Google adds featured notebooks on selected topics to NotebookLM

Google is adding what it calls "featured notebooks" to NotebookLM as a way to demo its AI-powered software and offer interactive, high-quality resources on everything from personal advice to [...]

OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice upgrade that lets ChatGPT talk more like a person

OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architect [...]

Trump's FCC is coming from NPR and PBS now too

In one of his first major acts since taking over as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr has directed the agency to open an investigation into NPR and PBS. Carr informed inf [...]

NotebookLM, the acceptable face of Google AI, is getting an app in May

NotebookLM, the Google research tool that gained notoriety for its uncanny AI-generated podcasts, is getting an official app on May 20, 2025. You can pre-register for the Android or iOS version of the [...]

Google talks up NotebookLM upgrades by making it talk up Google I/O 2025

Google used news from its I/O developer conference this year to show what NotebookLM can do. The AI-powered research and note-taking tool has been around for years, but the company has infused it with [...]

Google bakes NotebookLM, its research tool, into Gemini

Google has fully integrated NotebookLM, its AI-powered research tool, into the Gemini app. The company launched a standalone NotebookLM app last year, but as it said in its announcement, “keeping tr [...]

Google adds Deep Research capabilities to NotebookLM

At the end of 2024, Google was one of the first companies to start offering a Deep Research tool through its AI chatbot. Now, nearly a full year later, the company is bringing that same capability to [...]

Meta will reportedly soon use AI for most product risk assessments instead of human reviewers

According to a report from NPR, Meta plans to shift the task of assessing its products' potential harms away from human reviewers, instead leaning more heavily on AI to speed up the process. Inte [...]

Scale AI launches Voice Showdown, the first real-world benchmark for voice AI — and the results are humbling for some top models

Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversat [...]