Google tests NotebookLM’s chatty AI podcast on Search.
Play: AI in the Wild
Google Labs Portraits: Author Kim Scott is letting Google make a chatbot version of her to coach people.
“Googled ‘I am a pigeon what should I do next’ and the google ai made me an entire itinerary?? With survival tips??” (pipers.jpeg, Threads)
Chatbot alert: Advance Digital and NJ.com launch AI-powered Politics Election Hub for New Jersey’s governor’s race 2025. (via David Cohn)
Okay, this is slick PR, but: Anthropic got Rick Rubin to do some visual code experiments based on Lao Tzu for the Claude release. Translation: with Claude access, you can vibe-code pretty animations.
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)
Spotify Wrapped’s new feature: A personalized AI podcast (Jiselle Lee, WaPost)
“what, exactly is a soup compared to a sauce or a drink” (Ethan Mollick, Threads)
European Parliament expands access to their archives with Claude (Anthropic)
Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age (Peter Baker, Dylan Freedman, NYTimes)
STORM: a LLM system that writes Wikipedia-like articles from scratch based on Internet search (Stanford)
Want an iPhone 16 Review? Just Ask Joannabot (Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal)
Can an AI make a data-driven, visual story? (Russell Samora, Michelle Pera-McGhee, ThePudding)
