The humble mouse pointer has barely changed in decades. It moves, clicks, selects, drags, and occasionally turns into a spinning wheel of frustration. Google now wants to turn that tiny arrow into one of the most powerful AI tools on your laptop, which sounds ridiculous until you think about how often you use it. The company has announced Magic Pointer for Googlebook , its new category of Gemini-powered laptops. The feature gives the cursor AI abilities, allowing it to understand what you are pointing at and help you act on it without needing a long prompt or a separate chatbot window. Can the cursor become the new AI button? In a new DeepMind post , the company explained how it is rethinking the pointer for the AI era. The idea is to make Gemini understand the exact part of a webpage, image, table, document, or video frame the user is referring to. That turns the cursor from a basic navigation tool into a kind of AI remote control for the entire screen.…