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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 5 hours ago

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Paramount Settles With the States Nine Days Before the Meter Starts

Paramount Skydance has settled the antitrust suit twelve states brought against its $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery. The remedies are promises about behaviour: thirty films a year in cinemas, with $30 million owed for each one short. The number that explains the timing is a different one. From 1 October, every day the deal stays open costs Paramount about $7 million.

By Cory Chamberlain September 21, 2026

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Delaware Was Supposed to Be Losing Companies. It Registered 334,461 New Ones.

Delaware's own registry recorded 334,461 new business entity formations in 2025, against 289,810 the year before and 298,165 the year before that. More than 2.28 million entities are now on its books, and nearly 70 percent of last year's US initial public offerings chose to incorporate there. The state amended its corporation law anyway.

By Margaret Holloway September 18, 2026

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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 September 12, 2026

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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 September 11, 2026

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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 September 10, 2026

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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 September 10, 2026

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The Numbers

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 September 9, 2026

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The Numbers

The Aircraft Was Still Flying Where It Should Have Been Stopping

Video of Sunday's overrun at Miami appears to show the Boeing 767 still airborne well down runway 30 before it touched down. Nothing about cause is established and the NTSB has a year of work ahead. But a long float is the one thing that shortens every remaining option at once.

By Cory Chamberlain September 8, 2026

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The Numbers

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 September 7, 2026

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The Long View

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 September 7, 2026

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The Long View

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 September 5, 2026

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The Numbers

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 September 5, 2026

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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 September 5, 2026

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