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Google's silence on NotebookLM at I/O proves why people don't trust their products

Mahnoor Faisal May 30, 2026, 8:31 AM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . …

May 30, 2026 · Mahnoor Faisal

Forget Notion and Obsidian, 5 reasons Google’s AI note-taking tool is the future of productivity

… Enter NotebookLM, an AI-driven workspace that aims to transform how you interact with information. Previously known as Project Tailwind, NotebookLM is a productivity powerhouse designed to streamline workflows, enhance research, and unlock insights in ways Notion and Obsidian can’t match. …

Mar 27, 2026 · Parth Shah

My local LLM is the best productivity tool I've installed in years, and it costs nothing to run

… I’d been reading a lot about it, and since I was already dabbling with a local and self-hosted productivity stack, local AI seemed like the next step to try. …

Mar 24, 2026 · Nolen Jonker

These 5 small tweaks made my self-hosted LLM setup way more productive

… Giving the model a local memory turned it from a generic AI assistant into a highly personalized engine that understands exactly how I operate. Related I turned my home server into an AI appliance, and this is the stack that actually stuck My reliable, low-friction self-hosted AI productivity setup. …

May 26, 2026 · Yash Patel

Until NotebookLM, I never believed AI could be this game-changing for productivity

… Sure, there are still moments when using certain AI tools makes me want to pull my hair out, but NotebookLM is the one tool that taught me that AI can indeed be a game-changer for productivity. …

May 9, 2026 · Mahnoor Faisal

I finally built the central AI hub I've been wanting, and Open WebUI made it stupidly simple

… And that’s just the LLM side… It’s even compatible with AI models besides LLMs Image generators, TTS models, and STT pipelines, Open WebUI can do it all Most productivity-driven AI applications can only harness LLMs to aid my daily tasks, with a few supporting embedding models at most. …

Jun 7, 2026 · Ayush Pande

AI is arriving on Ubuntu, and it's open source, local, and nothing like what you're worried about

… AI features must be mature, open-source, and run locally when possible. Focus AI on accessibility speech-to-text, TTS and improvements, not turning Ubuntu into an 'AI product'. For people who dislike AI, tech headlines and press releases have been a nightmare lately. …

Apr 28, 2026 · Simon Batt

I used my local LLM to rebuild my workflow from scratch, and it was better than I expected

… The local AI stack I built My productivity-focused local AI stack I wanted my local AI setup to feel practical, not like a weekend experiment I’d forget about. I built the stack the same way I approach most self-hosted tools — modular, flexible, and easy to maintain. …

Apr 12, 2026 · Yash Patel

Microsoft's Copilot just became the productivity collaborator it was promised to be

… The world of AI is moving at an incredible rate. The chatbots that OpenAI popularized a few years ago are now regarded as old news; pretty much every major company has an LLM you can talk to. …

Apr 23, 2026 · Simon Batt

DRAM prices have tripled, and three products are paying the price

… This is how the AI infrastructure boom is cannibalizing the enthusiast tier we've been waiting for, sometimes even for years. …

Apr 12, 2026 · Jasmine Mannan

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