… 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. …
Dell Launches Local ‘Deskside Agentic AI’ Workstations to Slash Cloud Token Costs by Tim Sweezy — Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 10:55 AM EDT Dell is pushing to bring AI agent workloads off the cloud and onto local hardware with Deskside Agentic AI introduced at Dell Technologies World 2026 today in Las Ve… …
… It uses Windows security features to give each AI agent its own isolated sandbox, which means an agent can't reach into system policies, override security settings, or accidentally expose private data or credentials. …
… NVIDIA and its CEO/co-founder Jensen Huang are betting big on the era of AI agents, and that's the driving force between NVIDIA's push into PCs beyond just GPUs . To put it plainly, NVIDIA is on a mission to "reinvent Windows PCs" with Microsoft on board. "The PC is being reinvented," Huang said. …
… In this case, the chips will apparently be dedicated to running ByteDance's AI agent software and its Doubao chatbot, which the report claims recently became China's most-downloaded AI application. …
… AI models are growing in capability and complexity, agentic workflows demand sustained compute, and every iteration can incur cloud costs, even when the work doesn’t require state-of-the-art models. …
… "Ramping ‘Venice’ on TSMC 2nm process technology marks an important step forward in accelerating the next generation of AI infrastructure," said Dr. Lisa Su, chair and CEO, AMD. "As AI and agentic workloads scale rapidly, customers need platforms that can move from innovation to production faster. …
… It's also notable that NVIDIA is looking to shake up the PC market with RTX Spark , an Arm-based chip designed for the era of AI agents. …
… We can't wait to test this one for ourselves. Next up are a few game announcements. 007 Last Light , the first James Bond game from Hitman developer IO Interactive, and the secret agent's first video game outing since 2012, is launching with path tracing support on PC. …