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Off the Wire Press Releases SHENZHEN, China, June 30, 2026 — SpinQ, a leading quantum computing company in China, has completed a RMB 1 billion (~US$147 million) Series D financing round, bringing its total funding raised over the past six months to RMB 2 billion. The round was b

GPU-accelerated query engines are often constrained by memory and I/O bandwidth. NVIDIA hardware advances—including high bandwidth memory (HBM), NVIDIA NVLink-C2C, and dedicated decompression engines featured in NVIDIA GB200 NVL4—help remove these bottlenecks by increasing effect

China’s crackdown on offshore securities trading hit one of the biggest US trading firms to the tune of $70 million — and shows that (alleged) insider trading hasn’t moved entirely to prediction markets. Susquehanna Investment Group sued 100 unnamed defendants who it says placed

A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka’s The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fictional torture scenarios. While the sets seen in the trailer are real and not som

Liz’s view “Content is king,” Sumner Redstone said as technological shifts upended the media industry in the 1980s. That was the principle ho-hum distributors followed as they joined up with the creative engines of their industries, hoping to capture their glitz, IP, and stock-pr

Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, microservices and domain-specific tools — to help researchers run more sophisticated

Anthropic introduced Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, sparing them the hassle of bouncing between databases, pipelines, and tools. To be clear, Anthropic says Claude Science is “not a new AI model and n

Meta’s Threads is adding new capabilities to its recently launched Live Chats feature while expanding access to more users, the company announced on Tuesday. The updates include support for translations, new tools for chat hosts, and more. With support for translations, conversat

President Donald Trump’s plan to “fill the digital potholes” and use AI to quickly redesign every government website isn’t going very well. Last August, Trump created the National Design Studio, or NDS, by executive order. A temporary DOGE-like entity that answers only to the pre

The Trump administration's crackdown on Anthropic's leading artificial intelligence models is looking like a gift to the country's top adversary in the AI race: China After a two-week shutdown due to an export control directive, Anthropic was allowed by the White House on Friday

AMD confirms low-power CPU cores in Linux kernel patch — Zen 6 chips could follow in Intel's footsteps with new core type for background tasks Zen 6LP incoming? AMD has submitted Linux kernel patches including support for its new low-power CPU cores that will likely emerge in its

Artificial Intelligence Build generative UI for AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with the AG-UI protocol AI agents can do more than chat. With the right protocol, an agent can render an interactive chart inline in your conversation, update a shared canvas in real time, or pa

Artificial Intelligence Simplify multi-account access to Amazon Bedrock models with managed entitlements Managing AI model access across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts creates a dilemma. Either you grant AWS Marketplace permissions broadly, risking governance issues, or you m

Microsoft's flagship Windows PC lineup will drop reportedly drop budget options — firm prunes Surface Go and Surface Laptop Go No plans for refreshes of aging, out of stock devices. Microsoft is further shrinking its Surface lineup of flagship Windows devices. According to a repo

Artificial Intelligence Implementing resilience patterns with Amazon Bedrock and LLM gateway Implementing resilience patterns for large language model (LLM) inference is critical as generative AI workloads move from experimentation to production at scale. With LLM powered apps no

Artificial Intelligence How Outpost VFX Uses AWS to Accelerate AI Model Training for Visual Effects This post was co-written with Tim Chauncey and Dheeraj Bhadani of Outpost VFX. AI model training for visual effects (VFX) can take weeks, creating bottlenecks in production timelin

Artificial Intelligence Building bilingual NER for cargo logistics with Amazon Bedrock IBS Software’s Cargo system processes thousands of bilingual cargo logistics email messages daily. The system extracts critical information such as air waybill (AWB) numbers, flight details, we

AI-powered education technology company Classover has pivoted to AI cloud services, renaming itself Kidz AI Inc. The move into the neocloud space started in May 2026, when the company announced it had entered into an equity purchase facility agreement with Chardan Capital Markets

A proposed data center outside Calgary, Canada, has been withdrawn by its developer. It was revealed at the June 9 Rocky View County Council Meeting that Kalina Distributed Power, the Canadian subsidiary of Australia-based Kalina Power behind the Lone Pine Energy Centre project n

Artificial Intelligence Fine-tune Amazon Nova models for accurate email data extraction The authors would also like to thank Karan Bhandarkar, Sue Cha, Yash Shah and Nieves Garcia for their contributions in making this initiative possible. If you process millions of email message

Windows Defender 'BlueHammer' vulnerability now exploited as part of malware campaigns — CISA issues warning despite patch release on April 14 Looks like many systems administrators didn't get the memo. Late spring and early summer in the cybersecurity world were marked by multip

Dive Brief: - Primark is opening its seventh Texas location at Houston’s Willowbrook Mall and its first Indiana location at the Castleton Square Mall in Indianapolis, the international clothing retailer said in a press release on Monday. - The two store openings will bring its U.

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is doubling down on using its New Glenn mega-rocket again this year after last month’s explosion. But the company still doesn’t know why that explosion happened in the first place. In his most detailed public statement about the explosion yet

Although climate change is the primary motivation behind electric vehicle adoption, it isn’t the only consideration. Removing internal combustion engines from the road directly saves lives by reducing airborne pollutants that can cause and trigger asthma and other lung diseases.

The quest to build “sovereign” technology systems is increasingly animating European politics — not because of China, but the US. “The sharp edge of the tech discussion here is actually aimed at the US,” Jacob Kirkegaard, at the Brussels think tank Bruegel, said, remarks echoed b

The European heatwave is benefiting Chinese air-conditioning makers and e-commerce platforms. On Alibaba’s international retail site, a Midea AC model that debuted this month is completely sold out in Germany, Italy saw a 100% month-on-month jump in sales of cooling appliances an

This year marks Meta’s 10th consecutive year as a sponsor of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), the charitable organization dedicated to advancing, supporting, and protecting the open-source Python programming language and the community that sustains it. Python is one of the w

Anomaly detection using dynamic thresholds and two-year-long alerts in Cloud Monitoring Lee Yanco Senior Product Manager Daniel Koss Staff Software Engineer Choosing the threshold of an alert policy can be a headache. You have to analyze historical data, aggregate it into semanti

Bringing speed and strong cost performance to the market with Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite Michael Gerstenhaber VP, Product Management, Cloud AI Great creative happens when your tools move at the speed of your ideas. To help you create rich, reliable experiences while

Build agents even faster with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform’s fully-managed, remote MCP server Colby Hawker Senior Product Manager, Gemini Enterprise Louis Lin Software Engineer A couple of months ago, we announced that over 50 Google-managed MCP servers are available. Today,

How Schrödinger sped up molecular discovery by 4x with Alphaevolve Kartik Sanu Program Manager, Google Anant Nawalgaria Group AI Product Manager & Engineer, Google Computational chemistry researchers have traditionally faced a frustrating trade-off when simulating molecular inter

Modernizing financial services with deployment freedom and transformational AI with AlloyDB Omni Sridhar Ranganathan Product Manager, Google Cloud Raj Pai VP, Product Management, Cloud Databases The financial services industry (FSI) operates under a unique set of non-negotiable r

NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec is a neural reconstruction pipeline for building high-fidelity 3D representations of real-world environments from multisensor data such as cameras and lidar. It is used to reconstruct dynamic scenes captured by autonomous vehicle (AV) and robotics platforms

AMD has introduced the Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory-on-Package (MoP) adaptive SoCs, adding integrated LPDDR5X memory directly into the device package to increase bandwidth while reducing board complexity and footprint. The new devices target applications that require high memory t

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS, June 30, 2026 — Crédit Agricole CIB, the financing and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, and Pasqal, a global leader in neutral atom quantum computing, announced the signing of a strategic partnership to accelerate the transition

China’s cross-border rail buildout is chugging along. A new freight service opened this week connecting western China with Turkmenistan, the latest in a series of Belt and Road Initiative projects aimed at deepening Beijing’s economic ties with Central Asia. China is also investi