Rosatom awaits Namibia’s decision on the Wings project
Rosatom expects a Namibian decision in the coming months; production approval and a start date have not been announced.
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Courier pay and delivery channels
Advertised pay, parcel volumes and automation describe different measures.
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Diesel export options depend on the domestic balance
A possible partial reopening of Russian diesel exports depends on the domestic balance and subsequent shipment arrangements.
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Rhenus and the Middle Corridor: terminals need coordinated connections
Rhenus plans new Middle Corridor terminals. Their value depends on coordinated border, rail and port operations, beyond the capacity of individual sites.
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US manufacturing adds 9,000 jobs in September
September manufacturing employment rises by 9,000, following revised gains of 20,000 in July and 15,000 in August.
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A Dental Clinic Brings Laboratory Production In-House
An in-house dental laboratory restored control only by governing patient-specific data, design, print and mill routes, ceramics, inspection, capacity, remakes and supplier continuity.
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A Fergana Garment Factory Sets Its Sights on Export Markets
Fergana's new apparel factory shows how buyer specifications, workforce development, line balance, quality evidence and shipment discipline turn sewing machines into an export platform.
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A Stronger Ruble Squeezes Russian Exporters
A stronger ruble compressed exporters' local-currency margin, turning exchange-rate exposure into a problem of pricing, debt, product mix and capital allocation.
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AI Advances Fastest Where Work Already Leaves a Data Trail
An HBR framework says tasks with data, stable feedback and cheap verification face automation first, while ambiguous judgment remains harder to encode.
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AI Budgets Need a Business Strategy
A survey of more than 700 companies exposed the gap between AI budgets and the operating architecture needed to turn pilots into controlled business value.
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AI Is Rearranging American Hiring Before It Shrinks It
U.S. payrolls add 162,000 jobs as AI-linked infrastructure and specialist hiring offset some losses, while information employment falls by 23,000.
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ASML Invests €1.3 Billion and Brings Mistral AI Into Chipmaking
ASML leads Mistral AI's €1.7 billion Series C with a €1.3 billion investment and a partnership spanning chipmaking products, research and operations.
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AT&T Pays $23 Billion to Add Two Layers to Its Wireless Network
AT&T's $23 billion EchoStar deal combines low-band reach with mid-band capacity, but more than 400 markets still require a physical network rollout.
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Accenture Says AI Needs a Stronger Digital Core
Accenture links stronger growth and profitability with an integrated digital core, strategic innovation and disciplined management of technical debt.
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Amazon Sends the First 27 Production Kuiper Satellites Into Orbit
Amazon's first 27 production Kuiper satellites begin an 80-plus-launch campaign to build a 3,236-spacecraft low-Earth-orbit broadband network.
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America's Cold-Storage Building Boom Leaves Warehouses Empty
A five-year cold-storage building wave pushes US vacancy to a 20-year high as Lineage and Americold report softer revenue and weaker pallet volumes.
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Apple Brings On-Device Intelligence and Camera Control to iPhone 16
Apple’s iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus combine the A18 chip, Camera Control and updated imaging hardware with a phased rollout of Apple Intelligence.
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Apple Closes the Garage and Bets on AI
After nearly a decade of reported research, Apple ended Project Titan in 2024. The decision shows why strategic fit, vehicle economics, safety validation and opportunity cost can outweigh ma
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Baltic Terminals Give Russian Grain a Northern Export Route
New Baltic grain terminals offered Russia deeper berths, capacity for inland producing regions and a second maritime basin. Their real test was turning announced millions of tonnes into reli
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Bilt Adds Mortgage Rewards and Three New Cards to Its Housing Payments Program
Bilt launches three cards spanning zero to $495 annual fees and extends its housing rewards from rent to eligible mortgage payments for US members.
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Bloomberg Gives Investors Control Over Sustainable Portfolio Screens
Bloomberg’s sustainability screen lets investors define portfolio thresholds, calculate alignment and inspect holdings that fall outside their criteria.
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Boeing Raises $21 Billion to Protect Its Balance Sheet
Boeing’s roughly $21 billion equity raise strengthens liquidity and credit flexibility, but aircraft quality, factory output and cash flow still need repair.
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Bukhara’s Biennale: Contemporary Art in Historic Spaces
Bukhara’s first biennale brought contemporary art, local artisans, cooking and performance into historic spaces in 2025.
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CData Raises $350 Million to Fix AI’s Data-Access Bottleneck
CData’s $350 million round targets the hard work of connecting fragmented business systems to analytics and AI without sacrificing control or reliability.
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CRP's Three Steps Toward a Russian-Made Industrial Robot
CRP's proposed Moscow Region plant mapped a three-stage path from six assembled robot models to a wider range, localized components and a locally controlled automation stack.
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Cadence Extends Its AI Design Agents from Chips to Circuit Boards and Packages
Cadence introduces AuraStack to coordinate planning, layout, multiphysics analysis and manufacturing checks across circuit-board and chip-package design.
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Can a Six-Percent Tax Deduction Unlock Industrial Investment?
Russia's proposed federal investment deduction offered a modest tax lever whose real value depended on access, taxable profit, asset rules and sound project economics.
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Chevron Closes the Hess Deal After a Two-Year Fight Over Guyana
Chevron completed its Hess acquisition after winning the Stabroek arbitration, adding Guyana and Bakken assets while taking on a complex integration.
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China's Iron Ore Peak Changes the Outlook for Steel
China's iron ore demand was approaching a plateau after two decades of construction-led growth. Miners now faced a stricter cost curve, rising scrap use and the slow task of building demand
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Chocolate After the $10,000 Cocoa Shock
Failed West African harvests sent cocoa above $10,000 a tonne in 2024, forcing chocolate makers to rethink pricing, recipes, finance, sourcing and the value returned to farms.
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Climeworks Gets Far More Carbon Removal From Mammoth
Climeworks lifts Mammoth's first-half net carbon removal from 119 to 675 tons as upgraded collectors double throughput and cut operating costs.
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Companies Link HR and Technology Without Always Merging the Top Jobs
HBR's three-model debate shows when companies may merge HR and technology leadership, coordinate two executives or form a temporary fusion team.
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DHL Lets a Shipment Photo Do the First Draft of Customs Paperwork
DHL Express adds computer-vision item identification to MyDHL+, turning shipment photos into draft customs descriptions for customers to review.
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Dzerzhinsk Extends the Working Life of Carbide Tools
Dzerzhinsk's carbide-tool plant shows how powder grades, pressing, sintering, geometry, coating, application evidence and reconditioning turn a cutting edge into a production parameter.
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Economist Education Adds an Applied AI Course for Business Professionals
Economist Education’s applied AI course helps business professionals connect practical use with productivity, judgment, governance and ethical risk controls.
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Europe Cannot Export Services Without Strong Factories
Europe's goods exporters lost global share as supply disruptions and energy costs exposed structural weaknesses. Services cushioned the fall, but their strongest value still depended on comp
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Europe's EV Tariffs Complicate the Road to Electrification
Europe's duties on China-made electric cars changed import economics but could not create competitive factories. The five-year measure became a deadline for cheaper batteries, faster develop
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Expensive Credit Stalls Russia's Farm Machinery Cycle
Russia's machinery contraction shows how weak farm cash flow and expensive credit travel through dealers into factory utilisation, suppliers, investment and product strategy.
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Fanagoria's Sparkling-Wine Expansion Starts in the Vineyard
Fanagoria's sparkling-wine expansion shows why tanks, vineyard supply, utilities, laboratory release, packaging, seasonality and sell-through must share one plan.
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Flow Engineering Raises $23 Million to Keep Hardware Requirements Connected
Flow Engineering raises a $23 million Sequoia-led Series A to connect requirements, decisions, changes and verification across complex hardware programmes.
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Fortune and Accenture Turn Two Decades of Company Data Into an AI Research Tool
Fortune Analytics combines two decades of company rankings, financial data and journalism with conversational AI and visual research developed by Accenture.
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Fyle Brings Real-Time American Express Data to Small Businesses
Fyle adds American Express virtual cards, real-time transaction data and receipt matching for eligible U.S. small-business customers and clearer control.
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GE Vernova Buys the Half of Prolec It Did Not Own
GE Vernova agreed to pay $5.275 billion for Xignux's half of Prolec GE, consolidating transformer control while funding the deal equally with cash and debt.
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GM Reworks Three U.S. Plants in a $4 Billion Production Shift
GM plans a $4 billion production shift across Michigan, Kansas and Tennessee, combining gasoline models with continued electric-vehicle manufacturing.
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Gen Z Founders Bet Bigger as Small-Business Growth Gets Harder
Gen Z owners report faster growth and bolder investment plans, but side-hustle origins leave business revenue closely tied to household resilience.
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Google Reserves 200 MW From CFS's Planned Fusion Plant
Google reserved 200 MW from CFS's planned Virginia fusion plant, creating a commercial demand signal while major technical and construction risks remain.
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Greg Abel Defends Berkshire's Decentralised Model at His First Annual Meeting
Greg Abel uses his first Berkshire annual meeting as CEO to defend decentralisation, capital discipline and cultural continuity after Warren Buffett's handover.
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HappyRobot Raises $44 Million to Handle Freight's Endless Calls
HappyRobot raised $44 million to automate freight calls, rate talks and dock appointments, but its agents still need data controls and human escalation.
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Harvey Adds $300 Million to Bring Legal AI Into More Professional Work
Harvey raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation to expand its governed legal-AI platform, professional workflows and international operations.
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Headline Opens an $865 Million Growth Fund for Later-Stage Technology Companies
Headline’s $865 million Global Growth fund backs technology companies from Series B onward with local teams, flexible capital and proprietary research tools.
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High Interest Rates Push Russia's IT Market Toward Consolidation
Strong IT sales and investment collided with expensive capital in 2024, testing margins, research portfolios and whether consolidation could turn fragmented products into durable platforms.
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IKEA Builds AI Adoption From Store Teams Up
IKEA is pairing shared AI boundaries and role-based training with local store experiments, demand sensing and feedback from more than 31 markets.
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Idle EV Battery Plants Find a Second Market in the Power Grid
Ford and other battery makers redirect underused EV capacity toward grid and data-centre storage, converting factories for LFP cells and container systems.
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Inside Russia's First Full-Cycle Battery Gigafactory
Russia's first full-cycle battery gigafactory shows why installed gigawatt-hours become strategic supply only through controlled chemistry, yield, traceability, qualification and customer ac
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Intel’s $28 Billion Ohio Fab Becomes a Test of Industrial Scale
Intel's $28 billion Ohio project must turn two vast fab shells, public support, utilities, specialised tools and a new workforce into competitive chip output.
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J&J Adds a Second North Carolina Biologics Bet at Fujifilm's Site
J&J committed $2 billion over ten years to a dedicated Fujifilm facility in Holly Springs, separate from its company-owned Wilson biologics plant.
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Kolomna Plans a 50% Increase in Engine Capacity
Kolomna Plant's 50% engine-capacity target shows why machines, suppliers, test cells, configurations, service and the workforce pipeline must scale as one system.
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Kuban Adds a Missing Link to Its Food Supply Chain
Kurganinsk's new tin-can plant can strengthen the regional food economy when material qualification, format changes, seasonal inventory, closure quality and logistics become one dependable o
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Kursk Builds a Closed-Loop Spunlace Operation
Kursk's spunlace line shows how fibre preparation, jet precision, water treatment, hygiene, drying and application qualification turn hydroentanglement into repeatable technical textile.
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LangSmith Opens to All Developers With Production Tools for LLM Applications
LangSmith is now generally available without a waitlist, giving LLM application teams tools for tracing, debugging, evaluation and production monitoring.
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Lyft Picks Nvidia Technology for the Mapping and Fleet Systems Behind Its Autonomous Push
Lyft selects Nvidia AI, mapping and DRIVE Hyperion technology for a future hybrid network combining autonomous vehicles with human-driven rides.
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Magna Gives Sanctuary AI’s Humanoid Robots a Factory Test
Magna will test Sanctuary AI humanoid robots in automotive production, coupling factory deployment with engineering work on safety, cost and scalability.
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Manifest OS Raises $60 Million to Build Law Firms That Charge for Outcomes, Not Hours
Manifest OS raises $60 million at a $750 million valuation to expand AI-native law firms combining fixed fees, attorney review and shared operations.
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Manufacturers Put Tariff Thresholds Into Factory Location Decisions
HBR researchers propose product-specific tariff tipping points, staged factory commitments and automation evidence for manufacturing-location decisions.
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Microsoft Introduces Majorana 1 as Its Route to Scalable Quantum Machines
Microsoft introduced the eight-qubit Majorana 1 processor and a topological architecture it says could eventually scale to one million qubits.
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Monarch Tractor Finds $133 Million for Its Next Field
Monarch Tractor raised $133 million to develop its electric, driver-optional farm platform and pursue international growth after a difficult market period.
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Muon Space Turns a $56.7 Million Round Into a Three-Satellite Test
Muon Space’s $56.7 million round comes with a three-satellite SNC mission that will test whether its integrated platform can deliver useful orbital data.
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Murom Localises Steering Racks and Electric Axles
Murommashzavod's steering-rack and electric-axle programmes show how localisation depends on functional safety, capable processes, configuration control and evidence-led scale-up.
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