autonomous endpoint management (AEM) and patching. Building on a record first half of 2026, Adaptiva is expanding its leadership team, strengthening strategic partnerships, and continuing to invest in platform innovation to help more organizations automate endpoint management and respond to security threats faster.

AI is making it quicker and easier for attackers to find vulnerabilities and develop exploits, shrinking the time organizations have to respond from weeks to hours. At the same time, IT and security teams are managing more endpoints, applications and vulnerabilities than they can address manually. This is increasing demand for autonomous endpoint management that can proactively remediate vulnerabilities across large enterprise environments. These market dynamics are driving adoption of Adaptiva's leading AEM solution, OneSite Patch.

"Our strongest periods of growth have reinforced what we're hearing from customers every day: enterprises must move beyond traditional endpoint management toward more intelligent, autonomous operations," said Deepak Kumar, founder and CEO of Adaptiva. "We're investing in our people, our partners and our technology to make autonomous endpoint management easier to adopt. The goal is simple: help organizations find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them, without adding more work for IT."

Adaptiva Builds the Team to Support Its Growth

To support its next phase of growth, Adaptiva is expanding its leadership team across marketing, sales, partnerships and customer engagement.

Recent additions include:

- Jeff Day, who joined as Chief Growth Officer and Chief Marketing Officer to lead Adaptiva's go-to-market strategy across sales, marketing, alliances and account management.

- Kurt Grover, who joined as VP of Global Alliances to expand Adaptiva's relationships with global systems integrators, cloud providers, technology partners and channel partners and help bring Adaptiva's technology to more enterprise customers.

Additionally, Adaptiva has open positions for a Vice President of Worldwide Sales, plus individual contributor roles in sales and marketing. All together, these roles are building the sales, marketing and partner organization Adaptiva needs to support its goal of triple-digit growth in 2027.

Adaptiva Reaches Record Bookings With Strategic Partners

Adaptiva's expanded investment follows a period of strong growth across its enterprise business and strategic partnerships.

In Q2 2026, Adaptiva achieved its strongest quarter yet in Channel sales, recording its highest number of bookings to date, reflecting Adaptiva's growing position as a leading solution for technology partners and VARs. This builds on Adaptiva's integrations and partnerships with security software leaders CrowdStrike, Tenable, Qualys, and SentinelOne, and reseller partnerships with Guidepoint Security, Carahsoft, and Insight Partners.

Adaptiva Makes Autonomous Endpoint Management More Practical

Alongside its go-to-market expansion, Adaptiva continues to add capabilities that help IT and security teams find and fix vulnerabilities faster while reducing the manual work required to manage endpoints at scale.

Recent advancements include:

- Aida, an enterprise-safe Agentic AI solution to help customers set strategies, schedule patches, and build dashboards. AIDA also delivers AI intelligence enabling IT and security teams to ask questions about their endpoint environment in plain language.

- AirGap for OneSite Patch, which allows organizations to patch isolated systems without connecting those environments to the internet or changing the security controls designed to protect them.

- Adaptiva's AEM product suite now includes powerful Operating System Deployment (OSD) capabilities, including fully automated bare metal provisioning, built on top of Adaptiva's unique Peer-to-Peer PXE protocol stack, and our sophisticated no-code workflow orchestration engine. These capabilities can be used for remotely deploying Windows at scale and speed, without requiring any human intervention.

- Expanded OneSite Patch capabilities, including improved UX, simplified patching strategies to help customers with less complex environments onboard quicker, and expanded Linux support.

Gartner Recognition Highlights Adaptiva's Endpoint Management Leadership

Adaptiva's continued innovation has earned recognition from industry analysts and organizations while helping shape the broader conversation around autonomous endpoint management.

Most notably, Adaptiva was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, reinforcing the company's leadership in helping enterprises modernize endpoint management.

Adaptiva's OneSite Patch was also recognized among the best autonomous endpoint management software by CyberPress, and earned the 2026 MSP Today Product of the Year Award for its innovation in enterprise patch management.

Adaptiva will continue investing in its team, partnerships and technology to help more organizations move toward autonomous endpoint management, reducing complicated work for IT and security teams and making it faster to respond when vulnerabilities are discovered.

For more information about Adaptiva and its autonomous endpoint management platform, visit www.adaptiva.com.

About Adaptiva

Adaptiva, the autonomous endpoint management company, delivers the fastest way to patch and manage endpoints at scale. IT and security operations leaders trust the company's OneSite Platform and suite of endpoint management products to gain a hands-free, fully autonomous approach to speeding the continuous delivery of software, patches, and vulnerability remediations. Hundreds of today's largest global organizations rely on Adaptiva to increase operational efficiency, reduce risk, and maximize patching velocity across millions of endpoints. Adaptiva was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, recognized for both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Adaptiva is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington with offices in the UK and India. Learn more at adaptiva.com, and follow the company at LinkedIn, Facebook and X.

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Survey notes organizations that embrace real-time data into their workflows are more than three times as likely to see measurable results on the majority of their AI projects

OTTAWA, ON, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Solace, the real-time data platform for the enterprise, today announced the release of a new IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Solace, 2026 State of Real-Time Data: Agentic Enterprises Are Running on Real-Time Data. *

Based on a survey of 623 senior technology decision-makers at $1 billion-plus enterprises across eight countries, the study found that "agentic AI has moved from experiment to operational dependency, and it has quietly rewritten the enterprise's requirements for how fast data must move." Specifically, survey respondents deemed as leaders in real-time data maturity are more than three times as likely to deliver measurable business results across the majority of their AI projects. Leaders also report roughly 23% average annual gains in areas like speed to market, risk reduction and the ability to sense and respond to change quickly.

"Every enterprise has the same AI models. The winners are the ones whose agents run on trusted, real-time data, and the numbers back it up. When data moves in real-time, AI delivers. When it doesn't, AI fails to create sustainable impact," said Paul Fitzpatrick, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, Solace.

The findings make clear why real-time data has become the make-or-break factor for enterprise AI:

- Real-time data and Agentic AI work in lockstep – 80% of respondents stated they are investing in or already running AI agents, and 90% say they have increased their focus on real-time data to support their agentic AI plans. When asked what is driving the growing need for real-time data, respondents named advances in agentic AI as the single biggest force re-shaping their data priorities, ahead of security, cost, and regulatory pressure 

- The hardest part of AI is connecting agents to trusted data – 40% of organizations reported that connecting AI agents in real-time to reliable enterprise data is among the top obstacles to putting them into production, not actually building the agents. Data quality and consistency (46%) ranked as the number one technical challenge overall, cited even by the most advanced organizations 

- Success comes through operating practices, not budget or headcount – the study found that real-time readiness and AI success barely move with company size, and vary only modestly by industry. What consistently separates leaders is how they work: 76% say they run real-time data across most or all of their operations, compared to only 7% among emerging organizations. Leaders also standardize on a single unified platform rather than a patchwork of loosely connected tools, and put real-time talent directly into the teams that use it

- The payoff compounds as agentic AI matures – the study reveals a clear roadmap: as organizations advance through the maturity tiers, agents in production and AI project success climb together. Leaders roughly triple both, with agents deployed in production rising from 20% at emerging organizations to 59% among leaders, and the share of AI projects delivering measurable outcomes rising from 35% to 67%.

- Satisfaction is high across the board, and investment is accelerating – 90% of organizations said their real-time data investments have met or exceeded expectations. Nearly all – 94% to 97% – plan to increase spending on both real-time data and agentic AI

"The survey shows real-time data moving from a technical concern to a strategic one across the board," said Carlos M. González, Research Manager, Event-Driven Automation and Analytics, IDC. "Organizations are citing agentic AI as the single biggest force driving their need for real-time data. That reordering of priorities tells you real-time data is becoming foundational infrastructure for AI, not an analytics feature."

To learn more, download the full IDC InfoBrief here. For a deeper look at the survey findings, join Solace and IDC guest speakers for a joint webinar on September 23. Register here.

* Source: IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Solace, 2026 State of Real-Time Data: Agentic Enterprises Are Running on Real-Time Data, Doc# US54883526, August 2026

Survey Methodology

IDC conducted a custom survey, commissioned by Solace, of 623 senior technology decision-makers in June 2026. All respondents work at organizations with $1 billion or more in revenue across eight countries, with the largest share in manufacturing, financial services, and retail. 78% are primary decision-makers for real-time data and 71% own their organization's AI or agentic initiatives. IDC scored each respondent from 0 to 100 on real-time data maturity, blending real-time deployment, agentic AI adoption, and measurable business outcomes, and grouped them into four tiers used throughout the study. The results have a margin of error of +/- 3.9% at a 95% confidence interval.

About Solace:

Solace is the real-time data platform for the enterprise. The Solace Platform combines an event mesh, stream data processing, agentic processing and democratized access in one experience, connecting every application, cloud, partner and edge, turning raw events into real-time context, powering AI agents in production, and putting it all in the hands of every team. RBC Capital Markets, Bosch, Heineken, PSA Singapore, United Airlines, Schwarz Group and hundreds more enterprises rely on Solace to operate in real-time. Independent, focused, and purpose-built for the enterprise, Solace is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices around the world. Learn more at solace.com.

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AI platform will support care coordination and compliance efforts for a participating Florida health system under CMS's Transforming Episode Accountability Model

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rainfall Health, an AI-driven compliance and reimbursement platform for hospitals and medical groups, today announced that Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida will implement Rainfall's platform to support care coordination and compliance activities associated with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), which launched January 1, 2026.

Rainfall's platform is designed to support hospitals and post-acute care partners by helping coordinate care, monitor patient progress, and automate workflows associated with value-based care models such as TEAM. The platform will be used to support post-acute care coordination and quality reporting efforts for participating patients.

"This news reflects the growing demand for AI-enabled solutions that help hospitals succeed under value-based care models," said Eddie Qureshi, CEO and Founder of Rainfall Health. "Healthcare organizations participating in CMS's evolving value-based care models are looking for scalable ways to coordinate care, improve operational efficiency, and meet reporting requirements. Rainfall stands ready to help systems navigate these changes while supporting quality patient care."

CMS selected 721 hospitals to participate in the first cohort of TEAM, a mandatory payment model focused on improving quality and coordination of care for five high-volume surgical episodes through value-based reimbursement. Under this structure, hospitals that fall short of CMS's cost and quality benchmarks face steep financial penalties. However, hospitals that hit their benchmarks stand to gain the other side of that same equation: reconciliation bonuses built into CMS's incentive structure that can translate into up to $85M in new revenue.

Rainfall's AI-enabled platform is designed to automate care coordination and compliance workflows, helping providers collect and manage information needed to support quality improvement initiatives and reimbursement under value-based care programs.

"The opportunity to align financial incentives with quality patient outcomes has never been greater across our healthcare system," said Paul Uhrig, Senior Strategic Advisor at The Healthcare Trust Institute and member of the R.A.I.N Advisory Committee. "It's beyond exciting to see Rainfall's continued growth across leading hospitals and providers, ensuring they're capitalizing on each of the opportunities outlined in CMS's new value-based direction."

Rainfall continues to work with health systems across the country to maximize value from the TEAM mandate while setting higher quality standards for patient care. Today's news comes on the heels of Rainfall's recent $15M Series A funding round and TEAM Impact Report release last month.

About Rainfall Health

Rainfall Health is an AI-driven compliance and reimbursement platform that helps hospitals and medical groups navigate value-based care models, including CMS's Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM). The platform supports care coordination, regulatory compliance, quality reporting, and operational workflows designed to help healthcare organizations improve patient outcomes while managing complex reimbursement requirements. Learn more at https://www.rainfallhealth.com.

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CHICAGO, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker addresses more than 1,000 ironworkers from across the United States and Canada during the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers' 45th International Convention in Chicago.

The convention, taking place August 31 through September 4, brings together ironworkers, union leaders and industry partners from across North America to elect officers, set policy and adopt the union's agenda for the next five years.

Governor Pritzker's appearance highlights the importance of ironworkers to Illinois' economy and the state's continued investment in infrastructure, construction, manufacturing, and a highly trained workforce.

"Ironworkers are building the infrastructure that keeps Illinois and all of North America moving forward," said Kevin Bryenton, General President of the International Association of Iron Workers. "As demand grows for safe, skilled union labor, we're proud to welcome Governor Pritzker and continue the conversations that help create good jobs, strengthen our communities and move our industry forward."

For the Iron Workers, the convention comes at a time of major opportunity across the construction industry.

Demand for skilled ironworkers continues to grow across North America driven by infrastructure projects, manufacturing expansion, energy development, data centers and other large-scale construction. The union remains focused on ensuring that work creates family-supporting careers, maintains high safety standards and strengthens the future of the skilled trades.

The 45th International Convention is held under the theme "Forging Our Future: Strength Beyond Steel," reflecting the union's focus on strengthening membership, expanding opportunities and preparing for the challenges ahead.

The Iron Workers Union (IW) represents 130,000 ironworkers in North America who work in construction on bridges; structural steel; ornamental, architectural, clean energy, and miscellaneous metals; rebar; and in fabrication shops.

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Beginning October 1, 2026, hospitals using Bayesian's continuous sepsis monitor can receive additional Medicare reimbursement for eligible inpatient cases, the first reimbursement pathway of its kind for presuspicion sepsis monitoring.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayesian Health today announced that its FDA-cleared sepsis flagging device has been approved for a New Technology Add-on Payment (NTAP) under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' FY 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule. Beginning October 1, 2026, hospitals using the technology can receive additional Medicare reimbursement for eligible inpatient cases.

The approval builds on Bayesian's Breakthrough Technology Designation and FDA clearance in April 2026, and makes Bayesian the first continuous sepsis monitoring technology with both FDA clearance and a dedicated Medicare reimbursement pathway.

"Early detection should be standard infrastructure in every hospital," said Suchi Saria, PhD, Founder and CEO of Bayesian Health. "Reimbursement is not what makes clinical AI valuable. It's signal quality clinicians can trust and the end-to-end infrastructure to operationalize those signals into everyday care. What this approval does is remove friction, so proven technology reaches more clinicians and patients faster."

How the payment works

Standard hospital payment rates are set on historical claims, so a hospital adopting a newly approved technology absorbs its cost inside a rate that predates it. NTAP closes that gap: it provides a temporary add-on payment, on top of the standard MS-DRG payment, for cases where a qualifying technology was used and costs exceed what the bundled payment covers.

Beginning October 1, 2026, hospitals using Bayesian's sepsis solution will have a way to bill for eligible use of the technology across adult Medicare fee-for-service inpatient admissions monitored by Bayesian, spanning an estimated 739 MS-DRGs. Eligible discharges qualify for an add-on payment of up to $61.84 per case. The pathway remains in place for up to three years.

For more information on payment guidelines visit https://www.bayesianhealth.com/insights/ntap-reimbursement-guide.

The value for health systems

Sepsis takes 270,000 lives in US hospitals every year¹ and drives more than $50 billion in annual hospital costs². Every hour of delayed treatment reduces survival by as much as 7.6 percent³. Health systems know this, but growing patient volumes, workforce shortages, and sustained margin pressure can slow adoption even when the clinical need is clear.

NTAP changes that equation, aligning Medicare payment with the clinical case for early detection so health systems can adopt proven monitoring technology while reimbursement helps carry the cost.

"Hospitals should not have to choose between financial discipline and getting ahead of the deadliest condition facing their patients," said Martin Doerfler, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Bayesian Health. "Clinical teams already know what early detection is worth. They have seen what happens when sepsis is caught hours sooner. This approval aligns the payment model with the clinical reality, and it gives health system leaders one less reason to wait."

Health systems' biggest challenges is operationalizing clinical AI beyond the pilot stage: integrating into the EHR without burdening IT, training clinical staff, tuning alerts so they get answered instead of dismissed, and knowing who is accountable for checking that the system still performs on an ongoing basis. Bayesian's platform is built to carry that work, with EHR-native workflow integration, documentation and reporting, and FDA-grade monitoring that tracks performance continuously. With NTAP, that support now includes CMS payment support .

Evidence that earned the pathway

Bayesian's sepsis flagging device was validated in a landmark prospective study published in Nature Medicine, one of the largest evaluations of AI in clinical care ever conducted. Patients whose clinicians engaged with its alerts showed an 18.2 percent reduction in mortality and received antibiotics a median of 1.85 hours sooner. Those results have since been matched or exceeded across a diverse set of health systems, with consistently high (80%+) clinician adoption, faster antibiotic delivery, lower utilization and lower sepsis mortality. Sustained adoption at that level is not an accident; it reflects continuous performance monitoring and tuning that keeps the system accurate as patient populations and clinical practice evolve.

Momentum

NTAP approval marks Bayesian's second major regulatory and policy milestone of 2026, following FDA clearance in April. The milestones cap a year of momentum for the company, which recently expanded its physician leadership team and partnered with Mayo Clinic to bring its platform to palliative care, demonstrating how the same real-time intelligence built for sepsis becomes a repeatable playbook across service lines.

Clinical AI has moved from pilot to strategy, and Medicare's decision reflects that shift: health systems now have the evidence, the clinical leadership, and the reimbursement pathway to move from adoption to transformation.

About Bayesian Health

Bayesian Health is the real-time clinical intelligence platform that helps health systems deliver proactive, highly-reliable care. By continuously reading the full patient record to establish each patient's baseline and detect meaningful change over time, Bayesian applies complex clinical reasoning to identify the patients who truly need attention and surface clear next steps. Built to work within leading EHR systems and backed by FDA-grade monitoring and governance, the platform enhances existing clinical workflows by adding a continuous intelligence layer that helps teams intervene earlier and more effectively. Bayesian has partnered with leading health systems to make the long-promised shift from reactive to proactive care across key drivers of mortality, readmissions, and length of stay, hardwiring quality as a durable strategy rather than a series of disconnected initiatives.

Learn more at https://www.bayesianhealth.com.

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Mehr Auswahl, bessere Erreichbarkeit: Europcar eröffnet neuen Standort in Bremen

Hamburg/Bremen (ots)

Europcar verlegt seine Bremer Van-&-Truck-Station aus dem Industriegebiet in Strom in den besser erreichbaren Stadtteil Bremen-Neustadt und erweitert dort zugleich das Fahrzeugangebot. Ab sofort können Privat- und Geschäftskunden am neuen Standort in der Neuenlander Straße 83 neben Transportern und Lkw auch Pkw mieten. Die neue Station ersetzt den bisherigen Standort in der Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 45.

"Mit dem neuen Standort verbinden wir eine gute Erreichbarkeit mit einem deutlich breiteren Angebot. Unsere Kundinnen und Kunden finden hier ab sofort vom Pkw über den Transporter bis zum Lkw unterschiedliche Fahrzeugkategorien an einer Adresse“, sagt Thorsten Buschmann, Stationsleitung bei Europcar für den Standort Bremen Neuenlander Straße. „Damit können wir noch flexibler auf verschiedene Mobilitätsbedürfnisse eingehen und unsere Kundinnen und Kunden an sieben Tagen in der Woche persönlich zum passenden Fahrzeug beraten.“

Die Neuenlander Straße gehört als Teilstück der Bundesstraße 6 zu den wichtigen Verkehrsachsen der Stadt und ist über den Autobahnzubringer Arsten an die A1 angebunden. Auch mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln lässt sich die Station erreichen: Von der Haltestelle Schleiermacherstraße der Straßenbahnlinie 6 sind es nur rund 800 Meter zu Fuß.

Ein Standort für unterschiedliche Mobilitätsbedürfnisse

Das Angebot richtet sich an private ebenso wie an gewerbliche Mietende. Je nach Bedarf stehen beispielsweise Transporter für den Umzug, Nutzfahrzeuge für gewerbliche Einsätze oder Pkw für Alltag, Wochenende und individuelle Mobilität zur Verfügung.

Mit dem Umzug stärkt Europcar zugleich sein Angebot in Bremen. Künftig bietet der Mobilitätsdienstleister an drei Bremer Standorten Fahrzeuge an. Neben der Neuenlander Straße 83 mit dem vollen Fahrzeug-Angebot stehen Kundinnen und Kunden am Breitenweg 32 sowie am Flughafen in Bremen Pkw zur Verfügung.

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25 Jahre 9/11 in der ARD: Dokumentation, Sondersendung und investigative Podcast-Serie zum 25. Jahrestag der Anschläge

München (ots)

Persönliche Erinnerungen, politische Einordnung und investigative Recherche: Zum 25. Jahrestag der Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 widmet sich die ARD dem Ereignis und seinen bis heute spürbaren Folgen in drei unterschiedlichen Formaten: in der Primetime-Dokumentation "SEPTEMBER", der Sondersendung "Der Tag, der die Welt veränderte - 25 Jahre nach 9/11" und der investigativen Podcast-Serie "Staatsgeheimnis 9/11 - Die Saudi-Connection".

"SEPTEMBER": ARD-Dokumentation mit persönlichen Geschichten hinter 9/11

New York, Sommer 2001: eine Stadt im Aufbruch. Junge Menschen aus ganz Amerika strömen in die Metropole, Fashion Week und die US Open prägen den Rhythmus der Stadt. Persönliche Erinnerungen lassen in der ARD-Dokumentation "SEPTEMBER" diese unbeschwerte Zeit lebendig werden. Doch während die New Yorker und Besucher der Stadt, ihren Alltag genießen, bereiten sich 19 Attentäter unbemerkt auf die Anschläge vor.

In parallel erzählten Rückblenden stellt "SEPTEMBER" die persönlichen Geschichten der Menschen, die den 11. September unmittelbar erlebt haben, den Vorbereitungen der Attentäter gegenüber. So entsteht das Bild eines letzten Sommers vor einer Zäsur, die New York und die Welt für immer verändern sollte. Unveröffentlichtes Archivmaterial und weitere Stimmen aus Politik, Medien und Sicherheitsbehörden zeigen in der 90-minütigen Dokumentation von Johan von Mirbach, wie aus einem Terroranschlag ein Einschnitt in die Weltordnung wurde - und warum seine Folgen bis heute spürbar sind. "SEPTEMBER", eine Produktion des WDR, ist ab sofort in der ARD Mediathekverfügbar und am 11. September um 20:15 Uhr im Ersten zu sehen.

"Der Tag, der die Welt veränderte": Sondersendung mit Hintergründen und politischen Analysen

Die Sondersendung "Der Tag, der die Welt veränderte - 25 Jahre nach 9/11" zeigt, wie Überlebende und Angehörige der Opfer gedenken und blickt auf die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Folgen der Anschläge, die bis heute die internationale Ordnung prägen. Beiträge, Live-Schalten und Gespräche mit Expertinnen und Experten beleuchten unter anderem die Auswirkungen auf Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, internationale Beziehungen und Gesellschaft. Durch die Sendung führt Ellen Ehni. "Der Tag, der die Welt veränderte - 25 Jahre nach 9/11" ist am 11. September um 18:50 Uhr im Ersten zu sehen.

Investigative Podcast-Serie "Staatsgeheimnis 9/11 - Die Saudi-Connection"

Die Podcast-Serie "Staatsgeheimnis 9/11 - Die Saudi-Connection" geht einer der umstrittensten Fragen rund um die Anschläge nach: Welche Rolle spielte Saudi-Arabien? Im Zentrum steht der saudische Staatsbürger Omar Al-Bayoumi und die Frage, ob er von der saudischen Regierung den Auftrag hatte, einige der Attentäter zu unterstützen.

Die Recherche stützt sich auf bislang unveröffentlichtes Material sowie Interviews mit ehemaligen FBI-Ermittlern, Juristen und Angehörigen der Opfer.

"Staatsgeheimnis 9/11 - Die Saudi-Connection" istab sofort in ARD Sounds im Feed "Dark Matters" und ab 8. September auf allen gängigen Podcast-Plattformen verfügbar.

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GIBRALTAR, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Alright, alright, alright! Pragmatic Play, a leading content supplier to the iGaming industry, is teaming up with award-winning actor, comedian, and global superstar Kevin Hart for a landmark live casino event like no other.

On 6 and 7 November, Hart will step onto the live casino studio floor to host some of Pragmatic Play's fan favourite titles. The exclusive lineup will feature some of Pragmatic Play's most popular live casino games, with the exact tables he'll be hosting revealed to players on each day*.

Globally renowned for his iconic roles in hit film franchises such as Jumanji and Ride Along, as well as his legendary stand-up comedy career, Hart will bring his unmistakeable, high-octane humour to players across four distinctive sessions.

Discussing the collaboration with Pragmatic Play, Hart said: "When the opportunity to host some of Pragmatic Play's biggest live casino games came up, I jumped at the opportunity. I've seen what they've got planned and let me tell you; they don't do things small. I'm bringing the Kevin energy to Pragmatic Play. November can't get here fast enough. Let's play!"

Irina Cornides, Chief Operating Officer at Pragmatic Play, said: "Kevin Hart needs no introduction, and we are absolutely thrilled to welcome him into the studio. We thought Zeus knew how to command a room, but Kevin Hart hosting some of our biggest titles? Now that's a whole new level of entertainment you won't want to miss!

"This collaboration is all about creating a truly memorable entertainment experience. We know Kevin will bring his signature wit and personality to the table, and we can't wait to deliver an unforgettable experience for our operator partners and their players."

In the lead up to the broadcasts, Pragmatic Play will unveil a series of major promotions. These upcoming campaigns will give players the chance to win Free Chips in live casino games, including those hosted by Kevin.

But that's not all; during Hart's star-powered hosting sessions, Pragmatic Play will reward players further by dropping random cash prizes throughout the event.

Players and partners should follow Pragmatic Play's official channels for further updates and broadcast schedules.

*Not available in the UK. Availability may be restricted in certain jurisdictions.

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About Pragmatic Play

Pragmatic Play is a leading multi-product software provider to the iGaming industry and is licensed and regulated by industry governing bodies such as the Gambling Commission of Great Britain (GCGB), the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner (GGC), and the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA).

Its award-winning portfolio of slots, live casino, and more is available through a single API integration in all major regulated markets, languages, and currencies.

Headquartered in Gibraltar, Pragmatic Play is owned by a private group of investors led by Veridian (Gibraltar) Limited.

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La Caisse invests alongside Brookfield in Altius, India's largest independent telecom tower platform

- Investment reflects growing demand for mobile connectivity and 5G infrastructure in India.

MONTRÉAL and MUMBAI, India, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Global investment group La Caisse (formerly CDPQ), and Brookfield today announced that La Caisse has invested approximately INR 121 billion (CAD 1.76 billion) to acquire a 24% stake in Altius Telecom Infrastructure Trust ("Altius"), India's largest independent telecom tower platform. With the transaction now complete, Brookfield remains Altius' largest investor, alongside La Caisse and existing shareholders who are affiliates of GIC and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI).

Altius owns and operates more than 258,000 telecom towers and sites across India, giving it a nationwide presence. The platform provides the infrastructure that enables mobile operators to deliver 4G and 5G services. India is the world's second-largest telecommunications market, and continued growth in mobile data use and 5G is increasing the need for digital infrastructure.

"As India's economy grows and more people and businesses rely on higher use of mobile data, the infrastructure behind those connections needs to keep pace," said Emmanuel Jaclot, Executive Vice-President and Head of Infrastructure and Sustainability at La Caisse. "This is a sector we know well through our investments in telecom towers and digital infrastructure around the world. With Altius, we are investing in an attractive market through an established platform, alongside Brookfield and other institutional partners with whom we have longstanding relationships."

Sam Pollock, CEO of Brookfield's Infrastructure group, said, "Altius has built a scaled, nationwide platform that is in a leading position to meet India's demand for mobile connectivity and 5G infrastructure. La Caisse's investment brings another long-term institutional partner to the platform and reflects confidence in the strength of the business. Alongside our partners, we will continue to support Altius' next phase of growth by deploying our owner-operator capabilities and disciplined, long-term approach to infrastructure investing."

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DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- According to MarketsandMarkets™, the Concrete Superplasticizers Market is projected to grow from USD 7.93 billion in 2026 to USD 10.54 billion by 2031, at a CAGR of 5.8% during the forecast period (2026-2031).

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Concrete Superplasticizers Market Size & Forecast:

- Market Size Available for Years: 2022-2031

- 2026 Market Size: USD 7.93 billion

- 2031 Projected Market Size: USD 10.54 billion

- CAGR (2026-2031): 5.8%

Concrete Superplasticizers Market Trends & Insights:

- Several factors have contributed to the growth of the concrete superplasticizers market, including rising demand for high-performance concrete, growing construction activity, and improved concrete quality and durability. One of the major factors driving the market is the growth in the process of infrastructure and urban development, whereby there has been an increase in the utilization of ready-mixed, precast, and high-performance concrete for the construction of large buildings. Another factor contributing to the market is the growing need to reduce water use in concrete production, as superplasticizers allow higher strength and workability at lower water-to-cement ratios. The increasing use of advanced construction techniques like self-compacting and high-performance concrete is also driving demand for superplasticizer products.

- Middle East & Africa is the fastest-growing market for concrete superplasticizers, growing at a CAGR of 6.6% during the forecast period.

- Liquid is the largest and fastest-growing segment for the concrete superplasticizers market with a CAGR of 5.9%.

- Polycarboxylate derivatives is the largest and fastest-growing product type segment in the concrete superplasticizers market, growing at a CAGR of 5.9% during the forecast period.

- High-performance concrete is the largest application in the concrete superplasticizers market.

- The concrete superplasticizers market is driven by product innovation, capacity expansions, and strategic collaborations among global leaders, such as Sika AG (Switzerland), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. (France), and Master Builders Solutions Holding GmbH (Germany). These companies are focusing on capacity expansion and product launches to sustain their market position.

- Jiangsu Subote New Material Co., Ltd. (China), Ha-be Betonchemie GmbH (Germany), and NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD. (Japan) are considered among the other players in the concrete superplasticizers market.

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The concrete superplasticizers market is expanding, driven by rising infrastructure investment, urbanization, and increasing adoption of ready-mix, precast, self-compacting, high-strength, and high-performance concrete. Growth is supported by the need to achieve lower water-to-cement ratios while maintaining flowability, strength, durability, and pumping performance. Polycarboxylate ether (PCE) technology remains central to market development because targeted polymer design enables manufacturers to optimize water reduction, slump retention, early strength, viscosity, and workability for specific concrete requirements. Technological advancements are increasingly focused on customized PCE structures, extended slump-retention systems, high-early-strength formulations, and products compatible with supplementary cementitious materials such as fly ash, slag, and micro silica. However, manufacturers face restraints from volatile raw-material prices, formulation complexity, cement–admixture compatibility variations, stringent performance requirements, and the need for extensive technical support and field testing across different climatic and construction conditions.

By application, high-performance concrete is expected to record the highest CAGR in the concrete superplasticizers market, in terms of value, during the forecast period

High-performance concrete (HPC) is expected to be the fastest-growing application segment for the concrete superplasticizers market because increasing infrastructure complexity is creating demand for concrete that delivers higher strength, durability, workability, and service life while using lower water-to-binder ratios. Superplasticizers, particularly polycarboxylate ether (PCE)-based formulations, enable substantial water reduction while maintaining flowability and improving strength and durability, making them essential for HPC formulations. The growing construction of bridges, high-rise buildings, tunnels, industrial facilities, airports, and other demanding infrastructure further supports HPC adoption. The increasing use of densely reinforced and slender structural components also requires highly flowable concrete that maintains cohesion during placement. In addition, manufacturers are developing specialized superplasticizers offering improved rheology, extended workability, and strength development, directly addressing HPC requirements. The industry's focus on durable, resource-efficient, and longer-lasting structures is therefore expected to accelerate HPC consumption and superplasticizer demand.

By product form, the liquid segment is expected to record the highest CAGR in the concrete superplasticizers market, in terms of value, from 2026 to 2031

Liquid superplasticizers are expected to be the fastest-growing product-form segment because they provide greater convenience, dosage precision, and compatibility with automated concrete batching and continuous production systems. Liquid formulations can be directly metered into concrete during mixing, enabling accurate dosing and rapid dispersion throughout the cementitious matrix. This makes them particularly suitable for ready-mix, precast, high-performance, and self-compacting concrete, where consistency and production efficiency are critical. PCE-based liquid superplasticizers can also be engineered to provide specific performance characteristics, including high water reduction, extended slump retention, improved rheology, and enhanced strength development. Their ability to maintain workability during extended transportation and placement further strengthens demand among ready-mix producers. Liquid products are also easier to integrate into modern automated dosing equipment and bulk-storage systems, reducing handling requirements compared with powdered products. As concrete production becomes increasingly automated and performance-oriented, these operational and technical advantages are expected to support faster growth of liquid superplasticizers.

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Middle East & Africa to be fastest-growing concrete superplasticizers market during the forecast period

The Middle East & Africa is expected to be the largest concrete superplasticizers industry by accelerating infrastructure investment, urbanization, and large-scale construction programs across Gulf countries and emerging African economies. Saudi Arabia is a major regional growth engine, with Vision 2030 driving extensive investments in residential, commercial, tourism, transportation, infrastructure, energy, and industrial projects. Saudi Arabia's future construction pipeline was estimated at approximately USD 1.52 trillion (SAR 5.7 trillion) in 2024, representing 39% of the MENA region's future construction pipeline. The Kingdom is also expected to require more than 1.5 million housing units across five major cities by 2030, reinforcing demand for construction materials. Large-scale projects increasingly require high-performance, durable, and highly workable concrete, supporting advanced superplasticizer consumption. Across Africa, urban infrastructure, housing, industrialization, renewable energy, and transportation investments provide additional demand. Consequently, rising concrete volumes and increasing requirements for performance-enhancing admixtures position the region for rapid market expansion.

Key Players

To enable an in-depth understanding of the competitive landscape, the report includes the profiles of some top concrete superplasticizers companies are Sika AG (Switzerland), Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. (France), Kao Corporation (Japan), Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Mexico), Arkema SA (France), The Euclid Chemical Company (US), Mapei S.p.A. (Italy), Master Builders Solutions Holdings GmbH (Germany), MC-Bauchemie Müller GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), and Shandong Wotai Chemical Co., Ltd. (China).

Investment Funding Context

Capital expenditure (Capex) across the concrete superplasticizers sector is being aggressively directed toward localizing supply chains and upgrading manufacturing capacities to support next-generation, sustainable construction practices. A major focus of this funding is expanding polycarboxylate ether (PCE) polymer production to meet rising demand for low-carbon, high-performance concrete driven by massive government infrastructure initiatives. For example, Sika AG is heavily investing in localized manufacturing, expanding its Sealy, Texas polymer facility and breaking ground on a new admixture plant in Haines City, Florida, dedicated to producing its advanced ViscoCrete technology. At the same time, massive capital is flowing into strategic consolidation to dominate regional markets and integrate advanced admixture portfolios. Saint-Gobain is rapidly expanding its global construction chemicals footprint, entering into an agreement to acquire Fosroc for approximately USD 1.025 billion, a move that builds upon its previous high-value acquisitions of major admixture players like Chryso and GCP.