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Lieutenant Gov. Kim Driscoll boosts economy at Springfield business roundtable

A small business roundtable convened Tuesday in Springfield, bringing together local business owners and state leaders to discuss the challenges facing the region’s economy.

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Apr 8 • 6:13 AM EDT • Business • wwlp.com
Roger Marshall visits Topeka to talk with NFIB, small business owners

Senator Roger Marshall met with Kansas small business owners to discuss health care costs, tax cuts and regulations.

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Apr 8 • 5:06 AM EDT • Business • cjonline.com
What it takes to rebuild a home, business on Long Island after a fire or flood

Businesses and homeowners impacted by fire, flood and other disasters say the path to rebuilding is challenging as they navigate insurance claims and bureaucracy.

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Apr 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • newsday.com
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Mayor Mamdani appoints 'mom and pop czar' to reduce red tape for NYC small business owners

Delia Awusi was hired to reduce the runaround mom and pop small businesses often face in dealing with permits, inspections and fines.

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Apr 7 • 11:20 PM EDT • Business • abc7ny.com
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Massachusetts business owner says he was threatened for not donating to police union

A Billerica, Massachusetts business owner said he was threatened because he wouldn't donate more money to a police union.

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Apr 7 • 11:16 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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The East Baton Rouge Parish Library: Where entrepreneurs go to grow

Sponsored by East Baton Rouge Parish Library When it comes to powering local entrepreneurship, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library and The Alliance are building one of the region’s most dynamic engines for small business growth. Their collaborative Small Business Engine Series has evolved into a practical, boots-on-the-ground resource for aspiring and established business owners alike, blending […]

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Apr 7 • 10:32 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
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Tom Brady present for big day in Las Vegas

Team minority owner in town for big visit

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Apr 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Shawnee, KCK chambers host World Cup marketing workshop for local businesses

Business owners are learning strategies to reach diverse audiences ahead of a major sporting event.

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Apr 7 • 6:45 PM EDT • Business • kctv5.com
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Boones Mill business owners claim landlord refused to fix issues with buildings, resulting in their businesses failing

Business owners in Boones Mill say ongoing maintenance problems at a commercial property forced them to shut their doors, raising concerns about landlord responsibilities and tenant protections.

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Apr 7 • 6:19 PM EDT • Business • wsls.com
Pro sports owner eyes north Evanston for youth practice facility

The vacant Office Depot building at 2722 Green Bay Rd. could become a year-round site for youth sports, as a wealthy North Shore family with stakes in

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Apr 7 • 6:19 PM EDT • Sports • evanstonroundtable.com
Survey shows many Northern Virginia business owners concerned about economy

Marty owns an appliance store in Woodbridge, and he, like many Northern Virginian business owners, is concerned about the policies coming out of Washington and

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Apr 7 • 5:33 PM EDT • Business • wjla.com
Waukee basketball complex owner wins tax dispute with Dallas County

A Dallas County judge said \

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Apr 7 • 4:35 PM EDT • Sports • desmoinesregister.com
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As Job Stability Shifts, AI Platforms Aim to Remove the Barriers to Business Ownership

Skills that have made someone successful in a corporate career can certainly translate to work as an entrepreneur, but owning a business is a separate challenge entirely. Costly start-up fees, overhead, marketing, managing multiple software systems and expensive staff are some of the many reasons st

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Apr 7 • 3:53 PM EDT • Business • usatoday.com
Bluefish Bistro closes in latest business shakeup along Columbia Pike

A well-loved sushi restaurant on Columbia Pike has closed after less than three years in business. Bluefish Bistro is no longer in business at 950 S. George Mason Drive, owner Andy Park told ARLnow. The eatery, which offered a variety of sushi rolls and sashimi, opened in November 2023 at the mixed-use Centro Arlington development

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Apr 7 • 1:45 PM EDT • Business • arlnow.com
Small businesses are ‘doing fine.’ That’s a problem for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Small business owners are feeling uneasy about the Iran war. They're doing just fine, but that's not good considering all of the tax incentives created to help them do much better.

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Apr 7 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • fortune.com
Google Offers Free PC Upgrade For 500 Million Windows Users

All change for Windows — it's now decision time for 30% of all PC owners.

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Apr 7 • 1:38 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Are DVDs poised for a comeback? In Santa Fe, they never left

Some local store owners have noticed a growing preference for physical media among some Gen Z and millennial customers.

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Apr 6 • 11:30 PM EDT • Business • santafenewmexican.com
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Owner of Upstate arcade and game lounge blames liquor law changes for business shift

The owner of Pinky’s Revenge says South Carolina’s liquor law changes are driving up costs and forcing a business shift.

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Apr 6 • 11:27 PM EDT • Business • wyff4.com
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Some business owners in Old Town Fort Collins object to proposed paid parking
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Apr 6 • 10:22 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Small business owners react to hemp restriction bill in Missouri

A new bill in Missouri could change the way many get hemp products after November.

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Apr 6 • 7:52 PM EDT • Business • wgem.com
Fire in Valley Stream leaves business owners devastated
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Apr 6 • 6:32 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Businesses in Northern Colorado's Old Town Fort Collins object to proposed paid parking

The City of Fort Collins in Northern Colorado continues to press forward with plans to bring back paid parking to Old Town, even as some residents and business owners object.

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Apr 6 • 5:35 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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The Business of Contemporary Art

Gallery owners discussed the art market at a talk sponsored by Booth’s Arts and Creative Enterprise Initiative.

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Apr 6 • 5:03 PM EDT • Business • chicagobooth.edu
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Sackets Harbor: Village & chamber respond to business owner’s Tom Homan decision

The village of Sackets Harbor and its chamber of commerce are speaking out about a business owner’s decision to refuse service to U.S. border czar Tom Homan.

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Apr 6 • 4:27 PM EDT • Business • wwnytv.com
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NextGen Owners Bridge Fund Launches Platform to Address the Growing Financing Gap in Generational Business Ownership Transition

Platform launches with $25 million in initial deployment capacity, supported by a consortium of private capital

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Apr 6 • 2:49 PM EDT • Business • usatoday.xpr-gannett.com
Delaware Small Business Employment Index Pulls Back

Main Street owners continue searching for qualified applicants.

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Apr 6 • 2:29 PM EDT • Business • nfib.com
Head of the Harbor nursery opens for business after fire engulfs storage trailer

The fire was located away from the family business' storefront and did not affect any people, its owner said.

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Apr 6 • 11:22 AM EDT • Business • newsday.com
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How fuel surcharges are squeezing small business margins

Rising fuel costs are hitting small businesses with a new wave of shipping expenses, as major carriers pass along higher diesel prices through surcharges many owners say feel like “tariffs 2.0,” The Wall Street Journal writes. FedEx and UPS have pushed fuel surcharges above 26%, while diesel prices have surged sharply in recent weeks, driving […]

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Apr 6 • 10:14 AM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
Monday marks application deadline for Texas business owners seeking financial assistance after 2025 floods
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Apr 6 • 9:51 AM EDT • Business • kvue.com
Illinois Quick Hits: Report says Pekin Bowling Center 'taxed out of business'

Sunset Lanes in Pekin is set to close later this month as the bowling center’s owner says it is being “taxed out of business. ” James Keith told the Peoria Journal Star that property taxes, sales taxe...

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Apr 6 • 9:30 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
NFIB: Small business hiring slows, worker shortages persist

In March, 32 percent of small business owners reported unfilled job openings as employers continued to struggle with labor costs and applicant quality.

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Apr 6 • 8:32 AM EDT • Business • alreporter.com
‘A special place’: Cafe, entertainment venue changes hands as founder moves on

The new owners will assume full control of operations later this month as they look forward to building on the vision of The Lucky Wolf's founders.

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Apr 6 • 7:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • mlive.com
Ex-owner of Central NY kids’ entertainment hotspot owes nearly $1 million in taxes

Businesses across Onondaga County owe the state thousands in overdue sales taxes.

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Apr 6 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • syracuse.com
Ex-owner of Central NY kids’ entertainment hotspot owes nearly $1 million in taxes

Businesses across Onondaga County owe the state thousands in overdue sales taxes.

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Apr 6 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • syracuse.com
19-year-old pivots failing art studio to make $320,000 in 10 months

For Merida Lim, owner of Scuro in Singapore, it was sink or swim. After struggling to draw customers to her art studio, she pivoted her strategy.

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Apr 6 • 5:19 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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‘Soaked and broken’: Owner of Enfoque Images devastated after her business building collapses

GEDDES, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — What was once a photography building has now partially collapsed. For Jacqueline Vidler, owner of Enfoque Images, when a neighbor calls, it’s usually not a good sign. “He said...

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Apr 6 • 5:11 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Business owner: Don’t look now, but Roanoke is quietly becoming Virginia’s Music City

Roanoke did not set out to become a music city in the way larger markets brand themselves. It got here the old-fashioned way. One room at a time. One crowd at a time. One show at a time.

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Apr 6 • 4:00 AM EDT • Business • cardinalnews.org
What farmers can learn from other family business owners

Family farm businesses can adopt strategies learned from enterprises of all sizes to strengthen governance, leadership and succession planning.

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Apr 6 • 4:00 AM EDT • Business • farmprogress.com
Prescott, Messi, Ohtani and more: How the world’s biggest sports stars get paid

From deferring salaries to taking ownership equity, we explore all the different ways the biggest names in sport get paid

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Apr 6 • 12:12 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
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Fire damages businesses, apartments on Rockaway Avenue in Valley Stream

The fire in a two-story building also displacing residents in second-floor apartments, police and business owners said.

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Apr 5 • 11:28 PM EDT • Business • newsday.com
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One year later: Jeffersontown business hit by EF-3 tornado continues to rebuild

Steve Kitts, owner of JSO Wood Products, stands on newly installed flooring and under a new roof on the home of his business. The framed-out walls and no product inside the space is different from the...

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Apr 5 • 10:14 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
The GoDaddy App Streamlines Business on the Go

Entrepreneurs can now bring their business with them everywhere they go using the reimagined GoDaddy app, a mobile-first experience designed to help owners create, manage and grow their businesses.

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Apr 5 • 9:05 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Jaws! BBQ named Southern Upshur Business Association’s Business of the Year

The Southern Upshur Business Association honored Jaws! BBQ as its 2026 Business of the Year at the group’s annual dinner in Buckhannon. Owner Gary Connell thanked the community for decades of support as SUBA highlighted the family business’s growth and local giving.

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Apr 5 • 8:20 PM EDT • Business • mybuckhannon.com
Coffee company owner in Ferndale preparing to open brick-and-mortar shop
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Apr 5 • 7:53 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Small business owner gearing up to open Ferndale coffee shop
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Apr 5 • 6:52 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Ephrata borough to introduce paid parking as local business owners raise concerns

Ephrata's downtown could soon come with a cost, as the borough is planning to roll out paid parking.

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Apr 5 • 5:53 PM EDT • Business • local21news.com
Surveillance video shows car crashing into 40-year-old business in Oakland Park

New surveillance video captured the moment when a car crashed into a longtime Oakland Park business overnight, destroying its entrance and left the owner worried about what comes next.

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Apr 5 • 5:38 PM EDT • Business • nbcmiami.com
Mulligan's restaurant in Jensen Beach is closing after 23 years in business due to high rent costs

Mulligan's in Jensen Beach is closing on Easter Sunday after 23 years. The owner cited exorbitant rent costs as the reason for the closure.

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Apr 5 • 12:29 PM EDT • Business • wflx.com
Mulligan's restaurant in Jensen Beach is closing after 23 years in business due to high rent costs

Mulligan's in Jensen Beach is closing on Easter Sunday after 23 years. The owner cited exorbitant rent costs as the reason for the closure.

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Apr 5 • 12:29 PM EDT • Business • wptv.com
Samsung’s Android Update—Bad News For Galaxy S26 Owners

If you own a new Samsung Galaxy S26, look away now.

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Apr 5 • 8:37 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
New Owner of Shopping Plaza in Kansas City Pitches a $1.5 Billion Rescue Plan

The Country Club Plaza’s sale and turnaround plans come at a consequential economic time for Kansas City, Mo., which will soon lose the Chiefs football team.

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Apr 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
Workers plan to halt strike at major US meatpacking plant and resume negotiations

Workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants plan to return to work next week and halt a three-week strike in order to resume negotiations with the plant's owner.

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Apr 4 • 9:40 PM EDT • Business • ksat.com
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Shared Success

Across Indiana, a growing number of company leaders are exploring employee ownership as a long-term business strategy. While employee ownership succession planning has been implemented across all …

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Business owner gets cited after removing needles and trash

Robert Vick had people living outdoors next to his restaurant, leaving hypodermic needles on the ground.

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State of Texas: Smokable hemp ban takes effect, businesses work to adapt

A new state rule banning the sale of intoxicating hemp flower is now in effect in Texas. Business owners say the impact is immediate.

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Apr 4 • 7:00 PM EDT • Business • kxan.com
GoFundMe raising money for family after Eau Claire business owner killed in crash

Her husband and their three daughters survived.

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Apr 4 • 4:26 PM EDT • Business • weau.com
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How Haley and Hanna Cavinder 'struck while iron was hot' to create expansive business empire after NIL fame

Haley and Hanna, both 25, took The Post inside their busy world of being brand founders and business owners during a recent interview before they take the court for their first-ever live one-on-one...

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Apr 4 • 12:56 PM EDT • Business • nypost.com
New entertainment social venue The Vault opens in downtown Auburn

Owner Dallas Drake described the space as a place where adults can relax without a formal atmosphere.

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Apr 4 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Tom Pohlad to lead Twins business operations throughout 2026 season

Twins owner Tom Pohlad initially considered hiring a president of business operations after Derek Falvey resigned in January.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • startribune.com
Thieves smash through 8-liner business wall to reach ATM after deputies' raid.

The owner of an 8-liner game room is out of luck—and apparently out a lot of money. Her business has been hit twice: Bexar County deputies shut it down last week, and then last night thieves struck. The owner tells our Pachatta Pope she didn't think she was doing anything illegal.

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Game room owner says she thought business was legal following BCSO raid

Carrie Gutierrez said she was transparent from the start about her business, and said she believed it was a legal operation.

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Rising energy costs squeeze Rochester-area businesses, forcing tough decisions

Owners point to a combination of rising expenses, including utilities, insurance, taxes and the cost of goods as key drivers behind the financial pressure.

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Apr 3 • 8:19 PM EDT • Business • 13wham.com
Georgia lawmakers pass bill that lets property owners sue over homeless encampments

Homelessness advocates say the bill would cause law enforcement to arrest people because they have nowhere to sleep and spur frivolous lawsuits paid for by taxpayers.

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Apr 3 • 7:31 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
California cracks down on luxury car buyers evading taxes through 'Montana Loophole'

California targets wealthy luxury car owners and dealers using the Montana loophole to avoid sales tax, launching audits to recover millions in revenue.

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Apr 3 • 4:00 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
The Rise of Socialism: Washington business owners slam new ‘millionaires tax’

Washington shop owners, talk show radio host Arri Hoffman and a local democratic socialist, Rep. Shaun Scott, discuss the impact of the state’s new “millionaires tax” and how socialist economic policy is impacting local business.

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Apr 3 • 2:36 PM EDT • Business • foxnews.com
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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Apr 3 • 12:57 PM EDT • Technology • interconnects.ai
Modernizing Paid Medical Leave Would Support New York's Small Business Owners: New Op-Ed

In a new op-ed for the Brooklyn Downtown Star, small business owner Lena DeGloma explains why updating New York's Temporary Disability Insurance program would be a lifeline for businesses and workers alike.

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Apr 3 • 12:43 PM EDT • Business • abetterbalance.org
Iowa City business owner purchases former SpareMe bowling property

A new business plans to take over the former SpareMe Bowl & Arcade space at the Chauncy building in Iowa City.

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Apr 3 • 9:40 AM EDT • Business • kcrg.com
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Miami Worldcenter Retail and Entertainment District Trades to Falcone-Led Venture in Ownership Restructure

Florida YIMBY says "Yes In My Backyard" to positive new development in Florida.

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Apr 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • floridayimby.com
Sherrill hosts roundtable on improving opportunities for minority and women business owners

Gov. Mikie Sherrill on April 2 visited the future site of Rojo’s Roastery & The Gingered Peach to help frame a roundtable discussion on increasing opportunities and leveling the playing field for Minority and/or Women Business Enterprises (MWBEs).

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Apr 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • roi-nj.com
The Trump administration wants banks back in the mortgage business. Banks have other ideas.

Regulators hope getting banks to lend more to homebuyers will unlock more lending and give more insight into brewing risks. Analysts are skeptical.

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Neighbors, business owners push back on planned 16th Street bridge revamp
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Neighbors, business owners push back on planned 16th Street bridge revamp
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Jackson business owners concerned amid surge of break-ins

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – For the past two months, some Jackson businesses have seen an influx of break-ins, leaving owners questioning if it’s worth staying in the capital city or worth staying open at...

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Apr 2 • 11:26 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
After more than 50 years, owners of Poor Richard's sell business

After more than 50 years of selling books, toys and pizza, the owners of Poor Richard's have sold their business.

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Apr 2 • 9:09 PM EDT • Business • koaa.com
Kenosha barbershop owner sees higher prices due to tariffs

A White House spokesperson defended the President’s tariffs, saying he's use them to renegotiate trade deals and lower drug prices.

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Apr 2 • 4:30 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
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Business owner spends nearly five decades ‘multi-tasking’ in Auburn

Connie Dorsch, 79, provides services related to upholstery, quilting, floor coverings, engravings and more. She started this business with her husband in 1977.

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Apr 2 • 3:45 PM EDT • Business • 1011now.com
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Business owner spends nearly five decades ‘multi-tasking’ in Auburn

Connie Dorsch, 79, provides services related to upholstery, quilting, floor coverings, engravings and more. She started this business with her husband in 1977.

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Apr 2 • 3:41 PM EDT • Business • 1011now.com
10 Hacks Every MacBook Neo Owner Should Know

These hacks will push your new MacBook Neo to its limit, and make it feel a bit more like the flagship MacBook experience.

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Apr 2 • 3:30 PM EDT • Technology • lifehacker.com
Bull City Records to close after 20 years in business

Bull City Records owner Chaz Martenstein has announced that he is retiring the store at the end of April.

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Apr 2 • 2:30 PM EDT • Business • wunc.org
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Grand Canyon U Paid Jerry Colangelo $452K Last Year to Use His Name

GCU's latest tax also reveals millions of dollars in investments with former Diamondbacks co-owner Mike Ingram and ex-MLB pitcher Shawn Boskie.

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Apr 2 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • sportico.com
‘Ahead of his time’: Donation gives BRAF ownership of Newtron Group

Founder of billion dollar company The Newtron Group prepared for the company to be donated to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation more than a decade prior to his July 2025 death. The donation will ensure that the company maintains its employees, leadership and contributions to charitable causes dear to the founder.

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Apr 2 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • theadvocate.com
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Walgreens’ private equity owner plans to double pharmacy chain’s profits

Sycamore Partners, a New York-based buyout firm, wants to grow the retailer’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization to $4 billion.

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Apr 2 • 11:16 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
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Everyone wants to own a piece of the Bay Area’s new women’s sports franchise

From Warriors head coach Steve Kerr to former athletes including Abby Wambach and Natalie Coughlin, LOVB San Francisco has more than 50 owners.

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Apr 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sfstandard.com
Fairfax launches pilot to help small business owners obtain permits for store renovations

A new Fairfax County government pilot program aims to make life easier for small business owners seeking to make minor alterations before they open their stores. The Tenant Support Services (TSS) initiative is designed to move applicants through the permit approval process more efficiently by providing "early guidance, clear expectations and coordinated review support," county

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Apr 2 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • ffxnow.com
World of Wheels celebrating 18 years of business with newest ownership

The celebration will be held on Friday, April 3 from 5 to 8 p.m.

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Apr 2 • 8:12 AM EDT • Business • northernnewsnow.com
Iran war disrupts US small businesses with shipping complications and higher costs

NEW YORK (AP) — The Iran war is making life more difficult for small business owners across the country, who are grappling with shipping complications, higher costs and consumers tightening their grip on their wallets.

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Apr 2 • 5:03 AM EDT • Business • wral.com
Iran war impacts small business owners with higher costs and shipping woes

The Iran war is making life more difficult for small business owners across the country. A shoe designer is struggling to import its shoes from Vietnam; a pistachio grower has millions of dollars worth of pistachio exports sitting in the water; a home landscaper in Kansas City is stockpiling fertili

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Apr 2 • 5:01 AM EDT • Business • apnews.com
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A small-business bakery owner details how tariffs are taking a toll

Small-business owner Katrina Golden explains why she thinks sales have cooled and how tariffs are affecting her baking business.

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Apr 2 • 4:58 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Ohio sports teams push for carveout in foreign land ownership bill

Several Ohio professional sports teams are wading into a debate over foreign nationals owning land in Ohio. The state's professional basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer teams say their players and staffers could be unfairly punished.

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Apr 2 • 3:55 AM EDT • Sports • ohiocapitaljournal.com
Fairfield eyes North Texas Street makeover with grant funding for local business owners

Building brighter and more vibrant businesses in Fairfield is the goal of the city's newly launched North Texas Street Revitalization Program.

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Apr 2 • 1:45 AM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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The growing focus on women's sports

The city’s women’s volleyball team, Columbus Fury, has new owners. Married entrepreneurs Andrea Mitchell and Andy Sandler acquired100% of the team from the previous ownership group, which included Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and his parents.

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Apr 2 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • wosu.org
Sen. Marshall meets Kansas small business owners on key issues

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Small business owners from across Kansas met April 1, with Senator Roger Marshall and the National Federation of Independent Business to discuss the issues they say are puttin…

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Apr 1 • 11:47 PM EDT • Business • ksnt.com
Sen. Marshall meets Kansas small business owners on key issues

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Small business owners from across Kansas met April 1, with Senator Roger Marshall and the National Federation of Independent Business to discuss the issues they say are putting the mos...

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Apr 1 • 11:47 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Putnam County interchange project underway, though local business owners raise concerns

Work is underway on the Buffalo bridge to Route 35 interchange project in Putnam County.

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Apr 1 • 11:09 PM EDT • Business • wchstv.com
Henrico business owner closing barbecue restaurant, cites rising meat costs

A Henrico County barbecue restaurant is closing its doors this Saturday, citing rising meat costs that put a strain on business.

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Apr 1 • 11:06 PM EDT • Business • wric.com
Member of burglary ring targeting Asian business owners in Oregon pleads guilty

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon said conspirators ransacked homes in cities including Gresham and Salem.

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Apr 1 • 10:26 PM EDT • Business • koin.com
Kansas business owners voice concerns over insurance costs at senator’s roundtable

Sen. Roger Marshall met with a group of Kansas small business owners Wednesday.

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Apr 1 • 9:10 PM EDT • Business • wibw.com
High gas and food prices won’t halt business for Fort Wayne food truck

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Between the rising cost of gas and food, a food truck in Fort Wayne is feeling the pinch. As the warmer months approach, the owners of the Paddywagon food truck won&…

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Apr 1 • 8:54 PM EDT • Business • wane.com
'We haven’t heard much' | Lake Dallas business owners, residents seek answers after explosion rocks community
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