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Off the Wire Press Releases June 30, 2026 — AMD today announced the AMD Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package (MoP) adaptive system-on-chips (SoCs). The MoP architecture integrates up to 32GB of LPDDR5X into a single package, delivering up to 288GB/s of bandwidth in up to 60% le

Anthropic is starting an internal drug discovery program as part of an effort to develop artificial intelligence tools designed for drugmakers, becoming the latest company to try and crack the healthcare market. At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Anthropic's life sciences h

Anthropic is starting an internal drug discovery program as part of an effort to develop artificial intelligence tools designed for drugmakers, becoming the latest company to try and crack the healthcare market. At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Anthropic's life sciences h

Amazon is blaming the threat of malware for its decision to stop releasing new Fire Sticks that support sideloading apps from outside Amazon’s Appstore. Amazon has released two Fire Stick models that use its proprietary, Linux-based operating system, Vega OS. Previous Fire Sticks

NASA officials said Tuesday that they are seriously considering sending the full-scale engineering model of the Perseverance rover, which is currently housed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, to the Moon to expedite their efforts to explore the south pole region. Th

Google is so famous for killing products that there’s a whole virtual graveyard you can explore. Google’s latest shutdown now has a headstone of its own. Effective today, Google has discontinued the Tenor API, which you may not be familiar with by name. You’ve probably used it, t

It's been a good quarter for technology stocks, and cybersecurity leaders Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike have both joined the historic rally. CrowdStrike and Palo Alto rallied 95% and 113%, respectively, between April and June for their best quarter on record, as new artifici

It's been a good quarter for technology stocks, and cybersecurity leaders Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike have both joined the historic rally. CrowdStrike and Palo Alto rallied 95% and 113%, respectively, between April and June for their best quarter on record, as new artifici

Three former DeepMind researchers who created an AI that beat humans at poker have now applied the same technology to trading stocks — and the bet appears to be paying off. Their Prague-based AI lab, EquiLibre Technologies, is now valued at $500 million after raising an undisclos

Off the Wire Press Releases The first cloud environment to receive enterprise authorization to process S/RD will house the NNSA’s inaugural Genesis Mission workloads WASHINGTON, June 30, 2026 — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced a significant milest

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday cleared Philip Morris-owned Zyn nicotine pouches to be marketed as less harmful than cigarettes, giving the tobacco giant a major regulatory win as the Trump administration loosens restrictions on nicotine products. The decision, first

Will Starmer's plan for defence help UK hit Nato's spending target? - Published The government has published the much-delayed Defence Investment Plan (DIP) and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said the additional spending represents a "huge historic shift for our nation". BBC

Apple is hoping the Supreme Court will reverse a contempt finding that threatens to block the tech giant from charging high commission fees when developers divert iPhone users to non-Apple payment methods for app purchases. The contempt finding came in a case where Epic Games acc

AeroVironment shares skyrocketed nearly 19% after the dronemaker easily blew past Wall Street's fiscal fourth-quarter estimates, benefiting from U.S. plans to modernize the military and secure space. The Virginia-based defense company more than doubled revenue from a year ago to

Makers of AI browsers make lofty promises. With a single prompt, users can ask one to find a restaurant in a particular part of town, reserve a table, invite a colleague to lunch, and email a confirmation. These makers are much more reticent about the risks of blurring the once f

xTool says its 01 Omni Printer can ‘print it all’ — firm steps into the world of UV printing for output on 'all surfaces' at up to 5mm thick Flexible UV printer that can produce vivid, detailed, and textured output on almost any surface starts at $1,699. xTool launched its 01 Omn

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said the company is "not rebuilding the same pad" where one of its New Glenn rockets recently exploded, in order to make way for a return to flight this year. The company, started by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, was conducting a hot-fire test of its massiv

Dream Sports, the parent company of Dream11, has shut down its wealth management platform Dream Money, less than a year after launching it as part of its diversification beyond online gaming. The company has also displayed a notice on the Dream Money website stating that the plat

Episode details Available for over a year Today, Keir Starmer has unveiled the long awaited defence investment plan which promises an extra £15 billion to help equip the armed forces for the future. Despite being one of the difficult issues which ultimately helped bring about his

A bipartisan committee on Capitol Hill scrutinized the role of private equity in youth sports on Tuesday, a potential sign that Congress could be inching closer to intervening. The hearing, titled "Field of Fees: Private Equity's Role in the Commercialization of American Youth Sp

Scality and OVHcloud have expanded their technology partnership with a joint storage platform aimed at organizations requiring sovereign infrastructure for AI and mission-critical data. The combined solution is designed to keep sensitive data under customer control while supporti

Google’s NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. Google’s Noteb

For fusion startups, the hard part is over: Thanks to a groundbreaking experiment in 2022, we know that controlled nuclear fusion reactions can generate more power than they consume. But now companies need to prove their reactors can make enough electricity to be profitable. One

Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2 Lite, the newest version of its in-house AI video and image generator. This version is significantly faster and more affordable than its previous release, the company claims. The model has much lower latency and can produce images in four

The Department of Justice and 17 state attorneys general reached a $3.3 million settlement with three of the nation's largest egg producers for alleged price manipulation that "artificially increased" egg prices for consumers and retailers, federal and state officials said Monday

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced it is investing $1 billion in a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit that will help its customers build and roll out artificial intelligence systems. A forward deployed engineer, or an FDE, is an employee who is embedded directly within a

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced it is investing $1 billion in a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit that will help its customers build and roll out artificial intelligence systems. A forward deployed engineer, or an FDE, is an employee who is embedded directly within a

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Sonnet model Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model, Claude Sonnet 5, on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Sonnet 5 is the fir

There are plenty of AI image-generation models these days, but the ones capable of quality outputs tend to be slow and expensive. Google DeepMind says its new image model, known as Nano Banana 2 Lite, offers the best balance of quality and speed. It’s available today across the G

Clicks Technology, a startup that’s preparing to launch its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, is showing off what it has in store in a new video, released today. The device, known as the Clicks Communicator, was introduced at January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las