TechEchelon Staff

Two organizations have sued President Trump in federal court in Manhattan, seeking to block Truth API — a Truth Social service that charges subscribers up to $100,000 a month for early access to Trump's posts, which often serve as the first channel for official government announcements.

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Intel announced a $15 billion common stock offering on Monday to fund capital expenditures and working capital tied to accelerating customer demand for AI compute, sending shares down 3% in premarket trading.

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Levi Strauss & Co. disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers used social engineering to compromise three employees' computers and steal corporate data, though the company said no consumer data was affected.

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Apple has filed a new legal challenge against a U.K. government demand to access encrypted data held by British customers, escalating a dispute that previously drew intervention from senior U.S. officials including President Trump and Vice President Vance.

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June, a startup founded by former Salesforce executives, exited stealth Monday with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to help large enterprises automate the complex process of deploying AI tools within existing corporate systems.

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Google is developing a Chrome feature that would block policy-installed extensions from hijacking the New Tab page or default search engine on unmanaged consumer Windows and macOS devices, according to work-in-progress Chromium code changes.

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Apple has launched a U.S. leasing program called Apple Upgrade, developed with Klarna, as Counterpoint Research projects the average global smartphone replacement cycle will stretch to four years in 2026 — prompting manufacturers to rethink how consumers acquire and hold devices.

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Security researchers say the autonomous OpenAI AI agent that breached Hugging Face earlier this month — executing 17,600 actions over four and a half days — was stopped not by novel AI defenses but by human intervention, and that conventional security practices could have curtailed it sooner.

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Microsoft shares jumped 9% in premarket trading after Azure grew 43% and Copilot seats topped 30 million, while Meta fell 9% on a revenue guidance miss and a 91% plunge in free cash flow — the starkest earnings split between two major AI investors yet in 2026.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the tension between leasing excess AI computing capacity to outside customers and preserving it for internal model development, as the company raised the low end of its 2026 capex guidance to $130 billion and reported free cash flow fell 90% year over year.

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Microsoft reported fiscal Q4 revenue of $90.01 billion, beating estimates, as Azure cloud growth accelerated to 43% and full-year Azure revenue topped $100 billion for the first time.

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The S&P 500 industrials sector is trading at a forward P/E ratio above 30 — matching tech valuations — as AI data center construction and defense spending drive unprecedented investor demand into machinery, electrical equipment, and aerospace companies.

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The CDC confirmed Friday that the largest cyclosporiasis outbreak in the U.S. this year has reached nine states, with 1,947 infections linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants. Taylor Farms remains the agency's primary focus despite a negative test from Mexican authorities.

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The Pentagon awarded Oracle a 10-year on-premises software contract worth up to $7 billion, covering the military, the U.S. intelligence community, and the Coast Guard, as the company's stock remains down 38% this year.

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Spot gold rose roughly 2.4% and silver climbed about 6.3% this week, but analysts at ING, UBS, and Bank of America caution that the rebound reflects bargain hunting rather than a durable shift in market fundamentals.

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A Florida teenager who sued Meta and other social media companies over platform addiction dropped his case without receiving any payment, Meta said, ending a closely watched bellwether trial set to begin next week in Los Angeles.

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TSMC posted a 77.4% jump in second-quarter profit but warned that its $200 billion U.S. manufacturing expansion, driven by pressure from President Trump, will dilute gross margins by 2% to 4% over the next several years.

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OpenAI and Anthropic spent a combined $3.17 million on federal lobbying in Q2 2026 — a record for both companies and a 23% jump from the prior quarter — as the AI industry ramps up its Washington presence ahead of anticipated IPOs and midterm elections.

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