Akamai said it has signed a $11.6 billion, seven-year cloud services agreement with AI company Anthropic to support growth in Anthropic’s CPU workloads using Akamai’s distributed infrastructure. The deal includes an option to expand by up to an additional $9 billion, bringing the total potential commitment to approximately $20 billion. Akamai also issued Anthropic a warrant for up to approximately 5% of Akamai’s common stock outstanding, with vesting tied to the expansion of the relationship.

MediciNova said it has completed the last patient’s final visit in the double-blind portion of COMBAT-ALS, its Phase 2b/3 trial of MN-166 (ibudilast) for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The study randomized 234 participants, and data collection for the double-blind phase has now finished, though efficacy results have not been released. The company’s shares are listed on Nasdaq and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

GeoPark said it has obtained the required consents from holders of its 8.750% senior notes due 2030 and expects to pay a consent fee on September 29, 2026. The company plans to pay $2.50 per $1,000 principal amount to eligible holders who submitted consents before the expiration time. Separately, GeoPark is acquiring Grupo Gilinski’s 95% stake in the holding company for the Bare field opportunity in exchange for newly issued shares, after Grupo Gilinski-affiliated entities recently bought about 28% of GeoPark’s outstanding common shares.

Core AI Holdings received a Nasdaq notice on September 18, 2025, saying the company no longer meets the minimum stockholders’ equity requirement for continued listing. Its unaudited consolidated balance sheet as of June 30 showed shareholders’ equity of $2,429,389, below the $2.5 million threshold under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(1).

Lithia & Driveway said it has acquired Rockwall Hyundai in Rockwall, Texas, adding an estimated $75 million in annualized revenue. The deal lifts the company’s year-to-date acquired annualized revenue to $915 million. The company also said it spent $40 million this quarter to repurchase about 108,000 shares, and has repurchased about 1.9 million shares year to date, with $580 million remaining under its authorization.

Brady Corporation’s board approved raising the annual dividend on its Class A common stock to $1.00 per share from $0.98 per share on September 1, 2026. The company set a quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share, payable on October 30, 2026, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on October 9, 2026. The increase marks Brady’s 41st consecutive year of annual dividend growth.

JFB Construction Holdings and XTEND plan to complete their business combination on Sept. 3, 2026, with the merged company to be renamed XTEND AI Robotics. The company’s shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 4, 2026 under the ticker XTND. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission declared effective the Form S-4 registration statement on Aug. 11, 2026, removing a key regulatory hurdle ahead of closing.

Singapore, Aug. 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WEBUY GLOBAL LTD. (Nasdaq: WBUY) ('Webuy” or the 'Company”), a technology-driven comprehensive travel solutions company, today announced record preliminary unaudited travel bookings of approximately US$4.76 million during the three-day NATAS Fair in August 2026. The result represents an increase of approximately 42% from the more than US$3.34 million announced for the NATAS Fair March 2026 and is equivalent to nearly US$1.6 million in bookings per day

20/20 BioLabs reported second-quarter OneTestTM revenue of $0.7 million, up 47.1% year over year. Gross margin expanded to 41.7% from 30.5%. The company secured a 12-month statewide program in Vermont to screen up to 4,500 firefighters for cancer, along with $520,000 awarded to Maryland fire departments. Management expects incremental testing volume to be absorbed across a largely fixed cost base and said it expects to have tested more than 35,000 firefighters by year-end.