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Senior Correspondent

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Tom Warren is a Senior Correspondent and author of Notepad. Tom previously founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge. Tom also used to work as an enterprise project manager in a variety of investment banks, and has a background in IT and Windows engineering. Tom has appeared on CNN, CNN International, BBC News, Channel 4, MSNBC, TWiT, and many others over the years. You can reach Tom confidentially on Signal here.

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Microsoft makes it more secure to run OpenClaw on Windows.

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft is launching Microsoft Execution Containers, a policy-driven layer to make it more secure to run things like OpenClaw on Windows. It’s going a step further too, by allowing a companion app for OpenClaw to run contained on Windows PCs. It should stop AI agents like OpenClaw from deleting all your files. “You can totally run OpenClaw inside your company now,” says OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger.

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger at Microsoft Build.
OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger at Microsoft Build.
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Nvidia’s CEO dials into Build.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is on stage at Microsoft Build this morning, albeit virtually. He says Nvidia started working with Microsoft on RTX Spark about three years ago, and it has led to the creation of the new Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box.

Tom Warren
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The new Surface mini PC is here.

Microsoft just launched a new Surface Dev Box, and the company is already using the machine live on stage at Build. The top looks like the vent on an Xbox Series X, and inside there’s an Nvidia RTX Spark chip and 128GB of unified memory. Overall, I’d say it looks like a flattened Xbox Series X.

The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box on stage at Build.
The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box on stage at Build.
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Build kicks off with Windows.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has started his Build developer keynote by focusing on Windows immediately. Microsoft is expanding Windows AI APIs to more PCs, through CPU, GPU, and NPU support. There are two new local AI Windows models too, Aion 1.0 Instruct and Aion 1.0 Plan.

Satya Nadella at Build 2026.
Satya Nadella at Build 2026.
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge

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