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Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang, founder, president and CEO of NVIDIA, at a Windows and Surface news event in San Francisco

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Sriram Krishnan, former White House policy advisor on AI, Jensen Huang, founder, president and CEO of NVIDIA, and Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella

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Surface RTX Spark Work Station

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Setting automations in GitHub Copilot app

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GitHub Copilot app and NVIDIA RTX Spark device GPU usage

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Building Windows for Hybrid intelligence

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New Windows Search experience

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Microsoft Execution Containers

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Hybrid intelligence on Windows

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