We know a little more about Google’s long-gestating plans to combine the best parts of Android and ChromeOS into a single OS thanks to a job listing for a product manager to work on “Aluminium OS.” The job ad describes it as “a new operating system built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the core.”

Android Authority first reported on the job listing, which is two months old, but wasn’t spotted until recently. It gives a name — or more likely codename — to Google’s new operating system for the first time, along with the initialism “ALOS.” It specifically describes Aluminium as “Android-based,” and says the company is looking at entry-level, mass market, and premium hardware for the OS.

It doesn’t sound like ChromeOS will be going away entirely though, at least not at first. According t

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