Columbia, Md. – September 15, 2026 -- The Foundation Fighting Blindness has renamed its venture philanthropy arm, formerly the Retinal Degeneration Fund (RD Fund), to the Gund Vision Fund, honoring more than 50 years of support from Gordon Gund and the Gund family.

Cupertino, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Seventy-nine percent of U.S. adults do not believe physical security in the country's buildings has significantly improved since the September 11 attacks, according to a new YouGov survey commissioned by Alcatraz AI. The poll, described as the first national survey measuring public trust in badge- and credential-based access systems 25 years after 9/11, found 76% of respondents believe office buildings never received security investment comparable to aviation.

Boise, Idaho – September 15, 2026 -- SWEAR, a digital content authenticity firm, has launched the Community Video Integrity Project, a program that lets municipalities and law enforcement agencies cryptographically verify surveillance footage from the moment it is recorded.

Charlotte, N.C. – September 15, 2026 -- Approximately 205 participants attended Carolina Complete Health Community Baby Showers held Sept. 2 across six North Carolina communities, connecting expectant and new parents with maternal and infant health resources.

Old Town, Maine – September 15, 2026 -- The Wild Blueberry Association of North America (WBANA) has released a free consumer-education toolkit designed to simplify scientific terminology around plant compounds for reporters, educators, parents and caregivers ahead of the back-to-school season.

Birmingham, Ala. – September 15, 2026 -- Tom Beckbe, the Birmingham-based outdoor apparel maker, has secured a minority investment from Cox Outdoors, the newest division of Cox Enterprises.

Colorado Springs – September 15, 2026 -- Children's Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs will be renamed Children's Hospital Colorado, Golisano Children's Hospital, Colorado Springs, effective immediately, following a $40 million gift from entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Golisano.

Bellevue, Wash. – September 15, 2026 -- Summation Technologies opened general access to its AI analyst platform on September 10, offering self-serve pricing at $60 per user monthly for its Pro plan and $200 per user monthly for Max, after a year of enterprise deployments at Fanatics, Lineage, and Grid.

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- Abacus.AI has released a new family of open-weight large language models, Smaug, claiming 10-100x lower operating costs than frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI while improving long-running agentic loop performance by 15-20%.

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- Shareholder rights firm Hagens Berman is investigating International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) for potential securities law violations after CEO Arvind Krishna disclosed a Q2 2026 earnings shortfall on July 14, 2026 that wiped out over $68 billion in market capitalization in a single trading day, sending IBM shares down 25%.