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Cloudastructure Schedules Q1 2026 Earnings Call 

Conference Call to be held on Friday, July 17th at 12:00 P.M. ET | 9:00 A.M. PT

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cloudastructure, Inc. (“Cloudastructure” or “the Company”) (Nasdaq: CSAI), a leader in cloud-native AI surveillance and remote guarding, today announced that it will host a conference call on Friday, July 17th, 2026 at 12:00 P.M. ET | 9:00 A.M. PT to discuss its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026 and provide a business update. The Company will report its financial results for the first quarter of 2026 on Friday, July 17th, 2026 before market open.

First Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call:

Date: July 17, 2026
Time: 12:00 P.M. ET | 9:00 A.M. PT
Live Call: 1-888-506-0062 (U.S. Toll Free) or 1-973-528-0011 (International)
Access Code: 837138
Webcast: https://www.webcaster5.com/Webcast/Page/3134/54039

For interested individuals unable to join the conference call, a replay will be available through July 31, 2026, by dialing 1-877-481-4010 (U.S. Toll Free) or 1-919-882-2331 (International). Participants must use the following code to access the replay of the call: 54039. An archived version of the webcast will also be available for 365 days.

As previously announced, the Company’s Q1 2026 filing was delayed pending review, in consultation with its independent registered public accounting firm, of a technical accounting matter involving the balance sheet classification of its Series 1 Convertible Preferred Stock (fully converted in 2025) and Series 2 Convertible Preferred Stock. On July 6, 2026, the Company announced a resolution whereby it amended the terms of its Series 2 Convertible Preferred Stock to, among other things, eliminate the variable conversion price feature and exchanged 1,170 of those shares with the sole holder of Series 2 Convertible Preferred Stock for an unsecured promissory note. Separately, the upcoming Q1 2026 filing will reflect a revised, non-cash accounting presentation for both series affecting only balance sheet classification, with no impact on the Company’s cash position, operations, total assets, or net assets.

About Cloudastructure

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Cloudastructure’s patented award-winning security platform utilizes a scalable cloud-based architecture that features cloud video surveillance with proprietary, state-of-the-art AI/ML analytics, and a seamless remote guarding solution. The combination enables enterprise businesses to achieve proactive, end-to-end security, and pairs that platform with an attractive value proposition that eschews proprietary hardware and offers contract-free, month-to-month pricing and unlimited 24/7 support. With Cloudastructure, companies can achieve unparalleled situational awareness in real time and thereby stop crime as it is happening, while simultaneously achieving up to a 75% lower Total Cost of Ownership than other systems. For more information, visit https://www.cloudastructure.com.

Media Contact

Kathleen Hannon, Sr. Communications Director
Cloudastructure, Inc.
704.574.3732
[email protected]

Investor Contact

Valter Pinto, Managing Director
KCSA Strategic Communications
212.896.1254
[email protected]



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Japan’s Enterprises and Startups Build Industry-Specialized AI With NVIDIA Nemotron Open Models

News Summary:

  • Institution of Science Tokyo, SoftBank Corp.’s SB Intuitions and Stockmark are adopting NVIDIA Nemotron to build locally developed AI models designed to serve Japanese users, businesses and institutions amid the country’s demographic and workforce transition.
  • Japanese enterprises avatarin, ENEOS Holdings, Hitachi and NTT DATA are building Japanese-language AI applications with NVIDIA Nemotron, from remote-presence robotics to enterprise agents and specialized medical and contact centers.
  • Sakana AI is integrating NVIDIA Nemotron into its Fugu model-routing platform, expanding the set of AI models Fugu can intelligently orchestrate to dynamically select the best model for each task.

TOKYO, July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NVIDIA today announced that leading Japanese enterprises, startups and research institutions are building industry-specialized AI models and applications with NVIDIA Nemotron™ open models, data and libraries, accelerating the development of AI tailored to Japan’s language, industries and workforce.


Open models
 are the foundation of national AI ecosystems, giving organizations the ability to customize, deploy and govern AI they control.

In Japan, these capabilities are increasingly important as the country addresses an aging population and workforce transition, driving demand for AI tailored to local industries that helps strengthen the workforce, sustain productivity and accelerate innovation.

“Every nation and every company should own and control its intelligence infrastructure. Open models make that possible,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “They give countries, enterprises and researchers the freedom to inspect, improve, adapt, secure and deploy AI for their own needs. Together with Japan’s AI leaders, we are advancing an open AI ecosystem that accelerates discovery, strengthens national capability and ensures every society can participate in — and benefit from — the AI revolution.”

Building Specialized AI for Japan With NVIDIA Nemotron

Across Japan, developers are building specialized AI with NVIDIA Nemotron open models and datasets, tailoring them to the country’s industries and public-sector needs.

Institute of Science Tokyo developed its Swallow family of open foundation models using NVIDIA Nemotron datasets and the NVIDIA NeMo™ software stack for continual pretraining and post-training. Swallow models enhance Japanese language and reasoning performance while preserving the underlying models’ core English, math and coding capabilities. Enterprises are customizing and deploying Swallow for specialized use cases, including financial-document translation and asset-management report generation.

SB Intuitions Corp., SoftBank Corp.’s generative AI research subsidiary, trained its Sarashina series of homegrown generative AI models using NVIDIA Nemotron, including the NVIDIA NeMo RL and Megatron-LM libraries. Sarashina3 mini has been selected by Japan’s Digital Agency for use in specialized AI use cases. SoftBank Corp. has also developed and deployed a large telco model, using NVIDIA Nemotron, to enable autonomous telecom network operations.


Stockmark
’s specialized Japanese-language document-understanding model, released today, is based on the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni model. The company is also developing enterprise knowledge applications using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever™ and the Nemotron-Personas-Japan dataset, serving customers across Japan’s manufacturing, energy and chemical industries through Japan’s Generative AI Accelerator Challenge national project.

Transforming Japan’s Industries With NVIDIA Nemotron

Japanese enterprises are using NVIDIA Nemotron to modernize essential services, improve productivity and support the country’s workforce.

AI and robotics startup avatarin is using NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NVIDIA NeMo to develop Japanese-language speech and reasoning capabilities for enterprise AI agents. NVIDIA HGX™ B300 systems provide the private AI infrastructure that enables those agents to securely analyze customer conversations and access enterprise knowledge for more accurate responses, while NVIDIA Jetson™ powers edge AI capabilities, including digital avatar systems being deployed at airports and other locations across Japan.

ENEOS Holdings is using NVIDIA Nemotron open models with the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint and NVIDIA ALCHEMI NIM microservices to advance agentic AI workflows for energy and materials R&D. Researchers are using these technologies to integrate technical document search, vision and language understanding, and simulation-backed molecular screening, helping accelerate materials exploration for applications such as immersion-cooling fluids and advanced catalysts.

NTT DATA, an operating subsidiary of NTT, used NVIDIA Nemotron-Personas-Japan to augment training data for its proprietary tsuzumi 2 model, improving question-answering accuracy and enhancing responses to questions requiring additional knowledge. The company is also looking to deploy a scalable multi-agent framework harnessing NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, including NVIDIA Nemotron, to route tasks to the best models and drive accurate, efficient and autonomous enterprise workflows.

Hitachi is developing physical AI technologies to address real-world operational challenges by using NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos™ open models, along with its proprietary information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) domain knowledge. As part of a multi-agent orchestration platform, these technologies are designed to connect and coordinate IT and OT operations, helping transform enterprise-scale business processes across complex workflows.

Sakana AI is collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate NVIDIA Nemotron into its Fugu model-orchestration platform, expanding the range of AI models Fugu can intelligently orchestrate to dynamically select the best model for each task in agentic AI workflows. By routing each request to the model best suited for the job, Fugu helps developers balance accuracy, performance and cost across multiple open and proprietary AI models. Fugu demonstrates how thoughtful orchestration can unlock capabilities beyond what an individual model achieves on its own. Early performance results on complex, real-world coding tasks reinforce the promise of coordination as a path to more capable AI.

Open and Customizable, Deployable Anywhere

Nemotron models are released with open weights, datasets and recipes, giving organizations the transparency and control to customize models for domain-specific workflows and deploy them where their applications and data reside.

Developers can use NVIDIA NeMo to customize, evaluate and optimize models for their use cases, and deploy them in environments that meet regulatory, sovereignty and data localization requirements.

Nemotron models are available on Hugging Face, ModelScope, OpenRouter and build.nvidia.com as NVIDIA NIM™ microservices, and through NVIDIA Cloud Partners, inference platforms and cloud service providers.

About NVIDIA


NVIDIA
 (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in AI and accelerated computing.

For further information, contact:

Natalie Hereth
Corporate Communications
NVIDIA Corporation
[email protected]

Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: Together with Japan’s AI leaders, NVIDIA advancing an open AI ecosystem that accelerates discovery, strengthens national capability and ensures every society can participate in — and benefit from — the AI revolution; expectations with respect to growth, performance, availability, and benefits of NVIDIA’s products, services and technologies, and related trends and drivers; expectations with respect to NVIDIA’s third party arrangements, including with its collaborators and partners; expectations with respect to technology developments, and related trends and drivers; projected market growth and trends; expectations with respect to AI and related industries; and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are subject to the “safe harbor” created by those sections based on management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic and political conditions; NVIDIA’s reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test NVIDIA’s products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to NVIDIA’s existing products and technologies; market acceptance of NVIDIA’s products or NVIDIA’s partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of NVIDIA’s products or technologies when integrated into systems; NVIDIA’s ability to realize the potential benefits of business investments or acquisitions; and changes in applicable laws and regulations, as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

© 2026 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, Nemotron, NVIDIA Cosmos, NVIDIA HGX, NVIDIA Jetson, NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA NeMo Retriever are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice.

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U-Haul Offers 30 Days Free Storage, Trailer Discounts to Wildfire Evacuees

U-Haul Offers 30 Days Free Storage, Trailer Discounts to Wildfire Evacuees

BRAINERD, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
U-Haul® is offering 30 days of free self-storage and U-Box® container use to residents of northern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin displaced by wildfires across the region, including multiple fires in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW).

U-Haul is also providing discounted trailer rates for residents evacuating the affected areas.

At least 20 wildfires are burning in and around the Superior National Forest, with several inside the BWCAW. Hazardous smoke has triggered air quality alerts across much of the state. Impacted communities include Bemidji, Brainerd, Duluth, Ely, Hermantown, Hibbing, International Falls, and Superior, Wis.

Access to self-storage units and portable storage containers is vital to communities when disasters strike. U-Haul is ready to help anyone impacted by the wildfires who needs a secure storage solution at no cost for one month.

The 30 days free offer applies to new self-storage and U-Box rentals and is based on availability. The U-Box offer is for on-site storage at Company facilities; delivery is available for a modest fee.

Evacuees needing a trailer discount should contact the U-Haul Company of Northern Minnesota at (763) 780-4487.

Please reference the list below for the storage locations offering the U-Haul disaster relief program. Stop by any participating facility or call the nearest location to arrange free storage.

U-Haul Storage Baxter South

6897 Foley Road

Baxter, MN 56425

(218) 297-3021

U-Haul Storage North Baxter

15237 Edgewood Dr.

Baxter, MN 56401

(218) 297-3018

U-Haul Moving & Storage of Brainerd

16707 State Hwy. 371

Brainerd, MN 56401

(218) 829-1767

U-Haul Storage of Nisswa

4745 County Road 77

Nisswa, MN 56468

(218) 963-5106

U-Haul Moving & Storage of Duluth(U-Box only)

4723 Miller Trunk Hwy.

Hermantown, MN 55811

(218) 722-5562

U-Haul Moving & Storage of Superior(U-Box only)

3015 Tower Ave.

Superior, WI 54880

(715) 392-2903

In addition to its 30 days free self-storage disaster relief program, U-Haul is proud to be at the forefront of aiding communities in times of need as an official American Red Cross Disaster Responder.

For customers needing storage beyond the free period, the U-Haul 1-Year Price Lock is now available at 2,100 Company-owned facilities across the U.S. and Canada. Fixed-rate storage ensures at least 12 months with no price increase on your rental unit, and U-Haul never charges admin fees or deposits. Learn more at uhaul.com/Storage/1-Year-Price-Lock.

About U-HAUL

Founded in 1945, U-Haul is the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers with more than 24,000 rental locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. The U-Haul app makes it easy for customers to use U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 to access trucks anytime through the self-dispatch and -return options on their smartphones with our patented Live Verify technology. Our customers’ patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to approximately 204,800 trucks, 136,600 trailers and 42,000 towing devices. U-Haul, which offers rate transparency to self-storage customers through its 1-Year Price Lock, is the third largest storage operator in North America with 1,136,000 rentable storage units and 99 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities. U-Haul is the top retailer of propane in the U.S. and the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. Get the U-Haul app from the App Store or Google Play.

Dillon Rosenblatt

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 602-263-6194

Website: uhaul.com

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Verra Mobility Corporation (NASDAQ: VRRM) Faces Securities Class Action Following CEO Resignation and $1.4 Billion Shareholder Loss — HBSS

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hagens Berman (HBSS), a securities litigation leader, is broadening its investigation into Verra Mobility Corp. (NASDAQ: VRRM) following the company’s disclosure of an abrupt leadership transition.  The news comes in the wake of a securities action suit stemming from the catastrophic loss of a major contract.


VRRM Investors Submit Your Losses Now to HBSS

Class Period: Feb. 24, 2026 – May 26, 2026
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Aug. 4, 2026
Visit:www.hbsslaw.com/investor-fraud/vrrm
Contact the Firm Now:
[email protected]
844-916-0895

Leadership Vacuum

On June 1, 2026, Verra Mobility announced that long-time CEO David Roberts has abruptly stepped down, ending a 12-year tenure. This departure follows a volatile period for the company, initiated by the unexpected termination of a key contract with Avis Budget Group—a move that wiped out approximately $1.4 billion in shareholder value.

The Board of Directors has appointed former Chief Transformation and Legal Officer Jon Keyser as interim President and CEO while retaining a global search firm for a permanent replacement. Hagens Berman is investigating whether the departure is causally related to the allegations in the securities class action suit.

Verra Mobility Corporation (VRRM) Securities Class Action:

The complaint alleges Verra made false and misleading statements and did not disclose important information to investors about the true state of the Verra/Avis relationship and the likelihood of Verra receiving an Avis contract renewal.

The truth allegedly emerged on May 26, 2026, when Verra disclosed that it received a termination notice effective September 2026 from Avis regarding the companies’ contract, that it is taking immediate actions to cut costs, adapt operations, and reposition its business, and revised its 2026 outlook that significantly deviated from that given just twenty days prior.

Verra also revealed that it was reviewing the parties’ negotiations and handling of confidential information.

The news promptly sent the price of Verra shares 70% crashing lower on May 27, 2026, amputating $1.4 billion from the company’s market capitalization in a single day.

View our latest video summary of the allegations: youtu.be/FVEw5XACoGA

“Our investigation is focused on the extent to which and when Verra and its executives knew that renegotiations with Avis were far from constructive, as the May 26 surprise reveals,” said Reed Kathrein, the Hagens Berman partner leading the firm’s investigation.

If you invested in Verra and have substantial losses, or have knowledge that will assist the firm’s investigation, submit your losses now.

If you’d like more information and answers to other frequently asked questions about the Verra case and the firm’s investigation, read more.

Whistleblowers: Persons with non-public information regarding Verra should consider their options to help in the investigation or take advantage of the SEC Whistleblower program. Under the new program, whistleblowers who provide original information may receive rewards totaling up to 30 percent of any successful recovery made by the SEC. For more information, call Reed Kathrein at 844-916-0895 or email [email protected].

About Hagens Berman

Hagens Berman is a global plaintiffs’ rights complex litigation firm focusing on corporate accountability. The firm is home to a robust practice and represents investors as well as whistleblowers, workers, consumers and others in cases achieving real results for those harmed by corporate negligence and other wrongdoings. Hagens Berman’s team has secured more than $2.9 billion in this area of law. More about the firm and its successes can be found at hbsslaw.com. Follow the firm for updates and news at @ClassActionLaw. 

Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in any future case.

Contact: 
Reed Kathrein, 844-916-0895



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Embecta Corp. (EMBC) Faces Securities Class Action Over Alleged Concealed Material Risks to Pen Needle Revenue– HBSS

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Embecta Corp. (NASDAQ: EMBC) faces a securities class action lawsuit, which seeks to represent investors who purchased or acquired Embecta common stock between November 25, 2025 and May 4, 2026. The lawsuit follows the company’s disastrous Q2 2026 earnings report, apparently at odds with prior narrative, which triggered a massive selloff in the stock and analysts’ questions.

These developments have prompted national shareholder rights firm Hagens Berman to open an investigation into claims that Embecta violated the federal securities laws.

The firm encourages Embecta investors who suffered substantial losses to submit your losses now.

Class Period: Nov. 25, 2025 – May 4, 2026
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Aug. 17, 2026
Visit:www.hbsslaw.com/investor-fraud/embc
Contact the Firm Now:
[email protected]
844-916-0895

Embecta Corp. (EMBC) Securities Class Action:

Embecta is a global medical device company whose core business product is pen needles – sterile, single-use, medical devices, designed to be used in conjunction with pen injectors that inject insulin or other diabetes medications. In the past, pen needle revenues have comprised over 70% of the company’s total revenues.

The litigation’s primary focus is on the propriety of Embecta’s Class Period repeated assurances that “insulin pens have been stable […] showing the underlying resilience and the durability of that portfolio[]” and “our pen needle business is incredibly resolute.” This narrative formed the basis for the company’s February 5, 2026 guidance reiterating 2026 adjusted EPS of $2.80 – $3.00.  The company also touted maintenance of its dividend within its capital allocation plans as a return of capital to shareholders.

The complaint alleges the company’s assurances and guidance were misleading when given because Embecta knew or recklessly disregarded that weaknesses in the pen needle market was likely to significantly disrupt the company’s annual guidance and Q2 results.

On May 5, 2026, investors’ expectations vanished. That day, Embecta reported Q2 2026 adjusted EPS of $0.27, a staggering sequential and year-over-year decline of about 61%. In contrast to the company’s assurances of stability, resilience, and durability, Embecta’s pen needles revenues also suffered massive sequential and year-over-year declines. Of additional concern, Embecta slashed its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $1.55 – $1.75, or down roughly 43% at the mid-point, and reduced its dividend by 93% to just $0.01.

In response, the market sent the price of Embecta shares tumbling, with one prominent analyst who downgraded the company highlighting Embecta management’s “need to rebuild investor credibility on commercial execution and the profitability outlook.”

“Our investigation is focused the extent to which and when Embecta and its management knew about pen needle and U.S. business revenue headwinds, and whether they were sufficiently transparent about those risks,” said Reed Kathrein, the Hagens Berman partner leading the firm’s investigation.

If you invested in Embecta and have substantial losses, or have knowledge that will assist the firm’s investigation, submit your losses now »

If you’d like more information and answers to other frequently asked questions about the Embecta case and the firm’s investigation, read more »

Whistleblowers: Persons with non-public information regarding Embecta should consider their options to help in the investigation or take advantage of the SEC Whistleblower program. Under the new program, whistleblowers who provide original information may receive rewards totaling up to 30 percent of any successful recovery made by the SEC. For more information, call Reed Kathrein at 844-916-0895 or email [email protected].

About Hagens Berman

Hagens Berman is a global plaintiffs’ rights complex litigation firm focusing on corporate accountability. The firm is home to a robust practice and represents investors as well as whistleblowers, workers, consumers and others in cases achieving real results for those harmed by corporate negligence and other wrongdoings. Hagens Berman’s team has secured more than $2.9 billion in this area of law. More about the firm and its successes can be found at hbsslaw.com. Follow the firm for updates and news at @ClassActionLaw. 

Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in any future case.

Contact: 
Reed Kathrein, 844-916-0895



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Five Star Bank adds four key hires in Palo Alto to support  San Francisco Bay Area expansion

Community bank deepens Silicon Valley presence as new team brings decades of experience and extensive local business relationships

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Five Star Bancorp (Nasdaq: FSBC) (“Five Star” or the “Company”), a holding company that operates through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, Five Star Bank, today announced the addition of four experienced bankers with deep client relationships in the Palo Alto area.

Known as the birthplace of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto remains a global hub for technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship, and maintains a dense concentration of the region’s most active VC firms. Silicon Valley attracted $92 billion in venture capital last year, according to Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s 2026 Silicon Valley Index. This density of capital and high-growth companies makes Palo Alto one of the most competitive banking markets, and one where Five Star Bank’s high-tech, high-touch, relationship-driven approach to banking is a key differentiator.

Five Star Bank strategically recruited local banking professionals in Palo Alto who understand the unique needs of the market they serve and call home. Working at the center of the innovation and commercial business ecosystem, Five Star Bank intends to partner with entrepreneurs, venture and fund managers, real estate operators, and the attorneys and finance leaders who support their growth.

“We’re not starting from scratch in Palo Alto. Our new team has spent years curating trusted relationships with VC firms and venture-backed companies,” said DJ Kurtze, Five Star Bank’s Executive Vice President / San Francisco Bay Area Region President. “Thanks to the team’s local market knowledge, we believe we can deliver immediate value and bring the high-touch, concierge service that distinguishes Five Star Bank.”

Key hires include:

  • Derrick Yee joins as Senior Vice President / Managing Director. Over his 20 years of experience in private banking and wealth management, Yee has served entrepreneurs, venture-backed startups, and VC firms. He most recently served as Senior Vice President / Group Director at Flagstar Private Bank, where he led strategic partnerships and initiatives supporting entrepreneurs, startups, and VC firms. Prior to this, he was a Managing Director at First Republic Bank.

  • Andrew Liou joins as Senior Vice President / Managing Director. He brings more than 15 years of private banking experience, along with a unique background as a former small business owner and entrepreneur. Prior to Five Star Bank, Liou served as Senior Vice President / Group Director at Flagstar Private Bank, where he helped build its private banking team focused on startup founders, venture-backed executives, and VC funds. Prior to this, he was a Managing Director with First Republic Bank.

  • Andrew Holtz joins Five Star Bank as Senior Vice President / Managing Director. He has more than 20 years of banking experience serving clients throughout the Bay Area. Holtz served as Senior Vice President / Group Director at Flagstar Private Bank, leading client acquisition and relationship management efforts for emerging funds and technology startups. Prior to this, he was a Senior Relationship Manager with First Republic Bank.

  • Jonathan Tombo joins Five Star Bank as Vice President / Senior Relationship Manager. He has more than 10 years of banking experience, specializing in customized banking, treasury, and cash management solutions for private equity, VC, and startup ecosystems. At Flagstar Private Bank, Tombo served as Relationship Manager, where he was part of the inaugural Palo Alto team responsible for building the bank’s presence in Northern California. In this role, he supported the operational, treasury, and banking needs of private equity, VC, and startup clients. Prior to this, he was a Preferred Banker with First Republic Bank.

“No one knows Palo Alto and its business community better than the people who are part of it every day,” said James Beckwith, President and CEO of Five Star Bank. “These new hires deepen our ability to serve our existing Bay Area clients while expanding our presence in one of the country’s most influential business markets.”

The Palo Alto team follows a string of expansions for Five Star Bank over the past year. Recent expansions to Lodi, Southern California, and Walnut Creek have solidified its growing footprint across the Golden State.

About Five Star Bancorp

Five Star is a bank holding company headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California. Five Star operates through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, Five Star Bank. The Bank has ten branches in California, following the opening of a branch in Lodi in July 2026. For more information, visit https://www.fivestarbank.com.


Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements represent plans, estimates, objectives, goals, guidelines, expectations, intentions, projections, and statements of the Company’s beliefs concerning future events, business plans, objectives, expected operating results, and the assumptions upon which those statements are based. Forward-looking statements include without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate, or imply future results, performance, or achievements, and are typically identified with words such as “may,” “could,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “aim,” “intend,” “plan,” or words or phrases of similar meaning. The Company cautions that the forward-looking statements are based largely on the Company’s expectations and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on factors which are, in many instances, beyond the Company’s control. Such forward-looking statements are based on various assumptions (some of which may be beyond the Company’s control) and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which change over time, and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated. New risks and uncertainties may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict their occurrence or how they will affect the Company. If one or more of the factors affecting the Company’s forward-looking information and statements proves incorrect, then the Company’s actual results, performance, or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, forward-looking information and statements contained in this press release. Therefore, the Company cautions you not to place undue reliance on the Company’s forward-looking information and statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are set forth in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2026, in each case under the section entitled “Risk Factors,” and other documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time.

The Company disclaims any duty to revise or update the forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, to reflect actual results or changes in the factors affecting the forward-looking statements, except as specifically required by law.

Investor Contact:         
Heather C. Luck, Chief Financial Officer
Five Star Bancorp
(916) 626-5008
[email protected]

Media Contact:

Shelley R. Wetton, Chief Marketing Officer
Five Star Bancorp
(916) 284-7827
[email protected]



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Cadence Introduces AuraStack AI Super Agent, the World’s First Agentic AI Platform for PCB and Advanced Packaging

Cadence Introduces AuraStack AI Super Agent, the World’s First Agentic AI Platform for PCB and Advanced Packaging

Running on Allegro AI Studio, the AuraStack AI Super Agent delivers up to 2X faster time to market, 15X higher productivity and multiphysics-driven quality across the industry’s only silicon-to-system agentic AI stack

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today introduced the AuraStack™ AI Super Agent on Cadence® Allegro® AI Studio, the world’s first agentic AI platform for printed circuit board (PCB) and advanced packaging design, taking designers from system planning to final product in a single AI-native environment. The Cadence AuraStack AI Super Agent, accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA CUDA-X, coordinates domain-specific AI agents across planning, implementation and tightly integrated multiphysics analysis domains to compress the system-design cycle through manufacturing. With the AuraStack AI Super Agent, Cadence is now the only provider with agentic AI solutions spanning the full electronic system design flow, from digital and analog silicon design, advanced packaging, through to PCB design, building on its ChipStack™, InnoStack™ and ViraStack™ AI Super Agents.

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With the AuraStack AI Super Agent, Cadence is now the only provider with agentic AI solutions spanning the full electronic system design flow, from digital and analog silicon design, advanced packaging, through to PCB design, building on its ChipStack™, InnoStack™ and ViraStack™ AI Super Agents.

With the AuraStack AI Super Agent, Cadence is now the only provider with agentic AI solutions spanning the full electronic system design flow, from digital and analog silicon design, advanced packaging, through to PCB design, building on its ChipStack™, InnoStack™ and ViraStack™ AI Super Agents.

“The next era of AI infrastructure—spanning data centers, automotive, aerospace and physical AI—will be defined not only by silicon, but by the systems that connect, power and cool it,” said Michael Jackson, corporate vice president of R&D for System Design and Analysis at Cadence. “As hyperscale data centers deploy massive AI clusters and other industries advance increasingly intelligent, high-performance systems, engineering teams face growing complexity in PCB and advanced package design. Agentic AI orchestration, combined with trusted EDA and SDA tools, enables customers to move from manual iteration to intelligent, automated design realization.”

Agentic AI for Packaging and PCB Design

Building on the same architecture as Cadence’s ChipStack AI Super Agent, agentic AI is combined with principled simulation and optimization tools, leveraging a mental model of the design intent, to automate and orchestrate the design exploration, realization and signoff. The AuraStack AI Super Agent brings together automation and optimization for system planning, constraints management, physical structure definition, IP creation and reuse, place and route, design for manufacturability and multiphysics analysis across Cadence’s system design and analysis portfolio. It introduces a unified, AI-driven multiphysics foundation that concurrently models and optimizes electrical, thermal and mechanical behavior—including SI/PI, thermal, mechanical stress, drop, vibration and fatigue analysis—within a closed-loop environment, enabling earlier tradeoff evaluation and product-level optimization across the entire design flow. This continuous multiphysics feedback loop enables real-time design convergence, reducing late-stage surprises and improving overall system reliability.

The AuraStack AI Super Agent’s key benefits include:

  • Accelerating time to market by 2X, with 15X productivity and multiphysics-driven quality—automating complex tasks, expanding design exploration.
  • Unifying separate engineering teams around a shared, multiphysics-aware design environment with a single source of truth across domains.
  • Advancing early and continuous multiphysics co-optimization to reduce late-stage rework and costly design iterations. Unifies Cadence multiphysics signoff solutions, such as Celsius™ Thermal Solver, Clarity™ 3D Solver for 3D-EM, MSC Nastran™ and Marc™ Linear and Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis Solvers for mechanical analysis, and Sigrity™ X Platform for signal and power integrity.
  • Limiting expensive respins by identifying system issues earlier in development.
  • Enabling product-level optimization, including co-optimization with advanced packaging approaches.

Industry Leaders Advancing Agentic AI with Cadence

Cadence is collaborating with industry leaders to deploy AuraStack AI Super Agent workflows for real-world advanced IC packaging and PCB design challenges.

NVIDIA is using Cadence to help automate and optimize increasingly complex system design workflows for its engineering teams.

“The scale and complexity of modern AI infrastructure demands a new design approach,” said Tim Costa, vice president and general manager of computational engineering at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA’s collaboration with Cadence is advancing AI-powered engineering workflows that accelerate design convergence and innovation across the industry. The Cadence AuraStack AI Super Agent and the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer deliver up to 20X faster multiphysics performance, giving our engineers the capability to tackle the most demanding design challenges and bring the next generation of AI infrastructure to life.”

Cadence is partnering with TSMC to help customers accelerate advanced package implementation through AI-driven automation, enabling timely design convergence for increasingly complex multi-die systems.

“As advanced packaging complexity grows, customers need new levels of automation to achieve timely design convergence,” said Aveek Sarkar, director of the Ecosystem and Alliance Management Division at TSMC. “Our long-standing partnership with Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) ecosystem partners like Cadence to deliver advanced package design and verification solutions for TSMC 3DFabric® technologies helps customers accelerate the realization of next-generation multi-die systems for AI and high-performance computing applications. Through our multi-year collaboration on substrate auto routing, we are already enabling customers to boost productivity by 100X while delivering quality of results similar to manual routing.”

Socionext is leveraging Cadence to accelerate the automation and optimization of increasingly complex semiconductor package and PCB design workflows.

“AI-driven agents are set to transform IC package and PCB design by automating SI, PI and thermal workflows and enabling generative design,” said Iwasaki Toshifumi, lead design execution leading unit, Global Leading Group at Socionext Inc. “This acceleration allows our engineers to focus on higher-value work like architecture exploration, margin optimization, and multiphysics tradeoffs, while capabilities such as automated routing and chip-package-board co-design accelerate convergence and reduce manual effort.”

FORVIA HELLA continues to advance intelligent, sustainable mobility solutions that will define the future of automotive technology.

“Working closely with Cadence has fundamentally changed the way FORVIA HELLA develops advanced automotive electronics. Using AI-assisted placement technology, a task involving the placement of 300 components that previously took up to four days can now be completed in just four minutes,” said Sven Hoenecke, president & CEO, Electronics NSA at FORVIA HELLA. “This step change in productivity allows our engineers to evaluate more design alternatives, optimize layouts earlier in the development process, and accelerate the development of innovative products without compromising quality. By automating repetitive work, our teams can focus more time on solving complex engineering challenges and bringing new technologies to market faster.”

Schneider Electric is collaborating with Cadence to apply AI-driven design automation and engineering expertise to accelerate electronic design workflows and scale institutional knowledge across engineering teams.

“At Schneider Electric, we see AI as much more than a productivity tool. Our collaboration with Cadence has demonstrated the potential of AI to accelerate design activities and improve engineer efficiency,” said Daniel Gheno, senior vice president,Innovation and Technology EM at Schneider Electric. “The next frontier is to combine design automation with engineering expertise, enabling companies to capture decades of know-how and make robust design decisions available to every engineer. We believe this is where AI can truly transform electronic design.”

Availability

The Cadence AuraStack AI Super Agent will be available in 2026. For more information, visit http://www.cadence.com/go/aurastack.

About Cadence

Cadence is a market leader in AI and digital twins, pioneering the application of computational software to accelerate innovation in the engineering design of silicon to systems. Our design solutions, based on Cadence’s Intelligent System Design™ strategy, are essential for the world’s leading semiconductor and systems companies to build their next-generation products from chips to full electromechanical systems that serve a wide range of markets, including hyperscale computing, mobile communications, automotive, aerospace, industrial, life sciences and robotics. In 2025, Cadence was recognized by Fortune as one of the world’s top 100 best companies to work for. Cadence solutions offer limitless opportunities.

© 2026 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Cadence, the Cadence logo, and the other Cadence marks found at www.cadence.com/go/trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Korn Ferry Recognized as a Global Leader in Everest Group’s 2026 RPO PEAK Matrix® Assessment

Korn Ferry Recognized as a Global Leader in Everest Group’s 2026 RPO PEAK Matrix® Assessment

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Korn Ferry (NYSE: KFY) today announced that it has been named a Global Leader in Everest Group’s Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026, with recognition across the U.S., UK, and India assessments. The results reflect the firm’s strength in key markets worldwide and its continued investment in workforce solutions, consulting expertise, and technology.

The report recognizes Korn Ferry for its industry-leading approach to workforce solutions, specifically client strategy, global delivery capabilities, and continued investment in technology. Among these investments is Korn Ferry Nimble Recruit, a Talent Suite-enabled recruitment platform that helps organizations attract, engage, and hire talent through AI-powered workflows and analytics. The assessment also highlights the firm’s ability to integrate recruitment process outsourcing with broader organizational, workforce, leadership, and talent advisory services.

“We’re pleased to be recognized by Everest Group for our continued leadership in RPO,” said Jeanne MacDonald, CEO of Recruitment Process Outsourcing at Korn Ferry. “As organizations navigate hiring volatility, skills disruption and AI-driven change, Korn Ferry is helping clients connect recruiting with broader workforce strategy to make smarter talent decisions and build more agile workforces.”

“Apart from a global delivery footprint and deep expertise in hiring for a wide range of roles across key industries, Korn Ferry also offers a strong consulting-integrated RPO solution,” said Sailesh Hota, Vice President, Everest Group. “Its investments in Flexible Recruitment Services, Korn Ferry Nimble Recruit, advanced analytics and market intelligence, and skills advisory capabilities have helped it create an impactful value proposition for its core buyers. This has helped Korn Ferry retain its position as a Leader in Everest Group’s Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026 – Global.”

For the RPO Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment, Everest Group analyzed the performance of more than 50 service providers, assessing the providers’ RPO capabilities across market adoption, portfolio mix, value delivered, scope of services offered, innovation and investments, delivery footprint, and vision and strategy. The assessment also considers third-party RPO deals as well as approximately 7,000 multi-process RPO deals. The report divides RPO providers into three main categories: Leaders, Major Contenders and Aspirants.

About Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry is a global consulting firm that powers performance. We unlock the potential in your people and unleash transformation across your business—synchronizing strategy, operations, and talent to accelerate performance, fuel growth, and inspire a legacy of change. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking companies across every major industry turn to us—for a shared commitment to lasting impact and the bold ambition to Be More Than.

As the Official Talent & Organizational Consulting Partner of LA28, Korn Ferry is powering the nearly 5,000 people who power the Olympic Games—bringing in the right talent, building strong leaders, and shaping the structure and culture that will deliver an unforgettable experience for the world.

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GRAL Investor Alert: HBSS Probes GRAIL, Inc. (GRAL) Following Securities Class Action Over Failed NHS-Galleri Trial

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — National shareholder rights firm Hagens Berman is investigating claims in a pending class action alleging violations of U.S. securities laws by GRAIL, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRAL). The suit contends the company misled investors regarding the clinical design and efficacy of its landmark NHS-Galleri cancer screening trial.

Hagens Berman encourages GRAIL investors who suffered substantial losses to submit your losses now. The firm also encourages persons with knowledge about GRAIL’s NHS-Galleri Trial to contact the firm’s attorneys.

Class Period: May 13, 2025 – Feb. 19, 2026
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Aug. 4, 2026
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Allegations of Misleading Trial Disclosures:

The litigation centers on GRAIL’s alleged repeated assertions that the NHS-Galleri trial was optimally designed to demonstrate a statistically significant reduction in late-stage (Stage III and IV) cancer diagnoses within a three-year follow-up period. The complaint alleges that the company:

  • Concealed Insufficient Trial Design: Failed to disclose internal data trends suggesting that the three-year timeframe was inadequate to reach the trial’s primary endpoint.
  • Withheld Critical Data: Selectively promoted favorable top-line results while declining to provide granular, relevant data that would have indicated a lower probability of success.
  • Misrepresented Trial Progress: Assured investors of the study’s “robust” design and path to global expansion, despite emerging information that undermined those claims.

Investors Learn the Truth

On February 19, 2026. GRAIL revealed that the NHS-Galleri trial failed to meet its primary endpoint of a statistically significant reduction in late-stage cancers. The company admitted that it “probably should have allowed for a longer follow-up period.” This revelation caused GRAIL’s share price to collapse by approximately 50.55% in a single day, erasing over $2.2 billion in market capitalization.”

Hagens Berman’s Investigation

“We’re focused on when GRAIL and its management knew that the need for a longer follow-up period diverged from the touted three-year duration,” said Reed Kathrein, the Hagens Berman partner leading the firm’s investigation of the pending claims in the filed lawsuit.

Investor Rights and Lead Plaintiff Deadline

Investors who purchased or acquired GRAIL common stock during the Class Period and suffered financial losses may be eligible to serve as lead plaintiff in the ongoing litigation. The court-imposed deadline to move for appointment as lead plaintiff is August 4, 2026.


Submit your losses now

If you’d like more information and answers to other frequently asked questions about the GRAIL case and the firm’s investigation, read more.

Whistleblowers: Persons with non-public information regarding GRAIL should consider their options to help in the investigation or take advantage of the SEC Whistleblower program. Under the new program, whistleblowers who provide original information may receive rewards totaling up to 30 percent of any successful recovery made by the SEC. For more information, call Reed Kathrein at 844-916-0895 or email [email protected].

About Hagens Berman

Hagens Berman is a global plaintiffs’ rights complex litigation firm focusing on corporate accountability. The firm is home to a robust practice and represents investors as well as whistleblowers, workers, consumers and others in cases achieving real results for those harmed by corporate negligence and other wrongdoings. Hagens Berman’s team has secured more than $2.9 billion in this area of law. More about the firm and its successes can be found at hbsslaw.com. Follow the firm for updates and news at @ClassActionLaw. 

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Coinbase Announces Date of Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Coinbase Announces Date of Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Remote-First-Company/ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Coinbase Global, Inc. (the “Company” or “Coinbase”) announced today that it will publish its second quarter 2026 financial results and related materials on its Investor Relations website at investor.coinbase.com on Thursday, July 30, 2026, after market close.

The Company will hold a live question & answer session on X at 2:00 p.m. PT that same day. The event will also be live streamed on YouTube. Following the Q&A session, a replay and transcript will be available on the Investor Relations website.

Disclosure Information

In addition to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Company uses its Investor Relations website (investor.coinbase.com), its blog (blog.coinbase.com), press releases, public conference calls and webcasts, its X feed (@coinbase), Brian Armstrong’s X feed (@brian_armstrong), its LinkedIn page, and its YouTube channel as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.

About Coinbase

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more. Coinbase serves consumers through its suite of financial apps, institutions through Coinbase Prime, and developers through the Coinbase Developer Platform. Every experience runs on Coinbase’s full-stack platform powering the future of finance: secure custody, deep exchange liquidity, stablecoin infrastructure, and global settlement rails — all built on a decade-plus foundation of security and compliance.

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