It's CES, so let's observe a moment of silence for all the stupid #*$% our colleagues are covering right now! But there is some wheat in the chaff, of course Intel announces 14th Gen Core desktop and mobile chips. But wasn't Meteor Lake was mobile only? PC makers announce a lot of Meteor Lake PCs: Acer, Acer again, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, more, plus the MSI Claw mobile gaming handheld and the first ASUS NUC! Paul's been using an HP Spectre x360 14 for the past month, what's the AI stuff really like? It's not just Intel: NVIDIA goes nuts on AI and AMD has new AI-powered CPUs Google announces improvements across the Android ecosystem - Quick Share Amazon adopts Matter Casting - and now we have too many of these things - what about Microsoft? Thread will finally fix networking and thus Matter Windows 11 Microsoft announces a Copilot new key for Windows keyboards - settle down, everyone Beta channel (last Thursday): Bug fixes - after the Dev/Canary updates of last Wednesday Quick Windows 11 Field Guide update - 160 pages of new 23H2 content in two months, now 1058 pages long, so download the latest version Microsoft is reportedly looking to add AI writing assistance to Notepad. For some reason Microsoft 365 Awesome! Microsoft PC hardware to be sold now by Incase Almost four years later, it looks like Microsoft will finally make Teams (free) an actual Teams client Apple tries to stamp down the CES hype, announces Apple Vision Pro launch date AI OpenAI responds to the NYT and... yikes. Did AI write this? It admits that ChatGPT does what the NYT claimed Has met with "dozens" of news orgs but can only cite four actual partnerships, and licensing costs are confidential Emphatically cites the fair use argument, which is an open discussion and not clear-cut Offers an opt-out for news publishers, but only since August, so after it used all the NYT content Says the NYT is not telling the full story. Right, it's telling its side of the story. Just like OpenAI Interesting details about negotiations between the two Seeks constructive partnership in a final olive leaf EU is investigating the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership, following U.S. FTC and UK CMA Pennsylvania adopts OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise OpenAI launches GPT Store for ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise users Now we know which Microsoft executive is sort of on the OpenAI board Duolingo lays off staff because AI is so good Xbox Microsoft could be bringing Xbox exclusives to PlayStation Microsoft is bringing back the Xbox Developer_Direct event on January 18 Minecraft Legends, RIP Big changes to GeForce Now: New Xbox titles, day passes, more Layoffs at Twitch After its failed coup of the userbase, Unity lays off 25 percent of its workforce Tips and Picks Tip of the week: We need to talk about password managers App pick of the week: Alternative web browsers RunAs Radio this week: Hardening Active Directory with Jerry Devore Brown liquor pick of the week: Bearface Triple Oak Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT cachefly.com/twit