{"id":980,"date":"2025-07-14T19:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/980\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:29:03","slug":"googles-curated-ai-notebooks-talk-you-through-topics-from-parenting-to-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/980\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s curated AI \u2018notebooks\u2019 talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/google-labs\/notebooklm-featured-notebooks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to launch \u201cfeatured\u201d notebooks within<\/a> its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks come pre-filled with research, and let you interact with the app\u2019s tools, including its AI podcast maker, to learn more about each topic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google started letting users share <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/678915\/google-notebooklm-share-public-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their notebooks publicly last month<\/a>, and this most recent update appears to be a step toward allowing people to explore a range of premade notebooks rather than creating their own. More than 140,000 people shared public notebooks in the past four weeks, according to Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cFor newcomers to NotebookLM, the notebooks are a preview of how useful the product can be when you\u2019ve assembled a collection of sources for whatever project you\u2019re working on,\u201d Steven Johnson, the editorial director for NotebookLM, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/stevenbjohnson\/status\/1944803467085619631\" rel=\"nofollow\">writes in a post on X<\/a>. \u201cBut it\u2019s also a preview of a potential future where there are thousands of expert-curated notebooks on all sorts of topics that you can add to your own collection, to have the knowledge you need on tap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The featured notebooks include original text from the source material, whether it\u2019s a book, play, newsletter, or online article. NotebookLM automatically summarizes this information and comes pre-loaded with notes about the topics discussed in the source material. You can also interact with NotebookLM\u2019s AI chatbot to ask questions about the information, as well as listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/657785\/google-audio-overviews-ai-podcasts-50-languages\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pre-generated Audio Overviews<\/a>, the podcast-like discussions featuring AI \u201chosts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google says it plans on launching new featured notebooks in the future, which will include more from The Economist and The Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to launch \u201cfeatured\u201d notebooks within its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[554,59,844,50,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-gb","tag-google","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}