Extra AI and new {hardware} might be in retailer at Microsoft’s developer convention.
With Google I/O 2026 within the books, it is now Microsoft’s flip to thrill (or terrorize) the general public with new AI options. Microsoft’s Construct 2026 developer convention begins Tuesday, June 2 at 12:30PM ET / 9:30PM PT with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella. You’ll watch the keynote reside by means of the Youtube move embedded on this article or apply along side Engadget’s liveblog as we react and recap the development because it occurs. For much more knowledge, Microsoft says it’s going to even be updating its personal weblog with main points of what it proclaims as Construct is going on.
Microsoft’s annually convention has a tendency to be drier than those held by way of its competition Google and Apple as a result of it is geared in opposition to builders. Nadella’s keynote is meant to concentrate on the alternatives the corporate is developing for that group on this “technology of AI,” an concept that would possibly now not imply the similar factor in 2026 that it did in 2025. Microsoft has publicly stated a rising backlash to Home windows 11 and it is been adjusting a few of its AI technique accordingly. The corporate and OpenAI have transitioned right into a extra open partnership as of April 2026, and Microsoft has each redesigned the undertaking model of Copilot and got rid of the AI assistant from some apps. Agentic AI will unquestionably nonetheless be a part of Microsoft’s pitch, however the fashions the corporate makes use of and the place its options are to be had may just glance very other.
Construct may additionally be a possibility to unveil new {hardware}. NVIDIA is rumored to be running by itself Arm chips to rival the likes of Qualcomm, and Microsoft turns out adore it generally is a imaginable spouse. Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s Government Vice President of Home windows and Gadgets, not too long ago teased that the corporate would have “one thing new for builders” at Construct, along a picture of the rounded nook of a few new piece of {hardware}. One at a time, each the NVIDIA and legit Home windows accounts posted the coordinates of Computex, a business display in Taiwan that begins the similar day as Construct, with the word “a brand new technology of PC.” That isn’t somewhat a smoking gun, however obviously one thing is up.
One thing new is coming for builders. And no, it is not a brand new OS model 😅. See you at Construct subsequent week! pic.twitter.com/gfY90ZyjZl
— Pavan Davuluri (@pavandavuluri) Might 29, 2026
Microsoft Construct 2026 runs from June 2 via June 3. A complete agenda of the talks, demos and labs Microsoft has deliberate is to be had at the corporate’s website online.
