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Chris McKay@Maginative
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Google's AI research notebook, NotebookLM, has introduced a significant upgrade that enhances collaboration by allowing users to publicly share their AI-powered notebooks with a simple link. This new feature, called Public Notebooks, enables users to share their research summaries and audio overviews generated by AI with anyone, without requiring sign-in or permissions. This move aims to transform NotebookLM from a personal research tool into an interactive, AI-powered knowledge hub, facilitating easier distribution of study guides, project briefs, and more.
The public sharing feature provides viewers with the ability to interact with AI-generated content like FAQs and overviews, as well as ask questions in chat. However, they cannot edit the original sources, ensuring the preservation of ownership while enabling discovery. To share a notebook, users can click the "Share" button, switch the setting to "Anyone with the link," and copy the link. This streamlined process is similar to sharing Google Docs, making it intuitive and accessible for users. This upgrade is particularly beneficial for educators, startups, and nonprofits. Teachers can share curated curriculum summaries, startups can distribute product manuals, and nonprofits can publish donor briefing documents without the need to build a dedicated website. By enabling easier sharing of AI-generated notes and audio overviews, Google is demonstrating how generative AI can be integrated into everyday productivity workflows, making NotebookLM a more grounded tool for sense-making of complex material. Recommended read:
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@zdnet.com
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Google is expanding access to its AI-powered research assistant, NotebookLM, with the launch of a standalone mobile app for Android and iOS devices. This marks a significant step for NotebookLM, transitioning it from a web-based beta tool to a more accessible platform for mobile users. The app retains core functionalities like source-grounded summaries and interactive Q&A, while also introducing new audio-first features designed for on-the-go content consumption. This release aligns with Google's broader strategy to integrate AI into its products, offering users a flexible way to absorb and interact with structured knowledge.
The NotebookLM mobile app places a strong emphasis on audio interaction, featuring AI-generated podcast-style summaries that can be played directly from the project list. Users can generate these audio overviews with a quick action button, creating an experience akin to a media player. The app also supports interactive mode during audio sessions, allowing users to ask questions mid-playback and participate in live dialogue. This focus on audio content consumption and interaction differentiates the mobile app and suggests that passive listening and educational use are key components of the intended user experience. The mobile app mirrors the web-based layout, offering functionalities across Sources, Chat, and Interactive Assets, including Notes, Audio Overviews, and Mind Maps. Users can now add sources directly from their mobile devices by using the "Share" button in any app. The new NotebookLM app aims to be a research assistant that is accessible to students, researchers, and content creators, providing a mobile solution for absorbing structured knowledge. Recommended read:
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Alexey Shabanov@TestingCatalog
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Google has launched the NotebookLM mobile app for Android and iOS, bringing its AI-powered research assistant to mobile devices. This release marks a significant step in expanding access to NotebookLM, which was initially launched as a web-based tool in 2023 under the codename "Project Tailwind." The mobile app aims to offer personalized learning and efficient content synthesis, allowing users to interact with and process information on the go. The app is officially available to everyone after months of waiting, offering the core features of NotebookLM, with the promise of continued functionality additions.
The NotebookLM mobile app focuses on audio-first experiences, with features like audio overviews that generate podcast-style summaries. These summaries can be played directly from the list view without opening a project, making it feel like a media player for casual content consumption. Users can also download audio overviews for offline playback and listen in the background, supporting learning during commutes or other activities. Moreover, the app supports interactive mode in audio sessions, where users can ask questions mid-playback, creating a live dialogue experience. The mobile app retains the functionality of the web version, including the ability to create new notebooks and upload sources like PDFs, Google Docs, and YouTube videos. Users can add sources directly from their mobile devices by using the "Share" button in any app, making it easier to build and maintain research libraries. NotebookLM relies only on user-uploaded sources, ensuring reliable and verifiable information. The rollout underscores Google’s evolving strategy for NotebookLM, transitioning from a productivity assistant to a multimodal content platform, appealing to students, researchers, and content creators seeking flexible ways to absorb structured knowledge. Recommended read:
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Alexey Shabanov@TestingCatalog
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Google has officially launched the NotebookLM mobile app for both Android and iOS, extending the reach of its AI-powered research assistant. This release, anticipated before Google I/O 2025, allows users to leverage NotebookLM's capabilities directly from their smartphones and tablets. The app aims to help users understand information more effectively, regardless of their location, marking a step towards broader accessibility to AI tools.
The NotebookLM mobile app provides a range of features, including the ability to create new notebooks and add various content types, such as PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, and text. A key feature highlighted by Google is the availability of "Audio Overviews," which automatically generates audio summaries for offline and background playback. Furthermore, users can interact with AI hosts (in beta) to ask follow-up questions, enhancing the learning and research experience on the go. The app also integrates with the Android and iOS share sheets for quickly adding sources. The initial release offers a straightforward user interface optimized for both phones and tablets. Navigation within the app includes a bottom bar providing easy access to Sources, Chat Q&A, and Studio. While it currently doesn't fully utilize Material 3 design principles, Google emphasizes this is an early version. Users can now download the NotebookLM app from the Google Play Store and the App Store, fulfilling a top feature request. Google has indicated that additional updates and features are planned for future releases. Recommended read:
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Krishna Chytanya@AI & Machine Learning
// 33d
Google is significantly enhancing its AI capabilities across its Gemini platform and various products, focusing on multilingual support and AI-assisted features. To address the needs of global users, Google has introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) which enables the creation of chatbots capable of supporting multiple languages. This system uses Gemini, Gemma, and Translation LLM to provide quick and accurate answers in different languages. MCP acts as a standardized way for AI systems to interact with external data sources and tools, allowing AI agents to access information and execute actions outside their own models.
Google Gemini is also receiving AI-powered image editing features within its chat interface. Users can now tweak backgrounds, swap out objects, and make other adjustments to both AI-generated and personal photos, with support for over 45 languages in most countries. The editing tools are being rolled out gradually for users on web and mobile devices. Additionally, Google is expanding access to its AI tools by releasing a standalone app for NotebookLM, one of its best AI tools. This will make it easier for users to delve into notes on complex topics directly from their smartphones. In a move toward monetization within the AI space, Google is testing AdSense ads inside AI chatbot conversations. The company has expanded its AdSense for Search platform to support chatbots from startups and its own Gemini tools. This reflects a shift in how people find information online as AI services increasingly provide direct answers, potentially reducing the need to visit traditional websites. Furthermore, Google is extending Gemini's reach to younger users by rolling out a version for children under 13 with parent-managed Google accounts through Family Link, ensuring safety and privacy measures are in place. Recommended read:
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@techradar.com
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Google has officially launched its AI-powered NotebookLM app on both Android and iOS platforms, expanding the reach of this powerful research tool beyond the web. The app, which leverages AI to summarize and analyze documents, aims to enhance productivity and learning by enabling users to quickly extract key insights from large volumes of text. The release of the mobile app coincides with Google I/O 2025, where further details about the app's features and capabilities are expected to be unveiled. Users can now pre-order the app on both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, ensuring automatic download upon its full launch on May 20th.
NotebookLM provides users with an AI-powered workspace to collate information from multiple sources, including documents, webpages, and more. The app offers smart summaries and allows users to ask questions about the data, making it a helpful alternative to Google Gemini for focused research tasks. The mobile version of NotebookLM retains most of the web app's features, including the ability to create and browse notebooks, add sources, and engage in conversations with the AI about the content. Users can also utilize the app to generate audio overviews or "podcasts" of their notes, which can be interrupted for follow-up questions. In addition to the mobile app launch, Google has significantly expanded the language support for NotebookLM's "Audio Overviews" feature. Originally available only in English, the AI-generated summaries can now be accessed in approximately 75 languages, including Spanish, French, Hindi, Turkish, Korean, Icelandic, Basque and Latin. This expansion allows researchers, students, and content creators worldwide to benefit from the audio summarization capabilities of NotebookLM, making it easier to digest long reading lists and providing an alternative channel for blind or low-vision users. Recommended read:
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Ken Yeung@Ken Yeung
// 64d
Google has launched a new feature called "Discover Sources" for NotebookLM, its AI-powered tool designed to organize and analyze information. Rolling out to all users starting April 2, 2025, the new feature automatically curates relevant websites on a specified topic, recommending up to ten sources accompanied by AI-generated summaries. This enhancement streamlines research by allowing users to quickly surface relevant content from the internet.
NotebookLM, initially launched in 2023 as an AI-powered alternative to Evernote and Microsoft OneNote, previously relied on manual uploads of documents, articles, and notes. "Discover Sources" automates the process of pulling in information from the internet with a single click. The curated sources remain accessible within NotebookLM notebooks, allowing users to leverage them within Briefing Docs, FAQs, and Audio Overviews without repeatedly scouring the internet. This enhancement highlights the growing trend of AI-driven research tools shaping how we work and learn. Recommended read:
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Ken Yeung@Ken Yeung
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Google's NotebookLM has been enhanced with a new "Discover Sources" feature, designed to streamline research and note-taking. This allows users to search the web directly within their notebooks, simplifying the process of finding relevant content. Describing the topic you are looking for will cause NotebookLM to search and summarize the most relevant sources and you can then add them to your notebook with a single click, eliminating the need to switch between browser tabs or manually upload sources.
This new tool recommends up to ten relevant web sources, each accompanied by an annotated summary explaining its importance to the topic. This feature is now available to all NotebookLM users, although the full rollout may take up to a week. "Discover Sources" leverages AI to surface relevant websites and automate the process of pulling information from the internet. NotebookLM users can utilize Briefing Docs, FAQs, and Audio Overviews using these new sources. Recommended read:
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Maria Deutscher@AI ? SiliconANGLE
// 66d
Isomorphic Labs, an Alphabet spinout focused on AI-driven drug design, has secured $600 million in its first external funding round. The investment, led by Thrive Capital with participation from Alphabet and GV, will fuel the advancement of Isomorphic Labs' AI drug design engine and therapeutic programs. The company aims to leverage artificial intelligence, including its AlphaFold technology, to revolutionize drug discovery across various therapeutic areas, including oncology and immunology. This funding is expected to accelerate research and development efforts, as well as facilitate the expansion of Isomorphic Labs' team with top-tier talent.
Isomorphic Labs, founded in 2021 by Sir Demis Hassabis, seeks to reimagine and accelerate drug discovery by applying AI. Its AI-powered engine streamlines the design of small molecules with therapeutic applications and can predict the effectiveness of a small molecule's attachment to a protein. The company's software also eases other aspects of the drug development workflow. Isomorphic Labs has already established collaborations with pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly and Novartis, and the new funding will support the progression of its own drug programs into clinical development. Recommended read:
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@zdnet.com
// 67d
Google is enhancing its AI ecosystem with new tools and features designed to boost productivity and simplify complex tasks. NotebookLM, Google's AI-powered research assistant, receives major updates including a revamped interface and the "Discover Sources" feature. This feature allows users to search for keywords and import relevant sources into their notebook knowledge base, identifying around 10 results per search and giving users manual control over their knowledge base.
Additionally, Google is integrating AI into travel planning with new tools in Google Maps. Users can now create trip itineraries in AI Overviews by entering travel-related queries into Google, which generates tailored suggestions, flight and hotel results, and an expandable map. Another feature allows Google Maps to analyze trip-related screenshots from platforms like TikTok or Instagram, identifying locations mentioned in the images and compiling them into an itinerary. Recommended read:
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Chris McKay@Maginative
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Google is enhancing its NotebookLM tool with interactive mind maps, a feature designed to help users visualize and navigate complex information from uploaded sources. These mind maps present document topics as branching diagrams, allowing users to explore connections and ask questions about specific areas by clicking on nodes. This visual approach aims to transform how users interact with their content, moving beyond linear reading to a more intuitive exploration of interconnected concepts.
LlamaIndex, a framework for building knowledge-driven AI agents, has also been integrated with Google Cloud's Gen AI Toolbox for Databases. This integration empowers developers to construct sophisticated AI agents with customizable workflows. LlamaIndex offers pre-built agent architectures for common use cases, along with tools to tailor the behavior of AI agents to specific requirements, which will benefit those using Gen AI Toolbox for Databases. Recommended read:
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