Joshua Gulick

2 weeks ago | extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Joshua Gulick

Intel’s latest earnings call comes at an inconvenient time for the chipmaker. New CEO Lip-Bu Tan hasn’t had time to make major changes to the company, and its flagship product, the vaunted 18A process, is still a ways from reaching customers. Unsurprisingly, Intel reported flat year-over-year revenue of 12.7 billion for the quarter.

2 weeks ago | extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Joshua Gulick

Nvidia G-Assist. Credit: Nvidia Nvidia released an update for Project G-Assist, an AI assistant that harnesses your GPU to answer your questions. The update introduces Plug-in Builder, which helps you customize your AI assistant. In other words, you don’t necessarily need to wait for Nvidia to introduce new features for G-Assist—you can make your own. You can use JSON to define functions and put them into a folder from which G-Assist can pull them.

2 weeks ago | extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Joshua Gulick

OpenAI has announced a new “lightweight” version of its ChatGPT Deep Research, which is now available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users. Starting today, free ChatGPT users can also use this update. The lightweight deep research tool runs on a version of OpenAI’s o4-mini model. OpenAI says it is not as capable as the full version, but it is cheaper to run, which means the company can increase usage limits for everyone.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joshua Gulick

1 day agoWork hard or play hard. Either way, these get it done. Let's clear the air up front. There's a difference between the best Windows laptops money can buy and the Windows laptops I think most people should buy—like actually spend money on. When it comes to portable PCs that aren't MacBooks, the …

2 weeks ago | extremetech.com | Joshua Gulick

Credit: Quasar Zone/ Rolling Around An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 user is saying that the thermal gel in their new video card appears to be leaking—and he’s got quite the picture to prove it. In the photo, the Gigabyte Aorus Master Ice RTX 5080 has a light-grey substance coming from two different locations under the heatsink. Although it’s too soon to say what caused the problem, it’s noteworthy that the user says he had the GPU installed vertically, via a riser.