Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell, and Leo Laporte

Sep 24th 2025

Windows Weekly 951

The ODBC of AI

Hosted by Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, Richard Campbell

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Promises Blazing Speeds!

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Category: News

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

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