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2025 Altair Enlighten Award Winners Announced

Lucid, Mercedes-Benz AG, AkzoNobel, and other industry leaders recognized for creating a lighter, more sustainable automotive future 

TROY, Mich., Sept. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, has named the winners of the 2025 Altair Enlighten Award. Presented in association with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), the award honors the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements that successfully reduce carbon footprint, mitigate water and energy consumption, and leverage material reuse and recycling efforts. 

Altair has announced winners of the 2025 Altair Enlighten Award, honoring the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements.
Altair has announced winners of the 2025 Altair Enlighten Award, honoring the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements.

“In a rapidly transforming automotive landscape, organizations must continuously push the boundaries of sustainability innovation. Throughout its 13-year history, the Enlighten Award remains the premier honor showcasing the automotive industry’s most groundbreaking achievements in sustainable technology,” said Sam Mahalingam, chief technology officer, Altair. “We are proud to once again celebrate the organizations driving a more sustainable future.”

“The Altair Enlighten Award represents the type of leadership our industry needs—bold, practical solutions that move us closer to a sustainable future,” said Elizabeth Krear, president and CEO, Center for Automotive Research. “At CAR, we see this award as a natural extension of our mission to convene stakeholders, highlight transformative research, and advance the technologies that will define tomorrow’s mobility. Together with Altair, we are shining a light on the innovations that will guide the road ahead—and today, we celebrate the winners who are setting a powerful example for the entire industry.”

Below is the complete list of all winning organizations, runners-up, and honorable mentions.

Future of Lightweighting
Winner: Vortex CAE – Enlighten™: A Novel Holistic Topometry Based Optimizer for the Design of Lightweight Crash Structures

  • Vortex CAE’s new solver offers direct crash and impact optimizations using full fidelity models. The outputs produce holistic and pre-validated CAE solutions. Additionally, they developed a computationally efficient 3D generative-design methodology to identify and size fundamental structural features early on. A generative design case study cut 77% from the body-in-white mass while meeting or exceeding structural performance in 13 primary crash load cases. Assuming a 50% mass-retention loss, they estimate that $500 million in raw material costs for this vehicle could have been saved, along with 1.35 million tons of C02 from manufacturing alone. 

Runner-up: Magna– Hemp-PA6 Composite Roof Rack Inner

  • Magna successfully demonstrated the use of Hemp Nylon (PA6) in automotive exteriors, enhancing sustainability. The new sustainable material replaces talc in traditional nylon resin and was developed in collaboration with BASF and Heartland. The lightweight, renewable material absorbs CO₂ during growth, supports decarbonization, and delivers performance and processing equivalent to the original resin, marking a major advancement in the use of natural fibers for automotive applications.

Enabling Technology
Winner: CompositeEdge GmbH and ATA Mute B.V. – Adaptive Ultra-Thin Noise Solution

  • CompositeEdge GmbH and ATA Mute B.V. have developed an acoustic element under 1 mm thick that offers up to 97% sound absorption, particularly at low frequencies where conventional materials are less effective. It is waterproof, fire-resistant, and fully recyclable, produced without adhesives from natural, carbon, or glass fibers combined with thermoplastics. The material maintains its performance in humid and high-temperature environments and is suitable for a wide range of applications such as cars, heat pumps, and interior facades.

Runner-up: Lucid – Modal Transient Analysis Based Durability CAE Workflow               

  • Lucid, in collaboration with the Altair® OptiStruct® development team, developed and implemented a seamless durability CAE workflow that progressed from MBD-based vehicle dynamics simulation to FEM-based strength, stiffness, and fatigue analysis, and ultimately to structural optimization. The workflow could be applied to a wide range of components, including the body-in-white, subframes, battery pack, suspension components, powertrain, and closures, using a Global-Local Analysis approach for detailed local assessments with refined meshing.

Honorable Mention: Mercedes-Benz AG & Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Private Limited – An Automated Sustainable Process for Generating Superelements

  • This fully automated process streamlines setup to just 15 minutes for complex parts, eliminates user errors, and requires no manual intervention. This innovation enables agile, iterative optimizations with fast design feedback, while cutting computational demands, achieving over 90% runtime reduction, lower hardware utilization, and more efficient resource use.

Module Lightweighting 
Winner: Syensqo and Geely – Amodel® PPA Stator Cooling System

  • Geely improved e-motor efficiency with an innovative stator cooling design using Syensqo’s Amodel® PPA, achieving 47% weight and 36% cost savings versus metal. The metal-to-plastic conversion reduces weight, enables part integration, and streamlines high-volume assembly through injection molding, laser welding, and snap fits. Highly resistant to automotive fluids, Amodel® PPA retains nearly 70% burst pressure resistance after 2,000 hours of aging at 150℃ ATF, ensuring safety, and reliability. This innovative design achieves precise lubrication with lower oil pump power consumption, effectively reducing the risk of overheating spots.

Runner-up: American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM)– Modular Lightweight Axle Housing Innovation

  • AAM’s modular lightweight axle housing innovation replaced two axle configurations with a single, modular design, cutting complexity and cost. Delivering up to 10% mass reduction, around 1.3 million pounds annually across 145,000 units, the design was optimized using Altair’s Multi-Model Optimization to balance weight and strength. Fully compatible with existing assembly lines and preserving back-serviceability, the solution reduces fuel consumption and emissions through material efficiency and streamlined logistics.

Sustainable Computing 
Winner: Lucid – Design-Driven Structural Assessment To Enable Accelerated Product Development

  • Lucid’s Design-Driven Structural Assessment approach accelerates product development using Altair SimSolid®’s meshless solver. Engineers can run rapid design iterations directly within their CAD environment, eliminating the need for complex meshing or switching tools. The highly customizable workflow streamlines setup and empowers teams to optimize designs with greater speed and ease.

Runner-up: Mercedes-Benz AG & Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Private Limited – An Automated Sustainable Process for Generating Superelements     

  • This fully automated process streamlines setup to just 15 minutes for complex parts, eliminates user errors, and requires no manual intervention. This innovation enables agile, iterative optimizations with fast design feedback, while cutting computational demands—achieving over 90% runtime reduction, lower hardware utilization, and more efficient resource use.

Sustainable Process 
Winner: Marelli – Adhesive Wastewater Recovery Solution

  • Marelli implemented a cleaning process for adhesive manufacturing equipment, such as robots and spray guns, utilized in bonding topcoat skins to substrates for cut, sew, and wrap parts. By using a three-part chemical agent, the process separates adhesive waste from the cleaning water, enabling recovery and reuse of approximately 85% of adhesive wastewater. This process reduced the plant’s water consumption by 8,160 kilograms annually, with the recovered non-potable water able to be reused within manufacturing operations.

Runner-up: CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd. – Key Technology for Integrated Forming of Large Aluminum Alloy Structural Components

  • This innovation consolidates 98 parts into a single component, reducing weight by 30% and lowering both cycle time and cost. It marks the first application of a non-heat-treated Al-Mg alloy in commercial vehicle structures. A closed-loop thermal balance system ensures consistent forming quality, while rapid process simulation and C123 variable cross-section design optimize material usage and accelerate the design-to-validation cycle.

Sustainable Product
Winner: NIO and AkzoNobel – Bottom Plate Coating for Battery Pack to Improve Lifespan During Battery Swap for Electrical Vehicles

  • NIO and AkzoNobel extended the lifespan of the bottom plate coating from 5 to 15 years while reducing coating thickness by 90%, cutting vehicle weight by 2.2 kg, and pioneering powder coating technology for electric vehicles. The innovation replaced non-recyclable materials with recyclable alternatives, eliminated VOC emissions, and improved coating efficiency by 55%, delivering significant sustainability benefits. Established through a unique car maker–tier 5 partnership, this scalable solution enhanced cost and efficiency across tiers 1 to 3 and has been mass-produced since November 2024, applied widely on NIO, Onvo, and Firefly EV models.

Runner-up: Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. – Answering Earth with Low-Carbon Recycled Aluminum

  • Chery Automobile’s low-carbon aluminum initiative uses 100% recycled aluminum in a closed-loop system with over 99% impurity removal and employs heat-treatment-free integrated die-casting, cutting manufacturing energy by up to 95%. Achieving over 80% reduction in raw-material carbon emissions, it meets global low-carbon standards while maintaining strength and safety, and fosters collaborative ecosystems for scalable green manufacturing.

Responsible AI
Winner: Lucid – Predicting Crash Modes with Altair® PhysicsAI™ 

  • Lucid transformed crash CAE by applying AI-driven insights to predict complex, non-linear deformation behaviors under realistic off-axis and oblique impact scenarios. By integrating Altair PhysicsAI with LS-DYNA, they trained surrogate models to classify crash modes, such as axial crush and bending, well before physical testing. This approach reduced design iterations, minimizing prototype reliance, and accelerating delivery of lightweight, crash-robust structures with high safety confidence. This scalable methodology was applied across multiple crash-critical components and contributed to sustainability by minimizing material use, reducing test waste, and supporting corporate decarbonization goals.

Runner-up: Lucid – Agentic AI For Engineering Automation

  • Lucid automated CAD data retrieval, custom script execution, analysis, and reporting by implementing AI-driven natural language support, which eliminated the need to learn each individual tool. By simply stating broad concepts, the AI handled intricate details and seamlessly chained multiple applications, allowing data to flow automatically through the workflow pipeline. This approach enabled instant execution of ideas without waiting for manual intervention and avoided complex API use by automating interactions directly through the GUI.

As the automotive industry accelerates demand for safer, more efficient, and innovative products, Altair empowers transformation with AI-powered engineering, high-performance computing (HPC), and optimization across the entire product lifecycle. By enabling customers to reduce environmental impact, Altair’s software and consulting services are helping shape a healthier, more sustainable future. To learn more, visit https://altair.com/sustainability.

The Enlighten Award winners will be announced in an awards ceremony at the CAR Management Briefing Seminars in Detroit, Michigan on September 16, 2025. For more information about the Enlighten Award, visit www.altair.com/enlighten-award.

Partners for the 2025 Enlighten Award include Auto Bild Japan, Autocar Professional, Automobil Industrie, Auto Messe Web, Auto Messe Web Worldwide, Center for Automotive Research, Google Cloud, Korean Society of Automotive Engineers (KSAE), SAE Automotive Engineering, and Tech Briefs.

About Altair
Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair is part of Siemens Digital Industries Software. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com or sw.siemens.com.

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Bybit and SignalPlus Announce The Return of Trading Competition With $300,000 USDT Prize Pool

DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has partnered with digital asset trading platform SignalPlus to launch the latest edition of their joint trading competition, offering participants the chance to win a share of 300,000 USDT.

The Bybit x SignalPlus Trading Competition will run from Sept. 16, 2025, at 8 a.m. UTC through Oct. 14, 2025, at 8 a.m. UTC. Registration is open until Oct. 14, 2025, at 8 a.m. UTC.

To participate, users must register for the event, link their Bybit API to the SignalPlus platform and execute trades through SignalPlus. Both individual and team competitions are available, and participants may join or create one team while still competing in individual rankings.

The competition features two sessions:

  • Prime Session: Includes daily individual lotteries of up to 300 USDT, team lotteries awarding travel packages and shared USDT prizes, and weekly team rankings distributing 1,500 USDT among the top four groups.
  • Boost Session: Features interactive elements such as the “Legion Supply Station,” which allows participants to predict Bitcoin trends for daily prizes, as well as milestone-based rewards of up to 8,000 USDT per week.

Additional incentives include registration and first-trade bonuses, where participants share prize pools of 1,000 USDT each, with one extra 300 USDT prize awarded in both categories. Referral rewards in the form of ETH, TRUMP tokens, and additional digital assets are also available under set conditions.

“Partnering with SignalPlus aligns seamlessly with our mission to build a dynamic trading ecosystem. This competition creates an inclusive platform for participants to sharpen their skills and enjoy exciting rewards, regardless of experience level,” said Ken Tian, Head of Derivatives Business Unit (DBU) at Bybit.

“We are delighted to collaborate with Bybit on this year’s Global Trading Competition,” commented Chris Yu, CEO at SignalPlus. “This initiative underscores our dedication to making advanced options trading accessible and rewarding for everyone, from beginners to experts. It’s an unparalleled opportunity for traders to hone their strategies, engage with the community, and a chance to gain some great prizes.”

The launch follows the recent Bybit x SignalPlus Options Masterclass, which aims to lower the barriers to options trading through structured education. The first session, held on Sept. 8 and led by trader 0xcryptobobo, focused on establishing a foundational “options worldview.” Using a Tai Chi analogy, he illustrated how the dual forces of Calls and Puts evolve into more complex combinations, helping beginners see a logical structure instead of scattered strategies.

The class also emphasized mindset as a core part of trading discipline. 0xcryptobobo cautioned that “avoiding losses” is more important than seeking quick wins, advising students to accept losses as normal, practice patience, and commit only 10 to 20 percent of their capital when starting. He highlighted the importance of maintaining a safe margin level, reinforcing risk awareness as the basis for long-term success.

To move from theory to practice, participants were tasked with placing their first options trade using no more than 100 USDT. The exercise was designed to reduce fear, provide quick feedback, and allow traders to experience the full lifecycle of a position within a few days. This hands-on approach underscored the series’ focus on transforming knowledge into practical ability.

*Participation is open to Bybit users worldwide, excluding residents of France, Iran, the United States, the Netherlands, North Korea, Cuba, Crimea, Sevastopol, Sudan, Syria, Canada, Singapore, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Spain, Uzbekistan, and countries within the European Economic Area. All participants must complete Level 1 Identity Verification and adhere to the terms and conditions outlined by both Bybit and SignalPlus.

#Bybit / #TheCryptoArk / #IMakeIt 

About Bybit

Bybit is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, serving a global community of over 70 million users. Founded in 2018, Bybit is redefining openness in the decentralized world by creating a simpler, open and equal ecosystem for everyone. With a strong focus on Web3, Bybit partners strategically with leading blockchain protocols to provide robust infrastructure and drive on-chain innovation. Renowned for its secure custody, diverse marketplaces, intuitive user experience, and advanced blockchain tools, Bybit bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi, empowering builders, creators, and enthusiasts to unlock the full potential of Web3. Discover the future of decentralized finance at Bybit.com.

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Passivhaus Philippines launches at webinar on energy-efficient building for tropical climates

Event spotlights Passive House strategies for sustainable design in the Philippines

MANILA, Philippines, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Passivhaus Philippines, a new national non-profit dedicated to advancing the Passive House Standard, was officially launched during a webinar on energy-efficient and low-carbon building solutions for the very hot climate.

The online event gathered architects, engineers, and academics, reflecting growing interest in resilient, climate-conscious construction in the Philippines.

Jessica Grove-Smith, Senior Researcher and Joint Managing Director of the Passive House Institute in Germany, opened with an overview of Passive House principles in hot climates. She stressed that insulation, ventilation and shading are key to reducing energy use while ensuring comfort in tropical conditions.

Jordan Parnass, principal architect at New York-based Circular, presented Sri Lanka’s first certified Passive House, showing how retrofits can succeed in hot regions despite higher upfront costs. He noted that energy savings can deliver payback within six years.

Dylan Martello, Senior Building Systems Consultant at Steven Winter Associates, discussed multi-unit and commercial projects, underscoring the role of third-party certification to guarantee energy performance and long-term savings.

Norman Garcia, Executive Director of Passivhaus Philippines, addressed practical adoption in the local context and highlighted both opportunities and challenges in applying Passive House in new construction and retrofits in the Philippines, where high temperatures and humidity must be tackled.

The event underscored the organization’s educational and advocacy mission. Garcia emphasized building awareness, training local professionals, and including students in events to grow expertise. While only a few certified Passive House professionals exist in the Philippines today, efforts are underway to expand training and certification opportunities.

The launch drew support from the Philippine green building community, including Philippine Energy Efficiency Alliance, the Green Architecture Advocacy Philippines, the Philippine Green Building Council and United Architects of the Philippines Makati Greenbelt Chapter.

Participants were invited to join Passivhaus Philippines as members to support education, advocacy and technical support, and to register for future events.

About the Passive House Standard
The Passive House Standard is a globally recognized benchmark for energy-efficient building design. It emphasizes high levels of building envelope and optimized ventilation to minimize heating and cooling needs.

About Passivhaus Philippines
Passivhaus Philippines is a national non-profit association of professionals and stakeholders promoting highly energy-efficient, low-carbon buildings. Its mission is to make the Passive House Standard understood, achievable and adopted across the Philippines through education, advocacy, and technical support.

www.passivhausph.org 

Contact:
Norman Garcia
Executive Director
Passivhaus Philippines
info@passivhausph.org 

AlphaMove, a Malaysian Startup Established Partnership with Chinese State Government to Foster Deep Tech Economy and Smart City Innovation


KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 16 September 2025 – AlphaMove, a Malaysian blockchain startup building a public, permissionless ecosystem for Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization, has signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement with Guangxi Research Department, under the Nanning Provincial Government of China. The signing took place during the 3rd Forum on China-ASEAN Artificial Intelligence Cooperation, underscoring how Malaysia and China are working together to accelerate breakthroughs in AI, blockchain, and smart city development.

AlphaMove team signs a strategic partnership with the Chinese government to advance cross-border innovation in AI and blockchain. (From right: Kingsley Tan, AlphaMove CEO; from left: Tan Hon Je, COO; Ivan Ku, CMO)
AlphaMove team signs a strategic partnership with the Chinese government to advance cross-border innovation in AI and blockchain. (From right: Kingsley Tan, AlphaMove CEO; from left: Tan Hon Je, COO; Ivan Ku, CMO)

The agreement establishes a long-term partnership to develop a trusted, compliant, and interoperable blockchain ecosystem enhanced by AI capabilities. AlphaMove and Guangxi Research Department will jointly explore applications in asset pricing, risk management, and regulatory monitoring, while applying blockchain to tokenized real-world assets such as real estate, private credit, corporate equity and more. The partnership also calls for the setting up of AI and Blockchain research laboratories in both Nanning (capital city in Guangxi, China) and Kuala Lumpur, creating cross-border innovation hubs that strengthen China–Malaysia and wider ASEAN digital cooperation.

AlphaMove team shares insights with Xinhua News on strengthening Malaysia–China collaboration in AI and blockchain innovation
AlphaMove team shares insights with Xinhua News on strengthening Malaysia–China collaboration in AI and blockchain innovation

The Forum also featured the announcement of a forthcoming research paper on AI and blockchain interoperability, reinforcing China’s ambition to shape global standards for emerging technologies. By placing blockchain at the heart of smart city infrastructure, the collaboration demonstrates how government-linked research in China and innovative startups from Malaysia can work hand-in-hand to drive digital transformation.

AlphaMove team visits the largest hospital in Nanning to explore real-world applications of Medical AI and its integration into smart healthcare systems
AlphaMove team visits the largest hospital in Nanning to explore real-world applications of Medical AI and its integration into smart healthcare systems

“This partnership is a milestone in the collaboration between Malaysia and China in advancing high-tech economies. Together, we are building the foundation for interoperable, compliant, and future-ready smart city solutions that will benefit communities across ASEAN,” said Kingsley Tan, CEO of AlphaMove.

This partnership highlights China’s role as a pioneer in smart city innovation while also showcasing how Malaysia’s startup ecosystem is contributing to ASEAN’s digital future. By uniting China’s government-backed research with Malaysia’s entrepreneurial drive, the partnership sets the stage for transformative applications in healthcare, finance, and urban development, supporting the shared vision of a digitally interconnected ASEAN region.

Hashtag: #AlphaMove #rwa #blockchain #ai


The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

About AlphaMove

AlphaMove is a Malaysian-founded, public, permissionless blockchain ecosystem designed to unlock the full potential of Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization. With modular infrastructure, embedded compliance, and institutional-grade scalability, AlphaMove powers exchanges, payment solutions, and investment frameworks bridging traditional finance and Web3.

LEVOIT AND BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY LAUNCH “PROTECT THEIR SANCTUARY” CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE WELLNESS FOR PETS AND PEOPLE, SUPPORT NO-KILL EFFORTS

Home wellness brand pledges $100,000 and donates products to Best Friends, supporting healthier, pet-friendly homes and lifesaving programs for pets

TUSTIN, Calif., Sept. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Levoit™, VeSync’s premier smart home brand dedicated to home wellness, has partnered with Best Friends Animal Society, a leading national animal welfare organization, on a new initiative, “Levoit × Best Friends Animal Society: Protect Their Sanctuary.”

Best Friends Animal Society x Levoit: Protect Their Sanctuary.
Best Friends Animal Society x Levoit: Protect Their Sanctuary.

To help Best Friends save the lives of dogs and cats in America’s shelters and make the entire country no-kill*, Levoit has curated the Best Friends Collection, featuring the Vital 100S-P and Vital 200S-P smart air purifiers and the LVAC-200 Cordless Stick Vacuum. From Sept. 16, 2025, through Sept. 15, 2026, Levoit will donate 10% of the proceeds from purchases made through the Best Friends Collection page to the nonprofit, with a pledge of $100,000.

Levoit is also donating more than 100 Vital 200S-P Smart Air Purifiers and LVAC-200 Cordless Stick Vacuums to Best Friends locations across the country, as well as sponsoring its 2025 Super Adoption events in Northwest Arkansas and Los Angeles.

“Pets aren’t just part of the home, they’re family,” said Steph Egger at Levoit. “Through our partnership with Best Friends Animal Society, we’re turning that passion into purpose by helping save the lives of dogs and cats in need across the country. It’s more than a mission. It’s a movement fueled by our love for pets everywhere.”

Contributions will help fund Best Friends programs, which include spay/neuter programs, shelter support, medical care, and adoption services across the country. Best Friends operates the largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the U.S., as well as pet lifesaving facilities in Los Angeles, New York City, Salt Lake City, Houston, and Northwest Arkansas. The organization also runs lifesaving programs in partnership with more than 5,500 shelters and rescue organizations.

“Best Friends is proud to join forces with Levoit on this campaign that makes it easier for pet lovers across the country to support our lifesaving work,” said Julie Castle, CEO, Best Friends Animal Society. “While fostering a healthier environment for their own pets, people will directly contribute to programs that help keep dogs and cats out of shelters and in loving homes where they belong.” 

Americans spend an average of 90% of their time indoors, where concentrations of some pollutants are often two to five times higher than typical outdoor concentration¹. This makes it more important than ever that pets and their owners have access to clean air at home. Levoit’s pet-friendly appliances aim to minimize odors, fur, and keep your home clean and everyone in it thriving.

Levoit will share a report highlighting the partnership’s results following the end of the campaign. Digital assets are available to view and download here. See below for more details on the eligible products.

  • Vital 100S-P Air Purifier: Designed for pet-friendly households, the Vital 100S-P offers powerful filtration with a 3-stage system that captures pet hair, dander, smoke, and airborne allergens. Its compact design is perfect for bedrooms and living spaces that you share with your pets, and smart features like app control and voice assistant compatibility make clean air easy to manage. The Vital 100S-P retails for $139.99.
  • Vital 200S-P Air Purifier: Ideal for larger rooms, the Vital 200S-P delivers advanced air purification with a high-efficiency filter that targets dust, pollutants, and pet-related odors. With smart scheduling, real-time air quality readings, and ultra-quiet performance, it creates a fresher environment without disrupting your day. The Vital 200S-P retails for $189.99.
  • LVAC-200 Cordless Stick Vacuum: This fan-favorite tackles pet hair and everyday messes with ease. Featuring powerful suction, multiple cleaning modes, and a tangle-resistant brush, this vacuum glides effortlessly from carpets to hard floors. The LVAC-200 retails for $199.99.

*No-kill is defined by a 90% save rate for animals entering a shelter and is a meaningful and common-sense benchmark for measuring lifesaving progress. Typically, the number of pets who are suffering from irreparable medical or behavioral issues that compromise their quality of life and prevent them from being rehomed is not more than 10% of all dogs and cats entering shelters. For any community to be no-kill, all stakeholders in that community must work together to achieve and sustain that common goal while prioritizing community safety and good quality of life for pets as guiding no-kill principles. This means cooperation among animal shelters, animal rescue groups, government agencies, community members and other stakeholders, all committed to best practices and protocols.  

1U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1987. The total exposure assessment methodology (TEAM) study: Summary and analysis. EPA/600/6-87/002a. Washington, DC.

About Levoit

Levoit elevates home wellness. From the air you breathe to the ground you walk on, we design smart humidifiers, air purifiers, vacuums, and fans that transform your home into a space of ease and comfort. Our app gives you full control of your home sanctuary, enabling you to monitor air quality, adjust humidity, and set timers and schedules with the tap of a screen. As part of the VeSync Family of Brands, Levoit continues our company’s mission to build the home of the future. Learn more at www.levoit.com and follow Levoit on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and TikTok

About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends Animal Society is a leading animal welfare organization dedicated to saving the lives of dogs and cats in America’s shelters, working to make all shelters the entire country no-kill. Founded in 1984, Best Friends runs lifesaving facilities and programs nationwide in partnership with more than 5,500 shelters and rescue organizations. From its headquarters in Kanab, Utah, Best Friends operates the nation’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary, destination that brings their mission to life for thousands of visitors each year. Best Friends maintains the most comprehensive animal sheltering data in the country and makes it accessible to the public, empowering communities with critical insights into the needs of their local shelters and how they can help. They believe every dog and cat deserves a home, and that by working together, we can Save Them All®.

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Movement Evolves to an L1, Unlocking Better Performance, Native Staking, and Move 2.0

Strategic transition delivers foundational infrastructure for mainstream blockchain adoption

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Move Industries, a Web3 company and core contributor of the Movement Network, today announced the evolution of Movement Network from its current sidechain architecture to a sovereign Layer 1 (L1) blockchain. This transition unlocks more performance, native MOVE token staking, Move 2.0 language support, and establishes the foundation for onboarding the next million users to blockchain.

Move Industries
Move Industries

Breaking Performance Barriers
The L1 architecture enables 10,000+ transactions per second with sub-second finality, compared to the current 500-600 TPS limitation. As an L1, Movement is positioned to reach the MoveVM’s performance potential, all while eliminating the single-point-of-failure created by the current centralized sequencer. 

The new infrastructure also enables native MOVE token staking. Only unlocked tokens can participate in staking, a restriction that promotes fairness and ensures genuine community ownership of network security, excluding investors and core contributors from staking locked tokens.

Move 2.0 First-Mover Advantage
Movement will offer Move 2.0 programming language support, making its Move advantage even stronger. Move 2.0 provides developers with advanced features including enum types and function values. A public testnet will be live soon for builders, with mainnet migration planned by the end of 2025.

Strategic Infrastructure Focus
The L1 provides the stability, extensibility, and elite performance necessary for Movement’s focus on real-world asset tokenization and mobile-first experiences. The upgrade will benefit dApps across the board. As the evolution is a major performance leap forward even from the network’s June Monza upgrade, which catalyzed volume and activity surges, builders and users can expect a new level of on-chain experience on Movement.

Seamless Transition
No action is required from users during the migration process. All existing funds, smart contracts, and network activity are unchanged and will remain the same after the migration. The transition is designed to be completely transparent to end users, maintaining all current functionality while unlocking new L1 capabilities.

Movement views validators as ecosystem partners who serve as guardians of the network’s future, directly influencing security, liquidity, and growth. These validator slots will be awarded to aligned community members and organizations who have demonstrated commitment to Movement’s vision, not random partners seeking quick rewards.

Validator applications will open shortly after the testnet launch, with staking opportunities becoming available following the mainnet migration.

For more information about Movement’s L1 Private Testnet, visit Move Industries and follow @moveindustries, @movementfdn, @moveecosystem on Twitter.

About Move Industries
Move Industries is building a community-first Move-based blockchain ecosystem. Led by a team of industry veterans, Move Industries maintains a dual focus on technology and community. The organization intends to return to crypto’s radical roots: giving financial power and opportunity back to the people.

Global Times: Strategic moves to optimize competition order, circulation efficiency, unlock economic potential

BEIJING, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The market is the scarcest resource, and the super-sized domestic market is China’s advantage. Making full use of this resource and building a unified national market is not only an urgent task, but also a strategic move.

A Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau meeting held on July 30, 2025, noted that it is essential to advance the building of a unified national market, and further optimize the order of market competition.

In the first half of 2025, China’s GDP grew 5.3 percent year-on-year, with domestic demand contributing 68.8 percent to growth. Despite a challenging and complex external environment, the vast Chinese market has demonstrated strong resilience.

At the same time, problems such as disorderly price competition among some industries and companies, local governments vying with preferential policies, and industries blindly chasing short-term trends still persist, hindering the strengthening of the domestic economic cycle.

To remove bottlenecks and keep economic circulation smooth, it is essential to follow the principle of “establishing the right practices while abolishing the wrong ones.”

What should be established and what should be abolished? How should this be done in theory and in practice? Addressing these questions is key to advancing the building of a unified national market, creating a new development pattern, and firmly taking the strategic initiative of development into China’s own hands.

Rule upgrade 

Building a unified national market requires establishing “visible rules” while dismantling “hidden rules.”

The construction of a unified national market focuses on institutional development as the main line, with both abolishing and establishing pursued simultaneously, and establishing the new before abolishing the old. Establishing “visible rules” and removing “hidden rules” means strengthening institutional development, ensuring that social operations are rule-based, providing clear guidance for individual behavior, and reducing phenomena such as speculation and loophole exploitation caused by ambiguous rules. This approach fundamentally ensures fairness and justice.

In Wenzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province, the nation’s first nuclear power project with private capital participation – the San’ao Nuclear Power Plant – has reached key milestones. Unit 1 of the first phase has completed a “hot test” and is expected to be connected to the grid by year-end, while the second phase has officially broken ground, accelerating construction.

Compared with the 2 percent private-capital share in the first phase, the second phase has raised private participation to 10 percent. The lowered market access threshold has opened up new investment and business opportunities. 

Only by establishing sound rules can outdated practices be dismantled effectively. While market access has been gradually eased, institutional safeguards have been reinforced to steadily improve the “soft environment” for a unified market.

By adhering to institution-building as the main line, and advancing reforms through both establishing and dismantling, a more complete market system will steadily unleash reform dividends and expand room for growth.

Barrier break

Building a unified national market requires setting up “road signs” while removing “roadblocks.”

The development of a unified national market must remain problem-oriented, pursuing precise reforms. Setting up “road signs” and removing “roadblocks” means coordinating planning, integrating resources, and aligning mechanisms to form an organic whole – top-down and bottom-up, cross-regional, and domestic-international linkages – so that all factors of production can connect smoothly and unleash development potential.

The second phase of the Suzhou-Taizhou Expressway opened to traffic on July 4, marking a sprint toward the completion of the entire line by the end of the year. The “missing links” in the Yangtze River Delta expressway network are about to be eliminated.

Transportation and logistics are the lifeblood of the national economic cycle, while factor markets form the very foundation of the entire market system.

Intensifying efforts to “break through” pain points and difficulties clear away obstacles, create conditions, and open pathways for new progress. By focusing on fairer and more orderly competition and deepening reforms in the market-based allocation of production factors, China can ensure smoother economic circulation.

By sticking to a problem-oriented approach and identifying the right direction and focus for what to establish and what to dismantle, China can improve circulation, unlock the potential of the national market, and ensure the “body” of the economy is vigorous and full of vitality.

Broader vision 

Building a unified national market requires a whole-of-nation approach and abandoning narrow-mindedness.

The construction of a unified national market must adhere to a systemic perspective and clearly distinguish priorities. Taking a whole-of-nation approach and decisively breaking the “narrow-minded” approach means breaking through the limitations of “a small plot of land” and using a broader vision, a longer-term outlook, and a more systematic approach to grasp the essence of things and the laws of development.

On June 26, at the Lusong Modern Industrial Park in Lu’an, East China’s Anhui Province, Saphlux officially began production of its R-series chip line. The products are not unusual, but the mechanism is: after production began, Lu’an in Anhui and Songjiang in Shanghai agreed to “separate statistics and share fiscal and tax revenues.”

In November 2024, the two local governments signed the Lusong Modern Industrial Park Benefit-Sharing Agreement, creating models such as “Shanghai headquarters + Lu’an base” and “Shanghai R&D + Lu’an manufacturing.” Shifting from “giving a helping hand” to “winning together,” ShanghaiAnhui cooperation has become a testing ground for cross-regional industrial transfer.

By finding the right position and leveraging comparative advantages, regions can shift from passive “breaking” to active “establishing.” Breaking free from a small patch of land and joining the unified national market is the way to avoid creating closed mini-markets.

By adhering to systemic thinking, balancing the local and the national in both establishing and abolishing, and fostering fertile ground for mutual benefit, China will promote the efficient allocation of resources and advance its market from being merely large to becoming truly strong.

 

Forum on China-ASEAN Technology Transfer and Collaborative Innovation 2025 Opens in Nanning

BEIJING, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — A report from CRI Online:

On September 16, 2025, the Forum on China-ASEAN Technology Transfer and Collaborative Innovation 2025 began in Nanning, Guangxi. The gathering convened senior science and technology officials, prominent academicians, analysts, and corporate representatives from China and multiple ASEAN member states. Discussions centered on broadening the responsible deployment and fair access to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, signaling a shared commitment to regional cooperation aimed at delivering practical improvements in public welfare.

On-site at the event (Photo provided by the organizer)
On-site at the event (Photo provided by the organizer)

During the forum, the Three-Year Work Plan for the China-ASEAN AI-Driven Sci-Tech Capacity Enhancement Initiative (2025–2027) was released. The event also featured the launch of several projects supporting the new China–ASEAN AI Innovation Cooperation Center. These include the establishment of the China–ASEAN Open-Source AI Alliance, a performance-based funding framework for large-scale industry AI model projects, and a new “AI+” application program between China and ASEAN member states. Additionally, a fund was set up to help translate scientific research into commercial applications, paired with the introduction of a regional “AI+” workforce training program. The forum concluded with the signing of nearly ten science and technology agreements between Chinese and ASEAN entities, spanning six ASEAN countries. The agreements cover technology transfer and joint platform development, with the goal of accelerating a more efficient distribution of innovation resources across the region.

This year’s forum prioritized key cooperative domains with a focus on AI and included a series of specialized sessions: the opening ceremony and main plenary, the 10+3 Young Scientists Forum, the 2025 China–ASEAN Conference on AI Cooperation, and a China–ASEAN Technology Matchmaking Session. Together, these events brought in expertise from across the region, encouraged exchanges of ideas, and gave added momentum to efforts to build a more integrated community with a shared future.