Windows Weekly 946: Backing Up the Intel Truck

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss a new Windows video with Pavan Davuluri, Windows 11, AI, Xbox and games, and much more.

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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

Windows Insider

• 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
• And then today a few minor additions to Canary, nothing new to everyone else

Apps

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

Earnings

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

AI

More AI browsers

• 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

Microsoft’s Gamerscom reveals were last night

• Asus ROG Xbox Ally handhelds to launch on October 16
• Call of Duty 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 and picks

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

I have a cunning plan. Not really.

App pick of the week: Notion

Notion is my Everything App and I just can’t seem to replace it. Now it’s finally added basic offline support, which should make it stickier than ever.

Alternatives I keep looking at for direct data control: Obsidian and AnyType

AD BLOCK: Club TWiT

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

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/998

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

https://www.instagram.com/chichibu_distillery/

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