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AMD Announces “Advancing AI 2026”

AMD announced its Advancing AI 2026 event, scheduled for a future date. The event will focus on the company's latest advancements in artificial intelligence technology.

Intel Reports First-Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Intel published its first-quarter 2026 financial results on its Investor Relations website. The earnings conference call for investors starts at 2 p.m. PDT, with a public webcast available at www.intc.com.

OpenAI’s New GPT-5.5 Powers Codex on NVIDIA Infrastructure — and NVIDIA Is Already Putting It to Work

NVIDIA employees are using OpenAI's Codex, now powered by GPT-5.5, which runs on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems. The deployment includes secure cloud VMs with zero-data retention and read-only access. NVIDIA and OpenAI have collaborated since 2016, with OpenAI planning to deploy over 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems.

“Let’s jump to lightspeed. Welcome to the age of AI.” — NVIDIA

Tag, You’re It: GeForce NOW Levels Up Game Discovery With Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+ Labels

GeForce NOW introduces in-app labels to identify games from Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+ subscriptions. New games this week include Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard, Tides of Tomorrow, and others. Premium members get early access to a Thor skin in Marvel Rivals.

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Making Sense of the Early Universe

NVIDIA discusses how its technology aids in understanding the early universe by processing data from telescopes and simulations. The company highlights the role of GPUs in analyzing cosmic microwave background radiation and galaxy formation.

Arm and Google Cloud redefine agentic AI infrastructure with Axion processors

Google Cloud announced new TPU 8t and TPU 8i systems, and introduced the GKE Agent Sandbox for deploying agentic AI. These are built on Google Axion, an Arm Neoverse-based CPU, which provides high-throughput, energy-efficient compute for AI workloads. Axion processors enable efficient inference and orchestration, reducing data preparation latency and supporting scalable agentic AI deployments.

“300 sandboxes per second per cluster at <1s time-to-first-instruction latency” — Arm

From Rainforests to Recycling Plants: 5 Ways NVIDIA AI Is Protecting the Planet

NVIDIA highlights five applications of its AI technology in environmental protection, including rainforest monitoring and recycling plant optimization. The press release emphasizes AI's role in sustainability efforts.

NVIDIA and Google Cloud Collaborate to Advance Agentic and Physical AI

NVIDIA and Google Cloud announced expanded collaboration at Google Cloud Next, introducing new infrastructure for agentic and physical AI. The A5X instances powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems offer up to 10x lower inference cost per token and 10x higher token throughput per megawatt. Google Cloud also previewed Google Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud running on NVIDIA Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra GPUs, and introduced confidential VMs with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

“By combining Google Cloud’s scalable infrastructure and managed AI services with NVIDIA’s industry‑leading platforms, systems and software, we’re giving customers flexibility to train, tune and serve everything from frontier and open models” — NVIDIA

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO

Apple announced leadership changes: Tim Cook will become executive chairman, and John Ternus will become CEO.

Johny Srouji named Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer

Apple has promoted Johny Srouji to the position of chief hardware officer, effective immediately. He will oversee the company's hardware engineering divisions.