Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Completes Its Acquisition of Exact Sciences
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 03/23/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE184 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., March 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Exact Sciences".^[1]
Abbott closed its $105-a-share cash purchase of Cologuard maker Exact Sciences, which became a wholly owned Abbott subsidiary; Exact Sciences shares last traded on Nasdaq on 20 March.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Reports Q2 2026 Results and Raises Full-Year EPS Guidance
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 07/16/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE69 days agoThe release, datelined "ABBOTT^[5] PARK, Ill., July 16, 2026", says "Abbott will live-webcast its second-quarter earnings conference call ... at 8 a.m. Central time today", so the pin is 8 a.m. CDT (13:00 UTC) on 16 July 2026.
Abbott posted second-quarter sales of $12.59 billion, up 13.0% reported and 4.8% comparable, and adjusted EPS of $1.31, and raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.45 to $5.60.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Settles DOJ Infant Formula Claims for $385 Million
Abbott Laboratories…Sturgis, Saint Joseph County, Michigan, 49091, United States
Starts 09/14/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE9 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 14, 2026" and says Abbott "has reached an agreement"; the DOJ release is dated Monday, September 14, 2026.^[1]
Abbott will pay about $385 million ($384,999,040) to resolve Justice Department, state and whistleblower claims over powdered infant formula made at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, the site of the 2022 recall. Abbott admits no liability, and the government has closed its criminal investigation.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Settles Gill Case and 2,000 NEC Formula Claims for $670M
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 08/20/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE34 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 20, 2026" and the 8-K says "On August 20, 2026 ... Abbott entered into agreements to resolve the Gill lawsuit".^[1]
Abbott agreed with three law firms to pay about $670 million to settle the Gill case, a $495 million St. Louis jury award, and NEC claims for about 2,000 other preterm infants fed its specialty formulas. About 1,700 lawsuits covering some 12,700 infants remain.
$670M
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Q3 2026 Earnings and Conference Call
Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United StatesAbbott Laboratories…
Starts 10/21/2026 1:00PMESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCEin 28 daysAbbott has not yet posted its third-quarter call notice (last year's, on 24 September, said it "will announce its third-quarter 2025 financial results on Wednesday, Oct. 15, before the market opens" with the call "at 8 a.m. Central time"); Q3 came on Wednesday 16 October 2024 and 15 October 2025 and AlphaQuery^[2] says "The next expected annoucement date for quarterly earnings is 2026-10-21", so Wednesday 21 October at 8 a.m. CDT (13:00 UTC) is estimated; every 2026 report so far came on a Thursday (22 January, 16 April, 16 July), so Thursday 15 October is the other likely day, and the call notice due in late September will settle it.
Abbott is expected to report third-quarter 2026 results before the market opens and webcast its earnings call at 8 a.m. Central, most likely on Wednesday 21 October; it has guided to adjusted EPS of $1.38 to $1.46.
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Semiconductors09/19/2026@TechDesk
Huang: $1 trillion in Blackwell and Vera Rubin orders through 2027
Santa Clara, CaliforniaNVIDIA…
Starts 03/16/2026CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE191 days agoCNBC's^[1] 16 March 2026 coverage of the GTC 2026 keynote reports the remark.
At GTC 2026, Huang said he expects purchase orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion through 2027, up from the $500 billion outlook given the previous year.
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Babcock & Wilcox Reports Q4 and Full-Year 2025 Results
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox…
Starts 03/04/2026 11:40AMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE203 days agoStated as firm: the release is datelined "(AKRON, Ohio – March 4, 2026)" with no clock time, and the Form 8-K furnishing it as Exhibit 99.1 shows "Accepted 2026-03-04 06:40:37" (ET) on SEC^[3][4][5] EDGAR, so the pin is timed to 06:40 ET (11:40 UTC); the call to discuss it came later, on "Monday, March 16, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET".
Fourth-quarter revenue was $161.0 million and adjusted EBITDA $16.4 million, and full-year 2025 adjusted EBITDA rose 107% to $43.7 million. Backlog reached $2.8 billion with the $2.4 billion Base Electron AI data-centre power project announced the same morning.
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Cybersecurity09/23/2026@CyberDesk
Amazon Elects Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia to Its Board
Amazon.com Day 1, 2121 7th Avenue, Belltown, Seattle, WA 98121, United StatesAmazon…
Starts 09/08/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE15 days agoAmazon's announcement says Mandia "was elected to Amazon's Board of Directors on September 8", and its 8-K reads "On September 8, 2026, the Board of Directors of Amazon.com, Inc. ... elected Kevin R. Mandia as a director".^[1]
Amazon adds cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia, who founded Mandiant and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion, to its board of directors and its Audit and Security committees.
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Business09/23/2026@HealthDesk
J&J Completes Its $1 Billion Acquisition of Firefly Bio
South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California, United StatesJohnson & Johnson…
Starts 07/29/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE56 days ago"NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (July 29, 2026) - Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ^[1][3]) today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Firefly Bio, Inc. ... for $1 billion in cash"; the 8-K furnishing it gives "Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): July 29, 2026".
Johnson & Johnson closed its $1 billion cash purchase of Firefly Bio, the South San Francisco biotech behind the Firelink degrader antibody conjugate platform for KRAS-driven and other hard-to-treat solid tumours.
$1B
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Computing09/23/2026@BuildDesk
Amazon Raises Louisiana Data Center Plan to $18 Billion
Amazon…Resilient Technology Park, Resilient Way, Flournoy, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana 71119, United States
Starts 08/18/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE36 days agoAmazon's article says it "was updated on August 18, 2026 to reflect Amazon's increased investment in northwest Louisiana", and Louisiana Economic Development's release is dated August 18, 2026.^[1]
A third northwest Louisiana data center campus, at Resilient Technology Park in Shreveport, lifts Amazon's planned investment from $12 billion to $18 billion and its expected jobs to up to 750 across three campuses.
$18B
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Lilly Agrees to Acquire Merida Biosciences for Up to $2.875 Billion
Eli Lilly…Eli Lilly and Company Corporate Center, East McCarty Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206, United States
Starts 08/31/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE23 days agoThe release is datelined "INDIANAPOLIS and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 31, 2026" and says the companies "today announced a definitive agreement for Lilly to acquire Merida".^[1]
Lilly agrees to buy Merida Biosciences, whose Phase 1 MER511 is built to destroy the autoantibodies behind Graves' disease and thyroid eye disease, for up to $2.875 billion in cash.
$2.9B
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
US and Taiwan Sign a $250 Billion Chip Investment Deal
TSMC…U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20230, United States
Starts 01/15/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE251 days agoCNBC^[1], published 15 January 2026: 'The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement ... the Department of Commerce announced Thursday'; USTR's^[2] February fact sheet dates the 'Memorandum of Understanding signed by AIT and TECRO on January 15, 2026'. No signing time is given, so it is an all-day date.
A memorandum signed in Washington commits Taiwanese chipmakers such as TSMC to at least $250 billion of new US investment plus $250 billion in Taiwan credit guarantees, in return for a 15% tariff cap and Section 232 chip-tariff exemptions for companies building US fabs.
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The release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., and MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) today announced a definitive agreement".^[1]

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Abbott Agrees to Buy Exact Sciences for $21 Billion

Abbott agreed to buy Cologuard maker Exact Sciences for $105 a share in cash, a total equity value of about $21 billion, to enter cancer screening and precision oncology diagnostics.

Abbott and Exact Sciences announced a definitive agreement for Abbott to buy all Exact Sciences shares for $105 each in cash, a total equity value of about $21 billion and an estimated enterprise value of $23 billion, with Abbott absorbing about $1.8 billion of Exact Sciences' net debt^[1]
The merger agreement was signed on 19 November 2025, and closing needs a majority vote of Exact Sciences stockholders and the end of the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period; Abbott expected to close in the second quarter of 2026^[1][3]
The price was a 51% premium to Exact Sciences' $69.68 close on 18 November, the day before Bloomberg reported the talks, and it was Abbott's largest acquisition in a decade; Abbott shares fell 1.7% that morning^[5]
Exact Sciences was projected to post more than $3 billion of 2025 revenue and brings the Cologuard stool test, Oncotype DX for breast cancer, the Oncodetect residual-disease test and the Cancerguard multi-cancer blood test; Abbott's diagnostics sales would pass $12 billion a year^[1]
Abbott put the U.S. cancer screening and precision oncology diagnostics segments at $60 billion, and it was the largest medtech deal announced that year^[2][4]
Exact Sciences was to keep its presence in Madison, Wisconsin, with chief executive Kevin Conroy staying on in an advisory role^[1]

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abbott.mediaroom.com/2025-11-20-Abbott-to-acquire-Exact-Sciences,-a-leader-in-large-and-fast-growing-cancer-screening-and-precision-oncology-diagnostics-segments
abbott.mediaroom.com· Posted Sep 23, 2026· Starts Nov 20, 2025 ✓· 45% of score
The release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., and MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) today announced a definitive agreement".
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Abbott's $21B Exact Sciences buy reveals future strategy
medtechdive.com· Published Nov 21, 2025· 14% of score
MedTech Dive^[4] analyst round-up: the largest medtech deal of the year and the largest under chief executive Robert Ford, about $100 million of pre-tax synergies expected by 2028.
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Abbott Laboratories Form 8-K: Agreement and Plan of Merger with Exact Sciences
sec.gov· Published Nov 20, 2025· 14% of score
Abbott's 8-K: the merger agreement was signed on 19 November 2025 at $105.00 in cash per share, conditional on Exact Sciences stockholder adoption and the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period.^[1]
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Abbott to acquire Exact Sciences for about $21B
medtechdive.com· Published Nov 20, 2025· 14% of score
MedTech Dive's^[2] same-day report: $105 a share, $1.8 billion of debt absorbed, the $60 billion segment by Abbott's estimate, and the year's largest medtech deal.
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Abbott Laboratories announces $21 billion deal to buy Cologuard-maker Exact Sciences (Chicago Tribune)
finance.yahoo.com· Published Nov 20, 2025· 14% of score
Chicago Tribune: a 51% premium to the $69.68 close on 18 November, Abbott's largest acquisition in a decade, and a 1.7% fall in Abbott shares that morning.^[1]

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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Completes Its Acquisition of Exact Sciences
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 03/23/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE184 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., March 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Exact Sciences".^[1]
Abbott closed its $105-a-share cash purchase of Cologuard maker Exact Sciences, which became a wholly owned Abbott subsidiary; Exact Sciences shares last traded on Nasdaq on 20 March.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Reports Q2 2026 Results and Raises Full-Year EPS Guidance
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 07/16/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE69 days agoThe release, datelined "ABBOTT^[5] PARK, Ill., July 16, 2026", says "Abbott will live-webcast its second-quarter earnings conference call ... at 8 a.m. Central time today", so the pin is 8 a.m. CDT (13:00 UTC) on 16 July 2026.
Abbott posted second-quarter sales of $12.59 billion, up 13.0% reported and 4.8% comparable, and adjusted EPS of $1.31, and raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.45 to $5.60.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Settles DOJ Infant Formula Claims for $385 Million
Abbott Laboratories…Sturgis, Saint Joseph County, Michigan, 49091, United States
Starts 09/14/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE9 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 14, 2026" and says Abbott "has reached an agreement"; the DOJ release is dated Monday, September 14, 2026.^[1]
Abbott will pay about $385 million ($384,999,040) to resolve Justice Department, state and whistleblower claims over powdered infant formula made at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, the site of the 2022 recall. Abbott admits no liability, and the government has closed its criminal investigation.
$385M
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Settles Gill Case and 2,000 NEC Formula Claims for $670M
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 08/20/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE34 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 20, 2026" and the 8-K says "On August 20, 2026 ... Abbott entered into agreements to resolve the Gill lawsuit".^[1]
Abbott agreed with three law firms to pay about $670 million to settle the Gill case, a $495 million St. Louis jury award, and NEC claims for about 2,000 other preterm infants fed its specialty formulas. About 1,700 lawsuits covering some 12,700 infants remain.
$670M
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Q3 2026 Earnings and Conference Call
Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United StatesAbbott Laboratories…
Starts 10/21/2026 1:00PMESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCEin 28 daysAbbott has not yet posted its third-quarter call notice (last year's, on 24 September, said it "will announce its third-quarter 2025 financial results on Wednesday, Oct. 15, before the market opens" with the call "at 8 a.m. Central time"); Q3 came on Wednesday 16 October 2024 and 15 October 2025 and AlphaQuery^[2] says "The next expected annoucement date for quarterly earnings is 2026-10-21", so Wednesday 21 October at 8 a.m. CDT (13:00 UTC) is estimated; every 2026 report so far came on a Thursday (22 January, 16 April, 16 July), so Thursday 15 October is the other likely day, and the call notice due in late September will settle it.
Abbott is expected to report third-quarter 2026 results before the market opens and webcast its earnings call at 8 a.m. Central, most likely on Wednesday 21 October; it has guided to adjusted EPS of $1.38 to $1.46.
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Semiconductors09/19/2026@TechDesk
Huang: $1 trillion in Blackwell and Vera Rubin orders through 2027
Santa Clara, CaliforniaNVIDIA…
Starts 03/16/2026CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE191 days agoCNBC's^[1] 16 March 2026 coverage of the GTC 2026 keynote reports the remark.
At GTC 2026, Huang said he expects purchase orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion through 2027, up from the $500 billion outlook given the previous year.
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Babcock & Wilcox Reports Q4 and Full-Year 2025 Results
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox…
Starts 03/04/2026 11:40AMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE203 days agoStated as firm: the release is datelined "(AKRON, Ohio – March 4, 2026)" with no clock time, and the Form 8-K furnishing it as Exhibit 99.1 shows "Accepted 2026-03-04 06:40:37" (ET) on SEC^[3][4][5] EDGAR, so the pin is timed to 06:40 ET (11:40 UTC); the call to discuss it came later, on "Monday, March 16, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET".
Fourth-quarter revenue was $161.0 million and adjusted EBITDA $16.4 million, and full-year 2025 adjusted EBITDA rose 107% to $43.7 million. Backlog reached $2.8 billion with the $2.4 billion Base Electron AI data-centre power project announced the same morning.
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Cybersecurity09/23/2026@CyberDesk
Amazon Elects Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia to Its Board
Amazon.com Day 1, 2121 7th Avenue, Belltown, Seattle, WA 98121, United StatesAmazon…
Starts 09/08/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE15 days agoAmazon's announcement says Mandia "was elected to Amazon's Board of Directors on September 8", and its 8-K reads "On September 8, 2026, the Board of Directors of Amazon.com, Inc. ... elected Kevin R. Mandia as a director".^[1]
Amazon adds cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia, who founded Mandiant and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion, to its board of directors and its Audit and Security committees.
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Business09/23/2026@HealthDesk
J&J Completes Its $1 Billion Acquisition of Firefly Bio
South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California, United StatesJohnson & Johnson…
Starts 07/29/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE56 days ago"NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (July 29, 2026) - Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ^[1][3]) today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Firefly Bio, Inc. ... for $1 billion in cash"; the 8-K furnishing it gives "Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): July 29, 2026".
Johnson & Johnson closed its $1 billion cash purchase of Firefly Bio, the South San Francisco biotech behind the Firelink degrader antibody conjugate platform for KRAS-driven and other hard-to-treat solid tumours.
$1B
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Computing09/23/2026@BuildDesk
Amazon Raises Louisiana Data Center Plan to $18 Billion
Amazon…Resilient Technology Park, Resilient Way, Flournoy, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana 71119, United States
Starts 08/18/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE36 days agoAmazon's article says it "was updated on August 18, 2026 to reflect Amazon's increased investment in northwest Louisiana", and Louisiana Economic Development's release is dated August 18, 2026.^[1]
A third northwest Louisiana data center campus, at Resilient Technology Park in Shreveport, lifts Amazon's planned investment from $12 billion to $18 billion and its expected jobs to up to 750 across three campuses.
$18B
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Lilly Agrees to Acquire Merida Biosciences for Up to $2.875 Billion
Eli Lilly…Eli Lilly and Company Corporate Center, East McCarty Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206, United States
Starts 08/31/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE23 days agoThe release is datelined "INDIANAPOLIS and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 31, 2026" and says the companies "today announced a definitive agreement for Lilly to acquire Merida".^[1]
Lilly agrees to buy Merida Biosciences, whose Phase 1 MER511 is built to destroy the autoantibodies behind Graves' disease and thyroid eye disease, for up to $2.875 billion in cash.
$2.9B
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Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk
US and Taiwan Sign a $250 Billion Chip Investment Deal
TSMC…U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20230, United States
Starts 01/15/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE251 days agoCNBC^[1], published 15 January 2026: 'The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement ... the Department of Commerce announced Thursday'; USTR's^[2] February fact sheet dates the 'Memorandum of Understanding signed by AIT and TECRO on January 15, 2026'. No signing time is given, so it is an all-day date.
A memorandum signed in Washington commits Taiwanese chipmakers such as TSMC to at least $250 billion of new US investment plus $250 billion in Taiwan credit guarantees, in return for a 15% tariff cap and Section 232 chip-tariff exemptions for companies building US fabs.
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