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National Robotics Week — Latest Physical AI Research, Breakthroughs and Resources

NVIDIA has announced new tools and platforms to accelerate the development of AI-powered robots, including open models, world models, and simulation software. These advancements enable robots to understand natural language, generate synthetic training data, and simulate complex environments. The company also highlighted applications in surgical robotics and language-driven robot control.

Strength and Destiny Collide: ‘Samson: A Tyndalston Story’ Arrives in the Cloud

Samson: A Tyndalston Story, developed by Liquid Swords, is now available on the GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. The game features cinematic melee combat and choice-driven narrative, with support for ray tracing, DLSS 3.5, and Reflex. It is one of four new titles added to the library this week.

“Samson (New release on Steam, April 8, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)” — NVIDIA

Intel, Google Deepen Collaboration to Advance AI Infrastructure

Intel and Google are expanding their collaboration on AI infrastructure. Intel Xeon processors will continue to support Google Cloud workloads, and the companies will co-develop custom ASIC-based IPUs to enhance efficiency and performance at scale.

AMD to Report Fiscal First Quarter 2026 Financial Results

AMD announced it will report its fiscal first quarter 2026 financial results on a date to be determined. The company will provide details on revenue, earnings, and business outlook during the conference call.

Intel and SambaNova Advance Agentic AI with Xeon 6

Intel and SambaNova have announced a new blueprint for agentic AI workloads, combining GPUs for prefill, SambaNova RDUs for decode, and Intel Xeon 6 processors. The design aims to address limitations of GPU-only inference architectures as AI moves to production.

Apple Arcade brings endless family fun with Nick Jr. Replay! on May 7

Apple Arcade will add Nick Jr. Replay! to its game lineup on May 7. The game features popular characters from Nickelodeon's preschool programming.

Intel Appoints Aparna Bawa as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal & People Officer

Intel has appointed Aparna Bawa as executive vice president and chief legal & people officer. She will report to CEO Lip-Bu Tan and oversee Intel's global legal, ethics, compliance, people, and culture organizations.

From RTX to Spark: NVIDIA Accelerates Gemma 4 for Local Agentic AI

Google's Gemma 4 family of open models has been optimized for NVIDIA GPUs, enabling efficient local AI execution across devices from edge modules to data centers. The models range from 2B to 31B parameters and support reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and multimodal tasks. They run on NVIDIA RTX GPUs, DGX Spark, and Jetson Orin Nano, with tools like Ollama and llama.cpp for deployment.

Press Start on April: GeForce NOW Brings 10 Games to the Cloud

GeForce NOW is adding 10 new games in April, including Arknights: Endfield and Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection. The service allows streaming of these titles at high settings from various devices.

Intel Delivers Open, Scalable AI Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.0

Intel's GPU systems achieved results in the MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmarks across four key benchmarks. The systems used Intel Xeon 6 CPUs and Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics, targeting workstations, datacenter, and edge applications.