Innovation

Brookfield To Acquire Minority Stake In American Real Estate Partners To Expand AI Data Center Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to acquire a minority interest in American Real Estate Partners, bringing together Brookfield's global real estate, infrastructure and power capabilities with AREP's rapidly expanding data center development platform.

Wordly: Interview With Founder And CEO Lakshman Rathnam About AI Translation And Multilingual Communication

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Wordly is an AI-powered translation and captioning platform designed to make multilingual communication more inclusive and accessible across meetings, events, classrooms, government settings, and other environments. Founder and CEO Lakshman Rathnam has a background in human-machine interfaces, acoustics, and audio technologies and holds more than 25 patents in these areas. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Wordly Founder and CEO Lakshman Rathnam to learn more about AI translation, accessibility, and the company's growth.

Loenbro Acquires Prism Electric, Adding 2,500 Employees And Expanding Electrical Services Across Southern U.S.

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Loenbro has acquired Prism Electric in the largest acquisition in the company's history, significantly expanding its electrical capabilities, workforce and geographic presence across the Southern United States.

Google Explores New Data Center In Lea County, New Mexico

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Google is exploring development of a new data center in Lea County, New Mexico, potentially adding another U.S. location to the technology company's expanding infrastructure network supporting cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

KanEquip Opens First JCB-Only Dealership In Kansas City To Expand Equipment Sales And Service

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

KanEquip has opened its first dealership dedicated exclusively to JCB equipment in the Kansas City market, expanding the Midwest equipment dealer's construction machinery sales, parts and service operations.

NextEra Energy And Dominion Energy Expand Virginia Merger Benefits With Four Years Of Bill Credits And 1,000 New Jobs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

The Elmet Group Secures $450 Million Department Of War Investment And Up To $2 Billion DLA Contract To Expand U.S. Tungsten Supply Chain

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

The Elmet Group has secured a $450 million committed investment from the U.S. Department of War to expand domestic tungsten manufacturing and strengthen access to critical raw materials, while separately receiving a Defense Logistics Agency contract with a ceiling value of up to $2 billion to help rebuild the U.S. National Defense Stockpile.

Lumen Launches Intelligent Internet With On-Demand Bandwidth Up To 100 Gbps For AI And Cloud Workloads

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Lumen Technologies has launched Lumen Intelligent Internet, a new enterprise connectivity service designed to provide cloud-like flexibility by allowing businesses to provision internet service in minutes and dynamically scale bandwidth as AI, cloud and other workloads change.

Mayer Brown Adds Former Federal Reserve Senior Special Counsel Andrew Hartlage As Washington Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Mayer Brown has added Andrew Hartlage as a partner in its Public Policy, Regulatory & Government Affairs practice in Washington, D.C., strengthening the global law firm's capabilities in banking regulation, financial services policy and government affairs.

Searchable Acquires Meridian In Seven-Figure Deal To Expand AI Search Visibility Platform In U.S.

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Searchable has acquired New York-based Meridian Tech in a seven-figure transaction, expanding the AI visibility company's U.S. presence and adding customers to its growing answer engine optimization platform.

EQUS: Interview With CEO Sandy Carter About AI Data Ownership And Digital Identity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

EQUS is building technology designed to give individuals greater ownership and control over the data, identity, and reputation that power their AI experiences. The company is developing consumer and enterprise capabilities around personal AI, portable data, verifiable credentials, and trusted agentic action, with the premise that the layer between a person and an AI model should belong to the individual rather than the platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed EQUS CEO Sandy Carter to learn more.

Novo Nordisk Targets More Than $23 Billion In Pipeline Sales By 2035 With Five New Multiblockbuster Drugs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Novo Nordisk is targeting more than DKK 150 billion, or approximately $23 billion, in annual sales from pipeline medicines by 2035 as the pharmaceutical company lays out an aggressive plan to launch multiple new blockbuster drugs and diversify beyond its dominant obesity and diabetes franchises, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Starbucks To Open Chennai Technology Hub In FY27 To Bring More Technology Work In-House

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Starbucks plans to open a new technology hub in Chennai, India, during fiscal 2027 as the coffee company expands its global technology organization and brings more work currently handled by third-party service providers in-house.