Microsoft previews next era of trustworthy AI agents and Surface Laptop Ultra
THE SO WHAT
Microsoft pushing “trustworthy” local AI agents on Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark and OS-level updates is a bid to anchor agent workloads on Windows devices, not just in the cloud. If you're building agents, you now have to decide what runs on-device versus in your own infra—and how to integrate with this emerging Windows runtime.
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