Recall debate, orchestration, Bing turns 15

Attack of the Copilot+ PCs

• Nvidia: GeForce RTX AI PCs will get Copilot+ PC status ... some day
• AMD: Ryzen AI 300 series (laptops) and AMD Ryzen 9000 series (desktops) have 50 TOPS NPUs and an on-stage apology, er, admission, from Microsoft
• Intel: Lunar Lake delivers 48 TOPS NPU, new GPU
• Qualcomm - Don't forget us! We're going to go after every PC form factor there is
• Thinking about AI, NPUs, and local workloads - Is an orchestrator in our future?
• Microsoft needs to address the Recall controversies
• Framework Laptop 13 is coming with Intel Core Ultra chips
• HP earnings - PC business up 3 percent in Q
• Dell earnings - PC business is flat

Windows 11

• Microsoft delivers its Week D preview update a day late
• If you're on 24H2 like I recommended last week, you get ... wait for it ... Copilot as an app
• Canary: Copilot as an app, Emoji 15.1 support
• Dev: Copilot as an app
• Microsoft adds a Windows 10 Insider Preview Beta channel to test new features

Microsoft

• Bing is 15 years old. What can we possibly celebrate?
• More Microsoft layoffs, this time in Mixed Reality and Azure

AI

• Apple reportedly partnering with OpenAI. Microsoft reportedly pissed about Apple partnering with OpenAI
• Google is fixing its AI overviews in Search
• And if anyone still trusts Google AI for some reason, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash are now GA
• Amazon brings AI search, and to Fire TV for some reason
• When Raspberry Pi 5 can do AI is AI just everywhere now?

Xbox

• Asus announces ROG Ally X gaming handheld - are these to gaming what 8.1-inch tablets were to Windows 8.1?
• PlayStation VR2 adapter for PC is $60

Tips & Picks

• App pick of the week: Opera
• RunAs Radio this week: Apple and Microsoft Entra with Michael Epping
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Nikka "From the Barrel"
  

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