New and expanded CE courses deliver deeper, interactive learning and exceptional value for healthcare professionals

PALMYRA, Wis., Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Wholistic Matters, powered by Standard Process, today announced the launch of an expanded continuing education (CE) course catalog featuring new courses and enhanced multi-credit learning experiences designed to help healthcare practitioners deepen their clinical knowledge while earning continuing education credits at a fraction of the typical industry cost.

All CE-accredited courses are approved across many practitioner boards, making the courses valuable to a wide range of healthcare practitioners including ND, DC, LAc, CNS, ACBN, BCHN, NTP, and California RN. *

As the cost of continuing education continues to rise—with many healthcare CE programs ranging from $30 to $50 per credit hour—Wholistic Matters is making evidence-based education more accessible. Courses are self-paced and on-demand, with pricing as follows:

- 1-credit courses at $29

- 3-credit courses at $59

- 4-credit courses at $69

- 5-credit courses at $79,

providing practitioners with an affordable way to maintain credentials while expanding their expertise.

The expanded catalog includes both brand-new educational offerings and enhanced learning experiences.

"Our goal is to make high-quality continuing education more accessible without compromising scientific rigor or clinical relevance," said Jason Bosley-Smith, Director of Scientific Affairs and Education at Standard Process. "These expanded courses give practitioners the opportunity to deepen their knowledge, earn meaningful CE credits, and immediately apply evidence-informed nutrition and lifestyle strategies to improve patient care."

New CE Courses Led by Expert Clinicians and Educators

Developed in collaboration with respected practitioners and subject matter experts, the expanded curriculum addresses emerging trends and real-world clinical applications across integrative and whole-person healthcare.

Featured Courses

Neuroprotective Adaptogens: Building Resilience in a Stressful World

Overview: Explore food-first methylation support through folate, BHMT, adaptogens, labs, and lifestyle strategies for personalized care.

The Motherhood Continuum: Nutrition and Holistic Care from Pregnancy to the Fourth Trimester Overview: This course explores maternal physiology, nutrition requirements, fetal development, epigenetics, lactation, and postpartum recovery through a whole-person approach. Clinicians gain practical nutrition and lifestyle strategies to support women and infants throughout pregnancy and the fourth trimester.

Botanical Allies for a Vibrant Life after Menopause Overview: This course explores how menopause affects hormonal balance, metabolism, bone health, mood, sleep, and overall wellness, with practical nutrition and lifestyle strategies to support women through this important life transition.

Nourishing the Pediatric Microbiome for Gut, Brain, and Immune Balance

Overview: Explore how the pediatric microbiome supports immune development, gut–brain communication, metabolism, and allergic resilience, with practical nutrition and lifestyle strategies for supporting children's health from birth through early life.

Additional Courses

- Cognitive Function: Optimizing Brain Health with Nutrition

- Neuroinflammation: Causes, Consequences, and Clinical Interventions Course

- Foundations of Herbal Support

- Optimizing the Glymphatic System for Improved Brain Health

- Radish, Brussels, and Beets: A Whole Food Approach to Detoxification

- Fueling Methylation with Whole Food Nutrition

- The Microbiome and Gut-Brain Axis Course

- Introduction to Dietary Supplements: From Raw Ingredients to Clinical Practice

- Functional Nutrition: A Whole Food Approach

The expanded Wholistic Matters CE curriculum combines current scientific evidence with practical clinical application, equipping healthcare practitioners with knowledge they can immediately incorporate into patient care. Topics span foundational nutrition, dietary supplements, the microbiome, women's health, herbal medicine, brain health, and whole-person care, delivering evidence-informed strategies that support better clinical decision-making while helping practitioners efficiently earn continuing education credits.

Enhanced Learning Platform Supports Practitioner Success

Supporting the expanded course catalog is a newly enhanced Wholistic Matters digital learning platform designed to create a more seamless educational experience.

Key platform enhancements include:

- Streamlined navigation and course discovery

- Personalized learning dashboards

- Progress tracking and credential management tools

- Multimedia learning formats, including video, audio, and interactive content

- Faster course completion workflows and certificate delivery

The platform enables practitioners to easily discover relevant content, complete coursework on their own schedule, track progress, and receive certificates promptly upon successful completion.

About Wholistic Matters

Wholistic Matters is an educational platform dedicated to advancing whole-person health through credible, evidence-based resources for healthcare practitioners and patients. Powered by Standard Process, the platform provides continuing education, clinical resources, research-based content, and expert insights that help practitioners confidently apply nutrition, lifestyle, and integrative health principles in clinical practice. To learn more visit www.wholisticmatters.com. The course catalog can be found here: Wholistic Matters Continuing Education.

* Please refer to the CEU Approvals by State page for information on specific approvals.

About Standard Process

Standard Process is a family-owned company that has been committed to whole food-based nutritional solutions, practitioner education, and whole-person health for nearly 100 years. The company partners with healthcare professionals to support patient health through high-quality nutritional products, clinical education, and science-backed resources. To learn more visit www.standardprocess.com.

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- Mars will showcase new sweet and salty innovations at the 2026 NACS Show in Las Vegas from October 7 – 9.

- The latest Mars products from iconic brands SKITTLES®, Cheez-It®, Pringles®, M&M'S®, SNICKERS® and more will hit shelves nationwide next year.

NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Mars is paving the way for the future of snacking with bold sweet and salty innovations across its 2027 new product portfolio. National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Show attendees can experience a first taste of some of its latest innovations from October 7 – 9 in Las Vegas.

"Mars is at the forefront of evolving our iconic brands to meet modern tastes," said Tim LeBel, Chief Customer Officer, Mars Snacking North America. "Our research and development teams know what's next, and our 2027 lineup is built to capture cultural trends and help our retail partners maximize conversion opportunities storewide."

From new textures experiences to bold flavors and functional snacks, each new product is backed by consumer insights. Featured product innovations include:

- Cheez-It® Protein: Savory, sharp cheese flavor with a satisfying crunch, now with 7 grams of protein per serving.

- COMBOS® Honey Sriracha: A baked pretzel shell with a sweet-and-spicy honey sriracha filling—a crowd pleaser sure to go fast when shared.

- M&M'S® Peanut Butter Cinnamon Roll: A blend of smooth peanut butter with the cozy taste of cinnamon roll, all wrapped up in a coated candy shell.

- Pringles® Buffalo Wild Wings®: Featuring three iconic Buffalo Wild Wings' sauces—Parmesan Garlic, Medium Buffalo and Asian Zing®—the lineup delivers bold, sports bar-inspired wings flavors to Pringles' signature, stackable crisps.

- SKITTLES® Crystals: A playful combination of sweet, squishy gummies and the tangy crunch of edible crystals, available in two of the SKITTLES brand's most popular varieties: Original and Tropical Splash.

- SNICKERS® Almond Xtreme: Rich chocolate, caramel and, of course, extra almonds—chewy texture meets the ultimate nutty flavor.

- TWIX® Frosted Cookie: A shortbread base with a smooth, vanilla-flavored crème, coated in rich milk chocolate.

If you're attending the NACS Show Expo, stop by booth #N2605 to get a first taste of these innovations. NACS attendees will also be able to sample additional snacks from Mars brands including Nature's Bakery®, KIND®, RXBAR®, Pop-Tarts®, Rice Krispies Treats® and Nutri-Grain® at booth #N2904.

About Mars, Incorporated

Mars, Incorporated is driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. As a $65bn+ family-owned business, our diverse and expanding portfolio of leading pet care products and veterinary services support pets all around the world and our quality snacking and food products delight millions of people every day. We produce some of the world's best-loved brands including ROYAL CANIN®, PEDIGREE®, WHISKAS®, CESAR®, M&M'S®, SNICKERS®, Pringles®, Cheez-It® and BEN'S ORIGINAL™. Our international networks of pet hospitals, including BANFIELD™, BLUEPEARL™, VCA™ and ANICURA™ span preventive, general, specialty and emergency veterinary care, and our global veterinary diagnostics business ANTECH® offers breakthrough capabilities in pet diagnostics. The Mars Five Principles — Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom — inspire our more than 170,000 Associates to act every day to help create a better world for people, pets and the planet.

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Part of Babilou Family US, First Chapters focuses on enabling joyful discovery with personalized learning experiences for children from infancy through Pre-K

ALLSTON, Mass., Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- First Chapters Preschool has opened its first, flagship location at the new Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston, Massachusetts. The expansive early childhood education center has been thoughtfully designed from ground-up, with classrooms tailored for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and Pre-K children, and has begun serving families living and working in the surrounding area. First Chapters Preschool is part of Babilou Family, a trusted provider of early education for more than 20 years, and joins Babilou's 40+ early education centers across New England, including Little Sprouts, Heartworks and Building Blocks.

A Strong Start Begins with Safety

Recent research by Babilou Family with parents of young children found that safety is paramount when parents are considering early childhood options. As Alexandra Loos, M. Ed., Vice President of Education for Babilou Family US, explains, a child's ability to learn and thrive is rooted in a strong foundation of safety. "There are multiple layers of safety that must be intentionally supported in early childhood environments," said Loos, who oversees educational strategy, program quality and professional development for First Chapters and Babilou's other early childhood centers in the US. "When children feel safe – physically, emotionally, and psychologically – they are free to explore, take healthy risks, and experience the joy of learning."

"First Chapters educators complete rigorous training at our Academy, learning to support children's growth in ways that nurture their curiosity and build their confidence. Important to that is respecting each child's rhythm and understanding how to follow and further the child's interests," added Loos.

What is Sustainable Education?

First Chapters' commitment to parents is supported by Babilou Family's Sustainable Education™ framework, which is comprised of six areas of focus informed by Babilou's Scientific Advisory Board and third-party child development and pedagogical research:

- Supporting the physical and emotional safety of young children

- Drawing on the child's natural curiosity and knowledge to support their development

- Integrating nature into learning experiences

- Allowing time to respect children's rhythms

- Promoting inclusion, open-mindedness, diversity, and multiculturalism

- Collaborating with families to build a harmonious educational pathway

"We recognize that education begins at birth and that investing in early childhood education is critical to laying the groundwork for sustained learning as children grow," said Lee Galbraith, President & CEO of Babilou Family US. "We're building something truly special with First Chapters – you can see and feel that from the moment you enter our classrooms and connect with our educators – and we're excited to welcome First Families as they begin to write their child's first chapters."

First Chapters Preschool Open House

The newly opened, flagship First Chapters Preschool in Allston, Mass., is an expansive, 8,000 square-foot space with eight age-based classrooms, a Discovery Room for STEAM exploration, and outdoor play space. All spaces have been designed to be fully inclusive and feature the highest quality furnishings, with a focus on natural wood and hands-on play and discovery. Children can engage in STEAM learning at light tables, explore dramatic play spaces that are transformed seasonally, settle into a reading nook with books thoughtfully curated to represent all children, and head outside to the covered play space for outdoor play every day. Supporting the school-home connection, First Chapters educators will partner with parents to understand and meet children where they are, from the very first months of development to toddler, preschool and Pre-K learning opportunities.

Parents interested in visiting First Chapters are invited to attend one of the preschool's weekly open houses, with an inaugural event planned for October 6. More details are available on First Chapters website: https://learn.babilou-family-us.com/first-chapters-open-house

About Babilou Family

Headquartered in France, Babilou Family has served families across the world since 2003 with its focus on sustainable education for children. In the US, Babilou Family is best known for its Little Sprouts (Massachusetts and New Hampshire), Building Blocks (Connecticut) and Heartworks (Massachusetts and Vermont) early childhood education centers. First Chapters Preschool (Massachusetts) is the newest addition to Babilou Family US. To learn more, visit https://firstchapters.com/.

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Key Customer Deployments and Industry Award Prove Company's Customer2Grid™ Strategy Will Shape the Future of the Industry

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartMark Communications, the global leader in smart grid customer engagement strategy and solutions, announced today that its customer-centric load flexibility solution has been successfully deployed and has received the platinum Pinnacle Award for Excellence in the category of Best Consumer IoT Product. This is the first time that a customer-focused IoT solution has been recognized for excellence in shaping the future of load flexibility in the energy industry.

The patented solution is the first of its kind to allow for a true balanced relationship between the utility and its customers in a grid-flexible model. Years of experience with designing customer-focused solutions has allowed SmartMark to achieve the ultimate goal of increased customer satisfaction and true two-way communications and engagement between the utility and the customer in today's resource-strained environment.

"As utilities and grid operators continue to seek resources that are currently unavailable to meet increasing grid constraints, customers must be put at the epicenter of the dialogue and the technology. SmartMark's Customer2Grid™ approach and experience with smart home energy management has put us in a unique position to lead the industry in technology innovation," said Juliet Shavit, President and CEO of SmartMark. "Yes, utilities can improve customer satisfaction and create a long-term sustainable and meaningful energy relationship with consumers."

The Pinnacle Award recognized SmartMark's recent deployment at a Tier one Investor-Owned utility. SmartMark continues to expand deployments across the United States. Learn more at www.smartmarkusa.com.

About SmartMark Communications 

For more than two decades, SmartMark Communications has been a world leader in utilizing consumer education and innovative technology selection to help organizations understand the role of consumers in industry transformation. They are renowned for helping utilities engage with their customers in matters related to smart grid—whether that is articulating the benefits around smart grid technology investments or developing real-world strategies to mitigate rising energy costs. SmartMark's unique understanding of this complex intersection has led them to advising policy makers, utilities, and the most influential product and technology companies in this area. Learn more at smartmarkglobal.com. 

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Authorization accelerates U.S. federal agencies' ability to maintain, verify, and secure resilient software systems

BOSTON and WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Aikido Security, the company behind self-securing software for modern development teams, today announced it has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate Authorization in partnership with Knox Systems (Knox), the largest, longest-running federal managed cloud. A rigorous and exclusive U.S. government program, FedRAMP is designed to standardize security assessment and authorization for cloud service offerings to accelerate the adoption of government-grade cloud solutions by federal agencies.

Aikido secures code, cloud, and runtime environments, and pentests systems to uncover exploitable risk before attackers do. This includes protection against software supply chain attacks, securing developer devices, and addressing risks introduced by AI-generated code and threats increasingly targeting federal and enterprise systems alike. Aikido for Government is purpose-built for high-trust environments, and this authorization aligns with the company's priority to provide its customers with capabilities that meet the most stringent of compliance requirements. With Aikido, U.S. federal agencies are now able to maintain, verify, and secure resilient software systems.

Through its partnership with Knox, Aikido achieved this critical authorization in months rather than years. Knox's federal managed cloud provided Aikido with an expedited path that bypassed the traditional three-year, multi-million-dollar authorization cycle, and positioned the company to deliver its platform to federal customers at unmatched speed and scale. This is a significant milestone for Aikido, as the company recently accelerated its U.S. expansion to further scale its footprint and deliver its security platform to new customers across the country.

"Federal agencies need modern software security without compromising on the rigor their environments demand," said Johan de Keulenaer, Global Head of Partnerships at Aikido Security. "We partnered with Knox because it gave Aikido a pragmatic, accelerated path to FedRAMP while keeping our U.S. government environment purpose-built and isolated. Rather than spending years building the compliance foundation from scratch, we can focus on bringing developer-friendly security to agencies sooner."

"Aikido has made a substantial impact in Europe, and as it continues to break through the U.S. market, it is critical for federal agencies to have access to this level of continuous vulnerability management across the development lifecycle," said Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox Systems. "By partnering with Knox, Aikido is able to support federal agencies in maintaining robust, cost-effective compliance and software resilience."

To learn more about Aikido's unified security platform, visit https://www.aikido.dev/, and to learn more about FedRAMP Authorization via Knox Systems, visit: https://knoxsystems.com/.

About Aikido Security

Founded in Ghent, Belgium, Aikido Security is building self-securing software for modern development teams. Aikido's unified security platform secures code, cloud and runtime, helping teams to reduce risk without slowing down development. Aikido is the fastest-ever European cybersecurity company to reach unicorn status and is trusted by over 100,000 teams, with a global customer base including Revolut, Kong, Specter Aerospace, Rollkall, Accela and SoundCloud.

About Knox Systems

Knox Systems operates the largest managed federal cloud, trusted by top agencies and partners across defense and civilian sectors. Built for speed, resilience, and compliance, Knox delivers FedRAMP authorization in 90 days – turning the biggest bottleneck in government IT into the fastest path to modernization. Knox proudly serves Adobe, Celonis, OutSystems, Armis, BigID, and more AI and SaaS providers, accelerating secure innovation across the federal landscape. Learn more at knoxsystems.com.

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A quarter century after entering the pooled plan market, Transamerica is turning strong momentum into new opportunities to help employers and retirement savers

BALTIMORE, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Transamerica is marking 25 years of helping employers expand access to workplace retirement benefits through pooled plan solutions, a milestone that underscores the company's longstanding commitment to creating more opportunities for Americans to prepare for their future amid evolving retirement needs.

As pooled plan solutions become a popular and important option for employers seeking to offer retirement benefits, Transamerica is increasing its investment in the people, resources and capabilities that support its pooled plan business, strengthening the specialized support available to advisors, employers and distribution partners.

The company's 25 years of experience in pooled plans builds on a broader retirement business that has served employers and retirement plan participants for decades.

"Over the past 25 years, we've learned that the best pooled plan solutions are built around the needs of employers and the challenges they face," said Darren Zino, Head of Retirement Distribution at Transamerica. "In that time, we've built the resources, support and insights needed to help employers navigate the complexities of offering retirement benefits with confidence. We're carrying our experience forward through innovation and new ways to support employers as they navigate retirement plan complexity, making it easier for more employers to offer workplace retirement benefits and helping more Americans save for the future."

Experience Built to Meet Employers' Needs

Workplace retirement plans remain one of the most important ways Americans save for the future, yet many employers continue to face administrative, fiduciary and operational barriers to offering them. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 41% of private-sector employees at businesses with fewer than 100 employees lack access to retirement benefits.1 Pooled retirement plans can help address that gap by reducing many of the complexities associated with providing a workplace retirement plan.

For 25 years, Transamerica has enhanced its pooled retirement capabilities by listening to employers and their participants, collaborating across the retirement ecosystem and investing in solutions that respond to changing needs. Its offerings have expanded from Multiple Employer Plans (MEPs), Group Plan SolutionSM (GPS) and Retirement Plan Exchange® structures to Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs) introduced under the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019, which helped reshape the pooled plan market following years of advocacy by Transamerica and industry peers.

Transamerica's pooled plan capabilities are supported by dedicated professionals across client engagement, fiduciary services, legal, marketing, operations, product, recordkeeping, and sales. The company also works with third-party administrators, advisors, fiduciaries and other retirement industry partners to understand the needs of employers and other stakeholders.

This experience and collaboration are reflected in the growth of Transamerica's pooled plan business. In PLANSPONSOR's 2026 Recordkeeping Survey, Transamerica ranked No. 1 in PEP adopting employers for the second consecutive year and was among the industry's leading recordkeepers across multiple pooled plan measures, including the most MEP and PEP contracts serviced and the most MEP participants serviced. The survey also showed that Transamerica achieved the highest year-over-year growth rates in pooled plan assets and participants.2

Over the past five years, Transamerica's pooled plan assets have grown nearly 61%, from $21.3 billion in 2021 to $34.2 billion in 2025, while the number of adopting employers has increased nearly 40%.

Building on Pooled Plan Momentum

To support the growing demand for pooled plans, Transamerica is deepening the integration of pooled plan solutions across its broader retirement business, connecting expertise across product, distribution, operations and client support to better serve employers and retirement plan partners. Under the leadership of Stanley Kim, Director and Pooled Plan Practice Leader at Transamerica, these efforts build on the company's existing capabilities and 25 years of experience in the market.

"Pooled plans can help simplify many of the challenges that come with offering a retirement plan, making them an important option for employers looking to provide retirement benefits," said Kim. "As demand for these solutions continues to grow, we're working alongside advisors, TPAs and other retirement plan partners to strengthen the support available to employers and expand access to retirement savings for more workers."

Employer demand underscores the opportunity ahead. According to 2026 research from the nonprofit Transamerica Institute, nearly half (48%) of employers that do not currently sponsor a standalone retirement plan say they would consider joining a PEP, MEP or defined contribution group as an alternative.3

To help broaden understanding of pooled plan solutions among employers and advisors, Transamerica is also highlighting these offerings through a new advertising campaign focused on the role pooled plans can play in expanding access to workplace retirement benefits. Additional information about Transamerica's pooled plan offerings is available on its pooled plans webpage.

As retirement needs evolve, Transamerica is combining its 25 years of pooled plan experience with new insights and innovation to help more employers offer workplace retirement benefits and expand access to retirement savings for more Americans.

1 Employee Benefits in the United States, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2025

2 2026 Recordkeeping Survey, PLANSPONSOR, July 2026

3 Employers, Workers, and the New World of Work, Transamerica Institute, May 2026. Transamerica Institute is a nonprofit, private operating foundation.

About Transamerica

Transamerica believes everyone deserves the opportunity to live their best life. It's what inspires us to be a champion for helping everyday Americans thrive. As a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions for more than 10 million Americans, we help people make the most of what's important to them.

Supporting our customers' financial futures with innovative products and services has been our mission for more than 120 years. In 2025, Transamerica fulfilled its promises to customers, paying more than $52.6 billion in insurance, retirement, and annuity claims and benefits, including return of customer-paid annuity premiums.

Transamerica is part of the Aegon group of companies. Aegon is an international financial services holding company.

For more information, visit www.transamerica.com.

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NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor.

NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today's NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins.

Ashley Mastronardi delivers the pre-market update on October 5th

- The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign was founded in 1992.

- Evelyn Lauder founded the campaign and co-created the iconic Pink Ribbon to bring awareness to the disease and address stigmas in women's health.

- The Campaign and Estée Lauder Charitable Foundation have funded over $182 million for research, education, and medical services.

- Chairman William Lauder will speak with NYSE's Kristen Scholer in an interview that will be distributed across NYSE platforms in the coming weeks.

- The Ronald McDonald House NY's annual gala will take place on Tuesday.

- The theme of this year's event is 'The Next Chapter' in the organization's story of hope for families battling pediatric illness.

- The event will feature honorees, a family story, and the organization's expanding mission.

- Ronald McDonald House New York Chair Steven Bensinger will join NYSE Live to discuss the new ways the organization has been helping patients and families fight cancer.

- Investors are tracking the latest Treasury yield moves ahead of Wednesday.

- The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is trading close to 5.3% as of 8 a.m. ET.

- Fed Minutes from September's meeting will come out on Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET.

- According to the latest data, about 80% of traders expect the Fed to leave interest rates unchanged later this month.

Opening Bell

Estée Lauder recognizes Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Closing Bell

Sony (NYSE: SONY) celebrates the 80th anniversary of its founding

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Clockwork.io Raises $31M as LinkedIn, Together AI and WhiteFiber Adopt Its Resilience Software to Stop Wasting GPU-Hours

LinkedIn prevents tens of thousands of GPU-hours of downtime monthly; new TorchPass innovations preserve AI workload progress without code changes and speed reinforcement learning.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Clockwork.io, whose fault-tolerance software keeps AI training, reinforcement learning and inference workloads running through infrastructure failures, today announced $31 million in new funding, production deployments at LinkedIn and Together AI, and expanded adoption by WhiteFiber.

The company also introduced two new capabilities for its TorchPass solution, each capturing the state of a running distributed AI job. Multi-node platform snapshots, an industry first for training, save an entire running job across every node without changes to the training code and preserve it for recovery. Fast, asynchronous application checkpoints, taken in the background while the job runs, accelerate reinforcement learning. They deliver updated model weights to the inference replicas that generate rollouts, the examples the model learns from, so those replicas spend less time waiting or working from a stale model.

Fault tolerance has become a requirement for AI at scale

Large distributed AI workloads can span thousands of GPUs that must stay in sync: one failed GPU, dropped link or frozen server can stall the entire job. Meta reported unexpected interruptions averaging roughly one every three hours during a 54-day period of Llama 3 training on 16,384 GPUs.

The typical response is to reload a checkpoint, a saved copy of the job's progress. Recovery can take up to 90 minutes, leaves healthy GPUs waiting, and requires the job to repeat work completed since that checkpoint. Customers pay for idle GPUs and repeated computation, and models take longer to complete. As jobs grow, each restart puts more GPU time at risk.

At this scale, keeping useful work running through failures is an infrastructure requirement. Clockwork.io meets it with a fault-tolerance suite that platform teams deploy as a layer between the hardware and the workload. LinkPass reroutes traffic around a failed link so the job never sees the fault. TorchPass moves work from a failing GPU to a healthy one so training continues instead of rolling back. Both are in production. TorchPass's new platform snapshots, announced today, capture the state of a running distributed job so the whole job can be restored when a failure is too large to migrate around.

"Failures are inevitable at AI scale. Losing hours of useful work to them should not be," said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO of Clockwork.io. "Fault tolerance is a goodput multiplier: it keeps GPUs doing useful work instead of waiting for recovery or repeating work already done. We built our software alongside enterprises and cloud providers operating some of the largest GPU fleets, so it handles the failures they actually see. That protection belongs in the infrastructure enterprises and cloud providers rely on every day."

Adoption expands across enterprises, hyperscalers and neoclouds

Enterprises running their own GPU fleets, hyperscalers and neoclouds are adopting Clockwork.io for the same reason: more of their GPU-hours go to useful work.

LinkedIn has deployed LinkPass network fault tolerance across its AI infrastructure fleet and prevents tens of thousands of GPU-hours of downtime each month.

"At AI infrastructure scale, a single network issue should never sideline healthy GPUs or interrupt running workloads. Before Clockwork.io, one InfiniBand NIC flap could remove an eight-GPU server from service, while a switch port flap could drain a second server, doubling the impact to 16 GPUs," said Raghu Hiremagalur, SVP, CTO Infrastructure, LinkedIn. "Clockwork.io helped transform that operating model. Its network fault-tolerance technology automatically reroutes traffic onto healthy paths, allowing jobs to continue uninterrupted while link, optic, cable, or NIC faults are repaired. In aggregate, Clockwork.io prevents tens of thousands of GPU-hours of downtime per month across our fleet. By turning what were once disruptive operational incidents into manageable maintenance events, Clockwork.io has helped improve infrastructure utilization and operational efficiency."

Together AI is bringing TorchPass to market as a service on its GPU Clusters. At the PyTorch Conference, the two companies will demonstrate a live multi-node training job continuing through injected network and GPU failures without restarting.

"Our customers grade us on goodput, the share of their GPU-hours that actually move the model forward," said Pavneet Ahluwalia, Product Lead, Together AI. "Node repair already detects faults and provisions replacement capacity automatically. Clockwork.io's TorchPass and LinkPass build on that foundation and are designed to keep jobs moving through GPU faults and link failures, preserving progress. We are bringing them to market as the next layer of resilience in the platform."

WhiteFiber (NASDAQ: WYFI), an existing customer, is expanding its use of Clockwork.io software across its growing global GPU-as-a-service footprint.

"Pressure-testing a cluster's reliability before it reaches production is critical, because a customer who inherits a hidden fabric fault pays for it later in failed jobs and lost GPU-hours," said Tom Sanfilippo, Chief Technology Officer, WhiteFiber. "Marginal optics, misconfigured NICs, and links that pass a basic test but degrade under load can slip through. Clockwork.io's automated fleet audit validates every link and node at once, localizes faults in minutes, and lets us correct them before acceptance. We bring clusters up faster, and a customer's first training run lands on a fabric validated end-to-end, not just powered on. With market demand growing as rapidly as it is, getting validated capacity to customers quickly is critical to our business, and it is why we are expanding Clockwork.io across our clusters."

New TorchPass capabilities put workload protection in platform teams' hands

Clockwork.io extended TorchPass beyond GPU migration with two capabilities platform teams have not had: a snapshot of a whole distributed job that they can take themselves, and application checkpoints fast enough to run in the background.

For training, platform snapshots save a running job's execution state across all of its nodes so the job can be restored after an interruption. Platform teams and AI infrastructure engineers deploy it for supported workloads without waiting for application owners to modify their code or add checkpointing logic. Enterprise teams can protect training jobs across their fleet with one mechanism, and cloud providers can protect customer jobs whose code they do not control. Where teams checkpoint at the application level, TorchPass's fast checkpoints can be taken more often, so less progress is lost and less computation repeated after a failure.

For inference, large models run across two or more servers, so one bad link can take down a whole replica and cut off a user session or agent task mid-stream. LinkPass keeps those multi-server replicas serving through link failures.

Reinforcement learning depends on both training and inference. Copies of the model generate rollouts, the trainer learns from them, and updated weights must reach the copies before they can generate with the latest version. TorchPass's application checkpoints carry the updated weights to the rollout replicas sooner, while LinkPass keeps those replicas serving through link failures.

"Cluster fault tolerance used to be a training problem. It is now an inference problem too," said Dylan Patel, Founder, CEO, and Chief Analyst at SemiAnalysis, whose ClusterMAX ratings benchmark GPU cloud providers. "In our ClusterMAX, TorchPass cuts training goodput loss from 14% to under 3% for a gold-rated neocloud. Reinforcement Learning (RL) ties the two together: inference replicas generate rollouts, the trainer learns from them, and the updated weights go back to the replicas. Clockwork.io keeps replicas serving through link flaps and network failures. Its extremely fast checkpoints accelerate weight transfer back into the rollout fleet, so neither direction stalls the run. One fault-tolerance layer under training, inference, and RL is where this has to be solved."

Enterprise platform teams and cloud providers can contact Clockwork.io to evaluate the software for their workloads or explore partnership opportunities.

The round and what it funds

The round was co-led by Premji Invest, Wing Venture Capital, and Seligman Ventures, with participation from existing investors NEA and e& Capital. It brings Clockwork.io's total funding to $73 million. The company will use the capital to accelerate the rollout of its fault-tolerance suite across training, inference and reinforcement learning, expand enterprise adoption, and scale delivery through cloud partners.

"The one thing that scales perfectly is unreliability: put enough GPUs in one machine and something is always failing," said Greg Papadopoulos, Venture Partner, NEA. "The old playbook: stop the job, reload a checkpoint, makes no sense at today's scale. Clockwork treats failure as the normal state: TorchPass migrates training off a failing GPU live, and now snapshots an entire running job with no code changes. It's already saving tens of thousands of GPU-hours a month. We first backed Clockwork.io in 2021 and are thrilled to keep supporting them as they define the performance layer of the AI cluster."

About Clockwork.io

Clockwork.io pioneers Software-Driven AI Fabrics™, a programmable layer between hardware and workload that makes GPU clusters observable, fault-tolerant, and fully utilized across any accelerator, network, or cloud. AI workloads need the whole cluster to act as one machine, yet failures and bottlenecks idle GPUs. Clockwork.

Mnzil, TDG and Capital Partners launch a real estate fund to invest SAR 1 billion in elevating workforce housing in Saudi Arabia

- The partnership targets to develop up to 50,000 purpose-built workforce housing beds across Saudi Arabia

- Compounds aim to improve workers' everyday living experience through well-designed housing, recreational facilities and on-site services

- Sites in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Khobar, Makkah and Madinah will be selected to bring workers closer to their workplaces

- Development is expected to begin in Q4 2026

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Mnzil, Saudi Arabia's first and leading tech-enabled workforce housing platform, The Development Group (TDG) and Capital Partners have launched a real estate fund to invest SAR 1 billion in developing purpose-built compounds housing up to 50,000 workers across the Kingdom. Through the fund, Mnzil will serve as strategic partner and exclusive operator of the portfolio. TDG will lead site selection, design and property development, while Capital Partners will serve as fund manager.

The fund comes as Saudi Arabia's economic diversification under Vision 2030 drives growth in construction, logistics, industry, tourism and other labour-intensive sectors, increasing demand for quality accommodation and services that improve workers' everyday lives across the Kingdom.

By linking purpose-built accommodation directly to employer demand, the partnership aims to improve both the availability and quality of workforce housing. It will enable Mnzil to move beyond managing third-party supply and help shape the development of dedicated compounds designed around the everyday needs of workers across the Kingdom.

Majeed Albabtain, Chief Executive Officer of Mnzil, said: "For too long, the living conditions of the workers helping build and run our economy have not received the attention they deserve. Mnzil was founded to help change that. Improving workers' lives is a collective effort, and we hope this partnership encourages greater attention and commitment across the Kingdom."

As the Kingdom's leading integrated workforce services provider, Mnzil brings together accommodation, transportation, catering and related services to help employers manage workforce needs and improve workers' living experience. The company currently houses more than 30,000 workers for over 250 corporate clients across more than 30 Saudi cities. Its customers include Amazon, Noon, Nestlé, McDonald's, and Americana. Mnzil is backed by US-based Founders Fund and was the firm's first investment in Saudi Arabia.

Development is expected to begin in Q4 2026. The fund will target major economic and employment centres, including Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Khobar, Makkah and Madinah. Locations will be selected to bring workers closer to their workplaces and help reduce commute times.

The compounds will be designed around workers' everyday needs and Mnzil's operating requirements, with furnished rooms, recreational and sports facilities, communal areas and open spaces. On-site maintenance, administration and related services will support day-to-day living.

Talal Raqaban, CEO of The Development Group, said: "Workforce accommodation is essential infrastructure for the Kingdom's continued economic growth. Through this partnership with Mnzil and Capital Partners, TDG brings its development and delivery capability to an institutional-grade housing platform, combining purpose-built design, professional operation and proximity to major employment centres. We see this as a scalable, long-term investment opportunity that aligns with the objectives of Vision 2030 and market needs."

The fund's coordinated approach to development, ownership and management is designed to support consistent housing standards and long-term investment in the sector.

Saud Al Rajhi, Vice President - Real Estate Investments at Capital Partners, said: "The fund represents a specialised real estate investment strategy focused on the development of purpose-built workforce housing campuses, addressing an underserved segment of the Saudi real estate market. Through a built-to-suit model supported by long-term lease arrangements, the fund seeks to develop institutional-grade assets with contracted rental income and enhanced visibility on future cash flows. We believe this strategy provides a strong foundation for establishing workforce housing as an institutional real estate asset class in the Kingdom."

Through the fund, the partners aim to make better living conditions an integral part of Saudi Arabia's growth, giving the workers supporting the Kingdom's development better places to rest, connect and feel at home.

About Mnzil

Mnzil is a Saudi-based, tech-enabled workforce housing platform focused on improving how companies accommodate and support their blue-collar workforces. The company currently houses more than 30,000 workers for over 250 clients across more than 30 cities in Saudi Arabia.

Mnzil brings together accommodation, transportation, catering and related workforce services through a single platform, helping employers manage their workforce requirements while improving the living experience of the people they employ. Mnzil is backed by Founders Fund and COTU Ventures. For more, visit https://www.mnzil.com.

About The Development Group

TDG is a real estate development company based in Riyadh, focused on originating, structuring, delivering, and managing high-quality real estate and mixed-use developments across their full lifecycle.

TDG works in collaboration with international developers, operators, and technical specialists to ensure projects are delivered, operated, and managed to global standards of design, construction quality, sustainability, and long-term performance. This model combines strong local market knowledge with proven international development and operating expertise. For more, visit www.tdg.com.sa.

About Capital Partners

Capital Partners is a Saudi based Shariah-compliant asset management firm licensed by the Capital Market Authority (CMA) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under license number (25315-32).

The company specializes in structuring innovative investment solutions across various asset classes, with a particular focus on managing and operating real estate investment funds. For more, visit www.capitalpartners.sa.

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DUBLIN, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AerCap Holdings N.V. ("AerCap" or the "Company") (NYSE: AER) today announced it will host a conference call and webcast for investors and analysts on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to review its third quarter 2026 financial results.

AerCap's third quarter 2026 earnings press release will be released before financial markets open in the United States on October 28, 2026. A copy of the press release will be posted on the "Investors" section of AerCap's website at www.aercap.com. At the same time, the presentation slides for the conference call will also be posted on AerCap's website.

The call can be accessed live by dialing (U.S./Canada) +1 646 769 9200 or (International) +353 1 553 8798 and referencing code 4811095 at least 5 minutes before start time, or by visiting AerCap's website at www.aercap.com under "Investors".

The webcast replay will be archived on the "Investors" section of the company's website for one year.

About AerCap

AerCap is the global leader in aviation leasing with one of the most attractive order books in the industry. AerCap serves approximately 300 customers around the world with comprehensive fleet solutions. AerCap is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (AER) and is headquartered in Dublin with offices in Miami, Shannon, Memphis, Singapore, London, Dubai, Shanghai, Amsterdam and other locations around the world.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains certain statements, estimates and forecasts with respect to future performance and events. These statements, estimates and forecasts are "forward-looking statements". In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "might," "should," "expect," "plan," "intend," "will," "aim," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "predict," "potential" or "continue" or the negatives thereof or variations thereon or similar terminology. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this press release are forward-looking statements and are based on various underlying assumptions and expectations and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions, and may include projections of our future financial performance based on our growth strategies and anticipated trends in our business. These statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results, level of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to the availability of capital to us and to our customers and changes in interest rates; the ability of our lessees and potential lessees to make lease payments to us; our ability to successfully negotiate flight equipment (which includes aircraft, engines and helicopters) purchases, sales and leases, to collect outstanding amounts due and to repossess flight equipment under defaulted leases, and to control costs and expenses; changes in the overall demand for commercial aviation leasing and aviation asset management services; the continued impacts of the Ukraine Conflict, including the resulting sanctions by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and other countries, on our business and results of operations, financial condition and cash flows; the effects of terrorist attacks on the aviation industry and on our operations; the economic condition of the global airline and cargo industry and economic and political conditions; the impact of hostilities in the Middle East, or any escalation thereof, on the aviation industry or our business; trade tensions, including U.S. tariffs and retaliatory measures by the European Union, China and other countries, and the resulting geopolitical uncertainty; development of increased government regulation, including travel restrictions, sanctions, regulation of trade and the imposition of import and export controls, tariffs and other trade barriers; a downgrade in any of our credit ratings; competitive pressures within the industry; regulatory changes affecting commercial flight equipment operators, flight equipment maintenance, engine standards, accounting standards and taxes; and disruptions and security breaches affecting our information systems or the information systems of our third-party providers.

As a result, we cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements included in this press release will prove to be accurate or correct. These and other important factors and risks are discussed in AerCap's annual report on Form 20-F and other filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the future performance or events described in the forward-looking statements in this press release might not occur. Accordingly, you should not rely upon forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results and we do not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any of these forward-looking statements. Except as required by applicable law, we do not undertake any obligation to, and will not, update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

For more information regarding AerCap and to be added to our email distribution list, please visit www.aercap.com.

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