On a rainy July morning in a plush Amsterdam suburb, Nathan Xu has camped out at an Italian coffee shop for a full slate of meetings. Smiling, he asks if he can record our conversation and clips a slim memory stick-sized device to his shirt. With just a click, the pill-shaped gadget starts recording, transcribing and summarizing everything he says — and everything anyone around him says too. The device, made by Xu’s San Francisco and Shenzen, China-based startup Plaud, can store up to 20 hours of recordings, turning that into searchable transcripts by connecting its #microphones with Plaud’s own software and a bundle of #AI tools like #ChatGPT. Dubbed the #NotePin, the gadget has found a fast growing audience. Since launching in 2023, Xu has sold over 1 million such devices to #doctors, #lawyers, and other overworked folks with long days and short memories. That makes #Plaud an early front-runner in the race to move artificial intelligence tools out of your phone or laptop and onto ...