AI Daily Dev — May 13, 2026

Google Replaces the Chromebook With a Gemini-First Googlebook

Android Show I/O Edition reveal: Googlebook laptops, an Android 17-based desktop OS (codename Aluminium), and Gemini Intelligence across phones, Wear OS, Auto, and glasses.
First Googlebooks ship this fall with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo; each has a 'glowbar' on the lid and runs Android apps natively, with files synced from Android phones.
Create My Widget lets users describe a widget in natural language (TechRadar calls it the 'first step in generative UI'); Gemini Intelligence rolls to Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 this summer.
On HN front page (item 48111545): 749 points, 464 comments.

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Magic Pointer captures the visual and semantic context around the cursor so users can point at a paragraph, product, or code block instead of typing a prompt.
Live today: ask Gemini in Chrome about whatever your pointer is over, plus playable demos in Google AI Studio.
Ships in Googlebook this fall, the developer-facing companion to the consumer Android Show reveal.
DeepMind frames it as the first cursor redesign in 50+ years — shifting the work of conveying intent from the user to the model.

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Bloomberg: Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations within 48 hours on a new round of at least $30B.
$900B+ pre-money would top OpenAI's $852B post from earlier this year — the first time Anthropic leads OpenAI by valuation.
Follows the February $30B Series G at $380B and an annualized revenue run rate of $30B (80x Q1 growth).
Round could close this month; company is in early talks with Goldman, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley about an October 2026 IPO.

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Cactus Compute's 'Simple Attention Network' is a 26M-parameter function-calling model distilled from Gemini-3.1-Flash-Lite — aimed at phones, watches, and glasses.
Argument: tool calling is retrieval-and-assembly, not reasoning, so a frontier model is overkill for picking the right function and filling slots.
On Cactus's runtime: 6000 tok/s prefill, 1200 tok/s decode; small enough to fine-tune locally on a Mac or PC.
Show HN (item 48111896); weights and training code open-sourced at cactus-compute/needle.

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TypeScript educator Matt Pocock's personal `.claude/skills/` directory is now 71.7K stars and has held the top of GitHub Trending for weeks.
17 skills covering planning (/grill-me, /to-prd, /to-issues), coding (/tdd, /prototype), and quality (/improve-codebase-architecture, /diagnose, /triage).
Each skill is a single SKILL.md file under 200 lines with YAML frontmatter — being treated as the de-facto reference shape for Anthropic Agent Skills.
Last push May 7; sustained +10K stars/week through May.

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