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The OnePlus 15 With Brand New Snapdragon Chip Makes Its First Appearance

Forget the OnePlus 14. The next OnePlus phone is the OnePlus 15, which will be powered by the newly announced Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.

The OnePlus 15 will be among the first phones to be powered by this year’s top Android mobile chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which was revealed at the company’s Snapdragon Summit on Wednesday.

The company revealed the OnePlus 15 on Thursday. The new phone follows the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R, which were released earlier this year.

«For more than a decade, OnePlus and Qualcomm Technologies have moved in lock-step to redefine what a flagship can be,» said Pete Lau, founder of OnePlus. «With Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 at its core, OnePlus 15 carries that legacy forward-delivering the speed, intelligence and efficiency our users demand today and into the future.»

Along with the Snapdragon processor, the phone is set to be a photography and gaming powerhouse, taking advantage of OnePlus’s DetailMax Engine and always-on 120 frames per second gameplay, along with up to 165Hz display refresh rate for select games.

In the US, the OnePlus 15 will be the first model after OnePlus and Hasselblad ended their 5-year partnership. There are still lots we don’t know about the OnePlus 15, including how the company might take advantage of the new Snapdragon chip features. But this marks a new chapter for the company.

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Update on Sept. 25: An earlier version of the story had unconfirmed details about the phone.

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This Dedicated AI Laptop From Humain and Qualcomm Is Like No PC I’ve Ever Seen Before

The Humain Horizon Pro PC puts agentic AI at the heart of your computing experience.

You might think you know PCs, but I can guarantee you haven’t seen one exactly like this before. A new laptop unveiled at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii is a dedicated AI machine, designed to put AI agents at the heart of your computing experience.

The Horizon Pro PC is the first piece of consumer hardware from the Saudi artificial intelligence company Humain. It runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip — although the companies didn’t specify if it was the X2 Elite chip, unveiled on Wednesday. Humain claims the laptop can operate up to 100 times faster than human thought.

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«Humain did not create this to be a PC maker,» said Humain CEO Tareq Amin at the Snapdragon Summit. «We created this to redefine the future user experience.»

The device’s core is an AI-focused operating system called Humain One. Its simple interface gives you options like «chat,» «generate image,» «knowledge retrieval» and «doc summarizer.» It looks and feels different from any other laptop interface you might be used to, with a simple array of task-focused tiles rather than a windows—or apps-based display.

The Horizon Pro is for both enterprise and consumer customers. The consumer version is tailored for personal and creative use, shipping with pre-installed Humain AI applications designed to help with specific tasks, such as providing homework assistance and generating stories through chats and images. Detailed specs are currently unknown, except for the fact that it has a zero-latency wake time and over 18 hours of battery life.

At the launch of the Horizon Pro, Amin said it was important to him that the laptop was a «premium segment device.» Co-designed with Qualcomm, it has a high-spec OLED display from Samsung. According to Amin, it will be available on a subscription basis at «an extremely disruptive cost… 40% less than anything you find in the market.»

There will be three different product tiers available — the Horizon S for scholars, the Horizon Pro and the Horizon Ultra. A press release about the Horizon Pro promises global availability, but Humain hasn’t yet shared specific pricing or dates.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds Two Anthropic AI Models, Giving Users a Choice

Available in limited access, Claude models can be used as research agents or to build new ones.

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it is adding two of Anthropic’s AI models, Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1, to its AI assistant, 365 Copilot. The Claude models won’t replace OpenAI’s ChatGPT for general chatbot inquiries but will be used for specific tasks.

Adding Claude will allow Copilot users to get a different AI perspective compared to just using ChatGPT. Since models are trained with other datasets, their output can vary dramatically.

Claude Opus 4.1 will be added as an option within Copilot’s Researcher AI agents, alongside ChatGPT, and both Anthropic models can be used within Copilot Studio.

Copilot’s Researcher agents are reasoning agents that can work with the data you use daily, such as emails, meeting information and files, to help brainstorm new products and create advanced reports. Users can compare the efforts put forth by each model to see which one works best.

With Copilot Studio, users can build enterprise agents for their businesses using four different OpenAI models and the new Anthropic models.

Access to the new models is currently limited. 365 Copilot licensed customers can opt in through the Frontier Program to access Claude Opus 4.1 in Researcher agents. To build agents, users can opt in to try Claude in Copilot Studio. An organization’s admin can enable access within the Office 365 admin center.

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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 26, #368

Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Sept. 26, No. 368.

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a fun one. Motown residents, there’s a category just for you. If you’re struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it for free online.

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Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Place to fight.

Green group hint: Fore!

Blue group hint: Motor City stars.

Purple group hint: Covered stadium.