IJR News — today's news from every side — Jul 26, 2026DoD Expands Oracle Contract Across ServicesThe Pentagon has awarded nearly $7 billion in an Enterprise Software Agreement with Oracle to consolidate on‑premises licenses across the DoD, Coast Guard, and intelligence community into a single contract, with a five-year base and five-year option, aiming to save at least $441 million for taxpayers and streamline procurement. The move, part of a broader effort to eliminate fragmented software purchasing, follows a similar Microsoft consolidation and is led by CIO Kirsten Davies to improve interoperability, security, and rapid delivery to warfighters.63 sources · Jul 26, 2026 Tech — Jul 25, 2026AMD Helios Debuts on Azure, Expands Anthropic DealsAMD 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.130 sources · Jul 25, 2026 IJR1984 Has Arrived, And People Are Fighting BackDaily Caller News Foundation · 8 min · Jul 17, 2026
Tech — Jul 21, 2026Nvidia launches Spectrum-6 for AI data centersNvidia unveiled Spectrum-6, a 102.4 Tbps Ethernet platform for the Vera Rubin AI supercomputer, doubling capacity to speed training and inference for large-scale AI workloads, with early adopters including CoreWeave, Microsoft, Nebius, SpaceXAI, and Tesla. The announcement saw Nvidia stock rise about 2%, while AMD touted its rival Helios Rackscale Solution with Microsoft and other big players joined by Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle.6 sources · Jul 21, 2026 On X · @spearhyunnieViral Fan Post Praising Stray Kids Hyunjin and Felix VisualsA Stray Kids fan account post praising Hyunjin and Felix's beauty and chemistry went viral within the fandom, drawing near-universal enthusiastic support from other fan accounts with no meaningful opposition or split in reactions.606 likes · 2m