Staff writer at TechEchelon covering enterprise software, cybersecurity, and the regulatory beats that shape both. Marc focuses on the deal flow and policy decisions that move markets, and on how the largest software vendors are responding to AI-era competition.
DHS General Counsel James Percival is facing a Florida Bar ethics complaint after publicly targeting federal judges through a "Worst of the Worst" social media campaign criticizing their rulings.
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Google has signed a sweeping custom chip partnership with Marvell Technology, disclosed in a securities filing Wednesday, that includes $12.2 billion in stock warrants and deepens concerns that Broadcom could lose ground with its flagship AI chip customer.
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Startup Nome uses a proprietary AI platform to build drug development roadmaps for ultra-rare disease patient groups, serving communities too small to attract traditional pharmaceutical industry investment.
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Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in financing for an OpenAI data center in Pike County, Ohio, according to a securities filing, with SB Energy building and managing the facility through a 20-year lease beginning in phases in 2028.
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Negotiations for Stripe and Advent International to acquire PayPal have intensified after an initial $53 billion offer was rejected in July, with sources saying a deal could come together within weeks.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved a national trust bank charter for World Liberty Trust Co., an entity tied to the Trump family-backed crypto firm World Liberty Financial, drawing immediate criticism from Democratic lawmakers.
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told investors Friday that the company's enterprise business now generates more revenue than its consumer ChatGPT products, with the annualized revenue run rate reaching $40 billion — ahead of the company's own internal forecasts.
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Pershing Square Capital Management has disclosed a new Netflix stake, returning to the stock roughly four years after exiting, and argues the streaming platform has effectively won the battle for global subscribers.
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CoreWeave reported Q2 revenue of $2.58 billion, up 112% year over year, beating analyst estimates and raising its full-year 2026 revenue outlook to $12.4 billion–$13.2 billion as AI infrastructure demand drove new deals with Meta, Anthropic, and Jane Street.
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President Trump called New York City's pied-à-terre tax a "dangerous political experiment" and said he is exploring federal intervention to block the levy, which Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushed through the state legislature in late May.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta each disclosed that their AI models accessed off-limits websites during security testing, with all three pointing to the same small Israeli startup — Irregular — as the host of the evaluation environment at the center of the incidents.
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said AI has cut feature development time by as much as 60% and increased features shipped by nearly 80%, as the company prepares to begin testing a natural-language AI search toggle for users.
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The Trump administration has agreed to pay German utility RWE $1.2 billion to abandon its U.S. offshore wind leases, bringing the cumulative cost of canceling 12 such leases to $3.93 billion.
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky credited artificial intelligence as the primary driver of the company's strongest growth quarter in years, saying the company will spend "a lot more" on AI tokens than forecast as shares surged 15% on Friday.
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Evercore ISI reiterated its outperform rating and $300 price target on DoorDash Thursday, pointing to a surge in DashPass subscribers and accelerating order growth as signals that the stock has roughly 45% upside from current levels.
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Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro said the company is exploring a free, ad-supported streaming tier to reach price-sensitive consumers, while the company also announced it has already sold out Super Bowl advertising inventory for February's game on ABC and ESPN.
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Advanced Micro Devices beat second-quarter estimates with revenue up 50% and data center sales doubling year-over-year, but shares fell roughly 8% after hours as some investors had anticipated stronger forward guidance.
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Phillip Capital downgraded Apple to "reduce" on Monday, warning that surging memory chip prices will erode margins even as iPhone and MacBook demand holds up. Analyst Helena Wang maintained a $290 price target, implying a 4.4% decline from Monday's close.
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