… That's a notable contrast for a company that, earlier this year, was reported to be pulling back on AI bloat across Windows 11 after user push-back, suggesting Solara represents a deliberate effort to move heavy agent workloads off the main Windows OS and onto purpose-built hardware entirely. …
… RTX Spark could be the catalyst that the Windows on Arm movement desperately needs, and the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box announced at Microsoft Build gives developers a powerful tool to help facilitate the movement. That's the broad overview, anyway, and only time will tell how it all plays out. …
Qualcomm Snapdragon C Targets $300 AI Windows Laptops by Paul Lilly — Thursday, May 28, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Qualcomm is expanding its Snapdragon lineup with the introduction of Snapdragon C designed to give laptop makers a more affordable hardware platform to build around in the Windows ecosystem. …
… It pulls together data from your emails, files, chats, and calendar to build a contextual understanding of how you and your organization actually work. For power users, Work IQ also introduces something some may find genuinely useful: the ability to manually select which AI model Copilot uses. …
… You can get them with Windows 11 Pro or Ubuntu Linux, and they charge via USB Type-C. Lenovo says the new machines will be available this month, with the ThinkPad X13 Gen7 starting at $1,499 while the ThinkPad L14 Gen7 and L16 Gen3 will start at $1,439. …
… All models will feature a "glowbar" on the exterior, which Google describes as both functional and beautiful, though specifics on what it actually does remain under wraps. Googlebooks will also support a "Create your Widget" feature, letting users build custom desktop widgets through simple prompts. …
… A 9B token model is the sort of thing that on-device AI would run on a consumer system at FP8, but a BF16 data format trades in memory efficiency for somewhat better accuracy. With our full context window, performance isn't great on C1, and C10 aggregate throughput is nearly 4x better. …
… NVIDIA OpenShell, the secure runtime for autonomous agents, is now supported across the entire Dell AI Factory lineup—from deskside workstations all the way up to PowerEdge XE servers, giving teams a consistent way to build, deploy, and govern agents as their needs grow. …
… The Ryzen AI Halo box is going to start at $3,999 USD, and pre-orders will open at some point next month; a version based on the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 is also on the way at some point, although AMD didn't offer any indication as to when devices with those chips would be available. …
… Interestingly enough, LG's announcement comes just two months after Microsoft began pushing out a Windows 11 preview build supporting up to a 5,000Hz refresh rate. …