August 20, 2025

Windows Weekly 946: Backing up the Intel Truck

2 hours 4 minutes

Leo, Paul, and Richard break down Google's Pixel 10 launch spectacle, poking fun at celebrity overkill and asking whether anyone actually cares about new phones anymore. Plus, they dig into Lenovo's record-breaking quarter, surprising shifts in the PC market, and the ongoing struggle between innovation and copycatting in the AI arms race. Also, Notion has finally added basic offline support, which should make it stickier than ever.

You got your AI in my Windows

Pavan Davuluri discusses how AI will impact the Windows user experience

Not the same video series as the previous "vision" video

Davuluri leads Windows and Surface, so his words matter

Changing: Interactions, business models, experiences

Multimodal - in this case, meaning adding natural language interactions and vision to keyboard, mouse, touch, pen, etc. - "experience diversity"

Powerful AI models running on-device are "transformational"

Predictably, the Chicken Littles are losing their s#%t yet again. Guys. Come on.

Windows 11

Semantic search and new Copilot home page for all Insiders

Click to Do selection modes, minor improvements in Beta and Dev

Recall and other Copilot+ PC features FINALLY come to Canary

A few minor additions to Canary, nothing new to everyone else

Notepad is getting an updated context menu and the Chicken Littles are losing their s#%t yet again. Guys. Come on!

Lenovo earnings up 22 percent, best PC market share ever, number one in AI PCs too

Google Chrome takes the subtle approach

Brave found a major security vulnerability in Comet

Like my wife, Gemini remembers everything I ever said now

Duck.ai gets GPT-5 Mini access, web search results

Grammarly announces CODA-based editor, several AI agents

Xbox and games

Another stunning Windows on Arm development

The Xbox app actually works now on Windows 11 on Arm, meaning not just game streaming but also downloads. Except, of course, that it mostly doesn't work

Heretic/Hexen installs and runs great

Asus ROG Xbox Ally handhelds to launch on October 16

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 with four-player co-op campaign

Indiana Jones coming to the Switch 2

Gears of War: Reloaded, more coming to Game Pass in late August

To help Xbox, Sony raises prices on the PS5

GeForce Now gets more powerful cloud GPUs

Tips & picks

Tip of the week: Windows 11 Field Guide, 25H2 Edition is on the way

App pick of the week: Notion

RunAs Radio this week: Data Governance for AI with Martina Grom

Brown liquor pick of the week: Chichibu Ichiro's Malt & Grain Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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