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.
A Brazilian banking malware operation called KREMLIN has been silently force-installing malicious extensions on Chrome and Edge since mid-2025, bypassing Chromium's cryptographic integrity checks to steal credentials, session tokens, and sensitive user data, according to Elastic Security Labs.
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UBS raised its Palantir price target to $250 from $220 on Tuesday, reiterating a buy rating and arguing the data analytics company trades at an unjustified discount to AI software peers despite leading growth and margin profiles.
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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reaffirmed the company's AI semiconductor revenue forecasts of $115 billion in fiscal 2027 and $230 billion in fiscal 2028, even as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for slower AI development rattled chip stocks Monday.
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Amazon said Sunday it is pausing all operations with Miami-based cargo carrier 21 Air after a Boeing 767-300 freighter operated on behalf of Amazon Air overran a runway at Miami International Airport last weekend, killing five people.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson cautioned against rushed AI regulation on Sunday, warning it could cede ground to China, as Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton called on Johnson to convene Congress specifically to address artificial intelligence risks.
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Hyperscale data centers are creating concentrated physical assets worth tens of billions of dollars each, pushing the insurance industry toward catastrophe bonds as a potential solution — though the first dedicated deal is still 12 to 18 months away, experts say.
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New Mexico's Supreme Court fined attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt after he submitted an AI-generated murder appeal brief containing wholly fabricated witnesses and false testimony produced by ChatGPT.
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Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $19.35 billion, a 30% year-over-year increase fueled by a 121% surge in cloud infrastructure revenue, sending shares up 6.2% in premarket trading.
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Apple CEO John Ternus and marketing chief Greg Joswiak acknowledged that the iPhone Duo's aspect ratio leaked to rivals through shared supply chains, while crediting tight security for keeping the device's folding nano-texture display under wraps until launch.
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Apple CEO John Ternus debuted the iPhone Duo foldable and iPhone 18 Pro at a fall event, skipping the standard iPhone model for the first time in seven years and signaling a new split-launch strategy that would push lower-priced devices to a spring event.
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Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard have agreed to develop a shared "know your agent" framework for AI-driven payments, citing McKinsey projections that autonomous agents will handle $3 trillion to $5 trillion in global consumer commerce by 2030.
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CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator said Wednesday that AI companies have not done enough to explain the technology's benefits to the public, as an Anthropic researcher's high-profile resignation and a bipartisan push for government AI transparency added to sector pressures.
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Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants to acquire 25 million shares at $161.26 each — a roughly $4 billion stake — as part of a deal to build customized AI inference chips for AWS, marking a significant step in the chipmaker's push into data center markets dominated by Nvidia.
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Australia's government has proposed legislation requiring social media platforms to offer users over 16 an opt-out from algorithm-driven feeds, with fines of up to $79 million for non-compliance — the latest in a string of regulatory actions targeting Big Tech's content practices.
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Americans are finding rare bipartisan agreement in their opposition to Big Tech, with protests over data centers and AI surveillance cameras — alongside landmark court verdicts against social media platforms — signaling a broad public reckoning with the industry's growing footprint.
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Jaguar Land Rover has opened a voluntary redundancy programme and is planning to cut up to 4,000 jobs over two years, targeting £1.7 billion in savings as it faces Chinese competition, U.S. tariffs, and fallout from a cyberattack.
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President Trump again lashed out at data center opponents, warning they face "poverty, crime and squalor," while House Democrats moved to cast the administration's embrace of AI infrastructure as a political liability ahead of November's midterms.
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AI data center construction is lifting freight demand and reshaping trucking routes across rural America, offering relief to an industry under pressure from record diesel prices and trade tariffs — though experts warn of a sharp drop-off once building is complete.
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