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Pakal Technologies Partners with Prohubs to Accelerate Commercialization of Next-Generation Power Semiconductor Technology

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Partnership expands market access for Pakal’s high-efficiency power semiconductor technology as demand grows across electrification, energy infrastructure and industrial applications

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pakal Technologies, Inc. developer of the IGTO – a next generation high-efficiency silicon power semiconductor – today announced a strategic partnership with Prohubs to accelerate the commercialization and market adoption of its proprietary IGTO.

The partnership brings together Pakal’s breakthrough power semiconductor technology with Prohubs’ market development and commercialization expertise as well as decades of success in the Taiwan market to bring Pakal’s IGTO to a broad range of customers and applications.

Pakal has developed and proven the IGTO. The IGTO delivers greater efficiency and reliability compared to existing power electronics architectures such as Thyristors and IGBTs. The proprietary IGTO technology is a drop-in upgrade to conventional Fieldstop IGBTs with dramatically reduced conduction losses. while leveraging established silicon-based systems, supply chains and manufacturing infrastructure.

As global electricity demand accelerates—driven by AI infrastructure, data centers, electrification, renewable energy and increasingly power-intensive industrial systems—the efficiency of the semiconductor switches controlling that electricity has become increasingly consequential. Pakal’s technology is designed to help system manufacturers reduce wasted power and deliver more usable energy without requiring an entirely new power architecture.

“Pakal was founded around a simple idea: we need to get more useful energy out of every watt we generate,” said Ben Quinones, Co-founder and CEO of Pakal Technologies. “Our partnership with Prohubs is another important step in moving our technology from innovation to broad market adoption. By combining Pakal’s semiconductor platform with Prohubs’ capabilities and market reach, we make it easier for customers to integrate our more efficient power switch into their real-world systems.”

Unlike approaches that require manufacturers to migrate completely to new semiconductor materials and system architectures, Pakal is focused on improving the performance of silicon—the world’s most established semiconductor platform. This approach provides customers with a drop-in improvement that is a faster and more cost-effective path toward improving power efficiency across existing and next-generation systems.

Under the partnership, Prohubs will provide Pakal with customer engagement, as well as design-in, distribution and commercialization support across applications including renewable energy, energy storage, industrial power systems, grid infrastructure and electric mobility.

The collaboration comes as Pakal expands the commercial ecosystem around its technology. The company is advancing its 650 to 2500 Volt IGTO devices while working with industry partners to demonstrate the performance and scalability of its architecture across very high voltage (>3.0 kV) applications.

“We see significant potential in Pakal’s approach to improving power semiconductor efficiency built on the infrastructure and proven reliability of silicon,” said Vincent Lin, President at Prohubs International Corp. “The company’s very high voltage collaboration with Hitachi Energy is an important validation of both the technology and the market need Pakal is addressing. As demand for power efficiency accelerates globally, we believe Pakal’s IGTO will play a meaningful role in how that power is converted and delivered. We’re excited to help accelerate the technology’s path to broad commercial adoption.”

About Pakal Technologies

Pakal Technologies is developing next-generation power semiconductor technology designed to maximize the amount of useful energy delivered through power electronic systems. Its proprietary IGTO architecture offers a high-efficiency silicon-based alternative for high-voltage applications, addressing the growing need to reduce power losses across electrification, renewable energy, energy storage, industrial systems and next-generation energy infrastructure. Pakal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

For more information, visit Pakal Technologies’ website www.pakal-tech.com

About Prohubs

Prohubs is a trusted distributor in Taiwan with a strong reputation in the industry. They specialize in delivering high-quality products and services to a wide range of clients throughout the region. https://prohubs.com.tw/english/index.htm

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webAI Lands $30 Million AI Deal With Forge as Enterprise AI Services Race Accelerates

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Forge commits $30 million to webAI as the companies partner to build and deploy private, specialized AI systems inside enterprises.

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — webAI today announced a strategic partnership with Forge AI Deployment, which is making a $30 million commitment to webAI to build and deploy private, specialized AI systems for enterprise customers.

The partnership pairs webAI’s collaborative intelligence platform with Forge’s enterprise deployment and services operation. Forge will work directly with customers to build AI systems around their proprietary data, workflows and operations, running on infrastructure those customers control.

The agreement comes as the AI market begins shifting from building increasingly capable general-purpose models to putting specialized intelligence to work inside businesses.

Forge is led by enterprise technology veterans, including founder and CEO John Ezzell, who previously built an Oracle-focused services and reseller business that was acquired by Deloitte. Forge is applying a similar playbook to AI: combining a new technology platform with the implementation, integration and operational expertise required to make it useful inside large organizations.

webAI provides the intelligence layer behind that effort.

Rather than relying solely on a general-purpose model, webAI enables organizations to deploy specialized models around their own data, people and operations. Those models can run across infrastructure the organization controls and collaborate as a system.

Forge will design, deploy and operate those systems for customers, from individual specialized AI Personas to company-wide deployments.

“A general model is only the beginning,” said David Stout, co-founder and CEO of webAI. “Individuals and organizations need intelligence deeply specialized to them. We believe the path to super intelligence (SI) isn’t one model that knows everything; it’s specialized intelligence working together. Collaboration gets us there faster.”

From AI models to AI infrastructure

webAI calls this emerging architecture the decision factory: intelligence built around the unique knowledge, expertise and workflows of an organization and deployed wherever decisions are made.

Instead of relying on a single general-purpose model, specialized AI Personas can operate as domain experts and work together across webAI’s Intelligence Delivery Network (IDN), a private network of compute controlled by the organization.

Forge will take responsibility for turning that technology into working enterprise systems, including architecture, secure deployment, model integration and optimization.

“Enterprises don’t need another AI demo,” said John Ezzell, founder and CEO of Forge AI Deployment. “They need AI that actually works inside their business. The opportunity is to take this technology from experimentation to production, and webAI gives us the infrastructure to do that.”

The partnership also expands webAI’s growing ecosystem of systems integrators, software companies and channel partners building, deploying and distributing specialized AI solutions on its platform across commercial and public-sector markets.

For enterprises, the shift is simple: AI stops being something they subscribe to and becomes intelligence they own.

About webAI
webAI is building collaborative intelligence: a private, local-first approach to AI in which specialized models run close to where work happens and collaborate with one another and the people they support. webAI enables individuals and organizations to create, own and deploy specialized intelligence across their own devices and environments. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, webAI’s mission is to make powerful AI accessible, personal and collaborative. Learn more at webai.com.

About Forge AI Deployment
Forge AI Deployment is an official webAI systems integrator that designs, installs and operates sovereign AI systems inside infrastructure customers control, including enterprise data centers, edge sites and air-gapped or disconnected enclaves. Combining more than two decades of work in high-consequence and Fortune 100 environments with webAI’s local-first platform, Forge provides end-to-end architecture, secure deployment, model integration and optimization while keeping institutional knowledge within the customer’s perimeter.

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NAIC Letter Details Proactive State Oversight of Evolving Insurance Landscape

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In response to a letter from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), state insurance regulators leading the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) today detailed how the state-based regulatory framework is evolving alongside insurers’ changing investment strategies, ownership structures, and risk-transfer arrangements.  

“Rather than relying on a static regulatory framework, regulators have regularly updated capital requirements, reporting standards, supervisory tools, and analytical capabilities to address emerging risks while maintaining a consistent focus on insurer solvency and policyholder protection,” said NAIC leadership.

Among other actions, this work includes:

Strengthening asset-adequacy testing through Actuarial Guideline 53 (AG 53) to provide greater consistency in evaluating the risks associated with complex and higher-yielding assets supporting life insurance business.

Intensifying oversight of certain life insurance and annuity reinsurance transactions through Actuarial Guideline 55 (AG 55), including setting higher expectations for asset-adequacy analysis and reserve adequacy.

Instituting a 45% risk-based capital charge for residual interests in structured securities to ensure that capital requirements appropriately recognize investment risk.

Creating a formal process for evaluating whether credit rating providers’ methodologies and rating mappings remain appropriate for regulatory purposes.

As NAIC leaders noted, “State insurance regulators continually evaluate whether the solvency framework appropriately captures emerging and changing risks.”

This adaptive approach, built on collaboration and coordination, has enabled state-based insurance regulation to lead for more than 150 years and will continue to guide it in an ever-changing insurance landscape.

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Full Letter

NAIC Resource Center: Private Credit and Insurance Regulation

State-Based Regulatory Timeline for NAIC’s Solvency Oversight

About the National Association of Insurance Commissioners

As part of our state-based system of insurance regulation in the United States, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) provides expertise, data, and analysis for insurance commissioners to effectively regulate the industry and protect consumers. The U.S. standard-setting organization is governed by the chief insurance regulators from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories. Through the NAIC, state insurance regulators establish standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and coordinate regulatory oversight. NAIC staff supports these efforts and represents the collective views of state regulators domestically and internationally.

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INVESTOR ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Investigates Claims On Behalf of Investors of ServiceTitan, Inc. – TTAN

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NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of ServiceTitan, Inc. (“ServiceTitan” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: TTAN). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at newaction@pomlaw.com or 646-581-9980, ext. 7980.

The investigation concerns whether ServiceTitan and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices. 

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On September 8, 2026, ServiceTitan reported second quarter 2027 earnings. Among other items, the Company reported that “[b]ecause Max” – ServiceTitan’s AI-powered enterprise software package – “requires substantial change management, we typically do not bill subscription fees for the first quarter of an upsell Max contract, and we have also elected not to charge existing customers an onboarding fee when transitioning to Max. As a result of these factors, we expect both our platform revenue and professional services revenue to grow at a slower pace for the remainder of fiscal 2027.” The Company further reported that “[w]e expect the mix shift to Max to lower professional services revenue by roughly an additional $2 million over the remainder of this fiscal year, which, of course, also flows through to professional services gross margin.”

On this news, ServiceTitan’s stock price fell $24.46 per share, or 29.98%, to close at $57.12 per share on September 9, 2026.

Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.

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Pomerantz LLP
dpeyton@pomlaw.com
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