Gemini gets smarter Android features and new Googlebook laptops

Gemini launched new Android features and hardware, while Claude expanded its legal tools.

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GeminiGemini now helps with tasks across apps on Android and will power new "Googlebook" laptops.

Gemini

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You can now have Gemini complete tasks across different apps on your Android phone, like copying a grocery list from one app and adding items to a shopping cart in another.

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New "Googlebook" laptops, which are designed from the ground up to use Gemini AI for personal and proactive help, launching 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 company says Googlebooks, which are launching this fall, are the first laptops designed from the ground up for Gemini Intelligence to offer personal and proactive help.

Original reportingEverything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets | TechCrunchRead original ↗

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Expanded summary · Gemini

A number of new Gemini Intelligence-branded AI features at its Android Show: I/O Edition event on Tuesday.

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Claude

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Claude for Legal now has new chatbot features to help law firms with automated tasks like searching documents, reviewing cases, preparing for depositions, and drafting legal papers.

The new features expand Claude for Legal — the law-focused plug-in that launched earlier this year — off…

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

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OpenAI Codex

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OpenAI released a guide showing how finance teams can use Codex to create reports, check models, and plan different business scenarios.

See how finance teams can use Codex to build MBRs, reporting packs, variance bridges, model checks, and planning scenarios from real work inputs.

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ChatGPT

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Later, Molo was able to get clearer answers out of Altman regarding his investments in companies that have struck deals with OpenAI.

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.

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Grok

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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.

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Expanded summary · Grok

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.

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Expanded summary · Grok

The same day that the NAACP asked for its injunction, Anthropic announced that it had signed an agreement with xAI to use all the computing resources at Colossus 1.

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