What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs?
… I’m expecting Nvidia’s N1 and N1X chips to be tuned for AI workloads. Microsoft has been working hard to make Windows attractive to AI developers, so a Nvidia partnership here would make a lot of sense. …
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Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
… The RTX Spark is effectively the same GB10 chip that’s in the DGX Spark, the tiny “personal AI supercomputer” that Nvidia released last year, only now it’s a family of chips instead of just one. …
Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
… Holz said ideally, you could do this once a year or every single day, as it “aims for image quality comparable to MRI in many ways.” He mentioned that one way he’d like to use it would be to see how his body changes in response to diet and workout changes, saying, “I’m not the most measured man on … …
The Stepback
… Dominic Preston Sep 14, 2025 Computer chips, with a side of forever chemicals Supply, demand, and deregulation. Justine Calma Sep 7, 2025 AI agents are science fiction not yet ready for primetime But they’re getting better. …
Apple’s AI pitch will live or die by its privacy promise
… Apple’s partnership with Google may raise concerns about how it maintains user privacy, but it may also be precisely how it’s able to offer functional AI without giving up that privacy. …
Ride-sharing
… This is Uber’s latest robotaxi deployment in the US, following the partnership with Waymo in Austin and Atlanta . 1 / 4 Image: Uber Robert Hart Nov 27, 2025 Uber laid off contractors developing AI tools for Google. …
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.… …
Transportation
… In an interview with Reuters , CEO RJ Scaringe said the company has “other variants” of the R2 that it hasn’t shown publicly, including a pickup truck version and a sportier R2X model. Rivian is also considering building its own lidar, perhaps in partnership with a Chinese company. …
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
… Microsoft launches Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 8 with Intel chips. Microsoft is going with Intel chips first instead of Qualcomm for its latest generation of Surface devices. Three new Intel-powered Surface devices launched this week, aimed at businesses. …
Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
… Our Maia 200 chip is actually an outstanding chip, as one example, right? We are now able to manufacture and ship a chip that is 30 percent cheaper than a GB200 inside of our own clusters. …