Windows Weekly 951: The ODBC of AI

Leo, Richard, and Paul discuss a quiet Week D, the Snapdragon Summit and Snapdragon X2, Microsoft vs. OpenAI, Xbox and gaming, and much more.

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Windows 11

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

So say us all: If you’re migrating from Windows 10 get a Windows 11 on Arm PC, Microsoft suggests

Windows Insider

• 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

Snapdragon Summit

NDA for 1:30 pm PT/4:30 ET re: Snapdragon Summit news

But

Ahead of that some notes about last night’s “Vision” keynote, which was surprisingly good – 6G, AI as the new UI, glasses as the next wave, Android PCs out of nowhere

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 X2 Elite

Snapdragon X2 Elite X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme (with up to 18 cores for ultra-premium PCs) laptops and mini-PCs as before 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 31% faster performance at ISO power and requires up to 43% less power t han the previous generation First Arm chip to hit 5+ GHz 3 nm Perf cores and prime cores 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 Looks awesome but Bad news: First half of 2026 availability Not in the press release: The secret of why X2 Elite Extreme is so fast

Dev

Windows ML ships just four months after announcement

• 2025 is not like 2024
• Also, a few notes on Visual Studio preview

Xbox

Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the second time in 2025

• There’s a not-so-hidden message in the announcement too

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 one story for everyone you care about

I have several for Richard but you can only pick one

Also: iWar is worth reading

App pick of the week: Notion 3.0

Notion 3.0 adds agents for free

RunAs Radio this week: Managing Vendor Incidents with Mandi Walls

https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1003

Brown liquor pick of the week: High Coast Whisky Quercus IV Mongolica

https://www.highcoastwhisky.se/en/products/quercus-iv-mongolica