David Pierce

Why rent your assistant computer?

You're gonna use it every day.

Hello, and welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of integrated memory.

I'm your friend, David Pierce, and on today's episode, we are gonna talk about the NVIDIA RTX Spark, a new computer chip that NVIDIA thinks might help it make a mainstream play into laptops, and it might shake up the Windows industry for a long time.

The Verge's senior editor, Sean Hollister, is gonna come on, and we're gonna talk all about it.

But first, here's a look at everything else happening at The Verge today.

It's 90 Seconds on The Verge for Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026.

Today is Microsoft Build Day.

It's Microsoft's annual developer keynote, and in addition to lots of new Windows features and lots of new AI developer tools, Microsoft announced a new product called Scout.

It's an AI personal assistant agent, like Gemini Spark or Open Claw, designed to actually use AI to go do things on your behalf.

And fun fact about this, it's actually built directly on the OpenClaw technology, which is very funny given that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella only a few months ago compared OpenClaw to a computer virus.

Things change fast, but this idea of doing stuff on your devices is everywhere, and it is absolutely taking over inside of Microsoft.

Microsoft also announced a new quantum chip as it continues to push towards quantum computing.

It announced a new Surface device, the RTX Spark Dev Box, based on NVIDIA's new chip that it hopes will help people make more AI tools.

Because Microsoft's whole thing is making it easy for you to make AI tools, whether you like it or not.

President Trump signed an executive order essentially asking AI companies to give the government 30 days to review AI models before they release them.

This is a version of an executive order that's been floating around for a while.

At one point, it got shelved.

But it's a big change for the Trump administration, which has gone from essentially an anything-goes policy to AI to trying to have some more oversight.

We'll see how that goes.