A bumper fireside chat this week – stuffed a lot into a short time. And to top it all, my suggestion on recording the meeting, and then asking gemini to extract the transcript and summarise, did not prove as prosperous as I thought. To demonstrate, I will add it to the bottom of these notes.
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