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Voters in three federal ridings are being courted this summer by candidates hoping to fill vacant seats in the House of Commons. There are actually four ridings without an MP right now, but only three byelections. Why didn’t Prime Minister Mark Carney call four?The answer is a bit complicated, but the bottom line is that Liberal strategists would clearly have advised the prime minister that, given the unique political circumstances of the ridings that are currently vacant, the Liberals could give themselves a boatload more money to spend fighting off the Bloc Québecois in one vacant Québec seat by calling…

PANAMA CITY, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BingX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3-AI company, today announced the appointment of Kevin Lee as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). In this role, Kevin will lead the company’s long-term strategy across platform development, business growth, and ecosystem expansion, helping align innovation with evolving market opportunities and user needs. The appointment comes as BingX continues to expand beyond crypto-native trading toward a unified multi-asset trading platform that enables users to discover market-moving opportunities, access a broader range of assets, and act on them with greater speed through an intelligent trading experience. As investor…

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and “most capable AI model to date,” claiming performance rivalling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic rivals like Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. Alibaba said it was making the model, Qwen3.8-Max, widely available to users in a blog post published on Monday. The release had been expected after the company previewed the model last month, when it claimed it was “second only to Fable 5,” Anthropic’s flagship.The open release of another highly capable Chinese AI model adds to sky-high tensions along multiple…

Strategic Company Highlights:   (i)Successfully closed the Vega Links acquisition, transforming Palomino into a comprehensive AI interconnect company and expanding the Company’s estimated addressable market by approximately 10x to greater than $60 billion; (ii)Appointed Karthik Gopalakrishnan as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Rajesh Radhamohan as Chief Product Officer (CPO) to lead the Company’s AI interconnect chipset strategy and product roadmap; AND (iii)Added d-Matrix Founder & CTO, Sudeep Bhoja, and veteran Silicon Valley semiconductor executive and entrepreneur, Dr. Gopal Raghavan, to Palomino’s Strategic Advisory Board, strengthening the Company’s technical and strategic leadership.    GOLETA, Calif., Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Palomino Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB:…

HONG KONG, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aurora Mobile Limited (NASDAQ: JG) (“Aurora Mobile” or the “Company”), a leading provider of customer engagement and marketing technology services, today announced that GPTBots.ai, its AI agent platform, has released LoopAgent — a production-grade execution engine that enables AI agents to autonomously handle complex, multi-step tasks across business systems. Built for Production, Not PilotProduction deployments often stall not because of model quality alone, but because accountable, end-to-end execution is difficult to operate at scale. While most agent platforms rely on open-source orchestration frameworks, LoopAgent is a purpose-built execution layer engineered and maintained in-house…

MUTSAMUDU, Comoros, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched the Earnings Season RealStocks Rally. The event runs from August 3, 2026, 10:00 (UTC) to August 24, 2026, 10:00 (UTC). Earnings season brings renewed attention to U.S. equities, as companies report quarterly results. To meet growing user demand for trading during this period, MEXC has introduced the event, providing users with a dedicated trading channel and a $1,000,000 prize pool. Users can trade eligible U.S. stocks with 0 fees through RealStocks, reflecting MEXC’s continued efforts to support users through its two core pillars,…

KTECH Opens Regional Partner Program as Residential Energy Demand Grows Across Central America and the Caribbean The program combines residential energy products, regional inventory, technical training and structured commercial support for distributors and installers PANAMA CITY, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — KTECH has launched a new residential energy partner program across Central America and the Caribbean, seeking distributors, solar installers, EPC companies and energy service providers in 15 target markets. The launch comes as demand for residential backup power, off-grid electricity and solar-plus-storage systems continues to rise across the region. Power outages, unstable grid conditions and increasing electricity costs…

SHINER, Texas and NEW YORK, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Texas Precious Metals rang the Nasdaq Closing Bell to celebrate the launch of the Y’all Street Physical Gold ETF (NASDAQ: YSAU) and the Y’all Street Physical Silver ETF (NASDAQ: YSAG), the first and only physically backed bullion ETFs to custody all gold and silver on American soil.  YSAU and YSAG began trading on Nasdaq earlier this month and represent a new approach to physically backed precious metals ETFs. Unlike the largest bullion ETFs available to U.S. investors, whose precious metals are primarily stored within the London bullion market custody system, YSAU…

VICTORIA, Seychelles, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), announced the addition of 2U2.ai (2U2) to spot trading. Trading for the 2U2/USDT pair opens on August 3, 2026, 7:00 (UTC), with withdrawals available from August 4, 2026, 7:00 (UTC). 2U2.ai is an integrated artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) platform designed as the Web3 meme layer for automated content creation and community distribution. Addressing high production costs and scaling limitations of manual media generation across fast-moving crypto narrative cycles, the protocol deploys a multi-modal AI engine equipped with text-to-meme capabilities, smart-captioning algorithms, and dynamic face-and-logo replacement…

ITHACA, NEW YORK, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SimpliFed, the maternal healthcare leader in providing virtual breastfeeding and baby feeding support for new parents, today released findings from a clinical study focused on the impact of virtual lactation support, as it relates to maternal and infant related outcomes. The study was led by UMass Chan Medical School principal investigators and leading researchers Nisha Fahey, DO, MSc and Apurv Soni, MD, PhD with support from the Program in Digital Medicine and the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics. Researchers evaluated the impact of virtual lactation…