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Off the Wire Press Releases PLANO, Texas, July 20, 2026 — Siemens today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Precision Innovations Inc., a privately held electronic design automation software company, expanding Siemens’ EDA portfolio with AI-powered chip planning

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more efficiently. The new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” is slated to be released sometime in 2028, The Information reported, citing anonymous sources. According to

Watch: 'My flat was turned into a brothel,' landlord tells BBC Panorama A BBC Panorama investigation has uncovered how organised crime gangs are exploiting the UK's private rental market - targeting properties to take over and use for their operations. Among those featured in a n

A federal judge today ordered Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $111 billion merger, handing an early win to states that sued to block the deal. The ruling granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the firms from completing the merger and from co

President Donald Trump is imposing an additional 50% tariff on a host of Canadian goods, from wine to hockey sticks to cement, a senior administration official said Monday. The new tariffs come as Trump administration officials are slated to convene in Mexico on Tuesday for furth

Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX — a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpriced — is fast-tracked

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead

Alphabet shares closed 1.51% higher on Monday after The Information reported the company is developing a new server chip, internally dubbed "Frozen v2," designed to run Gemini models more efficiently. The chip would permanently embed parts of Gemini's architecture directly into t

Alphabet shares closed 1.51% higher on Monday after The Information reported the company is developing a new server chip, internally dubbed "Frozen v2," designed to run Gemini models more efficiently. The chip would permanently embed parts of Gemini's architecture directly into t

PJM Issued First Backup-Generator Warnings During Heat Wave The new warnings process saw its first operational use as PJM neared record demand, but the grid operator says no large-load backup generators were called to run. PJM issued “Transmission Security – Emergency Use of Back

It seems as though $5.6 billion wasn’t enough. That was the news from the US Space Force on Friday, when military officials announced they were tripling the maximum value of one of the service’s National Security Space Launch contracts to $17 billion. The expansion of the Space F

Chris Fall, the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, resigned from his role as director just three months after he was picked for the job by the Trump administration, CNBC confirmed on Monday. CAISI, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, aims to help the governm

Chris Fall, the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, resigned from his role as director just three months after he was picked for the job by the Trump administration, CNBC confirmed on Monday. CAISI, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, aims to help the governm

Louise Haigh: Labour power broker behind Burnham's rise - Published Louise Haigh had enjoyed a stratospheric political rise before her ministerial career came to a juddering halt shortly after Labour's return to power. She became the youngest-ever female cabinet minister at the a

Thousands of websites taken down for illegal World Cup streams - Published Almost 3,000 websites have been blocked or seized for illegally streaming World Cup matches, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has said. More than 1,000 domains were shut down in the US alone during the t

Misleading posts about Trump at World Cup final viewed by millions Fake and misleading images from the World Cup final have been gaining tens of millions of views on social media. Some of the most viral posts focus on US President Donald Trump and Spain's wonderkid Lamine Yamal.

Key takeaways as Andy Burnham becomes PM - Published Andy Burnham has replaced Sir Keir Starmer as UK prime minister, after becoming Labour leader last week. The former mayor of Greater Manchester becomes the country's fourth prime minister in five years and the seventh since 201

Off the Wire Press Releases July 20, 2026 — Users of Frontier — the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science — joined scientific computing experts at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to share recent achievements and new directions in high-perfo

Archer Aviation CEO Adam Goldstein said the company is laser-focused on getting its air taxis certified and flying by the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. "It's always been an ambitious goal," he told CNBC's Phil LeBeau on Monday at the Farnborough Air Show in the U.K. "It's still a

Archer Aviation CEO Adam Goldstein said the company is laser-focused on getting its air taxis certified and flying by the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. "It's always been an ambitious goal," he told CNBC's Phil LeBeau on Monday at the Farnborough Air Show in the U.K. "It's still a

Off the Wire Press Releases Graduate students step inside world-class research at U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories through a U.S.-Japan pilot program July 20, 2026 — Modern science is built on collaboration. The most pressing challenges — whether in energy, health

The Food and Drug Administration's reversal on a key piece of its cyclosporiasis investigation has sparked confusion in the U.S., but the agency said Monday that it has not changed its main conclusions about the outbreak. The agency said Sunday a test that indicated a sample of i

Nearly a year ago, Elon Musk-owned X announced it would begin rebuilding the Android version of its app, which had not held up well compared with its iOS counterpart. On Monday, the company shipped the refreshed app, which is now available to download. The new Android version of

The enduring paradox of the AI economy — models get better and more efficient, yet costs can still easily spiral out of control Token amplification is now the word of the day. Much has been written regarding the questionable economics of the AI space, but most of the discussion r

The impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the biggest open-weight large language model, have kicked off a debate that conflates two things: the economic possibilities of American AI giants and the future of LLMs as a technology. OpenAI’s head of strategic fut

Fifa opens investigation into Argentina post-final trouble - Published Argentina will face an investigation into the ugly scenes at the end of the World Cup final, Fifa has confirmed. Fifa's disciplinary committee has appointed a disciplinary and ethics prosecutor to assess what

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California can keep enforcing rules that require AT&T to offer basic phone service to new customers in its wireline territory, following a federal judge’s ruling last week. AT&T sued California in May in a bid to end the state’s Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) rules that require it

Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery hit its first official roadblock when a judge granted a temporary restraining order on the merger as part of a lawsuit brought by state attorneys general. California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín signed

Off the Wire Press Releases BOSTON, July 20, 2026 — Neo today emerged from stealth with $100M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. Built by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks ve

AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices, and messaging the vendor to organizing a delivery. But when it comes to making a payment for the shipment, they still need to involve a human. Today

Off the Wire Press Releases PISCATAWAY, N.J., July 20, 2026 — Silicon photonics has emerged as a promising technology for addressing bandwidth and latency bottlenecks of conventional electrical interconnects and therefore are being explored for future artificial intelligence infr

South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham announced Monday that she will seek a full, six-year term to replace her brother, Lindsey Graham, in the Senate. Graham last week was appointed by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster to fill the seat of her brother, who died unexpectedly on July

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