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Revolutionizing Construction: Introducing the World’s First Fleet-Capable Downward Drilling Robot, Now Commercially Available to Accelerate Data Center Construction

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Downward drilling robot delivers up to 10x faster drilling speeds than traditional methods and has reduced construction timelines by 190 weeks across 26 major projectsRobot debuts in the market to overwhelming acclaim from construction professionals and leading media outlets, including Fast Company, which praised the robot’s disruptive potential to “drastically speed up data center construction”

TOWSON, Md., July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DEWALT, a Stanley Black & Decker brand renowned for relentless innovation on the jobsite, today announces the commercial launch of the world’s first fleet-capable, downward drilling robot, DALE™, developed in collaboration with global mobile robotics leader August Robotics.

Following its debut to resounding industry acclaim at World of Concrete earlier this year, the robot now enters the market as a true game-changer, poised to redefine data center construction by delivering concrete drilling with unmatched speed, safety, and efficiency. This landmark introduction signals a transformative leap forward for the industry, setting an unprecedented standard for productivity, precision, and technological advancement on the modern jobsite.

Amidst an unprecedented wave of data center construction, speed has become the defining competitive advantage for hyperscalers racing to deliver computing capacity.

“The downward drilling robot’s year-long pilot with one of the world’s most influential technology leaders powerfully demonstrated its ability to accelerate schedules, reduce costs, enhance precision, and elevate safety in downward drilling applications,” said Bill Beck, President, Tools & Outdoor, Stanley Black & Decker. “Now, we’re advancing to the next phase: delivering this breakthrough technology to a broader market and empowering customers to achieve unparalleled speed, efficiency, and results on their most demanding projects.”

Throughout the pilot program, the downward drilling robot drilled at speeds up to 10 times faster than traditional methods, reduced project timelines by a total of 190 weeks across 26 data center construction phases, and achieved 99.97% accuracy drilling more than 230,000 holes, setting a new standard for productivity and precision in the industry.

Equipped with fast-swap batteries and remote monitoring, DALE™ maximizes time on-site to support around-the-clock drilling operations. Integrated automatic dust extraction and AI-enhanced quality assurance ensure sites are clean and prepped for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) installation workflows immediately after drilling, shaving weeks from schedules.

Powered by August Robotics’ advanced autonomous, fleet-capable platform, DALE™ enables cost-efficient, high-capacity drilling for installation of server rack stops and supports for MEP systems. The robot is a vital addition to DEWALT’s data center ecosystem, complementing the company’s PERFORM AND PROTECT™ tools and ICC anchoring solutions designed to maximize safety and productivity on the jobsite.

The downward drilling robot is available now for commercial order. To learn more about the robot and DEWALT’s industry-leading solutions for jobsite professionals, visit www.dewalt.com.

For information on August Robotics and its autonomous mobile robotics solutions for construction, visit www.augustrobotics.com.

About DEWALT
DEWALT, a Stanley Black & Decker brand, is a leader in total jobsite solutions. For more than 100 years, DEWALT has been powering the future of construction with tools and technologies that have been designed, built and tested to help deliver safety and productivity on every jobsite. For more information, visit www.dewalt.com or follow DEWALT on FacebookInstagram and LinkedIn.

About August Robotics
August Robotics is a leading international mobile robotics company that builds robots to improve lives and boost productivity by automating dirty, dangerous and dull jobs. Founded in 2017, August Robotics has expanded worldwide and partners with market leaders to develop new robotic applications across industries including construction, commercial and industrial fit-outs, and exhibitions. For more information, visit www.augustrobotics.com, or follow August Robotics on FacebookInstagramLinkedIn, and X.

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360training Acquires eMedCert, Expanding Its Healthcare Life Support Certification Portfolio

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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 360training.com, Inc., recognized by Newsweek’s America’s Top Online Learning Providers list, today announced the acquisition of select assets from Electronic Medical Certification (eMedCert.com). The acquisition expands 360training’s presence in healthcare training, adding an established life support certification brand to its growing portfolio of training providers serving learners across the United States.

Established in 2014, eMedCert offers online Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Basic Life Support (BLS) certification and recertification courses, providing healthcare professionals with a convenient alternative to traditional classroom-based training. Through eMedCert’s joint accreditation with the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM), CME continuing education credits are available with its courses.

“eMedCert has built a strong reputation among healthcare professionals who need trustworthy, accessible life support certification,” said Tom Anderson, CEO of 360training. “This acquisition strengthens our healthcare training offering and reinforces our commitment to serving clinicians with training options that fit their busy schedules.”

“We built eMedCert to make life support certification more accessible for busy healthcare professionals,” said Wilson Rapp, Co-Founder of eMedCert. “Joining 360training gives us the opportunity to build on that mission and bring the eMedCert experience to more learners and organizations.”

Having delivered more than 150,000 certifications to nearly 70,000 learners, eMedCert brings an established learner base to 360training’s ecosystem, along with a course model focused on convenience, affordability, and clinical accuracy.

“Life support certification is a recurring need for healthcare professionals, and this acquisition allows us to support the full renewal cycle, from initial certification through recertification, within a single platform,” said Samantha Montalbano, COO of 360training. “By combining eMedCert’s established certification programs with 360training’s learning technology and infrastructure, we can make it easier for both individual clinicians and employers to manage training requirements, track completions, and stay ahead of upcoming renewals.”

By combining eMedCert’s life support certification expertise with 360training’s technology and infrastructure, the company can serve both individual healthcare professionals and enterprise employers with scalable training, centralized compliance reporting, and enterprise administrative tools.

“Healthcare professionals need certification training they can trust and complete on their own schedule, whether they’re independent clinicians or part of a large hospital system,” said Ryan Linders, CMO of 360training. “eMedCert has already earned that trust with its learners. By bringing the brand into 360training, we’re able to offer an even more seamless certification and recertification experience for clinicians and healthcare-adjacent professionals who rely on it.”

The acquisition further expands 360training’s healthcare-focused learner base and strengthens its presence across the healthcare, EHS, and compliance training markets it serves nationwide.

About 360training

Established in 1997, 360training.com, Inc. is a trusted leader specializing in comprehensive online training solutions for individuals and businesses across various industries, including food and beverage, environmental health and safety, real estate, healthcare, financial services, and power and utilities. Having issued over 21 million training certificates to 12.5+ million learners across 17+ brands, 360training embraces innovative technology and a commitment to quality education to offer accredited courses, fostering safe and healthy communities. As part of this commitment, the company continues to seek acquisition opportunities that build synergies and enhance value for its customers.

360training’s family of brands include Learn2Serve, OSHAcampus, AgentCampus, OSHA.com, VanEd, AdvanceOnline, ACLS Medical Training, American Health Training, American Resuscitation Council, Canadian Food Safety/SafeCheck®, Compliance Training Online, Hard Hat Training, HIPAA Exams, Mortgage Educators and Compliance (MEC), My Mortgage Trainer, National Food Handlers Foundation, National Forklift Foundation, National HAZWOPER Foundation, National OSHA Foundation, Ready Training Online (RTO®), TABC On The Fly, BASSET On The Fly, Certified On The Fly, TIPS, and UST Training. 360training is a portfolio company of GreyLion and Vestar Capital Partners.

Please visit www.360training.com or our social media accounts on Facebook and LinkedIn to learn more.

About GreyLion Partners LP

GreyLion focuses on investing in high-growth businesses in the lower middle market across two sectors: (i) services and (ii) specialized industrial and manufacturing. The team seeks to partner with existing owners and management teams to deliver capital in tailored and flexible structures. The GreyLion partners have spent nearly two decades executing a consistent strategy of investing $25-$125 million of capital per investment, primarily within the United States. For more information on GreyLion, please visit www.greylion.com.

About Vestar Capital Partners

Vestar Capital Partners is a leading U.S. middle-market private equity firm specializing in management buyouts and growth capital investments. Vestar invests and collaborates with incumbent management teams and private owners to build long-term enterprise value, focusing on Consumer, Business & Technology Services, and Healthcare.

About eMedCert

Electronic Medical Certification (eMedCert.com) is an online provider of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Basic Life Support (BLS) certification and recertification courses. eMedCert provides streamlined online coursework and testing, supported by resources and customer service to help learners navigate the certification process.

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FTC Resolution Preserves Redfin’s Zillow Rental Partnership and Clears the Way for Company’s Standalone Rentals Business

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Redfin will continue to receive Zillow’s multifamily listings and payments for leads through at least 2030 while building its own rentals advertising business

SEATTLE, Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Redfin, part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), today announced a resolution with the Federal Trade Commission and five states. The litigation concerns a multifamily rental listing syndication agreement Redfin entered into with Zillow in February 2025. The agreement predates Rocket’s acquisition of Redfin. The proposed order, which is subject to court approval, is a major victory for Redfin, renters and the housing providers who serve them.

The syndication partnership between Redfin and Zillow remains in place through at least 2030. Redfin will continue to receive the multifamily listings provided by Zillow, and Zillow will continue to pay Redfin for renter leads generated through Redfin’s sites. Redfin will also retain the $100 million it received under the original agreement.  Renters searching on Redfin, Rent.com and ApartmentGuide.com will continue to have access to the multifamily inventory available through the partnership.

The resolution also removes restrictions on Redfin’s ability to compete directly with Zillow for multifamily advertising customers, build its own relationships with housing providers and generate leads through its own offering.

“This is a massive win for Redfin,” said Aaron Emerson, Chief Communications Officer for Rocket Companies. “We keep the listings, leads and economics that make this business work today, and we gain the ability to compete directly for multifamily advertisers.  For millions of people, renting is the first step toward homeownership and helping them move from a first apartment to a first home is exactly what we’re built to do.”

About Redfin 

Redfin is a technology-driven real estate company with the country’s most-visited real estate brokerage website. As part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), Redfin is creating an integrated homeownership platform from search to close to make the dream of homeownership more affordable and accessible for everyone. Redfin’s clients can see homes first with on-demand tours, easily apply for a home loan with Rocket Mortgage, and save thousands in fees while working with a top local agent.

You can find more information about Redfin and get the latest housing market data and research at Redfin.com/news. For more information about Rocket Companies, visit RocketCompanies.com.

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Beyond AI code generation: Saigon Technology solves the scaling bottleneck for mid-sized tech teams

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SYDNEY, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As AI exponentially increases the volume of code generated by mid-sized technology teams, Saigon Technology, an AI-native software engineering partner, is deploying its integrated delivery system to solve the industry’s emerging scaling bottleneck. While engineers can now prototype features, write tests, and automate repetitive work faster than ever, many companies find their existing infrastructures struggling to keep pace with the accelerated output.

For Saigon Technology, the question is no longer simply how much more code AI can help a team produce, but whether the surrounding engineering framework can successfully scale to turn that capacity into reliable, production-ready software.

More Coding Capacity Does Not Mean More Engineering Capacity

AI coding assistants can increase development output, but engineering goes far beyond writing code. It also requires architecture, security, testing, infrastructure, reliability, integration, and production operations. AI can accelerate these tasks, but it does not automatically create the systems and standards needed to connect them.

Consider two approaches: Company A, with 10 engineers using AI coding assistants, and Company B, with AI embedded in an integrated engineering system covering reusable components, automated QA, DevOps, security, and architecture practices.

“Company A may produce more code as AI becomes embedded across its workflow. The software may still work well. But as output scales, there can also be more code to review, integrate, secure, test, and maintain,” said Phong Le, AI Tech Lead at Saigon Technology. “The issue is therefore whether the engineering system can turn additional coding capacity into scalable delivery.”

A Lesson From The Digital Transformation Era

The pattern is familiar with earlier technology shifts.

Cloud platforms, automation, and digital systems created significant new capabilities. But without supporting processes, governance, and operating models, organizations could also end up with fragmented systems, duplicated capabilities, and greater complexity.

AI-assisted development may create a similar challenge inside software engineering.

Why an AI-Native Engineering System Matters

This is where Saigon Technology’s AI-native engineering system comes in. The model is connecting engineers and AI with the systems required to deliver software across the full lifecycle.

That includes:

AI-assisted development: accelerating implementation and repetitive technical workReusable components and patterns: reducing duplicated effort and improving consistencyAutomated QA and testing: validating a larger volume of AI-assisted outputDevOps and CI/CD: keeping higher development velocity manageable in deliverySecurity and architecture practices: maintaining consistency across AI-assisted decisionsCloud and production operations: supporting software beyond development

The value is the combination of people, AI, engineering standards, automation, and accumulated delivery experience working as one system.

What This Means for Established Technology Teams

A company may already have a capable CTO and engineering organization. The challenge may instead be balancing modernization with new product development, expanding an AI initiative while maintaining core platforms, or increasing delivery volume without growing the internal organization at the same pace.

In these situations, an external engineering partner can add more than developers. It can bring an established delivery system that complements the capabilities already inside the business.

This is the model Saigon Technology is applying as AI reshapes software delivery: using AI to expand coding capacity while connecting that capacity to the engineering practices required for reliable, scalable production delivery.

With 14+ years of software engineering experience, 400+ engineers, and 850+ projects delivered across industries, Saigon Technology is applying its AI-native engineering approach to help established technology teams expand what they can deliver without rebuilding their engineering operation from the ground up.

Learn more about Saigon Technology’s AI-native engineering and AI optimization capabilities at saigontechnology.com.

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