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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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Climeworks Gets Far More Carbon Removal From Mammoth
Climeworks lifts Mammoth's first-half net carbon removal from 119 to 675 tons as upgraded collectors double throughput and cut operating costs.
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Sapien Chases the Causes Behind Corporate Profit, Not Just the Numbers
Sapien reaches a $180 million valuation as its AI links financial statements to operational drivers, with a Carlex case exposing a reversed EBITDA conclusion.
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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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Oura Opens Its Ring-and-Membership Model to Public-Market Scrutiny
Oura's IPO filing reveals 74% nine-month revenue growth, 5 million paid members, 85% retention and profitable hardware-plus-membership economics.
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Gen Z Founders Bet Bigger as Small-Business Growth Gets Harder
Gen Z owners report faster growth and bolder investment plans, but side-hustle origins leave business revenue closely tied to household resilience.
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Nvidia Brings Its AI Ambitions to the Personal Computer
Nvidia's RTX Spark puts 1-petaflop AI, 128GB unified memory and a Grace CPU into PCs, testing which agent workloads should move off the cloud.
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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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Nippon Express Pays Up to C$2.2 Billion for a North American Logistics Network
Nippon Express agrees its largest acquisition, adding Metro Supply Chain's 180-site contract-logistics network for up to C$2.2 billion including earn-out.
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Arm Starts Selling the Data-Centre Chips It Once Left to Licensees
Arm moves beyond licensing with its first production data-centre CPU, packing up to 136 cores and targeting the coordination work behind AI agents.
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America's Cold-Storage Building Boom Leaves Warehouses Empty
A five-year cold-storage building wave pushes US vacancy to a 20-year high as Lineage and Americold report softer revenue and weaker pallet volumes.
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Idle EV Battery Plants Find a Second Market in the Power Grid
Ford and other battery makers redirect underused EV capacity toward grid and data-centre storage, converting factories for LFP cells and container systems.
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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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Nscale Raises $2 Billion to Own More of the AI Infrastructure Stack
Nscale raises $2 billion at a $14.6 billion valuation to integrate power, data centres, GPU compute, networking and orchestration across its platform.
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Rosebank Buys Two American Manufacturers and Sets a Six-Point Margin Test
Rosebank funds a $3.05 billion purchase of MW Components and CPM while targeting 6–7 percentage points of margin improvement at each manufacturer.
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UPS Is Giving Up Amazon Volume to Rebuild Its Delivery Economics
UPS deliberately cuts Amazon parcel volume by more than half, resizing its network while pursuing higher-yield healthcare, international and SME shipments.
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Two Startups Assemble a $1.4 Billion American Magnet Chain
Vulcan and ReElement combined conditional public loans, federal equity support and private capital to target 10,000 tonnes of U.S. magnet capacity.
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GE Vernova Buys the Half of Prolec It Did Not Own
GE Vernova agreed to pay $5.275 billion for Xignux's half of Prolec GE, consolidating transformer control while funding the deal equally with cash and debt.
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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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HappyRobot Raises $44 Million to Handle Freight's Endless Calls
HappyRobot raised $44 million to automate freight calls, rate talks and dock appointments, but its agents still need data controls and human escalation.
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AT&T Pays $23 Billion to Add Two Layers to Its Wireless Network
AT&T's $23 billion EchoStar deal combines low-band reach with mid-band capacity, but more than 400 markets still require a physical network rollout.
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J&J Adds a Second North Carolina Biologics Bet at Fujifilm's Site
J&J committed $2 billion over ten years to a dedicated Fujifilm facility in Holly Springs, separate from its company-owned Wilson biologics plant.
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Squint Raises $40 Million to Put Factory Know-How on a Phone
Squint's $40 million Series B backs mobile AI and augmented-reality guidance that brings validated factory know-how directly to industrial equipment.
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Chevron Closes the Hess Deal After a Two-Year Fight Over Guyana
Chevron completed its Hess acquisition after winning the Stabroek arbitration, adding Guyana and Bakken assets while taking on a complex integration.
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Google Reserves 200 MW From CFS's Planned Fusion Plant
Google reserved 200 MW from CFS's planned Virginia fusion plant, creating a commercial demand signal while major technical and construction risks remain.
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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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Nippon Steel Finally Owns U.S. Steel, With Washington Still in the Room
Nippon Steel completed its $14.9 billion U.S. Steel acquisition under an unusual golden-share structure and $11 billion investment commitment.
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GM Reworks Three U.S. Plants in a $4 Billion Production Shift
GM plans a $4 billion production shift across Michigan, Kansas and Tennessee, combining gasoline models with continued electric-vehicle manufacturing.
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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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SoftBank Pays $6.5 Billion for a Server-Chip Foothold
SoftBank agreed to acquire server-processor designer Ampere for $6.5 billion, gaining a direct chip roadmap but no automatic fabrication capacity.
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Boeing Raises $21 Billion to Protect Its Balance Sheet
Boeing’s roughly $21 billion equity raise strengthens liquidity and credit flexibility, but aircraft quality, factory output and cash flow still need repair.
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Visa Buys Featurespace as Fraud Detection Moves Into the Payment Stream
Visa’s Featurespace deal brings adaptive fraud scoring closer to payment flows, where accuracy must improve without delaying or rejecting legitimate customers.
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Muon Space Turns a $56.7 Million Round Into a Three-Satellite Test
Muon Space’s $56.7 million round comes with a three-satellite SNC mission that will test whether its integrated platform can deliver useful orbital data.
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One CrowdStrike Update Stopped the Windows Economy
A defective CrowdStrike update crashed affected Windows systems, exposing how trusted security software can concentrate operational and recovery risk.
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Monarch Tractor Finds $133 Million for Its Next Field
Monarch Tractor raised $133 million to develop its electric, driver-optional farm platform and pursue international growth after a difficult market period.
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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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TPG Takes Control of Altimetrik With a $1 Billion Revenue Target
TPG’s majority investment gives Altimetrik capital to pursue $1 billion in annual revenue, but delivery capacity and client trust will decide the outcome.
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CData Raises $350 Million to Fix AI’s Data-Access Bottleneck
CData’s $350 million round targets the hard work of connecting fragmented business systems to analytics and AI without sacrificing control or reliability.
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Warehouses Get More From Robots When People Stay in the Loop
HBR research suggests warehouses gain more efficiency by combining robots with people who manage exceptions, quality and changing operating conditions.
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Sanofi Puts Generative AI Inside Drug Development
Sanofi is putting generative AI into drug development through a partnership that combines proprietary data, tuned models, engineering and expert validation.
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Intel’s $28 Billion Ohio Fab Becomes a Test of Industrial Scale
Intel's $28 billion Ohio project must turn two vast fab shells, public support, utilities, specialised tools and a new workforce into competitive chip output.
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Magna Gives Sanctuary AI’s Humanoid Robots a Factory Test
Magna will test Sanctuary AI humanoid robots in automotive production, coupling factory deployment with engineering work on safety, cost and scalability.
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Together AI Adds $106 Million to Its Open-Model Bet
Together AI raised $106 million to expand an open-model platform where developers get broad choice while compute, optimisation and support carry the economics.
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Walmart Turns Its Delivery Software Into a Business
Walmart is selling its route-optimisation software to other businesses, turning internal logistics expertise into a commercial technology service.
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Fyle Brings Real-Time American Express Data to Small Businesses
Fyle adds American Express virtual cards, real-time transaction data and receipt matching for eligible U.S. small-business customers and clearer control.
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