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Friday, September 25, 2026

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A welder in a helmet leans over a length of steel pipework in a metal fabrication shop, sparks and a bright blue arc flaring from the seam, with welding sets, gas bottles and overhead ducting filling the workshop behind him. The Numbers

Claims Fell to 197,000 While Tech Announced 155,126 Cuts. Check the Denominator.

Initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to 197,000 in the week ending 19 September, the Labor Department reported on Thursday, with the insured unemployment rate at 1.1 per cent. Challenger, Gray & Christmas counts 155,126 announced job cuts in technology through August, up 52 per cent on last year and 29 per cent of every cut announced in the United States. Both numbers are correct, and the reason they do not collide is the denominator.

By Daniel Okafor  

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A yellow maintenance step-ladder alone on an airport apron at night, city lights on the horizon.

The Safety Director Wrote "Everywhere I Looked There Are Issues" in 2021

Former 21 Air staff say they raised safety concerns years before the Miami overrun. The departing safety director emailed the owner in 2021 that "everywhere I looked there are issues." The former head of the pilots' union says he was fired in 2022 for pressing it, and has a federal whistleblower suit. The company disputes the claims.

By Cory Chamberlain  

Empty seats at an airport departure gate in silhouette against a floor-to-ceiling window at dusk.

Twenty-Five Years Later, One Rule Has Been Given Back

From this week, TSA PreCheck members without a ticket can apply to pass through security and wait at the gate, at thirteen airports to start. It is a small programme with an application form attached. It is also the first piece of the September 2001 security settlement to be handed back rather than added to.

By Alison Acosta  

Throttle levers on an airliner flight deck, reverse-thrust markings visible, instrument panels lit beyond.

They Called the Speed a Hundred and Two Seconds Before the Crash

The cockpit voice recorder from the Miami overrun runs to more than two hours of good audio. About a minute and forty-two seconds before impact, a pilot said the aircraft was going too fast, and kept saying so. The go-around was called seconds before the end. The gap between those two moments is the investigation.

By Cory Chamberlain  

An empty airport runway at dusk, approach and centreline lights lit, seen down its length.

Going Around After Touchdown Does Not Add an Option. It Removes One.

The NTSB says the 767 at Miami touched down on its nose and right main gear at 158 knots, that the left main did not touch for another eleven seconds, and that the crew then released the brakes and pushed the throttles to go-around thrust before abandoning the attempt. No reversers. No speed brakes. It overran by 1,300 feet.

By Cory Chamberlain  

A blue industrial robot arm working alongside automated tooling on a factory production line.

Four Thousand Jobs, and None of Them on the Line

Jaguar Land Rover confirmed the cuts on Monday. They are voluntary, they are salaried and management, and they are non-production. This paper said on Saturday that the thing to watch was which functions. That is the answer, and it is not the one the week's reporting had prepared people for.

By Alison Acosta  

A person signing a contract with a ballpoint pen.

The Deal Was Structured to Avoid a Filing. The Filing Is Now the Investigation.

The Justice Department has issued Nvidia a formal demand for information over its licensing arrangement with Groq, in which Groq's chief executive and chief operating officer moved across. The question is whether a licence plus a mass talent transfer is an acquisition that should have been reported. It is the first formal test of a structure the whole industry has been using.

By Alison Acosta  

A view down an airport runway from ground level, marked with tyre rubber, with the far end and surrounding buildings visible.

The Plane Said Amazon. The Certificate Belongs to Somebody Else.

A Boeing 767 in Prime Air livery overran a runway at Miami on Sunday and killed five people, none of them aboard. The aircraft was operated by 21 Air of Greensboro, North Carolina. Amazon does not hold an FAA operating certificate, and every flight in its air network is flown on somebody else's.

By Alison Acosta  

Rows of new cars parked in a distribution lot.

The Complexity Was Supposed to Be the Advantage

Porsche's operating margin went from 14.5 percent to 0.3 in a year. Volkswagen Group deliveries in China fell 37 percent in a quarter, in a market down 20 percent overall. Some investors have concluded the group is not fixable, and the interesting question is what fixing it would require.

By Alison Acosta  

Robot arms on an automotive assembly line.

Revenue Fell a Fifth and Profit Fell to Almost Nothing

Jaguar Land Rover is expected to confirm 4,000 job cuts on Monday. Pre-tax profit in the last financial year came in at £14m against £2.5bn the year before, on revenue down close to 21 percent to £22.9bn. A fifth off the top line took ninety-nine percent of the profit.

By Alison Acosta  

An open-plan office of people working at computers.

A Self-Declared Number Now Decides Who Gets the Visa

USCIS says its Vermont office revoked and denied H-1B petitions at an IT consulting firm where the wage classifications did not match the work. The agency named no company and alleged no fraud. What makes it more than a compliance notice is what the wage level now does.

By Alison Acosta  

Appliances moving along a factory assembly line.

The Word in the Announcement Is Secures, Not Creates

GE Appliances is putting a billion dollars into Appliance Park in Louisville, moving dryer production from Mexico and, in an earlier tranche, washer production from China. The company says the investment secures 4,700 manufacturing jobs. The announcement was made jointly with the union.

By Alison Acosta  

Central Billet Yard at Scranton Army Ammunition Plant

The Gun Is Not the Constraint. The Chemistry Behind the Shell Is.

The US Army's acquisition chief spent a day in August on a howitzer production line in Changwon. The more consequential arrangement is in Arkansas, where a Korean firm has a preliminary lease at a US arsenal to build a $1.3bn plant making nitrocellulose and nitroguanidine — the chemistry every artillery shell is built on, and the part America stopped making.

By Cory Chamberlain