Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra Puts an NVIDIA Chip at Its Core
Microsoft’s Surface line has never been known for bold chip bets, and its one previous attempt to pair a Microsoft laptop with an NVIDIA processor ended in quiet retreat. That…
MiniMax Pushes Open-Weight Models Into the Agentic Frontier
The release notes landed on a Monday, and within days the weight files were on Hugging Face for anyone to download. MiniMax, the Chinese AI company best known for its…
Microsoft Backs Down After Threatening a Security Researcher
The statement was short, and the reversal was total. On June 1, Microsoft said it has no intention of pursuing legal action against individuals who conduct or publish security research,…
Nvidia Puts an AI Agent on Every Desktop
The pitch from Jensen Huang was characteristically grand. “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask, and the PC does the work,”…
A New Jersey Town’s Data-Center Ban Signals a Growing Backlash
In a small city in southern New Jersey, the AI boom hit a brick wall. On May 19, Millville’s Board of Commissioners voted to prohibit data centers in every zoning…
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo Forces the PC Industry to Answer
The cheapest Mac ever made went on sale in March, and the PC industry has been scrambling ever since. Apple’s MacBook Neo, unveiled March 4 in New York, starts at…
Microsoft Looks to Nvidia Silicon to Reboot Its Surface Line
The last time Microsoft put an Nvidia chip inside a Surface, the result was the Surface RT, a 2012 tablet that sold so poorly the company wrote off nearly $1…
GitHub Bans Security Researcher Who Published Windows Zero-Day Exploits
The researcher known online as Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare-Eclipse has spent months at war with Microsoft. This week, the company, which owns GitHub, cut off one of their accounts, deleting…
Anthropic Nears a $900 Billion Valuation, Topping OpenAI
Dario Amodei has spent five years telling investors that Anthropic would eventually be worth more than the company he left. This month, that claim is on the verge of coming…
AMD Starts Making Its First 2-Nanometer Server Chip
The wafers are moving through the fab now, and each one represents a bet that AMD’s engineers have been working toward for years. Advanced Micro Devices said this week that…
