By Editor , 16 September 2026
Manulife Names Sarah Chapman Global CMO, Effective 2027

Toronto – September 15, 2026 -- Manulife has appointed Sarah Chapman as Global Chief Marketing & Customer Experience Officer, effective January 1, 2027, giving her oversight of brand, marketing and customer experience strategy for a company serving more than 37 million customers worldwide.

By Editor , 16 September 2026
G-P Named Top EOR Technology Leader in New Industry Report

Global – September 15, 2026 -- G-P has been named a top technology leader in the inaugural 2026 HR Technology Advice EOR VendorFit Matrix, a report evaluating Employer of Record (EOR) vendors across global coverage, customer experience, technology integration and pricing transparency.

G-P operates 100+ wholly owned legal entities across 180+ countries

The company's infrastructure supports compliant hiring at scale, positioning it among the vendors with the broadest global operational footprint assessed in the report.

By Editor , 16 September 2026

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

By Editor , 16 September 2026
OpenSpace Launches AI Agent Ecosystem, Live Location Tracking for Job Sites

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- OpenSpace unveiled a new AI agent platform and mobile tracking tools at its Waypoint 2026 customer event, aiming to shift construction workflows from document-based reporting to real-time visual data drawn from more than 110,000 projects.

By Editor , 16 September 2026
Risilience Named Physical Climate Risk Leader by Verdantix

Cambridge, England – September 15, 2026 -- Risilience has been rated "market-leading" by independent analyst firm Verdantix in both asset-level risk analysis and integrated climate/non-climate risk analysis, the highest tier awarded in the newly published Verdantix Smart Innovators: Physical Climate Risk Solutions (2026) report.

By Editor , 16 September 2026
Obesity Drug Market Hits $16B as Lilly, Novo Face New Rivals

Las Vegas – – September 15, 2026 -- The obesity therapeutics market across the seven major markets was valued at approximately USD 16 billion in 2025 and is projected to grow at a 27% CAGR through 2036, according to DelveInsight, as a wave of next-generation candidates threatens to disrupt the Eli Lilly-Novo Nordisk duopoly.

By Editor , 16 September 2026
Alcott Global Names Top 30 Supply Chain Leaders From 403 Nominees

Singapore – September 15, 2026 -- Alcott Global has named the Top 30 Leaders in Supply Chain of 2026, selecting winners from a pool of 403 nominees drawn from 354 companies across 24 countries. The fifth edition of the awards, themed "Where Insight Connects the Dots," was revealed during a virtual gala held on September 10, 2026.

By Editor , 16 September 2026
TCL Named to TIME's World's Best Companies 2026 List

Shenzhen – September 15, 2026 -- TCL has been named to TIME's World's Best Companies for 2026, a ranking compiled with Statista from an independent survey of 200,000 employees across more than 50 countries.