I have had the new Dell XPS 14 for a few months now. Let’s get the big statement out of the way first: this is the first Windows laptop I’ve used in a long time that feels like they cared about the user experience. Saying a Dell feels as nice and premium as a Mac…

The RTX Spark is Microsoft and Nvidia’s joint statement about what the PC needs to become, and who gets to help define that. Microsoft Build, running this week in San Francisco, made the software half of that argument explicit. The Machine Behind the Agent The chip, formerly codenamed N1X, combines an Arm-based CPU, a Blackwell…

Cristiano Amon called 2026 the Year of the Agent. The label is directionally right, but it suggests a milestone that has been reached rather than one that is still being built toward. What Computex actually showed is a company positioning itself for a transition that is only beginning, one that will take years to fully…

Microsoft Build 2026 was the week Windows stopped trying to win on the spec sheet and started trying to win on the thing that makes a computer worth using. For years the Windows answer to the Mac was some version of “we can match that.” A faster chip here, a borrowed feature there. This was…

Google used Google I/O this week to announce intelligent eyewear partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Gemini and built on Android XR with Samsung and Qualcomm. The announcement was notable not just for what the glasses can do, but for how deliberately Google thought about what they need to look like. That…

Google I/O 2026 turned a model launch into a platform statement. It was the clearest evidence yet that Google wants Gemini to become the operating layer for work across consumer products, developer tools, enterprise systems, and cloud-managed agents. Gemini 3.5 Flash is the center of that story. Google positioned Flash as the common engine behind…