Google's best AI research tool is getting its own app - preorder it now

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Google is about to make it a lot easier to do research on the go. On May 20, it will officially launch native NotebookLM apps on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and you can register now to have them automatically downloaded to your device. What's NotebookLM? NotebookLM is Google's AI "research assistant" that debuted as a web browser-based service last year. It's often described as a smart notebook -- one where you can dump PDFs, articles, YouTube links, plain text, Google Docs or Slides, and so on, and then ask the AI to summarize key points, answer questions, or even turn your source material into a mini podcast. Also: Google's viral AI podcast tool can chat in over 50 languages now and it aced my Spanish test NotebookLM is powered by the latest Gemini models. Everything you ask comes with clear citations, so you can see exactly which sentences the AI pulled from your sources. That makes it great for students, professionals, ... Read full article.