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NotebookLM is one of my favorite applications in decades. If you haven’t experienced it before, it’s an application that lets you pull in sources from all around - Google Drive, PDFs, public links - collate them into a notebook, and then query or transform that content. Want to turn five research papers into a podcast? Done. Need to extract key takeaways from a collection of articles? Easy. It’s a fundamentally different way of interacting with information that wasn’t possible before large language models.

Readeck: Home
Save interesting articles, long read, pictures, videos. Read or revisit them later.

Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans
Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools.

homepages.news — News Homepages documentation
An open-source archive that gathers, saves, shares and analyzes news homepages
Exclusive: New York Times tests out AI-generated search summaries
In recent weeks, the paper has quietly rolled out a new AI-powered search page for a small subset of visitors.



How To Argue With An AI Booster
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Paper page - Knowledge Navigator: LLM-guided Browsing Framework for Exploratory Search in Scientific Literature
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Hyperlink Academy
It's a lightweight collaborative publishing tool for quick tiny docs that can grow into rich creative surfaces ✨🌱
God Damn AI is making me dumb
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...

Report: AI Use in Newspapers Is Widespread, Uneven… | Maryland Today
UMD Computer Scientists, Private Firms Examine News and Opinion Pages in U.S. Media
AI Search Has a Citation Problem
We compared eight AI search engines. They’re all bad at citing news.

Refine
I recently tried refine, an AI tool for refining academic articles, developed by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.

atproto idea (that’s also just a general want, but atproto-fied): basically browser.horse + unclutter.it with annotation and highlighting via margin.at, articles can be found via standard.site à la potatoes.app or via semble.so collections with a touch of alfread app design/goals/features
Today's @skyreader.app update improves the discussion for every article you read. - commentary across bluesky, @semble.so, and @margin.at - semble collections the article appears in - semble typed connections to other articles with one-tap save to read later