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a16z's State of Markets II report finds technology drove about 76 percent of S&P 500 profit growth in 2026, while only about 2 percent of US households paid for an AI service. The adoption numbers do not match the capital numbers.
Fact.et Staff · Oct 6, 2026
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The Super Intelligence Force, announced Sunday under intelligence chief Jay Clayton, has 120 days to recommend AI oversight using authorities that already exist. It creates no new statute.
Fact.et Staff · Oct 6, 2026
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The ADAPT Act, introduced by Senate Republicans and drafted to take effect in 2027, would exempt stablecoin payments from tax while the coin trades within 3 percent of a dollar, and close the crypto wash-sale loophole.
Fact.et Staff · Oct 2, 2026
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Market-implied odds of a US rate rise dropped from 70 percent to 23 percent in four days after officials signalled a pause. For Ethiopian borrowers and importers, the dollar's price is set in that room.
Fact.et Staff · Oct 2, 2026
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Nvidia paid the last 10 billion dollars of a 30 billion dollar commitment as OpenAI's round closed at an 852 billion dollar valuation. The company is reported to be lining up another 30 billion dollars at roughly 1.4 trillion.
Fact.et Staff · Oct 2, 2026
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A reported collaboration would produce a model that drives electronic design automation tools directly, rather than advising the engineer who drives them. Neither company has published terms.
Fact.et Staff · Oct 1, 2026
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An S-1 reported by Reuters shows revenue rising twelvefold in 2025, two customers at 12 percent of revenue each, and a 42bn dollar GAAP loss against roughly 8bn dollars of cash burn.
Fact.et Staff · Oct 1, 2026
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The EIA puts Brent at an average of $73.74 in 2027, assuming Gulf production and trade normalise by the second quarter. The futures curve disagrees by between $9.67 and about $17, and Ethiopia's fuel import bill is priced off the curve, not the forecast.
Fact.et Staff · Oct 1, 2026
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Ethiopian Airlines has agreed with Boeing to buy additional 777 cargo aircraft. Fana Television put the order at 10 aircraft and about $5 billion, with delivery between 2033 and 2035 — a timetable that says as much as the number does.
Fact.et Staff · Oct 1, 2026
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The board raised Nvidia's buyback authorisation by $150 billion to $235 billion, implying about $15 billion a month against average free cash flow of $11.6 billion. Quarterly cash flow has more than halved since the first quarter.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 30, 2026
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The US and China published tariff reduction lists covering $60 billion in trade under a new '30-for-30' arrangement. China's list excludes soybeans — a $12.8 billion export line that is 43 percent of the relief the US package is worth.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 30, 2026
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Over 25 percent of Nano Banc's loan book went bad, most of it tied to commercial real estate. It is the sixth American bank failure of 2026.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 28, 2026
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A draft directive from the Ethiopian Capital Market Authority sets three crowdfunding tiers — 10, 25 and 50 million birr in any 12 months — and opens a financing channel for startups and small firms that formal credit has never reached.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 28, 2026
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The S&P 500 sits near record highs while almost half its constituents move independently of the index. The Venture Capital channel cites Goldman Sachs comparing the divergence to the Tech Bubble.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 27, 2026
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Abraham Belay (PhD) becomes Commissioner of the Ethiopian Nuclear Energy Commission, effective 24 September. He arrives from the irrigation and lowland areas ministry, having previously held defence and innovation portfolios.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 27, 2026
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Gwynne Shotwell sold 342,170 SpaceX shares across five transactions on 22 September, at prices between 151 and 155 dollars. She still holds a reported 366 million dollars of the company she has run day to day since 2008.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 26, 2026
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The Confederation of Ethiopian Workers' Unions says the letters it sends to government institutions on employer and employee matters go unanswered, and that officials do not pick up the phone. Its president asked publicly where the body is supposed to take its case.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 26, 2026
000The Ethiopian Construction Contractors Association wants national standards that can actually be enforced. Its president says the deeper problem is the financial imbalance between contractors and the clients who hire them.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 26, 2026
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The benchmark ten-year yield has reached its highest level since July 2007, according to the Venture channel. The historical analogy attached to that fact is doing more work than the fact supports.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 25, 2026
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BNP upgraded Nebius to Outperform, modelling more than 22 billion dollars of exit-2027 annualised revenue on AI cloud pricing moving toward 40 million dollars per megawatt. The pricing assumption is the part worth reading.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 25, 2026
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A Mastercard Foundation-backed programme is offering free leather-goods training, workspace, licences and machines to young people in Akaki Kality. Ethiopia's leather exports have fallen from 33.2 million dollars to 16 million in four years.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 24, 2026
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South Korea's KGM and the UK-registered B&C Group have signed a strategic cooperation agreement for an electric vehicle assembly plant in Ethiopia, targeting 1,000 cars in year one and 3,000 in year two.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 24, 2026
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Ethiopian Investment Holdings and the Dangote Group will build a refined-products pipeline linking Djibouti's Damerjog to Dewele on the Ethiopian border, with storage terminals at both ends. No cost or timetable has been announced.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 24, 2026
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Apple is recruiting an Apple Pay strategy lead with stablecoin and blockchain experience, a job posting that would put stablecoins in front of a payments network with over two billion users. A hire is not a product, but it is a direction.
Fact.et Staff · Sep 22, 2026
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