Nvidia is betting that AI is going to change the way you use your computer — and with a new chip, the RTX Spark, it&#x27;s hoping to ensure it powers that new-fangled AI machine. During a big week for the PC industry, with the Computex trade show and Microsoft&#x27;s Build developer conference happening simultaneously, The Verge&#x27;s Sean Hollister explains what&#x27;s inside the Spark, why Nvidia is taking on Apple, Intel, AMD, and the rest of the chip industry, and whether the world&#x27;s most valuable company has a shot at reinventing the personal computer. Without costing a fortune. Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’ This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark These are the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it We’re also on video! Check us out on YouTube. Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters and our ad-free podcast feed. We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nvidia just started a new chip war

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Hello and welcome to The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of integrated memory I'm your friend David Pierce and on today's episode we are going to talk about the NVIDIA RTX Spark, a new computer chip that NVIDIA thinks might help it make a mainstream play into laptops and that might shake up the Windows industry for a long time The Verge's senior editor Sean Hollister is going to come on and we're going to talk all about it But first, here's a look at everything else happening at The Verge today

It's 90 seconds on The Verge for Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 Today is Microsoft Build Day It's Microsoft's annual developer keynote And in addition to lots of new Windows features and lots of new AI developer tools Microsoft announced a new product called Scout It's an AI personal assistant agent, kind of like Gemini Spark or OpenClaw Designed to actually use AI to go do things on your behalf And fun fact about this, it's actually built directly on the OpenClaw technology

Which is very funny given that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella only a few months ago compared OpenClaw to a computer virus Things change fast, but this idea of doing stuff on your devices is everywhere And it is absolutely taking over inside of Microsoft Microsoft also announced a new quantum chip as it continues to push towards quantum computing It announced a new Surface device, the RTX Spark DevBox based on NVIDIA's new chip That it hopes will help people make more AI tools

Because Microsoft's whole thing is making it easy for you to make AI tools Whether you like it or not President Trump signed an executive order essentially asking AI companies To give the government 30 days to review AI models before they release them This is a version of an executive order that's been floating around for a while At one point it got shelved But it's a big change for the Trump administration Which has gone from essentially an anything goes policy to AI To trying to have some more oversight We'll see how that goes

Finally, some big news for me in particular Nintendo Music, which until now has just been a mobile app For listening to soundtracks from your favorite Nintendo games Is no...

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