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ATLANTA, July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Shopic, a global leader in Vision AI-powered retail solutions, today announced strategic leadership appointments as the company accelerates the rollout of its next-generation self-checkout platform designed to reduce shrink and improve retailer performance.As part of this leadership evolution, David Wilkinson has been appointed Executive Chairman and Gonzalo Troncoso has been named Chief Operating Officer. These appointments strengthen Shopic’s executive team at a critical stage of growth, as the company expands commercial deployments and advances its product roadmap.“Retailers shouldn’t have to choose between speed and control at self-checkout – they need both, at scale,”…

GREENVILLE, S.C., July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE:TOL), the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, today announced its newest luxury home community, Cambric Village, is now open in Greenville, South Carolina. This highly anticipated community will offer two distinct collections of homes, including luxury single-family residences open now and spacious townhomes opening in summer 2027. Cambric Village is located at 318 Old Boiling Springs Road in Greenville. Home shoppers are invited to visit the Sales Center at Toll Brothers’ nearby Hudson Pointe community just a few minutes down the road at 10 Medlock Drive in Greenville.…

New York, July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) today announced that registration is now open for the 2027 MDA Clinical & Scientific Conference, taking place March 21–24, 2027, at Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida. Recognized as the leading international meeting dedicated to neuromuscular diseases, the conference convenes renowned researchers, clinicians, affiliated health care providers, academicians, advocates, industry innovators, and advocacy leaders at a moment when scientific discovery is accelerating across the field. The program will feature plenary sessions, thematic sessions, industry sponsored forums and hundreds of peer-reviewed abstracts highlighting advances in next-generation clinical trial…

CONCORD, Calif., July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AssetMark, a leading wealth management platform for independent financial advisors, today released findings from its fourth Impact of Outsourcing Study, which found that investment management outsourcing is increasingly linked to stronger advisor growth outcomes, including improved client retention, greater ability to serve high-net-worth clients and more time to focus on planning, relationship management and practice growth. The study, conducted by market research consultancy 8 Acre Perspective, surveyed 745 financial advisors in March and April 2026. Among advisors who outsource investment management for at least 20% of assets, nearly all say outsourcing has…

OWINGS MILLS, MD, July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Maryland Public Television will present the broadcast premiere of the 60-minute documentary Sweet Appalachia: The Story of DelFest at 6 p.m. on Sunday, August 2, airing on both MPT and the MPT livestream. Beginning Monday, August 3, the film will also be available on demand via the free PBS app and MPT’s online video player. A preview is available to view on MPT’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KleGsoftYg. Directed and produced by Frostburg State University professor Annie Danzi, the documentary takes viewers behind the scenes of the annual DelFest music festival and explores its transformative…

SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tessell, the enterprise Database-as-a-Service platform that gives organizations unified control across any database engine and any cloud, has been included in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Cloud Database Management Systems report for the second consecutive year. Verified customers rated the platform 4.6 out of 5 overall and 4.5 or higher across all four evaluation categories. What stands out is who wrote the reviews. They come from practitioners in banking, insurance, government, and energy, with newer adoption in healthcare and media, the regulated, high-stakes environments where a database problem…

SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mondoo, the Agentic Managed Vulnerability Service and advanced continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) platform, today announced a major expansion of its platform: comprehensive discovery, risk assessment, policy control, and remediation for enterprise AI agents. With new tooling for managing fast-growing AI fleets, Mondoo gives security teams the visibility and controls to define which AI tooling is allowed on company endpoints — surfacing unsanctioned AI usage, enforcing policy, and eliminating risky use cases before they do damage. “AI risk used to be centered in the cloud — model endpoints, APIs, and data pipelines.…

MILAN, July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Intesa Sanpaolo delivered its best six months ever, with Net income of €5.6 billion in the first half of 2026. Net income reached €2.8 billion in the second quarter, marking the best quarterly performance in the Group’s history. Net income increased 6% year-on-year in the first half and 7% in the second quarter. Annualized Return on Equity (ROE) reached 20%, while annualized Return on Tangible Equity (ROTE) stood at 25%. Earnings per share (EPS) increased 9% year-on-year, confirming the Group’s ability to deliver sustainable growth. Guidance upgrade and shareholder distribution Based on the…

By Eli Ridder and Devin Stevens The Canadian Press Posted July 29, 2026 2:24 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A New Brunswick politician in the provincial legislature has gone viral for delivering a speech in the provincial legislature with some unusual passages. Progressive Conservative Bill Oliver appeared to read a few odd sentences in the June 9 speech that match the type of language typically used by an artificial intelligence chatbot.In one instance, Oliver paused and said, “here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather…

Country music legend Willie Nelson is speaking out against building artificial intelligence (AI) data centres across the United States. In a statement shared to X on Tuesday, Nelson, 93, spoke about growing up in Abbott, Texas, and urged the community to “fight against data centers invading our land.”“I grew up in Abbott, and I still have a home there with farmed land where I can still see stars at night,” Nelson wrote. “The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter).”“The strength of rural America…