As of late July 2026, AMD and Samsung have an MoU and active HBM4 shipments for AMD's Helios platform, but a binding volume contract has not yet been finalized.
As of late July 2026, the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea are both active war zones for commercial shipping, with war risk insurance premiums at historic highs, a new Lloyd's clause creating a legal trap for sh...
On July 25, 2026, Ukrainian SOF drones struck the Tyumen Oil Refinery in western Siberia — more than 2,000 km from the border — despite anti drone netting, sparking a fire.
On July 23, 2026, Vultr announced support for AMD's Helios rackscale system, which packs 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 31 TB of HBM4 memory, and 1.67 PB/s memory bandwidth into a single rack.
Primate Labs released Geekbench 7 on July 23, 2026 — its first major update in three years — adding AI media workloads (AV1 encoding, Whisper subtitles), CUDA GPU support, and a new multi core test that only...
EUR/USD fell to July lows near 1.1370 even after the ECB held rates hawkishly and Eurozone flash PMI jumped to a five month high of 51.9.
On July 23, 2026 , Google's Gemini for Home update extended conversational memory to 15 minutes , brought Gemini Live to first gen Google Home Mini and Nest Hub (Google Home Premium required), introduced Pet...
U.S. China relations are in a mixed state: the Supreme Court struck down the highest tariffs, the U.S.
On July 24, 2026, the European Commission issued its third preliminary finding against TikTok under the Digital Services Act, concluding that default account settings for minors fail to ensure a high level o...
On July 24–25, 2026, Lightspeed Commerce launched Lightspeed with Meta Conversions API for Lightspeed Retail, connecting its POS system to Meta's advertising platform.
On July 23, 2026, the European Commission fined Google €890 million ( $1 billion) for two Digital Markets Act violations — €460 million for self preferencing its own services in Search and €430 million for a...
Japanese investors sold a net ¥970.5 billion ($5.92 billion) in foreign bonds during the week ended July 18, 2026 — the fastest pace in nearly three months — after Brent crude surged past $100 a barrel on es...