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SWORDS, Ireland, March 16, 2026 /3BL/ – Trane Technologies (NYSE:TT), a global climate innovator, today announced major enhancements to its industry-first comprehensive thermal management reference design for gigawatt-scale AI factories and unveiled two Trane Continuum Rubin DSX reference designs.

Engineered specifically to integrate with the NVIDIA® Omniverse™ DSX Blueprint for AI data centers, the new system optimizations achieve a nearly 10% improvement in overall thermal management performance compared to the original 1-gigawatt reference design announced in October. This frees up 22 megawatts of cooling capacity that can be redirected to IT power, helping boost compute output without increasing total energy consumption.

“Since the launch of our industry-first thermal management system reference design, our team has continued to work hand-in-hand with NVIDIA to push the boundaries of efficiency, scalability and intelligent simulation for gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure,” said Mauro Atalla, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, Trane Technologies. “These latest advancements represent a major step forward in helping enable the world’s most demanding AI and high-performance computing environments to scale sustainably, reliably and with accelerated digital insight.”

“Efficiently scaling gigawatt-scale AI factories requires a fundamental shift in how we approach thermal management and data center infrastructure simulation,” said Vladimir Troy, Vice President of AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA. “Trane Technologies’ integration with the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX blueprint enables the creation of high-fidelity digital twins that help operators optimize cooling performance and maximize energy efficiency for the next generation of AI workloads.”

Through continued collaboration with NVIDIA, including as an NVIDIA Partner Network member, Trane Technologies has also expanded its Trane Continuum Rubin DSX reference design portfolio with two additional high-efficiency solutions for large-scale AI deployments:

• 250-Megawatt Duplex Simplified System Design: This new design, available now, supports extended free cooling use and incorporates integrated heat recovery, which helps reduce system complexity and results in a 14% increase in thermal management system efficiency with 10% of the heat rejection load going to heat recovery.
   
• 1-Gigawatt AI Factory Mag-Bearing Air-Cooled System Architecture: This new design, available soon, features a streamlined air-cooled approach using 3-megawatt units to help reduce equipment count and eliminate the need for integrated waterside economizers. The architecture incorporates Trane’s latest magnetic-bearing air-cooled chiller, providing oil-free operation, high efficiency and quieter, more efficient performance through Trane chiller plant controls.

Trane Technologies has also advanced its digital capabilities for adopting the Omniverse DSX Blueprint with more automated, scalable OpenUSD based SimReady assets. Enhanced with structured metadata, these assets will support upcoming reference design updates, helping improve configurability, accuracy and readiness for high‑scale digital‑twin and AI‑driven simulation workflows.

 

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About Trane Technologies
Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator. Through our strategic brands Trane® and Thermo King®, and our portfolio of environmentally responsible products and services, we bring efficient and sustainable climate solutions to buildings, homes and transportation. For more on Trane Technologies, visit www.tranetechnologies.com.

About Trane
Trane® – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator – creates comfortable, energy efficient indoor environments through a broad portfolio of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems and controls, services, parts and supply. For more information, please visit www.trane.com or www.tranetechnologies.com.

Forward Looking Statements
This news release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of securities laws, which are statements that are not historical facts, including statements that relate to our product and service innovations for AI data centers and the anticipated benefits of these innovations. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. Factors that could cause such differences can be found in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, as well as our subsequent reports on Form 10-Q and other SEC filings. New risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and it is impossible for us to predict these events or how they may affect the Company. We assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

NEW ORLEANS, March 16, 2026 /3BL/ – Entergy recently invested $1 million of shareholder funds in 10 local environmental partners through the company’s Environmental Initiatives Fund. These grants mark the 25th year that Entergy has used its financial resources to support projects that save energy, educate the public, restore habitat, reduce waste and improve resiliency.

“Protecting natural resources in the communities Entergy serves is central to who we are,” said John Weiss, vice president of sustainability and environmental policy. “Our shareholders have supported the work of community partners who are protecting our natural environment and local ecosystems for 25 years, and we are excited to continue that work with today’s announcement.”

Entergy’s Environmental Initiatives Fund identifies projects that improve the environment by reducing emissions, protecting natural resources and restoring wetlands and forests. The fund also supports projects designed to educate Entergy’s customers, employees, communities and owners on the value of natural resources and other environmental improvements.

Recipients of the 2025 Environmental Initiatives Fund grants are:

• Arbor Day’s Energy-Saving Trees is a strategic tree planting initiative focused on distributing 1,000 trees to residential customers to enhance their yards and shade their homes.

Arkansas

• Arkansas Game and Fish’s Generation Conservation Conclave Program encourages students to collaborate on conservation projects that address modern challenges and allows students to engage with Arkansas Game and Fish professionals.

Louisiana

• The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation will conduct a study to quantify carbon offsets using regional farmers and will compare standard farming methods to carbon uptake facilitated by farming methods.

Mississippi

• The Jackson Heart Foundation is constructing the half-mile Capitol Green Connector Multi-Use Trail, which will employ green infrastructure to manage stormwater, increase biodiversity, improve air quality, and reduce heat.

New Orleans

• The Audubon Institute “Party for the Planet” immersive educational series includes events throughout the year such as “Spring into Action,” “Endangered Species Day,” “World Ocean Day,” and “Pollination Celebration.”
• The City Park Conservancy will receive funding to support a comprehensive aquatic restoration project to address environmental degradation of its historic lagoon and bayou system.
• Grounds Krewe will receive funding to support the Sustainable Throw Catalog, which promotes sustainable throws and aims to reduce the amount of landfill-bound waste produced during Mardi Gras parades.

Texas

• The Liberty County Office of Emergency Management will re-establish degraded wetlands and coastal habitats while managing emergency management clean-up efforts.
• The Mongomery County Food Bank is modernizing the HVAC system by replacing older units with high efficiency units.
• The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will use funding to match federal and private investments in coast resilience in eastern Texas. The foundation will implement nature-based solutions to reduce risks from coastal hazards on the local community and improve habitat for fish and wildlife.

Since the Environmental Initiatives Fund was established in 2001, Entergy shareholders have invested nearly $45 million in environmentally beneficial projects and programs. The fund also contributes to Entergy’s leadership role as an advocate for and contributor to solutions to our most critical environmental challenges.

View the list of grantees and learn more about Entergy’s Environmental Initiatives Fund on our website.

2026 requests for proposals now open

If you or someone you know has a project idea that promotes conservation, energy efficiency or delivers other environmental benefits, encourage them to review the Environmental Initiatives Fund’s 26th request for proposals for funding on our website. Applications are due May 31 no later than midnight Central Time.

About Entergy

Entergy generates, transmits and distributes electricity to power life for more than 3 million customers through our operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. We’re focused on keeping costs for our customers as low as possible while providing reliable energy that our communities count on. We’re also investing in growth for the future with a more resilient, cleaner energy system that includes nuclear, modern natural gas, renewable energy generation and storage. As a nationally recognized leader in sustainability and corporate citizenship, we deliver more than $100 million in economic benefits each year to the communities we serve through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy. Entergy is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has approximately 12,000 employees. Learn more at Entergy.com and connect with @Entergy on social media.

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Across the U.S., millions of people face growing barriers to accessing healthcare, driven by lack of insurance, policy changes, and systemic inequities that leave entire communities underserved. These challenges are not new, nor are they limited to the United States, but they are intensifying and they demand new models of care.

In Camden, New Jersey, where nearly 20% of residents are uninsured and life expectancy varies by 16 years across just a few miles, the urgency is especially clear. This isn’t just a statistic in a report; it is a call to action.

Faced with this stark data, Virtua Health and Medtronic saw an opportunity to do more than business as usual. Combining Virtua’s deep community roots with Medtronic LABS’ global experience in tech-enabled, community-based care, Healthy Neighbor was born.

This collaboration is more than a local initiative – it’s a test case that highlights how the healthcare industry can improve health outcomes in the communities that need it most.

Virtua’s community-first approach

Dennis: Virtua Health is South Jersey’s largest healthcare provider, serving a region marked by profound health disparities. Over decades, we invested in mobile health programs, from a grocery store on wheels stocked with nutritious food to custom-designed vehicles that offer cancer screenings and pediatric care.

But proximity alone wasn’t sufficient. We recognized a large opportunity to improve access to care for the region’s most vulnerable patients, namely, those who were uninsured, disengaged, or distrustful of the healthcare system. Our “Here for Good” philosophy prompted us to confront uncomfortable truths about who was left behind and why.

We made the strategic decision to treat community health as a core service line, on par with cardiology or oncology. This was a moral imperative – and it was also a sound business strategy to reduce costly emergency care by preventing illness upstream.

We designed Healthy Neighbor to address the full context of patients’ lives. Community health workers (CHWs) provide home visits, support for social needs, targeted health education, and consistent follow-up to create the foundational trust necessary for long-term behavior change. Our CHWs go out of their way, literally and figuratively, for patients.

One patient, Bill Adams*, initially questioned whether his CHW would even show up. He had no health insurance and little trust in the healthcare system in general. But Karen showed up at his home, took his blood pressure, and discovered it was dangerously elevated. She connected him to emergency care the same day.

“Thank you so much for coming to my home,” Bill told her afterward. “You saved my life.”

That story encapsulates what differentiates this model: relationships built on consistency, presence, and genuine care create the conditions where clinical interventions actually work.

A U.S. debut for Medtronic LABS

Geoff: Medtronic LABS has a decade of experience delivering community-based, tech-enabled care in countries around the world, including in Kenya, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh. With 8,000+ community health workers trained and over 1 million patients reached, we have frameworks, tools, and credibility to help scale a new model, but had never built a program in the United States.

When we first met with Virtua leadership, we recognized an exceptional opportunity to build a program together. Our role extended beyond providing tools. We helped translate global best practices into a U.S. context, proving that tech-enabled care can be both deeply personal and genuinely scalable.

We adapted SPICE, an open-source digital health platform, for U.S. healthcare systems to ensure it met HIPAA data privacy standards and incorporated social determinants of health screening. Critically, SPICE was redesigned with CHW input to ensure the technology enhanced rather than hindered the human relationships at the heart of the program.

Simple workflows guide CHW screening, enrollment, and patient assessments. Immediate, automatic alerts flag out-of-range blood pressure and glucose values and provide clear follow-up steps. Risk-based stratification guides clinical review. Real-time dashboards enable program monitoring and rapid identification of opportunities to better serve participants. Technology is the enabler, but people are the core.

For Medtronic, Healthy Neighbor reflects our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. It advances our goals while positioning us as more than a device manufacturer but also as an essential partner in the care ecosystem.

From pilot to blueprint

In its first two years, Healthy Neighbor enrolled more than 250 individuals facing a wide range of health and social care needs. Over half live with multiple chronic conditions and had visited the ER in the past year.

The clinical outcomes are exceptional: 74% of patients with uncontrolled hypertension saw an average 15-point drop in systolic blood pressure, while 69% of those with uncontrolled diabetes reduced HbA1c (blood sugar) by 1.2%. Yet numbers only tell part of the story. Patients consistently credit community health workers for their persistence and care – the trust that makes change possible.

From the outset, Healthy Neighbor was designed for scale. A comprehensive toolkit, covering workflows, protocols, and lessons learned, helps other organizations adopt the model. With multiple entry points across primary care, emergency departments, and community settings, plus a modular tech platform, the program can be tailored to different populations and geographies.

While scaling nationally will require systemic changes – including funding for CHWs, payment models that reward prevention, and policy support – healthcare leaders don’t need to wait: the blueprint is here, and the results are remarkable.

Collaboration as a catalyst for scalable change

Healthy Neighbor began with a challenge: Could we change health outcomes if we met patients where they are and valued them as individuals?

Through community-based and tech-enabled care, we’ve created a replicable model that improves chronic disease outcomes and rebuilds trust in healthcare. The remaining barrier is leadership commitment. Health systems must assess local needs, find mission-aligned partners, and invest in long-term, trust-based solutions.

The lesson from our experience is clear: Community health must be treated as a strategic investment, not a charitable add-on. It also proves that the healthiest communities are built on relationships – and the time to build them is now.

*Name changed to protect patient privacy

Carole Hopson joined us recently for the Black History Month edition of Unscripted, our speaker series celebrating individuals who live our values and stretch what’s possible. In conversation with Marcus Sanders, VP of Global Food & Beverage at Coach, she shared her nonlinear leadership journey as one of the few Black women airline captains in the U.S.

Driven by purpose beyond the cockpit, Hopson founded the Jet Black Foundation to expand access and opportunity in aviation, with the goal of sending 100 Black women to flight school by 2035.  

About Tapestry, Inc.

Our global house of iconic accessories and lifestyle brands unites the magic of Coach and kate spade new york. Together, we stretch what’s possible – advancing brands further than they could go alone, expanding their reach to new geographies and generations. Inspired by our consumers, we create experiences and products that build lasting brand love and elevate everyday life. To learn more about Tapestry, please visit tapestry.com.

 

NEW YORK, March 16, 2026 /3BL/ – UNFCU Foundation awarded $795K to 21 grant partners that align with its mission to sustain pathways out of poverty for marginalized women and youth. This year’s grant partner selection by UNFCU Foundation, now in its 11th year of philanthropy, focused on impactful programs benefitting migrants and refugees globally.

“The intersection of sustainability, inclusion, and economic empowerment is at the center of our work,” said Yma Gordon, Executive Director, UNFCU Foundation. “Through this year’s grants we are proud to expand access to skills-based training, quality education, and critical healthcare for women and youth and in this way further our strategy to leave no one behind.”

“Having recently marked 10 impactful years of grant-making, we remain deeply committed to bridging social, economic, and digital divides,” said Pamela Agnone, Chairperson of the UNFCU Foundation. “Program participants’ resilience in overcoming difficult circumstances by seizing new opportunities like artisan collectives, agribusiness, and social entrepreneurships, inspires us to do even more. We look forward to following progress as women shape brighter futures for themselves and catalyze positive change for their families and their communities.”

UNFCU Foundation grant partners located in six countries represent non-profit, non-governmental, and UN organizations. The grant selection process identified their program alignment with UNFCU Foundation’s mission and their impact equipping women and youth to break the cycle of poverty. These purposeful alliances spotlight the power of collective action:

• “As a long-time partner, UNFCU Foundation’s support helps to ensure that The Floating Hospital is meeting the behavioral-health needs of women and girls in public schools, family homeless shelters, and the medically underserved community at large,” said Floating Hospital President Sean T. Granahan. “This enables our teams to provide a continuum of care for families across New York City and assistance in rebuilding lives.”
• “UNFCU Foundation’s support comes at exactly the time when we’re aiming to scale up our digital training programs for refugees,” said Fabien de Castilla, Konexio Africa Director. “It will enable us to sustain and grow the successful program we’ve just completed in Kenya, especially in Kakuma Refugee Camp.”
• “Because of the UNFCU Foundation’s critical support, we can provide integrated, no-cost medical, sexual and reproductive health, and behavioral and mental health services to even more girls and young women in marginalized communities,” said Dr. Sarah Wood, Division Chief of Adolescent Medicine and Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center in New York City. “Many of our youth have experienced trauma and would otherwise be unable to access services.”
• “UNFCU Foundation’s commitment to refugee women’s success is reflected in the tangible progress we’ve made together,” said Preethi Nampoothiri, Executive Director of the International Rescue Committee in Silver Spring, Maryland. “We’ve been able to expand our reach and provide job readiness training, financial literacy workshops, and credit-building services to an increasing number of women. This partnership allows us to continue working toward creating a future where refugee women can thrive and contribute to their communities with confidence.”
• “Emma’s Torch is proud to be a grant recipient of the UNFCU Foundation,” said Kerry Brodie, its Founder and Executive Director. “Partnering together helps us provide effective training that is well-regarded by employers in the hospitality industry, creating high demand for Emma’s Torch graduates and increasing the skill level of the culinary workforce overall. By providing refugees with opportunities for stability and economic mobility, we are making a meaningful, lasting impact not only on our graduates, but on their families and communities as well.”

Grantees and projects supported by the UNFCU Foundation in 2026 include:

Health care grantees:

• The Floating Hospital continues to provide behavioral health services and support programs for women and children in New York City.
• Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center provides integrated medical, sexual, and reproductive health, as well as behavioral and mental health services to youth in New York City, facing unmet needs.

Education grantees:

• Building Tomorrow ensures children in rural Uganda access to foundational learning opportunities, including literacy and numeracy via its Roots to Rise Program.
• MindLeaps supports at-risk girls ages 12-18 and their mothers in Katwe, Uganda through its Girls and Women Rising Program. This holistic initiative focuses on providing academic and advanced digital literacy skill-building. It offers access to MindLeap’s Family Strengthening Program with four Self-Help Groups that foster independence and self-reliance through economic leadership and leadership training.
• The YWCA of Brooklyn offers college access and leadership skills training to girls of color from poverty-impacted communities in Brooklyn, NY.

Livelihood training grantees:

• Emma’s Torch supports women and youth refugees, asylees, and survivors of human trafficking in New York City through culinary education and on-the-job training to achieve financial independence.
• Global Fund for Widows empowers widows and female heads of households to overcome poverty through skills-based training, job creation, and micro finance through enrollment in Widows’ Savings and Loan Associations, WISALAs, in Kenya.
• Hot Bread Kitchen expands workforce development and social entrepreneurship programs in the food industry for women, immigrants, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities in New York City.
• Imagine Her enables young women in rural Uganda to gain leadership and social enterprise training in the green energy sector.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides employment services to refugee women in the United States through its Women’s Employability Program.
• Konexio empowers young refugee women through digital skills training in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp. The program leverages a rigorous curriculum and connects participants to international job platforms.
• Mission for Community Development (MCODE) enhances the income-generating capacity of young rural women and girls in Uganda through agricultural vocational skills.
• RefuSHE expands social enterprise Artisan Collective/vocational training and apprenticeship programs for young refugee women to gain entrepreneurial and financial skills in Nairobi, Kenya.
• Resilience Action International equips refugee women and youth through computer literacy and digital skills in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp.
• Sanctuary for Families addresses the root causes of abuse, poverty, and homelessness in New York City via intensive living-wage career training.
• Together We Bake provides women in the Washington, DC area with livelihood training and direct experience in the food industry, as well as post-program professional development support.
• Trickle Up improves economic opportunities for Indigenous women, including people with disabilities, living in extreme poverty in Guatemala. The organization also builds their resilience to socioeconomic shocks using the Graduation Approach.
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) delivers livelihood training and social reintegration care to indigent obstetric fistula survivors in Nigeria.
• UN Women empowers refugee and host community women in Adjumani, Uganda, with practical, market relevant skills and provides them with startup tools to establish micro and small enterprises, enabling long-term self-reliance and economic resilience.
• Village Enterprise expands the Poverty Graduation Program, an entrepreneurship training program for primarily women and girls in rural Uganda.
• World Food Program USA supports the mission of World Food Programme Senegal to strengthen food systems and create job opportunities for youth in Senegal through vocational training, entrepreneurship support, and career counseling.

Furthers impact by supporting emergency relief efforts in 2025:

UNFCU Foundation also worked in partnership with the UN system to decrease the impacts of job, health care, and education loss post-disasters. UNFCU Foundation teamed up with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, in Sudan and Myanmar, as well as the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, to provide emergency humanitarian aid in the Caribbean in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.

About UNFCU Foundation

UNFCU Foundation is an accredited New York-based, non-profit corporation launched in 2015. It was established by the United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU) with a mission to sustain the path out of poverty through healthcare and education for women and youth. Since its inception, UNFCU Foundation has supported programs to enable more than 140,000 marginalized women and youth to unlock their potential.

To learn more, follow UNFCU Foundation’s progress on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Media Contact

Elisabeth Philippe, UNFCU Foundation, ephilippe@unfcu.com, Tel. +1 347‑686‑6776; Mobile +1 347‑510‑4036

SANTA ROSA, Calif., February 12, 2026 /3BL/ – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) announced SOS Enterprise, an advanced edition of its engineering data management platform. The solution builds on the SOS Core software and automates engineering data governance and traceability to prepare for AI adoption at scale.

As semiconductor and electronics development accelerates, engineers face growing design complexity and rapidly increasing data volumes – challenges that intensify for organizations operating at multiple sites. At this scale, engineering data siloed across fragmented tools and file systems causes teams to lose significant productivity to manual workflows. They spend substantial time searching for information, frequently work with incorrect data versions, and must dedicate additional effort to resolve integrity and correlation issues. This lack of traceability creates compliance burdens and limits AI adoption, as machine learning systems require well-organized data to function reliably at scale.

SOS Enterprise provides a single system of record that turns fragmented design information into governed, reusable knowledge across distributed organizations. The software establishes clear data lineage, enables automated compliance tracking, and standardizes engineering information management across multiple sites and regulatory environments. By treating design files and verification data as versioned, traceable assets, the platform prepares engineering teams to integrate AI tools into design and verification workflows.

Key benefits of SOS Enterprise include:

• Automated compliance at enterprise scale: Provides audit trails, role-based access control, and software bill of materials tracking without adding to engineering workloads. This addresses regulatory requirements for industries like aerospace and defense and automotive.
• Enhanced data security and access control: Protects sensitive IP with fine-grained permissions, geofencing, and compliance-driven restrictions across regions and teams.
• Eliminates manual work: Automates traceability and custom workflows throughout the design lifecycle, tracking data origins and relationships while preparing engineering information for AI integration.
• Improved IP reuse across sites: Enables teams at any location to discover and reuse validated IP through a single system of record.

Simon Rance, General Manager, Data and IP Management at Keysight, said: “Engineering organizations tell us they’re ready to adopt AI, but their data isn’t. When design files, verification results, and IP libraries are scattered across disconnected systems, AI tools can’t deliver trustworthy outcomes. We built SOS Enterprise to solve that foundational problem by automating the governance and traceability work that’s currently done manually, making their engineering data AI-ready so teams can focus on innovation rather than data management. Early customer deployments have demonstrated significant improvements in IP reuse, faster project orchestration, and reduced operational overhead.”

Resources:

• Webpage: SOS Enterprise
• Webinar: From Silos to Systems, From Data to Insight
• White Paper: From Silos to Systems, From Data to Insight

About Keysight Technologies 

At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500 company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with less risk, throughout the entire product life cycle. We’re a global innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and www.keysight.com.

Contacts

Andrea Mueller, Americas
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Jenny Gallacher, Europe
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Fusako Dohi, Asia
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