WW 961: Petroleum Exchange Expert - AI Resistance, Reality, & the Rise of Slop
Windows Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
Can the AI boom survive its own hype? This episode takes on the future of OpenAI, tech's subscription fatigue, and why "Made with AI" labels might be the new scarlet letter. Plus, Microsoft's ugly sweaters are back for some reason.
Windows 11
- Week D comes a week late and in the wrong month, but it's a big one, and a preview of what to expect next week in Patch Tuesday
- More pervasive dark mode
- Copilot+ PC exclusives: Improvements to Click to Do, Windows Search, Windows Studio Effects, Agent in Settings
- Expansion of FSE availability
- Improvements across Settings, Share, File Explorer, Desktop Spotlight, more
- Aluminium OS is the name of the ChromeOS/Android Frankenstein that will take on Windows
- Android 16 QPR2 is here with about 1,000 new features and maybe a saner approach to OS updating than what we see on Windows
AI
- AI slop is no enshittification: Human error is still a much bigger issue
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is right: The "Made with AI" label is silly and needs to go
- OpenAI declares a "code red" after Google finally figured out AI
- Opera quietly does an about-face on AI in its browsers
- Opera Neon gets one-minute deep research, Gemini 3, and Nano Banana
Xbox and gaming
- Mortal Kombat 1, more coming to Game Pass in first half of December
- Valve is quietly bringing SteamOS, Windows games to Arm
Tips & picks
- Tip of the week: Time to cull
- Tip of the week #2: Time to look back
- RunAs Radio this week: The M365 Copilot Data Readiness Checklist with Nikki Chapple
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Stumbras Starka
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Windows Weekly. Paul Therrata is in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:03.2 | Richard Campbell's in Lithuania. |
| 0:05.8 | We're going to talk about Week D, a lot of AI news, Xbox News, and, yes, a Lithuanian |
| 0:13.9 | whiskey. |
| 0:15.4 | All of that and more coming up next on Windows Weekly. |
| 0:20.6 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:22.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:24.8 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:32.3 | This is Windows Weekly with Paul Therod and Richard Campbell, episode 9161, recorded Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025. |
| 0:41.6 | Petroleum Exchange Expert. |
| 0:44.1 | It's time for Windows Weekly. |
| 0:45.8 | Hello, all, your winners and your dozers too. |
| 0:48.1 | Here we are in the beautiful month of December, |
| 0:51.3 | where for some reason, Richard Campbell has evacuated the summertime climate of |
| 0:57.1 | Australia for the freezing cold of Lithuania. |
| 1:01.6 | Yes. |
| 1:02.4 | From Brisbane to Lithuania in a week flat. |
| 1:04.8 | It was fine. |
| 1:05.5 | I don't know what time it is, but it's fine. |
| 1:07.8 | You must feel like you've gone through the Stargate or something. |
| 1:10.9 | Wow. No, it's it's fine. You must feel like you've gone through the Stargate or something. Wow. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, no, it's it's transcendent jet like. |
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