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Porsche Center Puerto Rico Connects Engineering Students With the Automotive Industry
Porsche Center Puerto Rico brought UPR Mayagüez engineering students closer to the automotive industry.

Drought Costing Business $80 Million a Day, with El Niño likely to make matters worse
With NOAA forecasting a greater-than-90% chance of the strongest El Niño on record, companies are bracing for compounding effects

Barquín: PR’s Growth Needs the Caribbean, Not Just Wall Street
As Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón courted investors at the NYSE, retailers’ leader argued small businesses need regional markets along with U.S. capital

Municipal Index raises business eyebrows
A municipality’s balance sheet shapes what a company pays in patente
Energy & Oil
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Judge Transfers Power Expectations Suit Against PREPA to Title III Bankruptcy Court
Judge Laura Taylor Swain will oversee the dispute over cancelled 400 MW contract

Suddenly, Light at the End of the Tunnel in PREPA Bankruptcy
Creditors appear ready to let the courts decide, opening way for faster and cheaper resolution if courts validate the Board’s interpretation of bondholder rights

Generator Island
Frequent energy outages and Hurricane Maria’s devastation have changed the business math around power generators and made Puerto Rico more resilient

Bondholders Bankruptcy Claim Threatens to Derail PREPA Restructuring
First Circuit hears arguments that collateral-treatment dispute could become a “chokehold” on the utility’s path to emergence from Title III bankruptcy
Crypto
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SEC Eases Crypto Fundraising Rules, Presses Congress to Finish the Job
New exemptions let crypto developers raise capital without full securities registration, a move Puerto Rico’s blockchain community is following closely

U.S. House Forges Ahead with Cryptocurrency Tax Legislation
Despite clearing the vote to get out of a U.S. Senate committee, the vote on the full U.S. Senate floor of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act continues to be pushed back. The Clarity Act primarily aims to provide clear rules for the offer, sale and trading of digital commodities in the United States. The […]

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Reserve Hits 7,672 Coins Worth $487.5 Million as Five-Year Anniversary of Bitcoin Law Approaches
San Salvador (EFE) — El Salvador’s strategic bitcoin reserve grew to 7,672 coins as of Thursday, valued at more than $487.5 million, according to official records on the government’s bitcoin.gob.sv portal — just days before the five-year anniversary of the law that made the country the first in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal […]

ZOOMEX Marks Bitcoin Pizza Day With Push to Make Crypto Spendable, Not Just Holdable
16 years after Bitcoin bought its first pizza, ZOOMEX is making the case that crypto’s next milestone is spending — not just holding.
Tech & AI
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Laser Light Launches the Next Frontier, a Satellite Network Local Companies Can Participate In
Fresh off a $75 million raise, the HALO satellite constellation is recruiting contractors and suppliers; executives say Puerto Rico companies have a real shot at the table

The Winning Formula Behind Faster AI Adoption at Companies
Firms that pair internal AI use with specialized training or an implementation partner succeed three times as often; the latest accelerant is a new expanded AWS training platform

Applied AI Software Has Become a Big Deal, and One Local Firm Is Diving In
On Point Strategy’s new IVH dashboard drops Puerto Rico into a $60 billion global business-intelligence market and contributes to the emerging model for the island

Labor Secretary Says AI Has Not Displaced Workers, But Local Data is Unavailable
In an exclusive CB interview, Vélez says employers are training rather than firing and schools have adapted, but national research and Thursday’s outage across AI labs complicate the picture




















