Google's New Laptop Category is Called Googlebook

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 (blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/a…)

0:08:47 - Googlebook Is Google's New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android (wired.com/story/googlebook-laptop-platform)

0:09:09 - Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer)

0:23:54 - A smarter, more proactive Android with Gemini Intelligence (blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/a…)

0:28:49 - OpenAI launches AI consulting arm valued at $14 billion (axios.com/2026/05/11/openai-deployco-private-e…)

- OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own (theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/11/openai-buys-a…)

0:34:27 - Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration (thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models)

0:45:09 - Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree (theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/11/google-says-c…)

0:48:20 - OpenAI announces Daybreak initiative around Codex Security (testingcatalog.com/openai-announces-daybreak-i…)

0:48:33 - Anthropic says Claude’s blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online (cryptobriefing.com/anthropic-claude-blackmail-…)

0:51:53 - Elon Musk’s Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race (wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-spacex-ai-deal-elon-…)

0:53:46 - Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok (techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/threads-tests-a-meta…)

100:54 - Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator (techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/digg-tries-again-thi…)

1:05:37 - Princeton Mandates Exam Proctors After Fears of ‘Widespread’ AI-Fueled Cheating (wsj.com/us-news/education/princeton-cheating-a…)

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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