Google provides featured notebooks on chosen matters to NotebookLM

Google is including what it calls “featured notebooks” to NotebookLM as a approach to demo its AI-powered software program and provide interactive, high-quality sources on the whole lot from private recommendation to William Shakespeare. The corporate tried something similar after its developer convention in Might, when it created a NotebookLM pocket book educated on the whole lot that was introduced at Google I/O 2025.

The brand new featured notebooks have their very own devoted tab on the NotebookLM homepage and had been created in partnership with “revered authors, researchers, publications and nonprofits world wide,” Google says. Like all NotebookLM tasks, you possibly can work together with the uncooked sources that make up the pocket book’s data base, ask questions on matters in a chat interface or view an AI-generated abstract, audio overview or circulate chart for extra methods to work together with the content material.

The primary spherical of featured notebooks included a notebook on longevity advice educated on the guide Tremendous Agers, a notebook on 2025 predictions educated on The Economist’s annual “The World Forward” report and an advice notebook educated on The Atlantic‘s “Learn how to Construct a Life” column, amongst a number of different choices. Your mileage could range on how helpful every featured pocket book is — I discovered the Shakespeare notebook to be essentially the most enjoyable to play with — however every is an efficient illustration of the standard and quantity of fabric that must be uploaded to NotebookLM for it to work effectively.

Google introduced NotebookLM in 2023 as an experiment in constructing an AI device that depends on sources you add, reasonably than regardless of the firm managed to scrape off the web. The thought is that chats about matters in NotebookLM can be much less vulnerable to hallucinations than what an AI Overview in Google Search spits out. Or on the very least, it will be simpler to examine the AI’s solutions as a result of the supply materials is a click on away.

NotebookLM turned actually well-liked when Google launched Audio Overviews in September 2024, AI-generated podcasts concerning the materials uploaded to a NotebookLM pocket book. Since then, the corporate has expanded the device at a fast clip, introducing mobile apps and the ability to share public notebooks. Clearly, Google is dedicated to NotebookLM and featured notebooks are an extra try and mannequin how the AI-powered device can really be helpful.

Google says featured notebooks can be found to folks utilizing the desktop model of NotebookLM right this moment and extra featured notebooks will probably be added sooner or later.