Google's plans for its Android phone software have been clear: Grow the role of its Gemini AI assistant to handle more tasks and make it integral to most people's activities. The company's strategy for its lightweight ChromeOS for laptops and tablets is less clear, especially as Google teased earlier this year that it would be combined with Android.

On the keynote stage at Snapdragon Summit 2025, executives Alex Katouzian from Qualcomm and Sameer Samat from Google finally gave us a window for when this software merger would happen: "next year" or sometime in 2026 . But it wasn't until I sat down with those executives for a behind-closed-doors chat that I got a fuller picture of what this will mean for everything using ChromeOS -- and what will change when it incorporates Android, wh

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