During its virtual event called The Android Show, Google announced a brand-new category of personal computers called the Googlebook. Positioned as a major evolutionary step beyond the web-first Chromebooks that debuted back in 2011, these new machines are built to place AI at the center of the daily user experience. According to a Google blog post by Senior Director Alex Kuscher, the company is looking to move past traditional setups. “Over 15 years ago, we introduced the Chromebook , a laptop built for a cloud-first world,” Kuscher noted, adding that as computing shifts toward AI, “we see an opportunity to rethink laptops again.” Rather than relying purely on ChromeOS, Googlebooks will run on a modern operating system that blends elements of ChromeOS with the Android tech stack.…