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.
Researchers and business school professors say workers who use AI to outsource critical thinking risk professional stagnation, eroded workplace trust, and a weakened sense of professional identity, even as adoption rates surpass 43% in the U.S.
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SpaceX shares have fallen nearly 23% since the company joined the Nasdaq-100, with Friday's 5.43% decline following a Starship test abort caused by an engine ignition failure. The stock has now logged losses in nine of the last 10 trading sessions.
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Patreon has stopped relying on robots.txt requests and begun actively blocking AI training bots through a partnership with Cloudflare, after finding that scrapers were ignoring the platform's instructions entirely.
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Amazon-owned Zoox has voluntarily recalled software in 105 robotaxis after one of its vehicles failed to detect heavy smoke and drove into an active fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20, drawing renewed federal scrutiny of the autonomous vehicle industry.
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A higher capital expenditure forecast from TSMC sent chip stocks broadly lower Thursday, with the VanEck Semiconductor ETF falling nearly 7% for the week and Nasdaq-100 futures dropping as much as 2% in premarket trading Friday.
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A global semiconductor sell-off drove Nasdaq 100 futures down 1.9% on Friday, as investors questioned the sustainability of AI infrastructure spending and U.S.-Iran hostilities renewed pressure on energy markets.
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Netflix posted second-quarter revenue of $12.56 billion and earnings of 80 cents per share, roughly in line with estimates, but a soft third-quarter forecast and a pullback on viewership reporting sent shares down more than 8% after hours.
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Trump Media & Technology Group announced Thursday it is launching a paid API giving customers real-time access to posts from top Truth Social accounts, including President Trump's, drawing ethics concerns over the intermingling of official communications and private financial interests.
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Bengaluru-based vibe-coding startup Emergent AI raised $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation on Wednesday, becoming India's second AI unicorn in a month and underscoring the country's growing ambitions in the global AI race.
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Dutch police dismantled a crypto investment fraud ring that allegedly generated more than €100 million a month, operating across two dozen call centers in multiple countries since at least 2021 and defrauding tens of thousands of victims worldwide.
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Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed a lawsuit alleging the company's AI-assisted layoff process discriminated against workers on protected medical or family leave by relying on metrics those employees could not accumulate while absent.
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Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record 570 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-days in Active Directory Federation Services and SharePoint Server, alongside a Windows 10 extended security update carrying the same patches.
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Australia's cyber agency has warned of a global campaign targeting CMS platforms including WordPress and Craft CMS, while Group-IB researchers have detailed a new RedHook Android malware variant that abuses Wireless ADB to gain shell-level device access without requiring root.
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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, known for controversial claims about alien technology, has been named to lead the White House-backed UAP Science Advisory Council, a multidisciplinary body tasked with advising the federal government on unidentified anomalous phenomena.
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SK Hynix shares rose 13% on their first day of Nasdaq trading, closing at $168.01 after ADRs priced at $149 raised $26.5 billion, as Chairman Chey Tae-won said customer demand for AI memory chips remains insatiable.
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Apple filed a federal lawsuit Friday against OpenAI, alleging the AI lab systematically stole trade secrets through former employees and job candidates in order to build its own consumer hardware, naming OpenAI's hardware chief and IO Products as defendants.
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Dutch National Police say they have found "strong indications" that Dutch-speaking hackers carried out the February breach at telecom provider Odido, which exposed the personal data of 6.2 million customers after a social engineering and phishing attack.
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SpaceX closed at $148 on Wednesday, below its $150 debut price for a second straight session, even as analysts initiated coverage with bullish targets and pointed to orbital data centers as a key long-term growth driver.
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