Microsoft and NVIDIA unveil RTX Spark-based Surface devices; Windows Copilot gets local file access and OS-wide actions

What happened

Microsoft held a Windows and Surface event in San Francisco. On stage, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the two companies are designing hardware and software together to run AI agents on Windows PCs (NVIDIA official blog). According to The Verge, the announcements were: - Surface Laptop Ultra: powered by RTX Spark, NVIDIA's Arm-based chip. It starts at $2,599 (8-core CPU, 24GB RAM, 512GB). - Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: available for preorder at $5,999, shipping in November. - Copilot: demonstrated accessing local files on the PC and carrying out tasks across the OS. Microsoft presented this as part of its 'Hybrid Intelligence' vision. The collected items do not give a release date for the Copilot features.

Why it matters

Windows and NVIDIA have together made official the move of agent workloads from the cloud to local PCs. Access to local files and control of the OS could boost productivity, but they also raise security and permission-management issues.

Sources

• Official NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents NVIDIA
• Press Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event The Verge
• Press Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files The Verge
• Press Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999 The Verge

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