Princeton – September 21, 2026 -- Made Scientific, Inc. has acquired an 85,000 sq. ft. clinical-to-commercial cell therapy manufacturing facility in East Norriton, Pennsylvania, from National Resilience, closing the transaction on September 18, 2026. The purchase expands the company's U.S. East Coast footprint to approximately 145,000 sq. ft. and 15 qualified GMP manufacturing suites across New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

New York – September 21, 2026 -- BigID launched AgentIQ, a new agentic automation interface that lets enterprises run their entire data security and AI compliance program from a single prompt, executed inside BigID or directly through Claude, Copilot, GPT or Gemini.

San Francisco – September 21, 2026 -- Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) has launched new in-store software that gives grocers and CPG brands a real-time digital map of every shelf in a store, drawing on more than 10 million unique data points collected daily by its network of roughly 600,000 shoppers.

Waterloo, ON – September 21, 2026 -- Applied Brain Research (ABR) has released the ABR SDK, a production toolkit combining its Niagara streaming speech recognition and Nith streaming speech synthesis models into a single API that runs entirely on edge processor hardware, eliminating network dependency for voice interfaces.

NEW YORK – September 21, 2026 -- Forus, an AI-driven healthcare startup, has reached a $3 billion valuation after closing a $150 million Series C funding round earlier this month, CEO Sahir Jaggi confirmed during a NYSE Live broadcast tied to the trading floor's pre-market advisory.

Forus raises $150 million to link doctors, pharmacies and biopharma data

Jaggi said the capital will support the company's platform connecting physicians, pharmacies, payers and biopharmaceutical firms to accelerate access to new treatments for patients.

Washington – – September 21, 2026 -- The Walton Family Foundation has launched Human Nature, a storytelling initiative documenting nature-based water projects that a June 2026 University of Georgia study found can deliver returns of up to $8 for every $1 invested when flood reduction, clean water, habitat and recreation benefits are counted.

Camden, N.J. – September 21, 2026 -- American Water (NYSE: AWK), the largest regulated water and wastewater utility in the U.S., has been named to the fourth edition of TIME's World's Best Companies list for 2026, a ranking produced with market research firm Statista Inc.

Seoul – September 21, 2026 -- LG Energy Solution said its Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) has qualified as NVIDIA DSX Ready BESS, a designation reserved for partner products meeting NVIDIA's DSX reference design requirements for AI factory power infrastructure.

Minneapolis – September 21, 2026 -- Proterra Investment Partners has hired Jennie Park as Head of Capital Formation and appointed Matt Coad as Head of Investor Solutions, expanding leadership as the food value chain-focused alternative asset manager grows its institutional investor base.

Gainesville, Fla. – September 21, 2026 -- Advita Ortho has launched Axis, a clinical research platform drawing on more than 20 years of shoulder arthroplasty data covering over 25,000 patients across 45 clinical sites worldwide.