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Victory Square Technologies Declares a Special Common Share Dividend of Its Interest in Yocale.ai Inc.

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VANCOUVER, BC, April 20, 2026 /CNW/ – Victory Square Technologies Inc. (“VST”) (CSE: VST) (OTC: VSQTF) (FWB: 6F6) is pleased to announce that it has declared a special dividend (the “Dividend”) of 1,100,000 Class A common shares (the “Yocale Shares”) in the capital of Yocale.ai Inc. (“Yocale”) held by VST to shareholders of VST (“VST Shareholders”). Yocale filed a long form non-offering prospectus dated April 13, 2026 with the British Columbia Securities Commission in connection with its proposed listing of the Yocale Shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange (the “CSE”).

The Dividend will be distributed to VST Shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 24, 2026 at a rate of approximately 10.549 Yocale Shares for each 1,000 VST shares held. The Dividend ratio is based on approximately 104,277,471 VST shares issued and outstanding on the date hereof.

The Dividend is expected to be issued to VST Shareholders on April 30, 2026. The listing of the Yocale Shares on the CSE and the Dividend remain subject to the satisfaction of all conditions precedent thereto including the approval of the CSE, if applicable.

ABOUT VICTORY SQUARE TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Victory Square Technologies Inc. is a publicly traded venture builder focused on building, scaling, and monetizing companies operating in large, structurally growing markets, with a core emphasis on healthcare infrastructure, applied artificial intelligence, and next-generation digital platforms.

Unlike traditional venture capital funds, Victory Square provides public market investors with liquid exposure to early-stage innovation–without requiring accredited investor status or long-term capital lock-ups.

The Company maintains a diversified portfolio of operating and development-stage businesses across sectors including:

Digital Health & Healthcare InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine LearningBlockchain / Web3Virtual & Augmented Reality (VR/AR)Gaming & Interactive MediaClimate TechnologyPet Health & Wellness

Victory Square operates as an active venture builder, working alongside founders over multi-year periods to build scalable, defensible businesses. The Company provides capital, strategic oversight, regulatory guidance, and operational support through critical stages of growth.

The Company’s strategy is grounded in identifying infrastructure-layer opportunities in fragmented industries–areas where execution, compliance, and scale create meaningful barriers to entry. Victory Square focuses on building companies to key inflection points and realizing value through monetization events, including strategic transactions, spin-outs, and public listings, while recycling capital into new opportunities.

Victory Square is built on a simple premise: back strong founders, build real businesses, and create multiple paths to liquidity. The Company takes a long-term, disciplined approach to value creation, with a focus on outcomes rather than narratives.

Victory Square is founder-led and aligned with shareholders, with approximately 15% insider ownership.

Victory Square is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, and is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (VST), the Frankfurt Exchange (6F6), and the OTC Pink Market (VSQTF).

For more information, please visit www.victorysquare.com.

Over time, we believe disciplined execution, aligned incentives, and a repeatable model will continue to compound value for our shareholders.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,

Shafin Diamond Tejani
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Victory Square Technologies Inc.
www.victorysquare.com

This press release does not constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States. The securities being offered have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and such securities may not be offered or sold within the United States absent U.S. registration or an applicable exemption from U.S. registration requirements.

About Yocale.ai

Yocale.ai Inc. is an AI-powered operating system for the global beauty and wellness industry, designed to power the next generation of service-based businesses. Combining SaaS, embedded fintech, and intelligent automation, Yocale.ai enables businesses–from independent salons and med-spas to multi-location wellness brands–to manage and scale their core revenue engine on a single unified platform.

At its core, Yocale.ai replaces fragmented tools with a single, configurable system that drives bookings, payments, client engagement, and day-to-day operations–while leveraging AI to automate repetitive administrative workflows, optimize rebooking, and increase customer lifetime value. The platform is purpose-built to help businesses grow faster, operate more efficiently, surface insights, and deliver a seamless client experience in an increasingly digital-first world.

Built on over a decade of development and real-world usage, Yocale’s technology has historically supported thousands of businesses across 22+ countries–providing a strong foundation for Yocale.ai’s next phase of growth as an AI-powered platform.

As the beauty and wellness sector continues to professionalize and consolidate globally, Yocale.ai is positioned as critical infrastructure–helping operators scale, monetize, and modernize their businesses in a multi-billion-dollar market.

Yocale.ai is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. To learn more, visit www.yocale.ai

Forward-Looking Information

This news release contains “forward-looking information” and “forward-looking statements” (collectively, “forward-looking information”) within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information is generally identifiable by use of the words “believes,” “may,” “plans,” “will,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “could”, “estimates”, “expects”, “forecasts”, “projects” and similar expressions, and the negative of such expressions. Forward-looking information in this news release include statements about VST’s payment of the Dividend, the timing of the payment of the Dividend, and about the listing and trading of Yocale’s shares on the CSE.

Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause VST’s actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is based on the reasonable assumptions, estimates, analysis and opinions of management made in light of its experience and perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, including those with respect to the ability of VST to complete the payment of the Dividend and of Yocale to complete its listing on the CSE, and other factors that management believes are relevant and reasonable in the circumstances at the date such statements are made. Although VST has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. All forward-looking information herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and VST disclaims any obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments, except as required by law.

Neither the CSE nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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Research Solutions Launches Article Galaxy Plugin In The ChatGPT Plugin Directory, Bringing Rights-Cleared Article Access To AI Research Workflows

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Researchers Can Now Check Article Availability, Confirm Access & Reuse Rights, & Order Scientific Literature Through Their Article Galaxy Account Within The ChatGPT Conversation

HENDERSON, Nev., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Research Solutions (NASDAQ: RSSS), a leading provider of AI-powered scientific research tools, announces the availability of Article Galaxy as a ChatGPT plugin. The release brings the company’s scientific article access and document delivery capabilities directly into ChatGPT conversations, where a growing share of research work now begins.

With the Article Galaxy plugin, researchers can mention @Article Galaxy in any ChatGPT prompt to check whether an article is available through their organization’s entitlements, verify access and reuse rights, place document orders, and track order status with download links. Ordered PDFs are delivered through the researcher’s Article Galaxy account, preserving the compliant, rights-respecting workflow organizations already trust.

“AI platforms have become remarkably good at surfacing the literature, but they cannot resolve who has the right to use it. That capability lives in the entitlements, publisher agreements, and acquisition workflows our customers manage through Article Galaxy,” states Chris Atwood, Vice President of Product Development & Implementations at Research Solutions. “This plugin puts that infrastructure at the point where research now begins, so compliant access is a native part of AI-assisted work instead of a step outside it.”

As AI becomes part of more research workflows, it creates more opportunities for researchers to engage with the scientific literature. AI-assisted research can generate additional searches, article requests, and document acquisitions, increasing activity across the scholarly content ecosystem. For Research Solutions and its publishing partners, growing AI adoption has the potential to increase the volume of literature transactions flowing through the existing infrastructure.

Part Of A Wider AI Ecosystem Strategy

The ChatGPT plugin directory listing extends Research Solutions’ work in making its products available wherever research happens. Article Galaxy also connects to Claude and other MCP-compatible AI assistants through the company’s Model Context Protocol server. Scite, which grounds AI answers in over 300M scientific articles, is available through the ChatGPT plugin directory and as a Claude Connector.

That reach also provides continuity. The subscriptions, licenses, and rights workflows organizations have spent years assembling now apply across the assistants their researchers use, with a single governed process instead of a new compliance surface for each AI platform.

Availability

The Article Galaxy plugin is available now in the ChatGPT plugin directory. An Article Galaxy account with MCP access is required. Setup instructions are available here.

About Article Galaxy

Article Galaxy is a scientific literature access platform that gives R&D teams and academic institutions on-demand access to 80M+ full-text, peer-reviewed journal articles. Article Galaxy routes every request through the most cost-effective compliant path, whether an existing subscription, open access, or one-time purchase, with article-level re-use rights built into each transaction. Researchers can order full text directly from PubMed, Google Scholar, and 70+ other discovery environments. For more information, visit https://www.articlegalaxy.com/. Article Galaxy is a product of Research Solutions (NASDAQ: RSSS).

About Research Solutions

Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS) is a holding Company providing software and AI solutions for enterprise R&D teams and academic institutions. Through proprietary data, integrated workflows, and access infrastructure, the Company gives modern researchers and their AI systems the infrastructure to find, trust, and act on scientific research faster.

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Data Center Capex Grew 92 Percent in 2Q 2026, Driven by Surging AI Demand and Memory Costs, According to Dell’Oro Group

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US and China Hyperscalers Double Spending as Server Costs Rise

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — According to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, the worldwide data center capital expenditures accelerated sharply in 2Q 2026. Continued AI infrastructure investment supported growth across compute, storage, networking, and physical infrastructure, while rising memory and storage prices significantly increased server average selling prices.

“Data center capex growth broadened in the second quarter as investment accelerated across both established Cloud service providers and emerging AI infrastructure customers,” said Baron Fung, Vice President of Research at Dell’Oro Group. “Spending remained concentrated in NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra and hyperscaler custom accelerators, while agentic AI created incremental demand for general-purpose compute, storage, and complementary networking. Neocloud providers and AI model builders are also becoming increasingly important contributors to infrastructure investment. These companies are rapidly expanding their own capacity while deepening partnerships with cloud service providers.

“Looking ahead, ongoing accelerator deployments and emerging agentic AI and AI-related storage workloads should sustain strong capex growth through the remainder of 2026 and beyond, although supply constraints could limit the pace at which planned infrastructure is deployed,” explained Fung.

Additional highlights from the 2Q 2026 Data Center IT Capex Quarterly Report:

Neocloud and AI Model Builder capex grew the fastest among the customer segments, reflecting the early stages of their infrastructure buildouts.Higher memory and storage prices provided an additional lift to capex by driving server average selling prices higher.Dell led server OEM revenue, followed by Supermicro and Lenovo, while white-box server revenue reached a record high.

About the Report
Dell’Oro Group’s Data Center IT Capex Quarterly Report details the data center infrastructure capital expenditures of the largest hyperscale cloud service providers, AI Model Builders, Neocloud, Rest of Cloud, Telco, and Enterprise customer segments. It provides the allocation of data center infrastructure capex for general-purpose and accelerated servers, storage systems, and other auxiliary data center equipment. The report also discusses market trends, drivers of the leading cloud service providers’ capex growth during the quarter, and the outlook for the next year. To purchase this report, please contact us at dgsales@delloro.com.

About Dell’Oro Group
Dell’Oro Group is a market research firm that specializes in strategic competitive analysis in the telecommunications, security, enterprise networks infrastructure, and data center markets. Our firm provides in-depth quantitative data and qualitative analysis to facilitate critical, fact-based business decisions. For more information, contact Dell’Oro Group at +1.650.622.9400 or visit www.delloro.com.

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A Better Road Forward Campaign Launches to Champion Safer Streets and Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Across New York

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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today, A Better Road Forward, a new 501(C)(4) advocacy coalition, launched its campaign to champion fully autonomous passenger vehicle technology in the State of New York.

A Better Road Forward is a statewide coalition of New Yorkers who believe fully autonomous passenger vehicles, when scaled responsibly, will make our streets safer, our transportation networks more sustainable, our neighborhoods easier to get around, and our communities more connected.

Though fully autonomous passenger vehicles are currently unable to operate on New York streets, the state Department of Motor Vehicles has overseen an AV testing program since 2017. Most recently, AV testing permits have been awarded to operators who successfully tested in communities like Buffalo and New York City.

Said Basil Seggos, Chair of the ABRF Advisory Board & Former Commissioner of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, “This campaign is about bringing New Yorkers into the conversation about the future of autonomous passenger vehicles on our streets. As this technology continues to grow and communities across the country explore its benefits, and its potential, New York has a chance to seize the moment on innovation and sustainability. A Better Road Forward is here to be an educational platform for community engagement, helping New Yorkers understand the opportunities this technology presents.”

The full ABRF Advisory Board includes representatives from across NYS:

Basil Seggos of Albany, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP and former Commissioner of NYS Department of Environmental ConservationChristine Quinn of NYC, President and CEO of Win (formerly Women in Need)Rev. Mark E. Blue of Buffalo, President of the Buffalo Branch of the NAACPKenny Burgos of NYC, CEO of the NY Apartment Association & former Assembly Member who championed AV-authorization in the State LegislatureMark Schroeder of Buffalo, former Commissioner of the NYS Department of Motor VehiclesJulie Samuels of NYC, Executive Director of Tech:NYC

ABRF will leverage its members’ statewide presence to host community events to educate New Yorkers about autonomous vehicle technology. The coalition’s website will also serve as a testimonial hub where New Yorkers can share their experiences with AVs in other cities, and how it could benefit their communities. Additionally, the coalition will use public polling and paid media to support its efforts.

Said Rev. Mark E. Blue, President of the Buffalo Branch of the NAACP, “The promise of autonomous vehicles to make our streets safer and lift up our neighborhoods deserves serious attention in New York. Too often, it is communities of color across the state – including places like Buffalo and Western New York – that bear the burden of transportation deserts and unequal access to safe, reliable public transportation.” Continued Rev. Blue, who also sits on the Board of Erie County Medical Center, “As New Yorkers, we should meaningfully explore the potential of autonomous vehicles as part of the solution to expanding transportation access, especially for those who rely on paratransit services.”

Said Christine Quinn, President and CEO of Win (formerly Women in Need), “For too many New Yorkers, safe and reliable ways to get around still depend on where you live. The women and families I work with know that better than anyone — a late shift, a subway that doesn’t come, a stretch of street you don’t want to walk alone at night. The potential for AVs to better connect our neighborhoods, improve mobility for New Yorkers who can’t drive themselves, and make our streets measurably safer is too great to ignore.”

Said Kenny Burgos, CEO of the NY Apartment Association & former Assembly Member who championed AV-authorization in the State Legislature, “I first introduced AV legislation in the Assembly three years ago because I believe this technology can not only help make our streets dramatically safer, but give New Yorkers better access to transit in the neighborhoods that need it most. We started a conversation back then, but there’s still so much New Yorkers don’t know about AVs, and that’s exactly the gap A Better Road Forward is going to close.”

Said Mark Schroeder, former Commissioner of the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles, “Over nearly a decade at the helm of the NYS DMV, I saw firsthand just how steep the toll of our street safety crisis can be. I’ve also seen how new technologies, from autonomous vehicles to speed cameras can make our streets safer across the board. There’s never been a more critical time to double down on advancing every tool we have to make New York’s roads as safe as they can be.”

“Autonomous vehicles have moved well beyond the theoretical. They have the potential to make streets safer, close gaps in our transportation system and give more New Yorkers greater independence,” said Julie Samuels, President and CEO, Tech:NYC. “Other states and cities across the country have worked to proactively regulate this technology and take advantage of its benefits. New York can’t afford to fall behind. We should be leading the nation in championing technology that not only makes streets safer, but fills in the gaps our current transit system has left behind.”

A Better Road Forward is a registered 501(C)(4) Advocacy organization committed to supporting efforts in Albany to authorize the responsible introduction of autonomous passenger vehicles in the State of New York.

CONTACT: info@abetterroadforward.com

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