Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workflows

The product launches with 15 ready-to-run agentic workflows, 15 reusable AI skills, and connectors to platforms including QuickBooks, Canva, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, and others.

Well, hell’s bells: It’s finally happening. After years of misguided rumors and off-base expectations — over a decade’s worth, even! — Google is actually now on the brink of combining Android and ChromeOS into a single superpowered platform for laptops and mobile devices alike. The company officially announced the advent of an entirely new type of product called the Googlebook as part of its pre-Google-I/O “Android Show” event on Tuesday. According to Google, the Googlebook is “a new category of laptops” that brings together Chrome, the Google Play ecosystem of apps, and “a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence” (a fancy way to say “there’ll be lots of Gemini AI this-and-thats”). At their core, Googlebooks appear to sport an interface that’s somewhere between Android as we know it and ChromeOS — with echoes of the 2010-era large-screen-optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb era — to create what Google seemingly now sees as the future of the laptop experience. In a lot of ways, Goog

Google used its Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 event to unveil a sweeping suite of AI-powered features under the Gemini Intelligence banner, signalling its most ambitious push yet to embed generative AI throughout the Android experience. The features will initially roll out to Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel devices this summer before reaching other Android […]

Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.

Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.

Google DeepMind researchers have outlined four interaction principles and released experimental demos of an AI-enabled mouse pointer powered by Gemini — one that captures the visual and semantic context around the cursor so users can point, speak in natural shorthand, and get things done without switching to a separate AI window. The post Google DeepMind Introduces an AI-Enabled Mouse Pointer Powered by Gemini That Captures Visual and Semantic Context Around the Cursor appeared first on MarkTechPost.

It feels like the world’s longest and most public divorce: In late April, Microsoft and OpenAI once again renegotiated the slow-motion breakup that has been playing out between the two over the last several years. At first glance, it looks like a win-win. In the broadest terms, OpenAI gets more freedom to set its own course — it can sell its models to Microsoft competitors such as Amazon and Google, for example — while Microsoft gets a better revenue deal and first rights to the newest OpenAI technologies into the next decade.  But in truth, one company got a better deal than the other. Who came out ahead? To figure that out, we first need to look at the most important details of the new agreement.  A new deal after a lot of rancor Keep in mind that this new agreement didn’t arise from thin air. It’s a direct result of Microsoft’s threats in March to sue OpenAI when inked a $50 billion deal with Amazon that makes the latter company the only third-party cloud provider ⁠for ⁠OpenAI’s ent

Google and its AI lab DeepMind are bearing down OpenAI and Anthropic