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Windows Weekly 951: The ODBC of AI

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Paul Thurrott reports live from Maui with exciting details on Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon X2 Elite chip and how it could shake up the PC world, while behind the scenes, Microsoft quietly drifts further from OpenAI just as an NVIDIA mega-deal makes headlines. Is Windows about to get its biggest reboot in years, and can ARM finally topple Intel?

Windows

  • 25H2 is imminent: The real ISOs and eKBs are here!
  • Paul's Arm-based trip to Mexico and Arm-based Apple-tastic experience at Snapdragon Summit
  • And yet. It's Week D. And we didn't get any preview updates (for 24H2)
  • Windows AI Labs is a thing
  • If you're migrating from Windows 10 get a Windows 11 on Arm PC, Microsoft suggests
  • New AI features coming to Notepad, Paint, and Snipping Tool
  • New Dev and Beta (and Canary) builds: Click to Do translation, Share with Copilot, Accounts management improvements

    • AI

    • The Microsoft/OpenAI rift widens yet again
    • NVIDIA invests $100 billion in OpenAI, days after "investing" $5 billion in Intel
    • Intel will keep making its own GPUs because who gives a crap
    • Microsoft is bringing Anthropic Claude to Microsoft 365 Copilot - "Model choice"
    • Microsoft reportedly trying to pay publishers for content used by AI
    • Microsoft Teams is getting more agents
    • Google Chrome is getting a major AI update

      • Snapdragon Summit 2025

      • 6G, AI as the new UI, glasses as the next wave, Android PCs out of nowhere
      • X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme (with up to 18 cores for ultra-premium PCs)
      • 3rd Gen Oryon CPU (X2 was 1st gen, last year's phone chip was G2)
      • 75 percent faster CPU perf than competition at ISO power
      • First Arm chip to hit 5+ GHz
      • New Adreno GPU architecture with 2.3x perf per watt and power efficiency over previous gen
      • Hexagon NPU with 80 TOPS for "concurrent AI experiences" on Copilot+ PCs
      • Supports latest 5G SD X75 modem, Wi-Fi 7, BT 5.4
      • 75 percent faster CPU perf than competition at ISO power
      • Bad news: First half of 2026 availability
      • Not in the press release: The secret of why X2 Elite Extreme is so fast

        • Xbox

        • Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the second time in 2025
        • Here comes the Gaming Copilot on Windows 11
        • Google is copying it on Android and bringing Android and native games to Windows now

          • Tips and Picks

          • Tip of the week: Think of 1 story for everyone you care about
          • App pick of the week: Notion 3.0
          • RunAs Radio this week: Managing Vendor Incidents with Mandi Walls
          • Brown liquor pick of the week: High Coast Whisky Quercus IV Mongolica

            • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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