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Off the Wire Press Releases July 21, 2026 — AI has entered the gigascale era. The world’s most advanced AI factories are bringing together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and CPUs to train frontier models, power agentic AI and generate intelligence at unprecedented scale. At this l

Data centers are expected to use one-fifth of the electricity generated in the U.S. by 2035, four times that of today, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. A surge in AI compute will push data center capacity to nearly 200 gigawatts over the next decade, the report predic

Off the Wire Press Releases CAMPBELL, Calif., July 21, 2026 — WEKA today unveiled the third generation of its WEKApod Nitro, WEKApod Prime, and WEKApod Prime Max AI storage appliances, featuring custom-engineered chassis and patent-pending hardware innovations that deliver the hi

Tesla has brought an unspecified number of its unsupervised Model Y SUVs to Orlando and Tampa, just one day ahead of the company’s scheduled second-quarter earnings call. That marks the third city in Florida where Tesla is trialing its nascent robotaxi service, following a small

Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives almost entirely underground, are largely insensitive to some kinds of pain, can persist without oxygen for a long time, rarely develop cancer, and can live past 30 years, which is decades longer than similarly sized rodents. They

Nvidia shows off DLSS 5 with three AI modes for different levels of detail — upscaler can switch between models in real-time DLSS 5 is coming this fall. Nvidia first debuted DLSS 5 earlier this year to a strong, critical response. The upscaling tech was almost slammed by some pre

On Monday, a judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors, ending the largest copyright class-action ever certified and granting the largest copyright settlement ever reached. Back in May, some authors fought to block the settlement, which was proposed a

Liz’s view The narrative about private credit is familiar by now — it’s a garbage heap of bad loans, waiting to ignite. A tiny corrective comes from a strange place: the industry’s biggest competitors. Big banks have been busy refinancing loans made by private-credit firms. By pu

Off the Wire Press Releases WAYNE, Pa., July 21, 2026 — Cornelis, a leading provider of high-performance networking solutions, unveiled a new reference architecture that pairs its CN6000 SuperNIC with AMD 6th Gen EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI400 series GPUs. Designed for di

The UK’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, wants to make British business great again. But businesses want to be where their customers and investors are, and with the UK’s wan economic growth and thinner capital markets, that’s increasingly elsewhere. Many of Britain’s corporate

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the Trump administration will look into whether Chinese artificial intelligence models have been distilled from American models, stating that the government does not support "IP theft." Chinese open-weight models are gaining s

Off the Wire Press Releases CAMPBELL, Calif., July 21, 2026 — WEKA today announced WEKA NeuralMesh 6, the most significant software release in the company’s history, delivering a purpose-built platform designed to help customers run production AI training, inference, and accelera

Since its 2022 launch, the Steam Deck has consistently been at or near the top of the company’s “top selling products by revenue” charts, with brief dips outside of the top 10 treated as newsworthy events. But sales of the popular handheld gaming PC have apparently been on a stee

On Tuesday, Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google’s “workhorse model” that promises improved capabilities in coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance while reducing token usage by up to 17%, making it

China’s US-bound shipments of rare-earth magnets so far this year are 20% below average levels seen between 2022 and 2024, customs data showed, despite the countries’ trade truce. As part of last year’s agreement with Washington, Beijing committed to a one-year pause in implement

Google announced a significant evolution of its AI models at I/O in May with the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash, and it’s not slowing down. The company revealed three new AI models today, including its first version of Gemini geared toward cybersecurity. However, none of the new mod

O1.ai, the Chinese AI startup founded by AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee, is aiming to raise funds ahead of a potential 2027 IPO, joining other AI labs that have gone public or plan to. Unlike China’s other “AI Tigers,” including Zhipu, DeepSeek, and Moonshot, O1.ai has pivoted from buildi

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement

BlackRock’s $25 billion M&A spree is starting to click. The company is raising $12 billion of debt for a Texas data center to be occupied by Meta — its first deal that puts infrastructure investor GIP and private-credit firm HPS to work in a major way since BlackRock bought them

Bets against the stock market are at all-time highs, as investors doubt the S&P 500’s months-long rally can survive sharpened AI fears and the Iran war’s threat of renewed inflation. The total amount currently bet against shares of the S&P 500 companies recently hit $1.4 trillion

MOST POPULAR AI - AI + ML The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive nowHey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3 -

New Open Weight AI Models from China Renew Calls for Regulation We’ve seen the release of two highly capable AI models from China over the past... It’s 2 AM and the on-call engineer pulls up the dashboard. GPU utilization sits at 87%. No alerts have fired. The cluster looks busy,

Dive Brief: - Sleep Country, the largest mattress retailer in Canada, will acquire U.S. mattress retailer Sleep Number for $702 million, including nearly $530 million in cash. - The transaction, which the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York approved Mond

The News Halfway through an academic discussion back in 2020, Paige Cognetti offered up a candid observation about US history. Cognetti — the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania — recalled university professor Adam Pratt’s opening statement for the “Humanities in Action” panel that h

Destination XL Group’s board of directors no longer believes its planned merger with FullBeauty Brands is in the best interests of DXL and its stockholders. The company on Monday issued a preliminary proxy statement recommending that stockholders vote against an issuance proposal

MOST POPULAR AI - AI + ML The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive nowHey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3 -

Instagram announced on Tuesday that users can now swap out the music on their published feed posts and carousels. Until now, users could only change the music on a post by deleting it and then re-uploading it. With a newly launched “Replace Audio” tool, users can update the music

Dive Brief: - J. Crew has named Stacey Levitt as its executive vice president of e-commerce and digital experience, Levitt said in a recent LinkedIn post. - Levitt comes to the apparel company after nearly a decade at Walmart, where she was most recently the vice president of e-c

Dive Brief: - Hasbro’s net revenue increased over 16% to $1.1 billion in Q2, largely driven by its Wizards of the Coast and digital gaming segments, which were up 27% year over year. - Magic: The Gathering revenue increased 32% to $545 million, marking the first time the property

China is considering export controls on AI technologies, including banning local companies from using TSMC, report claims — restrictions would also cover advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions So far, restrictions are only potential. China is considering a m

Meta is bringing parental supervision tools to Threads, the company announced on Tuesday. With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen’s time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings through Family

Supercharging pgvector: 4x faster HNSW vector search with AlloyDB Vinay Sharma Senior Software Engineer Darshana Sivakumar Group Product Manager AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise workloads. It combines the

Druva spreading AI agent cyber-resilience wings with Claude and Copilot co-operation Druva is developing protection for AI agents, backup data access for AI agents, protection against AI agents, and better cyber-resilience investigations with AI agents; a 4-way AI agent street. I

Amazon data center in Bahrain struck and destroyed by Iranian cruise missiles, state media claims — attacks launched against AWS site in response to alleged US strikes on an under-construction nuclear plant The Middle East is seeing escalating violence weeks after the two parties

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. would examine open source models from China for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft is established. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models comin

NVIDIA Vera Rubin is here, and it’s going gigascale. Vera Rubin NVL72 production is ramping up with racks running at partners CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Spanning 350+ factory sites in 30 countries, Vera Rubin has the largest, most ma