14 May 2026
Googlebooks are the first anti-personal computers
PCWorld explores Google’s new Googlebooks, AI-first laptops featuring Gemini integration and the Magic Pointer tool that predicts user actions and offers contextual suggestions. These systems represent a fundamental shift from traditional computing by automating tasks like image merging and calendar updates without explicit user prompts. While offering frictionless assistance, this predictive…
14 May 2026
Google is about to release a new Gemini model
The next Gemini is coming at I/O on Tuesday, but it won't be pushing the frontier.
14 May 2026
'Completely private': Meta AI gets Incognito Chat
A feature called Incognito Chat is coming to Meta AI and WhatsApp soon, according to Mark Zuckerberg. The Meta CEO announced the feature on his Facebook page and described it as allowing users a "completely private way" to interact with the company's AI assistant. "This is the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers," Zuckerberg wrote.
13 May 2026
Googlebook’s Magic Pointer is coming to Chrome, and you can try it right now
Google is fundamentally rethinking how we interact with AI, and thankfully, they aren’t making us wait for the release of the new Googlebook to get our hands on it. The underlying technology behind the very interesting “Magic Pointer” that debuted with Googlebook is rolling out to the Chrome browser on desktop, and Google DeepMind has even provided a few interactive demos to show off exactly how…
13 May 2026
The ‘Googlebook’ Is Reinventing the Mouse Cursor—but Little Else
Google’s newfangled Googlebooks promise a new “seamless” laptop option for Android fanatics. But to those who have actually used ChromeOS over the past decade, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that Google will deliver something comparable to the Windows or macOS experience.
13 May 2026
Googlebooks' Magic Pointer is also coming to Gemini in Chrome
Google DeepMind TL;DR Google says its new AI-powered Magic Pointer experience is now rolling out to Gemini in Chrome. The feature lets Gemini understand what your cursor is pointing at so you can interact with webpage content more naturally.
12 May 2026
DeepMind details Googlebook ‘Magic Pointer’ with demos you can try, also coming to Gemini in Chrome
The Magic Pointer on Googlebook was built with Google DeepMind. The research team behind this underlying capability shared more about the premise of AI-enabled pointers.
12 May 2026
Googlebook Is Google’s New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
Almost exactly 15 years since Google introduced Chromebooks and ChromeOS —which ushered in a wave of cheap, functional, web-based laptops that would come to dominate the US education market—the company has announced a new laptop platform called Googlebook. It's built around artificial intelligence and Android, and while it isn't replacing Chromebooks, it could give the company a more meaningful…
12 May 2026
AI made it easy for anyone to build an app. Hundreds of thousands are flooding the market.
Like a lot of guys of the era, Eli Cohen had a great idea for an app back in 2010. But unlike many of his peers, whose musings were confined to bar hangouts and bad dates, he actually invested about $20,000 of his own money to try to bring the project to life.
