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Precision Agriculture Goes Airborne as Drone Surveying Market Accelerates Toward Double-Digit Growth

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NEW YORK, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Market News Updates News Commentary – Agricultural surveying is changing fast. Instead of sending workers across hundreds or thousands of acres to look for problems, farmers can use drones to cover large areas in a fraction of the time. Equipped with high-resolution, multispectral and thermal cameras, these drones can spot stressed crops, irrigation problems, pest damage, nutrient issues and other warning signs that may be difficult to see from the ground. The bigger opportunity is what happens with that information. When farmers can identify a problem early, they have a better chance of fixing it before it becomes an expensive loss. And the market is already showing how quickly this technology is gaining traction: the global agriculture drone market is projected to grow from about $5.19 billion in 2026 to $18.03 billion by 2034 offering opportunity for Leading Tech Companies on the move that may include:  ZenaTech, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENA), Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO), AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), AIRO Group Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRO), Quantum Cyber N.V. (NASDAQ: QUCY).

For investors, the interesting part may be the shift from simply selling drones to selling the service behind them. A farmer doesn’t necessarily want to buy an expensive aircraft, train a pilot and figure out how to analyze thousands of images. They can simply hire a drone operator to survey their fields and deliver useful data when they need it. That creates a recurring Drone-as-a-Service opportunity, with operators able to work across multiple farms and return throughout the growing season. The agriculture drone-services market is projected to increase from roughly $4.99 billion in 2026 to $14.21 billion by 2030, while the broader drone-services market could reach approximately $83.68 billion by 2030. If autonomous flight, AI-powered analysis and larger drone fleets continue to improve, agricultural surveying could move from a niche technology to an everyday tool for managing modern farms.

Key revenue-growth drivers:

$5.19B → $18.03B: Global agriculture drone market forecast from 2026 to 2034.$4.99B → $14.21B: Agriculture drone-services market forecast from 2026 to 2030.$2.59B U.S. market: U.S. agriculture drone market projected to reach this level by 2030 in a 2026 forecast.Recurring DaaS revenue: Operators can monetize the same drone fleet across multiple farms and repeated surveying assignments.High-value data: Multispectral, thermal and high-resolution imaging can support crop scouting, irrigation planning, damage assessment, yield estimation and precision agriculture.

ZenaTech (NASDAQ: ZENA) ZenaDrone Advances Precision Agriculture Solutions with Initial Prototype and Start of Testing of IQ Octo Designed for Autonomous Drone-Based Spraying and Seeding  –  Medium-sized, eight-motor autonomous drone joins the IQ Series and ZenaTech’s Drone as a Service for planned precision agriculture and solar maintenance applications  –  ZenaTech, Inc. ($ZENA) (FSE: 49Q) (BMV: ZENA) (“ZenaTech”), a technology solution provider specializing in AI (Artificial Intelligence) drone, Drone as a Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS, and Quantum Computing solutions, announces that its ZenaDrone subsidiary has completed an initial Version 1 prototype of the IQ Octo, its new autonomous drone purpose-built for precision spraying and seeding via Drone as a Service. The IQ Octo is designed to precisely apply fertilizers and crop-protection products and to distribute seeds, helping farmers reduce input costs, avoid crop damage and soil compaction, access difficult terrain, and improve the efficiency of planting and treatment operations. The IQ Octo Version 1 is expected to begin field testing at the company’s Arizona facility in the coming weeks.

“Precision agriculture is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the drone industry, with market analysts predicting over 30% annual growth over the next five years,” said Shaun Passley, Ph.D., CEO of ZenaTech. “Extending our ZenaDrone IQ Series into autonomous spraying and seeding positions our Drone as a Service business to capture a meaningful share of this expanding market. We believe the new IQ Octo, and the recurring service and data opportunities it can create, represents a compelling long-term value driver for both future customers and our shareholders as we continue to diversify our autonomous drone and services portfolio.”

The IQ Octo Version 1 is a medium-sized autonomous drone built on an octocopter design with eight motors, part of ZenaDrone’s growing IQ Series. Battery powered, it is designed to fly for approximately 20 to 25 minutes per charge and to carry a payload of up to 25 kilograms of seeds or liquid. In addition to spraying and seeding, the platform’s Version 2 is expected to support solar panel maintenance applications, swarm capability, automated refilling, and a folding design. Depending on the mission, the agricultural configuration will either carry a liquid tank equipped with spray nozzles, or a hopper with a spreader for seeds. Following a programmed flight path, the drone is designed to fly low over fields and automatically apply liquid treatments or distribute seeds at controlled rates with even coverage.

Farmers use drones for spraying and seeding because they can apply products precisely where and when they are needed, including in wet fields, difficult terrain, and areas with standing crops. This can reduce chemical, seed, water, fuel, and labor requirements; prevent soil compaction and crop damage from heavy machinery; improve worker safety; and enable faster, more targeted treatment as part of a broader precision agriculture system.

The Company will provide further updates as additional development and testing milestones for the IQ Octo are achieved.  Continued…  Read this full release and additional news for ZENA by visiting:  https://www.zenatech.com/newsroom/

In other industry recent autonomous, UAV, drone operation news of note:

Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO), an award-winning, industry-leading developer of drone solutions and systems, recently announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a Section 44807 Special Authority for Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) exemption for its Heavy Lift drone platform.

This landmark regulatory approval permits Draganfly and authorized commercial operators to operate the Heavy Lift platform at maximum takeoff weights exceeding the standard 55-pound limitation established by FAA Part 107. Securing a Section 44807 exemption represents an extraordinary operational milestone in the commercial drone industry, as the evaluation process requires rigorous validation of aircraft airworthiness, fail-safe engineering, risk mitigation protocols, and operational safety to ensure that integration into the National Airspace System that meets the highest aviation safety standards.

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in proven autonomous and counter-drone systems, this week announced it has been awarded a landmark contract valued at $464.8 million by the U.S. Army Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Fires (PAE Fires) program office for the Enduring-High Energy Laser (E-HEL) program. 

This award represents the first-ever production contract for directed energy systems in United States history, signaling a historic transition from prototype to production for laser weapon systems. 

“This award marks a defining moment not only for AV, but for the future of modern defense,” said Wahid Nawabi, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer at AV. “The transition of directed energy from experimentation to an enduring, fielded capability reflects years of collaboration, innovation, and operational success alongside the U.S. Army. We are proud to deliver these production systems and support the Army’s mission with scalable, modular, and cost-effective defense solutions.”

AIRO Group Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRO), a next-generation aerospace and defense company, recently announced that Jaunt Air Mobility has selected Calogy Solutions to design the battery system for its recently unveiled next-generation hybrid-electric, JC-250 and JX-250 VTOL drone variants.

The collaboration marks another key milestone in Jaunt’s development of advanced autonomous aircraft designed to support defense, commercial, and industrial missions. By integrating innovative battery engineering and thermal management technology, Jaunt continues to advance a platform engineered for safe, reliable, and high-performance operation in demanding environments.

Quantum Cyber N.V. (NASDAQ: QUCY), a Nasdaq-listed autonomous defense technology company assembling an AI-powered System-of-Systems platform for drone warfare, counter-UAS, and border security applications, recently announced that it has completed the purchase and physical installation of all 80 units of its previously announced 3D Printing drone production farm at the Company’s approximately 50,000 square foot U.S.-based manufacturing facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The milestone marks the operational commissioning of what the Company has previously described as its primary autonomous drone manufacturing line at the Bridgeport facility, and follows the completion of the Company’s first mini-interceptor airframe at the same facility on July 27, 2026, and the launch of the Company’s Advanced Filament Manufacturing Division announced on June 11, 2026.

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Agile & Co Launches Core, a Proprietary AI Marketing Platform Built for Local Service Businesses

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New system pairs AI-driven strategy with human oversight, giving contractors, clinics, auto shops and med spas a marketing partner that remembers their business and compounds results over time

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Agile & Co, a full-service marketing agency specializing in local service businesses, today announced the launch of Core, a proprietary AI-powered marketing platform. Built on an 80% AI, 20% human strategy model, Core is designed to help contractors, clinics, auto shops, med spas and other local service businesses generate more booked jobs without their marketing strategy starting from scratch every month. More information on Core is available at agileandco.com.

Core connects directly to a business’s operational data, including services, pricing, and past campaign performance, and applies that context across advertising, SEO, and website work. According to Agile & Co, this removes the need for clients to repeatedly re-explain their business to a rotating cast of marketers, since Core retains that context across every campaign.

Each new campaign also feeds Core’s models directly. The system analyzes lead and conversion data and adjusts strategy automatically, a design intended to help marketing performance compound over time rather than reset with every new push.

“We built Core because we were tired of watching service businesses get sold black-box AI tools that don’t know their market. Core learns your business, your customers, and what actually converts, so every dollar you spend gets smarter over time instead of starting from zero,” said Chans, Founder and CEO of Agile & Co.

Despite the AI foundation, Agile & Co said human strategists review every campaign and write final copy before anything goes live. The company built Core using MCP architecture, RAG retrieval, and vector databases rather than off-the-shelf AI tools, and applies it across SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and website design. Agile & Co also offers transparent, attribution-based reporting, tracking leads to their source and optimizing toward booked jobs rather than clicks, and operates without long-term client contracts.

About Agile & Co

Founded in 2012, Agile & Co has grown from a scrappy SEO shop into a full-service growth partner powered by proprietary AI. The mission never changed: do right by the businesses that trust us, even when it’s the harder path.

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Position² Introduces Arena, the Proprietary Technology Powering Its AI-Native Growth System That Turns Two Decades of Expertise Into an Intelligence Layer, Orchestrated Agents, and Client Delivery in One Workspace

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Built for enterprise marketing teams and the agencies that serve them, Arena connects Position²’s Growth Intelligence, senior experts, and AI Agents across brand, demand, and campaign execution, working with the tools marketers already use and getting smarter with every engagement.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Position², the AI-Native Growth System for enterprise brands and GTM leaders, today introduced Arena, the proprietary technology at the core of its approach to modern marketing. Arena connects Position²’s Growth Intelligence Layer, senior experts, and AI Agents across the full marketing journey, from brand and positioning to demand generation, campaign execution, and client delivery. Built on more than two decades of marketing expertise, Arena brings together performance signals, brand context, connected workflows, and accumulated knowledge so teams can make better decisions, act faster, and strengthen every engagement that follows.

The business case

“Marketing has drowned in tools and starved for answers. Arena ends that,” said Rajiv Parikh, CEO of Position². “Enterprise marketing isn’t just campaigns, it’s brand, positioning, and every decision that compounds into a reputation. We turned two decades of that expertise into a system that tells teams what’s coming, what to do about it, and remembers everything it learns along the way. Stop paying to describe the past. Start building the brand that wins the next decade.”

Marketing is more than campaigns

Enterprise marketing is not a series of isolated campaigns. It spans brand positioning, audience intelligence, go-to-market strategy, content, creative, demand generation, and performance across channels. Yet many marketing organizations still manage these functions through disconnected tools and workflows, making it difficult to carry insights from one initiative into the next.

Arena connects the context behind strategy, performance, execution, and outcomes so Position² teams and clients can work from a shared foundation, and apply what they learn across the entire growth journey.

Built on Position² Expertise, Not Generic AI

Arena is grounded in Position²’s experience helping enterprise brands grow across industries, including healthcare, computing, consumer electronics, automotive, and industrial technology. Position² Experts apply senior judgment, strategic direction, and quality standards across disciplines such as SEO, paid media, creative, content, and demand generation.

That expertise guides how AI Agents prioritize and execute scoped work, ensuring recommendations and actions reflect each organization’s brand, market, goals, and performance history.

One Connected Approach: Growth Intelligence, Position² Experts, and AI Agents

Arena runs on three layers that work as one system. The intelligence layer forecasts performance and reasons about what to do next, from brand health to campaign ROI. The orchestration layer turns that intelligence into action, coordinating a library of Smart Marketing Agents that plan, execute, and hand off work across channels and disciplines. The workflow layer ships the output as on-brand, client-visible delivery, with Gantt and list views, task hierarchies, and dependencies. Underpinning all three are Arena’s connectors to hundreds of the top platforms marketers already run on: Google Ads, GA4, Meta, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Salesforce, Shopify, Slack, Gmail, Zoom, and 300+ data sources and 50+ business tools in all — each feeding the same intelligence layer, so the system reasons across the entire stack rather than one channel at a time.

“Arena connects the intelligence behind marketing decisions, the Position² Experts who guide them, and the AI Agents that help execute the work,” said Vikrant, Chief Technology Officer at Position², who heads product and technology for Arena. “Because it all runs as one connected system, Arena remembers every brand decision, campaign, and outcome, and gets sharper with each one. That memory is the moat: brand strategy that once lived in a few people’s heads becomes a durable, compounding asset. Most tools reset to zero. Arena compounds.”

Compounding Intelligence Across Every Engagement

The broader you draw marketing, the more corporate memory matters. Brand equity, positioning, and audience understanding are built over years, yet they usually live in slide decks and a handful of people’s heads, and walk out the door when those people leave. Arena changes that. As Position² Experts guide strategy and AI Agents execute, Arena captures a shared growth memory, a living record of brand decisions, campaigns, market intelligence, outcomes, and context that strengthens every engagement that follows. New agents and new team members inherit that institutional knowledge from day one rather than starting from scratch, and the intelligence layer learns from real results to sharpen future strategy and forecasts. The longer a team runs on Arena, the more the system reflects that organization’s own brand and playbook, turning tacit knowledge that usually disappears into a durable, compounding asset.

Built for the enterprise marketing team and the agency that serves it

Arena supports enterprise marketing organizations and the agencies serving them, particularly teams responsible for growth across multiple channels, stakeholders, and programs.

The CMO / VP of Marketing: a forward-looking read on brand health and whether spend will hit its target, with the reasoning to defend both to the board.The Brand / Growth / Performance Marketing lead: brand programs and campaigns across PPC, SEO, creative, and performance, running daily without routing every task through a specialist.The Marketing Operations / Analytics owner: one blended source of truth in place of hand-assembled reports.The Agency account and delivery lead: on-brand, client-visible results shipped on or before deadline, across every account and geography.

Connected Capabilities Across the Full Funnel

Arena is organized around three growth engines, all drawing on the same intelligence layer and shared corporate memory. AI Agents provide a library of Smart Marketing Agents users can chat with, customize, connect to a knowledge base, and schedule, spinning up project tasks directly from an agent’s response. Analytics (Calibrate) delivers predictive marketing analytics with cross-channel, blended dashboards, anomaly detection, and AI-driven forecasting that flags risks early rather than reporting them late. Project Management brings AI-powered delivery built for marketing and client work. Tying it together, Highlights provides a daily AI executive briefing on revenue at risk and pipeline upside, and Client Intelligence (CIS) generates per-client executive briefings with real-time health, owners, and due dates, auto-updated from Slack, Gmail, Zoom, and Arena activity.

That shift from reporting to decision support is already visible in how customers use Arena. “I use Arena on a daily basis to stay plugged into our performance. It’s an extremely efficient tool for viewing every angle of our paid channels’ performance. Detailed reporting and easy drill-downs make campaign analysis quick and allow me to focus more on strategic planning rather than pulling the numbers,” said Caroline Weisenhorn, Performance Marketing Manager at Eventgroove.

Early results

Marketing teams running on Arena are seeing measurable gains

60% reduction in time spent assembling reports and dashboards8–10 hours/week saved per marketer by automating routine campaign tasks2–3x faster client project delivery across agency accountsAt-risk revenue surfaced days earlier, before the budget is committed, not after

Enterprise-grade by design

Arena is enterprise-grade by design, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA-compliant. The same intelligence and memory foundation can extend into adjacent functions over time, but Arena’s focus is unambiguous: it is built for marketing first.

Learn more about Arena and how it powers Position²’s AI-Native Growth System at https://thearena.ai 

About Position²: Position² is the AI-Native Growth System for enterprise brands and GTM leaders, combining Growth Intelligence, senior experts, and AI Agents to help organizations drive smarter, more connected growth. Powered by Arena, Position²’s proprietary technology, the company connects strategy, execution, and continuous learning across brand, demand, and marketing performance. Learn more at www.position2.com

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Diameter Pay Raises $10 Million to Expand Global Access to the US Dollar

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Series A Round Co-Led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, with participation from SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital and BitRock Capital

JERSEY CITY, N.J., Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Diameter Pay, a fintech platform building the infrastructure for global U.S. dollar payments and virtual accounts, today announced a $10 million Series A financing round co-led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, with participation from SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital and BitRock Capital.

Diameter Pay gives banks, fintechs, digital asset exchanges and their customers around the world access to U.S. dollar accounts and payment rails through a single API. The platform supports virtual accounts, domestic and international payments, stablecoin on- and off-ramps, and embedded compliance controls across multiple U.S. banking partners. Diameter Pay has processed more than $10 billion year-to-date in 2026.

The U.S. dollar remains the foundation of global trade and payments, but accessing it has become increasingly difficult in many parts of the world. Correspondent banks have pulled back from entire markets amid rising sanctions and anti-money laundering risk. The result is a global financial system in which legitimate businesses can be excluded alongside the bad actors those safeguards are designed to stop.

“The world is becoming more global, but the financial system is becoming more fragmented,” said David Lighton, founder and CEO of Diameter Pay. “Diameter Pay takes a different approach: rather than asking banks to accept more risk, we provide the technology, data, and compliance infrastructure to understand and manage that risk with greater precision. That’s the bridge we’re building, between traditional finance and digital finance, so money can move at the speed people and businesses actually need in a world that now runs 24/7.”

Stablecoins are amplifying the need for solutions. They enable dollar value to move globally, around the clock, but institutions still need regulated, reliable connectivity between digital dollars and the U.S. banking system, especially to fight financial crimes. Diameter Pay provides that connective tissue, giving banks the technology, data, and compliance infrastructure to manage digital risk with more precision.

The financing will accelerate Diameter Pay’s mission to expand access to the U.S. dollar for financial institutions around the world. The company will use the capital to expand its banking and payment capabilities, deepen its stablecoin and FX infrastructure, and continue investing in the technology and compliance capabilities required to safely move dollars across borders.

Stablecoins are transforming how dollars move globally, but they don’t replace the need for trusted access to the U.S. banking system,” said Charlie Sandor, Partner at CMT Digital. “Diameter provides that connective layer, combining traditional payment rails, stablecoin infrastructure, and compliance in a platform built for regulated financial institutions.”

“The challenging part of modernizing global payments with stablecoins isn’t just technology. It’s building reliable and trustworthy compliance and banking infrastructure,” said Tim Khoury, Partner at Lightspeed Faction. “Diameter started with a relentless focus here, and has won the trust of a growing number of clients as a result. We’re thrilled to be backing the company for its next leg of growth.”

“The modern payments stack is no longer just about speed-to-market; it’s about speed-to-trust. The components: verified counterparties, transactions screened before they move, and licensed settlement behind them,” said Evan Thorpe, Principal at SixThirty Ventures.  “Diameter is the settlement layer that ties each of those critical parts together, turning a trusted counterparty and a clean transaction into dollars that actually arrive, compliantly, across borders. It reflects a conviction we hold about this market: trust, not transport, is the product in modern money movement. Diameter delivers it.”

About Diameter Pay
Diameter Pay’s mission is to expand global financial institutions’ and fintechs’ access to the U.S. dollar through compliance-first infrastructure trusted by banks and regulators. The platform provides U.S. virtual accounts, domestic and international payment rails, stablecoin on- and off-ramps, and embedded compliance controls across multiple banking partners. Diameter Pay is led by a team of banking, payments, technology, and regulatory veterans with decades of experience building and operating financial systems, including former senior executives and founders from Deutsche Bank, Fidelity Investments, Segovia Technology, Reserve Trust, and the World Bank.

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