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.
OpenAI will publicly release its GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Commerce cleared the company to proceed, ending a roughly two-week restricted rollout requested by the government.
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Apple has begun testing DRAM chips from China's state-backed ChangXin Memory Technologies for devices sold in China, and is lobbying the U.S. government to permit broader use of CXMT's products, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Arya Bolurfrushan, founder and CEO of Abu Dhabi-based AppliedAI and a former Goldman Sachs banker, pleaded guilty in June 2025 to conspiring to commit securities fraud as part of a wide-ranging insider trading scheme tied to confidential merger tips from law firm attorneys.
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Samsung Electronics reported a record preliminary second-quarter operating profit of 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), up from 4.7 trillion won a year earlier, though shares fell nearly 5% at Tuesday's open amid concerns over one-off bonus-related expenses.
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Anthropic has signed a 20-year lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Hawesville, Kentucky, in a deal expected to generate around $19 billion in revenue over its initial term. TeraWulf shares jumped more than 16% in premarket trading on the news.
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Even Realities Technology, a Shenzhen-based smart-glasses startup founded by a former Apple engineer, has raised $150 million in a pre-Series B round backed by Tencent and Meituan, reaching a $1 billion valuation as it targets the AI wearable market dominated by Meta Platforms.
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Cloud security firm Sysdig has documented what researchers call the first ransomware operation conducted entirely by an autonomous AI agent, dubbed JadePuffer, which carried out every stage of an intrusion — from exploitation to encryption — without apparent human direction at each step.
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Microsoft launched Microsoft Frontier Co. on Thursday, committing $2.5 billion and 6,000 employees to a new unit focused on hands-on artificial intelligence deployments for enterprise clients, joining Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic in the forward deployed engineering push.
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Europe's top court upheld a 4.1 billion euro ($4.67 billion) antitrust fine against Google on Thursday, dismissing the company's appeal over alleged anti-competitive practices tied to its Android mobile operating system.
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Meta Platforms shares rose 8% after the company confirmed plans to build a cloud business selling its surplus AI computing capacity to outside customers, a move that sent rival neocloud stocks sharply lower.
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Digital Realty announced a $3.5 billion stake in three Blackstone-owned data centers in Northern Virginia, paying $1.2 billion in cash and $2.3 billion in shares for assets valued at $7.8 billion. Shares fell 5.4% in premarket trading on the news.
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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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