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Off the Wire Press Releases July 14, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation announced it awarded the newest NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) awards to 12 U.S. teams across 20 states. These NSF Engines will build and scale innovation clusters that aim to accelera

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 14, 2026 — Ultralytics, the company behind the YOLO family of object detection models, today announced collaboration with Intel to bring production-ready YOLO (You Only Look Once) computer vision models to Intel hardware, maki

Off the Wire Press Releases Baya’s WeaveIP fabric and WeaverPro software accelerating architecture development for Kandou’s 448G copper AI connectivity platform SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SAINT-SULPICE, Switzerland, July 14, 2026 — Baya Systems, a leader in software-defined fabric I

Lettuce and salad greens have become the prime suspects in an explosive outbreak of the diarrheal parasite Cyclospora, which is surging nationwide but erupting to extraordinary heights in Michigan. In recent years, Michigan has typically reported around 50 cases of cyclosporiasis

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed an executive order barring the construction of new large-scale data centers using 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year, making the Empire State the first state in the nation to impose such a ban. "We're in the mid

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed an executive order barring the construction of new large-scale data centers using 50 megawatts or more of power for up to one year, making the Empire State the first state in the nation to impose such a ban. "We're in the mid

Lucid Motors is denying a report that it’s weighing filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Nick Twork, the company’s chief communications officer, told TechCrunch in a statement that the “rumors are completely false.” “The company has sufficient liquidity to carry its opera

Cooling inflation has also chilled some experts' expectations for the 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, which may be between 3.7% and 3.8%, according to new estimates. The Social Security COLA may be 3.7% in 2027, estimates Mary Johnson, an independent Social Securi

Artificial Intelligence Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock Your prospects leave trails across multiple sources: a founder asks “What should I use for X?” in r/SaaS while their product launches on Hacker News. Stack Overflow questions spike. A G

Shein will publicly list in Hong Kong after finally receiving Beijing’s approval, deepening its Chinese roots following global setbacks. The fast-fashion juggernaut is targeting a $40 billion IPO as soon as August, after years of attempting to distance itself from China, where it

Chinese solar companies are rushing to divest from the US as Washington looks to curb China’s influence in the clean energy sector. More than half of Chinese clean-tech investments in the US announced since 2022 have been canceled, paused, or delayed. The sell-off was sparked by

Chinese AI lab Zhipu is bucking a tech-stock rout in Hong Kong and the mainland, thanks to its focus on building AI that rivals human intelligence. China’s AI scene is known for prioritizing widespread adoption over the loftier frontier research often championed by Silicon Valley

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A group of publishers and authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using their copyrighted works to train its AI platform, Gemini. The group of plaintiffs, which includes Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, author Scott Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E.

China exported a record $412 billion worth of goods last month, blowing past analysts’ forecasts as AI and the green transition continued to drive global demand for its products. Soaring fuel prices, sparked by the Iran war, saw green tech exports surge by a third in the first ha

Apple is in talks with a small Silicon Valley company that says it can shrink powerful artificial intelligence models enough to run directly on an iPhone, the startup's CEO told CNBC. PrismML, a Khosla Ventures-backed spinout from the California Institute of Technology, publicly

Apple is in talks with a small Silicon Valley company that says it can shrink powerful artificial intelligence models enough to run directly on an iPhone, the startup's CEO told CNBC. PrismML, a Khosla Ventures-backed spinout from the California Institute of Technology, publicly