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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces an expanded portfolio of Windows PCs and workstations built for the age of agentic AI. Together with NVIDIA and Microsoft, Dell delivers agentic AI across every stage of the creative and development journey, spanning a premium creator laptop, compact creator desktop and an AI workstation within the Windows environment.
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NVIDIA RTX Spark ™ comes to the XPS and Dell lineup for the first time, powering the new XPS 16 Creator Edition laptop and Dell Creator Edition Desktop. Paired with Windows, RTX Spark brings advanced AI, creative and gaming workloads together on a platform optimized for its performance. Dell Pro Precision with GB300 will be available on Windows, bringing always-on AI compute into the environment enterprise teams already depend on.
Why it matters
A new generation of creators and developers has emerged, from enthusiasts pushing the limits of original workflows to enterprise AI teams deploying always-on agents. Both groups require compute that matches their workloads, available locally, continuously and without full cloud dependency.
Dell, NVIDIA and Microsoft bring that platform to life, delivering an agentic computing experience that redefines how consumers, creators and developers build, work and innovate.
Dell introduces XPS 16 Creator Edition, the first XPS laptop built for NVIDIA RTX Spark™
XPS 16 Creator Edition brings NVIDIA RTX Spark's superchip performance into a premium portable form factor, pairing studio-grade performance and display accuracy with local AI development, all within the meticulously engineered chassis XPS is known for.
At the heart of XPS 16 Creator Edition is the NVIDIA RTX Spark™ superchip, which unites NVIDIA AI, RTX graphics and unified memory in one slim, powerful Windows PC. The platform is designed to run larger AI models locally, without cloud dependency, while moving seamlessly between creative work, development and immersive gaming. Apps, tools and workflows connect into a single, cohesive experience that is private by default. RTX Spark™ brings NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform to the familiar, trusted Windows environment, ready for the AI workloads of today and whatever comes next.
The superchip itself combines up to a 6,144-core NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU, up to a 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory, all within a chassis just 17.8mm thin. This unified memory architecture is what sets XPS 16 Creator Edition apart. CPU and GPU share a single large memory pool, so creators can work with massive 3D scenes, multi-layer 8K timelines and large AI models that would exceed the limits of a traditional discrete-GPU laptop. Dedicated hardware acceleration, including real-time ray tracing, DLSS and native 4:2:2 hardware encode/decode, delivers color-accurate, studio-grade editing and AAA gaming. All of it is wrapped in a CNC aluminum chassis that carries forward the craftsmanship XPS has stood for.
Studio-class display, engineered for accuracy
XPS 16 Creator Edition features a 3.2K tandem OLED display designed for professionals who depend on color accuracy. Key display capabilities include:
Together, these features help ensure that what creators see on screen faithfully reflects their work.
Professional-grade connectivity
XPS 16 Creator Edition offers a full suite of ports designed to support high-end creative and professional workflows without relying on adapters or dongles:
Built for local AI development
XPS 16 Creator Edition is designed to meet the growing demand for local AI development and inference. The system includes the full NVIDIA CUDA stack, allowing developers to build and prototype on a single machine. With up to 128GB of unified memory, users can prototype, fine-tune and run inference on the latest AI models locally, using the same architecture found in production AI environments, without cloud dependency.
Windows provides the platform foundation for this work, with built-in identity, containment, manageability and user controls that support running AI models and agents locally. Leading agentic and AI developer tools, including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ComfyUI and Cursor, now run across RTX Spark™, making XPS 16 Creator Edition a purpose-built environment for AI-assisted development.
Broad software and gaming compatibility
RTX Spark™ Windows PCs support both native applications and x86 applications through Prism emulation. Leading creative applications, including Blender, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere, run natively, while additional applications such as MATLAB are supported through Prism. For gaming, Windows on RTX Spark™ supports anti-cheat solutions including Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye, as well as XBOX PC app support.
Dell Creator Edition Desktop, always-on agentic AI for the desktop
Dell Creator Edition Desktop brings the same NVIDIA RTX Spark™ superchip and up to 128GB of unified memory as XPS 16 Creator Edition into a compact desktop built to run at full performance, continuously.
Freed from the thermal and battery limits of a laptop chassis, it sustains higher performance for longer renders, larger 3D scenes and extended AI training or fine-tuning runs, while local AI agents continue working in the background.
Like XPS 16 Creator Edition, the new desktop supports local AI development and broad application compatibility across creative, developer and gaming workloads. With up to 1 petaflop of FP4 computing power and support for AI models up to 200 billion parameters, users have the compute to take on their most ambitious creative and AI projects.
Dell unifies AI workstation portfolio under Dell Pro Precision
Dell Pro Max with GB10 and Dell Pro Max with GB300 are now Dell Pro Precision with GB10 and Dell Pro Precision with GB300. The rename brings these deskside workstations under the Dell Pro Precision brand, known for powering demanding professional workloads from complex simulations and massive datasets to advanced rendering, 3D modeling and AI development.
Dell Pro Precision with GB300, offering Windows for today’s developer teams
Dell Pro Precision with GB300, will be available on Windows, putting advanced AI compute into the environment enterprises already manage. Organizations have traditionally depended on Linux for demanding AI workloads, while productivity, creative and engineering work primarily happens in Windows.
IT teams can deploy Dell Pro Precision with GB300 within existing Windows infrastructure, with no new group policies, operating system changes or workflow disruptions. Developers have a personal supercomputer at their desk to build and deploy powerful, always-on AI agents.
The workstation scales to 20 petaflops of FP4 compute and 748GB of coherent memory on the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, supporting models up to 1 trillion parameters locally with no cloud costs. Dell's exclusive MaxCool technology sustains that performance continuously with up to five times higher cooling efficiency. 1
With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), developers get full access to the NVIDIA CUDA ® ecosystem and Linux AI frameworks inside Windows, alongside their everyday applications with no dual boot or context switching required.
Perspectives
Rob Bruckner, president, Client Devices, Dell Technologies:
“AI is no longer something you build in the cloud and deploy later. It runs continuously, makes decisions and connects directly to the work people do every day. From a creator pushing the limits of a premium laptop to an enterprise team running always-on AI models at their desk, Dell, NVIDIA and Microsoft are delivering the compute to drive the agentic AI era.”
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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry's broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the AI era.
XPS 16 Creator Edition, Dell Creator Edition Desktop and Dell Pro Precision with GB300
Republicans are increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping midterm election losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump’s unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from the war in Iran. Despite their cash advantage, the spending is coming in late, forcing MAGA Inc. to pay much higher rates because of the shrinking availability of air time.
Trump's Department of Homeland Security proposed a $70,000 fee on Wednesday for each international student seeking to work in the United States after they graduate, as it seeks to reduce foreign enrollment in U.S. higher education. DHS says requiring universities to pay the fees will shut down a “pipeline for cheap foreign labor.”
And the White House said Trump will announce Wednesday that all Americans under age 18 are being automatically enrolled in Trump Accounts. The accounts are linked to Social Security numbers and require using a Trump Accounts app. The White House said automatic enrollment makes it easier for families to participate. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and philanthropists Michael and Susan Dell are expected to attend.
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“They’re sharing it a little bit with our people. We expect them to share it a lot with our people,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday, when asked if Russia has been sharing enough information on the death of a lab employee in Siberia.
The president added that he had “just met with our people” to talk about the situation. “We have brilliant experts,” Trump said. “They know everything about what’s going on.”
Appearing with Trump in the Oval Office, Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz made a point of mentioning Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom when praising Trump accounts.
“To give a sense of the broadness of the impact,” Cruz said before adding, “Gavin Newsom had a press conference celebrating the Trump accounts.”
He said that the governor saluted Trump and proved “miracles could happen.”
Newsom has praised the federal accounts for children as one of the best things Trump has done.
Cruz added Newsom said “nice things about you and nice things about me, and lightning did not strike anything.”
Cruz is widely considered a likely 2028 presidential candidate and so is Newsom.
Trump said he would be willing to put a presidential retreat at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida because “it seems that all presidents play golf.”
“This wouldn’t be for me,” Trump said. “This would be for all future presidents.”
Trump said the location, which is near a public library, would be ideal because it’s close to the airport and there are not houses or “high buildings” surrounding the greens.
“I love Alabama. I’ve got to go to the game,” Trump responded, when asked if Tropical Storm Isaias — which could become the year’s first Atlantic hurricane — might affect his plans to attend the game in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday night.
Forecasts have the storm menacing the Gulf Coast. That might affect Alabama in coming days.
Trump said he didn’t want to do “anything to take the focus” away from “all of the great people that work on those things,” including first responders and police, adding “We’ll have to see” about his travel plans.
Ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize being announced, Trump said he deserved the award from the Norwegian Nobel Committee but, “They have a reputation for maybe not giving it to people like me.”
Trump, who launched a war in Iran this year, went through his accomplishments for which believed qualified him for the Nobel. He also noted that the 2025 winner, Venezuela’s María Corina Machado, gave him her award.
“Whether I get it or not, I have done far more,” Trump said. “And I think it would be a great discredit to them” if he goes unrecognized.
The president said Paxton is “a great attorney general” and that he thought he’d be “a great senator.”
In leaked, recent audio, Paxton, the Texas attorney general, was recorded as saying his campaign was being run by Washington, rather than himself.
Trump’s endorsement of Paxton helped him beat incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP primary. But Paxton is now locked in a close race with Democrat James Talarico — even in America’s largest reliably Republican state.
Asked if he now regretted backing Paxton, Trump said that Paxton was “the best attorney general of the whole country.”
Asked if the recent death of a Russian lab worker was a sign that a plague might be developed as bioweapon, Trump said, “We don’t think so so. We’re going to find out soon enough, but we don’t think so.”
Trump had previously indicated that he would speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the issue. When asked if the situation was similar to dealing with China on the coronavirus during his first term, Trump suggested that Russia was staying relatively quiet on the issue just as China did before the virus turned into a global pandemic.
“China didn’t say much and Russia is not saying much either, but they do say they have it very much under control,” Trump said.
Trump says that 70 million children under the age of 18 will now have automatic “Trump Accounts” set up by the government to invest in stocks.
Parents and legal guardians need formally claim the accounts by using the program’s website or mobile phone app. Trump called the accounts “a passion of love” that promotes capitalism.
The accounts were part of the 2025 tax overhaul and allow after-tax contributions of up to $5,000 a year, with the government seeding accounts with $1,000 for children born between 2025 and 2028.
Trump says he will press two of his top political advisers on their outside consulting work amid scrutiny over their efforts to help a pro-Russian government in the Balkans.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that as Trump was campaigning last week ahead of next month’s midterm elections, advisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita were in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serb-majority entity of Republika Srpska assisting with local elections.
“Chris LaCivita and James Blair are outside consultants,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site. “They are allowed to do work for others, just like all consultants in Washington, D.C.”
“I do not have any idea who else they work for but will, on reflection, ask them and, if there’s a conflict, I will terminate them, immediately!” he wrote.
Blair served as White House deputy chief of staff before departing to lead Trump’s outside political operation. LaCivita was co-manager of his winning 2024 campaign.
The two did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Standing in front of the ruins of the Acropolis, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the case for nationalism, while trying to maintain the importance of global alliances.
In a sweeping and dramatic speech about ancient civilization that reflected his political aspirations beyond being America’s top diplomat, Rubio warned European countries that decisions made in the next decade “will determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world, or resigns itself to a future of atrophy and servitude and decline.”
“We will either choose to act now, or lose the choice to act at all,” he said. “Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice. We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power.”
Rubio also said despite “passions” that have strained U.S.-Europe relations, allied-countries must work to “rebuild our institutions and our alliances to face these threats together.”
Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for Senate in Michigan, released an ad Wednesday calling for an end to President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada, marking the second recent break with the president by the battleground state candidate.
“We know that Canada is not our enemy,” Rogers says in the video. “We need to end this tariff war now.”
The U.S. and Canada have been locked in an escalating trade war since Trump imposed 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian goods this summer. Rogers previously defended some of the tariffs as “necessary.”
Rogers has also recently called for the U.S. war with Iran to “end quickly.” He had previously backed the war.
Rogers, once a critic of Trump, has aligned himself closely with the president since his first Senate campaign in 2024 and has Trump’s endorsement this year. Rogers faces progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for the open Senate seat.
The $70,000 fee proposed Wednesday for international students seeking to work in the United States is just the latest Trump administration effort to reduce foreign enrollment in U.S. higher education. A Department of Homeland Security statement described the fee as a response to visa fraud and abuse that created a “pipeline for cheap foreign labor.”
And Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said he would be talking with Putin about the case “very soon.”
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Last year, the Republican administration began suddenly terminating the legal status of thousands of international students, detaining and deporting many of them, as part of its wider efforts to crack down on immigration and reshape higher education.
This summer, the administration finalized a rule that sought to prevent international students from staying in the U.S. for more than four years without approval from the federal government. The move drew swift backlash from higher education leaders who said it would increase the burden on schools and noted that many programs are longer than four years by design. A federal court prevented the rule from taking effect in September.
The $70,000 fee proposed Wednesday for international students seeking to work in the United States is just the latest Trump administration effort to reduce foreign enrollment in U.S. higher education. A Department of Homeland Security statement described the fee as a response to visa fraud and abuse that created a “pipeline for cheap foreign labor.”
It would require schools to pay for each student participating in an optional practice training program, known as OPT, in jobs related to their major during or after their time in school. Students are generally eligible for one year of work post-graduation, though certain science, technology, engineering and math majors are eligible for an additional two years. The initial application would cost $70,000, plus a $30,000 fee for each renewal.
The public has 60 days to commen t on the proposal before DHS can finalize it and put it into effect. The proposal also could face legal challenges from higher education groups or business associations that could delay it.
The White House said the president is announcing that all Americans under age 18 are being automatically enrolled in Trump Accounts.
The Treasury Department described the new initiative last week, saying it’s opening accounts for all children with a valid Social Security Number, which their parents or guardians can claim through the Trump Accounts app.
Children born during Trump’s second term automatically qualify for $1,000 from the government. Other minors can invest their own money into the tax-advantaged accounts, and draw on it when they turn 18 for costs like school or a home.
The White House said automatic enrollment makes it easier for families to participate.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Michael and Susan Dell are expected to be among those attending the 1 p.m. event at the White House.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says there should be no confusion over the Trump administration’s ultimate goal with respect to the Iran war — and that is to prevent the country from ever developing a nuclear weapon.
Rubio made the comments on Wednesday at a news conference in Athens with the Greek foreign minister after Vice President JD Vance told Reuters that the administration might be able to accept an agreement that calls for Iran to make a “meaningful” decrease in its capacity for nuclear enrichment.
President Donald Trump has previously said Iran should not be allowed the capability to enrich.
“I don’t understand where the confusion is about the nuclear program,” Rubio said. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Simple, period, end of story. I’m not going to go into the details about what would be acceptable or not. I can tell you this: that they’re not going to ever have a nuclear program.”
Republican Sen. Susan Collins argued during the first of four debates with Democrat Troy Jackson that she’s the most independent senator in Congress, repeatedly voting against Trump’s agenda. “I’m not exactly his favorite senator,” she said.
Jackson, a former state Senate president and logger, pointed to Collins’ critical vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump nominee who eventually helped overturn the constitutional right to abortion. “Would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?” he asked.
Collins argued that her seniority and experience in the Senate have resulted in money and resources for Maine. She touted her ability to remove certain items from Trump’s trade war with Canada, including pulp, concrete and road salt.
Jackson’s response: “We can’t eat road salt.”
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito told The Associated Press in a rare interview that rhetoric about the court from Trump and his administration doesn’t sit well with him.
“I personally am not pleased with that,” he said. “Everybody in this country has the right to criticize what we do. The substance of their criticism can be quite harsh. If we deserve it, then that’s fine. But rhetoric is a different story.”
Alito also criticized the escalating volume of emergency appeals before the court, but said there’s little the justices can do to change the trajectory. Such petitions have skyrocketed during Trump’s second administration, putting the court at the center of hotly debated issues such as the Republican president’s new ballroom construction and his proposed restrictions on mail ballots in the midterm elections.
Alito spoke in connection with his first book, “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of The Constitution, The Court and Our Country.”
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Republicans are increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping midterm election losses as the party reckons with Trump’s unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from the war in Iran.
The cash advantage, spread out across a half-dozen groups, is driven largely by the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc., which had nearly $416 million on hand at the end of August and increased its spending on critical races in September.
But that money may have come too late, forcing the president’s group to pay much higher rates because of the shrinking availability of air time. Four Republican Senate campaign officials said groups that reserved advertising time last spring paid much lower rates than MAGA Inc. and its affiliated groups. Now, the Trump-connected organizations are sometimes paying more than five times what they would have spent if they had acted earlier.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, toasts with Russian soldiers during a meeting with teachers at the Kremlin in Moscow, Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. (Kristina Solovyova, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Associate Justice Samuel Alito stands in his chambers at the Supreme Court during an Associated Press interview, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Pedestrians walk along Islamic Revolution street in Tehran, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
President Donald Trump speaks at an event for Anduril Industries, Inc., at Sparrows Point Shipyard, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, in Sparrows Point, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
