Google and five PC makers have launched the first Googlebook AI laptops ranging from $899 to $1,299 with preorders starting today and retail availability on October 4. The devices bundle 12 months of Google AI Pro plus 5 TB storage and up to 10 years of updates, directly competing with MacBook Air pricing.
Wrong (tweet leftover after Sep 21 body fix): Acer 2.5 lb / Dell 2.2 lb and omitted Dell LCD. Right: Acer 2.7 lb, Dell XPS 2.5 lb with LCD callout — matching corrected body (THE-121 incomplete sweep).
Wrong: Acer Googlebook 14 weight listed as 2.5 lb; Dell XPS Googlebook as 2.2 lb; Lenovo Googlebook 15 as 2.84 lb; and a blanket “OLED displays” claim for all five models. Right: Acer 2.7 lb, Dell 2.5 lb, Lenovo 2.68 lb per Ars Technica’s launch specs table (Sep 21, 2026); Dell’s XPS Googlebook uses a 2.5K LCD touchscreen, not OLED. HP rounded to 2.7 lb.
Google is pledging up to 10 years of software updates.
The lineup is aimed at the same premium segment occupied by the MacBook Air and many Windows-based rivals.
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Adobe and Disney announced a multi-year alliance on November 9, including custom generative models in Adobe Firefly Foundry trained on Disney properties.
AMD said 5th Gen EPYC processors are powering the host infrastructure for Google Cloud TPU 8tx. A market report said the shares rose 13.3% on Monday.
Nvidia's board says it is opening an independent investigation after reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. It says it has no reason to believe secrets were compromised, and Huang has said he will cooperate.
Meta has released Muse Ember, which it calls its smallest and most efficient AI model for agent subtasks such as tool calls and coding. It is available as muse-ember-1.0 at $0.10 per million input tokens.
Three investors told The Wall Street Journal Anthropic's IPO valuation will likely need to come down, with one saying closer to $1 trillion, the Journal reported, per AFP. The company had been aiming for about $1.5 trillion and a week-of-Nov. 16 debut, and has not confirmed a date.
