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The Ohio State Buckeyes host the Texas Longhorns Saturday at the Horseshoe in Columbus, Ohio is one of the most highly anticipated openers to a college football season in years. Ohio State defeated Texas in the college football playoff last season enroute to the national title. The rematch finds Texas ranked No. 1 in every preseason poll with Ohio State …

In the year 2025, it seems we’re hearing frequent warnings about impending doom via artificial intelligence. And that’s not without some merit: Heck, AI is causing job loss and filling our social feeds with fairly convincing slop. But sometimes, the world sends a reminder that our AI tools are a far cry from Schwarzeneggerian domination. For instance, Google’s much-maligned AI …

Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed.  Last month, NotebookLM launched Video Overviews so users could turn their notes, PDFs, and images into video presentations. Previously only available in English, this update …

Google’s Liz Reid, in response to all the third-party studies, wrote on the Google blog, “Overall, total organic click volume from Google Search to websites has been relatively stable year-over-year.” There was no specific data shared, Google did not offer up Search Console data, Google didn’t show a chart – they just wrote clicks are “relatively stable.” I do have …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Gemini has made a nice quality-of-life update for Audio Overviews on Android and iOS by introducing a native, inline player. Previously, tapping on a generated Audio Overview opened the file in your browser with a long URL. You could listen in that Chrome tab or download (and use the Files app) for an unwieldy experience. Now, the Android and iOS …

Google’s search results have undergone a seismic shift over the past year as AI fever has continued to escalate among the tech giants. Nowhere is this change more apparent than right at the top of Google’s storied results page, which is now home to AI Overviews. Google contends these Gemini-based answers don’t take traffic away from websites, but a new …