Austin, Texas – October 05, 2026 -- Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) has agreed to sell $2.0 billion of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock in Axiom Solutions International, its Cloud and Power Infrastructure segment, to funds affiliated with General Catalyst, Koch Equity Development, and co-investors, at an initial enterprise value of $37.5 billion for Axiom.

Scottsdale, Ariz. – October 05, 2026 -- Arevon Energy, Inc. earned the No. 1 ranking in the Americas for Renewable Power: Solar Power Generation in the 2026 GRESB ESG Benchmark Assessment, marking its second consecutive year atop the category with an overall score of 98.2 out of 100.

Houston – October 05, 2026 -- GETCHOICE!, the enterprise utility intelligence platform, reported 220% growth in total spend under management over the past two years, alongside a 50% run-rate revenue pace and 130% year-over-year net revenue retention. Spend managed on the platform grew more than 20% in the most recent quarter alone.

Chicago – October 05, 2026 -- Expand Energy (NASDAQ: EXE), North America's largest independent natural gas producer, has selected global technology consultancy Thoughtworks to design and build an enterprise-wide AI capability, with a production-ready solution targeted for deployment by the end of 2026.

Newtown, Pa. – October 05, 2026 -- EPAM Systems (NYSE: EPAM) has launched a strategic offering aimed at powering frontier AI models through high-fidelity data generation, model evaluation and custom reinforcement learning (RL) environments, targeting what it calls a critical industry bottleneck in enterprise AI deployment.

Cary, N.C. – October 05, 2026 -- SAS Institute will stage the 2026 SAS Championship at Prestonwood Country Club Oct. 12-18, pairing PGA Tour Champions competition with a new AI-powered fan platform and roughly $280,000 in direct community and charity funding tied to tournament week.

Austin, Texas – October 05, 2026 -- Nonhuman sources generated 87.3% of all recorded click activity across 1.77 billion emails processed in the first quarter of 2026, according to data from Omeda, raising questions about the reliability of engagement metrics marketers use to evaluate campaigns and report results to sponsors. Even newsletters, which registered the lowest bot share among major high-volume email categories, still saw 82.4% of clicks attributed to automated activity rather than human readers.

New York – October 05, 2026 -- Slang AI has launched Superhost, a voice AI platform the company calls the industry's first conversational, memory-aware hospitality agent built for full-service restaurants, moving beyond scripted bots to handle calls in 97 languages while recognizing returning guests and their preferences.

Sugar Land, Texas – October 05, 2026 -- Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ: AAOI) has completed a $600 million at-the-market equity offering, selling 5,694,845 shares at an average price of $105.36 to net $587,999,985.89 for the company.

Raleigh, N.C. – – October 05, 2026 -- Self-storage operator 10 Federal has installed a formal executive leadership team effective September 28, 2026, naming Geoff Hayth President and Chief Customer Experience Officer, hiring Beau Agnello as Chief Operating Officer from Go Store It, and promoting Brian Oakley to Chief Technology Officer, as the company prepares for an accelerated growth phase across acquisitions and third-party management.