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9 updates · 5 appsMay 13, 2026

Gemini on Android gets major upgrades, new Googlebooks announced

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

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Expanded summary · 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.

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

Expanded summary · 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.

Expanded summary · 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 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 widgetsRead original
Additional sourcesTechCrunch

Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

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

The new features expand Claude for Legal — the law-focused plug-in that launched earlier this year — off… These new tools expand the existing 'Claude for Legal' plug-in to automate more clerical work.

You can use it for things like reviewing case law and drafting legal documents.

Original reportingThe AI legal services industry is heating up — Anthropic is getting in on the actionRead original

OpenAI Codex

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Expanded summary · 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.

It helps with tasks like building variance bridges and checking financial models.

Original reportingHow finance teams use CodexRead original

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.

Original reportingElon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman SaysRead original

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.

Burning natural gas can release planet-warming emissions and worsen air quality.

Officials at the M…

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.

Burning natural gas can release planet-warming emissions and worsen air quality.

Officials at the M…

Original reportingxAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing LawsuitRead original

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.

Burning natural gas can release planet-warming emissions and worsen air quality.

Officials at the M…

Additional sourcesTechCrunch