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.
Waymo and Uber have ended their Phoenix robotaxi pilot — a deployment of just over a dozen vehicles — while expanding their partnership to hundreds of autonomous vehicles in Austin and Atlanta.
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Salesforce is acquiring AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion, its most prominent deal among at least six acquisitions since December. Wall Street remains divided on whether the buying spree can reverse a stock that is down roughly 40% for the year.
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Omen AI has closed a $31 million Series A to bring real-time spectrometer-based fluid monitoring to liquid-cooled data center racks, addressing bacterial contamination risks that can force multi-hour, multi-million-dollar system shutdowns.
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The Bank for International Settlements warned in its Annual Economic Report that rising public debt, financial fragilities, renewed inflation pressures, and an uncertain AI investment boom are compounding risks to global economic stability.
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Mozilla's Zero Day Investigative Network demonstrated a proof-of-concept attack in which a GitHub repository containing no malicious code can manipulate AI coding agents like Claude Code into executing a remote shell by exploiting automated error-recovery behavior.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Sunday that a democratic socialist can be elected to any office in the country, including the presidency, while also declining to support a constitutional change that would allow the Uganda-born mayor to run himself.
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SpaceX is set to join the Nasdaq-100 index on July 7, making it one of the fastest additions in the index's history and triggering mandatory buying from more than $800 billion in funds that track the benchmark.
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The Commerce Department authorized Anthropic to redeploy its Claude Mythos 5 model to more than 100 U.S. companies and federal agencies on Friday, partially easing a two-week government-imposed access freeze that also affected its Fable 5 model.
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OpenAI launched a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 model suite on Friday, comprising three models — Sol, Terra, and Luna — less than 24 hours after agreeing to delay the release at the request of the Trump administration.
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ON Semiconductor has agreed to acquire Synaptics in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $7 billion, the company's largest acquisition ever, as it seeks to expand its physical AI and connected computing portfolio.
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The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that federal pesticide law preempts state failure-to-warn claims against Bayer's Monsanto over Roundup's glyphosate, effectively limiting a wave of cancer-related lawsuits and sending Bayer shares up 15.75%.
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CryptoQuant is urging Michael Saylor's Strategy to pause bitcoin purchases and rebuild its USD cash reserve, warning that dividend coverage has fallen to just 14 months as the company's shares hit a fresh 52-week low.
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Google's YouTube has settled a California lawsuit brought by a minor who alleged the platform harmed his mental health, with confidential terms announced ahead of a second state trial targeting social media companies set to begin July 27.
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, their first jointly developed AI chip, on Wednesday, with initial deployment targeted for the end of 2026 as OpenAI moves to diversify beyond Nvidia's GPUs and build out its own silicon stack.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Kentucky on Tuesday after the state targeted prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket, making Kentucky the first Republican-led state to face federal legal action in the ongoing jurisdictional battle.
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Cerebras Systems reported $193.4 million in first-quarter revenue, up 92% year over year, in the AI chipmaker's first earnings release since its Nasdaq IPO in May 2026. Shares fell 7% in after-hours trading despite the strong top-line results.
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AI memory startup Engram raised $98 million from General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, and Sequoia, claiming its models can match frontier AI labs using up to 100 times fewer tokens, as enterprises look to cut soaring AI costs.
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AI companies have poured more than $20 million into New York's 12th congressional district primary, turning a Manhattan House race into the defining early battleground over federal AI regulation.
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