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Intel Corporation to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences

Intel executives will speak at two investor conferences in May and June 2026. CEO Lip-Bu Tan will discuss business strategy at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference on May 19.

AMD Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results

AMD announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2026. The report includes revenue, earnings, and other key financial metrics for the period.

NVIDIA and ServiceNow Partner on New Autonomous AI Agents for Enterprises

NVIDIA and ServiceNow are expanding their collaboration to deliver autonomous AI agents for enterprises, combining NVIDIA's accelerated computing and open models with ServiceNow's workflow and governance tools. ServiceNow introduced Project Arc, a desktop agent that operates within a secure, policy-governed environment using NVIDIA OpenShell. The partnership also includes open models, agent skills, and the NOWAI-Bench benchmarking suite for enterprise AI agents.

“Project Arc represents the next step in our ongoing collaboration with NVIDIA, bringing autonomous execution to the desktop.” — NVIDIA

Intel at Computex 2026: Advancing the Next Era of AI-Driven Computing

Intel will present its AI computing vision at Computex 2026, with a keynote by CEO Lip-Bu Tan on June 2. The company will highlight ecosystem progress spanning AI PCs, edge computing, and data centers.

Apple Manufacturing Academy accelerates AI use in U.S. supply chains

Apple's Manufacturing Academy held its first Spring Forum, gathering U.S. manufacturers to promote AI adoption in supply chains.

Intel Announces Leadership Appointments to Advance Client Computing and Enable Future Innovation

Intel appointed Alex Katouzian as executive vice president and general manager of Client Computing & Physical AI, and named Pushkar Ranade chief technology officer. The appointments aim to strengthen Intel's core product business and innovation agenda.

Apple introduces a new Pride Collection

Apple has announced a new Pride Collection, including a Sport Loop for the Apple Watch, a watch face, and wallpapers for iPhone and iPad. The collection is designed to celebrate LGBTQ+ communities during Pride Month and beyond.

What Arm-based innovations happened in April 2026?

Arm's April 2026 roundup covers collaborations with IBM on dual-architecture hardware for enterprise AI, an evaluation of the NVIDIA DGX Spark workstation showing performance gains over x86 systems, and guidance from Epic Games for optimizing Unreal Engine on mobile devices. The company also highlights the sim-to-real gap challenge in physical AI.

“DGX Spark delivered up to 41% faster CPU rendering, 50% higher memory bandwidth, and 3.2x faster AI prompt processing than comparable x86 small-form-factor workstations.” — Arm

Apple reports second quarter results

Apple reported financial results for its fiscal 2026 second quarter, which ended on March 28, 2026.

Nemotron Labs: What OpenClaw Agents Mean for Every Organization

OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant that runs persistently in the background, completing tasks autonomously. By March 2026, it became the most-starred project on GitHub, surpassing React. NVIDIA is collaborating with the OpenClaw community to enhance security and has introduced NemoClaw, a reference implementation for safer deployment.

“By March, OpenClaw topped 250,000 stars — overtaking React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub in just 60 days.” — NVIDIA