By Editor , 16 October 2026

Redlands – October 15, 2026 -- The San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District (SBVWCD) has launched Field Notes, a newsletter whose first issue reports 40,291 acre-feet of groundwater recharge during the 2025–26 water year and a $5.403 million U.S. Bureau of Reclamation grant for Oak Creek recharge basins.

By Editor , 16 October 2026
CTEK to Unveil Seven Products at SEMA 2026 With Movie Charger

Las Vegas – October 15, 2026 -- CTEK will unveil seven new products at SEMA 2026, using the show to put its latest battery technology in front of automotive trade visitors in the Central Hall.

CTEK stages a 1970 Dodge Charger from five Fast & Furious films at its booth

The company is pairing the launches with a 1970 Dodge Charger owned and supplied by Hollywood car specialists Moviemachines. The car appeared in Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Furious 7, F9: The Fast Saga and Fast X.

By Editor , 16 October 2026
MediOps Launches Aviation Unit With GJP for Medical Charters

Englewood – October 15, 2026 -- MediOps has launched MediOps Aviation, a charter service for radiopharmaceutical distribution and organ transplant logistics, and named George J. Priester Aviation (GJP) as its preferred charter partner. GJP provides all flight operations.

By Editor , 16 October 2026

Stockholm – October 15, 2026 -- Saab has presented the first of three GlobalEye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft ordered for the Swedish Air Force by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV).

Aircraft enters testing and verification ahead of first flight

The aircraft now moves into a testing and verification phase. First flight and delivery to the customer follow. The source gives no dates for either milestone.

By Editor , 16 October 2026
RoboParty Launches RP1 Open-Source Humanoid With 24-30 DoF

Shanghai – October 15, 2026 -- RoboParty has launched RP1 (ROBOTO 01), a humanoid robot with open access to its hardware designs, low-level drivers, control algorithms and software stack, aimed at embodied AI research. The standard version stands about 1.3 meters tall with 24 actuated degrees of freedom (DoF), while the Pro version offers 30.

By Editor , 15 October 2026
Mindbeam Lifts Nemotron CUDA Pass Rate to 82.1% on KernelBench L2

New York – October 15, 2026 -- Mindbeam raised the Level 2 KernelBench score of NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL from 22.8% to 82.1% through post-training, ahead of the 57% accuracy the company reports for GPT 5.6 Sol.

The New York-based AI infrastructure company announced a collaboration with NVIDIA covering two layers of the open source AI stack: a post-trained model that writes CUDA kernels, and an inference engine that serves NVIDIA's latest open models.

By Editor , 15 October 2026
Benchling Launches Science Foundries for End-to-End Agentic R&D

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Benchling launched Science Foundries, a product that lets R&D teams run entire scientific processes with agents and scientists working from the same data, and made it available to its customers the same day.

Teams select a process or goal, such as producing proteins, optimizing a lead or improving a manufacturing process. They then define which steps agents run and where scientists must approve. Agents execute and monitor work, coordinate handoffs and flag key decisions to scientists.

By Editor , 15 October 2026
Catalyst Power Launches No-Upfront-Cost CHP for Senior Living

New York – – October 15, 2026 -- Catalyst Power Holdings LLC has launched Catalyst Power for Senior Living & Care, an energy service that finances, builds and operates onsite cogeneration for care communities with no upfront investment from operators.

By Editor , 15 October 2026
AV Access Launches 8K HDMI 2.1 KVM Extender With 100m Range

Spokane – October 15, 2026 -- AV Access has launched the 8KEX100-KVM, an HDMI 2.1 KVM extender that carries 8K@60Hz and 4K@120Hz video plus USB signals up to 100m (328ft) over a single Cat 6/6A/7 cable.

The product is now available to professional users and system integrators. It supports HDMI 2.1 and HDCP 2.3.

By Editor , 15 October 2026
OLI Launches TrueCORR to Flag Corrosion Risk in Live Plants

Parsippany – October 15, 2026 -- OLI has launched TrueCORR, a corrosion intelligence solution that feeds live plant data into first-principles chemistry models to identify changing corrosion risk before it becomes an asset integrity concern. Initial applications target refining and upstream oil and gas production.