Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
… Microsoft’s first in-house reasoning AI model Microsoft is pushing ahead with its work to make its own AI models instead of relying on those created by OpenAI. …
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Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
… References to “Project Saluki” have been discovered in a recent update to the Xbox PC app this week, with Microsoft describing the codename as a “China market expansion for Game Pass, Rewards, and subscription tiers.” The Xbox PC app also references the codename “Positron,” which is said to “enable… …
Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
… At Microsoft’s Build conference this week, it’ll be showing off “new Windows security and containment primitives” that, along with Nvidia’s OpenShell runtime, “allows personal agents to run safely and under full user control.” Nvidia claims this adds up to “a new personal computing paradigm where A… …
This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark
… Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Oj792qc80 It features Nvidia’s new RTX Spark “superchip,” which is roughly the same processor the company already sold in its DGX Spark mini-PC for AI developers, but is now optimized to work with Windows 11 instead. …
Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
… Xbox mode is nearly here for all PCs. Microsoft just added its Xbox mode to the Release Preview version of Windows 11. That means the Xbox mode, which adds a full-screen interface to the Xbox PC app, is just days away from being available on all PCs. …
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth.
… Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, another speaker known for working closely with OpenAI, appeared via video call to tout how Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip is fueling Microsoft’s AI agent goals. “I could be traveling and I’m on the phone and I can text my PC … and it would fire up the tools on the PC,” Huang said.… …
A first look at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface Dev Box
… It’s very much targeted at developers who want a powerful miniature PC on their desk and the ability to run AI workloads locally with 128GB of unified memory. …
Inside the return of Xbox
… Microsoft’s Xbox mode is now available for all Windows 11 PCs. Microsoft has started slowly rolling out its Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs. The mode adds a full-screen interface to the Xbox PC app, similar to Steam’s Big Picture Mode. …
Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target
… Government contracts and cybersecurity were not among the CID topics disclosed to The Verge, and Haurek says Microsoft responded to the government’s security requests at the time and that agencies were “free to engage with other vendors.” Microsoft’s growth in cloud computing has helped push its va… …
After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all
… I wanted to see how far I could get using a Linux PC as my main computer without doing a bunch of research beforehand or troubleshooting afterwards. …