LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Water purification brand Waterdrop Filter announced the official launch of its PFAS Protection Initiative in February. The initiative aims to help households worldwide better understand and address health risks posed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water through public education and practical, household-level water solutions.

In May 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the first national drinking water standards for PFAS under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), with public water systems gradually working toward full compliance. The finalized National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) set the maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for two widely used and high-risk PFAS compounds—perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)—at 4.0 parts per trillion (ppt), while the health-based maximum contaminant level goals (MCLGs) were set at 0 ppt. These limits aim to reduce the exposure of tens of millions of Americans to PFAS and lower the risk of potential health effects from long-term exposure, including cancer, liver damage, and weakened immune function.However, under the current regulatory timeline, it will take public water systems several years to complete monitoring and necessary infrastructure upgrades, and variations in regional infrastructure mean that water quality may still vary widely across areas. Against this backdrop, Waterdrop Filter believes that protecting against PFAS-related health risks cannot depend solely on public water systems; it must also be addressed as a long-term, science-based priority within every household.

As part of this initiative, Waterdrop Filter will collaborate with health, environmental, and consumer-facing media to share science-based and accessible information on PFAS, as well as guidance on reducing the associated health risks. From a technical standpoint, Waterdrop Filter employs reverse osmosis (RO) technology to provide households worldwide with a reliable option for reducing PFAS in drinking water. According to research by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), RO technology is widely recognized as one of the most effective ways for households to reduce PFAS in their drinking water. Waterdrop Filter’s under-sink RO system can reduce detectable levels of PFOS and PFOA in water by up to 98%. This household-level filtration approach offers a practical, ready-to-use option to help reduce PFAS levels toward the EPA’s health-based goal, without the need for major renovations.

Waterdrop Filter recommends customized drinking water solutions to reduce PFAS, tailored to different household types and life stages:

• Waterdrop Filter G3P800 RO System: This system can reduce PFOA by up to 98% and PFOS by up to 99%, and holds NSF/ANSI 42 and 53 certifications. It is specifically designed for households with heightened sensitivity, including families with infants, pregnant women, or elderly members. Its tankless design delivers a continuous supply of fresh, on-demand drinking water, providing peace of mind and consistent protection to the family members who need it most.
• Waterdrop Filter X16 RO System: With an ultra-high flow rate of 1,600 gallons per day, this system can reduce PFOA by 98.88% and PFOS by 98.97%. It easily meets the daily water needs of multi-member households for cooking, cleaning, and other household uses, helping every family member reduce exposure to the health risks of PFAS.
• Waterdrop Filter DLG-P: Despite its compact and versatile design, testing shows this system effectively reduces PFOA 99.7% and PFOS 99.6%. Its simple installation and small footprint make it well suited for renters who prioritize PFAS protection, as well as individuals with fast-paced lifestyles.

The 2026 PFAS Protection Initiative is an initial step in a longer-term effort. Looking ahead, Waterdrop Filter will continue to invest in filtration technology and product development, providing long-term, efficient, and user-friendly solutions to reduce PFAS in drinking water. In doing so, it aims to help make safe and healthy drinking water more accessible to households everywhere.Learn more from waterdropfilter.com and Amazon Store

About Waterdrop

Founded in 2015, Waterdrop Filter is a water purification company that offers solutions for homes, offices, and outdoor use. Its product range includes under-sink and countertop Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems, pitchers, and whole-house filters. With the mission of making clean water accessible worldwide, Waterdrop Filter provides water filtration products trusted by over 40 million families worldwide.

Trader Follows 2024 Record With 252% Gain; Plans Broader Investor Education Push

NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Law Wai-Sum, a Hong Kong trader known as J Law, is expanding his investment education business, JLawStock, to the International market after posting a record 1,499% cumulative return over two years in the top division of the United States Investing Championship.

Law followed a 353.9% gain in 2024 with a 252.3% return in 2025, securing first place in the division for a second consecutive year. Over the same two-year period, the S&P 500 advanced about 47%, based on data published by the competition.

Founded in 1983, the annual championship tracks verified real-money accounts across multiple categories and publishes audited performance rankings. Organizers said 579 participants entered the 2025 event. Law competed in the Money Manager Verified Ratings division, which requires a minimum starting balance of $1 million.

In an interview, Law attributed the results to disciplined execution.

“Most people focus on finding a magic strategy,” he said. “What makes performance repeatable is a process that reduces costly mistakes and puts risk control first.”

Law said individual investors can improve results by adhering to three principles: reducing trade frequency to reduce execution mistakes and transaction costs; adapting established frameworks to personal constraints such as time availability and risk tolerance; and adjusting tactics as market conditions evolve.

“A strategy that performs in one environment may underperform in another,” he said.

Law, who trades U.S. markets from Asia, also said time differences are not the primary challenge.

“Time zones aren’t the real issue — emotional trading is,” he said. “Success depends on preparation and identifying favorable risk-reward setups before the opening bell.”

Following the competition, Law said he plans to expand his investor education business, JLawStock, from Singapore, including the development of English-language materials and structured analytical frameworks aimed at investors in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

JLawStock offers structured trading frameworks for retail investors. Its curriculum emphasizes professional trading techniques, discipline and the mindset required for long-term market participation. The programs have attracted full-time traders, financial influencers, and fund managers. 

“I want to raise the standard of investment education,” Law said. “Empowering investors with a professional-grade process is my next mission.”

About the United States Investing Championship

Founded in 1983, the United States Investing Championship is a real-money investing competition that tracks participants’ performance across multiple divisions and publishes annual standings.

About J Law

J Law (Law Wai-Sum) is a two-time winner of the United States Investing Championship $1,000,000+ Stock Division. He runs an investment education channel and develops training content focused on systematic decision-making, trend and momentum frameworks, and risk management.

Disclaimer:

This release is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, an offer or a solicitation. Trading and investing involve risk, and past performance does not guarantee future results. J Law does not provide personalized investment recommendations or manage client funds.

Sources:

https://financial-competitions.com/
https://x.com/USICOfficial/status/2010490410171502877

Strategic partnership with TransPerfect Life Sciences embeds certified, pharma-grade translation directly into LifeSphere Safety workflows

BOSTON, Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ArisGlobal, an AI-first technology company at the forefront of life sciences and creator of LifeSphere^®, recently announced the launch of NavaX Translation, a new solution delivered through a strategic partnership with TransPerfect Life Sciences. NavaX Translation brings certified, pharma-grade translation and multilingual content directly into LifeSphere Safety workflows, enabling faster, more accurate, and fully compliant multilingual case processing at a global scale.

Global pharmacovigilance teams face increasing volumes of safety reports submitted in multiple languages, often requiring manual export, coordination with third-party vendors, in-country review, and re-import into safety systems. NavaX Translation eliminates this friction entirely.

Through intelligent language detection, non-English safety forms are automatically identified and routed for certified translation using pharma-specific AI models and expert human linguists from TransPerfect. Translated forms and data are returned seamlessly into LifeSphere Safety via API – reducing translation management from hours of manual work per case to minutes.

NavaX Translation is designed specifically for regulated life sciences environments, combining AI efficiency with human linguistic expertise:

• Automated multilingual intake with instant language detection
• Certified, pharma-grade translations using life sciences-specific models and expert linguists
• Seamless API integration with LifeSphere Safety — no manual export or re-import
• Compliance-ready output supporting global regulatory requirements
• Scalable operations for high-volume, multi-market case intake

“NavaX Translation reflects our commitment to embedding intelligent automation directly into core workflows,” said Jason Bryant, Senior Vice President, AI & Data Product Management. “By partnering with TransPerfect, we are delivering translation that meets the quality, compliance, and scale requirements of global pharmacovigilance — without adding operational complexity.”

The launch builds on the continued momentum of the NavaX platform, which is currently processing more than 1 million safety cases, with volumes projected to reach 2.5 million cases by mid-2026. NavaX performance metrics continue to demonstrate data accuracy of greater than 95%, efficiency gains greater than 30%, and an industry leading ROI.

“By partnering with ArisGlobal, we’re embedding validated translation into a truly intelligent safety platform—enabling life sciences organizations to scale globally with confidence, speed, and regulatory assurance,” said Kevin Obarski, Chief Growth Officer of TransPerfect.

NavaX Translation is available to LifeSphere Safety customers from July 2026.

To learn more about NavaX Translation, visit: NavaX Translation | ArisGlobal

About ArisGlobal
ArisGlobal, an innovative life sciences technology company and creator of LifeSphere^®, is transforming how today’s most successful life sciences companies develop breakthroughs and bring new products to market. Headquartered in the United States, ArisGlobal has regional offices in Europe, India, Japan, and China. For more updates, follow ArisGlobal on LinkedIn. www.arisglobal.com. 

About TransPerfect Life Sciences
TransPerfect Life Sciences specializes in supporting global development and commercialization of drugs, treatments, and devices designed to improve and save lives. Our comprehensive solutions include eTMF and eClinical technologies, paper TMF migration, pharmacovigilance and safety solutions, translation and language services, and call center support. With offices in over 100 cities worldwide, TransPerfect is the ideal partner to ensure that your global launch makes a global impact. For more information, please visit our website at https://lifesciences.transperfect.com/.

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

NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 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. 

Laura Diorio delivers the pre-market update on February 26^th

• Stocks are little changed early Thursday after Nvidia reported earnings after the close on Wednesday, beating estimates on the top and bottom lines.
• Burker King has unveiled its AI-powered BK assistant solution, which aims to deliver real-time, voice-enabled intelligence to restaurant teams.
• Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) CEO Kate Johsnon will join NYSE Live after she rings the Opening Bell to explain what the company’s new phase of transformation looks like.
• Phinia (NYSE: PHIN) CEO Brady Erickson joins NYSE Live to deliver the biggest takeaways from Wednesday’s Investor Day and how his company is providing solutions to various sectors.

Opening Bell
Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) celebrates accelerating its evolution

Closing Bell
AerCap (NYSE: AER) celebrates its 50^th anniversary

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Rang Wednesday’s Closing Bell

Unisound Unveils U1-OCR: The First Industrial-Grade Document Intelligence Model, Ushering in OCR 3.0 Era

BEIJING, Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Unisound has officially launched its Unisound U1-OCR, the world’s first industrial-grade foundation model for document intelligence, a groundbreaking release that ushers in the OCR 3.0 era and sets a new industry standard with five core strengths: SOTA performance, verifiable results, out-of-the-box functionality, efficient deployment, and robust adaptability.

Document intelligence leverages AI to automatically read, understand, classify digitized documents and extract key information. OCR 1.0 only enabled basic text recognition, while OCR 2.0 added preliminary layout understanding capabilities. U1-OCR takes a quantum leap to OCR 3.0, moving far beyond layout recognition to deliver deep semantic insight, automatic document classification and business-level information extraction—marking a transformative shift from “character perception” to “document cognition”.

As a SOTA-level document intelligence model, U1-OCR resolves the longstanding bottleneck of traditional models that “recognize text but fail to grasp layout”, enabling it to interpret complex documents like human experts. It pioneers a “semantic-driven + dynamic focus” strategy, first mapping a document’s hierarchical structure of headings and structural metadata before extracting content on demand, and builds a semantic map to identify the relationship between titles, charts and text—even in disorganized layouts. Its enhanced spatial alignment module leverages positional data to accurately restore document structure for dense tables and mixed text-image content, effectively mitigating spatial recognition errors. Equipped with Multi-Token Prediction technology and full-task reinforcement learning, it boosts reasoning efficiency by over 80%, ensuring logical coherence for long documents.

Trained with multi-task collaborative reinforcement learning and optimized for both semantics and coordinates, U1-OCR suppresses spatial hallucinations for reliable outputs, and achieves SOTA results across major authoritative benchmarks: scoring 95.1 in OmniDocBench V1.5, outperforming leading models like GLM-OCR and Gemini-3-Pro; hitting an F1 score of 90.8 in D4LA and 95.9 in DocLayNet, excelling in table recognition and cross-page association; and outperforming models such as Gemini-2.5-Flash and Qwen-2.5-VL in internal business tests, with standout performance in medical document processing such as admission and discharge records.

Built for real-world industrial applications, U1-OCR features four key capabilities that bridge the gap between document understanding and business action. Its proprietary “coordinate-text-semantics” architecture enables pixel-level positioning and full evidence traceability, making audit processes transparent and efficient. Integrated with Unisound’s industry expertise in healthcare and finance, it achieves over 99% classification accuracy for more than 50 common business documents, supporting cross-field logical verification with zero-shot capabilities. It supports private on-premise and offline deployment while delivering highly efficient document processing, meeting strict data privacy requirements for government, healthcare, and finance sectors while lowering hardware costs. Most notably, it delivers stable, high-precision performance in extreme scenarios—including non-standard photos, blurred documents, complex formatting and multilingual text—freeing businesses from reliance on standardized document formats.

Validated in real-world use cases, U1-OCR enables visual traceability of extracted information, automatic classification of mixed documents, performing intelligent image purification for cluttered layouts, and accurate recognition of complex nested tables with full structural retention.

The launch of U1-OCR marks AI’s evolution from simple text recognition to business logic comprehension, a key step for Unisound toward AGI. By taking multimodal documents as a knowledge entry point, Unisound is empowering machines with autonomous reasoning and evidence traceability capabilities, driving AI from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence—with the vision to build a general intelligent agent that reads, thinks and solves complex problems like humans, turning every document into a stepping stone to AGI.

• Delivers Unmatched Scalability, Flexibility, Energy Efficiency
• Optimized for specialized compute including e-commerce and cybersecurity
• Up to 40 server nodes in a 6U enclosure

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing the launch of the industry’s first and highest-density blade server platform powered by the latest AMD EPYC™ 4005 series processors. Designed with a flexible, density-optimized blade architecture, Supermicro’s new MicroBlade platform is designed for longevity and versatility. By including the latest AMD EPYC 4005 series processors, along with previous versions, the system provides seamless scalability and long-term investment protection, allowing organizations to expand and upgrade as compute requirements evolve.

Supermicro MicroBlade platform

“Our flexible blade architecture enables customers to mix different node types with different CPUs within a single enclosure and can incorporate up to 320 server nodes in a standard 48U rack,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “Supermicro continues to lead the industry in delivering advanced, energy-efficient platforms to market that maximize scalability, lower total cost of ownership, and protecting data center investments for the long term.”

For more information, please visit: https://www.supermicro.com/en/Aplus/MicroBlade/module/MBA-315R-1DE12.php

The new 6U system supports up to 40 nodes in a single enclosure, delivering unparalleled compute density, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness for scale-out and multi-tenant environments. The platform is optimized for a wide range of efficient and high-density workloads, including:

• Cloud & Virtualization: Ideal for multi-tenant web hosting and small Virtual Private Server (VPS) instances.
• Modern Infrastructure: Kubernetes and microservices platforms, including API services and web front ends.
• Enterprise & Edge: Departmental private clouds and edge deployments requiring high density in constrained spaces.
• Data Services: Object storage gateways and high-efficiency data processing.
• Specialized Compute: Job-splitting simulations, e-commerce platforms, and cybersecurity applications.

Each node supports a single AMD EPYC 4005 series processor with two DDR5 ECC UDIMM slots operating at up to 5600 MT/s, along with two PCIe Gen5 E1.S SSDs and one M.2 SSD per node. Integrated networking features dual-port 25GbE via Broadcom BCM57414, with advanced security and manageability including TPM 2.0, signed firmware, hardware root of trust, IPMI 2.0, KVM over IP, and Redfish API support. The new MicroBlade system uniquely enables flexible mix-and-match configurations across single-wide and double-wide nodes further showcasing the versatility of the all-in-one Supermicro blade system. Connectivity further elevates its capabilities, with two integrated 25G Ethernet switches with 100G uplinks in the back of the enclosure, ensuring reliable, high-speed networking while lowering the TCO through cable reduction.

The MicroBlade chassis management module (CMM) provides total remote control of individual server blades, power supplies, cooling fans, and networking switches remotely. System administrators can control the maximum power consumption per server through power capping and manage the power allocation in the MicroBlade CMM for each blade server. Remote power control capabilities to reboot and/or reset the server are available as well as remote access to the BIOS configuration and operating system console information via SOL (Serial over LAN) or embedded KVM capabilities. Because the controller is a separate processor, all monitoring and control functions operate flawlessly regardless of CPU operation or system power-on status.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro’s motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

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