Microsoft just kicked off Build 2026 with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella and other company leaders. As expected, it was filled with announcements, ranging from new Surface hardware to an always-on personal assistant and updates across Microsoft’s in-house AI models.

If you didn’t watch the event live, you can catch up on all the latest news in the roundup below.

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The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is geared toward developers who want to run local AI models on their device, serving as a substitute for Qualcomm’s canceled dev kit . It comes equipped with Nvidia’s new Arm-based Spark RTX chip and 128GB of unified memory, along with preinstalled apps like Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot.…