Google announces Googlebooks laptops, Gemini agentic features, and Android improvements including vibe-coded widgets and extended cross-device sharing

Google unveiled Googlebooks, a new line of laptops built with Gemini at their core, launching this fall in partnership with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. The laptops ship with 'Magic Pointer' (a cursor with Gemini built in), compatibility with Android phones to run apps directly, and the ability to create custom widgets.

Android is gaining new creator and personalization tools: 'Screen Reactions' records video and screen simultaneously (rolling out on Pixel devices this summer); 'Create My Widget' lets users describe custom widgets in natural language (launching on Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel this summer); and a new 'Pause Point' feature forces a 10-second break before opening apps marked as distractions.

Gemini is expanding to take multistep actions across apps—for example, photographing an event flyer and asking the assistant to find that event on Expedia, or creating a shopping cart from a grocery list. Gemini in Chrome is now rolling out to Android, with experimental auto-browse enabling the assistant to navigate websites and complete tasks like booking tickets.

Extended file-sharing support: Quick Share will work with Samsung, Oppo, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Honor devices, and users without compatible devices can generate a QR code to share files to iPhones through the cloud. A new iOS-to-Android transfer feature will import passwords, photos, messages, favorite apps, contacts, eSIM, and homescreen layout (launching on Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel this year).