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Digital business news outlet (qz.com) launched in 2012, covering the global economy, technology, and industry for an international, mobile-first readership.
Developers have called off at least $260 billion of planned US data centers this year, Heatmap Pro counts, and July to September alone exceeded all of 2025. Most died locally, but developers can come back.
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ICON raised a $200 million Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock-managed funds to manufacture more robotic building systems. CNBC reported a $1.4 billion valuation, and the company says 2026 revenue is on pace to quadruple.
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Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by the end of 2027 and a third of enterprise software to ship with agentic AI by 2028. Quartz's summary says both can hold at once. We think that argues for releasing agent budgets in tranches.
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Lululemon, Under Armour and BJ's Wholesale Club have each disclosed SKU cuts of 15% to 25%, according to CNBC as relayed by Quartz. Four companies in one report are the whole sample, and the purposes they cite differ between the brands and the volume chains.
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Allbirds shares rose as much as 435% after it said its Nasdaq shell would become NewBird AI, a chip-rental company. At least 27 companies have renamed or announced an AI focus since 2023, the same play .com renamers ran before their long-term holders lost most of their money.
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A viral video showed Meta AI naming a user's two daughters from years of posts uploaded mostly by relatives, and Meta says the assistant never should have asked the question that started it.
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Three FCC filings add 18 antennas across Florida, Minnesota and Texas, about one percent of the more than 300 ground stations Amazon says its 3,232-satellite constellation needs, and the pace of that queue is what a buyer is really buying.
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A nightly job that catches its own failure and returns cleanly is invisible to every dashboard you can bolt on afterwards, which is why the durable execution argument lands on the event log rather than the feature list.
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CBRE's 2026 report splits raw headcount from weighted quality, and the space between the two numbers is where hiring managers can actually act.
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