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Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, co-founder and COO Robert Wachen tells TechCrunch. The round was led by Sequoia, with Andreessen Horowitz, SK Hynix, Jane Street, and Diffusion Capital
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * AI or real? Images now have a credibility problem. * Standards to help identify AI images proposed by EIC and ISO. * JPEG Trust represents the first steps toward image authentication. International standards bodies are stepping up
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7:52 AM PDT · July 23, 2026 Google is about to add another name to its long list of products with more than a billion users, a list that already includes Search, Gmail, Drive, Android, YouTube, and Chrome. The company said during its Q2 2026 call that the AI assistant
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If there’s one overriding theme that ran through Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event in London on Wednesday, it wasn’t foldables, or AI, or even phones – it was the inclusion of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon in every single device announced. All three of the company’s new phones – the Galaxy
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Walmart’s got some sizzling summer deals for you right now, and CNET’s bargain experts are here to help you make the most of them. We’ve filtered out the less-than-stellar offers and rounded up some of today’s best deals below so you can score big savings without
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AMD and Anthropic have announced a strategic partnership under which Anthropic plans to deploy up to 2 GW of AMD’s next-generation AI infrastructure based on the AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, with the first phase of deployment scheduled to begin in the first half of 2027. Under the agreement,
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For most of its history, identity and access management has been thought of the way you’d think about a front door: get the right key, and you’re in. Once inside, you could move fairly freely. Jasie Fon, Regional Vice President for Asia at Ping Identity, thinks that model
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Imagine an automated torture chamber where one calamity after another is inflicted upon you. Worse yet, it’s all robots doing the pushing, pulling, pressing, switching, and lighting. A robot even delivers you to this house of horrors. Of course, you’re a Samsung Galaxy phone, and you were actually
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Samsung has stepped onto Meta’s turf with its new line of smartglasses (or Intelligent Eyewear in company parlance) at Galaxy Unpacked, indicating that the brand views hands-free AI, not just smartphones, as the next major frontier in personal computing. Developed in partnership with fashion houses Gentle Monster and Warby
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AMD and Anthropic have announced a strategic partnership that combines large-scale AI infrastructure deployment, software co-development, and a planned equity investment. The race to build AI models is no longer defined only by algorithms. Increasingly, it is being shaped by access to compute infrastructure. As generative AI adoption accelerates across
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Global capability centres are no longer just delivery hubs. For banks, they have become strategic technology centres where engineering, cybersecurity, AI, and data teams build products that directly influence business outcomes. That shift is changing how global financial institutions invest in India. Increasingly, leadership appointments at these centres are becoming
