DOWNERS GROVE – October 29, 2026 -- Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS) has completed the acquisition of substantially all assets and operations of Global Vacuum Systems, Inc. (GVS) for approximately $29 million, adding a custom liquid vacuum tank truck manufacturer to its vacuum truck lineup.

Santa Clarita – October 29, 2026 -- SetPoint Medical has treated its first patient in Boston with the SetPoint System, extending the only FDA-approved neuroimmune modulation therapy for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to adults across New England.

Beth Israel Deaconess surgeon performs first Boston implant

Joshua P. Aronson, M.D., a functional neurosurgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), performed the procedure. He described it as an outpatient intervention that opens a different treatment pathway for RA patients.

Miami – October 29, 2026 -- Maximo Wood is expanding its Dallas-Fort Worth availability through independent lumberyard Big D Lumber Company, which will stock Maximo Thermo Ayous at locations in Richardson, Haslet and Burleson.

Big D stocks two 1x6 tongue-and-groove Thermo Ayous profiles

Big D currently carries Maximo Thermo Ayous Smooth 1x6 tongue-and-groove boards with a reversible profile, plus Maximo Thermo Ayous Fluted 1x6 tongue-and-groove boards. Both target wall and ceiling cladding. Maximo says more products from its portfolio will follow.

Novi – October 29, 2026 -- Stoneridge (NYSE: SRI) has placed its MirrorEye Camera Monitor System in newly deployed trucks running the Kodiak Driver, the autonomous driving system from Kodiak AI (Nasdaq: KDK). The two companies also plan to explore integrating additional Stoneridge technology into Kodiak's platform.

Southfield – October 29, 2026 -- 123NET, a Michigan-based fiber, colocation and voice provider, has been awarded approximately $86 million through the federal Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program to build fiber across underserved Michigan communities.

PEEKSKILL – – October 29, 2026 -- Eric J. Dalton, Vice President & Visionary of Angels on Call Homecare, has won Healthcare Visionary of the Year in the 2026 IE100 Global Awards, his second consecutive title after the 2025 recognition.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Baker Hughes booked an order for 34 Frame 5 and nine NovaLT16 gas turbines, about 1.1 GW of capacity, for a major U.S. technology company's AI computing development. It was one of several gas-to-power deals reported between October 21 and October 27, while Henry Hub gas traded at $2.76 per MMBtu.

IRVINE – October 29, 2026 -- Seventy percent of K-12 parents worry their children are not learning future-ready skills, up 17 points from 2023-24 and 63% higher than in 2020, according to the 23rd Annual Speak Up Report from education nonprofit Project Tomorrow.

The 2026 Speak Up Research Project gathered input from more than 95,000 students, educators, administrators and families in rural, urban and suburban schools.

AUSTIN – October 29, 2026 -- Oracle set a fiscal 2030 target of $225 billion or more in total revenue, a compound annual growth rate above 35% from FY26, and committed to limiting new capital market funding to $20 billion through FY30. Co-CEOs Clay Magouryk and Mike Sicilia and CFO Hilary Maxson presented the updated medium-term guidance at the company's Investor Day in Las Vegas.

Vancouver – October 29, 2026 -- Bank of America, Blackstone, Citi and Morgan Stanley announced a $63 billion financing structure to build AI compute capacity for Anthropic using Broadcom technology, with deliveries expected from calendar 2027.

A special purpose vehicle will buy Broadcom XPU AI accelerators and networking solutions and lease them to Anthropic. Broadcom will provide residual value support equal to the first lien portion of the financing. CEO Hock Tan said the deal validates that "there is capital available to finance such growth."