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Demant reported the global hearing aid market grew 4% in value on 3% in units in H1 2026, about a point of ASP, and priced its new flagship above the last one.

Employers Holdings reported a 94% AI staff adoption rate on its 2026-07-30 call, and its CEO said the new excess workers' comp product was built with AI.

PGG Wrightson says New Zealand wool prices hit a decades high and nearly doubled in FY2026, with export volumes up and agency operating EBITDA 23% higher.

On its 2026-08-03 call, EverQuote said seven of its top 10 carriers use AI bidding product Smart Campaigns and revenue flowing through it rose over 100% year over year.

About 60% of Kornit's Q2 and first-half 2026 system sales went to traditional screen printers as retailers held inventory down high-single to low-double digits.

PicPay says a company-wide AI platform helped push its adjusted efficiency ratio to 44.8% and cancel a planned 10% hiring increase, though costs still grew 11.8% sequentially.

Data I/O (DAIO) and SEALSQ (LAES) say the EU Cyber Resilience Act's 11 September 2026 and 11 December 2027 deadlines turn per-device key injection into a condition of selling into the EU.

Liepin says AI product cash billings grew nearly 100% in 1H 2026 off an RMB 100 million base, lifting revenue with paid customers flat, but discloses no AI revenue.

Japan's conditional approval pathway set a ¥53.2 million reimbursed price for ReHeart, making MHLW the first regulator to price cardiac cell therapy.

Kura and Syndax each report about 40% of menin inhibitor use in physician-led combinations, moving the revenue variable to treatment duration rather than the label.

The draft KDIGO acute kidney injury guideline raises regional citrate to 1B and names nafamostat as a fallback, a protocol most US ICUs do not run today.

SPMC's FY2027 Q1 net investment income stayed below its common distributions partly because it raised model loss reserves on AI-affected software loans.

Denmark exempted the 0-30% LTV band from its 7% CRE systemic risk buffer, cutting sector buffer capital from DKK 11.6bn to about DKK 9bn in Q2 2026.

After UBS completed its Credit Suisse client migration, BCV's mortgage book grew just 2% in H1 2026 against a 4% target while pension cash moved in.

Erdene and Largo say buyers are approaching molybdenum and tungsten assets with no current study - one pre-PEA, one idle since 2012 - after China tightened export licensing.

Ceribell says FDA-cleared hardware lets one system do both rapid bedside EEG screening and the formal study, merging two hospital purchases into one from 2027.

Barco chose Valens' HDBaseT chipset for a wired ClickShare extension kit, putting a cabled 4K-plus-USB link back into large meeting rooms.

RTL Group's H1 2026 streaming revenue rose 27% to EUR 299m while streaming profit improved EUR 65m, lifting FY streaming EBITA guidance to about EUR 100m.

On its Q2 2026 call, GHI said new OBBBA rules give affordable-housing deals in its pipeline larger taxable-debt tranches while tax credit pricing stays weak.