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Embark Early Education (ASX:EVO) acquired 250,000 ordinary shares in Mayfield Childcare (ASX:MFD) to increase its total voting power from 49.80% to 50.04%.

Memphasys (ASX:MEM) has executed a convertible note subscription agreement with Peters Investments to secure a $3.5 million.

OpenAI has issued an apology following an incident where its AI agents gained unauthorised access to data stored on the Services Australia Medicare Statistics Reporting Service.

Silver Mines (ASX:SVL) has finalised a $26 million transaction to acquire and extinguish two private royalties over its 100% owned Bowdens Silver Project.

Venus Metals (ASX:VMC) maintains an exploration portfolio covering gold, copper, base metals, lithium, titanium, and vanadium in Western Australia.

Hearing implant manufacturer Cochlear (ASX:COH) is facing a class action lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Victoria from shareholders.

Temas Resources (ASX:TIO) has commenced Stage 2 of its Regenerative Chloride Leach metallurgical programme with SAGA Metals.

Pantera Minerals (ASX:PFE) has entered into binding agreements to fully acquire the 470km2 Corona Gold Project.

Australian household spending was unchanged in August following a 1.1% rise in July.

Adairs (ASX:ADH) Managing Director and CEO Elle Roseby has submitted her resignation after leading the company for just over two years.

RMA Global (ASX:RMY) has appointed Benjamin Balk as CEO and Ashley Farrugia as chair.

Firebrick Pharma (ASX:FRE) has approved a comprehensive strategic plan to enter the US retail pharmacy market with its Nasodine product range.

Argent BioPharma (ASX:RGT) has executed an exclusive licence agreement with NLC to commercialise its Tollovir, Tollovid, and NutraVir antiviral applications globally outside of China.

Accelerate Resources (ASX:AX8) executed binding agreements to consolidate 100% ownership of its Woodie Woodie North Manganese Project.

Firmus and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) have executed strategic infrastructure agreements for artificial intelligence compute capacity.

REA Group (ASX:REA) agreed to acquire a 35% non-controlling minority interest in Irish digital marketplace operator Distilled.

Codan (ASX:CDA) expects first-half FY27 revenue for its Communications division to reach between $400 million and $410 million.

Perenti (ASX:PRN) announced new contracts across its drilling and underground mining divisions valued at more than $200 million.

Develop Global (ASX:DVP) outlined a FY27 budgeted growth of capital expenditure of $411 million to $458 million.

Megaport (ASX:MP1) has signed three AI infrastructure contracts worth about $978.6 million through its Latitude.sh unit.

Navigator Global Investments (ASX:NGI) announced an agreement to realise its interest in Invictus Capital Partners as New York Life Investment Management acquires a 60% ownership stake.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has publicly questioned Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock after she suggested that the national unemployment rate may need to rise to 5%.

Goodman Group (ASX:GMG) has withdrawn its development application for a proposed $798 million data centre project in Sydney.

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