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PermitFlow, the nation’s leading AI platform for construction, today announced it has raised $54 million in Series B funding led by Accel, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Felicis, Initialized Capital, Altos Ventures, Y Combinator, and existing investors. The company is building construction’s AI workforce, giving builders a faster, more predictable path from plan to project.

In-store traffic across Black Friday weekend slowed due to severe Midwest weather, according to data from Sensormatic Solutions, the leading global retail solutions portfolio of Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI). Data from the brand’s ShopperTrak Analytics showed that while Black Friday (Nov. 28) visits dipped by only 1.7%—outperforming year-to-date trends—traffic dropped more sharply on Saturday (Nov. 29) and Sunday (Nov. 30). Overall, shopper traffic for the weekend (Friday through Sunday) declined 4.4%.

BDO USA released its 2025 Board Survey today, an annual report that polled over 200 public company board directors on their priorities and challenges in the coming year. As digital innovation continues to dominate boardroom agendas, many directors feel pressure to demonstrate returns on their technological investments — a challenge increased by changing workforce adoption needs. According to BDO’s survey, nearly one-third (32%) of directors feel that advancing the use of emerging technology implementation will require the most board time and attention in the next year, and 23% still believe their tech implementation lags competitors.

HSBC Bank USA announced today that it has allocated nearly $4 million for philanthropic causes to eight national and local non-profit organizations that are creating resilient employment pathways and healthier urban environments.

D.A. Davidson & Co. today announced the appointment of Jesse Bigelow as Director of Research within its Equity Capital Markets group. In this role, Bigelow will lead the firm’s research strategy, oversee analyst teams across key sectors, and continue to elevate the high-quality insights clients have come to expect from D.A. Davidson.

The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces that it is investigating claims on behalf of investors of The Cigna Group (“Cigna” or “the Company”) (NYSE: CI) for violations of the securities laws.

Klaviyo (NYSE: KVYO), the B2C CRM, today released its 2025 BFCM Recap Report, showing that the five days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday (BFCM) were record-breaking, fueled not by deep discounts but by loyalty and AI-powered personalization. Even as industrywide discount rates fell, brands using Klaviyo saw outsized growth and engagement.

Graylog, a leading provider of SIEM and threat detection solutions for mid-market enterprises, today announced new cloud-native integrations with AWS Security Hub, enabling real-time event ingestion and support for the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF). OCSF standardizes security event formats across platforms, making it easier for security teams to analyze and correlate data without custom parsing. As an AWS Security Hub launch partner, Graylog helps streamline AWS log analysis and accelerates threat detection, all within its cloud-delivered platform.

MaxHSA, a gamified Health Savings Account (HSA) engagement platform developed by Benegames, Inc., today announced a strategic partnership with Avidia Health, a leading HSA administrator, to make MaxHSA’s innovative savings solution available to Avidia accountholders nationwide. The collaboration marks a major step in helping more Americans maximize their financial contributions to HSAs by rewarding everyday spending.

U.S. Soccer today announced the launch of the Kang Women’s Institute, a first-of-its-kind platform designed to accelerate advancements in the women’s game through science, innovation, and elevated best practices.

Leading securities law firm Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE) and certain of the Company’s senior executives for securities fraud after a significant stock drop resulting from the potential violations of the federal securities laws.

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PartsTrader today announced the launch of Orderly™, a next-generation, AI-enabled platform designed to transform collision-repair parts procurement. Built from extensive customer feedback, Orderly™ delivers a smarter, faster, and more flexible way to manage every step of the ordering process—helping repairers accelerate cycle times, giving insurers confidence in compliance and transparency, and enabling suppliers to streamline fulfillment.

BAE Systems, Inc. has named Anjali Chaturvedi as vice president and chief ethics officer, effective December 2, 2025.

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CorriXR Therapeutics, an oncology-focused biotherapeutics company pioneering a ground-breaking gene editing platform technology, InhaTarget Therapeutics, a company dedicated to the early development and clinical validation of innovative treatments of pulmonary diseases by inhalation, and Merxin Ltd, a designer and supplier of inhaler devices, have entered a strategic collaboration to develop a pioneering inhaled genetic therapy targeting lung cancer.

Marina City Club, one of Southern California’s most iconic residential communities, is set for a transformative upgrade with $35 million in financing from Western Alliance Bank’s Alliance Association Banking group. This funding enables the Marina City Club Homeowners Association to complete structural repairs and introduce new amenities without imposing a special assessment on homeowners.

CLOUDVICE, a leader in next-generation cloud and AI innovation and Oracle partner, today announced CORX, an agentic AI platform engineered to help public and private sector organizations enhance automation with the power of AI, cloud, blockchain and robotics.

NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced a new capability that enables enterprises to make their workflows simpler and more efficient by connecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI and Analytics services directly with their NetApp data both in the cloud and on-premises. Amazon S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP® enable customers to accelerate AI and analytics projects by allowing FSx for ONTAP-resident file data to be accessed via the S3 API by AWS's extensive portfolio of AI/ML and analytics services—all while the data remains in place and is fully accessible for read / write via file protocols.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced AWS AI Factories.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent.

Amazon announces a comprehensive expansion of its Nova portfolio with four new models, a pioneering "open training" service that empowers organizations to build their custom model variants with Nova, and a service for creating highly reliable AI agents.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new enhancements for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Trainium3 UltraServers powered by the new Trainium3 chip.

TMG Insurance Services, LLC (“The Mutual Group”), an integrated insurance operations platform serving the mutual industry, announced that Michael A. Moore has joined the organization as SVP, Head of Distribution and Business Development. Moore is a proven insurance leader with over 20 years of experience serving in personal and commercial lines underwriting, product, sales and operations roles.

KBRA assigns preliminary ratings to 15 classes of notes issued by Pagaya AI Debt Grantor Trust 2025-8 & Pagaya AI Debt Trust 2025-8 (collectively “PAID 2025-8”), an unsecured consumer loan ABS transaction. PAID 2025-8 has initial hard credit enhancement levels of 83.40% for the Class A-1 Notes to 1.83% for the Class F Notes. Credit enhancement is comprised of overcollateralization, subordination (except for the Class F Notes), cash reserve accounts funded at closing, and excess spread.

KBRA assigns preliminary ratings to three classes of notes from Vital Care Issuer LLC (the Issuer), Series 2025-1 (Vital Care 2025-1), a whole business securitization (WBS). The ratings are preliminary and subsequent information may result in the assignment of final ratings that differ from the preliminary ratings.

SLB (NYSE: SLB) will hold a conference call on January 23, 2026, to discuss the results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2025.

Homebase, the all-in-one platform for small business payroll, team management, and hiring, has been named to the Inc. 2025 Best in Business award in the Best AI Implementation category, recognizing the company’s industry-leading approach to bringing practical, intuitive AI tools to Main Street. Since launching its first AI Assistants in June, Homebase's AI Assistants have handled nearly 2 million administrative tasks for small businesses in just a matter of months.

The Humanoids Summit is back for its annual Silicon Valley event, the anchor of its global series and the world’s largest gathering focused exclusively on humanoid robotics. The event takes place December 11-12 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, and arrives at a moment when humanoids and physical AI are widely viewed as the most transformational technology class of the coming decade.

Fidium (the “Company”) today announced the closing of its second fiber securitization transaction (the “Transaction”) consisting of asset-backed term notes (the “Notes”) totaling approximately $1.283 billion, secured by all existing and future fiber-enabled customers across certain states and the fiber optic and network infrastructure to support these customers. The Transaction follows the successful May 2025 issuance of $1.344 billion of asset-backed term notes.

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Venerable has named Alexandra Findleton Head of Flow Reinsurance, positioning the firm to accelerate growth in this new organizational capability and advancing the firm’s overall growth strategy.

Trividia Health, Inc., announced today that it’s TRUE METRIX® Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose Systems are preferred for commercial patients on the Express Scripts National Preferred Formulary in the United States, effective October 1st, 2025.

SpectraONE, a new AI-driven supply chain platform, has officially launched, offering a smarter, faster path to predictive planning for global supply chain teams. Designed for real-world complexity, SpectraONE delivers modular AI features that help operations teams move from reactive to proactive without waiting months for results or overhauling their core systems.

Voyager Interests, LLC (“Voyager”) announced today that Pierce Bush has joined the firm as Managing Director. In this new role, Mr. Bush will be instrumental in many of the firm’s activities, including business development and investor relations. He will also spearhead development of Voyager’s strategic relationships worldwide, including expanding Voyager’s reach with global E&P operators and credit partners.

Waverly Advisors, LLC (“Waverly”), a federally registered investment adviser specializing in holistic wealth management and strategic investment solutions for high-net-worth individuals, families, and institutions, has acquired certain business lines from Chicago-based firm Promus Holdings, LLC and its subsidiaries (collectively “Promus”). This acquisition brings deep expertise in private equity and real estate to Waverly and strengthens Waverly’s family office services for ultra-high-net-worth clients.

CP Group, an owner-operator of office properties across the Sunbelt, along with DRA Advisors, today announced that it has executed over 50,000 square feet of leasing agreements at Miami Tower, Downtown Miami’s iconic Class A office skyscraper.

The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (“Sprouts” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: SFM) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Cirrus® (Cirrus Aircraft Ltd.) today announced ‘Cirrus Next’ an aircraft trade-in and upgrade program designed to simplify the purchase of a new Cirrus aircraft. Cirrus Next ensures a streamlined upgrade pathway to a new aircraft, with a trade-in option for the aircraft you currently own or a transition aircraft purchased through the Cirrus Next program. Cirrus Next eliminates the complexities of managing two aircraft at once or having a gap in aircraft ownership. The program is available for late model SR Series aircraft and all generations of Vision Jets.

Tyler Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TYL) announced today it has acquired Edu.Link Incorporated (Edulink), a longtime provider of educator evaluation, compliance tracking, and workflow automation solutions.

Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of securities of DeFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: DEFT) between May 12, 2025 and November 14, 2025. DeFi Technologies describes itself as a “technology and digital asset treasury company that develops exchange traded products in Canada that synthetically track the value of a single DeFi protocol or a basket of DeFi protocols.”

Leading TMT consultancy and market diligence firm ATLANTIC-ACM announced the winner of the 2025 U.S. Wholesale Service Provider Excellence Awards based on the 28th annual U.S. Wholesale Report Card study. The awards are based on detailed reviews from ~350 unique customers who rated each of the providers from which they currently buy services. Most respondents rate multiple carriers resulting in a total of 1,450+ carrier specific evaluations, rating each operator across numerous service and product categories.

Curebound, a philanthropic organization that fundraises for and invests in innovative cancer research, today announced that Robin Toft has been appointed chief executive officer, effective January 1. Toft succeeds founding CEO Anne Marbarger, who will join the Curebound Board of Directors and serve as an advisor to Toft and the leadership team, ensuring continuity as the organization enters its next decade of impact.

The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of shareholders who purchased Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (“Alexandria” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ARE) securities between January 27, 2025 and October 27, 2025, inclusive (the “Class Period”). Alexandria investors have until January 26, 2026 to file a lead plaintiff motion.

Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY) today announced that the firm will release financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 (ended October 31, 2025) on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that WRITER, a leader in agentic AI for the enterprise, is providing customers with direct access to Amazon Bedrock, making guardrails and models from leading providers available in WRITER’s enterprise agent platform. WRITER also unveiled a state-of-the-art agent supervision and orchestration suite that establishes a new control center for enterprise AI. The new capabilities give WRITER’s enterprise customers the power to democratize agent building without compromising on security, with enterprise-wide supervision, observability, and granular control built natively into every layer of the platform.

TD SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX) is excited to announce it is a recipient of multiple 2025 Geography and Global AWS Partner Awards, recognizing leaders around the globe that are playing key roles in helping their customers drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). TD SYNNEX has been named the winner of Distributor Partner of the Year in North America and Latin America, recognizing top distributors that have provided significant contributions related to revenue and number of AWS partners reached in each region. The company was also honored as Distributor Partner of the Year (Public Sector) in EMEA and Latin America, recognizing its significant achievements in the Public Sector space.

NeuBird AI today announced a free trial and self-service start of Hawkeye, its agentic AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). The new offering enables teams to deploy Hawkeye quickly and efficiently, accelerating access to autonomous incident detection.

Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (“Alexandria” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ARE) securities between January 27, 2025 and October 27, 2025, inclusive (the “Class Period”). Alexandria investors have until January 26, 2026 to file a lead plaintiff motion.

Srini Gopalan, president & chief executive officer of T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS), will present and provide a business update on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference.

Dine Brands Global, Inc. (NYSE: DIN), the parent company of Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar®, IHOP® and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop® restaurants, today announced it will participate in three investor conferences in December.

Payman AI, the infrastructure platform enabling secure AI agents in community banking, announced a partnership with Middlesex Federal Savings, F.A., a nationally chartered bank, to develop a Paygent, or AI Agent, that will allow customers to get balances, pay bills and transfer funds through simple written or verbal instructions.

TrueBlue, Inc. (NYSE: TBI) (“TrueBlue” or the “Company”) today announced the appointment of William Greenblatt and William Seward to the TrueBlue Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective January 5, 2026. The Board approved the appointment of these directors on December 1, 2025, and these new director appointments are the result of an extensive search process with the assistance of an independent recruitment firm and shareholder input.

Janes Capital Partners announced today that it served as exclusive sell-side advisor to American Casting Company on its strategic investment by Arcline Investment Management.

Hunt Military Communities, partnering with the Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program, has successfully completed a comprehensive energy efficiency initiative at Scott Air Force Base. The project delivers significant sustainability improvements, cost savings, and enhanced quality of life for military families.

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CareView Communications, Inc. (“CareView” or the “Company”) (OTCQB: CRVW), a leading provider of virtual care and patient safety solutions, is pleased to announce a new business agreement with Springfield Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Illinois, marking a significant step forward in both organizations’ shared mission to elevate patient care through innovation and clinical excellence.

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Minniette Milligan has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as Of Counsel in the Finance & Restructuring group in Des Moines, the international law firm announced today.

Clutch today released new research showing that authenticity is a major factor in whether consumers support a brand. Ninety-seven percent say it influences their decisions, and many can quickly spot when a brand is “performing.”

Consociate Health, a leading Third-Party Administrator delivering innovative healthcare solutions, announced Darren Ashby as its new President, joining CEO and Chairman Darren Reynolds to lead the company’s next phase of growth.

Prodoscore (the “Company”), a leading provider of employee productivity and data intelligence software, today announced that it has been named to the Inc. 2025 Best in Business list for Best AI Implementation.

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power enterprise-grade generative AI (gen AI) on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon. With this collaboration, Red Hat focuses on empowering IT decision-makers with the flexibility to run high-performance, efficient AI inference at scale, regardless of the underlying hardware.

DPL Financial Partners, the leading annuity and insurance platform for registered investment advisors (RIAs), today announced the appointment of Tom McCarthy to lead sales and distribution for the firm. The move comes as DPL continues to sign on enterprise firms looking for scalable solutions to drive organic growth and strengthen their brands.

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Katherine Canning has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as Of Counsel in the Commercial Litigation group in Washington, DC, the international law firm announced today.

Paradym Solutions aka Paradymdata.com, a leader in data-driven strategy and advanced analytics, and BDSA, the industry’s most trusted source for cannabis market data, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing analytical capabilities, improving customer service, and driving client growth across the rapidly evolving cannabis sector.

Middleburg, a leading developer and operator of rental housing throughout core Southern markets, today announced the appointment of Scott Zimmerly as Regional Development Partner. In this role, Zimmerly will oversee development activity across the firm’s portfolio and lead its team of Development Partners. This strategic addition reinforces Middleburg's commitment to scaling its development platform and capitalizing on accelerating demand for attainable rental housing across its target markets.

AMC Theatres® (NYSE: AMC), the largest theatrical exhibitor in the United States and the world, today announced that the Netflix Stranger Things series finale will be presented in a special two-night promotional engagement at 200 U.S. AMC locations on December 31, 2025, and January 1, 2026.

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AWS re:Invent 2025—SentinelOne® (NYSE: S), today announced a series of new innovations and integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate AI initiatives and fuel AI-powered security outcomes through the intelligent use of data. Unveiled at AWS re:Invent 2025, these announcements include a series of new advance integrations between SentinelOne’s AI-native Singularity cybersecurity platform and AWS Security Hub and with Amazon CloudWatch. They also introduce the addition of SentinelOne’s new Purple AI MCP Server and Observo AI data pipeline into the AWS Marketplace, dramatically simplifying how customers can purchase, integrate and harness SentinelOne’s latest AI and data innovation.