Jay Peters / The Verge: Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models” — MAI-Thinking-1…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces developer tools for Windows: a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, WSL containers, Intelligent Terminal, and more — Microsoft is embracing…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development, powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips and 128GB of unified memory — The Surface RTX Spark Dev…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning AI model developed by Microsoft AI, and lots of Windows developer features — Build will…
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall — Microsoft has a new flagship…
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer PC chip family that it says is “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made in partnership with MediaTek — Nvidia…
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Dell introduces the $699+ Dell XPS 13, starting with 8GB of RAM, a six-core Intel Core 5 320 chip, and a 13.4-inch touchscreen, rivaling the MacBook Neo — It'll start with…
Sean Hollister / The Verge: AMD unveils the $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D CPU, relaunches the 5800X3D as a $349 10th-anniversary edition, and plans to support the AM5 motherboard socket until 2030 — AMD is committing to…
Robert Hart / The Verge: AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots — Shift says a ‘magic…
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8 — The Acer Predator Atlas 8…
Hayden Field / The Verge: A look at the Pentagon's embrace of autonomous weapons before its fight with Anthropic over “red lines”, and the debate over AI use in military operations — The Convention on…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app — Nvidia has now ported across all of the major…
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles “individually for $1.99” &mdash…
Adi Robertson / The Verge: The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting — More specifically, it was…