TUSTIN, Calif., Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Advantech (TWSE: 2395), a global leader in Edge Computing and Industrial Edge AI solutions, celebrated the grand opening of its new North American headquarters in Tustin, California this week with a two-day event that brought together local leadership, leading technology partners, and key customer accounts.

The celebration began on October 20 with an official grand opening ceremony at the new headquarters, welcoming more than 400 guests. The program featured Tustin Mayor Austin Lumbard and South Orange County Community College District (SOCCCD) Chancellor Julianna M. Asperin Barnes, Ed.D., followed by a ribbon cutting and a traditional lion dance. On October 21, Advantech hosted the Advantech Technology Summit (ATS) in Newport Beach, where more than 300 attendees, including key customer accounts and technology partners, explored the latest computing technologies and customized solutions.

“Our new headquarters in Tustin represents our commitment to continuously invest in our organization, connect with communities, and expand our capacity and capability to support our customers. We’re grateful to the City of Tustin, the South Orange County Community College District (SOCCCD), and our partners for helping us open this new chapter in North America,” said Ween Niu, General Manager of Advantech North America.

AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and other key technology partners joined Advantech at the new headquarters and technology showroom, showcasing the technologies and solutions they are bringing together to address evolving customer needs across industries. The newly built showroom provides a dedicated space to demonstrate Advantech’s edge computing platforms alongside partners’ technologies and real-world, application-focused solutions.

Turning Technology Partnerships into Innovative Solutions

Advantech works closely with AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and other industry leaders, combining their technologies with Advantech platforms, engineering expertise, and industry knowledge to develop innovative solutions for specific application requirements. These collaborations span healthcare and medical equipment, robotics, industrial automation, smart infrastructure, energy management, and many emerging Edge AI applications.

Ahead of the summit, Kirk Saban, Corporate Vice President, AECG Product, Software and Solutions at AMD, shared:

“As a longtime partner with Advantech, AMD is very excited to participate in the upcoming Advantech Technology Summit. It’s a great opportunity for us to talk about both AMD’s latest solutions in the industrial and embedded space, as well as to learn from key thought leaders in the industry about key trends and the latest technologies. We’re also looking forward to interacting with major players in Medical, Robotics and other vertical markets.”

Bringing Innovative Solutions to Customers at the ATS

Following the grand opening celebration, the Advantech Technology Summit brought key customer accounts and technology partners together in Newport Beach through presentations, demonstrations, and direct engagement. Attendees saw firsthand how technologies from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and others are integrated into Advantech platforms and tailored to real-world applications.

With its new headquarters, dedicated showroom, and continued investment in partner collaboration, Advantech is strengthening the link between technology providers and customers, helping turn advances in Edge AI and intelligent computing into solutions that move industries forward.

About Advantech

Founded in 1983, Advantech has the corporate vision to “Enable an Intelligent Planet.” The company is a global leader in the fields of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms. To embrace the trends of IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence, Advantech promotes IoT hardware and software solutions with Edge Intelligence to assist business partners and clients in connecting industrial chains. Advantech is also dedicated to working with domain-focused partners to co-create solutions that deliver advanced solutions in Industrial IoT. Learn more about Advantech at https://www.advantech.com/.

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The platform’s evolution comes alongside an A$20 million Series A funding round led by Airtree Ventures, marking Cuttable’s next phase of growth as it moves beyond AI ad generation.

NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cuttable, an AI-powered creative production platform for performance marketing teams, today unveiled the next evolution of its platform, designed to help brands move beyond generating ads to understand what works and make smarter decisions about what to create next. Just one year after entering the U.S. market, the Australian-founded company now generates 40% of its revenue from the region.

While AI has made producing ads faster and easier, knowing which creative to make next remains a challenge. Most tools focus on either generating ads or analyzing their performance, leaving marketers to connect the dots between what they intend to test, what actually worked and what to create next.

Cuttable brings those pieces together. Its evolved platform connects a brand’s creative assets, customer data and performance history with the marketer’s original intent, building on what the brand has already tried rather than starting from scratch with each new creative brief.

Cuttable’s software was built to remove creative as a bottleneck for performance marketing teams producing, testing and rebuilding ads at scale. The platform reads a brand’s website, social channels and guidelines to build an editable brand strategy and brand kit. From there, marketers can write a brief in plain language and receive finished, editable ads, built using existing brand and product assets or Cuttable’s AI content studio, Shoots, which creates and extends photo and video content.

Finished ads publish directly to Meta Ads Manager, and Cuttable’s Ad Insights reads the performance back from Meta, including thumbstop, click-through rate and return on ad spend, so that the next brief builds on what worked. It’s this continuous feedback loop, rather than creative generation alone, that differentiates Cuttable from tools that separately generate ads or report on performance. 

Cuttable’s Co-founder & CEO, Sam Kroonenburg, who previously founded and sold A Cloud Guru in 2021, said, “Creative is still made the way it was thirty years ago, one ad at a time. Making an ad has never been the hard part, it is knowing which one to make next. We are building the creative production system ecommerce performance marketers have been waiting for.”

Across 280,000 ads and more than $320 million in Meta spend run through its platform, Cuttable found that one ad in eleven returns ten times its spend or better, and that a small number of ads end up carrying an entire account. The company’s data also shows brands increase creative output 3.4 times going into November, underscoring the growing pressure to produce and test ads at scale.

In just two years since launching, Cuttable now works with more than 420 brands across the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe, including lululemon, Rodan & Fields and Brick. Brands on the platform average a 4.4 times return on ad spend and see a 37 percent lift in account-level return on ad spend after moving to Cuttable. To support its growing U.S. business, Cuttable is actively hiring and building out its San Francisco team.

Airtree, which first invested in Cuttable earlier this year, returned to lead the round. One of Australia’s largest technology investors, its portfolio includes Canva, Airwallex, Linktree and SafetyCulture.

Airtree Ventures partner James Cameron, whose firm also backed A Cloud Guru, said: “Since we backed Cuttable’s seed round, their growth has been much faster than our (already very high) expectations. The world of ad creative is being turned on its head by AI, and we’re excited to lead this round as Cuttable becomes the leading system that performance marketers reach for to make content work harder.”

With the U.S. already emerging as a major growth market, Cuttable plans to use its latest funding to accelerate its expansion and advance the next evolution of its platform. Cuttable’s focus from here is on closing the creative loop, helping marketers decide what to make next rather than only how to make it.

ABOUT CUTTABLE

Cuttable is a creative production platform for performance marketing teams, used by more than 420 brands across the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. The company is headquartered in New York with offices in Melbourne and San Francisco.

To learn more, visit cuttable.com.

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OTTAWA, ON, Oct. 23, 2026 /CNW/ — Climate action is a key part of how we build Canada strong. The Government of Canada is committed to fighting climate change while building the energy security, industrial capacity, and strategic autonomy that will define this century for Canada.

At this pivotal moment, Canada is building a stronger, cleaner economy by investing in clean electricity, reducing emissions, and supporting Canadian innovation. To achieve this, cooperation between federal, provincial, and territorial governments is more important than ever. As governments work together to build one strong Canadian economy and remove internal trade barriers, they are also considering how to improve the functioning of carbon markets across Canada to support investment in clean industrial growth.

In July 2026, First Ministers agreed to launch a new federal–provincial–territorial working group to explore different models of linking carbon markets across Canada. That working group–with representatives from each province and territory plus the Government of Canada–held its first meeting this week and discussed a draft workplan.

Well-functioning carbon markets can unlock significant new investments to support our shared energy and economic ambitions while reducing the emissions that are causing climate change.

Decarbonization is a nation-building project–one that brings Canadians, communities, and governments together around a shared opportunity to build a stronger, more competitive, and prosperous Canada. Climate and economic development are shared responsibilities in our federation, and we are focused on building and sustaining an approach that brings federal, provincial, and territorial governments together to advance these shared objectives.

Quotes

“This working group is an opportunity to consider how we can work together to better streamline and integrate the many distinct carbon markets operating in different provinces and territories across our country. Our goal is to improve the functioning of these carbon markets to provide long-term certainty for industry and investors while enabling our companies to remain competitive in the global marketplace.”
– The Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature

Quick facts

Since 2019, a price on carbon pollution has applied across Canada through a mix of federal, provincial, and territorial pricing systems. This approach gives provinces and territories the flexibility to implement their own pricing systems.The federal–provincial–territorial working group is composed of representatives nominated by their respective governments.The working group will facilitate technical collaboration between federal, provincial, and territorial governments. It is expected to report back to the First Ministers by July 2027 with detailed recommendations.The working group is separate from broader engagement on carbon pricing related to the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and the review of the federal benchmark.In September, the Government of Canada announced it is exploring a policy framework to trade internationally transferred mitigation outcomes.

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