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Category: Business News
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Made In USA August 31, 2026: Walmart to build $1.3B fulfillment center in Georgia
Walmart and Georgia logistics expansion this week: Walmart plans to build a 1.5-million-square-foot automated fulfillment center in Carnesville, Georgia, representing; and Gov.
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Southeast Business August 24, 2026: Home Depot offers nationwide express delivery from local stores
Logistics and supply chain updates: delivery, shipping, and legal cases this week: Home Depot announced the nationwide rollout of express delivery, using more than 2,300 stores as local fulfillment; and Two new federal cases on broker…
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Southeast Business August 24, 2026: Corps Of Engineers Grants LIT Project Permit – The Waterways Journal
Port expansions and rail upgrades boost global trade capacity this week: The Corps of Engineers granted the federal permit on August 17 authorizing construction of the Louisiana; and Dar es Salaam Port is entering a new phase of…
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Emerging/Weak August 24, 2026: How China’s gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price
Chinese developers are buying Claude tokens through ‘transfer stations’—API proxies hosted on overseas servers—at roughly 10 percent of the official price, bypassing Anthropic’s geoblocking, credit card checks, and…
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Law and Govt. August 24, 2026: Asia Crypto Regulation Updates: Key Moves in 2026
Crypto and Financial Regulation Updates this week: South Korea will launch a Serious Crimes Investigation Agency in October 2026 with a Joint Investigation Division; and Federal regulators gave preliminary approval for a cryptocurrency…
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Big Deals August 24, 2026: Round Hill Music Sues Suno, Anthropic for Copyright Infringement, Seeking Up to $1 Billion in Damages
Round Hill Music sued Suno and Anthropic in a California federal court, accusing both AI companies of infringing its copyright by scraping hundreds of its songs without permission to train their models.
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Made In USA August 24, 2026: 125-year-old mall retail anchor closes discount outlet, cuts 101 jobs
Nordstrom confirmed the closure of its Nordstrom Last Chance clearance outlet at Yorktown Center in Lombard, Illinois, effective September 2026, with 101 employees losing jobs effective October 5, 2026, per a WARN Act…
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Southeast Business August 17, 2026: data center freight stolen as, New Trucking Authorities Are They
Regional Economic Indicators (Southeast Focus) this week: Cargo thieves have stolen nearly $111 million in data center equipment and high-value technology freight since June; and New trucking operating authorities are up more than 5,000…
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Emerging/Weak August 17, 2026: What We Learned, Motif 3 Final Release MIT, Liquid AI Open-Weights Vision Model, and more
Emerging Tech & Weak Signals this week: Hugging Face and alphaXiv ran a community hackathon that attempted to reproduce 2,200 papers from ICML 2026 using AI; and Motif Technologies quietly released the final weights of its Motif 3…
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Law and Govt. August 17, 2026: Australia Grassley-Hassan Counterfeit Bill Unanimously, VA District Judge Enters Stay
Policy, Legal & Regulatory this week: This week’s IP and tech policy roundup covers Pakistan’s celebration of an Australian court ruling that blocks; and A federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia has entered an administrative…