Weekly Recap: 12 Tech Press Releases You Need to See

A roundup of the most newsworthy tech announcements from PR Newswire this week, including Synopsys acquiring Ansys, funding for cybersecurity and robotics companies, and a new camera from Sony.

NEW YORK, July 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help tech journalists and consumers stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a recap of some major stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.

The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.

1. Synopsys Completes Acquisition of Ansys
   "The increasing complexity of developing intelligent systems demands design solutions with a deeper integration of electronics and physics, enhanced by AI. With Ansys' leading system simulation and analysis solutions now part of Synopsys, we can maximize the capabilities of engineering teams broadly, igniting their innovation from silicon to systems," said president and CEO of Synopsys, Sassine Ghazi.
2. President Donald J. Trump to Deliver Keynote Address at "Winning the AI Race" Summit Hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill & Valley Forum
   This half-day event will feature senior Trump administration officials, leading tech founders, and industrial visionaries in a dynamic program focused on expanding the American economy and job creation through AI development, infrastructure investment, and re-industrialization in the United States.
3. OpenEvidence, the Fastest-Growing Application for Physicians in History, Announces $210 Million Round at $3.5 Billion Valuation
   Traditional medical evidence databases are slow, fragmented across multiple platforms, and require extensive manual searching that pulls physicians away from patient care. Through an array of strategic content partnerships OpenEvidence gives clinicians the power to search once, skip the scavenger hunt, and surface the science in seconds.
4. DeFi Technologies Reports All-Time High in Bitcoin Assets Under Management and Treasury Holdings
   As of July 13, 2025, Valour has achieved an all-time high of US$302,000,170 (C$413,530,342) in Assets Under Management ("AUM") for its Bitcoin exchange-traded products ("ETPs"), reflecting strong market momentum and continued investor inflows.
5. Lucid, Nuro, and Uber Partner on Next-Generation Autonomous Robotaxi Program
   Uber aims to deploy 20,000 or more Lucid vehicles equipped with the Nuro Driver™ over six years in dozens of markets around the world, with the first launch in a major US city next year.
6. Sony Electronics Introduces the RX1R III: The Flagship Full-Frame Premium Compact Camera with a Fixed Lens
   The combination of the 61-megapixel full-frame Exmor R™ back-illuminated CMOS image sensor and the BIONZ XR™ image processing engine delivers high resolution and sensitivity, with low noise and a wide dynamic range. The sensor surface features AR (Anti-Reflection) coating and omits the optical low-pass filter to achieve superior image quality.
7. ICEYE unveils machine learning-powered Flood Rapid Impact Product to revolutionize response
   Flood Rapid Impact (FRI) delivers detailed floodwater extent based on observational data within approximately 6-12 hours of the first signs of an event, providing an almost instant indication of the overall scale of the flood and the most impacted regions.
8. Zendesk Announces Acquisition of HyperArc, Ushering in Next-Generation, GenAI-Powered Analytics Platform
   "HyperArc's world-class team and pioneering HyperGraph technology unlock self-service insights and rapid innovation, empowering our users to make smarter decisions, faster," said Shashi Upadhyay, President, Product, Engineering and AI, Zendesk. 
9. Bedrock Robotics Emerges from Stealth with $80M in Funding for Autonomous Construction Technology
   Rather than design and sell costly new machinery, Bedrock upgrades customers' existing heavy equipment fleets with reversible, same-day hardware and software installs to enable fully autonomous operations.
10. Zip Security Raises $13.5M Series A to Bring Cybersecurity to the 95% of Businesses Without a Security Team
    Founded by former Palantir engineers Josh Zweig (CEO) and Gabbi Merz (CTO), Zip's platform streamlines complex security operations, including endpoint protection, identity and access management, mobile device security, and compliance workflows – into a unified, AI-powered experience that any team can use.
11. S&P Global and Anthropic Announce Integration of S&P Global's Trusted Financial Data into Claude
    Financial professionals, from hedge fund managers to private equity and investment banking analysts, need to be able to access crucial financial data wherever their workflows take place. With this cutting-edge integration, customers can unlock S&P Global's trusted data and insights seamlessly and reliably within Anthropic's Claude. 
12. XTEND Secures $30M Extension to Complete $70M Series B to Scale Its Battle-Proven Autonomous AI Robots Across America
    With this Series B funding, XTEND plans to scale up U.S. and global production, integrate real-time AI capabilities across its platforms, and expand deployments with U.S. and allied defense forces, as well as for humanitarian and emergency response efforts.

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