Sercomm Makes RDK Set-Top Box Available as Reference Hardware

ATLANTA, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on its RDK Video Accelerator set-top box (STB) based on the Broadcom BCM74116, Sercomm (TWSE: 5388), a leading provider of telecom and broadband equipment, is collaborating with Broadcom to make the device available as reference hardware for application developers, and will serve as a YouTube reference device. Designed for application development, validation, and testing on RDK, the solution provides a high-performance foundation for next-generation video entertainment, interactive TV experiences, cloud gaming, and AI-enabled services.

"Continuing our strong collaboration with Broadcom to deliver open-environments, we are pleased to make this reference device available to support the RDK application developer community," said Daniel Whalen, Chief Commercial Officer of Sercomm. "By providing a dedicated open-environment for development and testing, we aim to help accelerate application validation and enable a smoother path toward deployment on RDK-based consumer devices. For service providers, the STB combines LPDDR5 memory, edge AI capabilities, and the latest Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies, providing a flexible foundation for integration into their products and services."

"The Sercomm 74116 platform is a highly integrated 4K streaming receiver equipped with advanced Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 antennas. It boasts a robust suite of next-generation features, including a neural processing unit for edge AI applications, Matter and Thread compatibility for seamless smart home connectivity, and Post-Quantum Cryptography to safeguard digital assets and user privacy. Additionally, the platform supports intelligent super scaling, multi-view displays, and both Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) video and graphics to deliver an enhanced viewing experience, said Lewis Brewster, Vice President of Marketing, Wireless Broadband Communication, Broadcom. "By collaborating with Sercomm on an RDK video accelerator, the Sercomm 74116 platform delivers a robust, scalable solution to the developer community and the operator market."

RDK open-source software standardizes many of the core functions used in broadband and video devices. By standardizing these core functions, service providers can develop and deploy a consistent set of applications and services across geographies, hardware, SoC suppliers, and video and broadband access networks (GPON, DOCSIS, DSL, and fixed wireless). RDK enables service providers to manage their devices; control their own UI/UX and app experiences; and harmonize device telemetry and analytics to improve the customer experience and business results.

For video, RDK standardizes core enabling functions like audio/video playback, conditional access, DRM, networking, captions, emergency alerts, voice control, telemetry, and more across a wide range of hardware. It is designed to streamline operators' ability to develop, test and deploy video services and apps across silicon and device manufacturers.

"Sercomm has been an active and committed member of the RDK community for many years, and making this device available as reference hardware is a natural extension of that contribution," said Jason Briggs, President and GM of RDK. "Ready access to current, high-performance hardware removes a real barrier for developers who want to build, test, and validate applications on RDK. The whole community benefits when that path is easier, from application developers and silicon and device partners through to the service providers bringing new video experiences to their customers."

About Sercomm

Founded in 1992, Sercomm (TWSE: 5388) is a global leader in providing integrated networking and telecom solutions. Partnering with the world's top service providers, system integrators, and leading technology companies, Sercomm's expertise in designing and manufacturing innovative, customized solutions makes embedding connectivity more accessible across the globe.

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Araceli Biosciences and Ginkgo Bioworks Bring Cellular Imaging at Scale to Nebula's Lab-in-the-Loop

The Endeavor® adds the fastest high-content cellular data generation to Ginkgo's around-the-clock research

PORTLAND, Ore. and BOSTON, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Araceli Biosciences and Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) today announced the integration of Araceli's Endeavor® high-content imaging instrument into Nebula, Ginkgo's autonomous lab in Boston. The Endeavor, the world's fastest high-content imaging system, brings cellular imaging with real-time analysis to Nebula's existing technologies, giving researchers the large, curated datasets needed to train and validate drug discovery AI models.

Nebula is built on Ginkgo's Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs). Each RAC is a modular unit that combines robotic arms, automated sample transport, and unified control software, so instruments can be added or rearranged as workflows change. Every day, dozens of scientists use the 100+ RACs on Nebula for real research, submitting protocols and getting their data the next day. Nebula does the work of many scientists autonomously and in parallel, running day and night and using around a third of the space as a traditional lab bench would need for the same work. .

Imaging a 1536-well plate in under four minutes, the Endeavor is integrated into Nebula's RAC-based system and runs continuously alongside its always-on experiments. With Araceli's ClaireRT™ software, the Endeavor analyzes every well as the image is captured. When a well falls outside defined criteria, the system can alert operators or Nebula, or halt imaging so issues are addressed before the experiment continues.

"The next generation of AI in drug discovery needs a completely different scale of biological data," said Matt Beaudet, President and CEO of Araceli Biosciences. "The lab itself is changing. It now generates cellular data, interprets what it sees, and responds in real time. Ginkgo is doing that with Nebula, and Araceli brings high content imaging and real-time analysis into that loop at massive scale."

"An autonomous lab gets more valuable every time you add a best-in-class instrument to it," said Jason Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks. "With your own autonomous lab, any of your scientists can access the Endeavor's best-in-class high-content imaging and connect it effortlessly to all of your other instruments. That's what you get with an autonomous lab: the best tools in biology, connected into one system on the same software, running your experiments 24/7."

About Araceli Biosciences: Araceli Biosciences develops the world's fastest high-content imaging instruments and AI-powered analysis software for automated, AI-driven labs. Its integrated solutions deliver real-time cellular insights that let automated workflows check quality and make decisions at every stage of an experiment, helping biotech and pharma organizations scale discovery faster and with greater confidence. Learn more at aracelibio.com.

About Ginkgo Bioworks: Ginkgo Bioworks builds the tools that make biology easier to engineer for everyone. The company offers autonomous laboratories that replace manual laboratory work with robotics in the lab, greatly improving the productivity of scientists. Ginkgo's in-house autonomous lab is also available as a "cloud lab" through our Datapoints and Solutions contract research services. For more information, visit ginkgo.bio or follow us on social media channels such as X (@Ginkgo and @Ginkgo_Biosec), Instagram (@GinkgoBioworks), Threads (@GinkgoBioworks), or LinkedIn.Ginkgo Bioworks develops autonomous laboratory infrastructure and biological data generation services to make experimental science more scalable and accessible. Ginkgo Bioworks is the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, providing flexible, end-to-end services that solve challenges for organizations across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to pharmaceuticals to industrial and specialty chemicals.

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Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital Co-Lead Series A Round, Bringing Total Funding Secured to Date to $35 Million

NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rein Security, the AI-native runtime security platform for enterprises, today announced that the company has raised $25 million in Series A financing, bringing the company's total funding to $35 million. The round was co-led by Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital, with participation from Corner Ventures, Atlacle and RNP Capital Advisors.

The funding comes as enterprises rapidly deploy AI agents with increasingly broad access to business systems, data and workflows, creating a new class of security risks that traditional approaches were not designed to detect or stop. According to Gartner, the market for securing AI is projected to reach nearly $4.8 billion in 2027, up 68.7% from 2026, and nearly $7.7 billion by 2028. As AI agent adoption accelerates and agents become increasingly autonomous, enterprises face two security challenges at once, securing the agents they build while defending against increasingly capable AI-driven attacks.

Rein addresses both sides of this challenge. Its platform is built on patented sidecar technology that operates at runtime, at the point where agents execute actions. This gives security teams visibility into every line of code an agent runs and every resource it touches, along with governance over agent activity and real-time guardrails that block harmful actions. Rein also secures the agent supply chain, all without routing company or customer data through a gateway or proxy.

"Enterprise AI agents are becoming essential to how businesses operate, but security hasn't kept pace with the autonomy these systems now have," said Matan Bar-Efrat, co-founder and CEO of Rein Security. "This funding enables us to keep building the infrastructure enterprises need to deploy AI agents with visibility, control and confidence."

Enterprises are adopting AI agents faster than they can secure them, and most of the risk these agents create is both new and hidden. It sits in the downstream actions they take automatically across business systems, often on instructions passed along by another system or agent rather than a person. Securing agents means understanding every action they take and stopping harmful ones. The same is true of adversarial AI, which attacks at machine speed and can overwhelm security teams. This calls for a completely different strategy: shifting focus away from posture and vulnerability management to a more proactive approach that prioritizes prevention and protection.

"The agent economy is upon us, and the rapid adoption of AI agents is creating a fundamental shift in enterprise security," said Arik Kleinstein at Glilot Capital. "As agents gain the ability to access systems, make decisions and act autonomously, enterprises need a new approach built specifically for this new landscape. This is a fast-moving and underserved area of security, and Rein has the platform, vision and early traction to help define it."

The risks Rein uncovers are already appearing in production environments. For example, at Black Hat USA 2026, Rein's vulnerability research team, Agent Breakers, presented research showing how it compromised the AI shopping agent of a top-five U.S. retailer. The work showed how quickly AI adoption is outpacing security. Furthermore, a global enterprise's onboarding agent opened what looked like an ordinary PDF. Hidden inside was a prompt injection that directed the agent to act outside its intended role. Rein detected and blocked the action before any damage was done.

"As an enterprise's technology ecosystem grows and evolves to include more AI agents that have a direct impact in production environments, security becomes an even greater concern. The frameworks that exist today are simply not equipped to handle this transition," said Thomas Visan at Sienna Venture Capital. "Rein's differentiated platform explicitly addresses current, as well as new, agentic AI security threats, giving the company a distinct position in this rapidly evolving market."

Answering the Call for Stronger Agentic AI Protection

Amid a period of significant revenue and customer growth, Rein will use the new capital to accelerate product innovation, advance agentic research and support global hiring. Since its January 2026 launch, Rein has increased revenue by 8x and grown its customer base by 5x.

New customers, including Flex and Swimlane, broaden Rein's reach across industries including financial services, healthcare, SaaS, data, retail and energy.

As enterprises build and deploy increasingly capable AI agents, Rein is seeing growing demand for security that can keep pace with agent adoption. The company's platform is already securing thousands of AI agents that execute millions of actions, including Dun & Bradstreet and digital-first insurance leader, Lemonade. Rein protects AI agents for Lemonade, supporting services used by over three million active customers; as well as agents for Dun & Bradstreet, powering agentic products used by more than 240,000 customers.

"Our customers rely on Dun & Bradstreet for trusted data, and that trust has to extend to every AI agent we put into production," said Jay DePaul, chief cybersecurity & technology risk officer at Dun & Bradstreet. "Rein helps us see and control what our agents do at scale, so we can keep innovating with agentic AI while protecting the customers who depend on it."

Rein has also earned recognition from the broader technology and cybersecurity community in recent months. The company was selected as one of eight early-stage companies to compete in the AI Conference's Start Up Showdown and was named to TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200 as one of the most promising early-stage startups in the cybersecurity category.

For more information, visit www.reinsec.io.

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Rein Security is the agentic AI security company purpose-built for enterprise agents. With a patented, real-time architecture, Rein delivers full visibility and protection across every enterprise agent – tracing every action to the line of code that triggered it and connecting it to its business outcome. Trusted by leading Fortune 500 companies and backed by Glilot Capital, Sienna Venture Capital, and Corner Ventures, Rein Security was founded in 2024 and is co-headquartered in New York City and Tel Aviv.

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Arm-based E1L delivers full DPU offload from 25 watts, on the same open software as the 800G E1

SAN JOSE, Calif. and TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Xsight Labs today announced the E1L, the newest member of its E-Series data processing unit (DPU) portfolio. The E1L brings fully programmable DPU capability, at up to 200G, to as little as 25 watts TDP (15 watts typical) in its eight-core, 100G configuration, powered by Arm® Neoverse® N2 cores and designed for edge, embedded and other power-constrained infrastructure. Like the E1, it is built on open standards and runs standard software without proprietary licensing, and with full cross platform compatibility, software written for one, runs on the other.

For operators, bringing DPU offload into a power-constrained site has meant a proprietary software stack sized for one chip, or leaving offload out. The E1L changes that: full DPU offload from 25 watts, on the same architecture and software as the 800G E1, so an offload written once runs from a 25-watt DPU at the edge to an 800G DPU in the data center, on standard Linux tools and with no proprietary licensing.

AI is shifting from models that answer questions to agents that take action. Every agent query, lookup and tool call becomes traffic to databases, storage and the network, and that infrastructure work lands on the same host CPUs meant for the AI workload. Agents touching critical systems also raise the bar for isolation. The E1L takes that infrastructure work off the host, fully or in part, and runs it in a separate, isolated domain, at a power envelope that fits sites outside the data center.

The E1L is scheduled to begin sampling in the second quarter of 2027.

Open, programmable silicon for the modern data center

Unlike conventional network interfaces, DPUs offload networking, security and storage tasks from the main server CPU. A network interface card moves data; a DPU also carries its own processors and memory and runs the infrastructure software itself. By building on open standards, Xsight Labs provides a fully programmable, merchant-silicon alternative to proprietary DPUs, one that accelerates software-defined infrastructure without proprietary architectures or licensing.

The E1L: low-power DPU for edge and embedded systems

Engineered for space- and power-constrained environments and for embedded applications, where specialized data center cooling is limited or absent, the E1L brings fully programmable DPU capability, at up to 200 Gbps, with TDP from 25 W to 40 W and typical draw of 15 to 25 W. The power figure starts with the silicon: the E1L is built on TSMC's N5 process, the same node as the E1, so it does the same work in a smaller form factor, with less energy and less heat.

Built on Arm Neoverse CSS N2 and designed for Arm SystemReady compatibility, the E1L runs standard Linux and familiar software frameworks including XDP, DPDK and SPDK, so infrastructure teams can develop and deploy programmable networking, storage and security services without a proprietary software environment. The E1L is offered as a discrete device, a COM Express module and a 1RU server, all sharing the same software and feature set. Alongside the 800G E1, which draws under 75 W, the E1L completes an E-Series that runs one software stack from 100G at the edge to 800G in the core.

E1L key specifications

- Compute: 8, 16 or 22 Arm Neoverse N2 cores

- Networking: up to 200 Gbps over 4 SerDes lanes

- Memory: up to 2 DDR5-5200 interfaces with inline encryption

- Security: line-rate AES-GCM for IPsec offload

- Host interface: 20 PCIe Gen5 lanes across 6 dual-mode controllers with SR-IOV support

- Power: configurable 25 W, 30 W and 40 W TDP (typical draw 15 W, 18 W and 25 W)

- Software: off-the-shelf Linux distributions; XDP, DPDK and SPDK integration

"The E-Series now scales from 100 gigabits at the edge to 800 gigabits in the core on a unified architecture and software stack. Operators told us they needed DPU capability within the power envelopes they already rely on. The E1L delivers that," said Yossi Meyouhas, CEO of Xsight Labs.

"AI infrastructure is expanding across a broader range of environments, making performance per watt and software flexibility critical for deployment. By building on Arm Neoverse CSS N2, Xsight Labs is bringing programmable, efficient compute from the edge to the data center while giving developers the benefits of a common software ecosystem," said Eddie Ramirez, Vice President of Go-To-Market, Cloud AI, Arm.

Availability

The E1L is scheduled to begin sampling in the second quarter of 2027. Xsight Labs will present the E1L at the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, October 12 to 15, in San Jose, as an OCP Bronze member.

About Xsight Labs

Xsight Labs is a leading fabless semiconductor company providing intelligent connectivity solutions for next-generation hyperscale, edge and AI data center networks. Xsight Labs' technology delivers exponential bandwidth growth and unmatched versatility while lowering power and total cost of ownership. Founded in 2017, Xsight Labs is headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in Kiryat Gat and Haifa, and international offices in Boston, Raleigh, and San Jose in the United States, as well as in Yerevan, Armenia. For additional information, visit www.xsightlabs.com.

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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Wesco International (NYSE: WCC) will hold its third quarter 2026 earnings conference call on Thursday, October 29 at 10 a.m. ET. The live audio webcast of the earnings presentation can be accessed at https://investors.wesco.com where related materials will be posted prior to the presentation, and a replay of the webcast will be available.

In addition, Wesco will host a virtual Data Center Deep Dive on Tuesday, November 10 at 10 a.m. ET with a focus on Wesco's end-to-end value proposition across all business units. The webcast of the event can be accessed at https://investors.wesco.com where related materials will be posted prior to the event, and a replay will be available.

About Wesco

Wesco International (NYSE: WCC) builds, connects, powers and protects the world. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wesco is a FORTUNE 500® company with approximately $24 billion in annual sales in 2025 and a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions. Wesco offers a best-in-class product and services portfolio of Electrical and Electronic Solutions, Communications and Security Solutions, and Utility and Broadband Solutions. The Company employs approximately 21,000 people, partners with the industry's premier suppliers, and serves thousands of customers around the world. With millions of products, end-to-end supply chain services, and significant digital capabilities, Wesco provides innovative solutions to meet customer needs across commercial and industrial businesses, technology companies, telecommunications providers, and utilities. Wesco operates more than 700 sites, including distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and sales offices in approximately 50 countries, providing a local presence for customers and a global network to serve multi-location businesses and global corporations.

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Sisram Medical Announces Share Repurchase Plan for Up to 1% of Issued Shares

Reinforcing Confidence in Long-Term Growth and Commitment to Shareholder Returns

HONG KONG, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sisram Medical Ltd (the "Company" or "Sisram", 1696.HK), a global wellness group offering Energy-Based Devices ("EBD"), injectables, and other complementary solutions, today announced a share repurchase plan under its existing share repurchase mandate and subject to market conditions. Sisram intends to repurchase shares in the open market, up to 1% of its total issued shares. Repurchased shares may either be cancelled or held as treasury shares, depending on the Company's subsequent capital management needs.

The share repurchase reflects the Board of Directors' and management's confidence in Sisram's business fundamentals and long-term prospects, while underscoring the Company's ongoing commitment to shareholder returns and long-term value creation. Sisram will implement the plan in a prudent and disciplined manner, balancing business development, strategic investment priorities, financial flexibility, and prevailing market conditions. The Company will also assess shareholder return measures that are appropriate to its stage of development and capital allocation priorities, with the aim of sharing the benefits of its growth with shareholders.

In the first half of 2026, Sisram delivered steady business progress, with revenue reaching US$171.4 million, up 3.6% year on year ("YoY"). Revenue from international markets (excluding North America) rose 16.7% YoY to US$127.0 million. APAC stood out as a key driver of international growth, generating US$78.4 million in revenue, an increase of 19.1% YoY. The injectables business maintained robust momentum, with revenue rising 54.2% YoY to US$22.2 million and accounting for 12.9% of total revenue, cementing its position as the Company's second growth engine.

Operational momentum was also evident across Sisram's core businesses. In the EBD business, flagship platforms including Alma Harmony and Hybrid family sustained solid market traction, while new product rollouts across APAC and localization initiatives in China advanced in tandem. In the injectables business, the commercialization of DAXXIFY in mainland China progressed steadily, while differentiated products including Profhilo and Hallura broadened their presence, further strengthening the foundation for more diversified growth.

Looking ahead, Sisram will further strengthen the strategic integration of R&D and innovation, global commercial operations, and localized capabilities, anchored by its three global strategic hubs in Israel, the United States, and China. The Company will continue to advance the iteration of its core products and the translation of innovation into commercial outcomes, while accelerating the registration and commercialization of key products across major global markets. At the same time, Sisram will actively explore partnerships and strategic growth opportunities that create meaningful synergies with its broader wellness ecosystem. Through a more resilient global operating platform and increasingly diversified growth drivers, the Company aims to build a solid foundation for sustainable long-term growth.

"We are launching this share repurchase after a comprehensive assessment of Sisram's business performance, financial position and market conditions, reflecting our confidence in the Company's long-term prospects and our commitment to sharing the benefits of Sisram's growth with our shareholders," said Mr. Jiahong Li, Co-CEO and CFO of Sisram. "Over the past period, we have advanced key strategic priorities across product innovation, strategic market expansion and operational efficiency, reinforcing the competitive foundations of our core businesses. As these initiatives deliver results, we believe the market will increasingly recognize Sisram's long-term value. Looking ahead, we will remain focused on strengthening our core businesses and executing our strategy with discipline, while creating sustainable long-term value for our shareholders."

About Sisram Medical Ltd

Sisram Medical Ltd (1696.HK) is a global leader in medical aesthetic solutions with over 25 years of expertise in Energy-Based Devices (EBD). Built on a legacy of innovation and clinical excellence, the Company's synergistic ecosystem spans EBD technologies, injectables, diagnostics, and complementary solutions. Serving customers in over 110 countries and regions, Sisram delivers award-winning products that set new standards in safety, efficacy, and personalized aesthetic care for millions of patients worldwide. Majority-owned by Fosun Pharma, Sisram has been listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since September 2017.

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The information communicated in this press release contains certain statements that are or may be forward-looking. These statements typically contain words such as "will," "expects," "believes," "plans" and "anticipates," and words of similar import. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. There may be additional material risks that are currently not considered to be material or of which the Company is unaware. These forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance. Against the background of these uncertainties, readers should not rely on these forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no responsibility to update forward-looking statements or to adapt them to future events or developments.

The implementation of the Share Repurchase Plan will be subject to the Share Repurchase Mandate, applicable provisions of the Company's Articles of Association, the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, The Codes on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Buy-backs and other applicable laws and regulations. There is no assurance of the timing, quantity or price of any share repurchases. Shareholders and potential investors are advised to exercise caution when dealing in the securities of the Company.

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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP announces that purchasers or acquirers of AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) securities between March 4, 2025 and July 15, 2026, inclusive (the "Class Period"), have until Friday, November 13, 2026 to seek appointment as lead plaintiff of the AST SpaceMobile class action lawsuit. Captioned Hunter v. AST SpaceMobile, Inc., No. 26-cv-00378 (W.D. Tex.), the AST SpaceMobile class action lawsuit charges AST SpaceMobile and certain of AST SpaceMobile's top executives with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

If you suffered substantial losses and wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the AST SpaceMobile class action lawsuit, please provide your information here:

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You can also contact attorneys Ken Dolitsky or Michael Albert of Robbins Geller by calling 800/851-7783 or via e-mail at [email protected].

CASE ALLEGATIONS: AST SpaceMobile, together with its subsidiaries, designs and develops the constellation of BlueBird satellites. According to the complaint, in September 2025, telecommunications company EchoStar Corporation announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with SpaceX to sell its AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses (the "EchoStar Transaction"). The complaint alleges that, in connection with the EchoStar Transaction, SpaceX and EchoStar Corporation agreed to enter into a long-term commercial agreement, enabling EchoStar's Boost Mobile subscribers to access SpaceX's next generation direct-to-cellular ("D2C") service provided by its telecommunications subsidiary Starlink Services, LLC.

The AST SpaceMobile class action lawsuit alleges that defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) AST SpaceMobile's increasing capital requirements were likely to increase AST SpaceMobile's debt load and share dilution with greater frequency and at greater scale than defendants had signaled to investors; (ii) accordingly, defendants had overstated the sufficiency of AST SpaceMobile's capital and liquidity position to achieve its strategic and business goals; (iii) defendants likewise overstated the durability of AST SpaceMobile's competitive position in the satellite D2C market; (iv) even following the EchoStar Transaction, defendants continued overstating AST SpaceMobile's competitive position in the satellite D2C market; (v) AST SpaceMobile was experiencing slow user adoption in the United States and Japan; (vi) the foregoing was likely to have a significant negative impact on AST SpaceMobile's business and financial prospects; and (vii) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

THE LEAD PLAINTIFF PROCESS: The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 permits any investor who purchased or acquired AST SpaceMobile securities during the Class Period to seek appointment as lead plaintiff in the AST SpaceMobile class action lawsuit. A lead plaintiff is generally the movant with the greatest financial interest in the relief sought by the putative class who is also typical and adequate of the putative class. A lead plaintiff acts on behalf of all other class members in directing the AST SpaceMobile class action lawsuit. The lead plaintiff can select a law firm of its choice to litigate the AST SpaceMobile class action lawsuit. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff of the AST SpaceMobile class action lawsuit.

ABOUT ROBBINS GELLER: Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP is one of the world's leading law firms representing investors in securities fraud and shareholder rights litigation. Our Firm ranked #1 on the most recent ISS Securities Class Action Services Top 50 Report, recovering more than $916 million for investors in 2025. This marks our fourth #1 ranking in the past five years. And in those five years alone, Robbins Geller recovered $8.4 billion for investors – $3.4 billion more than any other law firm. With 200 lawyers in 10 offices, Robbins Geller is one of the largest plaintiffs' firms in the world, and the Firm's attorneys have obtained many of the largest securities class action recoveries in history, including the largest ever – $7.2 billion – in In re Enron Corp. Sec. Litig. Please visit the following page for more information:

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Versapay extends AI that's been earning trust in cash application for years — now built into collections, payments, and ERP connectivity

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Versapay, a leading platform for business payments and accounts receivable automation, today announced Versapay Intelligence, an expanded AI layer running across its platform, alongside new capabilities within its core accounts receivable platform and deeper ERP-embedded integrations. Together, the updates extend Versapay's coverage across invoicing, collections, cash application, payments, and ERP connectivity, reinforcing the company's position at the center of the invoice-to-cash workflow.

AI is not new to Versapay's platform. The company has applied AI and machine learning within cash application for years — powering remittance matching and machine-learning-based risk segmentation well before AI became a standard feature in invoice-to-cash software. Today's announcement expands that investment, unifying it into one intelligence layer that runs across the platform rather than a single module.

"Versapay is applying one intelligence layer across a platform that already unifies invoicing, collections, cash application, payments, and ERP connectivity," said Carey Kolaja, Chief Executive Officer of Versapay. "That's our edge: we've spent more than 20 years moving invoices and money, so we see the full picture — not just a transaction, but the operational, payment, and relationship signals behind it. That's what lets us help define where invoice-to-cash is headed, instead of just keeping pace with it."

Versapay Intelligence: Earning Trust in Stages

Versapay Intelligence is built around a simple premise: AI is only as valuable as it is trusted, and trust is earned incrementally. Rather than introducing autonomous AI as a headline feature, Versapay designed a four-stage framework that gives customers control over how much responsibility AI takes on, and when:

- Augment — AI supports workflows, surfaces signals, and eliminates manual research, while the customer makes the final call.

- Assist — AI shapes outcomes, drafts communications, orders queues, and flags risks, while the customer acts from a position of clarity.

- Action — AI executes across systems within configured boundaries the customer sets.

- Autonomous — AI coordinates with other agents and closes loops within permission structures the customer has granted.

Within this framework, three Versapay Intelligence capabilities are live: a Versapay Assistant that answers questions like which invoices to focus on today, real-time sentiment scoring that flags at-risk customer conversations, and AI-generated customer summaries covering payment history, overdue balance, credits, and oldest open invoice. Versapay is also now in beta with AI augmented Cash Application, reading remittance details across PDFs, spreadsheets, and scanned images — in dozens of formats — and matching them to open invoices automatically, greatly improving match rates and predictability, with more capabilities on the way.

"We wanted to use AI to augment our customers' judgment and take work out of the equation," said Christy Johnson, Chief Product Officer of Versapay. That's why we started with an assistant that answers your questions directly and surfaces the buyer signals that could have been missed, an enhanced AI in Cash Application that shows its work. When AI tells you the insight and explains how it got there, it earns the trust to take on more."

Expanding Collections Within Versapay's Core AR Platform

Versapay customers wanted more out of collections capabilities: less manual work and the freedom to build their own strategies. Collections, and connecting customers with their buyers transparently, have always been a core differentiator of the platform. Now Versapay is reaching further leveraging the intelligence above by offering: automatic segmentation by risk and behavior, configurable workflows with tailored outreach cadences, and auto-prioritized task lists that put the highest-priority accounts in front of collectors first. A unified communications log and performance dashboards for DSO, aging, and promise-to-pay complete the picture.

"We were already running our core AR with Versapay, so expanding into Versapay's new Collections module felt like a natural next step rather than starting over with a new system," shared Lisa Pillans, Corporate Controller, Essential Cabinetry Group. We're most excited about smarter segmentation and automation of routine reminder emails, and getting a daily task list that tells our collector exactly who to follow up with and why — including payment promises — so she can spend her time on the accounts that truly need attention."

Meeting Customers Inside the Systems They Already Run

Customers asked for one more thing: to be met where they already work, inside the systems they run every day. Versapay continues to embed that intelligence directly into those workflows — across ERPs and other financial systems, including NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and Microsoft Dynamics — so teams can put insights into action as they manage invoices, collections, and cash application. Based on feedback these expanded features have just released:

- Embedded payments for Microsoft Dynamics F&SCM

- Expanded NetSuite Pay, with Canadian merchant support

- Aggregated payment through grouped invoices through Versapay's customer portal that sync directly back to NetSuite

- Project-based and multi-currency invoice support for Sage Intacct

Versapay has also been recognized by G2 with "Users Love Us" and "Leader" badges.

About Versapay

Versapay is the platform that rewires AR by removing barriers from collecting and reconciling B2B payments, providing end-to-end cash flow clarity so businesses can manage working capital on their terms. By connecting finance teams, their business systems, customers, and payment activity into a single intelligent ecosystem, Versapay turns money matters into a data-driven advantage. With 10,000 customers and 5M+ companies transacting, Versapay facilitates 120M+ transactions and processes $300B+ in payments volume annually. To learn more about how Versapay eliminates financial friction, visit versapay.com.

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THE LEELA AND ARA LUMIÈRE BRING 'FASHION FOR A CAUSE' TO MILAN FASHION WEEK

The Leela's third-year collaboration with Kulsum Shadab Wahab's Ara Lumière brings The Phoenix Circle to Milan, uniting Indian luxury, fashion and art with a shared commitment to women's empowerment

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third consecutive year, The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts has partnered with Ara Lumière, founded by philanthropist and social entrepreneur Kulsum Shadab Wahab, at Milan Fashion Week, continuing a shared commitment to creating meaningful intersections between luxury, fashion and purpose. This year, the collaboration brought The Phoenix Circle to Milan alongside contemporary artist Raghava KK, presenting PASSPORT as part of an intimate gathering centred on identity, resilience and women's empowerment.

Founded by Kulsum Shadab Wahab, The Phoenix Circle is rooted in a long-standing commitment to empowering women survivors of acid and burn attacks, creating opportunities for dignity, creative expression and livelihood. Through fashion and art, the initiative seeks to shift the narrative from adversity towards agency, resilience and possibility.

This year's PASSPORT collaboration with Raghava KK explored ideas of identity and representation, bringing together the artist's perspective and the creative voices of the women at the heart of The Phoenix Circle. Presented against the backdrop of Milan Fashion Week, the initiative offered a powerful reminder of how fashion can transcend its traditional role as a form of expression to become a platform for social dialogue and change.

For The Leela, the collaboration reflects its belief that True Indian Luxury extends beyond hospitality into culture, creativity and purpose. By bringing an Indian perspective to a global fashion platform, the partnership creates a space where Indian luxury and a movement for women's empowerment can come together in a meaningful way.

"Our association with Ara Lumière and The Phoenix Circle reflects our belief that luxury becomes more meaningful when it creates space for purpose, dialogue and impact. Milan Fashion Week offers a global platform to bring together India's rich cultural perspective with voices that are challenging and reshaping the way we understand empowerment. Through our collaboration with Kulsum and Ara Lumière, The Leela is proud to support a movement that places resilience, creativity and the agency of women at its centre, while creating an experience that carries the spirit of True Indian Luxury onto the global stage," said Preeti Makhija, General Manager, The Leela Palace New Delhi.

"The Phoenix Circle was created to transform narratives of adversity into stories of strength, dignity and possibility. Fashion gives us a powerful language through which these stories can be seen and heard, and our collaboration with The Leela allows this message to reach a global audience. Bringing PASSPORT to Milan is another step in creating spaces where the women we work with are not defined by what they have endured, but by their creativity, identity and the futures they are shaping for themselves," said Kulsum Shadab Wahab, Founder, Ara Lumière and The Phoenix Circle.

Through its continued association with Ara Lumière, and as The Leela celebrates four decades of True Indian Luxury, the brand reinforces the idea of fashion as a force for purpose — creating a dialogue between Indian luxury, global creativity and social impact, and demonstrating how hospitality can extend beyond the boundaries of a hotel to become a platform for meaningful cultural exchange.

About The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts

The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts is India's largest institutionally owned and managed pure-play luxury hospitality brand. Backed by Brookfield, The Leela's portfolio comprises 15 operating award-winning properties spanning owned, operated, and managed hotels and another 10 in the pipeline across leading leisure and business destinations in India and Dubai. Recognized globally for architectural excellence and bespoke services, The Leela was ranked #2 globally among the best Hotel Brand in the World by the Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards 2026 and has been previously ranked as the World's Best Hotel Brand by Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards in 2020 and 2021, and among the global top three in 2023, 2024 and 2026. The brand remains committed to delivering timeless Indian hospitality through world-class luxury experiences.

Please visit our website www.theleela.com and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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SmallRig Hosts 3rd Visionary Storytellers Industry Forum, Releases Top 12 Global Imaging Scenarios Report

SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SmallRig successfully hosted the 3rd Visionary Storytellers Industry Forum in Shenzhen. Under the theme "Connect • Co-exist • New Frontier," the event brought together global imaging and technology brands, creators, investment institutions, and academic pioneers to discuss the next wave of growth in the industry. A major highlight of the forum was the official release of the highly anticipated "2025-2026 Top 12 Global Imaging Scenarios Report," providing a new roadmap for the entire market.

Based on extensive user research and market analysis, the report identifies 12 core imaging scenarios shaping the year ahead: everyday life, unscripted livestreaming, intangible cultural heritage & folk traditions, recreational sports & outdoor activities, extreme sports, interest-based communities, live performances, scripted storytelling, micro-dramas, social impact documentaries, wildlife & macro photography, and specialized imaging.

The report also highlights four key trends driving the industry today: mobile cinematography, the decentralization of professional institutions and resources, democratization of creators, and AI-powered video generation.

Data from the report underscores that over the next five years, the growth rate of peripheral equipment is projected to reach 9.2%, notably outpacing that of host devices. Addressing the rapid rise of technology, the report proposes the philosophy of "AI for efficiency, humans for warmth," arguing that as algorithms generate increasingly realistic content, real-world experiences, on-site judgment, and human creator accountability will become the ultimate scarce resources.

Zhou Yang, Founder and CEO of SmallRig, noted that the company has maintained an average annual growth rate of approximately 30% over the past five years. "The professional and consumer imaging markets are now rapidly merging. This shift is ushering in a golden era of the imaging scenario industry."

In addition, the forum featured three parallel sessions. The Technology & New Frontier session focused on AI vision, intelligent tracking, robotics, and innovative hardware, discussing demand validation and global market entry from concept to mass production. The Product & Cultural Creativity session explored how aesthetics and cultural expression influence product value from the perspectives of investment, art, industrial design, and IP. The Talent & Future session focused on talent cultivation, exploring collaborative models between academia and industry to nurture cross-disciplinary professionals skilled in technology, products, and content.

"In a market with such fragmented and fast-changing user needs, it is incredibly difficult for any single company to handle the entire process from spotting a need to launching a product alone," Zhou added.

To bridge this gap, SmallRig is committed to building an open, collaborative ecosystem that seamlessly connects users, industry partners, and creators. The company provides R&D teams and innovators with access to its robust supply chain capabilities, supporting projects from proof of concept and pilot testing through prototyping and mass production. SmallRig will also leverage its global Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) brand platform to support product validation, joint marketing, and pre-sales, while backing new projects through dedicated angel and industrial investment funds.

The next round of competition will not be won through hardware specs alone. Success belongs to those who can get closer to real-world scenes early on, spot unmet user needs, and turn technology into products that are easy to understand and use. With this shift, the "new frontier" of the imaging scenario industry is moving beyond abstract concepts and becoming a concrete, collaborative reality.

About SmallRig

Founded in 2013, SmallRig is a global provider of imaging solutions, offering a comprehensive ecosystem of camera and mobile accessories, lighting, power, and audio products. Known for its versatile and highly compatible product ecosystem, SmallRig supports creators in over 160 countries worldwide.

For more information, visit:www.smallrig.com

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