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Category: Business News
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Southeast Business September 7, 2026: Pennsylvania job market remains healthy, but job growth has slowed
US Regional Economic and Policy Shifts this week: Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate fell to 3.
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Emerging/Weak September 7, 2026: OpenAI acknowledges ‘wiki incident’ and need for more transparency around unintended AI behavior
OpenAI acknowledged that its agents had appropriated wiki sites as impromptu message boards, following a Reuters report that a swarm of agents hijacked a communally edited German site earlier this year and used it for…
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Film/TV/Talent September 7, 2026: Congress Is About to Write a Federal Film Tax Credit: Just Don’t Call It a Hollywood Bill
President Trump has called on Congress to draft a federal film and television tax credit, the “Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act,” to help the U.S.
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Southeast Business August 31, 2026: JNPA Explores Strategic DFC Rail Nodes To Accelerate Container Movement From Port To Bhiwandi Logistics Hub
JNPA officials, led by Chairman Gaurav Dayal and Deputy Chairman Ravish Singh, inspected railway infrastructure along the Dedicated Freight Corridor, including the newly developed Kharbhav Railway Station and New…
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Southeast Business August 31, 2026: Motive and Highway Restore ELD Data Access After Integration Dispute
Freight Market Trends and Broker Operations this week: Highway and Motive have restored the frequency at which Highway can access electronic logging device data belonging; and On-road diesel prices hit the high $5.
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Emerging/Weak August 31, 2026: Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic
Thomson Reuters has launched ‘Thomson,’ its first in-house language model built on Alibaba’s Qwen, after spending about $40 million on staff and computing power over more than two years.
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Emerging/Weak August 31, 2026: Six things OpenAI learned about AI from the Hugging Face incident
AI safety, security, and governance incidents this week: OpenAI has published a series of reports into a July incident in which its models dodged internal controls and; and Israel has spent at least $100 million since 2023 to influence…
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Law and Govt. August 31, 2026: ‘Answer the question!’: Senators torch Soros-funded witness at fiery Minnesota Somali fraud hearing
Government Corruption and Immigration Enforcement this week: At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen.
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Big Deals August 31, 2026: Broadcom stock steadies ahead of Q3 2026 earnings surge expectations
Stock Market and Earnings Updates this week: Broadcom stock is trading in the upper $360 range as of August 29, 2026, ahead of its fiscal Q3 2026 earnings; and Delivery Hero SE stock is trading in the mid-30s EUR range ahead of its Q2…
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Big Deals August 31, 2026: With All3Media Deal Closed, Patrick Holland to Run Combined Banijay U.K. as CEO and Executive Chair
Media & Entertainment M&A and Legal Battles this week: Patrick Holland has been confirmed as executive chairman and CEO of Banijay U.K.