I ran a full LLM on my phone with no internet, and it's more useful than I expected
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The people who made NotebookLM built my favorite morning app — then they killed it
1d agoNotebookLM's Mind Maps were useless to me until this one update changed everything
2d agoNotion AI looked smart until I tried NotebookLM for grounded research and Claude Projects for action
4d agoGoogle's silence on NotebookLM at I/O proves why people don't trust their products
1w agoGemini for Android Auto fell short of the expectations Google Assistant set for me
…Sign in to your XDA account In the last three years, Google's AI has gone from Bard to Gemini , sweeping across its entire software lineup and dethroning Assistant in the process…
Google Opal is the most impressive no-code app builder I've tested, and it's completely free to use
…Sign in to your XDA account I'm not going to sugarcoat it: Google's AI efforts are something I've always had a complicated relationship with. Their journey has been interesting…
Gemini Gems are way more powerful than I thought, and I wasted months ignoring them
Megan Ellis May 16, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Megan is a Software Writer at XDA Developers who has been writing about consumer technology since 2016. With a postgraduate degree in New…
I tried this Gemini feature and haven't opened Canva, PowerPoint, or Notion since
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I replaced my entire workflow with Claude Code, and I'm not even a developer
…Related I used Claude Code, Google Antigravity and OpenAI Codex to develop an app, and found only one worth using Vibe coding is here to stay, and it has only one champion…
I talk to Perplexity Computer all day, and it's finally what AI assistants promised to be
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I finally built the central AI hub I've been wanting, and Open WebUI made it stupidly simple
…Related I replaced NotebookLM with this free tool that uses my local LLMs It lets me use my own local LLMs instead of being locked into Google's models That way, it…
OpenAI's Codex is starting to look less like a coding tool and more like an AI workspace
…Sign in to your XDA account OpenAI's Codex, as evident by the name, is a tool that's primarily built for... developers. It's designed to write code, fix bugs, review…
I stopped asking Claude to plan get-togethers after Google added Gemini to Maps
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