Android Intelligence Comes to the Googlebook - DTNS 5267
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Instructure reached an agreement to pay attackers of its Canvas portal so students can get back to work, and Thinking Machines announced a research preview of a more natural conversation flow called Interaction Models.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. |
| 0:08.8 | We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand. |
| 0:13.1 | And today, Android becomes more agentic than men. |
| 0:20.1 | It's becoming very agentic. And we also meet the new Google book laptop. I'm very |
| 0:24.5 | excited. Oh, what is a Google book? Well, we're going to tell you. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:29.7 | We're going to start with what you need to know with the big story. The big story is so big. It |
| 0:36.3 | literally just happened. Like 10 minutes ago at the time of this recording, Google launched the Android show. This may sound familiar one week ahead of Google I.O, which is their developer conference. That's next week. Last year, they did something similar where Google decided to basically announce most, if not |
| 0:56.0 | next to all of the Android-related news in advance of Google I.O., which used to be the place |
| 1:02.6 | that they announced all the Android news, which means that you can expect a heck of a lot |
| 1:07.3 | of artificial intelligence-related stuff to be next week. No surprise there. I think we all |
| 1:12.3 | kind of assume that's probably the case. Oh, no. No one's talking about AI these days. So that's next week. |
| 1:19.5 | This week, though, we got the Android show. It's a YouTube video where they announce a whole slew of |
| 1:24.1 | things. So we're going to fill you up with Google News because we got the |
| 1:29.0 | early scoop on this. And it's some of it's really interesting. Google is positioning Android |
| 1:34.4 | as an intelligence system instead of an operating system. So, you know, marketing. Powered by |
| 1:43.4 | Gemini intelligence. I think that's interesting. Gemini intelligence is, you know, marketing. Powered by Gemini Intelligence. |
| 1:45.4 | I think that's interesting. |
| 1:46.7 | Gemini Intelligence is, you know, how these companies walk. |
| 1:50.2 | I think I have a GI infection. |
| 1:54.3 | Love it. |
| 1:55.0 | I didn't even thought about the, I wonder if they thought about that, GI. |
| 1:58.4 | What's the GI Bill for that? |
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