At the Hot Chips 2026 event, Intel officially introduced its Crescent Island GPU, a new accelerator card focused on AI inference and agentic AI workloads.
Data centers are now the primary driver of the massive electricity demand straining U.S. power grids, but the AI data center boom is also catalyzing a potential solution.
This feature, called AI Overviews, now greets users on the world's most-visited website, presenting a summarized answer before they scroll to other web pages.