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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