Here?s what Magic Pointer processes on your Googlebook — and what goes onli

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TL;DR

• Magic Pointer identifies things you can interact with on your Googlebook screen locally after you activate it.
• Once you select something and ask Gemini to act on it, it sends the content to a cloud model.
• Google says the AI cursor stays inactive until you deliberately trigger it.

Google looked at one of the oldest parts of the desktop experience — the mouse cursor — and decided Gemini could make it useful for more than clicking things. The result is Magic Pointer, which can understand whatever you highlight on a Googlebook and help you act on it. That sounds incredibly handy, but it also raises a pretty important privacy question: when exactly does what’s on your screen leave your laptop and head to Google’s cloud? Google has now explained where that line sits.

Speaking on Android Faithful, Alexander Kuscher, Google’s Senior Director of Product for Laptops and Tablets, broke down what happens behind the scenes when you use Magic Pointer.




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