One of the many announcements from Google’s I/O 2025 developer conference is Google AI Ultra.  

Google is calling it the future of communication.  And it might be.  We don’t know yet (unless you’re from the future - if so, I have a lot of questions).

One of the more common things that we hear from people (regarding AI chatbots like ChatGPT) is some version of -

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I tried to use ChatGPT to transcribe some audio files and it didn’t work. After doing some research, I found that I can use another OpenAI tool called Whisper but it looks too technical for me. Is there a...

A lot of times when we use AI tools like ChatGPT, we believe that we know the answer that we are looking for.  We’ll know it when we see it or whatever we tell ourselves.

They keep adding features to these AI chatbots.  The latest for Gemini is called scheduled actions.

In a lot of ways, Perplexity is one of the sleeper AI tools.  It doesn’t get as much attention as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot but they are quietly building a solid product.

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Can you help me understand why I would use NotebookLM over something like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini?  I don’t want to make podcasts and I don’t see any other reason to consider it.~ Anonymous

Another prompting framework because, why not?

This one will hopefully be easy to remember for the right audience…

The framework is STAGE and here is the breakdown 

I know, I know, they are not technically called podcasts, but I feel like that’s how everyone knows them.