The people who made NotebookLM built my favorite morning app — then they killed it
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Huxe, an AI-powered morning briefing app built by former NotebookLM team members, has shut down after roughly 11 months. The app generated personalized daily audio podcasts from users' Gmail and Google Calendar, along with live topic-based audio stations. The author describes it as one of the few AI apps that genuinely stood out amid widespread AI fatigue, praising its focused audio-first vision and growing personalization. The shutdown came just days after Google announced Gemini Daily Brief at I/O 2026 — a near-identical feature — raising obvious questions about the timing, though the Huxe team offered no detailed explanation.
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For a few months, Huxe was the best AI app on my phoneHuxe felt focused, personal, and quietly well-builtAnd then, just like that, it was gone65 Impressions