Microsoft Build 2026 centers AI with new dev kits, Solara OS, Scout, and quantum progress
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Microsoft Build 2026 kicked off with AI at the center: a Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI, developer-focused Windows updates with Coreutils and WSL plus an Intelligent Terminal, Project Solara an Android-based OS for AI agents across devices, an OpenClaw-powered always-on assistant called Scout, seven MAI models led by a first reasoning model, guardrails via Microsoft Execution Containers for OpenClaw, and Majorana 2, a quantum chip promising practical quantum computing by 2029.
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