Microsoft has just introduced its flagship laptop, the Surface Laptop Ultra, with Nvidia’s RTX Spark silicon inside. The sleek laptop, which arrives as a spiritual successor to the Surface Laptop, is the company’s most powerful laptop and is directly targeted at users who require extreme workloads.
The laptop comes equipped with a 15-inch miniLED touch-sensitive display and a metallic chassis that is just 18 millimeters thick and tips the scales at under two 4.5 pounds. Notably, it also supports magnetic charging via the USB-C port, which is a neat addition. The star of the show, of course, is the Nvidia silicon at its heart.
Say hello to the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra pic.twitter.com/Vzdjx3L0yQ
It lands Nvidia’s RTX Spark processor that comes with an RTX graphics engine ticking alongside it, married to the biggest thermal architecture (2.5x bigger) Microsoft has ever shipped within a laptop. The company notes that the Surface Laptop Ultra maintains nearly 99% of its peak power while on battery, which is a huge lift.
Since this is a machine targeted at AI professionals, the company is touting the one petaflop of AI compute on the machine. The device also gets a replaceable and user-serviceable SSD drive, while the memory options go all the way up to 128GB. Compared to a MacBook Pro with an M5 Pro chip, Microsoft says the Surface Laptop Ultra is 2.1x faster at first token generation, 4.3x faster at image generation, and 6.2x snappier at image generation.
“Designed around NVIDIA RTX Spark, Surface Laptop Ultra unites an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 6,144 cores, an NVIDIA Grace CPU with up to 20 cores, and up to 128 GB of unified memory,” says the company in a blog post.
Some core aspects of the Surface Laptop Ultra pic.twitter.com/85o5K0nYil
It comes in two color options — silver and dark grey — and is now up for pre-orders. The Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2599 and it goes straight against Apple’s MacBook Pro. To go with it, the company has also announced that the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box will be shipping with a sticker price of $5,999 attached to it.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.
Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 Terra.
OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.