☕️ Google unveils Googlebooks, a new line of AI-native laptops

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💻 Google unveils Googlebooks, a new line of AI-native laptops

⚖️ Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

🕵️ WhatsApp launches Incognito Chat for Meta AI

🛒 Alexa is moving into Amazon.com

🛰️ Google taps SpaceX to launch orbital data centers

🤝 Jensen Huang joins Trump's China trip

Plus: 🎁 18 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 4 papers.

💻 Google unveils Googlebooks, a new line of AI-native laptops LINK

Google announced Googlebooks, a fresh line of laptops built around its Gemini AI models, with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo making the first devices in different shapes and sizes when they launch this fall.

The laptops include "Magic Pointer," a Gemini-powered cursor that offers contextual suggestions when you wiggle it, like setting a meeting from a date in an email or visualizing a couch in your living room.

Googlebooks will succeed the Chromebook 15 years after its debut, marking Google's shift away from ChromeOS toward an Android-based operating system, and serving as a direct answer to Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs.

⚖️ Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies LINK

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified this morning that Elon Musk pushed to take control of the company's for-profit arm in 2017, even suggesting that OpenAI should pass to his children if he died while running it.

Altman said Musk's safety plans worried him because OpenAI was meant to keep advanced AI out of any single person's hands, and he pointed to founders with control who rarely gave it up.

Altman also said Musk demotivated key researchers by making Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever stack rank staff and cut many, damaging the lab's culture, before Musk left the board to start xAI.

🕵️ WhatsApp launches Incognito Chat for Meta AI LINK

WhatsApp rolled out Incognito Chat, a new feature that lets people talk with Meta AI through Private Processing so that Meta itself cannot see the questions users send or the answers the chatbot returns.

Incognito chats are ephemeral by default and vanish when the session ends, the feature is text-only for now, and Meta says support for image processing and voice recognition is being built.

WhatsApp also announced "Side Chat with Meta AI," which lets users privately DM Meta AI about an ongoing text conversation with friends to get suggestions without sharing those interests with the company.

🛒 Alexa is moving into Amazon.com LINK

Amazon is rolling out Alexa for Shopping today, an assistant powered by Alexa Plus that takes over the main search bar on Amazon.com and the app, replacing the previous Rufus AI shopping assistant for all US customers.

The assistant can set price alerts, compare items, auto-reorder products, track a year of price history, and buy from other websites through the Buy for Me feature, all triggered by typing into the search bar.

Echo Show 15 and 21 are getting a full visual Amazon store interface that mixes voice and touch, with the Show 8 and 11 following next month, and price alerts will sync between Show devices and the app.

🛰️ Google taps SpaceX to launch orbital data centers LINK

Google is in talks to hire SpaceX to launch orbital data centers, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing unnamed sources, even though the two companies are also competing against each other in the same space-based computing market.

Google is also speaking with other rocket-launch firms about the project, and if no SpaceX deal happens, options could include Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, or the United Launch Alliance, though the Journal did not name which companies Google approached.

SpaceX recently announced a deal giving Anthropic access to its "Colossus" supercomputer, with Anthropic interested in building "multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity" since terrestrial power, land, and cooling cannot keep pace with AI demands.

🤝 Jensen Huang joins Trump's China trip LINK

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is now joining President Donald Trump's trip to China this week, the chipmaker confirmed to CNBC, after earlier reports said the executive had been left off the delegation list.

According to a source familiar with the situation, Trump called Huang after seeing media coverage of his absence and asked him to come, prompting the CEO to fly to Alaska to board Air Force One.

Trump is bringing more than a dozen U.S. executives to Beijing, where he is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday and Friday, with Nvidia saying Huang is attending to support the administration's goals.

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🧰 Trending tools

Memoket Gem: an AI wearable that records and summarizes meetings, calls, and conversations, then automatically generates tasks and follow-ups in your existing tools.LINK

Latitude for Claude Code: an observability platform that surfaces actionable failure modes in your AI agents, with attached evaluations, so bugs get fixed before production.LINK

Googlebook: laptops built specifically for Gemini AI, featuring a Magic Pointer for contextual suggestions and custom widgets for task organization.LINK

Pipali: an AI agent that runs directly on your computer, automating research, documents, and app tasks across Linear, Slack, and GitHub using custom workflows.LINK

SurfBuddy: sends real-time heat data like wave scores, priorities, and time remaining directly to surfers' Apple Watch during competition.LINK

AI meeting notes by Snaply: automatically transcribes and summarizes meetings locally on your Mac, keeping your data private without cloud uploads.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

Elevator, a new binary translator, converts entire x86-64 programs to ARM code before runtime, no guesswork needed, producing complete standalone binaries that can be tested, verified, and cryptographically signed before deployment.LINK

Direct corpus interaction lets AI agents search raw text using basic terminal tools like grep, beating standard retrieval systems on multiple benchmarks without any embedding models or vector indexes.LINK

DeepSeek V4's context limit was extended from 65,000 to 1 million tokens while running on just 6GB of memory, dramatically expanding how much text the AI can process at once.LINK

The chatbot paradigm is not a neutral design choice but a dominant model with serious structural downsides, including deskilling, knowledge homogenization, labor displacement, and environmental costs.LINK

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