Google's New Laptop Category is Called Googlebook
Show notes
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.
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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 ‘Widespread’ AI-Fueled Cheating
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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