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.
Apple sent no representative to President Trump's September 29 White House AI luncheon, where major tech CEOs signed a safety accord. Investors and analysts offered competing explanations for the company's absence.
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Technology analyst Dan Ives filed Wednesday to launch the Ives Ultra AI Opportunities closed-end fund, which will sell 20 million shares at $10 each to raise $200 million for investment in private, late-stage AI companies.
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President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday requiring all federal agencies to replace the terms "artificial intelligence" and "AI" with "super intelligence," as a new poll found only 25% of Americans approve of his handling of the technology.
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President Trump called for AI self-regulation and defended data center expansion after a White House luncheon with top tech executives including Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei.
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Before Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for roughly $13 billion, OpenAI offered to invest $100 million in the open-source AI platform, with AMD and Salesforce also expressing deal interest, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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A Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis found that hospitals' use of AI in insurance claims submissions drove $942 million in additional healthcare spending over two years, with no corresponding evidence of changes in patient care.
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The ShinyHunters extortion gang is bypassing web application firewall rules meant to block exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 by using a URL-encoding trick, resuming attacks against organizations across healthcare, government, education, and other sectors.
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A federal jury in San Diego awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion in damages after finding Apple infringed two haptics patents related to the Taptic Engine used in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple has vowed to appeal.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Polymarket on Thursday, accusing the prediction market platform of running an unlicensed gambling operation. Polymarket responded the same day by filing a countersuit in federal court, arguing states cannot regulate federally overseen derivatives exchanges.
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Meta's Muse AI personal agent has topped Apple's App Store and sent Meta's stock up more than 20% since launch, but Amazon has blocked the agent from its platform, citing terms-of-service violations — a conflict that analysts say may define the future of agentic commerce.
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McDonald's announced plans to build a media network that would display third-party ads on its digital drive-thru boards, with ambitions to grow the business to $1 billion in revenue.
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OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei are set to address the UN Security Council on Wednesday as AI safety concerns reach a boiling point, even as President Trump told the General Assembly he will "encourage" the technology with minimal guardrails.
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Meta Platforms surged 12% on Monday as options traders flooded into the stock following strong early downloads of its Muse AI assistant, helping lift the S&P 500 to its best session since August 4.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the state's environmental regulator to halt all data center permits pending a grid audit by ERCOT, expanding a moratorium he first imposed in August and putting roughly 50 gigawatts of proposed capacity at risk.
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President Trump said the DOJ will rein in AI risks "if we have to," even as newly unsealed statements from OpenAI and Microsoft executives dealt a blow to the companies' fair-use defense in the ongoing New York Times copyright lawsuit.
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A Brookings Institution fellow is calling for dedicated "robot relations" departments as AI scheduling, monitoring, and management tools draw scrutiny from legislators, labor unions, and workers across U.S. industries.
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Wells Fargo downgraded Netflix to underweight and slashed its price target to $57 from $80, citing a 1.6-hour-per-day drop in viewership per subscriber and a weak content pipeline for the rest of 2026.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp called for nationalization of AI labs and civil and criminal liability for irresponsible developers, while Pentagon CTO Emil Michael argued against government stakes or new regulations for the AI industry.
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