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Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans

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Being interrupted is annoying. Apparently, even AI-generated podcast hosts agree. Or so Google NotebookLM’s users discovered. NotebookLM launched last year and went viral for its feature that creates entirely AI-generated podcast-like discussions from content users upload, discussed by chatty AI bots acting like podcast hosts. In December 2024, NotebookLM launched a new feature called “Interactive […]

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Google’s NotebookLM now lets you to talk to its AI podcast hosts

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A few months ago, Google’s NotebookLM note-taking app debuted an Audio Overviews feature that generates a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on information you have shared with the app. Now, NotebookLM is rolling out the ability for users to interact with the AI podcast hosts. The idea behind Audio Overviews and the AI hosts

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Google debuts NotebookLM for enterprises

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In October, Google started piloting a version of NotebookLM, its viral AI note-taking and research app, aimed at businesses. Now, the company’s bringing NotebookLM to the enterprise, complete with work-focused security and privacy features. NotebookLM for enterprises — which Google’s dubbing NotebookLM Plus — delivers the same experience as the consumer version, but with added

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Key leaders behind Google’s viral NotebookLM are leaving to create their own startup

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Three members of Google’s NotebookLM team, including its team lead and designer, have announced they are leaving Google for a new stealth startup.  On Linkedin, ex-team lead Raiza Martin said she and her two other co-founders, designer Jason Spielman and engineer Stephen Hughes, “couldn’t shake the feeling that there’s a massive opportunity to build something

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Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator

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Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. Called NotebookLlama, the project uses Meta’s own Llama models for much of the processing, unsurprisingly. Like NotebookLM, it can generate back-and-forth, podcast-style digests of text files uploaded to it. NotebookLlama first creates a transcript from a file — e.g. a PDF

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Google’s NotebookLM now lets you guide AI-generated audio conversations, launches business pilot

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Google Thursday updated the audio summarization feature of its AI note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM, which recently gained significant attention for its podcast-like audio conversations based on the content users share, with the ability to guide those conversations and focus on specific topics instead of just generating holistic audio summaries. Today, audio Overviews in NotebookLM

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Google’s NotebookLM enhances AI note-taking with YouTube, audio file sources, sharable audio discussions

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Google on Thursday announced new updates to its AI note-taking and research assistant, NotebookLM, allowing users to get summaries of YouTube videos and audio files and even create sharable AI-generated audio discussions, as the search giant aims to broaden the use cases and reach of the tool, which was originally launched as a project at

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Google’s AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud

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Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding a new “audio conversations” feature. Audio conversations will give users another way to digest and comprehend the information in the documents they have uploaded to the app, such as course readings or legal briefs. Since its launch, the NotebookLM has used

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Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries

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Google on Thursday said it is rolling out NotebookLM, its AI-powered note-taking assistant, to over 200 new countries, nearly six months after opening its access in the U.S. The platform, powered by Google’s multimodal LLM Gemini 1.5 Pro, has also been upgraded with new features and languages to help more people use AI to generate

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