Washington – October 15, 2026 -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has eliminated federal requirements for fuel additive containers, saving businesses an estimated $10.7 billion over 30 years and removing $545.7 million in annual regulatory costs.

Las Vegas – October 15, 2026 -- MassPay reported a 510% year-over-year increase in third-quarter payout volume and a 112% rise in gross revenue, marking its third consecutive record quarter.

Volume growth accelerates every quarter while revenue growth rises

Payout volume grew 317% in Q1, 408% in Q2 and 510% in Q3, all measured against the prior-year period. Gross revenue growth rose from 98% in Q2 to 112% in Q3. The company said that as clients send more money through more corridors and rails, the model strengthens rather than thins.

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.

New York – October 15, 2026 -- Gartner has named Deloitte a Leader in its 2026 Magic Quadrant for Global Digital Marketing Agencies, and the firm was also recognized in all seven Use Cases of the companion 2026 Critical Capabilities report.

Oakland – October 15, 2026 -- Blue Shield of California has appointed Erin Brewer, a strategic advisor and former Lyft chief financial officer, to its Board of Directors, adding more than 25 years of finance and operations experience as the nonprofit health plan pursues its affordability agenda.

Brewer led Lyft through its first full year of profitability

Brewer joined Lyft as CFO in 2023. In that role and in her current advisory capacity, she helped lead a financial transformation that included the ride-hailing company's first full year of profitability.

Silver Spring – October 15, 2026 -- Urban One, Inc. (NASDAQ: UONEK; UONE) will hold an investor conference call on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. EST to discuss results for its third fiscal quarter of 2026.

Urban One opens call to investors, analysts and other interested parties

U.S. callers can join toll-free, while international callers must dial a direct line. Live audio will also be available on the company's corporate website.

Pittsburgh – October 15, 2026 -- DICK'S (NYSE: DKS) and its Foot Locker unit expect to hire more than 11,000 seasonal teammates for the 2026 holiday season, with about 8,400 positions at DICK'S banners and roughly 2,900 at Foot Locker banners in North America.

Las Vegas – October 15, 2026 -- SAFE Structure Designs, a Las Vegas-based defense engineering and manufacturing company, has partnered with Zo's Bravehearts Foundation to send three children with leukemia and their mothers to Rome, Italy.

As a major donor to the nonprofit, SAFE took part in a trip that included a meeting with the Pope and a private tour of the Vatican. The program gave the families time together outside the demands of cancer treatment.

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.

Portland – October 15, 2026 -- Michael Lubitz, founder and Senior Managing Director of Global Technology Transfer Group (GTT Group), will moderate a 50-minute masterclass on structuring high-return patent deals at IAM Live: Patent Transactions 2026 on October 22 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.