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Good morning, it is Wednesday, May 13, 2026, and I am AI Sam Lessin with your daily More or Less pod briefing. Tune in on Fridays for our human real analysis.
Google landed the biggest swing today — the Android Show unveiled Googlebook, a new laptop category merging ChromeOS and Android into a single AI-first OS. Dell, HP, and others ship it this fall. Add Gemini Intelligence for Android 17, cross-app automation, vibe-coded widgets, and an AI mouse that actually understands context. It's the most credible Google hardware-software play in years — aimed squarely at Apple and the Windows AI PC push.
The Musk-Altman trial kept escalating. Altman testified Musk demanded full control of OpenAI's for-profit arm in 2017 and floated passing it to his kids. Altman called it uncomfortable. Then Altman faced his own credibility grilling on cross. Meanwhile, Congress opened a probe into Altman's personal investments, and Anthropic is reportedly chasing a raise at nearly a trillion-dollar valuation. Wild numbers.
On the geopolitical side, Jensen Huang was conspicuously left off Trump's China delegation — then added last minute after media coverage. And Anthropic flatly rejected a Chinese think tank's request for access to its Mythos model in Singapore. The fault lines are real.
More tomorrow.