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6Storage Continues to Invest in Innovation, Partnerships, and the Future of Self-Storage Operations

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Company expands its partner ecosystem and product roadmap to support a more connected, flexible platform for self-storage operators.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 6Storage Software Solutions, a self-storage management software platform built by operators for operators, today announced significant growth across its partner ecosystem. It reaffirmed its long-term vision for delivering a more connected, flexible, and innovative platform for self-storage operators.

Since its inception, 6Storage has focused on helping self-storage operators simplify operations, improve tenant experiences, and grow their businesses through technology developed by active self-storage operators who continue to own and manage facilities today. The company is strengthening that commitment through a growing marketplace of partners, strategic integrations, and a product roadmap designed to support the evolving needs of modern storage operators.

“Our goal is simple: give operators the technology they actually need to run successful facilities without paying for functionality they don’t use,” said Michelle Otto, CEO of 6Storage. “We’re building a stronger ecosystem around operators by bringing together best-in-class technology partners, expanding integration options, and investing in a roadmap focused on meaningful innovation that helps facilities become more efficient, more connected, and more profitable.”

Building a Stronger Ecosystem for Operators

The self-storage industry continues to evolve, and operators need technology that can adapt alongside their businesses. To meet those demands, 6Storage continues to invest in partnerships and integrations that simplify daily operations while providing greater flexibility and choice.

From access control and payment processing to accounting, marketing, auctions, tenant protection, and facility operations, the 6Storage marketplace is designed to help operators connect the technologies they rely on most. Rather than forcing operators into a one-size-fits-all solution, 6Storage provides the flexibility to build a technology stack that supports their unique business needs.

This growing ecosystem reflects a simple belief: operators should have access to the tools, services, and innovations that help them compete effectively without being forced to purchase expensive functionality they may never use.

Purpose-Built for Operators

At 6Storage, innovation is not about adding features simply to increase complexity. It is about helping operators run better businesses.

Too often, self-storage operators find themselves paying for software features that add cost but provide limited day-to-day value. 6Storage takes a different approach by focusing on the tools, integrations, automation, and operational efficiencies that directly impact occupancy, customer experience, revenue, and business growth.

“We aren’t just building software for operators; we’ve been operators since 2007,” Otto said. “We continue to own and manage self-storage facilities alongside our customers, which means we’re solving many of the same challenges they face every day. We’re not building software based on assumptions; we’re building solutions based on real operational experience.”

Every investment 6Storage makes in its platform, partner ecosystem, and product roadmap is guided by a straightforward question:

Does this help operators run their facilities more effectively?

If the answer is no, it doesn’t belong.

“The self-storage industry doesn’t need more complexity,” Otto continued. “It needs practical solutions that help operators save time, improve customer experience, increase revenue, and control costs. We believe operators shouldn’t have to choose between affordability and innovation. Our responsibility is to deliver meaningful value and give operators access to the tools they truly need to succeed.”

A Clear Vision for the Future

6Storage continues to invest in automation, artificial intelligence, advanced reporting, mobile capabilities, enhanced security, tenant communication tools, accounting integrations, marketing intelligence, and operational efficiencies that help operators save time and grow their businesses.

“What we’re building at 6Storage is much bigger than software,” Otto said. “We’re creating an ecosystem that gives self-storage operators access to the partners, technologies, and innovations they need to compete in a rapidly evolving industry. Our roadmap is intentionally focused on delivering meaningful value, helping operators run more efficient facilities, reduce unnecessary costs, and invest in the tools that truly make a difference.”

Built for Independent Operators, Serving a Global Market

As our partner ecosystem continues to grow, our focus remains unchanged: helping small and medium-sized self-storage operators thrive. The 6Storage marketplace is designed to provide independent operators with the flexibility, innovation, and integration options they need to compete effectively in an increasingly sophisticated industry.

By bringing together best-in-class partners across access control, payments, marketing, accounting, auctions, tenant protection, and facility operations, 6Storage is helping level the playing field for operators of all sizes. While we proudly serve operators around the world, our mission remains rooted in empowering independent owners with enterprise-level capabilities without enterprise-level complexity.

Built and guided by active self-storage operators, 6Storage brings proven U.S. self-storage expertise, operational best practices, and practical technology solutions to customers across multiple countries and continents. Because the company continues to operate facilities today, product decisions are shaped by real-world operational needs rather than theoretical feature development.

About 6Storage

6Storage is a cloud-based self-storage management software platform built by storage operators for storage operators. The platform provides facility owners and managers with tools to manage tenants, online rentals, payments, reporting, websites, access control, marketing, communications, and facility operations from one integrated system. Combining industry expertise with innovative technology, 6Storage helps operators streamline operations, automate processes, and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Unlike many software providers, 6Storage is built and guided by active self-storage operators who continue to own and manage facilities today. By combining real-world operational experience with modern technology, 6Storage provides practical solutions that help operators grow, improve efficiency, and better serve their tenants. Today, 6Storage serves self-storage operators across multiple countries, bringing proven U.S. self-storage expertise and operational best practices to facilities worldwide.

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Tripo AI Releases Latest Model Tripo P2.0, Advancing AI 3D Generation with Production-Ready Assets

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tripo AI unveiled Tripo P2.0, its latest 3D-native foundation model enabling high-fidelity 3D assets generation with quad topology, marking a major breakthrough in generative 3D.

As an upgrade from Tripo Smart Mesh P1.0, P2.0 brings native quad mesh generation, a first for the AI 3D industry, representing a major advance in AI-powered 3D content creation. The model allows 3D creators to move AI-generated 3D content seamlessly into production, addressing one of the longstanding challenges in AI 3D generation.

Following the release of P2.0 Preview in August, the official launch of P2.0 added two new features: multiple versions generation per prompt and Mesh Edit. The model makes it easier than ever for creators to edit, rig, animate and integrate AI generated characters and props into production pipelines.

“Topology has been the wall between AI-generated 3D and real production: game and film pipelines are built on quad meshes, and until now AI got there only through slow, unstable retopology. P2.0 can quickly generate quad-dominant meshes natively, with clean part separation and the edge flow an artist would lay out manually. Production-ready is today’s bar; the longer-term goal for Tripo is to build models that understand, generate and interact with 3D environments,” says Dr. Yanpei Cao, Chief Scientist of Tripo AI.

The model supports both triangle- and quad-based 3D assets generation, offering up to 50,000 faces for triangle topology and up to 25,000 faces for quad topology. With one single prompt, P2.0 allows generation of a maximum of four versions of the same asset with different face counts, giving creators greater flexibility to produce assets with varying levels of complexity and details.

The newly added Mesh Edit feature gives creators direct control over the result. They can select and regenerate any region of a mesh without altering the rest of the asset. Instead of regenerating the whole asset and hoping for a better outcome, creators can refine the asset more precisely, step by step.

The model offers front, back, left and right views of the generated assets, allowing them to closely match users’ intentions.

P2.0 also supports Smart UV which enables creators to unwrap 3D assets into a 2D layout with a single click, making it easier for texturing and further editing.

Designed for games and interactive experiences, Smart Mesh P2.0 helps 3D artists, technical artists and game developers create assets ready for production. It is particularly well suited to generating game characters, hard surface objects such as vehicles, props and buildings, as well as creating 3D assets at scale.

About Tripo AI

Tripo AI is a global leader in the development of 3D-native foundation models and world models. Founded in 2023 by leading scientists in AI and computer graphics, the company has developed a comprehensive end-to-end product ecosystem, built around its proprietary 3D-native foundation models and world models. With Tripo Studio and Tripo API, Tripo AI has transformed 3D generation. Powered by a world-class AI 3D research team, the company is advancing AI toward understanding, generating, and interacting with 3D environments.

Tripo AI’s models and products have been widely adopted by individual users and enterprises globally, serving industries including intelligent manufacturing, virtual reality, interactive entertainment, and embodied AI, empowering enterprises to unlock new productivity and scale applications of generative 3D.

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Xinhua Silk Road: Chinese solutions for meteorological early-warning help more countries tackle climate challenges

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BEIJING, Sept. 21, 2026 /CNW/ — For millennia, as her believers believe, the traditional Chinese sea goddess Mazu has been blessing safe voyages. Now, Chinese meteorological early-warning solutions named after her are helping more countries prevent meteorological disasters.

“MAZU”, released by the China Meteorological Administration at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), is a set of China’s homegrown AI-enabled meteorological solutions featuring universal multi-hazard early warning, alerting and zero-gap coverage.

Supporting cloud-based trials in more than 40 countries, “MAZU” has been applied in countries including Pakistan, Ethiopia, the Solomon Islands, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and Djibouti, rapidly expanding its global presence.

As the first set of solutions under the UN Early Warnings for All initiative, “MAZU” integrates AI-based meteorological early-warning models, Fengyun meteorological satellite data, multi-source monitoring products and cloud computing power.

In May this year, “MAZU” was recommended by the World Meteorological Organization at the 11th Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals held at UN headquarters in New York.

Unsurprisingly, “MAZU” caters to the demand for both menu-style solution offerings and highly flexible customized solutions to help relevant countries prevent meteorological disasters caused by climate change.

In Pakistan, where monsoons and rainstorms usually cause torrential floods, an early-warning system co-developed by China and Pakistan was formally embedded in relevant platforms of Pakistan’s meteorological authority.

In Ethiopia, Chinese experts leveraged the integration of data from China’s Fengyun meteorological satellites and local meteorological stations to help local weather forecasters generate high-precision nowcasts via the Fenglei and Fengqing AI models.

In Sri Lanka, the meteorological bureau of southeast China’s Fujian Province is assisting the country in achieving high spatiotemporal resolution precipitation and temperature forecasting.

Apart from the application cases of “MAZU”, nearly 1,000 people from more than 100 developing countries and regions have come to China to receive technology training focused on early warning.

As China is a crucial partner of the Early Warnings for All initiative, its platforms, satellites and AI models have helped dozens of countries enhance their early-warning capacities, noted UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the 2026 WAIC.

Such a mode of cooperation, involving technology transfer, joint R&D and local capacity building to help developing countries better protect their people, is exactly what the world needs now, added Guterres.

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Xinhua Silk Road: “My City, My Home” global visual submission campaign kicks off in Fuzhou for World Cities Day

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BEIJING, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A global call for “My City, My Home” visual submission campaign for the upcoming World Cities Day has officially kicked off in Fuzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province, inviting people around the world to submit photos and short videos to share stories of urban development.

World Cities Day, celebrated annually on October 31 since 2014, is the first UN-designated international day dedicated to cities. Fuzhou will host the Global Observance of World Cities Day 2026.

As part of the Observance, the “My City, My Home” campaign aims to enhance the global influence of World Cities Day, encourage greater public participation, and promote the concept of sustainable urban development through a campaign open to everyone.

According to the announcement for the campaign, individuals, families, communities, schools, social organizations and other groups are all welcome to participate. The submissions should closely reflect the annual theme of this year’s World Cities Day — Regenerating the City: Adequate Housing for All.

Participants should form a square frame with the thumbs and index fingers of both hands to frame scenes that showcase the livability and renewal of their cities, and then take photos or short videos. This signature gesture symbolizes houses that shelter people, evokes the outline of early walled cities, and represents a perspective through which to capture the beauty of cities.

Participants are encouraged to start their videos with opening lines such as “This is my city”. They are also encouraged to include in their photos and videos an introduction to the city and the filming location, the reasons why the selected scene reflects urban regeneration or livability, and personal stories related to the city.

The submission period runs from the date of publication until 11:59 p.m. on October 14 (Beijing Time). Photos and videos may be submitted via Douyin or to the designated email address Mycitymyhome@outlook.com .

Photos and videos may be submitted in either 9:16 vertical or 16:9 horizontal format. Each video should be at least 5 seconds long.

Outstanding submissions will be selected for inclusion in the official campaign video, which will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Global Observance of World Cities Day 2026 in Fuzhou on October 31.

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