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Bird Construction Readies Its First Corporate Bond Sale
Bird Construction, a Canadian building firm recently named the lead construction partner for a data center in Saskatchewan, is looking to sell bonds for the first time, and aims to raise around C$250 million ($181 million), according to people with…
Deere Keeps Outlook With Construction Boost as Farmers Struggle
Deere & Co. is getting a boost from its construction and forestry segments, helping to offset volatile agriculture markets that continue to crimp farmer spending. The world's biggest farm machinery maker posted fiscal-second quarter earnings that…
Communication key to future city projects, says chief construction officer
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Watch Walmart Reports Solid Sales Growth; Deere Gets Construction Boost | Stock Movers
On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Walmart (WMT) shares are on the move after reporting earnings. It reported solid sales growth, with comparable sales in US stores rising, excluding fuel, in the latest quarter. The…
The building blocks to construct a cyber-first culture
Most organizations still treat cybersecurity as one team's job. But attackers are stretching teams to their limits as they waste no time in putting AI to work, with an 89% year-over-year increase in AI-enabled adversary activity. And threat actors…
North Carolina is suing VinFast for missing construction and hiring timelines
N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson is suing the Vietnamese car maker VinFast, alleging the electric vehicle company breached its agreement with the state to build a manufacturing facility in Chatham County. Why it matters: Announced with much…
Construction stocks seen benefiting from second-half recovery, UBS says (CAT:NYSE)
Demand for architectural design services weakened again in April, but UBS analyst Steven Fisher said the broader outlook for non-residential construction remains poised to improve in the second half of 2026 as large industrial and infrastructure…
OpenAI's standard GPT-5.5 model autonomously resolves the Erdős unit distance conjecture via ChatGPT and identifies new constructions outperforming square grids · Digg
FWIW, I think this moves up my AI timelines a bit. I think the next milestone will be 'Artificial *Grothendieck* Intelligence' (AGrI): defining new general mathematical structures to solve the hardest of open problems as special cases, like the…
Oklahoma Approves Five-Year Airport Construction Plan
Oklahoma aviation officials approved a $520 million airport construction program Wednesday that will fund infrastructure work across the state over the next five years. The plan, which runs from June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2031, involves 176…
August Robotics lands $30M to automate precision construction with robots
August Robotics Ltd., a robotics automation company for construction and industrial applications, today announced it raised $30 million in new funding led by Big Pi Ventures. Existing investors Blackbird, Skip Capital, Tanarra and Future Family…
Yoav Goldberg addresses distinctions between improvements to mathematical bounds on hard problems and determinations of optimal solutions in Erdős constructions during an exchange on large language models · Digg
— OpenAI researcher Tomek Korbak quote-tweeted Goldberg on next-token prediction. Original post also guys technically those llms are just predicting the next token ('(((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾@yoavgo this is not a diss on…
Out with the old, in with the new: Portsmouth's LINC District sees wave of construction and demolition
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Cranes are rising, walls are coming down, and a neighborhood long frozen in time is finally thawing. The LINC District in Portsmouth is in the middle of a major transformation, with new housing opening, more under…
Minnesota construction jobs up 3.6% in April
Minnesota added 2,100 construction jobs in April, a 1.4% monthly increase. Construction employment grew 3.6% year-over-year, adding 4,778 jobs. Heavy and civil engineering construction posted 13% annual growth. DEED officials linked recent labor…
Industrials Up Amid Mixed Data -- Industrials Roundup
Shares of industrial and transportation companies rose amid mixed economic data. New weekly jobless claims fell, according to the latest tally from the U.S. Labor Department. Shares of agricultural-machinery maker Deere slid after strong…
Deere Stock Drops as Tough Farm Economy Keeps Sales in Slump
Deere posted better-than-expected quarterly sales and profit, but left its profit outlook for the year unchanged as demand for its farm machinery remained weak. Sales of large farm equipment sank 14% during the quarter that ended May 3. Low crop…
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