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.
Microsoft's shift to per-token pricing for GitHub Copilot has ignited debate over AI cost sustainability, coming as Anthropic files to go public and the industry grapples with the gap between subsidized prices and real production costs.
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Sriram Krishnan, the Trump White House's senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence, announced he will step down at the end of June after 18 months helping shape the administration's federal AI framework and executive order strategy.
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Family offices completed 51 direct investments in May, highlighted by a $225 million commitment to Pickleball Inc. and a $12 million Series A for GPS sports gear startup PlayerData, signaling the sector's growing appeal as an alternative asset class.
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The Trump administration is weighing the nomination of Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar to lead CISA, according to two sources, as the federal cybersecurity agency has operated without a Senate-confirmed director since January 2025.
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Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman, and other AI leaders have signed an open letter urging Congress to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA orders for sequences that could be used to engineer dangerous pathogens.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Trump administration officials in Washington on Wednesday, following President Trump's signing of an executive order on artificial intelligence.
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SpaceX set a fixed IPO price of $135 per share, targeting a $1.77 trillion valuation and a June 12 Nasdaq debut — which would make it the largest IPO in U.S. history, more than triple the size of Alibaba's record offering.
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Uber is cutting 23% of its people division, including HR and recruitment staff, as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the restructuring is "necessary" — even as the company insists the layoffs are not driven by AI.
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President Trump has named FHFA Director Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, drawing criticism from Democrats and Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who said Pulte has no chance of winning Senate confirmation.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called Marvell Technology the "next trillion-dollar company" during a joint appearance at Computex Week in Taipei, sending Marvell shares up 32.52% — the stock's biggest single-day gain on record.
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Microsoft unveiled two proprietary AI models at its Build developer conference — a coding model and a reasoning model — as it moves to reduce its reliance on OpenAI and offer developers lower-cost alternatives on Azure.
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Alphabet announced plans to raise $80 billion through stock sales, including a $10 billion investment from Berkshire Hathaway, to expand AI compute infrastructure as demand exceeds the company's available supply.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares surged 30% on Monday after the company reported second-quarter revenue of $10.68 billion — up 40% year over year — and posted its biggest earnings-per-share beat since February 2018, fueled by record server demand.
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Nearly half of America's 857 unicorn startups have gone three years without fresh funding, PitchBook data shows, as the AI boom redirects capital toward AI-native firms and leaves pre-ChatGPT companies stranded with eroding valuations.
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Palo Alto Networks has raised the severity of CVE-2026-0257, a GlobalProtect VPN authentication bypass flaw, to High after Rapid7 observed active exploitation across multiple customers dating back to May 17. CISA has ordered federal agencies to apply mitigations by June 1, 2026.
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Top-ranked analysts at Bank of America, UBS, and Mizuho have raised price targets on Datadog, Micron Technology, and Lam Research, citing sustained AI infrastructure demand, long-term supply agreements, and accelerating semiconductor spending.
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A 19-year-old Linux kernel vulnerability called CIFSwitch allows unprivileged local attackers to forge CIFS authentication requests and gain root access, affecting Linux Mint, CentOS Stream 9, Rocky Linux 9, Kali Linux, and other major distributions.
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A Delhi High Court found Google liable for trademark infringement over keyword advertising practices in a ruling involving bathroom fittings brand Hindware, awarding ₹3 million in damages and prompting prominent Indian founders to renew criticism of the search giant's ad platform.
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