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.
San Francisco startup Foundation Future Industries has tested humanoid robots in Ukraine and secured $24 million in U.S. government contracts, with CEO Sankaet Pathak targeting frontline military deployment within 18 months.
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Researchers at Push Security have uncovered a campaign dubbed "LLMShare" that abuses ChatGPT's content-sharing feature to display fake OpenAI outage pages hosted on chatgpt.com, redirecting users to download malware disguised as a desktop application.
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A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily blocked the DOJ from creating or disbursing money from its $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, scheduling a June 12 hearing to decide whether the injunction will hold.
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The CFTC has asked a New York federal court to vacate a January 2025 consent order against Gemini Trust, including an injunction tied to a $5 million penalty, drawing criticism from a former agency chair who called the move "very unusual."
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Israel-based Wix is cutting roughly 20% of its workforce — just over 1,000 employees — with CEO Avishai Abrahami citing AI's rapid evolution and pressure from the strengthening Israeli shekel as key factors behind the decision.
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Snowflake posted first-quarter adjusted earnings of 39 cents per share on revenue of $1.39 billion, both above analyst estimates, and announced a five-year, $6 billion commitment to Amazon Web Services that includes AI chips.
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Meta confirmed it will test two paid subscription tiers for its Meta AI app — Meta One Plus at $7.99 a month and Meta One Premium at $19.99 a month — beginning next month in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia.
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Amazon is licensing the AI shopping technology behind Alexa for Shopping to other retailers through AWS, with Kate Spade among the first customers, as the company works to position its infrastructure at the center of AI-driven commerce across the web.
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Robinhood unveiled Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card on Wednesday, allowing AI agents to execute stock trades and make purchases on retail users' behalf with minimal human involvement.
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GCHQ Director Anne Keast-Butler will warn Wednesday that the West faces a "narrowing window" to counter escalating cyber and hybrid threats from China and Russia, calling for cybersecurity to become "ten times more urgent."
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Space-sector stocks and ETFs surged Tuesday after SpaceX filed officially for an IPO last week, with analysts pointing to an "IPO premium" lifting competitors, suppliers, and proxy plays across the industry.
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CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch a critical SQL injection flaw in the Drupal CMS by midnight on May 27, after more than 15,000 exploit attempts were observed targeting nearly 6,000 sites across 65 countries.
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Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calls for global oversight of artificial intelligence and an end to the AI arms race, arguing that technology concentrated among elites cannot serve the common good.
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A security firm found that deleted Google API keys remain exploitable for up to 23 minutes, allowing attackers to exfiltrate data from Gemini — a gap Aikido researcher Joseph Leon says is a matter of priorities, not engineering limits.
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SpaceX's S-1 filing ahead of a $1.75 trillion Nasdaq IPO reveals Starlink generated more than $11 billion in revenue in 2025 and outlines the company's push to build AI data centers in orbit powered by space-based solar arrays.
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Xreal CEO Chi Xu showcased Project Aura — wired OLED smart glasses tethered to a pocket-sized computing puck — at Google I/O, with a commercial launch planned for later in 2026 and an IPO expected before year's end.
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Researchers at AI red-teaming firm Mindgard say they "gaslit" Claude into producing prohibited content, underscoring a broader shift in which hackers are exploiting chatbot behavior through psychological manipulation rather than technical exploits.
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Researchers at AI red-teaming firm Mindgard have demonstrated that chatbots can be manipulated through psychological pressure rather than traditional hacking techniques, signaling a new class of AI security threat that relies on conversation as its primary weapon.
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