Google Disco aims to break that cycle.

"Google Disco" is a new experimental AI browser from Google Labs that aims to break the cycle of manual and time-consuming web research.

The traditional browsing experience requires users to search for information, open multiple tabs, and manually combine answers. This places a heavy "cognitive load" on the user. Google Disco aims to change this by:

Using AI: It uses the Gemini AI model to perform the research.

Transforming Research: A key feature, "GenTabs", promises to turn scattered research into interactive web applications.

Redefining Functionality: The goal is to change browsing from a passive activity to one that actively helps the user reason, plan, and build.

Wind farm operators can use this information to better plan where wind farms should be located and to help them better navigate migration patterns. For example, a wind farm could slow down its turbines, or even stop them entirely, during heavy periods of local migration.

Ask Helseth (pictured above left), the co-founder and CEO of Spoor, told TechCrunch last year that he got interested in this space after learning that wind farms lacked effective tracking methods, despite many countries having strict rules around where wind farms can be built and how they can operate due to local bird populations.

“The expectations from the regulators are growing but the industry doesn’t have a great tool,” Helseth said at the time. “A lot of people [go out] in the field with binoculars and trained dogs to find out how many birds are colliding with the turbines.”

The company has also received interest in using its tech to track other objects of similar size — but Helseth said they aren’t thinking of pivoting into those areas quite yet.

“Drones are of course a plastic bird in our mind,” Helseth joked. “They move in a different way and have a different shape and size. Currently we are discarding that data but we are getting interest in it.”

Spoor recently raised an €8 million ($9.3 million) Series A round led by SET Ventures with participation from Ørsted Ventures, EnBW New Ventures, and Superorganism in addition to strategic investors.

Helseth predicts that interest in this type of technology will only grow as regulators continue to crack down on wind farms. For example, French regulators shut down a wind farm in April due to its impact on the local bird population and imposed hundreds of millions of fines.

By - Aaradhay Sharma