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Google releases a standalone NotebookLM app for Android — As previewed earlier this month, Google today released the NotebookLM app for Android ahead of I/O 2025. — This native experience starts on a homepage of your notebooks with filters at the top for Recent, Shared, Title, and Downloaded.

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Q&A with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI agents and MCP, web search, NLWeb, the relationship with OpenAI, how new hardware and optimizations benefit AI, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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