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Quartz

Digital business news outlet (qz.com) launched in 2012, covering the global economy, technology, and industry for an international, mobile-first readership.

Known aliases

  • Blue Origin Quartz
  • Quartz Scheduler
  • qz.com

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

Local permit fights killed most of the US data center projects cancelled this year, Heatmap Pro says

Developers have called off at least $260 billion of planned US data centers this year, Heatmap Pro counts, and July to September alone exceeded all of 2025. Most died locally, but developers can come back.

Publishers:qz.com

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption60
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
investConfirmed3 publishers

ICON's reported $1.4 billion valuation comes to under $5.2 million per structure built

ICON raised a $200 million Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock-managed funds to manufacture more robotic building systems. CNBC reported a $1.4 billion valuation, and the company says 2026 revenue is on pace to quadruple.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 33%
Operator
Operator 32%
Investor
Investor 35%

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption45
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Gartner forecasts over 40% of agentic AI projects canceled even as a third of software ships with agents

Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by the end of 2027 and a third of enterprise software to ship with agentic AI by 2028. Quartz's summary says both can hold at once. We think that argues for releasing agent budgets in tranches.

Publishers:qz.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap
Not scored
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
investOne report1 publisher

Lululemon, Under Armour and BJ's are cutting SKUs by 15% to 25% to defend margins

Lululemon, Under Armour and BJ's Wholesale Club have each disclosed SKU cuts of 15% to 25%, according to CNBC as relayed by Quartz. Four companies in one report are the whole sample, and the purposes they cite differ between the brands and the volume chains.

Publishers:qz.com

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

Allbirds' 435% jump puts a price on the Nasdaq shell it kept after selling its shoes for $39 million

Allbirds shares rose as much as 435% after it said its Nasdaq shell would become NewBird AI, a chip-rental company. At least 27 companies have renamed or announced an AI focus since 2023, the same play .com renamers ran before their long-term holders lost most of their money.

Publishers:qz.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+65
Incentives75
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

Meta fixes the prompt that turned relatives' posts into a profile of two children

A viral video showed Meta AI naming a user's two daughters from years of posts uploaded mostly by relatives, and Meta says the assistant never should have asked the question that started it.

Publishers:qz.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption50
Hype gap+15
Incentives68
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Amazon Leo seeks FCC approval for new ground station on vacant plot in Twin Valley, Minnesota

Three FCC filings add 18 antennas across Florida, Minnesota and Texas, about one percent of the more than 300 ground stations Amazon says its 3,232-satellite constellation needs, and the pace of that queue is what a buyer is really buying.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption15
Hype gap+20
Incentives72
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Spring's @Scheduled swallows the exception and reports success to the scheduler

A nightly job that catches its own failure and returns cleanly is invisible to every dashboard you can bolt on afterwards, which is why the durable execution argument lands on the event log rather than the feature list.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives50
Confidence55