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EP 721: 3 New NotebookLM Updates You Can’t Miss: Editable Slides, Mobile Updates and More
Report says The Pentagon ditches Claude for Elon's Grok, Anthropic brings remote control to Claude Code, OpenAI drops GPT-5.3 Codex in the API and more.
Everyday AI
February 25, 2026
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You ever have one of those ‘holy smokes this is awesome’ AI moments?
Yeah, we just had one.
As part of research for today’s show on amazing new NotebookLM updates, we uncovered a way that you can easily convert NotebookLM’s amazing horizontal slides into share-worthy vertical carousels.
(Even if you’re not big on social media, imagine having a mobile-first slide deck that you can use for ANYTHING!)
Best part?
All you gotta do is repost today’s show and we’ll send you the simple instructions, video walkthrough and our custom-built GPT below that does the heavy lifting.
(Wait why haven’t you reposted today’s show on LinkedIn yet….? Run don’t walk! lolz)
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Jordan
Outsmart The Future
Today in Everyday AI
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: These 3 big NotebookLM updates deserve your attention. Give today’s show a watch/read/listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: Claude Code and Slack get official, Grok 4.20 tops the search charts, Google's Opal agent builder gets BIG update and more. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Report says The Pentagon ditches Claude for Elon's Grok, Anthropic brings remote control to Claude Code, OpenAI drops GPT-5.3 Codex in the API and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.
💪 Leverage AI: From editable slide decks to must-have mobile updates, we break down what’s new in NotebookLM and our best tips to take advantage. Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Miss our last newsletter? We covered: Anthropic's big enterprise plugin release, how Meta could secure 10% in AMD after partnership, IBM stock tanks because of Anthropic and more. Check it here!
Ep 720: China Stealing AI from the U.S.? Inside Anthropic’s Bombshell Allegations
Did you sleep on these 3 NotebookLM updates? 😴
Hopefully not. (That'd be a nightmare.)
But if you missed it, the Google Gemini-powered juggernaut NotebookLM just released some key features, including slide editing, mobile improvements and more.
Join us as we give you the live walkthrough, as we put AI to Work on Wednesdays on todays’ show.
Also on the pod today:
• NotebookLM editable slides debut 📝
• Our secret to create vertical slide decks 📱
• Conversational studio asset creation 💬
It’ll be worth your 39 minutes:
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – Kilo Claw is a hosted OpenClaw option, Arzule helps turn partnerships into revenue, DemoMe turns your recordings into demo videos.
Slack and Claude — Claude rolled out a new plugin to connect Slack and Claude Code.
Search and AI — Grok 4.20 beta1 tops the Search Arena as a single agent.
OpenClaw Buildouts — MaxClaw from MiniMax now combines OpenClaw, MiniMax Agent, and M2.5 into one powerful tool with no deployment or extra fees.
Biology and AI — The Align Foundation and Google DeepMind are teaming up to map out big challenges in antimicrobial resistance with AI.
No Code Agents — Google’s simple agent builder, Opal, got a big update.
AI Job Automation — JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says AI is reshaping jobs at the bank, with big plans to retrain workers displaced by automation.
1. Anthropic Revises AI Safety Pledge Amid Pentagon Contract Standoff 🥊
Anthropic has rolled back its previous commitment to pause AI development if safety measures lag, citing a lack of industry-wide agreement on risk management.
The company now favors nonbinding, publicly declared goals over strict promises, aiming to avoid falling behind competitors who may not prioritize safety. This policy update comes as Anthropic faces pressure from the Pentagon, which threatens to cancel a $200 million contract over the firm's restrictions on military use of its AI model.
2. Report: Pentagon swaps Grok for Claude amid ethical clash 🪖
According to reports, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has just secured a deal to let its Grok model be used within the Pentagon’s classified systems, marking a shift from the previous reliance on Anthropic’s Claude.
This move comes as the Pentagon pressures Anthropic over restrictions that block military use of Claude for certain purposes, including surveillance and autonomous weapons. The agreement with xAI meets the Pentagon’s demand for “all lawful use,” potentially positioning Grok as a key player in sensitive defense work. Meanwhile, talks with Google and OpenAI continue, but no final deals are in place yet, leaving the military’s AI future in flux.
3. Comet Browser Rolls Out Full Voice Control on Desktop Now, iOS Soon 🎙️
Perplexity has launched an upgraded voice mode for its Comet browser, enabling users to navigate the web entirely hands-free on desktop starting immediately, with iOS support arriving in early March.
Powered by OpenAI’s latest gpt-realtime-1.5 model, this feature promises a smoother, more natural voice interaction that goes beyond simple voice search to full session control. This move aligns with the growing push toward ambient computing where voice commands become the primary interface, offering enhanced privacy by processing voice locally and avoiding cloud click tracking.
4. OpenAI Expands GPT-5.3-Codex Access for Developers 🧑💻
OpenAI has just broadened access to its latest coding powerhouse, GPT-5.3-Codex, now available via API and through Microsoft Foundry, marking a major step beyond its initial exclusive release on Codex.
This update brings faster execution speeds, longer runtime capabilities, and the new ability to steer the model mid-task, making it a more versatile tool for developers tackling complex projects. Alongside this, OpenAI introduced improved audio models, GPT-Realtime-1.5 and GPT-Audio-1.5, which promise smoother, more accurate real-time voice workflows and are also accessible through Microsoft Foundry.
5. Anthropic’s Claude Code Goes Mobile with Remote Control 🎮
Anthropic has just launched a new "Remote Control" feature for its Claude Code AI coding agent, allowing subscribers to manage their coding sessions directly from iPhones and Android devices.
This update, initially rolling out to high-tier Claude Max users, lets developers start tasks on their desktops and seamlessly continue them on mobile without exposing their machines to security risks.
(Also, we confirmed with the head of Claude Code that this will be rolling out to Claude Code desktop, in case you’re not into the whole CLI thing.)
6. Nvidia’s Vera Rubin Gets an Exclusive Preview Ahead of Earnings 👀
Ahead of Nvidia’s earnings report Wednesday, CNBC was given an exclusive first look at Vera Rubin, the company’s next-generation AI system set to roll out later this year. This rack-scale powerhouse promises a tenfold increase in performance per watt over its predecessor, signaling a major leap in energy-efficient AI computing just as Nvidia’s sales continue to boom.
The upcoming earnings will likely reflect strong demand for Nvidia’s current systems, while all eyes remain on Vera Rubin’s potential to reshape AI infrastructure amid rising costs and stiffening competition.
Most companies are out here running deep research queries across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, only to dump those massive text outputs into a Slack channel where they immediately die.
Grossyuckbarf.
The real competitive advantage? Turning those complex walls of text into fully editable, board-ready strategy decks in minutes.
(And sorry…. your team is prolly still copy-pasting bullet points into PowerPoint like it's 2019. Time to have your AI glow up.)
We're watching a brutal gap form in corporate America right now. On one side, leaders are turning raw research into instant visual leverage. On the other, executives are staring at endless blocks of AI-generated text like a deer locked in the headlights of a semi-truck, straight up hoping the insights magically jump off the page.
Your competitors are winning the speed-to-action war.
We broke this down on today's Everyday AI and laid out the exact workflow to turn complex NotebookLM research into editable executive slide decks you can customize from your phone and download straight to PowerPoint.
If you don't start visually weaponizing your data, you're just paying for the world's smartest paperweight.
Time to capitalize shorties. 👇
1. Chat First Then Build Your Deck ⚡
Most people treat NotebookLM's slide generator like a slot machine. One prompt, pull the lever, pray.
That's cooked.
The new conversational generation feature lets you pressure-test your output inside the chat pane before you ever touch the slide studio. Ask it to categorize risks, demand concrete examples, refine the strategic narrative.
Why does this matter? Because by the time you tell it to generate slides, the AI already understands exactly what you need and has read every single document in your notebook.
Think of it like briefing a designer who's already memorized your entire research library versus handing an intern a Post-it note and saying "make it pretty." Wildly different output from the exact same sources.
And because NotebookLM grounds every answer in your uploaded documents, you're building presentations on verified facts. No more crossing your fingers and hoping the AI doesn't hallucinate your revenue numbers.
Try This
Open your most complex strategy document in NotebookLM and start chatting before you click a single generation button. Ask the AI to isolate the three biggest risks or opportunities first.
Go back and forth at least two or three rounds pushing for specifics and concrete business examples.
Then type "please create a slide deck from all of this information" right in the chat pane. Compare that output to a one-shot prompt and you'll never go back to the old way.
2. Edit AI Slides Without Burning Credits 🔥
Until now, NotebookLM slides were gorgeous but frozen. You got what you got.
The new revision panel lets you click any slide, type changes in plain language, and rebuild the whole deck with one click. Change titles, swap color schemes, update outdated stats, restyle elements.
Pending changes stack up with blue markers so you can track everything before you regenerate. One button rebuilds it all.
And here's where your budget starts smiling. Tools like Genspark and Manus offer slide editing too, but those per-credit costs add up fast enough to make your finance team sweat.
NotebookLM does all of this for free, powered by Nano Banana Pro, and you can now download the whole thing as a PowerPoint. Pull it into Canva for those last fine-tune tweaks if you want, but you prolly won't even need to.
(Those "per-credit" AI presentation tools are suddenly looking kinda sus.)
Try This
Grab a deck you've already generated in NotebookLM and hit the pencil icon in the upper right corner of the studio panel.
Pick three slides and make different edits on each. Change a title on one, update the color scheme on another, swap an outdated reference on the third.
Hit generate and compare before and after. Make this a non-negotiable step in your weekly prep so you never present a generic default template to the executive board again.
3. Build Strategy Decks From Anywhere 🚀
The NotebookLM mobile app used to be the thing you opened to listen to audio overviews on your commute. Nice, but limited.
Wild how much that just changed.
You can now customize slide decks, tweak infographic designs, and generate video overviews directly from your phone. Need to polish a presentation before a meeting? Do it in the elevator.
Most executives are straight up wasting their commute time scrolling feeds when they could be reviewing and refining AI-generated strategy decks before they even walk into the office. That's the gnarliest operational advantage hiding in plain sight right now.
Real talk. Nothing else produces this level of visual quality at this speed for this price.
Not ChatGPT, not Claude, not even dedicated slide tools. And everything is grounded in your actual sources, which means you're building on facts instead of hoping the AI doesn't make stuff up about your Q3 numbers.
Try This
Download the NotebookLM app and open one of your existing notebooks on your phone. Tap the pencil icon on any slide deck or infographic and experiment with the customization options.
Generate a video overview from mobile and watch it full screen. Then ask yourself whether you've been sleeping on what's prolly the most powerful free AI tool available right now.
Build this five-minute review into your daily morning commute so you arrive at the office with polished visual assets ready to deploy.
🚨 Bonus 🚨
As part of research for today’s show on amazing new NotebookLM updates, we uncovered a way that you can easily convert NotebookLM’s amazing horizontal slides into share-worthy vertical carousels.
(Even if you’re not big on social media, imagine having a mobile-first slide deck that you can use for ANYTHING!)
Best part?
All you gotta do is repost today’s show and we’ll send you the simple instructions, video walkthrough and our custom-built GPT below that does the heavy lifting.
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