An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, plans to make Windows a safer OS to run AI agents, and more (Joanna Stern/The New Things)

My exclusive interview with Satya Nadella on the new Surface Laptop Ultra and Microsoft's plan to make Windows safer for AI agents

thenewthings.com ·1h ago

Microsoft plans to make Maia its primary inference engine at a multi-gigawatt scale, according to TechRadar. Starting in 2027, the company intends to scale Azure Maia accelerators for its products and services, utilizing the Maia 300 model. This upcoming hardware offers a 2.5x memory bandwidth increase over the Maia 200, despite a 36% compute gain.

In a separate discussion regarding AI security, the Times of India reports that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has stated the tech sector should have zero tolerance for cybersecurity incidents caused by AI agents. Huang's position contrasts with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who suggested that society might have to accept some digital fallout, such as scams or cyberattacks, as a tradeoff for the technology's benefits.

Techmeme notes that an interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella covered the new Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra and Microsoft's intentions to make Windows a safer operating system for running AI agents.

Brief written by urgent.news from Techmeme, Dev.to, TechRadar, Times of India — 4 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.

This story

This is one outlet's version. Read the fullest account.

Nvidia CEO ‘strongly’ disagrees with Sam Altman on AI agents hacking websites timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Read the original at thenewthings.com →

More in AI

Sam George unveils plan to connect 48 government data registries for AI-driven planning

The Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Sam George, has disclosed that the government is developing a national data exchange hub to connect 48 data registries across public institutions, as part of efforts to improve national planning and ensure that development projects are driven by evidence rather than…

1h ago ·myjoyonline.com

Sam George unveils plan to connect 48 government data registries for AI-driven planning

1h ago ·myjoyonline.com

Investor relations data for AI agents: prepping Netflix's 20 October earnings with an MCP server

Disclosure: I build Equibles , the stock market data MCP server used here. All outputs are real tool calls from 18 October 2026, trimmed.

Netflix Q3 2026 earnings scheduled for 20 October 2026 at 20:45 UTC
Equibles AI agent compiles IR data, guidance history, and conference transcripts
CFO reaffirms 12-14% revenue growth target and 31.5% operating margin for Q3

1h ago ·dev.to

China’s CXMT expects up to $8.2b Q3 profit on AI demand

CXMT ranked fourth in global DRAM revenue in Q2, behind Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.

1h ago ·techinasia.com

I Built HirePilot: An Open-Source AI Career Copilot That Runs Locally 🚀

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built What if preparing for a job interview didn't mean juggling five different tools?

HirePilot AI is an open-source, privacy-focused career preparation platform
Utilizes local AI inference with Google's Gemma 3 4B model via Ollama
Privacy by design with no mandatory per-request LLM fees

1h ago ·dev.to

Reverse-engineer a creator's style: an AI persona and style guide from their latest videos

Disclosure: I build TubeText . This post uses our Video Breakdown AI Actor on Apify. The output below is from a run I did today. When you study a creator, the useful question isn't "what is this video about?" but "what does this person do every time?": which hooks they open with, how fast they cut, what they sell, how they end.

MKBHD's latest videos average 66 seconds in length.
60% of his content focuses on product reviews and deep dives.
Style guide suggests beginning with an immediate visual or auditory hook.

53m ago ·dev.to