Following the announcement last week, Google has finished rolling out Video Overviews and a redesign of the Studio interface to all NotebookLM users. Video Overviews use your sources to essentially create a slide deck accompanied by narration. NotebookLM will use “images, diagrams, quotes and numbers from your documents” in the presentation. You can have it focus on certain topics, cater …
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Google’s AI note-taking app is now open to younger users, having previously been limited to users 18 and older. The tech giant announced that NotebookLM is available to Google Workspace for Education users of any age and for consumers ages 13 and up. The removal of age restrictions is intended to provide younger students with access to the AI research …
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Whether you’re a full-time college student or working a 9 to 5, one task you can never fully escape is making presentation slides. It’s something I actually used to love back in middle school. I mean… designing aesthetic slides, spending hours picking the perfect color palette, finding visuals that complement the content, and getting graded for all that fun? Why …
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Google’s NotebookLM is getting a new Video Overviews feature that uses AI to create slideshows with narration. The feature is rolling out now in English, and Google says that support for “more languages” is coming soon. “You can think of these as a visual alternative to Audio Overviews: the AI host creates new visuals to help illustrate points while also …
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Google announced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out Video Overviews to NotebookLM, its AI-based note-taking and research assistant. First introduced at Google I/O in May, Video Overviews allow users to turn dense multimedia, such as raw notes, PDFs, and images, into digestible visual presentations. Previously, the service took an audio approach to helping users understand materials with Audio Overviews, a feature …
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As teased at I/O 2025 in May, NotebookLM is adding Video Overviews to complement the popular audio podcasts. NotebookLM users now have another way — joining Study Guides, Briefing Docs, FAQs, Timelines, and Mind Maps — to output their sources. The first video format creates narrated slides and visuals to “to help illustrate points while also pulling in images, diagrams, …
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I used to begin each workday in chaos. My desktop brimmed with clutter. A dozen open tabs, notes scattered across apps, and an overflowing inbox. Even before getting any real work done, I already felt behind. Psychology calls it the Zeigarnik Effect. Our brain clings to unfinished tasks and destroys focus. Discovering NotebookLM changed everything. Here’s how I use NotebookLM …
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To help demonstrate what NotebookLM can do, Google is introducing “featured notebooks” on various topics. Google partnered with “respected authors, researchers, publications and nonprofits” to create notebooks on “everything from in-depth scientific explorations to practical travel guides to advice from experts.” Of note are partnerships with The Economist and The Atlantic. They will appear as a new “Featured notebooks” tab …
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Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination. The company announced Monday it would add a series of featured notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that allow NotebookLM users to explore a wide array of topics from health and life advice to travel tips and financial analysis, and more. The …
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