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Microsoft revealed during its Windows and Surface event features for AI agents that operate locally or through the cloud, alongside the Surface Laptop Ultra computer equipped with the NVIDIA RTX Spark chip. The computer starts at $2,599, launches on October 16, and is available for preorder immediately.
Microsoft announced a series of updates to Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databases, including Fabric IQ, IQ Sharing, operational observability, application development, agentic data engineering, and database management. The announcements focus on using enterprise data and its governed context within Copilot applications and AI workloads, while keeping some capabilities in preview or early access.