Microsoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of ‘agent-first’ enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps

Microsoft has unveiled Project Solara, an Android-based chip-to-cloud platform for AI-first enterprise devices. The system combines Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware, Azure-hosted agents, and adaptive interfaces, with referen…

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Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release — voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asks AI companies to give the federal government early access to their most capable models.
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Korean tech workers splash cash on luxury brands after bumper bonus payouts — luxury goods sales rocket nearly 150% in Gyeonggi Province semiconductor belt

South Korean media has noted a surge in spending on luxury goods following big bonus payouts to semiconductor workers.
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Tom’s Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 2 — Interviews, roundtables, and the first day at the Nanggang Exhibition Center

As Computex 2026 fully kicks off, our team finally enters the halls of the Nanggang Exhibition Center in Taipei in the latest in our series of daily blogs.
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Github Copilot customers report up to 100-fold price hikes — AI sticker shock bites as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing

Github Copilot customers suffer from sticker shock syndrome as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing — customers reporting ten- to hundred-fold price hikes
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Microsoft announces Majorana 2 quantum computing chip — claims a practical machine will come in 2029

Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum computing chip switches to lead-based materials. Microsoft is accelerating its roadmap and expects a practical machine in 2029.
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Mainland Chinese exhibitors reportedly locked out of Computex 2026, as Taiwan entry permits stall — parties complain applications left pending or hit with last-minute documentation requests

Mainland Chinese companies among the 219 listed mainland exhibitors at Computex 2026 in Taipei have been kept off the show floor by stalled entry permits.
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Intel Xeon 6+ Computex roundtable interview transcript — Kira Boyko and Tim Wilson on 18A wafer allocation, Clearwater Forest, and dropping hyper-threading

Intel launched its Xeon 6+ processors at Computex, and on Monday, two of the individuals responsible for the product sat down with the press to answer questions.
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Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies — proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownership stakes in largest AI firms

The U.S. Senator is arguing that since AI companies use public data to generate a lot of revenue, the public should benefit from it as well. He also said that the people should have a say in the direction of AI by giving t…

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia wants to ‘reinvent the single most important tool of humanity’ with RTX Spark — Nvidia CEO touts support of ‘literally every computer maker in the world’ for its agentic AI PC platform

In a press Q&A held at Computex 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discussed why the company is entering the PC market now and its ambitions for the future of computing.
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