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Category: Business News
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NJEDA Approves First Award Under Next New Jersey Manufacturing Program – NJEDA
Made In USA manufacturing and logistics this week: The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has approved the first tax credit award under the Next New; and Burlington Stores opened a 2-million-square-foot distribution center…
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Legislative Roundup: 59 TV and film productions injecting $1.11B into economy; 11,700 jobs
Film and TV Development this week: Pennsylvania’s Film Office awarded a record $117 million in tax credits to 59 productions, projected to inject $1; and This matters for Film and TV Development because it gives a concrete current signal…
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Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
Independent Operator & Newsletter Analysis this week: Simon Willison launched datasette-apps, a new plugin that lets users host sandboxed HTML+JavaScript applications; and Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda tells Platformer that AI…
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: World-Model Startup Odyssey Leads With $310M In Slower
Capital Flows & Deals this week: This week’s top U.S. venture deals totaled $1.1 billion across 10 rounds, led by Odyssey’s $310 million Series B for; and NBCUniversal is merging its two scripted television studios, UCP and Universal…
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Other Barks & Bites for Friday, June 19: Senate Finance Committee to Consider ITC Nominees
Policy, Legal & Regulatory this week: The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on USITC nominees, including Peter-Anthony Pappas, while the Senate; and The Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s IPR estoppel ruling against…
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Conduit
Emerging Tech Signals (Pre-Mainstream) this week: This matters for Emerging Tech Signals (Pre-Mainstream) because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Conduit; and MosaicLeaks, a new benchmark from researchers at ServiceNow and…
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FRA Greenlights Expanded Rail Track Tech Tests as CSX Prepares July 2026 Rollout
Regional Economic Indicators (Southeast Focus) this week: The FRA has approved a five-year waiver allowing railroads to expand Automated Track Inspection (ATI) technology; and The 2026 State of Logistics Report declares supply chain…
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The revenge of Claude Mythos
Two months after Anthropic hyped Claude Mythos as too dangerous to release—sparking media panic, a Tom Friedman column, and a valuation bump—the company has quietly released the same model with guardrails.
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Humalike
Humalike launches a set of behavioral APIs—Turn-Taking, Theory of Mind, Norms, Persona, Social Memory, Social Signals, and Social Observability—designed to give AI agents social intelligence for group interactions.
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PE firm Open Road Ventures acquires intermodal 3PL Double-Stack
Regional Economic Indicators (Southeast Focus) this week: Private equity firm Open Road Ventures has acquired Double-Stack Logistics, an intermodal 3PL that owns over 150; and Texas has resumed issuing non-domiciled commercial driver’s…