Dubai – September 19, 2026 -- Crypto derivatives trading is undergoing a structural shift toward options, with notional open interest in options rising from roughly 25% to nearly 50% of the crypto-native Bitcoin derivatives market, according to a new report from digital assets data provider Glassnode, produced in partnership with Bybit.

Amsterdam – September 19, 2026 -- ABOSS, the Amsterdam-based operating system for live music, said roughly $1 billion in deal value is moving through its platform this year, while artist-owned records account for just 4% of that volume.

Booking agencies still run deals through email and spreadsheets, ABOSS founder says

"After all those years, deals are still made on relationships, and they're still being executed in chaos," said Arvid Silos, founder of ABOSS. "If your data lives in inboxes and spreadsheets, you're leaving margins on the table."

San Francisco – – September 19, 2026 -- Arcjet has launched agent runtime security, a new product designed to give engineering and security teams visibility and control over AI agents operating inside production systems. The platform targets agents that read and write to databases, process refunds, call APIs, and take autonomous actions across multiple systems on behalf of users.

Chicago – September 19, 2026 -- McDonald's Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.93 per share, a 4% increase that marks the company's 50th consecutive year of dividend growth and vaults it into the exclusive ranks of "Dividend Kings."

Pasadena, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- PrismML has released Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-compressed version of a 27-billion-parameter multimodal model that runs at just 5.9 GB while retaining 98.2% of its full-precision counterpart's benchmark performance.

Ternary compression shrinks memory footprint by more than 9x

Built on Qwen3.8 27B, Bonsai 2 27B reduces the model's memory requirement to 5.9 GB, a reduction of over nine times compared with the full-precision original. The model contains 27.8 billion parameters and was trained using Google v5 TPUs.

Chicago – September 19, 2026 -- LogicGate has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Third-Party Risk Management Software 2026 Vendor Assessment, with IDC citing the company's connected data architecture, agentic AI capabilities, and low total cost of ownership for enterprise clients.

Alexandria, Va. – September 19, 2026 -- Flight Safety Foundation will host its 79th annual International Aviation Safety Summit (IASS) on Nov. 10-12 at ICAO Headquarters in Montreal, drawing more than 350 attendees from across the global aviation ecosystem.

Washington – September 19, 2026 -- Lyntris Inc. (NYSE: LYNX) has been selected by Intuitive Machines to supply S-, X-, and Ka-band antenna feed systems for large-aperture antennas across its expanding global ground network.

San Francisco – September 19, 2026 -- 2factor.finance has launched on Base to offer leverage for Coinbase's tokenized stocks at roughly 75 percent lower cost than comparable leveraged ETFs, targeting the $112 trillion pool of buy-and-hold capital that has historically been shut out of leveraged positions.

Miami – – September 19, 2026 -- Qtonic Quantum Corp launched QShield, a software-only post-quantum packet runtime for Linux hosts, and opened paid, operator-led engagements to enterprise and government buyers following a completed 72-hour endurance run that logged 4,107 successful periodic checks and zero failures.