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AI Agents have been one of the hottest topics at Build this year. Improvements to Windows 11 allow AI agents to run in sandboxes to protect the rest of the operating system…
Developer-optimized Windows 11 experience to build and ship faster. Coreutils for Windows – a set of Linux-like command line utilities that run natively on Windows, now generally available. WSL containers – a built-in way to create, run and interact with Linux containers using familiar CLI & API, coming soon to public preview. Windows Development Skills – gives agents structured knowledge to build great native Windows apps end-to-end using WinUI3 skills and WinApp CLI, now generally available. Intelligent Terminal – intentionally brings context-aware intelligence to your favorite agents dire
Build 2026: Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for developmentEarlier this week at GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA RTX Spark product family, including small form factor desktops and laptops built for the age of personal assistants. These desktops and laptops deliver 1 petaflop of AI power, up to 128 GB of memory, and CUDA-accelerated AI frameworks for running large models alongside everyday work. Microsoft is creating an RTX Spark special developer edition—the Microsoft Surface NVIDIA RTX Spark Dev Box—preloaded with a modified Windows configured for developers and the top developer tools you need to get started. To learn more, see Building the n
Build Personal AI Agents on Windows PCs with New Tools from Microsoft and NVIDIA | NVIDIA Technical BlogWith agents running 24 hours a day, seven days a week on increasingly complex tasks, efficient local compute matters even more. NVIDIA has collaborated with the open source community to enhance the top inference backends for agents, llama.cpp and vLLM. llama.cpp now delivers 2x performance on Qwen 3.5 and 3.6 27B dense models, and 1.6x performance on Qwen 3.5 and 3.6 35B mixture-of-expert (MoE) models. The following two techniques make this possible: Multi-Token Prediction (MTP): An advanced speculative decoding technique, where a smaller draft model proposes several tokens ahead that the targ
Build Personal AI Agents on Windows PCs with New Tools from Microsoft and NVIDIA | NVIDIA Technical BlogThe NVIDIA AI for Media SDK (AI4M) is now available under private access for developers building AI-powered video and broadcast pipelines. It includes the following features: LipSync reaches GA: With language-optimized models now supporting French, German, and Spanish, LipSync enables higher-quality dubbing and content localization with improved articulation over the base model. Active Speaker Detection (ASD) GA: Enhanced multicamera and multimic support plus cross-video speaker ID correlation unlock automated workflows—lip-sync dubbing, video editing, and advanced logging—that previously re
Build Personal AI Agents on Windows PCs with New Tools from Microsoft and NVIDIA | NVIDIA Technical BlogAI Agents have been one of the hottest topics at Build this year. Improvements to Windows 11 allow AI agents to run in sandboxes to protect the rest of the operating system…
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…Aside from coreutils another very interesting feature was also announced at Build 2026 today that could potentially revolutionize native app development. Dubbed "Windows Development Skills", it is a new set of AI…
At the end of last month, Microsoft released its latest Windows 11 Insider channel Experimental preview build, 26300.8553 . Aside from features that were already mentioned in the changelog, Windows enthusiasts and…
Hey we’re Faiz and Saheed and we built Minicor so AI companies who need to integrate to desktop systems with no API can quickly build scalable desktop RPAs. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD0GHZIJ1cwWe were workin…
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A study into the evolution of ChatGPT users should be conducted 😭 Day 1: "Can you explain Python loops?" Day 30: "Build me Windows 12, solve AGI, optimize everything in my life, launch my startup, and don't fuck up." The…
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We had a situation this week where someone from another department scheduled time with IT because they wanted us to “move their app into production.” At first I assumed it was a normal internal tool request. Nope. They h…
MediaTek today announced its role in enabling NVIDIA RTX Spark, introduced today as a new class of processors powering Windows 11 PCs purpose-built for personal agents. It's designed to build…
…NPU stat tracking in Task Manager finally arrives on Windows 11's Dev build You can now see a lot more information with it The change comes with Windows 11 Dev build…
Microsoft Build June 2, 2026 Windows platform security for AI agents By Dana Huang, Corporate Vice President, Windows Security Logan Iyer, Corporate Vice President, Windows Platform + Developer Making Windows the trustworthy OS…
…Today at Microsoft Build, we are introducing Surface RTX Spark Dev Box , a compact developer PC engineered with NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip and built on the Windows developer platform, designed for local…
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…no concrete signs of "Windows 12" just yet , but that does not mean that the company is not busy building other operating systems, too. At its Build 2026 developer conference, the firm…