• Interview with Keach Hagey
• The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman's Firing From OpenAI
• OpenAI's Latest Funding Round Comes With a $20 Billion Catch
• Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name 'Grok'
• Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI
• Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
• AI: history of a brand by Thomas Haigh
• Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries
• First Trial of Generative AI Therapy Shows It Might Help With Depression
• Tinder wants you to chat with an AI bot before you fail with a real person
• Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider Job
• The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them
• Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
• (Oh, no) Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok's Chinese owners
• Trump to hold a meeting on possible investors to buy TikTok with possible ban at stake
• Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
• Get ready! Catch Coachella 2025 live, only on YouTube
• Amazon Nova
• Perplexity AI CEO Denies Rumors Company Is Disintegrating Behind the Scenes
• AI accent conversion
• Kat Abughazaleh, from YouTube to Congress?
• Wurst cursor
• The fastest, most-accurate fast-food drive-throughs, and more!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Richard Campbell

Guest: Keach Hagey

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Bill Gates celebrates the 50th anniversary of Microsoft with the release of the source code for Altair BASIC 1.0. Plus, Paul celebrates with 99 cent books: The Windows 10 Field Guide, Windows 11 Field Guide, and Windows Everywhere are all 99 cents for 24 hours! Also available: Eternal Spring: Our Guide to Mexico City in preview!

Windows

• The plot thickens. Paul writes epic take on future of Windows 11, describes Dev channel-only features and when/if they were ever released - in other words, an extensive but partial Windows 11 feature roadmap for 2025
• Two days later, Microsoft announces a Windows 11 feature road map - one that is woefully incomplete, pathetic, and sad
• Microsoft announces when (sort of) new on-device AI features will come to all Copilot+ PCs, meaning Intel and AMD, too - "not a glimpse at the future of the PC, but the future of the PC."
• Live captions with live language translations, Cocreator in Paint, Restyle image and Image creator in Photos, plus Voice access with flexible natural language (Snapdragon X only)
• But not Recall or Click to Do in preview, go figure
• As expected, March 2024 Preview update for 24H2 arrives, a few days late - with AI-powered search experience enabled
• Dev and Beta builds - Friday - Quick Machine Recovery (Beta only?), Speech recap in Narrator, Blue screen to get less blue, WinKey + C shortcut for Copilot returns, Spanish and French Text actions in Click to Do, Edit images in Share, AI-powered search (Dev only?)
• Then, Microsoft more fully describes Windows Quick Recovery
• Beta (23H2) - Monday - A lot of familiar 24H2 features - Narrator improvements, Copilot WinKey + C, Share with Image edit, plus System -- About FAQ for some freaking reason
• Proton Drive is now native on Windows 11 on Arm, everyone gets new features
• Proton VPN is now built into Vivaldi desktop browser
• Intel's new CEO appears in public, vows to spin off non-core businesses. Everything but x86 chip design and Foundry, then

Microsoft 365

• Windows 365 Link is now available
• The Office apps on Windows already launch instantaneously but apparently that's not invasive enough - we need fewer auto-start items, not more of them
• Microsoft Excel to call out rich data cells with value tokens

AI & Dev

• NYT copyright infringement lawsuit against Open AI and Microsoft can move forward, judge rules
• And now Tim O'Reilly says Open AI stole his company's paywalled book content too. Book piracy is sadly the easiest thing in the world
• Open AI raised more money than any private firm in history, now worth $300B
• ChatGPT releases awesome new image generation feature for ChatGPT
• And now it's available for free to everyone
• Google's Gemini Pro 2.5 is now available to everyone too
• Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access, US only
• Some thoughts about vibe coding, which isn't what you think it is
• AMD pays $4.9 billion to take on Nvidia in cloud AI
• Apple Intelligence + Apple Health is the future of something something

Xbox & Games

• Nintendo announces Switch 2. Looks awesome, coming earlier than expected. But that price! And no Xbox/COD news at the launch??
• Luna's not dead! Amazon announces multi-year EA partnership, expands Luna to more EU countries
• Microsoft announces a new Xbox Backbone controller for smartphones
• New titles for Xbox Game Pass across PC,

Ti

These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/926

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

• Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard.
• A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site.
• Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access.
• Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone?
• Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers.
• A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing?
• 23andMe down for the count (reminder).
• A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp!
• "InControl" keeps VR planes aloft.
• And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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