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Private Equity and IPO Market Updates this week: Partners Group has capped redemptions in its $8.6 billion evergreen private equity fund at 5% of net asset value; and Withdrawal cap on $8.

Made In USA manufacturing and logistics this week: Wayfair detailed three supply chain upgrades at Home Delivery World 2026: first article inspection using vision; and Keller Warehousing & Co-Packing has completed a multi-year leadership…

Paramount-Skydance $110B Warner Bros Deal Faces Regulatory and Union Backlash this week: Thousands of workers, union members, and lawmakers rallied in Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta on June 6, 2026, to; and California, New York, and…

Infrastructure, Hardware & Open Source Projects this week: ZeroGPU, a compute efficiency layer for AI, launches with a specialized edge network for high-volume, routine; and JPEG XL’s development was a decade-long, iterative process of…

Developer Tools: Sandboxes, Agents & Cloud IDEs this week: A security researcher conducted a $1,500 experiment to test whether various large language models could autonomously; and Simon Willison has released an alpha package…

Logistics Technology and Innovation this week: The National Motor Freight Traffic Association has launched an anonymous Threat Report Portal for reporting freight; and ISEE AI, founded by MIT researchers, pivoted from highway autonomous…

New AI Models, Benchmarks & Safety Tools this week: Google I/O 2026 showcased a strategic push into integrated, always-on AI agents with Gemini Spark and multimodal; and ServiceNow-AI has released EVA-Bench Data 2.

New Industrial Investments and Facility Expansions this week: USA Rare Earth has selected Cherokee County, South Carolina, for a $1.

Southeast Industrial and Economic Development this week: USA Rare Earth Inc. has selected Cherokee County, South Carolina, for a $1.