Staff writer at TechEchelon covering technology, markets, and policy. Jay reports on the deals, regulations, and breaking news that move the publication's core desks.
Reliance Industries unveiled Jio Call Agent, an AI phone assistant for its 500 million-plus subscribers, alongside a home display device and sector-specific AI tools, while disclosing that Jio Platforms' board has approved a draft IPO prospectus for up to 270 million new shares.
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OpenAI is hiring Google DeepMind researcher Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI official Dean Ball as the company builds out its policy and research ranks ahead of a public offering.
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Bill Pulte is set to become acting director of national intelligence on Friday after President Trump blocked Jay Clayton's Senate confirmation hearing, tying it to the passage of a Voter ID bill and a separate nomination — a move that has drawn rare bipartisan alarm over national security.
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SpaceX shares dropped 3% in premarket trading Thursday after sliding 5% the previous session, cooling a post-IPO rally that had lifted the stock more than 40% above its $135 offering price. Meanwhile, California officials are navigating considerable uncertainty over how much tax revenue the SpaceX IPO — and expected offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic — will actually generate.
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Databricks reported annualized revenue of $6.9 billion, up more than 80% year over year, but CEO Ali Ghodsi warned that margins will continue to shrink as AI agent deployments drive higher infrastructure costs.
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Snap launched Specs, its first AR glasses for mainstream consumers, at $2,195 with a $200 refundable deposit. CEO Evan Spiegel is betting on a shift away from smartphone screens, even as analysts warn of a tough market and the company has yet to turn a profit.
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Real estate executives including Coldwell Banker's Kamini Lane and Ryan Serhant are warning that buyers and sellers using ChatGPT and other general-purpose AI tools to price properties are disrupting deals, as Zillow pushes a more context-aware alternative.
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CFTC Chair Michael Selig defended his agency's approval of perpetual futures contracts in the U.S., dismissing both concerns about retail investor risk and allegations of political influence tied to the Trump administration's ties to Kalshi.
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The Trump administration's sudden order forcing Anthropic to take Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for foreign users has intensified calls from the UK, France, Canada, and others to build domestic AI capacity and reduce dependence on American technology.
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Fox Corp. has agreed to acquire Roku for approximately $22 billion in a cash and stock deal, combining the company's Fox News, sports networks, and Tubi streamer with Roku's connected-TV platform and 100 million streaming households globally.
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KPMG has pulled a report on agentic AI after UBS, the NHS, Swiss Federal Railways, and Transport for London said its claims about their AI usage were inaccurate, with research group GPTZero attributing the errors to AI hallucinations.
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Google filed suit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which the company says used AI to send 2.5 million scam texts and build 1 million fraudulent domains, defrauding hundreds of thousands of victims.
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SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on June 12, 2026 is minting thousands of employee millionaires and igniting a fierce competition among wealth management firms to capture tens of billions of dollars in newly liquid assets.
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Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents on Thursday, a platform that enables AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude to execute crypto trades and make autonomous payments on behalf of users, using the company's x402 machine-to-machine payments protocol.
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Oppenheimer set a $190 price target with an outperform rating, while New Street Research issued a $165 target ahead of SpaceX's Nasdaq debut on Friday, with both firms projecting substantial gains from the $135 IPO price.
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A Los Angeles judge denied new trial motions from Meta and Google after a jury found both companies liable for designing platforms harmful to young users and imposed $6 million in damages. Both companies have pledged to appeal.
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The European Commission has invoked rare emergency powers to order Meta to restore free WhatsApp access for rival AI chatbots, marking only the second use of such authority in more than two decades. Meta has until June 15th to comply or face fines of up to $20 billion.
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General Motors announced a partnership with Denver-based startup Peak Energy to develop sodium-ion batteries for grid-scale energy storage and AI data centers, with customer-ready cells targeted for delivery after 2028.
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