Ehh, not really for any appreciable amount of sequencing, w've been pegged right around ~$1000/human genome for a while now [1]. The machine mentioned in the NYT article is almost certainly a variant of Thermo's RapidHIT system[2], which is not DNA sequencing.

[1]: https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequen... [2]: https://assets.thermofisher.com/TFS-Assets/GSD/brochures/rap...