What Is 'Magic Pointer'? Googlebook's Flagship AI Feature, Explained

What is the Magic Pointer? We explain Googlebook's new flagship AI feature, including how the Gemini-powered cursor will ...

A 64-year-old retiree built an AI platform to help him with a legal case — and become closer with his wife

Brian Rezendes, 64, has vibe coded a platform to help him manage a complex legal case, as well as websites to manage daily ...
Tech Times

OpenAI Codex Computer Use Now on Windows: Foreground Takeover, Europe Excluded

OpenAI has expanded Codex from a coding assistant into a desktop-operating agent on Windows, officially documenting support ...

Perplexity launches Bumblebee: How its new read-only dev scanner differs from Chainguard

The AI company's Bumblebee tool tackles your most urgent question after any supply‑chain advisory: Do your programmers have ...
Tech Times

Neuralink BCI After 28 Months: Arbaugh Tells Robotics Summit What Published Research Cannot

Neuralink brain-computer interface patient Noland Arbaugh closed the 2026 Robotics Summit in Boston with a live neural chess demonstration, sharing 28 months of daily BCI use — including a recovery fr ...
eWeek

Cursor Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Companies Ever

Cursor’s reported $3 billion revenue run rate shows how AI coding tools are becoming a major battleground for models, apps, and developer workflows.
The Financial Express

‘Magic Pointer’: The hype behind Google’s ‘AI-fied’ mouse cursor explained

The Magic Pointer comes as standard on the new Googlebook laptops. Google’s ‘Android Show’ event just revealed something that the tech community wasn’t ready for – an upgrade to the mouse pointer.
HotHardware

Google DeepMind Launches Interactive AI Magic Pointer Demos: Try the Future of Computing

The mouse pointer has not changed much in over 50 years. Google DeepMind wants to change that, and it just shared demos to show what it believes it will look like with its Magic Pointer. The project, ...
PC World

I tried Google’s AI mouse pointer. It’s not magic yet

PCWorld tested Google’s new Magic Pointer, an AI-powered mouse feature for upcoming Googlebooks that uses Gemini to interpret gestures for tasks like image editing and web interactions. The feature ...

Meta workers protest cursor tracking software, company says 'safeguards' in place to protect sensitive content

Meta Platforms, Inc. META employees have reportedly launched a visible internal protest campaign against new workplace surveillance measures. Meta Employees Push Back Against Surveillance Tools ...
9to5google

DeepMind details Googlebook ‘Magic Pointer’ with demos you can try, also coming to Gemini in Chrome

The Magic Pointer on Googlebook was built with Google DeepMind. The research team behind this underlying capability shared more about the premise of AI-enabled pointers. DeepMind wants to use AI “to ...
Android Authority

Googlebooks' Magic Pointer is also coming to Gemini in Chrome

Google says its new AI-powered Magic Pointer experience is now rolling out to Gemini in Chrome. The feature lets Gemini understand what your cursor is pointing at so you can interact with webpage ...