Microsoft’s Windows and Surface Event: Live Updates From San Francisco – CNET

Microsoft first introduced the Surface Laptop Ultra earlier this year at Computex, detailing that the new laptop would run on Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip. In the age of AI, that chip matters more than ever. 

If you want to run your AI programs on your device, not in the cloud, your phone or laptop needs all the firepower it can get. Agentic tasks, like manning AI bots, require even more compute. The AI boom has led to a surge in demand for high-quality chips — to power all those new, controversial data centers — and has led pretty much all device manufacturers, including Apple and Samsung, to raise their prices. 

So one of today’s biggest questions is: Just how expensive might the Surface Laptop Ultra be? A new laptop is always a financial investment, but there’s a chance sticker shock could turn…