Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra, a sleek sub-4.5-pound powerhouse featuring a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen, an NVIDIA chip delivering up to one petaflop of AI compute, and up to 128GB of unified memory, designed for creators and professionals demanding cutting-edge on-device AI performance.
NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a massive 550B-parameter AI model delivering frontier reasoning capabilities at 30% lower cost and 5x higher throughput than comparable open models, powered by cutting-edge hybrid architecture and a novel multi-teacher training method, with fully open weights released for enterprise adoption.
Canada launches 'AI for All,' an ambitious national strategy targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new jobs by 2034, backed by new AI safety legislation, a national literacy initiative, sovereign supercomputing infrastructure, and 12 international partnerships.
PRIME-RL launches as a fully open-source reinforcement learning framework capable of scaling to 1000+ GPUs and trillion-parameter models, supporting major AI model families with asynchronous training, multimodal capabilities, and flexible multi-node deployment under the Apache 2.0 license.
Apple Silicon is dominating the AI hardware revolution, with Mac mini and Mac Studio machines facing four to five month backorders as developers flood to Macs for on-device AI processing, while approximately 90% of frontier AI lab developers run Macs, pushing OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity to launch their biggest desktop …
Google DeepMind launches Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal AI model that runs locally on consumer laptops with just 16GB of VRAM, featuring a groundbreaking encoder-free architecture that processes vision and audio directly through its LLM backbone for lower latency and memory use, available now on Hugging Face and Kaggle under …
A new attention variant called Wall Attention launches with per-channel, per-timestep multiplicative decay for independent forgetting rates, backed by optimized Triton kernels enabling efficient autoregressive decoding, full GQA support, attention sinks, sliding windows, and sequence packing with verified numerical accuracy.
Microsoft unveils Project Solara at Build, an Android-based AI-agent platform powering next-gen enterprise devices, with major retailers like Best Buy, CVS Health, and Target already lining up to pilot the technology alongside chip partners Qualcomm and MediaTek.
Microsoft unveils the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a powerhouse desktop machine packing one petaflop of AI compute, 128GB unified memory, and a pre-configured developer environment, enabling frontier developers to build and run advanced AI workloads locally right out of the box.
Alphabet raises $80 billion, including a $10 billion investment from Berkshire Hathaway, to fund a massive AI infrastructure expansion as demand for Google's AI solutions outpaces supply, with capital expenditures projected to reach up to $190 billion this year.