Florent Daudens has built an open source version of NotebookLM’s podcast to break down the top AI research paper each day: “Fully automated, now live on Spotify.” (LinkedIn)
AI & Journalism Links
This started out as a spreadsheet. Now it's a blog. And a Newsletter.
First LLM Classifier: Learn how journalists use large-language models to organize and analyze massive datasets.
Scraperr: A “no-code” data-extraction tool for web scraping with XPath selectors. (We hate it when they do it to us, but we love some scraping for our own use.)
Transformer Lab is an open-source platform for building, tuning, and running LLMs locally, sans coding.
Is this already ‘agentic’? Google’s NotebookLM now searches and incorporates relevant web content.
Roganbot, created by two journalists, is the testbed for “visibility tools” that help keep tabs on the internet. (Neel Dhanesha, NiemanLab)
PDF2Audio: Convert PDFs into an audio podcast, lecture, summary and others
Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine. It is an Open source alternative to Perplexity AI
Dexa: Where curiosity meets credibility (podcast archive search)
Lex is a new kind of word processor that makes it easy to be consistently brilliant.
