Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM

July 12, 2023

Google is making its “AI notebook for everyone” available to a select few, and renaming it from Project Tailwind to NotebookLM. If you struggle to make sense of the pile of information in your Google Drive, a light coating of AI could be just the thing. The project was announced at I/O in May as […]

Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Here’s what to expect in iOS 17 as Apple releases first public beta

July 12, 2023

Apple just published the first public beta of iOS 17. Unlike developer betas, that’s the beta version that should be stable enough to be used by regular people. The company still plans to release the final version of iOS 17 this fall. But Apple is going to release betas every few weeks over the summer. […]

Here’s what to expect in iOS 17 as Apple releases first public beta by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk wants to build AI to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’

July 12, 2023

Elon Musk, Twitter’s not-so-benevolent CEO, today announced the launch of a new organization, xAI, to “understand the true nature of the universe.” Ambitious? A little. So how does xAI plan to achieve it? More details will be announced during a Twitter Spaces on Friday, apparently. But xAI’s splash page reveals that the team — 12 […]

Elon Musk wants to build AI to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’ by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Report: e-bike startup VanMoof, unable to pay its bills, files for payment deferment in Holland

July 12, 2023

Is VanMoof about to go poof? Earlier this week, we reported on how the Amsterdam-based e-bike startup, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in venture funding, was facing a major crisis: a prolonged pause in sales; a barrage of angry customers demanding refunds for their bikes, or complaining about the lack of service on […]

Report: e-bike startup VanMoof, unable to pay its bills, files for payment deferment in Holland by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Istio graduates

July 12, 2023

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that Istio, the open-source service mesh originally developed by Google and IBM and built on top of Lyft’s Envoy proxy, has graduated from its status as an incubating project and moved to join the likes of Kubernetes, Prometheus and fellow service mesh Linkerd as a CNCF Graduated […]

Istio graduates by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch