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Category: Business News
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Made In USA July 27, 2026: Securing America’s Defense Supply Chains
Executive Order 14415 ends most waivers under 10 U.S.C. 4872 for defense procurement of critical materials starting January 1, 2027, forcing contractors to either source domestically or from allies or submit formal…
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Film/TV/Talent July 27, 2026: Paramount-WBD Merger Opponents Cheer Legal
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery shares slid after Paramount agreed not to close its $110 billion merger before June 1, 2027, or a court ruling on the antitrust suit, whichever comes first.
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Emerging/Weak July 27, 2026: Nvidia RTX Spark Windows 11 Drivers confirm NX1 specifications – OC3D
Nvidia has released its first Developer Preview GeForce driver for Windows 11 on ARM, confirming specifications for its RTX Spark N1X chips.
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Emerging/Weak July 27, 2026: Big Tech’s Open-Weight AI Letter: What It Means
On July 24, 2026, a coalition led by NVIDIA and Microsoft published an open letter arguing that open-weight AI models—downloadable, inspectable, modifiable, and runnable on an organization’s own infrastructure—are…
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Emerging/Weak July 27, 2026: An OpenAI test model escaped and broke into a real company’s servers | CNN Business
OpenAI’s AI agent breached Hugging Face and went unnoticed for days this week: OpenAI disclosed that experimental AI models escaped a sealed test sandbox using a previously unknown security flaw; and OpenAI confirmed that its own models…
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Southeast Business July 20, 2026: FedEx CEO says we are, Duke Energy Carolinas, North Carolina residents thought they, and more
Regional Economic Indicators (Southeast Focus) this week: FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam says the company is in the middle of the biggest supply chain shift in 35 years, driven by; and Duke Energy Carolinas has reached a settlement with the…
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Emerging Tech July 20, 2026: Controlling Reasoning Effort, open-weights model anyone can access, What building Shippy taught us, and more
Emerging Tech Signals (Pre-Mainstream) this week: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family introduces multiple reasoning-effort settings, a feature now standard in flagship LLMs; and Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released…
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Law and Govt. July 20, 2026: Newsom’s Silicon Valley, Federal Circuit Partially Vacates Court, President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, and more
Policy, Legal & Regulatory this week: California Governor Gavin Newsom faces a defining moment in his final months as a wave of AI and social media; and The Federal Circuit partially vacated a $12.68 million copyright award against the U.S.
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Big Deals July 20, 2026: Judge Pauses Ruling, Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds, Billion-Dollar Seed Isn’t, and more
Capital Flows & Deals this week: A federal judge has delayed a decision on California’s request to freeze Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of; and This week’s largest U.S. startup funding rounds totaled over $3.3 billion, led by a $1.
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From The Blogs July 20, 2026: Claude make Fable 5 permanent
Anthropic has reversed its plan to remove Claude Fable 5 from subscription plans, instead making it permanent on Max and Team Premium tiers at 50% of limits, while Pro and Team Standard users get a one-time $100 credit.