Intel is launching'Ask Intel,' an AI virtual assistant built on Microsoft Copilot Studio to handle customer support cases and warranty checks. PCWorld reports this shift follows Intel's removal of inbound phone support in December, directing customers to online assistance instead. The AI system warns users its answers may be inaccurate, raising concerns about potential hardware damage from incorrect technical advice. If your Intel processor requires a warranty return or support, the first "person" you'll probably be dealing with at Intel will be an AI. Intel is rolling out "Ask Intel," an addition to its Intel support site, that runs on Microsoft Copilot rather than on human intervention. Ask Intel will appear as part of support.intel.com

The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between. Ask anyone what Nvidia makes, and they're likely to first say "GPUs." For decades, the chipmaker has been defined by advanced parallel computing, and the emergence of generative AI and the resulting surge in demand for GPUs has been a boon for the company . But Nvidia's recent moves signal that it's looking to lock in more customers at the less compute-intensive end of the AI market--customers who don't necessarily need the beefiest, most powerful GPUs to train AI models, but instead are looking for the most efficient ways to run agentic AI software.

It also incorporates Python programs that can train and test the models mentioned in this paper. By inheriting the classes, users can easily build their own models that can be trained and tested by LithoBench, without the need of writing the code for data loading and evaluation. For average pooling, we use a kernel size of 7 and a stride of 1. PyTorch builtin functions so that an SGD optimizer with a learning rate of 0.5 can be used to optimize Table 1 compares the performance of our reference IL T algorithm with SOT A IL T algorithms. We provide the PNG images of the all data. The connections between adjacent vertices are horizontal or vertical. In this section, we describe the details of the DNN models used in this paper.

LithoBench consists of more than 120k tiles that are cropped from real circuit designs or synthesized according to topologies of widely adopted IL T testcases.

We have AI data centers to power! The incremental (likely Super) update to the RTX 50 line was initially scheduled for 2026. With gaming becoming an ever-smaller part of NVIDIA's lucrative business, the company reportedly won't bother releasing new graphics cards this year. This would be the first time in three decades that the company hasn't launched new gaming chips. AI demand has driven the current memory chip shortage, throwing the consumer electronics industry out of kilter.

NVIDIA is still planning to make a'huge' investment in OpenAI, CEO says The comment comes after a report from The Wall Street Journal suggested an earlier deal between the two companies had stalled. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters that the company will invest a great deal of money in OpenAI's latest funding round, according to, after on Friday reported that the two companies were rethinking a previous $100 billion deal that hasn't progressed beyond the early stages of negotiations. Speaking to reporters in Taipei this weekend, Huang reportedly said it could be the largest investment we've ever made. NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced in September that NVIDIA would be investing up to $100 billion in OpenAI to build 10 gigawatts of AI data centers. The companies said then that they were targeting the second half of 2026 for the first phase of the project to go online.

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent received permission, as well, according to Reuters. The Chinese government has given DeepSeek its approval to purchase NVIDIA's H200 AI chips, according to . ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have also reportedly received permission from Beijing to buy a total of 400,000 H200 GPUs. says Chinese authorities are still finalizing the conditions they're imposing on the companies to be able to proceed with their orders, so it may take a while before they're able to receive their shipments. In addition, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters that his company has yet to receive orders from the aforementioned firms and that he believed China is still finalizing their licenses. In December 2025, the US government allowed NVIDIA to sell its second-best H200 processors to vetted Chinese companies in addition to its H20 model in exchange for a 25 percent tariff on those sales.

Nvidia's Campaign to Sell AI Chips to China Finally Pays Off Beijing reportedly approved the sale of hundreds of thousands of Nvidia H200 chips to Chinese AI companies--the culmination of a dramatic shift in US tech policy. Jensen Huang sure seems to be having a lot of fun in China this week. The Nvidia CEO has been spotted going for a leisurely bike ride and browsing a fresh fruit stand in Shanghai, as well as enjoying beef hot pot at a humble restaurant in Shenzhen. The carefree tour is not just good optics. Huang has real reason to be feeling upbeat: His long-running lobbying campaign in Washington has, in effect, finally paid off.

Nvidia helped DeepSeek hone AI models later used by China's military China's DeepSeek received extensive technical assistance from Nvidia as a legitimate commercial partner hone artificial intelligence models that were later used by the Chinese military, it has been revealed. SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. chipmaker Nvidia helped China's DeepSeek hone artificial intelligence models that were later used by the Chinese military, the chairman of a U.S. House of Representatives committee said in a letter on Wednesday. DeepSeek shook markets early last year with a set of AI models that rivaled some of the best offerings from the United States but were developed with far less computing power, fueling concerns in Washington that China could catch up with the U.S. in AI despite U.S. restrictions on the sale of high-powered computing chips to China. In a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Rep. John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Select Committee on China, said documents obtained by the committee from Nvidia showed the achievement came after extensive technical assistance from Nvidia. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.

How to claim Verizon's $20 outage credit Engadget Podcast: Why did Apple choose Gemini for next-gen Siri? Apple's next-gen Siri is still far off, but this week the company announced that it'll be using Google's Gemini AI for its new foundation models. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Igor Bonifacic discuss why Apple teamed up with Google again, instead of OpenAI or Anthropic. Also, they chat about Meta's Reality Lab layoffs, which is refocusing the company on AI hardware like its smart glasses. Tesla's Full Self Driving is also going subscription only, a year costs $999 - 29:15 Apple announces that its long delayed'smarter Siri' will be powered by Google Gemini - 35:15 X finally responds to Grok's CSAM and nudity generation with limits - 51:46 Cursor claims their AI agents wrote 1M+ lines of code to make a web browser from scratch, are developers cooked?