NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor.

NEW YORK, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today’s NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins. 

Kristen Scholer delivers the pre-market update on April 13th

• Equities are sliding early Monday after peace talks over the weekend failed to materialize and as the U.S. prepares to blockade Iran ports.
• Investor, Entrepreneur, and Shark Tank star Robert Herjavec spoke to NYSE in partnership with NightDragon to discuss cyber threats and cyber security.
• Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson is at the NYSE to celebrate the city’s emergency as a business and financial destination and will join Kristen Scholer on NYSE Live.
• Diversified Energy (NYSE: DEC) CEO Rusty Hutson will join Taking Stock this afternoon to discuss why the company sees the NYSE as its premier listing venue.

Opening Bell
The City of Dallas Business Delegation spotlights the rise of “Y’all Street.”

Closing Bell
Diversified Energy (NYSE: DEC) celebrates its 25^th anniversary of founding

For market insights, IPO activity, and today’s opening bell, download the NYSE TV App: TV.NYSE.com

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The voice-first platform expands to the browser with two-minute human-only audio posts and a listener-controlled feed built for real presence—not algorithmic intrusion.

WASHINGTON, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Gistvox today announced the launch of its new web audio studio, providing users a professional browser-based suite to record, organize, and publish two-minute audio posts—called “Gists”—seamlessly across Web, iOS, and Android platforms.

“In the beginning was the word.”

The launch marks a strategic expansion for Gistvox beyond its mobile roots, sharpening the company’s core mission: providing a high-fidelity sanctuary for human speech in a digital landscape increasingly saturated by AI-generated content and intrusive algorithms.

“We are taking communication back to one of its oldest and most human forms: the voice,” said Abram Olmstead, founder of Gistvox. “No synthetic avatars. No algorithmic theater. Just a person, speaking—and a listener choosing whether to hear them. While the rest of the industry leans into automation, we are leaning into authenticity.”

The Gistvox platform is built on three foundational pillars designed to return control to the user:

• Human-Only Audio: A strict policy prohibiting AI-generated or synthetic published audio.
• The Sacred Feed: A “Zero-Noise” Home Feed with no ads, no algorithmic injections, and no forced recommendations.
• Listener Sovereignty: A separate discovery space allows users to explore the global conversation on their own terms, preventing “feed creep” from polluting the personal listening experience.

“Most platforms treat the feed as inventory to be sold to the highest bidder,” added Olmstead. “We treat it as sacred space belonging to the listener.”

Key Features of the Web Audio Studio Launch:

• Browser-Based Recording: Record and edit high-quality Gists directly from any desktop browser with no additional hardware required.
• Two-Minute “Brevity” Format: Designed to capture insights and observations while preserving the intimacy and momentum of natural speech.
• Global Synchronization: Full cross-platform parity allows users to start recording on mobile and manage their library on the web.
• Organization Tools: New folder and categorization systems for users to manage audio content at scale.

As social platforms become more synthetic, Gistvox is making a deliberate, human-centric bet: that the human voice remains the most powerful medium for connection, and that the “social” in social media should be defined by people, not machines.

About Gistvox
Gistvox is a voice-first social platform for micro-podcasting. Built around authentic human speech and listener-controlled feeds, it offers a human-only alternative to ad-driven, algorithmically shaped social media. For more information, visit www.gistvox.com.

Alibaba Leads RMB 2 Billion Series B to Support General World Model Development

SINGAPORE, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ShengShu Technology, a global leader in multimodal generative AI, today announced the global launch of Vidu Q3 Reference-to-Video, a new model capability designed for story-driven video creation through flexible reference-based generation.

Built for storytelling, Vidu Q3 Reference-to-Video enables creators to generate high-quality videos by referencing and combining a wide range of inputs—including subjects, environments, costumes, props, and visual styles—within a single workflow, significantly improving creative control, consistency, and efficiency.

The release expands capabilities across visual effects, audio, and scene composition. It supports six types of cinematic visual effects, including particle systems, fluid simulation, dynamic motion, camera movement, transitions, and lighting, enabling more expressive visual outputs. In parallel, the model enhances audio generation with five categories of sound capabilities for more natural and expressive results, covering ambient sound, motion-driven audio, atmospheric layers, foley effects, and emotion-driven cues. Together, these improvements enable greater scene diversity and more immersive, production-ready video outputs.

Designed for use cases including short-form series, animation, film and television, as well as advertising and e-commerce, Vidu Q3 Reference-to-Video enables faster production of high-quality video content for both creators and enterprises. This performance is further reflected in third-party benchmarks, where Vidu Q3 ranked No.1 in the first global Reference-to-Video leaderboard released by SuperCLUE.

Built on the Vidu Q3 model foundation, Vidu has been fully integrated across its product ecosystem, including Vidu Agent, Vidu Claw, and the Vidu App. This creates a unified system supporting the full workflow from creative ideation and content production to deployment, enabling greater efficiency and consistency across diverse use cases.

The release reflects ShengShu’s broader progress in advancing its world model capabilities across digital environments.

In parallel with the product release, ShengShu announced it has raised RMB 2 billion in its Series B financing round, led by Alibaba Cloud, with participation from Andon Haitang, China Internet Investment Fund, TAL Education Group, Luminous Ventures, and others. Existing investors, including LINK-X CAPITAL, Delta Capital, and Baidu Ventures, also increased their investment.

The funding will support ShengShu’s broader vision of building a general world model that bridges the digital and physical worlds. The company is advancing both its World Generation Model (WGM), which powers digital content creation through the Vidu model family, and its World Action Model (WAM), designed for physical-world interaction. Together, these systems aim to enable unified modeling, prediction, and action across environments.

ShengShu is among the first globally to pursue a unified world model architecture that connects digital and physical domains. At the core of this system is its Foundation World Model, which underpins both WGM and WAM.

Within this framework, the Vidu model family focuses on content generation and interaction in digital environments. It supports synchronized audio-visual generation, extended video duration, strong temporal and spatial consistency, and cinematic-quality visuals. Its proprietary reference-based video generation capability addresses consistency challenges in multi-subject video production.

At launch, Vidu Q3 ranked No.1 globally on the benchmark published by Artificial Analysis. It supports up to 16 seconds of synchronized audio and video generation, multi-shot composition and camera control, background music and sound effect generation, and multilingual dialogue. The launch of Reference-to-Video further expands its capabilities across visual effects, audio, and application scenarios.

Vidu is available to global developers, creators, and enterprises through both MaaS (Vidu API platform) and SaaS offerings, and has been integrated into Alibaba Cloud Model Studio to support text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation across industries including internet, advertising, film and animation, education, and cultural tourism.

Dr. Zhu Jun, Founder of ShengShu Technology, said:
“At its core, a world model gives AI a unified way to represent and predict the real world.
Video plays a critical role in this, as it naturally captures time, space, motion, and causality.
By building a unified model architecture, we aim to connect perception and action—creating a complete loop from understanding the world, to generating it, to acting within it, and ultimately making the world model a true bridge between the digital and physical worlds.”

DORCO’s flagship razor SLEEK earns Product Design award as retail footprint expands across key global markets

SEOUL, South Korea, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DORCO, the world’s #1 best-selling South Korean razor manufacturing company – based on Euromonitor’s database – today announced that its flagship razor, DORCO SLEEK, has won the iF Design Award 2026 in the Product Design category (Beauty/Wellness), following its 2025 GOOD DESIGN® Award from The Chicago Athenaeum. Organized by iF International Forum Design in Germany, the award is widely regarded as one of the world’s most prestigious design awards. The recognition comes as SLEEK continues to expand its global retail presence, with growing distribution across North America and the Middle East. 

This year’s iF Design Award was evaluated by 129 international experts, who assessed more than 10,000 entries from 68 countries. The jury recognized SLEEK for its precision engineering and functional design.

Developed based on consumer insights from North America, Europe, and Asia, SLEEK incorporates DORCO’s Super Thin Blade, complemented by a bent-blade structure for improved precision and a fully open-flow cartridge for easy rinsing. DORCO’s patented blade coating enhances blade durability, while the Multi-Flex Head adapts to facial contours for consistent contact. Together, these features are designed to deliver a smooth and more controlled shaving experience.

This momentum is reflected in SLEEK’s expansion across key growth markets. In the United States, SLEEK launched on Amazon in March 2025, with brand collaborations with Evan Mock and Mac Jones driving early awareness. In the UAE, the product launched in both online and offline retail channels in June 2025 and quickly gained traction within the system razor category, supported by a brand campaign with DJ Bliss. 

About DORCO

Founded in 1955, DORCO has been a global leader in developing and manufacturing innovative razor products worldwide. We continue to push the boundaries of shaving technology. DORCO’s diverse range of razors combines cutting-edge blade innovation with ergonomic designs, delivering the smoothest, most comfortable shave on the market. With a commitment to quality, craftsmanship, and sustainability, DORCO enriches the shaving experience for millions of customers across 100+ countries.

For inquiries

Hoffman Agency Korea Dorco Team / DorcoPRKR@hoffman.com
Heesun Kim / hskim@hoffman.com
Lina Lee / llee@hoffman.com

NEW YORK, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — April marks Celebrate Diversity Month, occurring annually since 2004. As U.S. cities continue to thrive as cultural melting pots, HungryPanda, an Asian food delivery platform serving communities worldwide, is expanding its role in connecting users to diverse culinary experiences across some of the world‘s most inclusive and food-forward urban centers.

Time Out‘s list of The 50 best cities in the world in 2026 overlaps those ranked among the most culturally diverse and inclusive. Cities such as New York and San Francisco stand out not only for their cultural vibrancy and global appeal, but also for their diversity—where international communities, languages, and traditions shape everyday life. These same cities are consistently recognized for their inclusive environments and dynamic food scenes, reflecting how cultural diversity enhances both quality of life and urban experience.

From authentic Asian cuisine in Flushing and Sunset Park to globally inspired offerings across Manhattan, the intersection of diversity and culinary exploration is a defining feature of today‘s leading cities. Similarly, U.S. hubs like Seattle and Los Angeles continue to rank among the most diverse food destinations, offering a wide range of global cuisines that mirror their populations.

HungryPanda supports these ecosystems by providing access to authentic Asian dining and grocery options that reflect the evolving tastes of multicultural communities. By connecting users with local restaurants and specialty food providers, the platform enables residents and visitors alike to engage more deeply with the cultural fabric of their cities through food.

HungryPanda partners with 45,000 merchants in the U.S., helping small and medium-sized businesses reach digitally engaged audiences in competitive metropolitan markets. Its growing presence in top-ranked U.S. and global cities reinforces the connection between cultural diversity, culinary innovation, and economic opportunity.

As cities recognized for both livability and inclusivity continue to attract global attention, HungryPanda remains committed to celebrating the diversity that defines them—bringing people together through shared food experiences that reflect the world‘s rich cultural landscape. Celebrate diversity this April with HungryPanda!

For more information or to download the app, visit hungrypanda.co.

China Marks the Brand’s 27th International Market, With First Shanghai Location Opening Summer 2026

ATLANTA, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Church’s Texas Chicken® and Texas Chicken™, one of the largest quick-service chicken restaurant brands in the world, is bringing its bold, Texas-inspired flavor to China, marking a major milestone in the company’s global growth and its 27th international market. The brand’s first restaurant in China is slated to open in Shanghai in Summer 2026, with additional locations to follow.

Church’s Texas Chicken Signing Ceremony in China

To support its entry into the market, Texas Chicken has partnered with Deke Shengtang, a leading local operator with multiple QSR brands, signing a franchise agreement to develop 600 or more restaurants across China over the next several years.  The deal represents the brand’s largest international development agreement to date and signals strong long-term confidence in the market.

“This is more than growth. It’s a defining moment for our brand,” said Roland Gonzalez, CEO of Church’s Texas Chicken and Texas Chicken. “China is one of the most dynamic and influential consumer markets in the world, and we’re showing up with a brand that’s built for connection—big flavor, real value, and a spirit that brings people together. We’re excited to partner with a team that knows how to win locally.”

The expansion into China builds on Church’s continued international momentum, following recent growth across Europe and other global markets in 2025. With each new market, the brand is doubling down on what it does best: serving craveable food with a side of community and culture.

“As we expand around the world, we’re intentional about how we do it,” said Tim Wadell, Executive Vice President, International Business at Church’s Texas Chicken and Texas Chicken. “The team at Deke Shengtang brings the local expertise and ambition we look for in a partner. China presents a significant opportunity, and together, we’re building something designed to last, rooted in local relevance while staying true to who we are.”

Additional details regarding restaurant design, locations, and future openings in China will be announced closer to launch.

About Church’s Texas Chicken® / Texas Chicken™
Founded in San Antonio, TX in 1952 by George W. Church Sr., Church’s Texas Chicken®, along with its sister brand Texas Chicken™ outside of the U.S., is one of the largest quick-service chicken restaurant chains in the world. The brands specialize in Original and Spicy Chicken freshly prepared throughout the day in small batches that are hand-battered and double-breaded, tenders, sandwiches, freshly baked Honey-Butter Biscuits™, and classic, home-style sides all for a great value. Church’s Texas Chicken® and Texas Chicken™ have more than 1,400 locations in 22 countries and global markets and system-wide sales of more than $1.5 billion. Owned by High Bluff Capital Partners and FS Investments since 2021, Church’s® celebrated its 70^th anniversary in 2022.

For more information, visit www.churchs.com and texaschicken.com. You can also follow Church’s Texas Chicken® on Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok. More details on franchising opportunities are available at https://franchise.churchstexaschicken.com or https://franchise.texaschicken.com.