Microsoft just wrapped its annual Build conference for 2026. Along with agent-first Windows updates, we got a look at the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, powered by Nvidia’s new Arm-based RTX Spark chips. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang then dialed in to talk about their collaboration on the new Dev Box and Surface Laptop Ultra. Plus, we got a look at the AI agent Project Solara, which is made to run AI agents on devices taking the form of everything from smart speakers to security badges and earbuds. Here’s everything you missed. 00:00 Aion 1.0 Instruct and Plan 00:43 Nvidia RTX Spark 01:14 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box 02:10 Developer-optimized Windows features 03:14 UI Demo of Windows for developers 03:55 File Explorer is Git-aware 04:06 Intelligent Terminal 04:56 RTX Spark token usage 05:12 Voice commanding terminal 05:42 Finding all log files in terminal 06:18 Oops all datacenters 06:39 Maia 200 07:02 Cobalt 200 VMs preview 07:53 Project Solara 08:58 Project Solara portable on stage 10:24 Azure Horizon DB 11:10 - Web IQ 14:17 - Microsoft Execution Containers 14:40 - OpenClaw on Windows 17:12 - GitHub CoPilot appzap 20:26 - Agent 365 SDK Updates 20:41 - The Chainsmokers (for some reason) 21:20 - Scout 22:12 - New MAI Models 23:40 - Microsoft + Mayo Clinic Health Model 23:50 - Majorana 2 Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLv Watch The Vergecast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/40RFRkg The Vergecast Podcast: https://bit.ly/3WQDexZ Decoder with Nilay Patel: http://apple.co/3v29nDc More about our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Read More: http://www.theverge.com Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv Wallpapers from The Verge: https://bit.ly/2xQXYJr Shop our Verge merch store here: https://bit.ly/4kPCmEc Subscribe to The Verge: https://bit.ly/3FT6n5S If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may receive a commission without exerting any influence on editorial content. For more information about our ethics policy, visit: https://bit.ly/3ZWTlLs
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Windows… we’re Linux now!
10:00 "we're thrilled to announce that a random list of companies is working towards figuring out whether this technology is actually useful"
Can we… just fix Outlook search???
all this AI but the most blurry zoom camera ever seen on a live event, lol
Microsoft: 'We made an expensive device that is worse than a phone, so you can do things that you can already do on your phone but worse, and it is going to be more expensive than a phone'.
The most exciting thing here to me is grep on Windows. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Good to see open claw is baked in to violate all my security.
jesus christ please hire some UI people at Microsoft
coreutils, homebrew, z-shell, and WSL containers???? all native??? this is huge
9:00 Thank god Microsoft finally invented a mobile device with a camera, a screen and a microphone.
Did Microsoft just invent the Amazon Echo Show?
Homebrew on windows? 👀
0:12 seconds in and he’s already yapping about AI
Wow finally a vertical taskbar and a way to move windows around
bro why were the chainsmokers there 😭
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs "What's going on?"
Bill Gates: Linux is a joke Steve Ballmer: Linux is a cancer Satya Nadella: We are Linux
i’ll wait for the fireship video
Ngl, git-aware file-explorer is pretty neat.
Windows… we don’t know what the hell we are doing….. still