Microsoft is hosting an event in San Francisco on October 7 on "how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." Coming only a few months after NVIDIA announced its first system-on-a-chip for Windows, the NVIDIA RTX Spark, the event seems like the perfect opportunity to share more information about the Surface Laptop Ultra it will power. Lending credence to the idea, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, and Microsoft Executive Vice President of Windows Devices Pavan Davuluri will be in attendance at the event. According to Microsoft, the trio is expected to share the "latest innovations across Windows, NVIDIA RTX Spark, Surface and the broader PC ecosystem." Allowing AI agents to handle an increasing amount of normal computer work is a key part of Microsoft and NVIDIA's shared vision for the future of computing. Microsoft has already publicly shown off new hardware that could be part of that future in the form of its Project Solara devices, but computers that are powerful enough to run AI models locally should also do the trick.

Anthropic's CEO calls for AI slowdown as Nvidia's urges acceleration Anthropic's CEO took to the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development. Following shortly after, Nvidia's CEO argued against such deceleration. Dario Amodei used an automotive analogy to make his point: when a competing car company has a safety incident like brake failures, it is a moment for all car companies to stop and review their own practices, he said at Salesforce's Dreamforce convention on Tuesday. "It's very tempting to attack your competitor and say these guys are unsafe," he said. "But I think the more responsible way to respond to it is to say, let's look at our own record. We may not have had this big, high-profile incident, but I'm sure we're not perfect."

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Now's not a great time to buy a gaming laptop, what with the state of the PC hardware market--memory, storage, and GPUs are extra expensive thanks to the AI-driven shortage. But if you can't wait years for prices to drop (and there's no guarantee they will), here's a deal to consider: Best Buy is selling the 15.6-inch Lenovo LOQ for $650 off, bringing its price down from $1,849.99 to a more palatable $1,199.99. That's still a lot of dough for what you get. The Intel Core i7-13650HX is a 2023-era Raptor Lake CPU that delivers respectable upper-mid-range performance, and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 is a solid entry-level discrete GPU for 1080p gaming.

The latest iPhone update is chock-full of smart upgrades, with a big focus on improvements to Siri. Apple's latest iPhone and iPad software-- iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 --is here. While this release won't make as big of a splash as Apple's big Liquid Glass redesign in the prior version, there's still plenty here that could change how you use your device. There are several quality-of-life improvements, like how Shortcuts are significantly easier to set up, but the big highlight is the Siri AI upgrade . Here's everything you need to know.

PCWorld reports that the Windows 11 KB5121003 update is causing serious issues for HP and Lenovo laptop users, including broken printers, crashing games, and random power disconnects while charging. HP laptops may suffer from corrupted BIOS following the update, making this a potentially damaging problem for affected users. Rolling back the KB5121003 update appears to be the most effective solution to resolve these hardware stability issues. It's been over a month since Microsoft rolled out KB5121003 --known as the August Patch Tuesday update--and we're still feeling the effects of it. Wracked with issues like crashing games, broken printers and PDFs, and Teams and Outlook failures on Arm PCs, the very same update is also causing major instability on HP and Lenovo laptops.

Every DLSS release since 2018 has had broadly the same, single job: make games run faster. The original model rendered games at a lower resolution and used AI to reconstruct a sharper image, with later versions adding AI-generated frames between rendered ones. DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, announced at CES back in January, draws 23 out of every 24 pixels on screen through that combined pipeline, according to NVIDIA. In all those cases, the underlying image belonged to the game's developers; the AI simply produced it more cheaply. DLSS 5 is much different in that it alters the image itself.

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I came to like Jensen Huang's character, and bet everything on him, Shoichiro Irimajiri said in an interview. Shoichiro Irimajiri, former president of what is now Sega Co., said in a recent interview that he had decided to invest $5 million in then-fledgling U.S. chipmaker Nvidia in the late 1990s because he was impressed by the character of its CEO, Jensen Huang. Irimajiri, 86, was head of then-Sega Enterprises when he persuaded the company's top executives to rescue the struggling Nvidia, which has since become one of the world's biggest companies. "I came to like Jensen Huang's character, and bet everything on him," Irimajiri said in the interview. Sega contracted Nvidia to develop a graphics processing unit for the Dreamcast game console it was developing to compete with the PlayStation console released by then Sony Computer Entertainment.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Samples of DLSS 5 applied to games like NBA 2K27 and Resident Evil Requiem have raised concerns the graphical tech is basically a demanding AI algorithm that can yassify the look of games and interfere with the intent of game artists. But after trying it myself, I'm not so sure it's that big a deal...or that I have the willpower to stop using it. I don't know about you, but I was pretty leery of Nvidia's new DLSS 5 tech when we first started seeing samples of how it can change the appearance of games in real time. I didn't like the idea of Nvidia algorithmically injecting new details into my games that change the way they look, and I was afraid of the "yassifying" effect we saw it apply in titles like .

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. AI subscriptions are the electric bill. You're always going to pay for cloud AI, so why not invest in yourself? The AI pendulum has swung back and forth throughout the last few years, from ChatGPT and Copilot in the cloud, then back to local AI and the PC's newfound NPU, then back to independent agents like Claude. Now it's headed the way of the PC once again, abandoning privacy arguments (which still stand strong!) for a more straightforward argument: It's better for your wallet.