IJR News - today's news from every sideRachel Meyers Trump's voluntary deal with the CEOs is smart for keeping America ahead of China without slowing innovation. Chris Dalton Testing these tools on specific workflows first makes sense before claiming big productivity gains. AMD Helios Debuts on Azure, Expands Anthropic DealsTech — Jul 20, 2026AMD unveiled Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, as a bid to challenge Nvidia, with Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and Oracle among early customers and plans to ship to customers in the second half of 2026 for Azure deployment. Helios combines Instinct MI455X GPUs, Venice CPUs, Pensando networking and ROCm software, and will power frontier-model inference in Azure, with two new Venice-based VM series and expanded Pensando DPUs to scale cloud AI workloads.