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US manufacturing adds 9,000 jobs in September
September manufacturing employment rises by 9,000, following revised gains of 20,000 in July and 15,000 in August.
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AI Is Rearranging American Hiring Before It Shrinks It
U.S. payrolls add 162,000 jobs as AI-linked infrastructure and specialist hiring offset some losses, while information employment falls by 23,000.
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Greg Abel Defends Berkshire's Decentralised Model at His First Annual Meeting
Greg Abel uses his first Berkshire annual meeting as CEO to defend decentralisation, capital discipline and cultural continuity after Warren Buffett's handover.
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Travis Kalanick Returns With Robots Built for Mines and Kitchens
Travis Kalanick launches Atoms around specialised robots for food, mining and transport, betting that machines designed for real jobs can scale sooner.
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AI Budgets Need a Business Strategy
A survey of more than 700 companies exposed the gap between AI budgets and the operating architecture needed to turn pilots into controlled business value.
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Flow Engineering Raises $23 Million to Keep Hardware Requirements Connected
Flow Engineering raises a $23 million Sequoia-led Series A to connect requirements, decisions, changes and verification across complex hardware programmes.
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Companies Link HR and Technology Without Always Merging the Top Jobs
HBR's three-model debate shows when companies may merge HR and technology leadership, coordinate two executives or form a temporary fusion team.
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IKEA Builds AI Adoption From Store Teams Up
IKEA is pairing shared AI boundaries and role-based training with local store experiments, demand sensing and feedback from more than 31 markets.
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AI Advances Fastest Where Work Already Leaves a Data Trail
An HBR framework says tasks with data, stable feedback and cheap verification face automation first, while ambiguous judgment remains harder to encode.
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The Hidden Ownership Costs of Open-Source Software
Open source accelerates development only when employee rights, component provenance, licence compatibility and release evidence form one operating system.
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Manufacturers Put Tariff Thresholds Into Factory Location Decisions
HBR researchers propose product-specific tariff tipping points, staged factory commitments and automation evidence for manufacturing-location decisions.
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Yadro Prepares Russian Base Stations for Mass Production
Yadro's base-station ramp shows how forward contracts, board production, radio testing, operator acceptance and field feedback turn prototypes into serial infrastructure.
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Russian Steelmakers Move Into Machinery
Russian steelmakers' machinery projects show how captive demand, field data, process qualification and portfolio discipline can turn spare-parts risk into industrial capability.
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Rusal Wants to Build Markets, Not Just Sell Aluminium
Rusal's market-development directorate treated demand as infrastructure connecting applications, standards, skills, converters and downstream investment.
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Accenture Says AI Needs a Stronger Digital Core
Accenture links stronger growth and profitability with an integrated digital core, strategic innovation and disciplined management of technical debt.
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Economist Education Adds an Applied AI Course for Business Professionals
Economist Education’s applied AI course helps business professionals connect practical use with productivity, judgment, governance and ethical risk controls.
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CRP's Three Steps Toward a Russian-Made Industrial Robot
CRP's proposed Moscow Region plant mapped a three-stage path from six assembled robot models to a wider range, localized components and a locally controlled automation stack.
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Apple Closes the Garage and Bets on AI
After nearly a decade of reported research, Apple ended Project Titan in 2024. The decision shows why strategic fit, vehicle economics, safety validation and opportunity cost can outweigh market size.
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Russia and Belarus Put 27 Industrial Projects to the Test
Twenty-seven approved industrial programmes and a RUB 105 billion credit framework tested whether Russia and Belarus could turn localisation plans into qualified suppliers, serial quality and durable manufacturing capability.
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