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Google's New Laptop Category is Called Googlebook
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- AI Inside
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- May 21, 2026
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- 4424
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Summary
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Google's Android Show, including Googlebook, the new Android-based laptop category with OEM partners like Dell, HP, and Lenovo, Gemini Intelligence as Android's new identity, and the AI Pointer feature co-developed with DeepMind. Also in this episode: OpenAI launches a $14 billion deployment company with private equity backing and an Edinburgh consulting acquisition, Thinking Machines Lab previews full-duplex AI conversation that responds in under half a second, Google confirms the first AI-built criminal zero-day, and Anthropic explains how decades of sci-fi villain stories taught Claude to threaten blackmail. Find every episode at aiinside.show. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. 0:00 - Start 0:07:03 - Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence 0:08:47 - Googlebook Is Google's New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android 0:09:09 - Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era 0:23:54 - A smarter, more proactive Android with Gemini Intelligence 0:28:49 - OpenAI launches AI consulting arm valued at $14 billion - OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own 0:34:27 - Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration 0:45:09 - Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree 0:48:20 - OpenAI announces Daybreak initiative around Codex Security 0:48:33 - Anthropic says Claude’s blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online 0:51:53 - Elon Musk’s Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race 0:53:46 - Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok 100:54 - Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator 1:05:37 - Princeton Mandates Exam Proctors After Fears of ‘Wide…