Microsoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark and more
Microsoft Build 2026 opens on 2 June in San Francisco, with announcements expected across AI models, agentic tools, a Copilot super app, Windows 11 updates, and RTX Spark hardware.
Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced. The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI models and agentic OpenClaw-like tools, plus a Copilot “super app” to go along with some of the major changes to Windows 11 that have already started appearing.
Microsoft just announced the new Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark, so there could be more Windows on ARM news in store. Follow along here for the latest news and updates. How to watch Microsoft’s Build 2026 conference Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build Microsoft’s big developer conference returns to San Francisco in June
- theverge.comMicrosoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark and moreprimary
- blogs.nvidia.comNVIDIA Partners With Microsoft on Unified Stack for Agentic AI Deployment, From Windows Devices to Cloud to Local
- thurrott.comMicrosoft announces new on-device AI updates for Edge: a dev preview of a new SLM called Aion-1.0-Instruct, Language Detector and Translator APIs, and more (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)
- theverge.comMicrosoft announces developer tools for Windows: a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, WSL containers, Intelligent Terminal, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- theverge.comMicrosoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t
- engadget.comA live blog of Microsoft Build 2026, where the company is set to unveil a Copilot "super app", a new reasoning model, and Windows improvements for developers (Engadget)
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