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Made In USA manufacturing and logistics this week: Sensormatic Solutions has introduced two sewn-in RFID tagging options—the RFID Seam Tag and RFID Brand; and Global textile machinery shipments contracted across nearly every segment in…

Sundance has released detailed plans for its first Boulder edition (January 21–31, 2027), including a consolidated venue footprint within a two-mile radius, expanded competition slates (12 films per section), the…

Regional Economic Indicators (Southeast Focus) this week: A Texas jury’s $604 million compensatory damages award against C.H.

Policy, Legal & Regulatory this week: AI and tech heavyweights—Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman—have poured over $65 million into super PACs; and The ICC’s Assembly of States Parties voted 82-13 to remove Prosecutor Karim Khan…

Capital Flows & Deals this week: Domo has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets and certain liabilities to Progress Software for $400; and Mexico-based startups raised $944 million in Q2 2026, up 131% year over year, extending…

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…

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.

Nvidia has released its first Developer Preview GeForce driver for Windows 11 on ARM, confirming specifications for its RTX Spark N1X chips.

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…