Salem – October 15, 2026 -- Agility Robotics' Digit 5 humanoid will run more than 20 hours in a 24-hour day, enabled by a fast-recharge battery system from Nyobolt, the companies announced. The pack delivers 90 minutes of runtime and recharges in 9 minutes.

Digit 5 raises its run-to-charge ratio from 2:1 to 10:1

Digit 4 operated at a 2:1 run-to-charge ratio. Digit 5 reaches 10:1, which Agility says allows more than two shifts in a single day. Agility describes Digit 5 as its first humanoid designed for cooperatively safe work at scale, close to people.

Charlotte – October 15, 2026 -- Institutions can now pledge U.S. dollars held at a regulated bank as collateral for round-the-clock swaps trading, after Wyoming-chartered N3XT joined the Clear Markets Collateralizer® network as a custodian for USD deposits. Clear Markets is opening an account with N3XT as part of the arrangement.

Dublin – October 15, 2026 -- Elsevier has pledged 4,000 complimentary AI product licenses and an estimated €1m a year in in-kind support and funding to the European Commission's AI in Science Enablers Initiative.

The commitment was announced at the AI in Science Summit in Dublin. More than 1,000 participants from the research, technology, business and policy communities attended the event, which launched the Commission's effort to mobilize private-sector and philanthropic support for European science.

Munich – October 15, 2026 -- TIER IV and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have established the TUM Autoware Research Center by TIER IV, a multi-year research collaboration that combines three TUM research groups to build safe, scalable autonomous driving systems on the open-source Autoware stack.

Las Vegas – October 14, 2026 -- SpectroChip Inc. has committed NT$3 million (about US$94,000) over five years to Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital under a collaboration with OTC-listed PurMinds Enterprises, Inc. (PFSF) to validate point-of-care (POC) diagnostic technologies.

New York – October 14, 2026 -- LALIGA North America and Panini America announced a multi-year extension of their regional partnership, which dates back to 2023, after the 2026 U.S. Gaming Challenge generated more than 40 million impressions and 5.2 million video views.

Boston – October 14, 2026 -- Aura Business, the business division of Aura (ASX: AXQ), has signed a distribution partnership with Climb that gives Climb's network of resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) access to Aura Business's new identity-centric BYOD security solution.

Climb is a global specialty technology distributor focused on security, data management, connectivity, cloud and software. Its customers can access Aura Business immediately through the Climb marketplace.

Albany – October 14, 2026 -- IBM and Siemens have launched a joint research program to prepare IBM's nanostack transistor architecture, which packs nearly 100 billion transistors into a space the size of a fingernail at the 7 angstrom node, for volume manufacturing.

Richardson, Texas – October 14, 2026 -- Lennox (NYSE: LII) will integrate Everyday Electric's savings features into its smart thermostats, giving more than 1 million installed units access to automated demand-response adjustments once the rollout starts in 2027.

Everyday Electric, formerly Renew Home, operates what it describes as the largest residential virtual power plant (VPP) in the U.S. The partnership links that network to Lennox's connected HVAC base. New smart thermostat buyers will also be eligible.

Oxford – October 14, 2026 -- Brainomix has partnered with the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) to test how patients and caregivers respond when its FDA-cleared, CE-marked e-Lung quantitative CT analysis is built into clinicians' assessment workflow for pulmonary fibrosis (PF) and other fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILD).