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Nvidia RTX Spark platform is AI workhorse first, gamer's friend second

Nvidia is fundamentally rethinking the portable PC, treating its new RTX Spark platform not as a traditional gaming silicon upgrade, but as a blueprint for a high-end, on-device AI powerhouse.

The idea of an 'AI PC' has been doing a lot of heavy lifting in recent years. In practice, it has often meant a Windows laptop with a Neural Processing Unit, Copilot branding, and a few on-device AI tricks that may have only a small impact on how people use their computers.

Nvidia’s RTX Spark 'superchip,' unveiled earlier this month at Computex 2026, is a clearer attempt to define what this category could really be. Built in close partnership with Microsoft and shown across Surface hardware, it isn’t just trying to make today’s Intel or AMD machines a little bit faster. It’s pitching an entirely different architecture: part creator laptop, part localized AI node, and part gaming-capable Arm PC.

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This Electronic Business Card Visualizes Audio; Demonstrates Skillz

The fate of every business card is a short trip to a long life in the landfill. But that’s because business cards are cheap paper and the only reason anyone accepts them in the first place is out of obligation. The only way to alter that paradigm is to

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DIYing a Robot Actuator, for Better or Worse

The DIY promise sure is appealing: a fun project, a beautiful bespoke result, and a cost that is just a fraction of what the store wants. Of course, it never works out that way. The project ends up being a nightmare, the results aren’t as good as you expect,

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Dadlexa: The No-AI Smart Speaker

It’s hard to fully appreciate how revolutionary radio and television were when these technologies first arrived in people’s homes. Hearing the voices and seeing the faces of people who were not physically present was so shocking that some people imagined little people actually lived in the new boxes

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'Entirely automating everything is not the future we want': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lays out his company's vision as it opens a 'third phase' and looks to build technology "to benefit everyone"

* OpenAI's Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki list future goals for the AI giant * The world economy is now beginning to shape around AI and are committed to delivering tools that people would use * The note also reaffirmed OpenAI's commitment to AGI with a caveat:

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'Entirely automating everything is not the future we want': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lays out his company's vision as it opens a 'third phase' and looks to build technology "to benefit everyone"