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May 13, 2026

Gemini on Android gets major upgrades, new Googlebooks announced

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Gemini on Android gets major workflow upgrades and new hardware, Claude expands legal tools, and OpenAI Codex shares finance use cases.

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GeminiGemini on Android gets smarter with cross-app tasks and new Googlebooks are coming.

Gemini

Gemini

You can now use Gemini on Android to complete tasks across different apps, like copying a grocery list from your notes and adding items to a shopping cart.

Google announced a number of new Gemini Intelligence-branded AI features at its Android Show: I/O Edition event on Tuesday. These include the ability for AI to complete tasks across apps, browse the web, fill out forms, dictate speech, and… | The company had already introduced some agentic capabilities, such as ordering food or booking a ride, to Gemini at the Samsung Galaxy S26 launch earlier this year . There, Goo… Google announced a number of new Gemini Intelligence-branded AI features at its Android Show: I/O Edition event on Tuesday. These include the ability for AI to complete tasks across apps, browse the web, fill out forms, dictate speech, and… The company had already introduced some agentic capabilities, such as ordering food or booking a ride, to Gemini at the Samsung Galaxy S26 launch earlier this year . There, Google announced that Gemini would soon be able to perform more co… Now Google’s AI assistant will be able to handle a multistep process, like copying a…

Source · Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android
Source · Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android

Gemini

The app now lets you browse the web, fill out forms, and dictate speech to help you get things done.

Gemini on Android gets smarter with cross-app tasks and new Googlebooks are coming.

Gemini

Google also announced new laptops called Googlebooks, built with Gemini at their core, which will launch this fall.

At Google’s virtual Android Show: I/O Edition event on Tuesday, the tech giant announced a series of upcoming updates and features, including improved Gemini Intelligence features ; new hardware called Googlebook ; and other Android improv… | Google unveiled Googlebook , its new line of laptops built with Gemini at their core. The tech giant is working with partners like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make the… At Google’s virtual Android Show: I/O Edition event on Tuesday, the tech giant announced a series of upcoming updates and features, including improved Gemini Intelligence features ; new hardware called Googlebook ; and other Android improv… Google unveiled Googlebook , its new line of laptops built with Gemini at their core. The tech giant is working with partners like Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make the first Googlebooks in a variety of shapes and sizes. The company says Googlebooks, which are launching this fall, are the first laptops designed from the ground…

Source · Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets
Source · Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets
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Claude

Claude

Claude now offers new chatbot features to help law firms with tasks like searching documents and preparing for depositions.

Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for Legal — the law-focused plug-in that launched earlier this year — off… | The new tools come amid hot competition in the legal AI space. In March, the AI law startup Harvey, which uses agentic AI to automate legal workflows, raised $200 million at a… Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for Legal — the law-focused plug-in that launched earlier this year — off… The new tools come amid hot competition in the legal AI space. In March, the AI law startup Harvey, which uses agentic AI to automate legal workflows, raised $200 million at a valuation of $11 billion. Last month, a rival startup, Legora,… Anthropic’s new tools are designed to help law firms automate specific clerical…

Source · The AI legal services industry is heating up — Anthropic is getting in on the action
Source · The AI legal services industry is heating up — Anthropic is getting in on the action

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex

Finance teams can now use Codex to create monthly business reports, financial reporting packs, and planning scenarios.

See how finance teams can use Codex to build MBRs, reporting packs, variance bridges, model checks, and planning scenarios from real work inputs. OpenAI Codex shows how finance teams can use it for reports and planning. It helps with tasks like building variance bridges and checking financial models. See how finance teams can use Codex to build MBRs, reporting packs, variance bridges, model checks, and planning scenarios from real work inputs. See how finance teams can use Codex to build MBRs, reporting packs, variance bridges, model checks, and planning scenarios from real work inputs. OpenAI Codex shows how finance teams can use it for reports and planning.

Source · How finance teams use Codex
Source · How finance teams use Codex

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

Altman responded by saying he needed these reassurances in order to come back to run OpenAI, and that it was ultimately the board that fired him who appointed new members and rehired him.

Later, Molo was able to get clearer answers out of Altman regarding his investments in companies that have struck deals with OpenAI. On Monday night, news broke that a House oversight committee had sent a letter to Altman asking for more i… | Molo also questioned whether OpenAI’s nonprofit board truly has the ability to appoint and fire executives at the company—which OpenAI has argued it does. Molo presented texts… Later, Molo was able to get clearer answers out of Altman regarding his investments in companies that have struck deals with OpenAI. On Monday night, news broke that a House oversight committee had sent a letter to Altman asking for more i… Molo also questioned whether OpenAI’s nonprofit board truly has the ability to appoint and fire executives at the company—which OpenAI has argued it does. Molo presented texts between Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and tech executive… Altman responded by saying he needed these reassurances in order to come back to run OpenAI,…

Source · Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says
Source · Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says

Grok

Grok

xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

Burning natural gas can release planet-warming emissions and worsen air quality. Officials at the MDEQ and xAI did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. The additions of the new turbines to the site, dubbed Colossus 2, were first rep… | In April, the NAACP, along with the SELC and Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against xAI, alleging that the company had been operating a “personal power plant” in Southaven by ru… Burning natural gas can release planet-warming emissions and worsen air quality. Officials at the MDEQ and xAI did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment. The additions of the new turbines to the site, dubbed Colossus 2, were first rep… In April, the NAACP, along with the SELC and Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against xAI, alleging that the company had been operating a “personal power plant” in Southaven by running 27 gas turbines without the necessary permits. Ben Grillo… The same day that the NAACP asked for its injunction, Anthropic announced that it had signed…

Source · xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Source · xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit