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Social Security Insolvency Accelerates to 2032 as Tax Cuts Collide with $23 Trillion Liability

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act threatens to push Social Security insolvency forward to 2032, triggering automatic 27% benefit cuts for 70 million recipients. The fiscal strain comes as Fed Chair Jerome Powell's May 2026 term expiration creates monetary policy uncertainty, pressuring Treasury yields and risk assets amid rising deficit projections.

ViaNews Editorial Team (Markets)•Mar 7, 2026

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Enterprise AI Agents Scale Up Through Partnerships and Funding, But Data Readiness Lags Ambition

A wave of vertical AI-agent startups (Swarm, Veridox, Avallon AI, DA2, F2, Earthian, Meanwhile, Covecta, Penguin AI, Maisa AI) is being funded and profiled just as major infrastructure players — Microsoft/Mistral, Siemens/NVIDIA, and Manulife/Microsoft — cement enterprise AI governance and compute partnerships. Yet a Google Cloud report shows AI agents still lack access to the majority of company data (only 45% on average), and insider selling at incumbent C3.ai signals investor caution even as adoption intent (100% planned agentic AI use within two years) races ahead of actual data infrastructure.

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Satellite-Terrestrial Network Integration Acceleration

Increased investment and launches in hybrid satellite-cellular networks across telecom industry; competitive responses from other carriers; regulatory activity around satellite spectrum; expansion of emergency/rural connectivity use cases

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ING Group

Both facts record the same metric (shares_outstanding) for ING Group at the identical observation date (2025-12-31). FACT A states 2,902,437,688 shares; FACT B states 2,902 million shares (2,902,000,000). The difference is 437,688 shares (~0.015%). This is a genuine value conflict, though the discrepancy appears to result from FACT B rounding to the nearest million while FACT A provides the precise count.

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