Arizona's bioscience community honors the Mesa manufacturer's momentum over the past 18 months, from a first-of-its-kind FDA designation to American-made production of hospital medicines in chronic shortage

MESA, Ariz., Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright Path, a U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer, has been named a 2026 AZBio Fast Lane Award honoree by the Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio). The award recognizes Arizona bioscience companies that have reached significant milestones and demonstrated exceptional momentum over the past 18 months. Honorees are nominated by members of Arizona's bioscience community and selected by independent judges. Bright Path will be honored today at the 23rd Annual AZBio Awards at the Phoenix Convention Center, a signature event of Arizona Bioscience Week.

"Arizona is where we proved that essential medicines can be made in America again," said Tony Quinones, Founder and CEO of Bright Path. "Our team in Mesa takes base chemicals and turns them into finished medicine in hours, start to finish in the United States, at prices that compete with China and India. This award belongs to them, and it tells every hospital, distributor and policymaker watching that the road back to American-made medicine runs through Arizona."

Over the past 18 months, Bright Path has moved from federal research programs to committed commercial production. In August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the company an Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) designation, the first for a small-molecule drug manufacturing technology. The designation covers Bright Path's end-to-end U.S. production of carboplatin, a commonly used chemotherapy drug, and lidocaine, a local anesthetic widely used in hospitals and emergency care. Both medicines are on the FDA drug shortage list. During the same period, the company met every contract milestone across three successive awards under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) EQUIP-A-Pharma program. The entirety of its initial production is already committed under contract to healthcare customers through a distribution network reaching 48 states.

At the center of the platform is the company's patented Spinning Tube-in-Tube (STT®) reactor system, designed and built in-house in Mesa. Conventional plants produce medicine in large batches that stop and start over days and weeks. Bright Path instead runs the chemistry as one continuous flow, with software managing quality from raw materials through sterile filling, which is how finished medicine comes off the line in hours, with no chemical ingredients sourced from overseas.

Bright Path's Mesa facility anchors the company's plan to expand into a national network of regional manufacturing hubs serving hospitals, distributors and government customers.

About Bright Path

Bright Path is a U.S.-based advanced pharmaceutical manufacturer headquartered in Mesa, Arizona. The company's patented Spinning Tube-in-Tube (STT®) continuous-flow reactor technology, designed, fabricated and assembled entirely in-house, anchors an end-to-end manufacturing platform spanning key starting materials, active pharmaceutical ingredients, sterile fill-finish and packaging, all inside the United States. The platform is capable of addressing 87% of the World Health Organization's Essential Medicines List and producing more than 13.4 million vials per year at full capacity, with yields averaging 178% higher than conventional batch manufacturing. Bright Path is a direct recipient and partner of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through the EQUIP-A-Pharma program.

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New capability overcomes schedule-based drawback of traditional pen-testing programs

New autonomous capability brings intelligence-led security testing on demand between scheduled penetration tests.

DUBLIN, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Edgescan announced today the launch of Edgescan Atomic, an autonomous penetration-testing capability built on agentic AI and Edgescan's existing security intelligence. Edgescan Atomic can run on top of Edgescan's existing continuous security platform or run as a stand along Agentic Penetration Testing solution.

Organizations need confidence that they are safe from AI-powered cyber-attacks. Edgescan Atomic is designed to provide the powerful layer of continuous, rapid, on-demand offensive validation that organizations need to verify their posture quickly.

Edgescan Atomic can operate independently, but it becomes significantly more effective when powered by Edgescan Intelligence, including historical scan data, PTaaS results, false positive data, validated vulnerabilities, asset context, authentication workflows, API information, and historical assessment data. This gives Atomic a richer starting point from which to explore and validate potential attack paths.

Atomic delivers proven security intelligence with agentic AI combined with the Edgescan Harness, which controls what the AI can and can't do. The Edgescan Harness enforces defined scope, permissions, approvals and policies, allowing Atomic to reason and adapt like an attacker while keeping its actions controlled and auditable. This gives organizations a way to use autonomous penetration testing without giving up oversight.

Edgescan Atomic delivers:

- Faster validation for security teams. They can launch autonomous testing immediately, delivering deep assessment using previous target metadata if available. Validation is via the agentic validation team and our human experts if required.

- Deeper coverage, with less noise, for security operations and AppSec teams. Atomic is designed to identify business-logic and access-control vulnerabilities such as insecure direct object reference (IDOR ), authorization weakness and broken access control, while validating findings with evidence before they reach analysts, reducing investigation and triage workloads.

- Predictable cost with greater control. The licensing model provides a defined testing budget, while the Harness enforces scope, logs and policy-enforces AI actions.

Eoin Keary, CEO, Edgescan, said: "Edgescan Atomic addresses a fundamental limitation of traditional penetration testing: the AI-powered threat environment and the rate of application code change. Atomic gives customers the power to launch autonomous penetration testing whenever they need it, putting more control, greater flexibility, and faster security validation directly in their hands."

About Edgescan

Edgescan is a cybersecurity leader providing continuous application and network security testing for mature enterprise security teams. Delivering the full spectrum of Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), from automated vulnerability scanning to expert-led penetration tests, Edgescan combines AI-powered automation with human validation to deliver continuous visibility with unmatched accuracy. By consolidating multiple security silos, including ASM, API, web, mobile, and network testing, into a single platform, Edgescan provides verified, actionable findings with virtually no false positives, backed by direct access to the CREST-certified experts who uncover them. For more information, visit www.edgescan.com.

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Inspired By IDE For Developers, CIO's Organization Gets Its Own Purpose-Built Environment To Understand, Change, And Evolve The Systems That Run The Business, Revolutionizing Enterprise Efficiency

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Whirl AI (www.whirlai.com) today introduced the Integrated Business Environment (IBE), a new category of AI built for enterprise IT. Whirl's IBE gives the CIO's organization the context, workflows, and collaboration tools it needs to understand, change, and improve the systems of record at the center of the business: CRM, ERP, HRIS, ITSM, and the integrations that connect them.

Every core business process in a modern enterprise runs through these systems, and IT is the only function with visibility across all of them. But that visibility is still manual and reactive. When a business leader asks why an approval is stalling, what would break if a Salesforce automation changed, or how forecasting should be redesigned after a sales reorganization, IT can't simply look up the answer. Teams have to rebuild it by hand from configurations, metadata, integrations, custom code, tickets, and institutional knowledge. As a result, IT spends most of its time working through tickets and change requests instead of leading transformation.

"Every department has had its AI productivity moment, and IT has been the one making those moments happen for everyone else, without getting one of its own," said Sunny Bedi, Founder and CEO of Whirl AI. "The systems IT owns are the fabric the entire business runs on. When IT gets faster at understanding and evolving those systems, every transformation initiative in the company speeds up."

Five pillars of the IBE

Whirl defines the IBE by five requirements. It must be purpose-built for every IT persona. It must deliver trust and accuracy, grounded in a system context that no foundation model has on its own. It must provide governed data retention, secure by design to eliminate the "rediscovery tax." It must support cross-functional collaboration. And it must earn workflow lock-in by covering the full IT lifecycle in the environments teams already use.

What CIOs are saying

"I don't need another copilot that guesses. I need a system that knows how my business really works...Whirl is the window into truly understanding how the business operates. Whirl can provide that view of business process and workflow almost instantly."

- Sheila Jordan. Technology Advisor, Board Member and Former Chief Digital Technology Officer - Honeywell

"Transformation at enterprise scale isn't one project. It's thousands of changes across CRM, ERP, and everything wired between. The IT teams that deliver those changes fast and safely set the pace for the business. Whirl AI is built for that work." 

- Alvina Antar. Chief Digital Officer, F5

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Whirl AI is defining IT for the AI era. By understanding the context of an enterprise's applications, configurations, and integrations, Whirl AI provides the foundational intelligence that enables Enterprise AI to work inside complex organizations. Whirl's secure platform and purpose-built AI agents help IT professionals accelerate changes to core business processes and underlying systems, compressing weeks of work into hours without sacrificing quality or control. Founded by enterprise veterans and backed by leading investors, Whirl AI is already in use by leading enterprise IT organizations seeking to be more responsive and transformational to the business.

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A Reliable, High-Performance Alternative to Legacy Autopilots: Upbeat Launches Bluemag Pi with Onboard AI

As drone developers look for a dependable alternative to legacy flight controllers, the Bluemag Pi pairs real-time flight-critical performance with onboard AI inference — a combination most incumbent autopilots weren't built to deliver

NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Upbeat Technology, a pioneer in ultra-low-power compute, voice, and edge AI sensing solutions, today announced the launch of Bluemag Pi, a sensor-integrated AI flight controller built for long-endurance fixed-wing aircraft, commercial multirotor drones, and unmanned surface vessels. The board runs on Upbeat's UP301 system-on-chip, which pairs SiFive's E3 and E2 RISC-V processor cores in a dual-core architecture built for flight-critical applications.

The UP301's multicore architecture separates time-critical flight tasks from communication, navigation, and system-management functions, improving responsiveness and reliability. The board provides ample RAM, nonvolatile storage, hardware floating-point capability, timers, direct memory access (DMA), and interrupt resources to support advanced flight operations. Bluemag Pi runs the Apache NuttX real-time operating system and is compatible with the industry's leading open-source flight-control stacks, including PX4, ArduPilot, and Betaflight.

The launch comes as the global drone market accelerates. According to Grand View Research, the market was valued at approximately $96.4 billion in 2026 and projected to reach $182.4 billion by 2033, growing at roughly a 9.5% compound annual rate, driven by AI-enabled, long-endurance platforms in agriculture, infrastructure inspection, logistics, and defense. That growth has outpaced the flight-controller market's ability to keep up: most widely used autopilots still run on general-purpose processors with no dedicated AI acceleration, leaving drone makers to bolt on a separate companion computer just to add onboard intelligence. Bluemag Pi is designed to close that gap, giving developers a single, reliable board built for both flight-critical control and AI inference.

Bluemag Pi pairs two independent inertial measurement units (IMUs), a barometer, and dual global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers with sensor-fusion software that continuously cross-checks their readings. As a result, the board produces dependable altitude, attitude, and velocity estimates even if a single sensor drifts or fails. For connectivity, the board streams telemetry to a ground station or companion computer over a standard MAVLink radio link, accepts input from common remote-control receivers, and drives motors through an integrated four-in-one electronic speed controller for precise throttle response. Additional interfaces support expansion sensors and peripherals, and onboard storage continuously logs flight data for diagnostics, tuning, and post-flight analysis.

"We chose Upbeat's Bluemag Pi flight control board over standard solutions because it's remarkably easy to integrate yet built with the real-time performance and robust feature set advanced drone development demands. That combination of dependable performance and comprehensive capabilities has made it the right platform for building sophisticated UAV solutions," said Steven Yen, Founder and CEO, Drone Dynamics.

Bluemag Pi is available as a standard board that fully supports secondary development, allowing engineers to implement their own custom flight algorithms. Alternatively, customers looking to design their own proprietary carrier boards can purchase the UP301 chip directly. With suitable hardware and firmware integration, the UP301 platform supports manual, stabilized, altitude-hold, position-hold, mission, return-to-home, and autonomous flight modes. Bluemag Pi is available for purchase now on the Upbeat Technology website.

"Flight control is one of the toughest tests for any processor architecture, hard real-time guarantees, built-in redundancy, and now onboard AI, all on a tight power budget. Leveraging both SiFive's E3 and E2 Essential RISC-V CPU IP Complexes lets Upbeat dedicate one core to flight-critical control and the other to AI and system tasks, without either one compromising the other. Bluemag Pi proves RISC-V is ready for more than edge AI, it's ready for the real-time, safety-critical systems that autonomous flight depends on," said Martyn Stroeve, Vice President, SiFive.

Upbeat will demonstrate the Bluemag Pi drone flight controller at CEATEC 2026, Japan's largest annual electronics and IT trade show, October 13–16 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba. Attendees can experience its real-time performance and onboard AI inference at booth 7H215-01. The Upbeat team will also showcase its humanoid robotic hands, headphones, and other new products. Click here to schedule a meeting at the booth. Moreover, Upbeat will also be attending TAITRONICS & AIoT Taiwan, October 20–22 at booth J0102.

Upbeat's robotics work was recognized this year with the Robot Intelligent Mobility System Excellence Award — guided by the Industrial Development Agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and jointly organized by the Precision Machinery Research and Development Center and the Taiwan Smart Automation and Robotics Association — for its MEMS Edge AI Module for Robot Health Monitoring and Tactile Friction Sensing, which lets equipment "hear" abnormal sounds and flag failing components before they break down, at extremely low power. Upbeat is now extending that same sensing platform beyond UAVs into humanoid robotics, demonstrating tactile and vibration sensing in robotic hands and feet that detects grip slippage, surface friction, and ground contact in real time.

About Upbeat Technology

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Upbeat Technology designs extreme-low-power ICs, AI accelerators, and MEMS sensors for wearables, robotics (including humanoid robotics), hearables, industrial sensing, edge AI applications, and drone flight-controller boards. Upbeat's product lines include the UP-series RISC-V SoCs with on-chip NPU/DSP acceleration and the UPM-series MEMS bone-conduction microphones. Learn more at www.upbeattechtw.com.

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Longtime Commonwealth advisor finds a familiar culture within Cetera's Summit Financial Networks

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cetera welcomes Financial Advisor Cynthia Doussard and her practice, Doussard Financial, overseeing approximately $235 million in AUA1, to Cetera's unique Summit Financial Networks2 community.

Based in Burlington, Washington, Doussard has spent nearly 30 years in the industry, including more than two decades with Commonwealth Financial Network. She is joined by two dedicated support staff, along with a third team member currently working toward her securities license with the goal of becoming the firm's second financial advisor.

Doussard Financial serves clients throughout Northwest Washington, and has grown primarily through referrals, with its strong ties to the region's oil refinery community. Doussard and her team focus on retirement income planning, including pension and 401(k) rollover guidance for clients preparing for or already living in retirement.

Doussard noted that her practice is grounded in business basics, saying: "People just want someone to treat them fairly – they want to be able to trust someone, and we do most of our client work face to face. That's the way I like to do business. They can pop in any time, and if there's something they need, we'll take care of it."

Doussard was affiliated with Commonwealth for 24 years and wasn't looking to move: "If Commonwealth wouldn't have sold to LPL, I never would have left," she said.

When Commonwealth announced that it would be acquired by LPL Financial, Doussard, like many former Commonwealth advisors, began looking for a partner that could offer the same responsive, personal service she had come to expect. Over the course of a year, she received many inquiries from recruiters and broker-dealers, but patiently and intentionally kept searching for the right fit.

After seeing several of her Commonwealth peers join Cetera, she decided to "keep going in that direction" as she sought the same kind of relationship she enjoyed with Commonwealth.

"As advisors, we're the client, and I see Cetera wanting to support us and take care of what we need, while leaving the business decisions up to me, and that's what I wanted to maintain after leaving Commonwealth," she said.

In welcoming Doussard, Cetera Advisor Channel Leader Tom Halloran said, "Cynthia has earned the trust of tough blue-collar workers whose financial means come from doing difficult and dangerous jobs. The faith those clients put in Cynthia and her team is remarkable, and we're honored she chose Cetera to support her with her client-service mission."

About Cetera

Cetera is the premier financial advisor Wealth Hub, empowering independent advisors and institutions with personalized support, flexible affiliation models, and end-to-end growth solutions. Home to approximately 12,000 financial professionals and institutions, Cetera's multi-channel ecosystem enables financial professionals to grow, scale or transition their businesses on their own terms.

Unlike traditional IBDs, Cetera offers true choice – blending modern technology, integrated wealth solutions, and a community-driven culture. Cetera's five-channel model and commitment to long-term advisor value provide a scalable blueprint for consistent, repeatable growth.

As of June 30, 2026, Cetera firms manage approximately $688 billion in assets under administration and $330 billion in assets under management. Its Voice of the Customer program has captured more than 50,000 advisor reviews, and over 45,000 five-star ratings, giving Cetera a 4.7 out of 5 satisfaction score.

Learn more at www.cetera.com and follow Cetera on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and X.

Cetera is a network of independent retail firms, including FINRA/SIPC member firms Cetera Advisors LLC, Cetera Wealth Services, LLC (formerly known as Cetera Advisor Networks), Cetera Investment Services LLC (marketed as Cetera Financial Institutions or Cetera Investors), and Cetera Financial Specialists LLC. SEC-registered investment advisers include Cetera Investment Management LLC, Cetera Investment Advisers LLC, and Cetera Planning Partners within Cetera Holdings, an affiliate of Cetera. All referenced entities are under common ownership. Cetera's principal office is located at 655 W. Broadway, 11th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101.

Cetera exclusively provides investment products and services through its representatives. Although Cetera does not provide tax or legal advice, or supervise tax, accounting or legal services, Cetera representatives may offer these services through their independent outside businesses. This information is not intended as tax or legal advice.

1Value approximated based on information provided to Cetera for asset holdings as of July 22, 2026.

2Summit Financial Networks is a region of Cetera Wealth Services, LLC. Securities offered through Cetera Wealth Services, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Cetera Investment Advisers LLC, a registered investment adviser. Cetera is under separate ownership from any other named entity.

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Analysis of more than 3,400 healthcare bills and 824,700 social media posts from elected officials reveal the extent to which word choice based on political affiliation shapes which policies advance, offering a data-backed framework for healthcare communicators navigating the same scrutiny.

NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- New research conducted by /prompt, a leading integrated marketing and communications agency, finds that the language lawmakers use when drafting healthcare legislation has become a measurable predictor of whether the legislation succeeds or fails — a pattern the research shows applies equally to healthcare communications.

The newly published report, "The Politics of Healthcare Language," is part of the agency's Health Outcomes Coalition initiative, a cross-industry working group chaired by board-certified pediatrician and medical media expert Dr. Alok Patel that unites leaders across pharma, biotech, academia, and advocacy. The group is dedicated to improving how health outcomes are defined, measured, and communicated.

Drawing on an analysis of 824,700 social media posts from elected officials and more than 3,400 state and federal healthcare bills introduced between 2021 and 2025, the research reaches a central, data-backed conclusion. Across every policy area studied, the pattern held that "operational" language describing how something works — a mechanism, an eligible population, a documentation step — consistently outperformed "ideological" language that argues why it matters. The same intervention could advance or stall on wording alone; "substance use disorder" fared better than "substance abuse," and "opioid antagonist" better than "naloxone" for the identical medication. No vocabulary proved truly neutral, either — "Affordable Care Act" versus "Obamacare," or even "immigrant" versus "illegal immigrant," carried measurable partisan signals.

"It's naive to pretend healthcare isn't political," said Dr. Patel of the report's findings. "What's not acceptable is letting partisan framing replace science and public health as our foundation for communication."

The research argues the exposed patterns extend directly to pharmaceutical and healthcare communications as well, which move through a similar process: multiple approval layers, risk-aware gatekeepers, and audiences who receive information through a political lens. In effect, the report aims to offer a risk map for language — pinpointing where word choice shapes what clears review, whether an organization keeps control of its own story, and whether a message broadens or narrows support. To make that actionable, the report includes practical resources like a Term Substitution Guide and 8 key principles for communications professionals.

The report also examines real-world communications case studies that expose a gap, between the language that survives political scrutiny and the language that actually reaches patients — framing each not as a failure of intent but as a failure of communication architecture.

"Communicators have long sensed that words carry weight in these environments, but they've rarely had data to prove it. This research gives the industry a baseline of proof instead of guesswork and a shared language we can build on together," said Paul Dyer, CEO of /prompt. "This isn't about softening messages or avoiding hard topics. It's about making sure the right message gets through to patients, every time."

The full report is available at https://healthoutcomes.meetprompt.com/en-us/the-politics-of-healthcare-language.

About the methodology

Findings are derived from an analysis of more than 3,400 state and federal healthcare bills (2021–2025) across immunization, access and affordability, women's health, and discrimination and civil rights, using log-odds ratio scoring to compare language in enacted versus failed bills, alongside an analysis of 824,700 social media posts from elected officials. Social data was drawn from Talkwalker and legislative data from LexisNexis State Net. All findings reflect correlation, not causation; drafting structure, political context, and sponsorship also influence legislative outcomes.

About /prompt

/prompt is a 10x Agency of the Year–winning integrated marketing and communications agency built to help clients succeed by outsmarting — not outspending — the competition. Independent and management-owned, the agency unites data, strategy, creativity, and media under one AI-augmented system. /prompt specializes in high-scrutiny, high-stakes healthcare communications and partners with pharmaceutical companies, health systems, and advocacy organizations on evidence-based language strategy.

Learn more at www.meetprompt.com.

About the Health Outcomes Coalition

The Health Outcomes Coalition is a cross-industry working group chaired by Dr. Alok Patel, uniting leaders from pharma, biotech, academia, and advocacy around a single purpose: improving how health outcomes are defined, measured, and communicated. The coalition builds the shared language infrastructure the industry needs to reach patients more effectively.

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Melissa Green promoted to Regional Vice President, Operations at Davidson Hospitality Group

Tenured hospitality leader elevated; will drive best-in-class performance for portfolio

of full-service hotels and resorts

ATLANTA, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Premier hospitality management company Davidson Hospitality Group announces the promotion of Melissa Green to Regional Vice President, Operations. In her role, she is responsible for driving best-in-class performance and optimal results for her portfolio of distinctive full-service hotels and resorts.

"We are proud to recognize Melissa with a well-deserved promotion as her hospitality career flourishes at Davidson," said Jason Reader, Chief Operating Officer, Davidson Hospitality Group. "Notably, she one of the first individuals to be tapped for the launch of our inaugural GM Council and now at the above property level, she will continue to create value in all that she does as a servant leader, guiding seamless operations and fostering a culture of excellence."

Most recently, Green was Vice President and Area Managing Director of The Davenport Hotel Collection, comprised of five hotels in downtown Spokane, Washington, including the Davenport Hotel, The Davenport Tower, The Davenport Lusso, The Davenport Grand, and The Centennial. During her tenure, she served as a passionate steward of the Spokane community, launching the first annual Pacific Northwest Food & Wine Festival, a multi-day celebration of the region's rich culinary heritage, artisanal wines, and vibrant hospitality. Previously, she was Area General Manager of Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge and Hotel Viking, where she achieved exceptional results across guest satisfaction, team member engagement, and revenue generation. Her efforts have earned robust recognition, including Franchise Leadership Team of the Year for Full-Service in North America by Hyatt Hotels Corporation and she was individually named one of the "25 People of Influence" by Spokane Journal of Business. Green holds a B.S. in Food & Beverage Management from Johnson & Wales.

About Davidson Hospitality Group

Davidson Hospitality Group is an award-winning, full-service hospitality management company comprised of 90 existing hotels and resorts; more than 240 restaurants, bars, and lounges; and 1.4 million square feet of meeting space across the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. A trusted partner and preferred operator for Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Kimpton, Margaritaville, and Nobu, Davidson offers a unique entrepreneurial management style and owners' mentality that provides the individualized personal service of a small company, enhanced by the breadth and depth of skill and experience of a larger company. In keeping with the company's heritage of delivering value, Davidson Hospitality Group features four highly specialized operating verticals: Davidson Hotels, Pivot, Davidson Resorts and Davidson Restaurant Group. For more information, visit www.davidsonhospitality.com. Connect with us on LinkedIn: @DavidsonHospitality. Follow us on Instagram: @davidsonhospitality and TikTok: @davidsonhospitality. #DavidsonHospitality 

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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Fluence Energy (NASDAQ: FLNC) faces a securities class action, which seeks to represent investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Fluence securities between November 24, 2025 and September 16, 2026.

The suit follows a stream of unexpected earnings announcements that were apparently at odds with Fluence's assurances that it was positioned to capitalize on surging demand for data centers, and which collectively wiped out roughly $3 billion of the company's market capitalization.

National shareholders rights firm Hagens Berman continues its investigation into claims that Fluence violated the federal securities laws.

The firm urges Fluence investors who suffered substantial losses to submit your losses now. In addition, persons with knowledge who may be able to assist the investigation are invited to contact the firm's attorneys.

Class Period: Nov. 24, 2025 – Sept. 16, 2026

Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Nov. 27, 2026

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Firm Telephone: 844-916-0895

Fluence Energy, Inc. (FLNC) Securities Class Action:

The litigation's focus is on the propriety of Fluence's assurances that it was "well positioned to capitalize on the accelerating demand for energy storage[,]" and its backlog sufficiently covered revenue expectations. The company's plan depended on successfully ramping its "fully automated" Houston manufacturing facility's production of thermal management systems for its Gridstack ProTM battery energy storage solutions.

The complaint alleges that Fluence did not disclose important information to investors – its ability to deliver on its backlog and recognize revenue depended on new contract facilities that included incomplete and non-operational facilities. The complaint also alleges the company did not disclose that facility remediation efforts were unsuccessful.

Investors began to learn the truth through a series of partial disclosures beginning on February 4, 2026. That day, Fluence reported its Q1 2026 results included a significant year-over-year margin compression due to "additional estimated costs on two projects[]" and a significant year-over-year increase in net losses.

Then, on August 5, 2026 Fluence announced its Q3 2026 results included weaker than expected revenues, a massive year-over-year margin compression, and a net loss of $44.3 million compared to net income of $6.2 million in the same quarter last year.

The company said it "now expects that $400 million in project deliveries will be delayed into fiscal 2027 due to production issues at a new international contract facility[]" and also blamed "construction related delays that affected the completion and start-up of a new U.S. contract manufacturing facility."

Finally, on September 16, 2026 Fluence slashed its 2026 revenue guidance again (by 20%). CEO Julian Nebreda Marquez blamed the continuing "delays in the ramp up of our contract manufacturing facility in Houston." He also revealed the ramp delay was caused by having to manually weld rather than employing the automated welding process.

Each of these revelations triggered sharp declines in the price of Fluence shares. Between the first partial disclosure on February 4 and September 17, 2026 shares have fallen $21.33 (-73%).

"We're focused on when the Houston welding issue was first known to Fluence management given the facility's crucial role in onshoring," said Reed Kathrein, the Hagens Berman partner leading the firm's investigation.

If you invested in Fluence and have substantial losses, or have knowledge that will assist the firm's investigation, submit your losses now »

Whistleblowers: Persons with non-public information regarding Fluence 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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U.S. Department of War acquisition teams can now rapidly procure and deploy WEKA NeuralMesh software and solutions to get more AI output per GPU and per watt.

CAMPBELL, Calif., Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- WEKA, the AI data and memory infrastructure company, today announced that WEKA Federal, its wholly-owned subsidiary, has been named an "Awardable" vendor in the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, recognized among a competitive field of applicants whose solutions demonstrated innovation, scalability, and potential impact on Department of War (DoW) missions. With this designation, WEKA® NeuralMesh™ software and solutions are now available for rapid procurement and deployment by DoW mission owners who need to accelerate artificial intelligence deployments in production without expanding their data center footprint or energy envelope.

The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable pitch videos that address the DoW's most significant challenges in AI/ML, data, and analytics. This enables DoW program offices to avoid repeat technical evaluations and shortens the path from validated requirement to fielded capability. Tradewinds is housed in the DoW's Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO).

"Every AI system the DoW fields is competing for the same megawatts, the same rack space, and the same accelerators. WEKA NeuralMesh makes each of those go further by turning data from a bottleneck into a force multiplier," said Brian Froeling, board member of WEKA Federal and chief revenue officer of WEKA. "The CDAO's Awardable designation means there's no procurement marathon ahead for DoW mission owners. Now they can award NeuralMesh directly and put it to work, fast."

One Data Layer, Wherever the Mission Runs

NeuralMesh was architected for the AI era, not retrofitted for it. Backed by more than 170 patents, it runs on standard hardware and in major public clouds, serving POSIX, S3, NFS, SMB, and GPUDirect Storage from a single namespace that scales to exabytes. With NeuralMesh, DoW program owners can:

- Run a unified data layer that supports AI training, inference, and analytics across accredited data centers, cloud regions, and air-gapped environments.

- Move applications between environments without requiring rewrites or separate infrastructure stacks.

- Serve training data, checkpoints, and inference workloads through a native S3 object store that shares the same NVMe blocks and namespace as file data; no separate tier, no gateway, no duplicate copies to secure and manage.

- Reduce infrastructure footprint by up to 8x and power draw by up to 6x versus scale-out NAS architectures at AI-factory scale, returning rack space, cooling headroom, and megawatts to the mission.

- Reduce model training time by up to 20x, compressing the path from data to deployed capability.

- Accelerate inference and agentic workloads with NeuralMesh and Augmented Memory GridTM, serving up to 10x more concurrent users per GPU while lowering cost per token.

Established in 2020, WEKA Federal operates as an independent subsidiary supporting U.S. federal, defense, and public sector missions, delivering solutions across accredited data centers, cloud, tactical edge, and air-gapped environments. U.S. federal government agencies, national laboratories, research institutions, and contractors rely on NeuralMesh to run production AI, machine learning, and accelerated compute workloads.

Watch the WEKA Federal Solution Video

WEKA Federal's solution video, "The Data Path is the Mission," is available only to government customers on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace and demonstrates how WEKA Federal's awardable NeuralMesh software and hardware solutions deliver mission-speed data for training, inference, and the tactical edge. Visit www.tradewindai.com to get started.

To learn more about NeuralMesh, visit: https://www.weka.io/product/neuralmesh.

About the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace

The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable pitch videos that address the Department of War's (DoW's) most significant challenges in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), data, and analytics space. All awardable solutions have been assessed through complex scoring rubrics and competitive procedures and are available to Government customers with a Marketplace account. Government customers can create an account at www.tradewindai.com. Tradewinds is housed in the DoW's Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office.

About WEKA

WEKA is the AI data and memory infrastructure company transforming the economics of agentic AI. The WEKA® NeuralMesh™ platform unifies high-performance data storage with extended GPU memory, giving enterprises, AI cloud providers, and AI builders a single foundation for training, inference, and agentic workloads. With Augmented Memory Grid™, NeuralMesh extends GPU memory capacity by 1000x, accelerates time to first token by up to 20x, and delivers 10x more concurrent users from the same GPU footprint, proven in production benchmarks. Trusted by 30% of the Fortune 50, WEKA enables organizations to scale AI faster, optimize GPU utilization, and reduce the cost of every token served. Learn more at www.weka.io or connect with us on LinkedIn and X.

WEKA and the WEKA logo are registered trademarks, and WEKA NeuralMesh and Augmented Memory Grid are trademarks of WekaIO, Inc. Other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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Utah-based organizations unite to support more than 500 student-athletes across 19 sports

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- USANA Health Sciences and University of Utah Athletics have announced a new partnership bringing together two Utah organizations with a shared commitment to health, performance, and excellence.

Through the partnership, USANA will support more than 500 University of Utah student-athletes across 19 sports, significantly expanding the company's global roster of sponsored, elite athletes and teams.

As part of the partnership, USANA will support Utah student-athletes both on and off the field through access to high-quality nutritional products, NIL opportunities, and community-focused initiatives. The two organizations also plan to work closely with the USANA Foundation, creating ways for student-athletes to give back and make a meaningful impact in the local community. Together, these efforts will support student-athlete health and performance while helping them build their personal brands, connect with the community, and use their platforms for good.

For Salt Lake City-based USANA, the partnership brings the company's longstanding commitment to supporting athletes closer to home.

"We've had the privilege of supporting athletes around the world for many years, so there is something especially meaningful about forming this partnership right here in our own backyard," said Brent Neidig, chief commercial officer at USANA. "The University of Utah has an incredible tradition of athletic excellence, and we're proud to welcome more than 500 Utes student-athletes to the USANA family."

The partnership also brings USANA's connection to the University of Utah full circle. USANA founder Dr. Myron Wentz earned his Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Utah before going on to build a career in microbiology, immunology, and human health and ultimately founding USANA in Salt Lake City in 1992.

"Utah Athletics' partnership with USANA is a game-changer for our student-athletes and our Performance Nutrition program," said Meredith Price, Utah Assistant A.D. for Performance Nutrition. "Our team of dietitians work individually with student-athletes to optimize their nutrition for performance, recovery and health. Having access to high-quality, third-party sport-tested supplements from USANA allows us to keep health and safety at the forefront of our recommendations."

The addition of University of Utah Athletics further expands USANA's longstanding commitment to supporting elite athletes. USANA currently partners with athletes and athletic organizations around the world, supporting competitors across a wide range of sports with a focus on nutrition, health, and performance.

About University of Utah Athletics

With a long-running reputation as an athletics power, the University of Utah claims 32 national championships and 128 individual national titles in its history, and generates enormous visibility and exposure to the institution through national television broadcasts, media coverage and social media engagement. Utah, which sponsors 19 NCAA sport programs, is a member of the Big 12 Conference. The Utes have achieved a score of 93-percent or higher in the NCAA's annual Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for eight consecutive years, including a department record-tying GSR of 95-percent in both the 2024 and 2025 reports. Learn more about the University of Utah at utah.edu and about Utah Athletics at utahutes.com.

About USANA Health Sciences

USANA (NYSE: USNA) has been providing premium-quality nutrition and lifestyle products for more than 30 years. From its award-winning supplements manufactured in its FDA-registered facility to its cutting-edge Celavive® skincare and healthy living products, USANA is committed to empowering people to live healthy, vibrant lives. USANA products are trusted by elite athletes, Olympians, and health-conscious consumers in more than 25 countries worldwide.

Learn more at USANA.com or explore the science behind USANA products at AskTheScientists.com.

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