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NotebookLM: These AI Tools Can Help You Study and Learn

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 18:00:02

When I was in high school, there were some subjects you couldn't have paid me to study for, like math or government. I can't help but think about how different things might have been if I'd had something like NotebookLM available to help me care about and study for those subjects I actively avoided. It probably would have made me a much better student. NotebookLM is a solid AI research assistant, and it really shines as a tool for students. What sets it apart from other AI tools is that it does

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NotebookLM moves one step closer to replacing your real-life tutor

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 17:54:39

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Google is introducing a range of new NotebookLM features to improve learning. NotebookLM gets quizzes and flashcards, along with an Explain option, to help you memorize better. It also gets multiple new formats for reports and a Learning Guide that lets you ask open-ended questions and adapts to your learning style. While AI, in general, is marketed to enhance learning, NotebookLM has proven to especially boost understanding of concepts and enhance p

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NotebookLM Can Now Make Flashcards and Quizzes to Help You Study

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 09:13:52

If it wasn't obvious that NotebookLM is shaping up to be the ultimate AI tool for school, it should be now. And Google has more to share for the fall season. On Monday, Google announced its latest NotebookLM features, including the option to generate flashcards, quizzes, new reports and more. Brand-new audio formats for the popular Audio Overviews feature were also released just last week. What sets NotebookLM apart from other AI tools is that it will only rely on the source material you provi

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NotebookLM isn’t just for students. Here are 4 ways I use it in my daily life

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 18:00:43

Andy Walker / Android Authority I consider myself a generative AI skeptic, with my initial interest in the technology turning into frustration and distrust. But there’s one tool that has genuinely impressed me over the past few months: NotebookLM. Its power lies in the ability for you to set custom sources that the service’s chatbot draws information from — leading to better quality responses compared with many of the other tools I’ve experimented with. Most people dismiss NotebookLM as a too

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Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize the tone of its AI podcasts

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-17 06:29:03

Google’s AI note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM now lets users customize the tone of their Audio Overviews, which are podcasts with AI virtual hosts that summarize and discuss documents shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal briefs. When generating an Audio Overview, users can now choose whether they want their AI podcasts to be formatted as a “Deep Dive,” “Brief,” “Critique,” or “Debate.” A Deep Dive features conversational dialogues where two AI hosts unpack the t

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Google's NotebookLM now lets you customize your AI podcasts in tone and length

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-17 18:51:02

NotebookLM/Screenshot by Nina Raemont ZDNET's key takeaways NotebookLM introduced new audio formats on Wednesday. The formats offer users more interactive, customizable information distillation. The tool could save students and workers time. Google's NotebookLM audio overview feature went viral because it uses AI to create engaging, realistic podcasts from your content. The feature just got a facelift, making it even more helpful, allowing you to customize the podcast to suit your needs eve

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NotebookLM can now argue with itself over your notes

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-18 18:27:33

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR NotebookLM is adding new Audio Overview formats: Brief, Critique, and Debate. Each format changes how two AI hosts present your notes, from summaries to arguments. The update is rolling out now. NotebookLM has quickly become a favorite of ours. We’ve used it to cut through everything from apartment contracts to car manuals, and it’s consistently proven to be one of Google’s most practical AI tools. But it’s also got a creative side, especially with its p

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You can customize your NotebookLM Audio Overview outputs in-app now - here's how

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-03 10:43:44

peshkov/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: The NotebookLM app now offers new customization options. The platform is positioned as an AI-powered research assistant. More updates can be expected soon, according to the platform. The NotebookLM mobile app just got a little more customizable. You can now specify more elements within the Google-owned platform's Audio Overview tool, which debuted in September of

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Google Reportedly Working on a Mysterious 'Magic View' for NotebookLM

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 16:21:00

Google is continually expanding and strengthening the features for NotebookLM, its free AI-powered research assistant. An upcoming feature, code-named Magic View, should eventually land in the Studio panel alongside popular features like Audio and Video Overviews. At the moment, there's no clear indication as to what Magic View is (or will do) when it formally arrives in NotebookLM, but it's clear that Google keeps improving what I'd consider its best AI tool available today. The leak comes fr

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I wasn’t using NotebookLM for YouTube research, but this extension changed all that

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 18:30:29

Andy Walker / Android Authority NotebookLM is by far the best AI project Google has piloted, and you can’t convince me otherwise. Sure, there are flashier examples, but none match the practical, everyday usefulness of this research and notebook app. Whether it’s for analyzing insurance or legal documents or helping me navigate my car’s user and care manual, this is one AI product I use almost every day. While importing various documents into the service is straightforward, uploading online medi

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Google’s NotebookLM is now available to younger users as competition in the AI education space intensifies

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-09 23:03:39

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 tool, allowing them to better understand their class materials. Now, students can access features such as the ability to convert notes into podca

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Gemini is getting ready to work with our favorite Google AI tool (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 03:00:50

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR NotebookLM asks users to upload collections of documents which are organized into notebooks. Right now, NotebookLM draws only from these notebooks when answering your questions. Gemini support for notebook uploads may let users combine those resources with the wider internet. NotebookLM is arguably one of Google’s most useful AI tools, and has helped introduce us to impressive features like Audio Overviews. Perhaps its greatest strength stems from how fo

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Google adds Video Overviews to NotebookLM

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 04:15:24

The AI can now use visuals to help illustrate points, though it's only available in a slideshow format for now. NotebookLM, the Google research tool that gained notoriety for its AI-generated podcasts, is introducing a feature called Video Overviews. As the name suggests, this tool automatically creates videos on requested topics and pulls data from a user's uploaded images, diagrams, quotes and documents. It's rolling out right now, but there are some caveats. These overviews are only availab

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NotebookLM’s impressive new feature is a godsend for visual learners

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-23 09:35:56

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google has launched Video Overviews in NotebookLM, turning your notes into narrated slide videos. The AI can generate new visuals and mix them with your documents to explain complex topics. A redesigned Studio panel also lets users create multiple outputs per notebook. NotebookLM has gradually become one of Google’s most useful tools for making sense of dense material, especially with its podcast-style Audio Overviews. Now it’s adding a visual twist as V

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I got ChatGPT Agent to deliver a truly useful report - and then NotebookLM took it to the next level

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-29 14:42:31

Vlad Georgescu/Getty Images What happens when you take a billion dollars of computer power and let it research a question for twelve whole minutes? A lot more than if you use that same power for just a few seconds, that's for sure. Since ChatGPT Agent is so new, I've been exploring its capabilities and trying to understand what kinds of problems it's best suited for. This time, I asked it to compare cloud storage services. It took twelve minutes to come up with an answer. Also: 9 programming

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I finally gave NotebookLM my full attention - and it really is a total game changer

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-01-06 18:33:56

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET One of the best parts of my job is that I get to chat with industry folks who, like me, eat and breathe AI tools. After meeting with yet another (non-Google-affiliated) media person last week who told me how much they loved NotebookLM, I decided to give it a real try. Also: OpenAI wins gold at prestigious math competition - why that matters more than you think Although I've tried several NotebookLM features for the site before and have been impressed, finding a wa

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NotebookLM now lets you chat with expert guides from top publishers, and Shakespeare - here's how

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-01-19 18:28:09

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Google announced Monday that it is expanding the repertoire of NotebookLM, its AI-powered note-taking and research platform, to include the works of some prominent publishing names. Also: NotebookLM now lets you share your notebooks with anyone with a single link. Here's how The company is collaborating with a cohort of scientists, nonprofits, authors, and news publishers to deliver a series of featured notebooks for NotebookLM users. These notebooks cove

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-21 09:26:38

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 initial collection, which includes notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, as well as profess

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Google adds featured notebooks on selected topics to NotebookLM

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-22 04:14:00

Google is adding what it calls "featured notebooks" to NotebookLM as a way to demo its AI-powered software and offer interactive, high-quality resources on everything from personal advice to William Shakespeare. The company tried something similar after its developer conference in May, when it created a NotebookLM notebook trained on everything that was announced at Google I/O 2025. The new featured notebooks have their own dedicated tab on the NotebookLM homepage and were created in partnershi

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Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-22 04:02:59

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to launch “featured” notebooks within its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks come pre-filled with research, and let you interact with the app’s tools, including its AI podcast maker, to learn more about each topic. Google has released eight featured notebooks to start, inc

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Google’s underrated AI tool just got a major upgrade with featured notebooks

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-22 09:38:31

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding expert-curated featured notebooks to NotebookLM, expanding its role beyond personal research and note-taking. Topics include the complete works of Shakespeare, Yellowstone travel tips, and predictions from The Economist. The new feature is desktop-only for now and follows the recent rollout of public notebook sharing. NotebookLM was already doing a good job as anything from a personal research assistant to an advisor on your car maintena

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-22 09:26:38

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 initial collection, which includes notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, as well as profess

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Is Google secretly testing new AI voices in NotebookLM?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-08 00:09:53

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR NotebookLM users are hearing a mysterious third male voice during longer Audio Overviews. Google has confirmed that additional voices and dialects are coming, alongside APIs and video overviews, but it’s unclear if this third voice is a feature or a bug. AI features can be quite a hit and miss, but Google’s NotebookLM is definitely one of the hits. NotebookLM is a personal AI research assistant that lets users control the AI’s data sources, enabling them

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Google’s latest experiment brings NotebookLM’s best features to Search

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-17 20:33:14

TL;DR Audio Overviews emerged as one of Google’s breakout AI hits, synthesizing virtual podcasts with a pair of hosts. After debuting with NotebookLM and spreading to other Google services, the company is experimenting with Audio Overviews in Search. For this initial test, access is limited to the US and only supports English. Forgive us for sounding like a broken record by this point, but Google’s Audio Overviews have easily emerged as one of the company’s most genuinely impressive and usefu

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Latest Tech News

NotebookLM: These AI Tools Can Help You Study and Learn

NotebookLM moves one step closer to replacing your real-life tutor

NotebookLM Can Now Make Flashcards and Quizzes to Help You Study

NotebookLM isn’t just for students. Here are 4 ways I use it in my daily life

Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize the tone of its AI podcasts

Google's NotebookLM now lets you customize your AI podcasts in tone and length

NotebookLM can now argue with itself over your notes

You can customize your NotebookLM Audio Overview outputs in-app now - here's how

Google Reportedly Working on a Mysterious 'Magic View' for NotebookLM

I wasn’t using NotebookLM for YouTube research, but this extension changed all that

Google’s NotebookLM is now available to younger users as competition in the AI education space intensifies

Gemini is getting ready to work with our favorite Google AI tool (APK teardown)

Google adds Video Overviews to NotebookLM

NotebookLM’s impressive new feature is a godsend for visual learners

I got ChatGPT Agent to deliver a truly useful report - and then NotebookLM took it to the next level

I finally gave NotebookLM my full attention - and it really is a total game changer

NotebookLM now lets you chat with expert guides from top publishers, and Shakespeare - here's how

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others

Google adds featured notebooks on selected topics to NotebookLM

Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare

Google’s underrated AI tool just got a major upgrade with featured notebooks

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others

Is Google secretly testing new AI voices in NotebookLM?

Google’s latest experiment brings NotebookLM’s best features to Search

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