Fremont, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- DIMAAG-AI, Inc. and Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) have agreed to jointly develop energy storage systems for AI data centers, pairing Toshiba's SCiB lithium titanium oxide (LTO) battery cells with DIMAAG's ZettaWatt Power Platform.

Dallas – – September 15, 2026 -- Populus Financial Group, parent company of ACE Cash Express, has donated to Vogel's Bridge to Hope program, a two-year initiative in North Texas that helps homeless parents secure housing and build stability plans while providing early childhood education for their children.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- Global Action to End Smoking has issued a grant to The University of Chicago to expand smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction support for prospective living kidney donors, aiming to increase the pool of eligible donors amid a severe organ shortage.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- Aqua has raised $18.8 million in total funding and launched what it calls the industry's first turnkey alternative investments platform (TAIP), targeting wealth managers, RIAs, banks, trust companies and fund sponsors.

Arlington, Va. – September 15, 2026 -- Daniel H. Gillison, Jr., CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), has been named to The NonProfit Times 2026 Power & Influence Top 50 list, an honor tied to a $59 million gift secured from donor MacKenzie Scott. Gillison will be recognized at the 20th Power & Influence Top 50 Gala on September 17 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

New York City – September 15, 2026 -- Mice fed 30 percent fewer calories than their normal intake showed reduced levels of DNA mutations across multiple tissues, according to a study published September 9 in Cell by researchers at NYU Langone Health and University Hospitals Cleveland.

Bluefield – September 15, 2026 -- West Virginia American Water will spend $275,000 to replace 600 feet of aging water main on Thompson Avenue in Bluefield, part of a statewide $129 million infrastructure program for 2026.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- Nonco, an institutional digital asset firm with over $100 billion in bilateral OTC trading volume, will accept USDM1, described as the world's first natively issued secured sovereign bond, as collateral across its derivatives, financing and institutional trading operations.

Raleigh, N.C. – September 15, 2026 -- Nutrient has made its Data Extraction API generally available, targeting enterprises that need traceable, audit-ready structured data from PDFs, scans, images, and Office files to power AI agents and RAG systems.

London – – September 15, 2026 -- MVB Financial Corp. will settle eligible Visa Direct push-to-card payouts using stablecoins under a new pilot program announced with enterprise payments platform Velocity.