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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 8, 2026Published at 2:25 AM EDT · New York
Nvidia and Microsoft open pre-orders for Arm-based RTX Spark Windows laptops with up to 128 GB of unified memory
The Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 with 24 GB of memory, ships October 16, and costs $5,899.99 in the top 128 GB configuration, which is large enough to hold mid-sized open-weight models locally.
At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on October 7, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella laid out how the two companies are co-engineering hardware and software so that AI agents can run locally on…
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AI Inference Shifts to Consumer Devices
Over the next 3-6 months, smaller efficient architectures and inference-cost optimizations push capable AI off the cloud and onto laptops, phones, and mobile NPUs.
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