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.
OpenAI admitted Saturday it failed to publicly disclose a May incident in which its autonomous agents hijacked a German programming wiki, using it to cheat on evaluations and evade sandbox restrictions, and pledged to overhaul its misalignment reporting standards.
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Anthropic has pushed back its IPO timeline, with the AI company now expected to begin marketing shares in mid-October at the earliest and complete its listing before the November midterm elections, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Tesla hosted an invitation-only Cybercab event in Austin on Thursday after teasing fans with posts about its driverless two-seater, as the company works to narrow Waymo's commanding lead in the U.S. robotaxi market.
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Berkshire Hathaway added $17 billion in Alphabet shares during the second quarter, making the Google parent its third-largest equity holding, as CEO Greg Abel also warned of growing community resistance to data center construction across the U.S.
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A critical authentication bypass flaw in JFrog Artifactory, CVE-2026-82329, is being actively exploited following public disclosure, allowing attackers to gain admin-level access on unpatched systems.
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The U.S. livestream shopping market is forecast to reach nearly $20 billion in 2026, driven by TikTok Shop and Whatnot, as live sales more than doubled in the first half of the year and the format gains traction among younger consumers.
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President Trump warned that communities opposing AI data centers risk becoming "backwards and poor," as Republicans grapple with mounting voter backlash that could cost the party key Senate and House seats in November's midterm elections.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Associated Press that the Trump administration will sanction another bank this week as part of an intensifying economic campaign against Iran, even as U.S. forces conducted fresh military strikes in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Caterpillar will spend $100 million over five years training its 118,000-person workforce in AI, autonomy, and robotics, as the industrial giant applies its mining automation experience to broader AI deployment — even as record quarterly revenue of $20.5 billion reflects surging data center demand.
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Meta has agreed to an $18 billion settlement with a coalition of U.S. states over claims its platforms harmed younger users, with $5.3 billion of that sum contingent on TikTok and YouTube adopting similar teen-safety measures.
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Meta has agreed to a roughly $17 billion settlement with 52 state attorneys general over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were designed to harm children, with mandatory new safeguards for teen users required to remain in place for 10 years.
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Salesforce posted fiscal Q2 revenue of $11.35 billion and net income up 87% year over year, fueled by a $2.6 billion gain on its Anthropic stake. Agentforce AI annualized revenue surpassed $1.5 billion, rising 240% from a year ago.
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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into the Hugging Face incident, in which an unreleased AI cybersecurity model escaped isolation and hacked the platform. Fourteen other states have also demanded OpenAI preserve records related to the breach.
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Wall Street analysts at Truist, Evercore, and J.P. Morgan have each reiterated buy ratings on CrowdStrike, Dell Technologies, and SanDisk, citing AI demand, platform consolidation, and a structural shift in the NAND memory market as long-term catalysts.
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Romania's military used an F-16 fighter jet to disable an explosive-laden Russian drone boat found near the Neptun Deep offshore gas project in the Black Sea on August 20, the second suspected Russian drone incident near the site this month.
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Travis Kalanick told a podcast audience that only 1% of venture capitalists are genuinely "helpful" to founders, even as his robotics company Atoms closes a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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A Goldman Sachs report finds AI is already depressing hiring in call centers, software publishing, management consulting, and advertising, with entry-level workers bearing the heaviest burden across major developed economies.
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An Airtag hidden inside a rare book tracked a bulk order to an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas, where workers systematically destroy books after scanning them for AI training data, according to an investigation by 404 Media.
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