Google makes its note-taking AI NotebookLM more useful

Google makes its note-taking AI NotebookLM more useful

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Google launched its note-taking app NotebookLM last year for researchers, students, and anyone who needs to organize the information they’ve gathered. Now, users can now upload Google Slides and web URLs as sources, not just the Google Docs, PDFs, and text files it accepted previously.

The new Notebook Guide also reads sources in NotebookLM and creates study guides, FAQs, or briefing documents, and inline citations can point to your own sources to fact-check AI responses — up to 50 sources per “notebook,” or project, and each source can be 500,000 words long. Previously, people could only upload five sources.

Users can also now ask questions about charts, images, and diagrams they uploaded to the platform because NotebookLM is running…

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