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Think Transcend and the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Announce Launch of the Transcendent Leader Institute for California Education Leaders

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An Immersive Leadership Experience Begins June 2026

SANTA ANA, Calif., June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Think Transcend, a division of Think Education, and leader in educational professional development, and the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) are proud to launch the Transcendent Leader Institute, an innovative, 10-month leadership experience for current and aspiring California superintendents and system leaders. The inaugural cohort begins in June 2026.

The Transcendent Leader Institute represents a bold investment in the future of educational leadership in California –one that centers not only on technical expertise, but deep personal, relational, and soul-centered capacities required to lead complex systems in service of student success. Rooted in the belief that every single student deserves access to thriving schools, strong relationships and transformative opportunities, the Institute is designed to cultivate leaders who can create lasting impact for students, staff, families, and communities.

“At a time when the demands on educational leaders have never been greater, this partnership reflects a shared commitment to developing leaders who can create conditions for students, staff, and communities to thrive – even amid complexity,” said Dr. Paul Gothold, President and Founder of Think Transcend. “Together with ACSA, we are creating a space where leaders can grow not just in skill, but also in their sense of purpose, presence, and capacity to inspire meaningful change across their organizations.”

The 10-month Institute is grounded in a comprehensive leadership framework built around 12 core competencies for effective superintendency. Participants engage in immersive in-person sessions, ongoing virtual learning, coaching, and collaborative experiences. The design emphasizes real-world application, personal discovery, and the cultivation of a strong, enduring leadership community committed to advancing excellence, equity and student-centered leadership.

Participants in the Institute will explore topics such as systems leadership, data-driven leadership, socially conscious leadership, and empowering and cultivating people. The experience culminates in a capstone project where leaders apply their learning to real-time leadership within a district or organization, with focus on creating stronger outcomes and opportunities for students.

“This collaboration reflects our belief that leadership development must evolve to meet the realities of today’s educational landscape,” said Dr. Edgar Zazueta, Executive Director of ACSA. “This Institute creates space for deep reflection and growth, equipping leaders to strengthen systems, empower people, and drive meaningful and lasting change that positively impacts students and communities.”

Participants will also become part of the Transcendent Leader Fellowship, a lifelong network of leaders committed to ongoing growth, connection, and collective impact in support of California’s students and communities.

Applications and interest for the inaugural June 2026 cohort are open now. Space will be limited to ensure a highly personalized and impactful experience.

To increase access to school leaders from all backgrounds, Think Transcend is seeking philanthropic sponsors for candidates to participate in the inaugural institute.

For more information or to express interest, please visit ThinkTranscend.org or contact the team directly at collaborate@thinktranscend.org.

About Think Transcend
Launched in 2025, Think Transcend offers a soul-centered leadership approach that inspires hope and promise for public education. Designed by three former superintendents who created lasting student impact in their respective districts, Think Transcend strives to elevate and celebrate the possibilities of education systems.

A division of Think Education, Think Transcend’s mission is energizing a movement of transcendent leaders with heart, skill and will anchored in the success of every single student. Think Education is grounded on a simple but powerful belief: when schools and communities work together, students thrive.

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Zoomlion’s Humanoid Robot Z01 Shines at KOMATEK 2026, Showcasing Advances in Embodied AI and Industrial Robotics

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ISTANBUL, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Zoomlion”) attracted widespread attention at KOMATEK 2026 in Istanbul with the appearance of its humanoid robot Z01. Alongside more than 40 high-end construction machinery exhibits that secured orders exceeding RMB 1 billion, Z01 emerged as one of the event’s most talked-about attractions.

Designed for industrial collaboration, intelligent guidance, and educational applications, the bipedal humanoid robot demonstrated coordinated movement and precise operational capabilities throughout the exhibition. During a live demonstration, Z01 performed a Tai Chi routine, showcasing advanced motion control, dynamic balance, and human-robot interaction capabilities, drawing large crowds of visitors.

The debut of Z01 highlights Zoomlion’s growing commitment to embodied AI, with embodied AI robots and related emerging industries forming the company’s third growth curve.

Zoomlion possesses significant advantages in embodied intelligence development. As one of the earliest companies in China’s construction machinery industry to invest in industrial IoT technologies, the company has built a strong digital foundation through Zvalley, its AI-powered industrial internet subsidiary, which is supported by nearly 1,300 technical and R&D professionals.

Since 2024, Zoomlion has accelerated the development of embodied AI technologies through its integrated hardware-software innovation capabilities. The company has established a comprehensive technology framework covering robot hardware, core components, decision-making and motion-control systems, and software ecosystems. At the same time, the integration of AI and robotics technologies is helping drive the intelligent transformation of Zoomlion’s construction machinery, agricultural machinery, and mining equipment businesses.

By the end of 2025, Zoomlion had developed eight embodied AI robot prototypes across four major categories, creating a diversified product portfolio that includes humanoid and wheeled robots. Leveraging the company’s extensive industrial environments, these robots have been validated in real-world applications at Zoomlion Smart City, including logistics handling, factory inspection, loading and unloading, pre-assembly, and quality inspection. These deployments have provided valuable operational data and experience for future large-scale commercialization.

Earlier this year at Hannover Messe 2026, Zoomlion showcased Robot Ops, its embodied AI development platform, and demonstrated collaborative operations involving humanoid and logistics robots. The event highlighted the company’s progress in moving embodied AI from laboratory research to practical, industrial-grade applications, emphasizing real-world adaptability, autonomous decision-making, and multi-robot collaboration.

Today, embodied AI robots are already being utilized across multiple manufacturing processes within Zoomlion Smart City. Zoomlion is committed to developing embodied intelligence with an industrial mindset, focusing on real-world scenarios and building capabilities from the ground up. By establishing a robust industrial data system for embodied AI and advancing engineering-oriented robot design and manufacturing, the company is steadily laying the foundation for the large-scale deployment of embodied intelligence technologies across industries.

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DapuStor Strengthens AI Infrastructure Ecosystem Collaboration at Computex 2026

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TAIPEI, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DapuStor, a leading provider of enterprise NVMe SSD solutions, concluded its participation at Computex 2026, highlighting its high-capacity, AI-optimized storage through joint demonstrations with ecosystem partners Advantech, Inventec and WD.

Enterprise SSD Portfolio for AI Infrastructure

As AI workloads evolve, infrastructure requires storage balancing capacity, performance, latency and reliability. DapuStor showcased enterprise SSDs designed for AI-related workloads:

R6060 for scaling agentic AI: The R6060 Gen5 QLC SSD delivers up to 245 TB capacity, 14 GB/s sequential read bandwidth, and 2,100K random read IOPS, supporting agentic AI and large-scale inference. With QLC capacity and near-TLC read performance, it helps enterprises scale AI storage while maintaining fast data access.X5900 for low-latency AI inference: With random read/write latency as low as 20/5 μs, the X5900 reduces storage-side latency to improve Time to First Token (TTFT), a key measure of user-perceived responsiveness in latency-sensitive inference.R6101C with transparent compression: The R6101C supports transparent compression with up to 3.5x effective capacity expansion, helping improve usable storage capacity for compressible workloads without application-side changes.E1.S SSDs for liquid-cooled infrastructure: DapuStor’s E1.S SSDs are ready for liquid-cooled server environments, supporting high-density AI infrastructure where thermal design and space efficiency are increasingly important.

Joint Demonstrations with Inventec, Advantech and WD

DapuStor demonstrated its SSDs with ecosystem partners, showing compatibility, platform readiness and AI workload support:

Inventec & DapuStor: DapuStor’s H5100 U.2 SSD was featured in Inventec’s enterprise server platform, demonstrating a balanced approach to performance and power efficiency.Advantech & DapuStor: DapuStor’s H5100 E1.S SSD was demonstrated in Advantech’s “A+A” architecture, supporting compact server designs and edge computing, where space efficiency and reliability are critical.WD & DapuStor: At WD’s booth, DapuStor showcased its Gen5 R6 QLC and H5 TLC SSDs, supporting rack-space reduction, read-intensive AI data lakes, and power-efficient workloads.

Through partner collaboration, DapuStor continues to strengthen its role in next-generation AI infrastructure, enabling more efficient data movement from edge to data center.

About DapuStor

DapuStor Corporation (DapuStor), founded in April 2016, is a leading expert in high-end enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs), SOC, and edge computing-related products. With world-class R&D strength and over 400 team members, it has comprehensive capabilities from chip design and product development to mass production across Malaysia and other global facilities. DapuStor products have been widely applied in servers, telecom networks, and data centers.

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Binance Stock Trading Sees Strong First-Week Demand, With One in Four Users Under 25

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Just one week after launch, emerging-market users drove over 80% of direct stock trading volume on Binance, while nearly 40% of trades were placed under US$100 — underscoring demand for lower-barrier access to equities among eligible users

ABU DHABI, UAE, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The world’s leading blockchain infrastructure provider Binance today released first-week data from its newly launched stock trading offering. The data shows substantial early momentum and signs that lower investment thresholds are helping bring a broader population into equity markets for the first time.

“The first week of stock trading on Binance reinforces what we set out to do: make it easier for eligible users in supported markets to access the financial markets that matter to them,” said Shunyet Jan, Head of Spot and Derivatives Business at Binance. “The data shows that when the barriers come down, people show up — from emerging markets, from younger demographics, and in trade sizes that traditional platforms were never designed to serve. This is part of Binance‘s broader vision to become the financial super app for the world, where users can manage crypto, equities, payments, and more from a single trusted platform.”

Binance‘s stock trading offering reflects the company’s broader focus on expanding access to financial opportunities through lower barriers, flexible investment sizes, and digital-native infrastructure. By making it easier for eligible users to access equities with smaller amounts of capital, Binance is working to open the door to broader participation in traditional financial markets.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS FROM FIRST WEEK DATA SHOW

Approximately 25% of Binance‘s stock users were under the age of 25. A generational dimension is emerging. This is a cohort that has come of financial age in an era where crypto was often the most accessible entry point into markets due to lower minimums, no brokerage account required and being available on a smartphone. Stock trading on Binance now extends the same ease of accessibility to traditional equities. For younger investors who may have started with crypto, it represents a natural next step in their financial journey.

80%+ of stock trading volume came from emerging markets, where access to global equities has historically been limited by banking requirements, foreign-exchange costs, and high account minimums. Equity market participation outside the United States remains broadly below 20% of the population, even as U.S. equities account for roughly half of global market capitalisation. When access barriers come down, demand emerges quickly.

Nearly 40% of trades were placed under US$100, underscoring the role of fractional share access in reducing barriers to entry. Users can start investing on Binance from as little as US$5, compared with minimum deposits of US$500 to US$10,000 on many traditional brokerage platforms, a threshold that has historically excluded a significant share of would-be investors.

Assets under management in stocks on Binance surpassed US$400 million. Stock trading on Binance has shown strong early traction and conversion overall. Approximately one in ten unique visitors to the product page went on to register, with around 64% of those sign-ups going on to place a trade.

70% of users exhibited holding behaviour rather than same-day trading, indicating the product is being used as a longer-term investment vehicle rather than a short-term trading tool.

Binance users traded across more than 1,100 assets in the first week, with 124 assets each exceeding US$100,000 in traded value.

Sector allocation was led by Information Technology at 57%, followed by Funds and ETPs (20%), Communication Services (11%), and Financials (9%). Semiconductors and hardware stood out at the sub-sector level, capturing approximately 44% of total fund inflows. This reflects targeted user interest in the hardware infrastructure layer of the AI trade.

Top names by volume and open interest included MRVL, GOOGL, NVDA, NOK, QQQ, CRCL, CRWV, INTC, DRAM, and MU.

About Binance

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. Binance is trusted by more than 320 million people in 100+ countries for its industry-leading security, transparency, trading engine speed, protections for investors, and unmatched portfolio of digital asset products and offerings from trading and finance to education, research, social good, payments, institutional services, and Web3 features. Binance is devoted to building an inclusive crypto ecosystem to increase the freedom of money and financial access for people around the world with crypto as the fundamental means.

For more information, visit: https://www.binance.com

Disclaimer: Direct stocks are available only to eligible users and subject to local regulatory requirements and product availability. Securities are subject to market and liquidity risk, price volatility, and potential loss of capital. This content is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or investment advice. Users should make an independent assessment of any transaction in light of their own objectives and circumstances and consult their own advisers where appropriate.

Disclaimer: Nest Trading Limited acts as your introducing broker and routes your orders for Securities to its clearing broker partner, Alpaca Securities LLC, for execution, clearing, settlement and custody. Binance does not handle or custody your Securities. Securities are subject to high market and liquidity risk and price volatility, particularly outside traditional market hours. The value of your investment may go down or up and you may not get back the amount invested. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions and Binance is not liable for any losses you may incur. Past performance is not a reliable predictor of future performance. Before trading, you should make an independent assessment of the appropriateness of the transaction in light of your own objectives and circumstances, including the risks and potential benefits. Consult your own advisers, where appropriate. This information should not be construed as financial or investment advice. Binance may receive payment for order flow remuneration for directing your orders. For more information, see the applicable Terms of Use, Securities Trading Product Terms and Risk Warning.

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