WW 986: Liminal AI - RTX Spark, Project Solara, Scout, & Much More!

About this episode

The episode discusses major announcements from Build 2026 and Computex, including new AI features and hardware from Microsoft and NVIDIA.

Build 2026 is underway in San Francisco this week, and it started with a big, overly-long keynote as always. And Computex is this week, too. There's a lot going on, and some of it is fascinating. Plus, WWDC is next week because you cannot relax. Also, Microsoft GA's WinApp CLI, announces the Windows Platform Skills plug-in for native app creation, and you're not going to believe what Paul did next. OK, you will believe it Build + Computex = OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD NVIDIA finally announces Arm-based N1X as the RTX Spark RTX Spark is an Arm-based portable workstation chip for Windows 11 Microsoft announces Surface Laptop Ultra - It and other RTX Spark-based PCs will appear in late 2026 Some of this leaked earlier, including a lower-end N1 chipset Microsoft continues to optimize and evolve Windows 11 for developers Windows Developer Configuration, Windows Developer Skills + WinApp CLI, Terminal, more Linux, and more on-device ("unmetered") AI - Tied to this, Copilot+ PC features are coming to more PCs, with CPU/GPU support - this, plus the RTX Spark stuff hints at answers to some obvious questions but there's nothing concrete from Microsoft Microsoft Edge is getting three…

People in this episode

Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Mary Jo Foley

Topics covered

• AI
• Windows 11
• NVIDIA
• Computex
• Microsoft announcements
• Build 2026
• GitHub Copilot

Keywords

• Build 2026
• Computex
• Windows 11
• RTX Spark
• AI features
• Microsoft announcements
• GitHub Copilot

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, NVIDIA

Products: WinApp CLI, Windows Platform Skills plug-in, RTX Spark, Surface Laptop Ultra, Copilot+, GitHub Copilot, N1X, N1 chipset, OpenClaw

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