The SBA is about to unlock its highest-ever combined loan limit of $10 million — but arrives into a market where small business confidence sits below its long-run average and tariff-driven inflation continues to cloud the planning horizon. A new St. Louis Fed note also exposes how dramatically AI adoption numbers shift depending on how you ask, complicating the narrative that AI has already transformed Main Street.
La Biennale di Venezia's Theatre Festival opens today under Willem Dafoe's theme of split identity, the same week Italy's brain drain hits a decade milestone and pension reforms leave retirees reckoning with new INPS math. Brooklyn answers with an Italian American Museum announcement and a week of illustration and aperitivo that starts tomorrow.
TSMC's advanced packaging lines are sold out through 2027, humanoid robots are still running controlled pilots, and a new UN report puts exact numbers on what AI infrastructure consumes in energy, water, and land.
The 79th Tony Awards closed last night at Radio City; this week, the city's attention turns to a free Romeo and Juliet at the Delacorte, an inaugural guitar festival across Greenpoint and Prospect Park, and a Pride theater season that puts Arab queer voices at the center.
The SBA is about to unlock its highest-ever combined loan limit of $10 million — but arrives into a market where small business confidence sits below its long-run average and tariff-driven inflation continues to cloud the planning horizon. A new St. Louis Fed note also exposes how dramatically AI adoption numbers shift depending on how you ask, complicating the narrative that AI has already transformed Main Street.
Read →La Biennale di Venezia's Theatre Festival opens today under Willem Dafoe's theme of split identity, the same week Italy's brain drain hits a decade milestone and pension reforms leave retirees reckoning with new INPS math. Brooklyn answers with an Italian American Museum announcement and a week of illustration and aperitivo that starts tomorrow.
Read →TSMC's advanced packaging lines are sold out through 2027, humanoid robots are still running controlled pilots, and a new UN report puts exact numbers on what AI infrastructure consumes in energy, water, and land.
Read →The 79th Tony Awards closed last night at Radio City; this week, the city's attention turns to a free Romeo and Juliet at the Delacorte, an inaugural guitar festival across Greenpoint and Prospect Park, and a Pride theater season that puts Arab queer voices at the center.
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