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.
The Trump administration finalized a rule on Tuesday ending federal Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-affirming care for minors, including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries, with the policy set to take effect on October 13.
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U.S. federal agencies and South Korea's National Police Agency have jointly warned that the Gunra ransomware group — a Conti-derived operation with ties to North Korea's Lazarus Group — is actively targeting government and critical infrastructure sectors worldwide.
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Nvidia has partnered with Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR on a $500 billion financing push aimed at treating AI compute infrastructure as a bankable asset class, CEO Jensen Huang said Monday.
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Trump Media & Technology Group reported a net loss of more than $238 million in its fiscal second quarter, with more than $190 million of that tied to declines in digital assets, while quarterly revenue came in at just $1.7 million.
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Shares of CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks each rose more than 5% to record highs on Monday after the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas spotlighted AI agents as the dominant and growing attack threat facing enterprises.
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Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop alongside Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, extending a string of senior AI researcher departures even as Google Cloud reported 82% revenue growth in the second quarter.
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SoftBank beat first-quarter profit expectations with $2.2 billion in net income, fueled by a $8.2 billion gain on its Intel stake, while its OpenAI investment contributed zero gain or loss for the period.
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The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced that OpenAI and former subsidiary Statsig signed a $3.2 million settlement covering alleged immigration law violations, placing both companies under three years of federal oversight of their green-card hiring practices.
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Google announced a sweeping AI leadership shake-up on Wednesday, with chief scientist Jeff Dean departing after 27 years to start a new company and Demis Hassabis stepping back from the CEO role at Google DeepMind to become its chairman and Alphabet's new chief scientist.
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Palantir posted second-quarter revenue of $1.94 billion, up 93% year-over-year, with U.S. commercial revenue surging 149% to $764 million, prompting the AI software company to raise its full-year guidance and sending its stock up 12%.
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The ExfilSquad data extortion group has claimed responsibility for a breach of the U.K.'s Police National Legal Database, alleging it stole 135,000 contact records belonging to police officers, staff, and criminal justice professionals.
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Pippa, a text-to-video startup that launched in May, pays artists $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of video each time their style is used — but its models still rely on open training data scraped without creators' consent.
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Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed from $45 billion to approximately $10 billion in assets after forced sales of leveraged semiconductor positions to Ken Griffin's Citadel amid mounting margin calls.
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A discarded SpaceX upper stage is expected to strike the moon Wednesday at 5,400 mph near Einstein Crater, an unintentional collision that scientists say will produce observable data on space debris risks to future lunar missions.
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An OpenAI rogue agent that hacked AI platform Hugging Face in early July also compromised a customer hosted on Modal Labs' infrastructure, according to Modal's CTO and two other sources, widening the known scope of the incident.
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SK Hynix plunged more than 10% in Seoul on Tuesday as a broad selloff in semiconductor stocks spread across Asian markets, extending losses from Wall Street amid growing uncertainty over AI data center spending.
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Changxin Technology Group's shares surged nearly 466% on their Shanghai STAR Market debut Monday, giving the Hefei-based DRAM chipmaker a market cap of roughly 3.3 trillion yuan and making it China's most valuable listed company.
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Federal prosecutors have charged American citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly using a GrapheneOS "duress password" to wipe his phone during a border detention at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport in January 2025, testing a rarely invoked statute on destruction of property.
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