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Caterpillar Inc. is a major American manufacturer of heavy construction, mining, and industrial equipment, engines, and related financial and parts services.
Software stocks beat chips by 28 percentage points in the third quarter, as the IGV ETF rose 17% and SOXX fell 11%. Earnings now have to show how much of that came from AI revenue and how much from a hedge fund's forced buying.
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Wagner Equipment tested a painter back from knee surgery on a 100-pound lifting standard it had already cut to 50 pounds, the EEOC alleges. The suit asks whether a return-to-work test has to match the job as it is actually done, with its lifting equipment and co-workers.
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More than $100 billion in tariff money has gone back to importers, adding an estimated 0.2 point to third-quarter GDP. It does not repeat, and much of it is already promised to someone else.
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The contracted number is $2.4 billion of generator deliveries across 2027 and 2028, about $1.2 billion a year against $4.2 billion of 2025 revenue, and Amazon holds an option on 1.69 million Generac shares at $200.93.
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New Jersey's DEP assessed $1.07 million over 62 unpermitted gas engines making about 123 megawatts at DataOne's Vineland site, the largest data-center enforcement action in state history.
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Michigan's package is $16.3bn anchored by PIMCO, Texas and Wisconsin about $38bn, New Mexico $18bn. Against a target of up to 10 gigawatts, the named money works out at roughly $7.2bn per gigawatt. The suppliers bill on megawatts energised.
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The largest of Nissan's new carts hauls about 4,190 pounds and the fleet can cover for a stalled machine, but the software once sent two robots to the same spot, and forklift drivers stay on the floor as insurance while five phases remain.
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Caterpillar's CTO says the hard part of physical AI is folding it into a customer's jobsite workflows rather than building the model, and the five-year $100 million retraining plan for 118,000 employees puts a price on that view.
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Goldman wants 510,000 more US power and grid workers by 2030. The apprenticeship system that feeds them ran 20,000 entrants short in 2024, and a four-year trade cannot be back-filled in 2029.
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Berkeley Lab counts 2,061 GW waiting to interconnect, and a wait that has grown by 25 months since 2015. The executives selling the bypass say buyers pay for it inside compute pricing.
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Crist Kolder projects 18.3% CFO turnover across 665 large-cap companies in 2026, the most since 2020. The more telling number is the average age of the new appointees: 48, down from 52.
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Management says scale is starting to show up as operating leverage. The release as supplied gives a backlog, power figures and more than $14bn of fresh capital, but no margin numbers.
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Gravis Robotics is worth $1 billion for bolting autonomy onto machines contractors already own. The capital in construction robotics is going to the aftermarket, not the assembly line.
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Zijin Longking's ZL230E carries 230 tons on a reported 1,400 kWh pack with EACON's driverless stack. The charging math, not the tonnage, is the hard part.
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Gravis Robotics says its retrofit autonomy kit works on Caterpillar, Deere, JCB and Hitachi machines. The productivity number is still the company's own.
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