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Off the Wire Press Releases SAN JOSE, Calif., July 23, 2026 — Etched today announced $300M in new financing at a $10.3B valuation less than one month after emerging from stealth. The latest round was led by Sequoia, with participation from a16z, Jane Street, Diffusion, and SK Hyn

Liz’s view IBM’s big earnings miss, previewed last week but somehow coming in even worse than suggested, boiled down to their customers buying less of their AI-adjacent stuff so they could buy more of other people’s AI-critical stuff. The episode, in addition to being a black eye

Weekly quiz: What creepy-crawly cuisine could land a Michelin-starred restaurateur in jail? - Published This week, Ukraine continued to target Russia's largest online retailer as the war between the two countries showed no sign of ending, the world of sport mourned two legends -

Congress on Thursday split on advancing a pair of war powers resolutions aimed at forcing President Donald Trump to abandon his war with Iran, as the conflict escalates into a deadly new phase and oil tops $100 a barrel. The moves were the first vote since Trump informed Congress

Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch attacks on a massive scale, with email emerging as a primary target. AI can quickly aggregate personal information — such as information about co-workers, active projects, and recent travel itineraries — allowing bad actors to instantly

AI and advanced analytics firm Fractal has announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027. The company reported a 20% year on year increase in revenue, crossing the Rs 900 crore mark, while its profit surged 90% to Rs 72 crore during th

Advancing AI 2026 was AMD’s biggest launch event yet, big enough that we split our coverage in two. Our first article covered the Instinct MI455X and the 72-GPU Helios rack; this sister piece covers what could not comfortably fit alongside them: the 6th Gen EPYC server CPUs, code

AMD hosted its largest Advancing AI event to date, emphasizing scale as a central theme. The company introduced the Instinct MI455X GPU, the 72-GPU Helios rack, and the 6th Generation EPYC Venice CPUs. The MI455X features 432GB of HBM4, a 50% increase over NVIDIA’s B300 or Rubin,

First-of-its-kind telecom AI deployment Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-specific knowledge needed to understand telecom networks, standards, and operation

AMD’s new X100 chip lineup puts embedded Ryzen AI 'Strix Halo' chips into robots – APUs for physical AI bring Zen 5 CPU, RDNA 3.5 GPU cores to compete with Intel’s Panther Lake AMD takes on Intel (and Nvidia) in the robot wars. AMD is bringing its Strix Halo APUs into the world o