Laurent Giret

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Intel’s new Core Ultra Series 3 (“Panther Lake”) laptop chips for AI PCs that are now on track to enter mass production by the end of 2025.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the recent Microsoft reorganization, which places the Windows engineering teams under a single organization, as well as a recent report revealing that Microsoft 365 Copilot has only 8 million paying subscribers.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X series chips for PCs, and they also try to make sense of Nvidia’s recent $5 billion investment into Intel.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss OpenAI reaching a non-binding deal with Microsoft to transition its for-profit arm into a Public Benefit Corporation.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss what’s happening at the IFA annual trade show in Berlin this week, with many PC manufacturers announcing new Windows 11 PCs.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Anthropic releasing a Claude browser extension for Google Chrome at a time when Perplexity and OpenAI are developing AI-powered web browsers.  

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss how Intel keeps struggling to compete in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the release of GPT-5 by OpenAI and their early experimentations with the company’s latest flagship AI model.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s arbitrary choice to restrict Copilot+ PC features on devices with NPUs, while many PCs with powerful GPUs could also support them.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott dive deep into the complexities Microsoft faces with its Copilot assistant against the competition.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Perplexity AI launching Comet, its new AI-powered web browser, and OpenAI planning to do the same very soon to challenge the dominance of Google Search and Google Chrome.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Meta’s attempt to disrupt the AI race by aggressively hiring the best engineers on the market, as well as the AI-powered code editor Cursor, which is coming to the web and mobile.