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AMD unveiled Helios, a 72-GPU rack-scale AI system built to rival NVIDIA’s top infrastructure. Here is why open standards and real hardware competition benefit the AI industry. NVIDIA has dominated AI hardware for years. AMD just launched a direct challenge. At its Advancing AI event, CEO Lisa Su unveiled Helios- a fully integrated rack-scale system built to train and run giant AI models. Helios packs 72 new Instinct MI455X GPUs, 6th-Gen Epyc CPUs, and high-speed Pensando networking into a single liquid-cooled frame. AMD claims the system delivers up to 30% more tokens per dollar than NVIDIA’s competing Vera Rubin NVL72…

Jane Hia spent 17 years building the café chain Singapore’s F&B industry has been unforgiving over the past few years, with rising costs, weaker consumer spending, and an increasing number of restaurant closures. Among the casualties is homegrown café chain Kith Café. At its peak, the business operated 12 outlets. Today, they’ve all closed, with the final two cafés at Marina Square and New Bahru ceasing operations earlier this year. But for founder Jane Hia, the story doesn’t end there. Instead of stepping away from the industry after watching her own business contract, she’s taking what she learnt from 17…

Motorola has revealed the Moto Pad 70, a new mid-range Android tablet with a large display, stylus support, 5G connectivity, and a sizeable battery. The tablet will launch in India on August 8 through Flipkart. Its 12.1-inch 2.5K display, included Moto Pen, 10,200mAh battery, and 68W charging give it several features that could appeal to people considering Apple’s base iPad. However, the mid-range Dimensity 6400 processor means it is unlikely to match the iPad in raw performance. Could it be a cheaper iPad alternative? Motorola appears to be competing on value rather than processing power. The 12.1-inch screen is larger…

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Seattle startup funding drops 40% in the first half of the year while AI money floods everywhere else. We dig into the implications for the region. Plus: a Seattle judge deals Kalshi a setback, Impinj marks a decade on the Nasdaq after a 26-year climb, and nearly 40 Seattleites trade smartphones for flip phones for five weeks.  Related Stories Venture funding drops in Seattle area as AI boom reshapes startup world Helion raises $465M at $15.5B valuation as it aims to commercialize fusion UK data center startup Nscale bets big on Bellevue for U.S.…

A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims’ browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL. Confiant, which detailed the campaign on July 23, 2026, said it has operated since late 2024 and impersonated TradingView, Solana, and Luno to target retail traders and cryptocurrency investors across 12 countries in 25 languages. Its landing pages fingerprint visitors, showing suspected researchers and bots an empty page while selected targets receive a convincing copy of the impersonated service. The defense against that is the ordinary…

More than once, Leonardo threw up a generic error pop-up with no explanation of how to fix the problem. You’re forced to dismiss the message before doing anything else, which feels like hitting a dead end before trying to troubleshoot yourself or looking up the error code in Leonardo.Connectivity, luckily, is super simple and seamless. The Romeo connects to your computer over Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth, which sounds like a minor detail until you’ve wrestled with the quirks that Bluetooth can sometimes pose (looking at you, Design Space). During my testing of the Explore 5, I’d occasionally lose my Bluetooth…

Illinois has chosen to move before Washington. Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act on July 6, 2026, adding transparency, accountability and audit requirements for the largest artificial intelligence developers. The law applies to companies generating more than $500 million in annual revenue and building models trained with massive computing power. It also requires annual independent audits, which gives the law its biggest assertion of accountability. The Illinois legislation follows similar laws in California and New York, with lawmakers hoping that the combined market power of those states will create a de facto national standard in the…

The phone rings. There’s a sense of dread. Friend or foe? Scam or no? NordVPN — known more for encrypting internet traffic and hiding IP addresses — has launched an Android app named HangUp that screens incoming calls for potential scammers and telemarketers. The app is free to everyone. You don’t need a paid NordVPN account. HangUp uses call protection technology from Hiya, which has its own mobile app to block spam and fraud calls and detect AI deepfakes. HangUp also can scan incoming text messages by incorporating NordVPN’s Message Protection, which the company launched in June. HangUp app customers…

HPC AI infrastructure is no longer a parallel track to traditional computing. They are merging into a unified computing foundation that the supercomputing world has been building toward for years. The same infrastructure once reserved for national laboratory modeling and simulation has become the foundation for enterprise AI factories, and agents are already running scientific simulations autonomously, said Trish Damkroger (pictured), senior vice president and general manager for HPC and AI infrastructure solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. “Those things that we call supercomputers are now the exact same infrastructure that you need for modeling and simulation that you need…

There are over 32,000 entry-level PMET jobs available for Singapore’s fresh graduates How is it possible that a graduate, who is the top of his cohort from a local university, equipped with four internships at companies like DBS Bank, attended 10 career fairs and networking events, and sent out more than 300 resumes in the finance sector, still hasn’t landed a full-time job? The question is especially puzzling given the latest figures from Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM), which show there were 32,800 entry-level professional, managerial, executive and technician (PMET) vacancies available for new graduates. Each year, around 25,000 to…