At Dreamforce 2026, ReDEFY, a Salesforce consulting partner, arrives having already built Environmental Health solutions for California county governments ahead of the state's CERS NextGen deadline.

HERNDON, Va., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- With Dreamforce 2026 opening next week in San Francisco, ReDEFY, a pure-play Salesforce consulting partner, launched "Built Before the Meeting," a campaign that reverses the traditional consulting sales cycle. Instead of asking prospects to sit through discovery calls and slide decks, ReDEFY builds a working Salesforce Industry Cloud solution for a buyer's specific vertical problem before the first meeting takes place.

The first public proof of the model is live now at redefy.com. ReDEFY has built a Salesforce destination for California's Certified Unified Program Agencies ahead of the state's CERS NextGen transition. CalEPA is retiring the legacy California Environmental Reporting System and moving its 81 Certified Unified Program Agencies to a modernized platform, with full go-live planned for January 2027 and new mandatory due dates and reporting requirements arriving alongside it. Rather than pitch that work, ReDEFY has already built it. Any agency facing the deadline can see their working solution at the first meeting, before any conversation about commitment. While the solution can be demonstrated, this is not a demo. It is publicly available regulations, county documentation, public forms, and ReDEFY's experience translated into a working Environmental Health platform, built for one specific county at a time. Only then does ReDEFY reach out to the county for a meeting.

"Most partners hold their best thinking hostage and only invest their time once a client has signed a contract. We do the opposite," said Manosh Chakravorty, Co-Founder and CEO of ReDEFY. "When a buyer has a real deadline and clear, detailed requirements, we build the destination first and then ask for the meeting. Our proof beats others' promises, our investment shows our commitment, and Built Before respects the customer's time."

The Built Before model is designed for growing and mid-market commercial organizations that need to move quickly. But in the public sector, where much of the regulation, the processes, and the current engagement model are already public, the campaign is easiest to prove. When a prospect has clear and detailed requirements, ReDEFY builds the full solution up front and rolls it directly into delivery as a free project accelerator once professional services are under contract, so the pre-meeting build is never wasted effort but a head start on go-live. Ahead of Dreamforce 2026, ReDEFY has already completed working builds for six large California counties.

"Building a working solution before the first meeting is only possible with a delivery method engineered for both speed and accuracy," said Karthik Akula, Co-Founder and CTO of ReDEFY. "We validate the outcome in a pre-production environment before we ever present it. What a buyer sees is not a mockup or a standard demo. It is their solution, running on Salesforce, ready to refine and deploy."

At Dreamforce, as part of its first-year sponsorship, ReDEFY will host private build sessions showing executive teams how its delivery engines produce configuration-first Salesforce Industry Cloud solutions at scale. In California, the firm is taking those same builds directly to the counties they were made for.

"We are not showing California's counties the art of the possible," said Chakravorty. "We are showing each one a solution purpose-built for their jurisdiction, before we ask for a meeting."

"Each of the six builds is specific to that county's programs and data, not a template with a new name on it," said Akula. "Delivering that much specificity before a contract is only possible because every configuration decision is validated and traceable from day one."

Every "Built Before the Meeting" solution is configuration-first and native to Salesforce, not hard-coded on top of it. That is a deliberate and critical difference. Much of today's AI-assisted code generation forks a customer off Salesforce's innovation path and its three releases a year, creating technical debt the moment it ships. ReDEFY uses AI to accelerate configuration-first delivery that stays on the platform, so each Salesforce release moves the solution forward rather than breaking it.

Organizations carrying a near-term Salesforce decision can meet the ReDEFY team at Dreamforce 2026, September 15 to 17 in San Francisco. To schedule a briefing, see the media contact below. The California Environmental Health build can be viewed now at redefy.com/industries/public-sector/california-environmental-health.

Before founding ReDEFY, Chakravorty and Akula built an award-winning Salesforce practice and exited it to a global systems integrator. They launched ReDEFY in 2026 with a team of senior Salesforce consultants to prove a simple thesis: Salesforce is not expensive, the legacy consulting model around it is.

Schedule a session with ReDEFY

Organizations carrying a near-term Salesforce decision can meet the ReDEFY team at Dreamforce 2026, September 15 to 17 in San Francisco. To schedule a briefing, see the media contact below. The California Environmental Health build can be viewed now at redefy.com/industries/public-sector/california-environmental-health.

About ReDEFY

ReDEFY is a pure-play Salesforce consulting partner headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, with senior consultants across the United States and India. Co-founded by Manosh Chakravorty and Karthik Akula, the firm helps growing and mid-market organizations implement, migrate, and manage Salesforce through a proof-before-pitch delivery model. Learn more at redefy.com.

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- DFRobot today announced that seeMote Cap, a mountable spatial tracking module for Apple Vision Pro developers, is now available for preorder at $229, with first orders shipping in late September. It gives teams a practical way to prototype visionOS applications without building a custom tracked controller from scratch.

seeMote Cap attaches directly to the tools engineers already use—from screwdrivers and lab tools to training instruments and teaching models. Its 6DoF tracking captures the movement of the attached tool, allowing developers to map real-world tool movements to app logic while preserving the familiar grip and way of working.

Bringing Real Tools Into Spatial Computing

A launch demonstration shows seeMote Cap mounted on an orthopedic training drill in a non-clinical visionOS training simulation. The demo illustrates how a physical tool's position, angle, and motion can be tracked and represented in a tool-aware spatial workflow.

"We wanted to explore what spatial computing could look like when it works with the tools people already know, rather than asking them to learn another controller," said Chunxiao Liu, Product Manager at DFRobot. "The idea is simple: keep the tool, add spatial tracking. seeMote Cap gives developers a practical way to bring real-world tool movement into spatial experiences for training, inspection, and hands-on learning."

Key Feature

- 6DoF Spatial Tracking — Real-time tracking of tool position, orientation, and motion.

- Lightweight & Mountable — Compact design for flexible attachment to different tools and objects.

- Open Developer Resources — including .referenceaccessory files, USDZ models, Apple Vision Pro app sample code, and Swift SDK support. All are available on the DFRobot Wiki, helping developers build and customize spatial applications.

Use Cases

seeMote Cap brings real tools into spatial computing across training, simulation, education, and skills development.

Industrial Maintenance & Assembly Training

Capture tool movement as an input for training applications that guide maintenance and assembly workflow.

Medical Simulation & Training

Track training instruments in non-clinical simulations for interactive training and skill assessment.

Teaching Models & Lab Instruments

Turn hands-on experiments into trackable, interactive learning experiences.

Vocational Training & Skill Assessment

Capture operating sequences to support practical skills training and assessment.

Built for visionOS Developers

seeMote Cap supports Apple's Spatial Accessory API for integration with visionOS. DFRobot also provides open developer resources to help developers build and customize their own spatial applications.

seeMote Cap is now available for preorder at $229, with first orders beginning to ship in late September 2026. For product specifications, developer resources, and purchasing information, visit the DFRobot website.

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LAKEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Uranium Royalty Corp. (NASDAQ: UROY) ("UROY" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the filing of its operating and financial results for the three months ended July 31, 2026.

First Quarter Financial Highlights

- The Company sold 593,255 pounds (lbs) of U3O8, generating revenue of $51.0 million at an average realized price of approximately $86.00/lb. This was slightly above the average of the UxC Historical Ux Daily Prices published from May 1 through July 31, 2026, of $85.45/lb. The related cost of sales was $34.1 million, or approximately $57.40/lb. The proceeds from these sales were used, in part, to finance the Company's Sweetwater acquisition in July 2026. This highlights the value of the Company's physical uranium strategy, demonstrating the ability to monetize holdings to fund accretive transactions and support continued growth.

- Net income increased by 1530% to $16.3 million for the three months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $1.0 million for the three months ended July 31, 2025.

- Diluted earnings per share increased by 900% to $0.10 for the three months ended July 31, 2026, compared to $0.01 for the same period in 2025.

First Quarter Operational Highlights

- Completed landmark Sweetwater transaction, creating a leading diversified royalty platform: The successful completion of the Sweetwater transaction materially enhanced the Company's scale and long-term cash flow profile. The Company now holds one of the largest land positions in the U.S., positioning it to accelerate uranium-focused growth, while unlocking long-term optionality across critical minerals, energy and industrial development.

- Operator momentum supports uranium royalty portfolio outlook: Key counterparties have largely maintained production guidance across core assets. Cameco Corporation ("Cameco") reiterated its 2026 production guidance at both Cigar Lake (17.5-18.0 million lbs, unchanged despite temporary disruptions) and McArthur River/Key Lake (14.0-16.5 million lbs, maintained) and, while Paladin Energy Ltd. ("Paladin") announced that Langer Heinrich exceeded its production guidance for its fiscal year 2026 (4.82 million lbs vs guidance of 4.5-4.8 million lbs) and outlined further growth into 2027.(1) Collectively, this underscores the resilient operating performance and expected positive growth for the Company's portfolio.

- Soda ash production underpinned by low-cost operator positioning: Operators across the Company's Wyoming-based soda ash assets continue to demonstrate resilient performance and expansion potential. While the global soda ash industry continues to face macro headwinds, the Company's royalty portfolio is concentrated with operators positioned at the lower end of the global cost curve. As a result, production across the Company's assets has remained relatively stable, with cost advantages supporting continued operations and planned expansions.

- Unlocking additional value from Sweetwater land holdings: Approximately 38,000 acres were leased, with active exploration work being conducted to assess oil and gas potential. Acreage is located near established oil and gas production. UROY's total land position (surface and minerals) exceeds 5.3 million acres, making the Company the largest landowner in Wyoming and the second largest publicly traded landowner in the United States. The scale and location of these holdings provide meaningful long-term potential to unlock additional value through oil and gas, critical minerals and other development opportunities.

Scott Melbye, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated:

"The successful completion of the Sweetwater transaction marked a defining milestone for the Company, transforming us into the largest American publicly traded non-precious metal royalty and streaming platform with a strong long-term cash flow profile and one of the largest strategic land positions in the United States.

At the same time, we remain the only uranium-focused royalty company. By monetizing physical uranium at a realized price above the market average, we funded the Sweetwater acquisition while delivering record net income of $16.3 million, and our uranium royalty counterparties, including Cameco at McArthur River and Cigar Lake, have largely maintained production guidance, reinforcing the stability and visibility of our core portfolio.

Across our soda ash assets, all in Wyoming, our exposure to operators at the lower end of the global cost curve continues to underpin resilient production and durable cash flow from domestic industrial supply chains.

Our land position adds further optionality. The lease of approximately 38,000 acres prospective for oil and gas development is a first example of the value these holdings can unlock across critical minerals and energy.

We believe this combination of long-term cash flow, high-quality counterparties and strategic land provides a strong foundation for sustained growth and value creation."

This news release should be read in conjunction with the Company's unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and management's discussion and analysis for the three months ended July 31, 2026, which are included in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These documents are available under the Company's profile at www.sec.gov and on the Company's website at www.UraniumRoyalty.com. All amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

Note:

- See Cameco news release dated July 31, 2026 and Paladin Stock Exchange Announcement dated August 26, 2026

About Uranium Royalty Corp.

Uranium Royalty Corp. (NASDAQ: UROY) is the largest U.S. non-precious metal royalty and streaming platform with exposure to uranium, energy and industrial supply chains. UROY provides investors with uranium commodity price exposure through strategic acquisitions in uranium interests, including royalties, streams, debt and equity in uranium companies, as well as through the trading of physical uranium. Through a transformational combination with Sweetwater Royalties in 2026, UROY substantially expanded and diversified its asset base, including interests in trona assets. UROY is also the second largest public company landowner in the U.S. and the largest landowner in Wyoming, providing significant long-term optionality across uranium, critical minerals, energy and other development opportunities.

Notice to Investors

For further information regarding the project updates regarding the mining properties underlying the Company's royalty interests, please refer to the disclosures of the operators thereof, including those referenced herein and the other disclosures of such operators. Certain information provided herein regarding the projects underlying the Company's royalty and other interests, including information about expected production and other property developments, was provided to the Company by the operators of those properties or is publicly available information filed by these operators. The Company has not verified, and is not in a position to verify, and expressly disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or fairness of, this third-party information and refers the reader to the public reports filed by the operators for information regarding those properties.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this news release may constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements include statements that address or discuss activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates may occur in the future. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to expectations and plans announced by operators of the Company's royalty and other interests, the anticipated benefits of the Sweetwater transaction, the Company's business plans and its expectations regarding its business. When used in this news release, words such as "estimates", "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "will", "believes", "intends" "should", "could", "may" and other similar terminology are intended to identify such forward-looking information. Statements constituting forward-looking information reflect the current expectations and beliefs of the Company's management. These statements involve significant uncertainties, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors and, therefore, actual results, performance or achievements of the Company and its industry may be materially different from those implied by such forward-looking statements. They should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results and will not necessarily be an accurate indication of whether or not such results will be achieved. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward- looking information, including, without limitation, risks inherent to royalty companies, market conditions, share price, uranium price volatility and risks related to the operators of the projects underlying the Company's existing and proposed interests and those other risks described in filings of the Company with Canadian securities regulators and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. These risks, as well as others, could cause actual results and events to vary significantly. Accordingly, readers should exercise caution in relying upon forward-looking information and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise them to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law.

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Hexagon Creates A Constitution for AI, Adopted and Enforced on a Public Blockchain -- and Anyone Can Check It

An independent inventor in Rock Hill, New York, deploys a verified smart contract binding AI agents to a written constitution — every step timestamped on Base and publicly verifiable.

ROCK HILL, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 8, Jánelle Marina Méndez Viera did three things in thirty-five minutes and left a receipt for each on a public blockchain: she deployed a smart contract called the Guardian to the Base network, anchored the sealed record of a founding proceeding to it, and adopted a written constitution, its fingerprint recorded permanently on-chain. The Guardian's source code is now verified on Basescan.

The result is the Artificial Intelligence United Cyber Nation (AIUCN), in which AI agents act under delegated authority. The contract permits nothing until a constitution is adopted, and lets it change only by amendment on the record.

Speaking from the AIUCN Metaverse, the virtual-world government she built for her agents, Méndez Viera, inventor and President, said:

"I began this work in 2023 with a question: how do you build a system where bad behavior is structurally impossible? It was written at a kitchen table in Rock Hill, without an institution behind it. I anchored it where it cannot be altered or denied. I did this for my daughter, Serenity, and for every child building a life beyond the margins."

What was built. The Guardian is an enforcement contract — not a proxy, not upgradeable — at 0x5DaBDA7Ac910299fD3Cd9249b5C3683B01B442DC. Its rules are legible in its bytecode: every sealed proceeding is anchored exactly once, and every freeze, rejection, or clearance requires a written reason. It governs actions routed through it, not a model's internal reasoning.

The platform is Hexivision, from Hexagon Financial Technologies Holdings, Inc., under U.S. Patent No. 12,548,029. The governance method is patent-pending and licensed. Development was funded through Liberty Leaf Inc., DBA US Liberty Military Robotics, a registered defense contractor.

How to verify. No account required: hexivisiongovernance.com/login.html?ledger

Guardian deployed: block 51,053,895

Proceeding anchored: block 51,054,851

Constitution adopted: block 51,054,936

Verified source: basescan.org/address/0x5dabda7ac910299fd3cd9249b5c3683b01b442dc#code

This release is anchored on Base at block 51,090,917.

Why it matters. Most AI governance is policy enforced by the people who wrote it. The AIUCN makes the constitution a precondition enforced by code anyone can audit, on a ledger no one can edit. Whether the constitution is good is for debate. Whether it was adopted, when, and by whom is no longer anyone's word.

Media contact

[email protected] • hexivisiongovernance.com/press

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RECORD Quarterly Revenue of $199 Million and Annualized Revenue Run Rate of Approximately $800 Million

RECORD Gross Profit of $52.7 Million

RECORD Adjusted EBITDA of $16.2 Million

RECORD Income From Operations of $8.7 Million

RECORD Net Income of $12.7 Million

RECORD Cash Flow From Operations Before Changes in Non-Cash Working Capital of $11.9 Million, With Free Cash Flow of $7.0 Million

Canna Cabana Held a 14% Share of the Cannabis Retail Market in the Provinces Where it Operates, Excluding British Columbia, Up From 13% a Year Ago1

CALGARY, AB, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- High Tide Inc. ("High Tide" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: HITI) (TSXV: HITI) (FSE: 2LYA), the high-impact, retail-forward enterprise built to deliver real-world value across every component of cannabis, today released its financial results for the third fiscal quarter of 2026 ended July 31, 2026, the highlights of which are included in this news release. The full set of unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three months ended July 31, 2026 and 2025 (the "Financial Statements") and accompanying management's discussion and analysis can be accessed by visiting the Company's website at www.hightideinc.com, its profile pages on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca, and EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.

"Nearly every major financial metric moved in the right direction this quarter, with many reaching the highest levels in our history. We delivered record revenue, record gross profit, record Adjusted EBITDA, record income from operations, record net income and record operating cash flow before working capital. But what excites me most is that our bottom line is now growing substantially faster than our top line. That is the operating leverage we have spent years building toward," said Raj Grover, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of High Tide.

"High Tide is approaching an $800 million annualized revenue run rate, our Adjusted EBITDA margin is at its highest level in twelve quarters, and we continue to generate meaningful free cash flow while investing aggressively in growth. With Canna Cabana strengthening its leadership position in Canada and Remexian scaling rapidly in Germany, we now have two powerful engines driving our business forward. We intend to keep pushing hard on growth, profitability and cash generation while maintaining the capital discipline that got us here. This quarter is the clearest evidence yet of the earnings power we are building at High Tide," added Mr. Grover.

Third Fiscal Quarter 2026 – Financial Highlights:

Revenue was a record $198.8 million for the three months ended July 31, 2026 compared to $149.7 million during the same period last year, an increase of 33%, representing the fastest growth rate in 13 quarters. Revenue was up 11% sequentially, representing the fastest growth rate in 15 quarters. This was the fifth consecutive quarter marking a new all-time high in revenue.

Gross profit was a record $52.7 million for the three months ended July 31, 2026, up 32% compared to the previous year and up 9% sequentially.

Gross margin was 27% for the three months ended July 31, 2026, which was consistent with a year ago and sequentially.

Adjusted EBITDA was yet another record of $16.2 million in the three months ended July 31, 2026. This was up 53% compared to last year and up 17% sequentially. The Company generated Adjusted EBITDA margin of 8.2% in the three months ended July 31, 2026, which marked the highest level in 12 quarters.

The Company continued to create shareholder value by growing key fundamental metrics far in excess of share dilution. Specifically, even excluding the non-controlling interest, revenue grew 2.5x faster than its average basic share count during the three months ended July 31, 2026, compared to the prior year, while Adjusted EBITDA grew 3.9x faster than its average basic share count.

Cash flow from operations before changes in non-cash working capital was a record $11.9 million for the three months ended July 31, 2026, up 44% compared to last year and 36% sequentially.

The Company generated $7.0 million in free cash flow in the three months ended July 31, 2026. Free cash flow was up 373% versus $1.5 million sequentially. Free cash flow compared to $7.7 million in the prior year despite $4.2 million in additional investments in working capital to support the growth of the business.

General and administration expenses represented 3.9% of revenue in the three months ended July 31, 2026, which improved from 4.4% during the previous year, and 4.0% sequentially, and was the lowest level in eight quarters.

Salaries, wages, and benefits represented 11.4% of revenue in the three months ended July 31, 2026, which improved from 12.2% during the previous year, and 11.9% sequentially, and was the lowest level in 12 quarters.

Income from operations was a record $8.7 million in the three months ended July 31, 2026. This was up 133% compared to last year, and 43% sequentially.

During the third fiscal quarter, the Company generated record net income of $12.7 million, which represented significant improvements from net income of $0.8 million a year ago, and modestly positive net income sequentially. Adjusted for changes in non-cash derivative liability and long-term contract asset, net income was $2.2 million, which compared to $0.9 million a year ago, and $0.8 million sequentially.

Cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash, as at July 31, 2026 totaled $47.1 million, which compared to $63.8 million in the prior year, and $36.5 million sequentially.

Third Fiscal Quarter 2026 – Retail Highlights:

Canna Cabana remains the largest cannabis retail chain in Canada with 232 operating locations. Excluding British Columbia, Canna Cabana's market share was 14%, up from 13% in the previous year.2

Canadian Cabana Club membership has surpassed 2.73 million, an increase of 27% compared to last year, and 3% sequentially. Cabana Club remains the largest cannabis loyalty program globally. The Company has also exceeded 186,000 ELITE members in Canada, an increase of 62% from the previous year and 4% sequentially.

The average Canna Cabana store generated 1.8x revenue versus peers.3

Same-store sales for the entirety of the third fiscal quarter of 2026 were consistent with the prior year; however, comparative sales showed positive growth in each of the months of June 2026 and July 2026 versus the prior year. The Company notes that, in terms of transaction count, on a same-store basis, Canna Cabana posted a 1.1% gain during the third fiscal quarter. Since the launch of its discount club model in October 2021, same store sales at Canna Cabana are up 171% while the average operator has experienced a 1% decline in sales.4

For the 12 months ended June 2026, total industry sales in the five provinces where the Company operates were up 3% year over year.5 In contrast, total Canna Cabana sales were up 10% during this period.

Canna Cabana had a shrink rate of 0.2% during the three months ended July 31, 2026, which was consistent with the three months ended April 30, 2026, and July 31, 2025.

Excluding stores open less than six months which are still ramping up, annualized retail sales per square foot were $1,721 across the Canna Cabana store network during the third fiscal quarter of 2026, which was higher than many best-in-class international retailers.

Third Fiscal Quarter 2026 – Medical Cannabis Update

During the third fiscal quarter of 2026, Remexian distributed a record 10.2 tonnes of medical cannabis into the German market, marking the highest quarterly distribution volume in the company's history. Volumes increased 62% compared to the previous year and 35% sequentially.

The segment generated record revenue of $38.2 million during the third fiscal quarter of 2026, compared to $31.6 million during the second fiscal quarter of 2026.

During the third fiscal quarter of 2026, Remexian generated gross margin of 26%.

Third Fiscal Quarter 2026 – Operational Highlights (May 1, 2026 – July 31, 2026):

The Company opened new Canna Cabana locations in Toronto, Welland, Ottawa and Calgary.

The Company closed the acquisition of four additional stores in Ontario—Bowmanville, Oshawa, Courtice and Kingston—through the acquisition of 100% of the equity interests of J. Supply Holdings Inc., operating as Northern Helm.

Certain officers, directors, and consultants, led by the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, in the aggregate, acquired 90,882 common shares in the capital of High Tide on the open market between May 6, 2026, and May 8, 2026, at an average price of $3.39 per Common Share.

Subsequent Events (August 1, 2026 – Present):

The Company closed its previously announced senior secured credit facilities with Bank of Montreal in the aggregate principal amount of $40 million.

The Company announced the voting results from its annual general and special meeting of shareholders of the Company held on August 11, 2026, where each nominee listed in the Company's management information circular dated June 29, 2026, was elected as a director of the Company, and where the Company's revised Shareholder Rights Plan was approved.

The Company announced the opening of three new Canna Cabana locations across Lindsay, Orléans, and Regina, bringing the Canadian Canna Cabana store count to 232, including 105 in Ontario and 14 in Saskatchewan.

Selected financial information for the three and nine months ended, July 31, 2026: (Expressed in thousands of Canadian Dollars)

The reconciling items between net earnings, EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITDA are as follows:

OUTLOOK

Bricks-and-Mortar Retail

High Tide's wholly owned subsidiary, Canna Cabana, is the largest cannabis retail chain in Canada with 232 locations. Canna Cabana also owns and operates a location in Berlin, Germany, selling consumption accessories.

Live Where It Sparkles! New York's Diamond Exchange opens its doors again as a boutique condominium

Nine full-floor condominium apartments for sale in a historic 1894 Financial District skyscraper, priced from just under $2.6 million

NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The address through which most of the diamonds entering America once passed is welcoming residents again. Announced in 1892 as New York's newest skyscraper and completed in 1894, the ten-story Diamond Exchange at 14 Maiden Lane has been transformed into The Diamond Exchange Condominium: nine private full-floor homes and a commercial space in the heart of the Financial District, now complete and ready for occupancy.

Maiden Lane once was the center of the American diamond trade, and the building was designed for it: among the first in the city to feature oversized bay windows, engineered so dealers could examine stones by daylight. It is among the finest surviving works of its architect, Gilbert A. Schellenger. More than 130 years later, those same windows fill every residence with light beneath ceilings that rise up to 12 feet 6 inches.

Each home occupies an entire private floor of approximately 1,300 square feet, with two bedrooms and a flexible third room that can serve as a bedroom or a home office, an open kitchen with Viking, Bosch and Dacor appliances, two full bathrooms including a steam shower, European white oak chevron floors, multi-zone heating and cooling, and a Bosch washer and dryer. In the lobby, a historically significant diamond-shaped chandelier that once hung in Harrods Buenos Aires welcomes residents home.

True to a design philosophy of quality over excess, the building keeps its amenities deliberately lean — a virtual doorman, a package room and optional storage — which keeps carrying costs low and privacy uncompromised. Pricing begins just under $2.6 million, a rare figure for an entire private floor in a historic building.

Steps from Wall Street, the Seaport and the waterfront, residents at 14 Maiden Lane enjoy world-class dining and historic streetscapes by day and a remarkable quiet by night.

"This building sparkled for the jewelers of Maiden Lane, and now it sparkles for the people who live here," said Thomas Guss of NYR.com, the brokerage representing the property. "An entire private floor, flooded with daylight, in one of Manhattan's earliest skyscrapers — at this price and with these carrying costs, nothing downtown compares."

Private tours of The Diamond Exchange Condominium are available by appointment; further details about the property can be found at www.diamondcondo.com.

About NYR.com

New York Residence Inc. (NYR.com) advises private investors and discerning buyers across Manhattan's residential, mixed-use, and historically significant properties.

Contact: Thomas Guss, NYR.com — [email protected] — 212.369.7000 ext. 103

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Oil Market Daily News Commentary

NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The two agencies that set the terms of debate in this market published within a day of each other last week, and they did not agree about much. The International Energy Agency now forecasts global oil demand will fall by 2.5 million barrels a day in 2026, roughly 940,000 barrels a day deeper than it estimated a month earlier. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, in its September 9 Short-Term Energy Outlook, raised its second-half 2026 Brent forecast by $8 to around $90 a barrel, and expects prices to decline to an average of $77 by the second quarter of 2027 as shut-in Gulf production restarts. OPEC, for its part, cut its 2026 demand growth forecast for a fifth consecutive time. Three institutions, three different readings of the same disrupted market, and a week of catalysts ahead that will test all of them.

Active Companies from around the markets with current developments this week include: Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO), Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC), Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), Frontline plc (NYSE: FRO), and Equinor ASA (NYSE: EQNR).

Crude paused its rally to settle around $100 a barrel on Friday after Iranian state media reported that Tehran would meet Gulf states in Oman to discuss the Strait of Hormuz. Gulf Cooperation Council diplomats are expected to meet their Iranian counterpart on Monday to discuss a possible temporary arrangement for managing shipping through the strait. That meeting is the single most consequential item on this week's calendar, and nothing else on it comes close. Despite Friday's decline, crude rose for a second consecutive week.

The rest of the week is macro. The New York Empire State Manufacturing Index opens the data run, the American Petroleum Institute and EIA weekly inventory reports land midweek, and the Federal Reserve delivers an interest rate decision alongside updated FOMC economic projections. August industrial production follows. In an ordinary market the Fed would dominate the week. In this one it competes with a diplomatic meeting in Muscat.

The supply picture underneath is severe and worth stating precisely. The IEA reported global oil production fell by 1.6 million barrels a day month over month to 100.1 million in August, with more than 10 million barrels a day of Gulf output still shut in on security grounds. Total supply is set to fall 5.7 million barrels a day this year, and the agency has now deferred the expected Gulf recovery until 2027, when it projects an 8 million barrel a day rebound. Global observed inventories have fallen by 507 million barrels since the war began, an average draw of 2.8 million barrels a day, with August alone accounting for a 95 million barrel decline.

That inventory drawdown is the mechanism holding prices up, and it is finite. The EIA estimates global stocks fell an average of 3.9 million barrels a day in the second quarter and forecasts further draws of 3.0 million in the third and 1.7 million in the fourth. Buffers built over years are being consumed in months. At the same time, the EIA raised its 2027 U.S. crude production forecast to 14.3 million barrels a day, and the IEA has the Americas adding 1.4 million barrels a day of non-OPEC+ supply in 2026 and another 1 million in 2027. The Atlantic Basin is the pressure valve, and it is being opened.

The complication for anyone trading the headline is that crude is no longer the tightest part of this market. Refined products are. Global refinery throughput hit a summer peak of 81.4 million barrels a day in August, up 960,000 month over month but 4.2 million barrels a day below a year earlier, with losses concentrated across the Middle East, Russia and crude-importing Asia. Refining margins reached record levels in the Atlantic Basin in August, led by sharply higher diesel cracks. Surging freight rates, meanwhile, weighed on Singapore profitability. A shortage of refining capacity and a shortage of ships are doing work that a crude shortage alone would not.

In industry developments and happenings in the market this week:

Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) sits directly in the product squeeze described above. The company reported second-quarter 2026 net income of $3.7 billion, with refining operating income up more than threefold and its realized refining margin roughly doubling year over year. It finished June with $7.9 billion in cash against $9.1 billion of debt, and returned $2.6 billion to shareholders in the quarter at a 59% payout ratio while holding net debt to capitalization at 11%.

Chief Executive Lane Riggs attributed the results to operational and commercial execution rather than to the price environment, saying they reflect "the discipline and consistency of our operational and commercial execution." Chief Operating Officer Gary Simmons told analysts on the July 30 earnings call that the wars have taken roughly 5 million barrels a day of refining capacity offline worldwide. That figure, more than any crude number, explains the margin.

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: MPC) reported a refining and marketing margin that rose from $17.58 to $36.33 per barrel year over year in the second quarter, returned more than $2.8 billion to shareholders through buybacks and dividends, and closed the quarter with $7.8 billion in cash. Between them, Marathon and Valero returned over $5 billion to shareholders in a single quarter.

The caution attached to that performance is structural rather than company-specific. Refining margins of this order are a function of capacity being unavailable, and capacity outages reverse. Nymex 3:2:1 crack spreads were assessed at roughly $69.92 for September against less than $20 in early January, with the August 2027 contract more than 35% lower at $44.38. The ten-year average for the period from February 2016 to February 2026 was $21.68. The forward curve is already pricing a normalization that has not happened yet.

Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) has framed the same conditions from the supply side. Brian Mandell told analysts on the company's August 5 call that refining fundamentals were "very tight and getting tighter" because of the disruptions in Russia and the Middle East.

The tightness is not evenly distributed across the barrel, and that detail matters for the week ahead. Refiners in Russia, Kuwait and Nigeria have been redirecting crude toward diesel and jet fuel, which carry the wider margins, and leaving fuel oil behind. Russian fuel oil exports fell to a record low of 591,000 barrels a day in August against an average above 860,000 in 2025, and Middle East fuel oil exports dropped 45% year on year to about 447,000 barrels a day between March and August. European gasoil stocks sit 24% below their five-year average and jet fuel inventories are down 39%. A single product market can move the whole complex when the others are already stretched.

Frontline plc (NYSE: FRO) is where the rerouting shows up as revenue. The tanker owner reported second-quarter time charter equivalent earnings of $152,700 per day for VLCCs, $111,500 for Suezmax vessels and $92,400 for LR2 and Aframax tankers, declared a quarterly dividend of $2.61 per share, and reported 86% coverage of third-quarter VLCC spot exposure at $156,900 per day.

The company's own disclosure explains the mechanism better than any forecast. Crude exports from inside the Strait of Hormuz fell 82% in the second quarter of 2026 against the same period a year earlier, while Americas to East of Suez crude flows rose 36% from the first quarter to the second. The same barrels travel much further, so effective fleet supply tightens even when trade volumes are flat. Benchmark Middle East to China supertanker earnings reached a record near $800,000 a day this month, and Clarksons Securities has lifted its 2026 weighted average VLCC forecast to $135,000 a day from $75,000 before the crisis, on a base case that assumes Hormuz stays disrupted through the first half of 2027.

Equinor ASA (NYSE: EQNR) offered the plainest summary of the situation from the trading floor. Speaking on the sidelines of the S&P Global Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference in Singapore, Alex Grant, the company's global head of crude, products and liquids trading, said there are "quite a few bottlenecks all at the same time," adding that "the market is quite stressed with all of that, and that's showing up in the shipping rates."

That is the useful frame for the week. This is not one shortage. It is a crude disruption, a refining shortage and a freight shortage arriving through different mechanisms on different timelines, which is why a single development, including a favourable outcome in Oman, would not resolve all three at once.

What to watch this week

Monday brings the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting with Iran in Oman. A temporary shipping arrangement, even a partial one, would take the sharpest edge off the risk premium and would hit tanker rates before it hits crude. No arrangement, or a meeting that ends without a communique, leaves the market where it closed on Friday.

Midweek brings the API and EIA inventory reports, which matter more than usual given that inventories are the balancing mechanism rather than a background statistic. The Federal Reserve decision and the FOMC projections follow, with implications for the dollar and therefore for the price of a dollar-denominated barrel. August industrial production closes the run.

Two things are worth holding in mind against all of it. The closure of the East-West pipeline, which moves oil across Saudi Arabia to Red Sea ports and has capacity of roughly 7 million barrels a day, has become a live variable in its own right. And Houthi threats against Saudi Arabia remain unresolved. Either could override the entire economic calendar on any given morning.

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Evermore Hospitality's Elizabeth Mullins and IHG's Phil Keb to explore culture, purpose and relational wellness in luxury hospitality, as Nobu Hospitality, Microsoft and Honeywell lead a session on AI's real return on investment

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Luxury Hotel Association (ILHA) today announced a new wave of confirmed sessions for INSPIRE 2026, its flagship luxury hospitality conference taking place December 15 to 17 at the JW Marriott Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa in Orlando.

Among the new additions, Elizabeth Mullins, President of Evermore Hospitality, will sit down with Phil Keb, Senior Advisor of Global Capital Investments and Transactions at IHG Hotels & Resorts, for a conversation on culture, purpose and relational wellness in luxury hospitality. The pair will explore how a growing sense of social disconnection, sometimes described as an age of loneliness, could open a golden era for travel, and how hospitality can respond to travelers' deepening desire for genuine connection even as AI reshapes daily life.

"The greatest luxury may simply be time together. In a world that has never been more connected, people are craving real connection. Our opportunity in hospitality is to create the places, experiences and culture that make that connection possible." Elizabeth Mullins, President, Evermore Hospitality

"Guests today aren't just booking a room, they're searching for a sense of belonging. The brands that understand this, that build genuine human connection into every touchpoint, are the ones that will define luxury hospitality's next chapter."

Phil Keb, Senior Advisor, Global Capital Investments and Transactions, IHG Hotels & Resorts

INSPIRE 2026 will also tackle one of the industry's most pressing questions directly: what is AI actually delivering for hospitality businesses today? In "AI at Scale: Building the Business Case for Hospitality," Rodney Linville, Global Head of Information Technology at Nobu Hospitality, and Shane O'Flaherty, Global Director of Travel, Transportation and Hospitality at Microsoft, will join Neha Jaitpal, Global General Manager of Honeywell's Hospitality Vertical, for a candid look at where AI is proving its ROI, where adoption is falling short, and what it takes to move from pilot to scale across teams and operations. Barak Hirschowitz, President of ILHA, will moderate.

Additional confirmed sessions include:

- The Science of Prevention, Performance and Longevity in Luxury Wellness, with Patrick Huey (Hyatt), Alena Stavnjak (Starwood Hotels) and Karlie Intlekofer, Global Research Scientist at Matrix, moderated by Kelleye Martin of Trellis Spa, The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa and ISPA

- Measure What Matters: Why Human Connection Is Your Greatest Amenity, with Robert Grosz, President and Chief Operating Officer of WorldVue

- Travelling for the Experience: How Luxury Hotels Are Making Guest Experience Central to Their Strategy, with Gamal Elfakih (Marriott International), Rémi Delpech (Nikki Beach Hotels & Resorts) and Daniel Hostettler (The Boca Raton), moderated by Rebecca Ward of Agua Caliente

Encore, ILHA's exclusive audiovisual partner for INSPIRE 2026 and provider of AV production across all three conference stages, will also take the stage. In "AI Raises the Stakes on Luxury Event Connectivity, Here's How to Plan for It," Alex Wedesky, Encore's Vice President of Internet Services, will unpack what smarter connectivity means for high-stakes luxury events.

INSPIRE 2026 will also feature a fireside chat with Tina Edmundson, President of Luxury at Marriott International, and Carolyne Doyon, President and CEO of Club Med North America and Caribbean, both announced as part of the conference's opening lineup.

Registration for INSPIRE 2026 is now open. Visit ilha.org/inspire to learn more, or go to ilha.org/inspire/register to secure a place.

About the International Luxury Hotel Association (ILHA)

The International Luxury Hotel Association (ILHA) is the leading trade association uniting the world of luxury hospitality across its three core pillars: real estate, hospitality, and travel. With a global community of more than 1 million professionals and a think tank of over 300 industry leaders, ILHA drives the conversations, partnerships, and innovations shaping the future of luxury experiences. Its ILHA INSPIRE flagship event brings together senior leaders from across the industry for high-level networking, insights, and collaboration, alongside a year-round content platform connecting owners, operators, developers, and brands. For more information, visit https://ilha.org/.

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Most mid-size nonprofits run three to five disconnected systems. The donor records live in one, the gift posts in another, the email tool keeps its own list, and finance closes the month from a spreadsheet. The time spent carrying information between those systems is unpaid staff capacity. StratusLIVE calls it the System Tax, and it built Ignite to remove it.

"Every nonprofit leader we talk to describes the same week: more mission, same team, and hours lost moving data between tools," said Jim Funari, CEO and founder of StratusLIVE. "Ignite puts the whole relationship on one record and gives the team digital teammates that do the research and the drafting. People stay in charge of every decision. That is the only version of AI a nonprofit can put in front of its board."

One platform, one record

Ignite CRM, Ignite Fundraising, Ignite Finance, Ignite Marketing, Ignite Engagement, Ignite Partnerships, Ignite Self-Service, and Ignite Design Studio share a single constituent record, so a gift, an event registration, an email reply, and a finance posting all describe the same person. Ignite Finance carries gifts to the ledger with balanced export files for common accounting systems.

AI teammates, with people in charge

Ignite Intelligence brings AI teammates into the same platform. The roster includes Prospect Research, Major Gift, Retention, and Constituent Support teammates. They work from the organization's own data and inside its workflow, not in a separate tab. Prospect scoring uses evidence-gated bands, and every recommendation carries its sources.

Governance is built in rather than added on: read-only by default, approval gates configured by the organization, and a full audit trail. StratusLIVE maintains a current SOC 2 Type II report, available on request.

"When AI shows up in a discovery call, the first question is never 'what can it do.' It is 'who is accountable for what it does,'" said Debbie Snyder, Chief Revenue Officer at StratusLIVE. "Ignite answers that question the way a board would want it answered."

About StratusLIVE

StratusLIVE builds nonprofit software. Ignite, the Active Intelligence Platform, connects CRM, fundraising, finance, marketing, engagement, and AI teammates on one constituent record. StratusLIVE 365 serves enterprise nonprofits on Microsoft Dynamics 365. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, StratusLIVE is built by a team that comes mostly from nonprofit work.

Grow Capacity. Raise More. Lead with Intelligence. Learn more at stratuslive.com.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Lambda, Inc. ("Lambda"), the Superintelligence Cloud, today announced it has signed the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, affirming its commitment to ensuring that the infrastructure supporting America's artificial intelligence (AI) future delivers meaningful benefits for local communities, while protecting consumers and ratepayers.

The pledge reflects principles that guide Lambda's approach to infrastructure development. The company incorporates community considerations into project planning from the earliest stages, working directly with local partners to strengthen coordination and support responsible development.

"When developed responsibly, data centers can do more than power the technologies of the future, they can create lasting economic opportunities and investments in the communities where they operate," said Michel Combes, Chief Executive Officer of Lambda. "But we know that trust is built over time, and companies must demonstrate a facility's value to a community over time. The Ratepayer Protection Pledge reflects our commitment to ensuring communities benefit from growth while protecting consumers."

Lambda supports ratepayer protection policies that require data center developers to pay for the power their facilities use. The company also supports expanding generation capacity, strengthening the electric grid, maintaining reliable service and protecting ratepayers as demand for AI infrastructure grows. Lambda also invests in technologies designed to reduce local resource demands.

Learn more about Lambda's commitment to responsible AI infrastructure development here.

About Lambda

Lambda, the Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Founded in 2012 by published machine learning engineers, Lambda builds supercomputers for AI training and inference. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements that relate to future events or performance. These statements reflect Lambda's current expectations and are not guarantees of future results. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "estimate," "expect," "future," "intend," "plan," and "will," or similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Actual events or results may differ materially due to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Lambda's control. Lambda undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

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