NOIDA, India, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd. (“Microvast Power”), a subsidiary of Microvast Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MVST), announced on September 14 it will showcase a range of battery solutions for construction machinery, mining vehicles and other heavy-duty applications at bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026, taking place from September 15 – 18, 2026, at the India Expo Centre in Greater Noida/Delhi NCR.

At the exhibition, Microvast Power will present a portfolio of battery products designed to support the electrification of vehicles, mining trucks, and construction equipment operating under demanding conditions. Featured products will include Microvast’s 5^th-generation C-pack and MT-pack battery systems.

The 5th-generation C-pack is designed to combine ultra-fast energy replenishment and ultra-long cycle life, helping reduce charging-related downtime while supporting the operating range and payload requirements of heavy-duty equipment. These characteristics are intended to address key challenges associated with the electrification of construction machinery, including charging time, equipment availability and total cost of ownership. Designed for heavy-load mining applications and demanding operating environments, the MT-pack incorporates enhancements in structural design, materials and manufacturing technology to improve vibration, corrosion and impact resistance. The system is designed for operation in challenging environments, including conditions involving high altitude, salt exposure and sustained vibration, while balancing operating range, payload capacity and equipment utilization.

Microvast power has been participating in the Indian market since 2019, with its battery systems deployed in commercial applications including urban public transit and mining trucks. These applications provide Microvast with operating experience across both urban passenger transportation and demanding heavy-duty operation in mining applications. Microvast’s 3C fast-charging high-power power battery is designed to support high utilization operating schedules by reducing charging time and increasing equipment availability. Microvast battery systems deployed in India have also been designed to operate under challenging climate and operating conditions, including high temperatures, heavy rainfall, humidity and vibration.

Microvast has focused on battery technologies for commercial vehicles, construction machinery and other heavy-duty applications for many years. Through its vertically integrated research, development and manufacturing capabilities, Microvast develops battery cells, modules and packs designed around the performance requirements of demanding vehicle applications.

Microvast has worked with original equipment manufacturers on electric and hybrid construction equipment, heavy-duty trucks and mining vehicles across a range of commercial applications. Through its participation in bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026, Microvast intends to strengthen relationships with customers and industry partners in India and across South Asia and support the continued electrification of construction, mining and heavy-duty equipment.

About Microvast

Microvast strives to be a global leader in advanced battery technologies, with a portfolio of more than 890 patents. Founded in Texas in 2006 and headquartered in Houston, the company has spent two decades engineering cutting-edge battery systems that are intended to power a cleaner future. Microvast stands as a trusted global partner with the mission to provide the high-performance solutions required for today’s electrification needs.

For more information, please visit www.microvast.com or follow us on LinkedIn (@microvast).

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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Green Energy Development Conference & International Digital Energy Expo 2026, kicked off in Shenzhen. Zhou Jianjun, Vice President of Huawei and President of Global Marketing, Sales and Services, Huawei Digital Power, attended the opening ceremony and unveiled Huawei’s grid-interactive AI data center (AIDC) solution during the key industry achievement release session. This solution aims to tackle the new challenges of power acquisition, high-density power supply, high-density heat dissipation, and complex delivery, operation, and maintenance in AIDC construction during the AI era, by leveraging system-level compute-electricity synergy to maximize tokens per watt.

The Token Factory Era: Compute and Power Deeply Coupled

The global AI industry is rapidly accelerating from R&D to large-scale deployment. The fast iteration of large models and the surging demand for AI applications are driving exponential growth in token consumption. As the basic unit for invoking, consuming, and billing AI services, tokens are becoming increasingly valuable. Major global tech companies, operators, cloud service providers, and energy enterprises are ramping up investments in AI infrastructure. AIDC campuses are scaling from traditional megawatts to hundreds of megawatts or even gigawatts. Power acquisition, power supply and cooling in high-density compute scenarios, delivery, operation, and maintenance capabilities, and construction speed have become new challenges for AIDC construction.

Zhou Jianjun stated: “Electricity is essential for computing. Today, in the AI era, the startup, shutdown, and load fluctuations of a large AIDC campus can all impact grid operations.” He emphasized that as the penetration of renewable energy continues to rise, the power grid itself is also evolving, with local grid strength declining and volatility and uncertainty increasing. Future AIDCs must not only adapt to weak grids and maintain stable operation during grid fluctuations, but also support the grid and become a key “grid-friendly” node. Therefore, the integration of generation, grid, load, and storage has become an inevitable choice for AIDC development.

“3+1” Redefining a System-Level Grid-Interactive AIDC Solution

Huawei proposes a “3+1” system redefinition across three domains—Watt (electricity), Bit (digital), and Heat (thermal)—along with the construction model, to build a grid-interactive AIDC solution.

The core of the redefinition is as follows:

Watt (electricity): Shifting from stable power consumption to supporting the power grid.

On the generation-grid-storage side, Huawei enhances the AIDC facility’s adaptability to weak power grids and large load fluctuations through grid-forming control and energy storage synergy. The industry’s first 1000 V grid-forming inverter FusionSolar series and the world’s first 1000 V Smart String Grid Forming ESS Platform LUTERRA, both launched by Huawei, have significantly boosted the grid-forming capability of renewable energy. On the load side, Huawei builds an integrated grid-forming energy router based on the solid-state transformer (SST) technology. Moreover, Huawei has become the first vendor in the industry to pass the wideband oscillation damping test conducted by Shanghai Electrical Apparatus Research Institute, driving UPS in the AIDC era to evolve from “reliable power supply” to “grid-friendly.”

Heat (thermal): from “reliability of individual components” to “reliability of the entire system.”

The key to AIDC liquid cooling is not just cooling, but controllability; not just the reliability of individual components, but the reliability of the entire system from chips to cooling sources. Huawei’s Thermal Management Unit (TMU) and AI-enabled MW-level liquid cooling system provide a paradigm for highly reliable cooling in the AIDC industry.

Bit (digital): from “passive operation and maintenance” to “proactive sensing.”

AI capabilities are leveraged to redefine operations, enabling AIDC to achieve proactive sensing, optimization, and protection.

Construction model: from “traditional engineering” to “productization and prefabrication.”

AIDC can no longer rely entirely on traditional engineering methods. Through productization, prefabrication, and modularization, Huawei shifts complexity to the factory, leave simplicity to customers, and speed up compute rollout.

System-Level Innovation for the Next-Generation AIDC

Huawei’s grid-interactive AIDC solution is not a single product-level innovation, but an end-to-end solution built on system-level innovation. Its core value is clear and compelling: ensuring stable operation of high-value computing power with high reliability, generating more tokens per watt with high energy efficiency, enabling faster rollout of computing power with fast delivery, and supporting the power grid with grid-friendly features despite being a large load.

Zhou Jianjun said, “AI is opening up a new era of industry. In response to the opportunities brought by the AIDC industry transformation, Huawei deeply integrates digital technology, power electronics, thermal management, and energy storage management, and focuses on the new power system and core fields of AIDC to build comprehensive capabilities in renewable energy generation, grid forming and grid connection, power supply for high-density compute, liquid cooling, and compute-electricity synergy. Huawei is willing to work with global customers and partners to drive the AIDC industry toward high-quality, sustainable, and innovative development, enabling each watt to produce more tokens and powering the AI era forward.”

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BEIJING, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Two indices reports on development of rowing sport and hutong revitalization in Shenyang, the capital city of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, have been officially launched by Xinhua Indices Institute.

The reports — China (Shenyang) rowing development index report and China (Shenyang) hutong revitalization index report — were released at the 2026 China (Shenyang) Exchange on Integrated Development of Culture, Tourism, Sports and Commerce held on Sept. 10 in Shenyang.

Co-hosted by the Shenyang Municipal People’s Government and the Brand Work Office of Xinhua News Agency, the event brought together guests from government, industry, academia and research institutions to explore new approaches and models for the integrated development of culture, tourism, sports and commerce.

The release of the two indices places the “outward-oriented sports event economy,” represented by rowing, and the “inward-oriented revitalization of existing urban assets,” represented by hutongs, within the same framework, establishing an annual benchmark for the integrated development of culture, tourism, sports and commerce.

Shenyang will look outward for breakthroughs through the rowing index, leverage sports events to activate its waterfront spaces and further develop itself as a rowing capital, said a municipal official. Meanwhile, the city will tap its internal potential through the hutong index, revitalizing local old hutongs via micro-renewal work.

The city is steadily advancing toward its duo goals of becoming a “rowing capital” and a “famous historical and cultural city.” To achieve these goals, Shenyang has hosted the Asian Rowing U19&U23 Championships consecutively along the Hunhe River, while the “rowing in schools” program has been rolled out across the city.

Deep in the hutongs, 67 old hutongs in the city’s Fangcheng area have been renovated. Laobeishi hosted more than 6,000 performances to the public throughout the year, while the Bajing coffee alley received more than 2 million visitors annually.

Guo Linwen, deputy director of the Cultural Industries Institute of Renmin University of China, suggested that Shenyang strengthen its cultural identity, break down boundaries between different business formats and apply cutting-edge technologies to enhance immersive experiences.

He recommended using length of stay, the proportion of secondary spending and the number of overnight visitors as key indicators to evaluate project performance.

The event also featured two parallel sessions — the “Sports +” session and the session on culture, tourism and sports empowering innovation in urban consumption scenarios. 

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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RedDoorz, Southeast Asia’s largest multi-brand hospitality and accommodation platform, announced a partnership with ECPAT, a global network dedicated to ending the sexual exploitation and abuse of children, to reinforce child protection and guest safety across its property network. The collaboration enhances RedDoorz’s safety measures by implementing a safeguarding framework across all properties.

Operating more than 4,000 properties under its multi-brand portfolio, including RedDoorz, SANS, Urbanview, Sunerra, and The Lavana, the platform maintains a zero-tolerance policy for child sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and prostitution within its partner network. This initiative aligns with the company’s ‘Safe Stay for All Guests’ vision, establishing guest safety and child protection as a shared responsibility among corporate, property owners, and hotel staff.

“Safe Stay means more than providing a safe room. It means creating an environment where every guest, especially children and vulnerable individuals, is protected. Through our partnership with ECPAT, we are strengthening preventive measures across our network and equipping our property partners with the knowledge and tools to identify risks and respond appropriately,” said Mohit Gandas, Country Director, RedDoorz Indonesia.

Andy Ardian, National Coordinator of ECPAT Indonesia, said that child protection in tourism is a shared responsibility. “We applaud RedDoorz for taking this vital step by joining ECPAT to embed proactive safeguarding systems into the heart of Southeast Asian hospitality.”

To operationalize this commitment, RedDoorz is introducing the SHIELD (Safeguarding Hospitality through Integrity, Ethics, and Lasting Diligence) Program across its ecosystem. Under SHIELD, RedDoorz is strengthening five commitments across its property network: Guest Identity & Data Protection, ensuring adult guest identities are verified at check-in and personal information is handled responsibly; Child Protection, strengthening verification and safeguarding procedures to help prevent child sexual exploitation; Safety Support, providing a centralized mechanism for reporting safety and safeguarding concerns and accessing appropriate support; Responsible Safety Monitoring, responsible use of CCTV; and Property Safety Standards, maintaining clear requirements for fire safety, structural and facility safety, hygiene, and emergency preparedness, supported by training, monitoring, and audits.

RedDoorz will join The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism (The Code). Through this, RedDoorz will strengthen formal child-protection procedures, conducting mandatory staff training, extending safeguarding standards across its supply chain, raising awareness among travelers, collaborating with key stakeholders, and publishing progress reports.

“We’re proud to partner with ECPAT, whose commitment to protecting children across our industry sets a standard we’re committed to upholding. We’re bringing our resources and operational support to amplify their impact in Indonesia, and we’re committed to scaling this partnership across Southeast Asia, starting with the Philippines,” said Amit Saberwal, Founder and CEO of RedDoorz.

RedDoorz’s safeguarding includes property onboarding standards, requiring partner properties to hold valid licensing, including a Business Registration Number. Where applicable, properties may observe Syariah hospitality standards to respect local community norms.

To support the implementation of these safeguards, RedDoorz is also working with ECPAT and the Indonesian National Police to provide child-protection training for property owners and staff, covering risk identification, preventive measures, and appropriate reporting and escalation procedures.

RedDoorz has established reporting mechanisms, including a public Help Centre where guests, witnesses, and locals can report incidents, alongside 24/7 support for urgent safety and welfare concerns. Property owners and staff will also receive an Emergency Response Pocket Book covering child safety, emergency handling, fire incidents, and police coordination. Through these proactive measures, RedDoorz aims to set a new benchmark for ethical, safe, and responsible hospitality.

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2026 Break the ceiling touch the sky® Most Inspirational Women in Leadership and 2026 Global Male Champions for Gender Equality to lead as speakers and mentors at the 2026 World Edition

BTC 101 Global Index data shows companies with more gender-balanced Boards and executive leadership teams delivering stronger revenue and profit-growth trends

SINGAPORE, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — House of Rose Professional® (HORP) – The Global Leadership Company™ today announced that several leaders selected for the 2026 Break the ceiling touch the sky® Asia’s Most Inspirational Women in Leadership listing, together with 2026 Global Male Champions for Gender Equality, will lead as speakers and mentors at the 2026 World Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky®, to be held October 12, 2026 at Frasers House, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Singapore.

HORP’s Asia’s Most Inspirational Women in Leadership research evaluates 3,500 women leaders across 500 companies in Asia, identifying women whose leadership, business impact and example can inspire other leaders to succeed. There is no nomination or entry fee for consideration or recognition.

Several of the inspirational women selected through the 2026 research will be recognized in person at the Oct. 12 World Edition and will contribute as speakers and mentors alongside some of the region’s leading CEOs, C-suite executives, Board Directors and male allies.

The 43rd international edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® will bring together approximately 250 senior executives and entrepreneurs from across industries to exchange best practices on leadership, business growth, AI, talent, inclusion and the advancement of women. The summit provides leaders with the opportunity to learn directly from successful CEOs, C-suite executives, Board Directors, male allies and women leaders—and translate the practices of companies making the greatest progress into action within their own organizations. DFI Retail Group and CEOSource® are Platinum sponsors for this edition of the summit.

House of Rose Professional® is inviting women leaders, male allies and organizations committed to gender-balanced, high-performance leadership to join these leaders at the Oct. 12 World Edition in Singapore.

Among the 2026 Inspirational Women and Global Male Champions leading as speakers on Oct. 12 are:

Billie Tan, President, International Sales and Solutions, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, UPS; Bita Seow, Chief Executive Officer, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce; Joanne Soo, member of the Singapore all-women team that successfully summited Mount Everest and Managing Director, Ace Adventure Expeditions Pte. Ltd.; Jerrica Chooi, Country Holding Officer, Singapore, ABB; Joy Jinghui Xu, Group Chief People and Culture Officer, DFI Retail Group; Judit Pach, former Ambassador of Hungary to Singapore and Brunei Darussalam and Advisor, MET Group; Ingrid Lorentz Sidiadinoto, Senior Managing Director, Singapore and Malaysia, UPS; Yanyan Ji, General Manager of Philip Morris Taiwan and Preeti Arora Razdan, CEO, Southeast Asia, Diageo.

Male allies and business leaders participating include Scott Price, Group Chief Executive, DFI Retail Group; Bijoy Sagar, EVP and Chief Information Technology and Digital Transformation Officer, Bayer; Nikesh (Nik) Mehta, British High Commissioner to Singapore; KV Rao, Chairman and Director, Tata International Singapore Pte. Ltd.; Steven Okun, Founder and CEO, APAC Advisors (Singapore); Alex von Behr, President, VBAssociates, former Global Chief Customer Officer and head of the CEOSmith® Executive coaching vertical at House of Rose Professional,  Unilever Plc.; Vijayanand Sinha, former Regional CEO & SVP – ASEAN, Reckitt; Philip Forrest, former Asia Head, ANZ Bank, and Independent Director, James Cook University, Readymix Holdings International and Grand Banks Yachts Limited; and Brian Peters, former Mr. Universe. 

GENDER-BALANCED LEADERSHIP LINKED TO STRONGER BUSINESS-PERFORMANCE TRENDS

House of Rose Professional® also announced that companies with more gender-balanced Boards and executive leadership teams have consistently delivered stronger revenue and profit-growth trends over the past few years, according to its proprietary Break the ceiling touch the sky® 101 Best Global Companies for Women in Leadership – BTC 101 Global Index research for the period 2020–2026.

The BTC 101 Global Index provides baseline research for House of Rose Professional®’s MISSION 2029 FOR A BETTER WORLD—its global initiative to advance better inclusion, better leadership, better business and a better world.

In 2020, a company at the threshold of the BTC 101 Global Index had 22.2% women at C-suite and Board levels. By 2026, that threshold had increased to 35.71%—an increase of more than 60% in women’s representation at the entry point to the world’s 101 highest-ranked global companies for women in leadership.

House of Rose Professional® has reviewed more than 60,000 C-suite and Board executives across the Fortune Global 500 over the seven-year period from 2020 to 2026.

The 2026 BTC 101 Global Index analysis points to a clear association between gender-balanced leadership and stronger business-performance trends:

• 73% of Index companies reported year-over-year revenue growth, compared with 60% of non-Index companies.
• 52% of Index companies reported year-over-year profit growth, compared with 47% of non-Index companies.
• Among the bottom 100 non-Index companies, only 48% reported year-over-year revenue growth and 44% reported profit growth.

The progress is broad-based. Leaders in the 2026 BTC 101 Global Index span 38 industries, including banking, pharmaceuticals, retail, energy, petroleum refining, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare, motor vehicles, food services, household and personal products, package and freight delivery, and aerospace and defence.

The findings reinforce the growing body of evidence that organizations which draw leadership talent more broadly are also building stronger, more competitive businesses. House of Rose Professional® believes organizations seeking to win in a rapidly changing world should continue investing in gender-balanced, high-performance leadership as an important driver of business success.

At the same time, the 2026 data delivers an important warning: for the first time in seven years, progress on gender balance at the top of the world’s 500 largest companies has stalled.

Anthony A. Rose, Chairman and CEO, House of Rose Professional®, and best-selling author of “Break the ceiling touch the sky®: success secrets of the world’s most inspirational women”  (the book which inspired the summit) said: 

“The data tells us two things very clearly. First, the world’s largest companies have made significant progress. The threshold for entering our BTC 101 Global Index has risen from 22.2% women at C-suite and Board level in 2020 to 35.71% in 2026. Second, the companies leading this progress are also delivering stronger business-performance trends.

At a time when support for advancing women is facing new headwinds, now is not the time to stop. It is the time to learn from what is working and accelerate for business and organizational impact.

We are delighted to welcome our inspirational women leaders and male allies to the Oct. 12 summit and encourage organizations and leaders committed to business growth and high-performance, gender-balanced leadership to join us.”

Scott Price, Group Chief Executive, DFI Retail Group, said:

“A majority of our customers are female. We are a leading Asian retailer delivering quality, value and exceptional service through leading brands, a compelling retail experience and a commitment to sustainability. We are focused on helping our customers make the most of every dollar they spend with us. Unleashing a diverse and inclusive workforce is critical to this mission. We benefit from sharing our leadership best practices and also learning from the best practices of other great companies participating at Break the ceiling touch the sky®.”

Nishi Vasudeva, former Chairman & Managing Director, HPCL; Independent Director, L&T Finance, Tata Power Renewable Energy and CRISIL; and Senior Advisor, House of Rose Professional®, said:

“The advantages of gender-balanced leadership have been extensively documented, with a clear takeaway: gender-balanced companies deliver better on business, growth and social impact. The world’s largest and most respected companies are becoming increasingly gender-balanced at the top. Break the ceiling touch the sky® provides an important opportunity for successful leaders to share best practices and invest not just in women, but in stronger, more sustainable businesses.”

Rose added. 

“Progress has happened because leaders acted. The next chapter will be determined by whether we continue to invest in talent based on potential, performance and opportunity. October 12 is about bringing together the leaders who believe better leadership builds better businesses—and ultimately a better world.”

JOIN THE 2026 WORLD EDITION – OCTOBER 12, SINGAPORE

The 2026 World Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® takes place on October 12, 2026 at Frasers House, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Singapore.

DFI Retail Group and CEOSource® lead as Platinum Sponsors. The summit is endorsed by leading Industry Partners including Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, AMCHAM, BRITCHAM, EUROCHAM, FRENCHAM, SWISSCHAM, NZ CHAMBER, CANCHAM, CEEC and EU-ASEAN BUSINESS COUNCIL.

House of Rose Professional® encourages the 2026 Inspirational Women, Global Male Champions, their colleagues and organizations, and leaders from across the world to register and participate in the World Edition.

Speakers, agenda and registration:
https://houseofroseprofessional.com/world-edition-2026/

About House of Rose Professional®

House of Rose Professional® – The Global Leadership Company™ builds the world’s best leaders to build the world’s best businesses and a better world through its integrated portfolio across Talent, Training and Transformation.

Its portfolio includes Break the ceiling touch the sky®, its global success and leadership platform for women and all allies; CEOSource®, its premium retained executive search business focused on CEO, Board and C-suite appointments; BeliEVE®, its specialist executive search brand focused on exceptional women leaders; and CEOSmith®, its executive coaching and leadership transformation practice.

House of Rose Professional® has empowered more than 70,000 leaders across over 750 organizations worldwide since 2014, working with leading organizations across the Americas, Asia, the Middle East & Africa, Europe and ANZ.

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House of Rose Professional®
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-A Chinese Startup Enters the Global RSI Race.

BEIJING, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Apex Intelligence has completed its angel and angel-plus funding rounds, raising nearly US$50 Million in total. The angel round was co-led by IDG Capital, LinkX Capital and XtalPi, with participation from Decent Capital, SEE Fund, Monad Ventures, and Winsoul Capital. The angel-plus round was co-led by Zhongguancun Science City Fund, SCGC, and Shanghai Engine Fund.

Founded in June 2026, Apex Intelligence is building the next generation of self-evolving foundation models. Self-evolution refers to Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI), or models improving themselves. With a focus on scientific research and discovery, the company aims to move AI from an assistive tool to a co-researcher, and from accelerating what is known to discovering what is unknown.

Apex Intelligence will also visit leading North American universities—including Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, and Boston University—from September 17 to September 23 to meet with students, researchers, and academic research groups for talent recruitment and research collaboration.

AI’s Next Frontier Is Research

Centuries of technological progress have unfolded through successive S-curves opened up by scientific breakthroughs. Each S-curve spans three stages: scientific breakthroughs, research discoveries, and engineering implementation. Most AI today remains focused on engineering and execution, while the scarce breakthroughs in science and research still depend heavily on humans.

Apex Intelligence believes the next technological revolution will center on AI becoming a co-researcher and a native research engine—one that goes beyond accelerating familiar work to actively discovering unexplored directions. Research is the core driving force behind RSI.

Building AI Researchers, Not Just AI Assistants

Apex Intelligence believes that advancing AI’s general intelligence in R&D requires model training. Specifically, through mid-training and post-training, the company guides models to generate creative ideas and autonomously carry out the entire cycle of self-improvement: hypothesis, experimentation, validation, and iteration.

Over the long term, Apex Intelligence aims to build self-evolving foundation models whose collective research capabilities match, and progressively surpass, those of 100,000 top-tier AI scientists spanning disciplines, forming a scalable network of AI researchers. This is a long-term vision and goal, and the company is working toward it step by step. It represents a fundamental shift in the R&D paradigm, rather than an incremental improvement in efficiency. Potential applications span any field where R&D workflows can be structured and outcomes measured, including chip design and simulation, molecular R&D, and quantitative strategy iteration. These fields share three characteristics: high value, intensive demands on human expertise, and costly trial and error.

Apex Intelligence’s Self-Evolving AI System Approaches Capabilities of Leading Human Researchers

Apex Intelligence’s self-evolving AI system has delivered encouraging results in both AI for AI and AI for Math.

AI for AI

The system has autonomously produced research of a standard suitable for acceptance at leading AI conferences, demonstrating capabilities comparable to those of an AI PhD student. It has also autonomously achieved more accurate decisions before training, better strategies during training, and optimizations to the underlying GPU kernels. Across SimpleTES, NanoChat Autoresearch, GPUMode TriMul, and MLS-Bench, it has set new records or approached the best publicly reported results, outperforming solutions developed by or with contributions from Recursive Superintelligence, Tencent Hunyuan, Stanford, NVIDIA, and other organizations.

AI for Math

The AI system has produced a complete proof of the majorization conjecture, which had remained open for more than three decades, and achieved multiple breakthroughs in optimization theory, geometric topology, and other areas.

Apex Intelligence was founded by Yongchao Chen, an assistant professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Artificial Intelligence. His undergraduate and graduate education spans the University of Science and Technology of China and a joint Harvard–MIT training program. He has conducted research at Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab. The core team comes from leading universities including Tsinghua, Peking University, Harvard, and MIT.

Looking ahead, Apex Intelligence will continue investing in foundation models and compute, advance the training and iteration of recursively self-improving foundation models, build a high-quality research trajectory data infrastructure, and attract top talent from around the world. Guided by its founding mission to “Unlock Undiscovered Discovery,” the company is working to move AI from reproducing existing knowledge to autonomous scientific discovery.

Founder Quotes

“I have always believed that models taught by humans are ultimately limited by humans themselves. When we align them to human preferences, we lock their intelligence ceiling at our own level. No matter how much compute and data we add, we are only making them better at retaining existing knowledge. The limits of true intelligence can only be defined by the objective world. The first generation of large models replaces white-collar workers; embodied AI replaces blue-collar workers; and ASI will replace humanity’s most accomplished scientists. That moment will come sooner or later. Our job is to bring it closer.”

— Yongchao Chen, Founder of Apex Intelligence

About Apex Intelligence

Founded in June 2026, Apex Intelligence is a Beijing, China-based self-evolving foundation model company focused on next-generation industrial intelligence through recursive self-improvement.

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Annual regional training highlights U.S. Soy’s role in high‑performance, sustainable aquafeeds

BALI, Indonesia, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) delivered two aquaculture feed formulation workshops in Bali recently, convening commercial aquafeed formulators and nutritionists from Bangladesh and Southeast Asia. The programs strengthened collaboration across markets and equipped participants with commercially applicable approaches to designing high‑quality, nutritionally targeted aquafeeds that support efficient and sustainable aquaculture production.

Aquaculture is a major growth engine across Asia, accounting for over 90% of global aquaculture output^[1]. Countries in South Asia and Southeast Asia are among the world’s leading aquaculture producers, including Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Indonesia, which continue to expand production to meet rising demand for affordable, high‑quality protein. For the 2025/26 marketing year, total U.S. soybean exports to Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam reached 4.65 million metric tons, while soybean meal exports totaled 1 million metric tons^[2] to date. These figures underscore the region’s growing reliance on high‑quality, consistent ingredients that support efficient feed production and sustainable aquaculture growth.

Held in August, the 4^th Annual Bangladesh Aquaculture Feed Formulation Workshop and the 12^th Southeast Asia Aquaculture Feed Formulation Workshop brought together participants from across the region for technical presentations, hands‑on formulation training and strategic discussions. Through guided exercises and real‑world commercial formulation scenarios, participants strengthened their formulation capability and gained practical experience applying technical concepts to feed design and how these link to improved aquaculture production.

U.S. Soy: A Reliable, Sustainable Ingredient for Modern Aquafeeds

Across both workshops, participants examined ingredient performance, supply reliability, and sustainability considerations — including the value of U.S. Soy’s consistent nutritional quality, verified sustainability profile, and strong technical support. Sessions reinforced how responsibly sourced ingredients contribute to feed efficiency, environmental stewardship, and long‑term industry resilience.

U.S. soybean farmers Brent Gatton of Kentucky and Thomas Frisch of Minnesota shared firsthand insights on sustainable U.S. soybean production and on‑farm practices that support dependable supply — a key foundation for feed manufacturers aiming to deliver consistent, high‑quality formulations.

Aquaculture Feed Formulation Workshops

The Bangladesh and Southeast Asia workshops provided a regional platform for strengthening feed formulation capability and building shared understanding across Asia’s aquaculture sector. Participants from Bangladesh and from Southeast Asia — including Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam — took part in programs focused on the use of reliable ingredients such as U.S. Soy in modern feed development.

Across both workshops, participants examined how key ingredients contribute to feed performance, how production processes influence feed quality, and how evolving industry needs shape formulation choices. Sessions also introduced emerging digital tools that support more consistent, efficient feed development. These discussions helped participants strengthen how they evaluate options, balance cost and performance, and adopt approaches that support both day‑to‑day production and long‑term industry growth.

Carlos Salinas, USSEC East Asia’s Executive Director, emphasized the importance of strengthening formulation capability across the region. “Twelve years of the Southeast Asia workshop, and now a fourth year in Bangladesh, show how far formulation capability in this region has come. What made Bali different was having formulators from eight markets, global nutritionists and U.S. soybean farmers working through real commercial formulation problems together. That is where U.S. Soy earns its place in a feed: not as a commodity, but as a consistent, verified ingredient that formulators can build a performance-focused diet around.”

Global Expertise, Regional Impact

This year’s workshops also drew on global expertise, featuring leading aquaculture nutritionists and technical specialists who contributed broader perspectives on formulation trends, ingredient innovation, and evolving feed technologies. Among them was Dr. Brett Glencross, Technical Director at IFFO – The Marine Ingredients Organisation, who shared insights on ingredient performance and the role of responsibly sourced raw materials in modern aquafeed development.

This year’s workshops featured around 25 technical presentations, including contributions from many commercial companies that shared insights on aquaculture formulation and practical approaches used across the aquafeed industry. The breadth of perspectives helped participants understand how different organizations navigate evolving formulation needs and industry conditions, strengthening the overall technical depth of the program.

Speaking on the region’s shift toward more advanced feed development, Lukas Manomaitis, USSEC East Asia’s Aquaculture Lead, emphasized the importance of practical, commercially grounded formulation skills. “Across South and Southeast Asia, formulators are moving toward more advanced, performance‑focused feed development. Our goal is to help them formulate high‑quality, targeted feeds using responsible, reliable ingredients. The strong engagement we saw in Bali reflects the region’s commitment to adopting more sustainable, efficient approaches to aquaculture.”

Advancing Collaboration Across Asia

The workshops underscore USSEC’s commitment to supporting aquaculture growth across Asia through shared expertise and strong partnerships across the aquaculture value chain. As the sector continues to evolve globally, ongoing technical collaboration and formulation training remain essential to building more resilient aquaculture systems.

About USSEC

The U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) focuses on attaining market access, differentiating, and elevating preference for the use of U.S. Soy for human consumption, aquaculture, and livestock feed in more than 90 countries. USSEC members represent the soy supply chain including U.S. Soy farmers, processors, commodity shippers, merchandisers, allied agribusinesses, and agricultural organizations. USSEC is funded by the Soy Checkoff, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) matching funds, and industry. Visit www.ussec.org for the latest information about USSEC and U.S. Soy internationally.  

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• 78% organizations prioritize restoring systems over maintaining business operations
• Only 22% have tested how critical operations would continue during recovery
• Just 3% say current plans are equipped for frontier AI threats

SINGAPORE, Sept. 17, 2026  /PRNewswire/ — Cohesity, the leader in AI and data security, today released its fifth annual Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report, finding that 78% of organizations focus cyber recovery efforts on restoring systems rather than maintaining business operations. Restoring systems alone, however, does not guarantee a business can resume normal operations. Recovery depends on more, including whether restored environments can be verified as clean and safe, applications and dependencies are functioning properly, and employees have reliable access to systems and data.  

The independent study, conducted by Vanson Bourne, surveyed 3,200 IT and security decision-makers across 12 countries. The research examined where recovery plans fall short during actual attacks, how organizations define business continuity during recovery, and how well current plans account for AI systems and emerging frontier AI threats. The findings were announced at Cohesity Catalyst 2026.

“The research makes clear that many organizations still view recovery as a technology exercise when it is fundamentally a business imperative,” said Vasu Murthy, chief product officer, Cohesity. “True resilience is measured by an organization’s ability to continue operating, meet customer commitments, and recover quickly during a cyber crisis. AI makes the challenge more urgent by increasing the speed of attacks while adding new systems, data, and workflows. That same speed and scale is why AI also has to be part of the answer — strengthening how organizations detect, recover, and restore trust at machine speed.”

Restoring systems does not mean the business has recovered

The research found that organizations may struggle to resume normal operations even after systems are restored. Among those that experienced a material cyberattack in the past 12 months, 60% encountered moderate or significant delays because they lacked confidence that restored data and systems were clean and safe to use. Sixty percent also reported identity or access issues after systems were restored.

The scope of affected systems expanded beyond the initial assessment for 70% of those organizations. At the same time, an average of 61% identified moderate or significant gaps in how their plans accounted for cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, identity services, security tooling, third-party integrations, and AI systems. For recovery teams, changes in scope or incomplete dependency information can affect what is restored, in what order, and what must be revisited as the response progresses.

These recovery complications are significant because most plans depend on conditions that may not hold during an actual attack. Across the full sample of surveyed organizations, 93% said their cyber response and recovery plans rely on all five assumptions examined in the research: containment, dependency visibility, recovery sequencing, decision-making clarity, and trusted restoration.

The business side of recovery is rarely formalized and tested

A Minimum Viable Company (MVC) helps organizations narrow the scope of recovery to minimize business disruption by defining what must be restored first. While 37% of research participants have formally documented an MVC, only 22% have both documented and tested it. Among that group, 64% said their MVC directly determined what was prioritized and restored first during a material cyberattack. The findings suggest that defining and testing an MVC can influence recovery priorities, but only if organizations operationalize it during an attack.

AI is becoming operational before it becomes recoverable

Recovery priorities must also account for the technologies the business increasingly depends on. The research found that although AI is widely used, it is not yet comprehensively addressed in most recovery plans. AI systems, applications, workflows, or machine learning models are now used by 99% of organizations, yet only 39% say their cyber response and recovery plans comprehensively account for attacks targeting them.

Organizations also reported readiness gaps when responding to AI-related incidents, with 56% saying they are not well prepared to detect, contain, and recover from unintended or incorrect actions taken by AI agents, copilots, or AI workflows. Similarly, confidence in verifying the integrity of AI models and related data following a cyberattack was low, with 58% reporting they were not very confident.

Frontier AI raises the stakes for recovery planning

Organizations expect frontier AI to place further pressure on existing recovery approaches. Eighty-three percent said their plans would require moderate or significant changes to address attacks involving capabilities such as vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and multi-step intrusions. Only 3% of respondents said their current recovery plans are equipped for those conditions.

Download the full Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report for deeper insights into cyber response and recovery, operational resilience, and AI readiness.

Methodology: Cohesity commissioned Vanson Bourne to survey 3,200 IT and security decision-makers at organizations with 1,000 or more employees across Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States in July 2026. For the purposes of this research, a material cyberattack was defined as having a measurable financial, reputation, operational and/or customer churn impact on their organization.

About Cohesity

Cohesity protects, secures, and provides insights into the world’s data. As the leader in AI and data security, Cohesity helps organizations strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and reduce IT costs. With Zero Trust security and advanced AI/ML, Cohesity Data Cloud is trusted by customers in more than 140 countries, including two-thirds of the Global 500. Cohesity is also backed by industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, IBM, Cisco, and HPE.  

Cohesity is certified as a Great Place to Work in multiple countries. Follow Cohesity on LinkedIn and visit www.cohesity.com to learn more.   

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