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Ep 814: NotebookLM's New Cinematic Shorts: How They work, 5 Tips and 5 Best Use Cases
GPT-5.6 officially launching Thursday, OpenAI's new voice mode impresses, Microsoft may ditch Claude and OpenAI, Meta's drops new AI video and photo models and more.
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3 quick things:
1) We put together a KILLER guide on using NotebookLM’s new video feature that we covered on today’s show. Make sure you repost today’s show on LinkedIn and we’ll send you the guide.
#2 — The past 24 hours have been NUTTY with AI releases. Big AI updates from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Notion, Slack and more. Sheesh. Keep reading for that.
#3 – OpenAI announced they’re releasing GPT-5.6 on Thursday. We normally do our ‘Friday Features’ show on Friday.
Should we move our Friday Features show to Thursday so we can do a dedicated show Friday on GPT-5.6? |
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Google just gave NotebookLM a major upgrade with AI-generated vertical videos. Here's how to use the new feature and where it can actually help your business. Give today’s show a watch/read/listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: Claude Fable 5 is staying free through July 12, Notion launched its new AI-powered iPhone app, and TeraWulf signed a $19 billion AI deal with Anthropic and more. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: GPT-5.6 officially launching Thursday, OpenAI's new voice mode impresses, Microsoft may ditch Claude and OpenAI, Meta's drops new AI video and photo models and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.
💪 Leverage AI: Google just gave NotebookLM one of its biggest upgrades yet, making it easy to turn dense documents into engaging video summaries. Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Miss our last newsletter? We covered: DeepSeek is building its own AI chip, OpenAI launched GPT-Realtime-2.1 mini, and Amazon is raising $25 billion to fund its AI expansion. And more. Check it here!
Ep 814: NotebookLM's New Cinematic Shorts: How They work, 5 Tips and 5 Best Use Cases
Doomscrolling vertical videos is just brain rot, right? 🥴
Not anymore.
NotebookLM just released its new AI-powered vertical video shorts tool that changes individualized learning on the go.
We know what you're thinking: I'm not a student -- why do I need short-form video?
Well, that's exactly why we're dishing our 5 best business use-cases and 5 tips to get expert results right away.
(Because this new NotebookLM feature has the potential to unlock new learning avenues for your entire org.)
Also on the pod today:
• NotebookLM's new cinematic shorts 📱
• AI-only data for vertical video 🗂️
• Three-pane NotebookLM interface explained 🖥️
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New AI Tool Spotlight – Badge collects your peer reviews from people you have worked with and turns them into your proof of work, Katalyst moves deals forward by turning every meeting, email, and signal into next steps, Ellis is The AI note-taker for meetings happening in real life.
Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic just extended free access to its top-tier Claude Fable 5 model until July 12. If you want to try frontier AI before it gets pricey, now’s your window.
Notion IPhone App — Notion just dropped its new iPhone app, Agents, letting you chat with AI that knows your workspace and handles notes, photos, and tasks on the go.
Google AI Studio — Google AI Studio now lets you import projects from Github.
Meta Muse Video Arena — Meta’s new Muse Video model just jumped to #3 on the Text-to-Video Arena, edging out Google and OpenAI’s top contenders.
Grok 4.5 Soon — SpaceXAI is launching Grok 4.5 tomorrow, claiming it’s faster, cheaper, and more efficient than Opus-class models.
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Anthropic and Government — Anthropic’s AI is now catching real bugs in federal code, making it a government cybersecurity player.
Slack MCP — Slack just got supercharged with Salesforce AI, letting teams pull CRM data, trigger approvals, and share insights together in real time—all without leaving Slack.
1. Sam Altman says GPT-5.6 “sol” arrives Thursday 😱
Sam Altman’s late-night X post put a new date on OpenAI’s next model update, telling developers “happy building” as GPT-5.6 “sol” is set to launch Thursday.
The reaction was immediate and mixed, with some users cheering another big model drop while others pressed for faster performance, better tool reliability, and more open access.
2. NVIDIA unveils Vera CPU to speed up AI agent workloads⚡️
NVIDIA is framing its Vera CPU as a new kind of data center processor for agentic AI, where the bottleneck is not just model inference but all the CPU work happening between model calls.
The big idea is simple: faster per-core performance under heavy load can help agents run tools, process data, check results and move to the next step without leaving expensive GPUs waiting.
3. Claude Cowork comes to web and mobile 📱
Claude Cowork is expanding beyond desktop to web and mobile, making its agent-style work sessions portable as beta access rolls out over the next several weeks, starting with Max users.
The update means Claude can keep working across connected files, calendars, email, messages, and web tools even when a laptop is closed, with scheduled tasks running in the background.
4. Meta releases Muse Image and Muse Video 📸
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Image and Muse Video, its first media generation models, pushing Meta further into the AI image and video race across its apps.
Muse Image can edit precisely, combine multiple references, use search and code tools, and refine its own outputs, while Muse Video brings high-fidelity video generation with native audio.
5. Microsoft starts swapping OpenAI and Anthropic for its own AI in Excel and Outlook 🔁
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft is now using its in-house MAI models to handle tens of thousands of weekly AI prompts in Excel and Outlook, a timely sign that the company is trying to cut its dependence on outside AI providers.
The shift is still a small piece of overall AI use, but it matters because Microsoft’s Copilot products burn through huge amounts of computing capacity, and today’s discounted OpenAI access may not last forever.
6. Apple locks in $30B Broadcom U.S. chip deal 🖥️
Apple announced today that it will spend more than $30 billion with Broadcom under a new multiyear deal to make over 15 billion chips in the U.S.
The agreement expands Broadcom’s Fort Collins, Colorado facility with a $1.5 billion investment and focuses on key wireless components used across Apple products.
7. OpenAI rolls out GPT-Live voice for ChatGPT today 🎙️
OpenAI is launching a new ChatGPT voice mode powered by GPT-Live today, just ahead of GPT-5.6’s planned release tomorrow. The upgrade makes voice chats feel more natural by letting ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time, handle interruptions, use web search, and better judge when to pause or keep listening.
Free users get GPT-Live-1-mini by default, while paid ChatGPT users get GPT-Live-1 across iOS, Android, and the web, though video and screen sharing still require the older voice mode for now.
Google just built the single best tool for killing your worst internal comms problem, then buried it under a TikTok joke.
Seriously?
The line Google used to announce it was "doom scrolling, but make it educational." Cute. Also wayyy off, and that's exactly why most leaders are gonna scroll right past the actual unlock.
Here's what's really happening underneath the meme framing. NotebookLM now turns any report, webinar, or SOP into a 60 second video, grounded only in what you upload, with zero editing skill required.
And here's the gnarly part. The nobody-reads-it problem you've been fighting for years just got a real fix, disguised as a scroll format your kids already love.
So what's the big deal for you? Every dense, ignored, skimmed document sitting in your company right now can become something your team actually watches, screenshots, and forwards.
Don't worry, you don't need Premiere or a designer on staff to make one of these land.
That's exactly what we tackled live today on Everyday AI, going hands on with NotebookLM's new cinematic shorts and the five moves that separate a forgettable clip from one your whole team reshares. Let's get after it.
1. Turn Dense Reports Into Watchable Briefs 📊
Most executives don't read the 40 page report sitting in their inbox. They skim the summary, nod, and hope for the best in the next meeting.
NotebookLM flips that equation entirely. Upload the report, and it hands back a 60 second briefing on what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.
The reason this actually works, and not just for scrolling, comes down to one thing. It only pulls from what you actually gave it, so it won't invent a stat just to fill the runtime.
Which means the trust problem most AI tools create just disappears here. You can hand this straight to your team on a Monday morning with zero fact checking required, and the densest doc in your inbox finally becomes something people open.
Try This
Upload your densest report this week. Ask for a short focused on one question, like what a sales leader needs to know first.
Generate three versions before picking one.
2. Repurpose Old Webinars Into New Reach 🎬
You already have the content sitting there, unused. A webinar on YouTube nobody rewatches, a recording only your own team ever heard the first time around.
That's a goldmine you're currently ignoring, and turning it into gold takes about two minutes. Feed the link in, ask for the 10 best takeaways for one specific role, then generate a short for each individual one.
Now stack that across everything you've already recorded. One 45 minute recording becomes a week of scannable content, built entirely from stuff you already made.
Free users get three shorts a day, paid plans go up to 20, and either way that's a content calendar hiding in plain sight. Most teams are sitting on months of recorded knowledge nobody ever revisits, and this is the fastest way to make that backlog earn its keep.
Try This
Grab a webinar link you already own. Prompt for the top takeaways for one audience, like sales or HR.
Bake your call to action into the prompt itself, or the short drives nowhere.
3. Build Onboarding That Actually Sticks 🚀
Nobody reads the 30 page SOP on day one. New hires skim the headers and hope training covers the gaps later.
Here's the fix. Give it a specific audience, like new hires in HR or frontline managers starting week one, and it reframes the exact same source material differently depending on who's actually watching.
A CFO version and a manager version of the same document shouldn't sound identical. Now, with a single prompt swap, they finally don't have to, and that's the kind of leverage most training budgets never buy you.
It's not a replacement for real documentation. It's the piece that gets someone to actually open the documentation in the first place.
Try This
Define your audience inside the prompt, not just the topic. Pair the short with your existing docs instead of replacing them outright, since it's prolly the one piece new hires actually watch first.
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