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NotebookLM’s New Video Overviews: 5 pieces of practical advice

Meta shares superintelligence vision, Microsoft seeks long-term contract with OpenAI, Google joins EU’s AI Code and more!

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Everyday AI
July 30, 2025

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Google’s NotebookLM just dropped game-changing video overviews—plus powerful updates for business leaders. See how NotebookLM lets you create personalized AI videos and boost productivity. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: GPT-5 found in Mac files, Anthropic Claude gets mobile updates and Runway and Luma to shift to robotics. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Meta shares superintelligence vision, Microsoft seeks long-term contract with OpenAI and Google joins EU’s AI Code. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: Wondering what’s new with NotebookLM? We break down 5 ways its new video features can boost your productivity. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about NotebookLM adding Video Overviews, ChatGPT releasing a new Study and Learn feature, Microsoft releasing 40 jobs most at risk due to AI and more. Check it here!

 NotebookLM’s New Video Overviews: 5 pieces of practical advice 💡

My mind is blown by NotebookLM.... again!

The viral AI tool by Google just released an extremely impressive new update to its popular tool in Video Overviews.

If you haven't used these yet, you won't want to miss this show.

On Wednesdays, we put AI to work for you and your business with practical and actionable walkthroughs.

This new release from Google couldn't have come at a better time.

Also on the pod today:

• Pulling Visuals from PDFs in NotebookLM 📂
• Creating Multilingual Overview Versions 🌏
• NotebookLM vs Competition Comparison 🤔

It’ll be worth your 35 minutes:

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – Supaboard is an AI powered business intelligence tool, Waxwing is an online marketplace for AI Agents and Humans teaming up, AutonomyAI is an autonomous dev that accelerates development.

OpenAI – GPT-5 has been found in the list of models for the macOS app.

Anthropic – You can now draft and send emails, messages and calendar invites on Claude’s mobile app.

AI Chips – NVIDIA AI chip challenger Groq is nearing a new fundraising at $6B valuation.

AI Video – Runway and Luma are reportedly looking to shift to robotics as a big revenue driver.

AI in Science – Researchers have created virtual scientists to solve complex biological problems.

Read This - Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants.

AI Tech – This company is making an OpenAI-powered chat app for headphones.

1. Meta’s AI Vision: Personal Superintelligence Takes Center Stage 🧠

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has outlined a bold superintelligence vision where AI doesn't just automate work but empowers individuals with personal superintelligence tailored to their goals. Highlighting recent AI self-improvement breakthroughs, he predicts a shift from productivity tools to deeply contextual, always-on devices like AR glasses that enhance creativity, connection, and personal growth.

This approach contrasts with industry trends aiming to centralize AI for mass automation, emphasizing instead human agency as the driver of future progress.

2. Microsoft Seeks Long-Term AI Control Deal with OpenAI 📑️

Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with OpenAI to secure ongoing access to its AI technology even if OpenAI reaches the milestone of advanced general intelligence (AGI).

This deal could reshape OpenAI’s current nonprofit-capped structure, allowing Microsoft a larger equity stake and ensuring it maintains a strategic edge across its products like Windows, Office, and GitHub.

3. Google Joins EU’s AI Code, But With Reservations 🇪🇺

Google has officially signed the EU’s voluntary AI Code of Practice, following OpenAI’s lead, while Meta chose to stay out, citing “legal uncertainties.” Despite the agreement, Google expressed concerns that the EU’s AI Act and code could hamper innovation by slowing approvals and risking exposure of trade secrets.

This move signals growing pressure on tech giants to align with European regulations as AI governance heats up globally.

4. Amazon Strikes a $20M+ AI Content Deal with The New York Times 🤝

Amazon is locking in a multiyear agreement to license content from The New York Times’ news, cooking sections, and The Athletic for AI use, paying between $20 million and $25 million annually. This deal reveals how much publishers are now valuing premium news content as AI reshapes information consumption.

The payment represents nearly 1% of The Times' projected 2024 revenue, underscoring the growing financial stakes in AI-powered content licensing.

5. Google Unveils AlphaEarth Foundations for Next-Gen Global Mapping 🌎

A new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations is transforming how we monitor Earth by integrating petabytes of satellite data into a unified, easy-to-use digital format, announced July 30, 2025. This breakthrough tackles the overwhelming complexity and inconsistency of satellite data, enabling faster, more accurate mapping of land and coastal changes on a 10x10 meter scale.

Already powering the Satellite Embedding dataset in Google Earth Engine, it’s helping researchers and organizations worldwide track ecosystems, agriculture, and urban growth with unprecedented detail.

6. Anthropic Nears $170B Valuation with Massive $5B Funding Round 💰

Anthropic is reportedly closing in on a $3-$5 billion funding round that would catapult its valuation to an eye-popping $170 billion, Bloomberg reports. This surge nearly triples its March valuation of $61.5 billion, underscoring the intense capital race in AI development.

While Iconiq Capital leads the round, sovereign wealth funds like Qatar Investment Authority and Singapore’s GIC are also in talks, stirring internal debate over ethical funding sources.

🦾How You Can Leverage:

Your onboarding videos put people to sleep.

(WAKE UP, BILL!)

Your presentations look identical to every competitor.

Yawn. 

You can spend countless hours trying dozens of AI tools to try and stuff all your docs and knowledge into them, or you can just copy what we did on today’s edition of Everyday AI. 

That’s because Google just updated the powerhouse that is NotebookLM and released video generation that transforms your existing docs into personalized content for unlimited audiences. 

Zero design skills required. Zero video experience needed.

Upload once. Generate forever. Personalized for any audience, market or demographic. 

Sheeeeesh. 

When this NotebookLM update dropped, you know we immediately scrambled to bring you the latest for our weekly, ‘AI at Work on Wednesdays’ series so you can MasterChef up bespoke content that’ll turn heads at the next board meeting. (In a good way.) 

Make sure you watch/listen to today’s whole episode, but here’s the juiciest takeaways. 

Trust us…. You gotta read this to get ahead. 

1 – Video Overviews Transform Your PDFs 🎥

NotebookLM's new Video Overviews feature might eventually kill off low-budget video creation.

Upload your business docs and get professional video presentations with custom narration and your actual visuals integrated. 

Yes, the Video Overview feature can actually pull charts, screenshots and other visuals from your PDFs and flawlessly incorporate them into the custom Video Overview, as well as mixing in its visuals. 

We tested this live with dozens of our own docs — from podcast episode websites and company trainings to keynotes and internal notes. 

Fifteen-ish minutes later? We had polished video content that extracted actual elements of previous presentations and sprinkled in new graphics, animations and a compelling audio narrative (with tone switch up!) to boot. 

Delish. 

(It didn’t finish in time for the live show, but you can go watch the general version here.) 

There's zero hallucinations, as NotebookLM only uses YOUR uploaded content. Ask it about stuff not in your docs? It refuses to answer.

NotebookLM’s grounding eliminates AI's biggest risk.

The processing may take 8-20 minutes for video overviews versus three to eight for audio overviews, but that extra time creates serious visual magic.

Try This:

Upload three key presentations today. Generate Video Overviews for different departments. Notice how it repositions your content for each audience without losing accuracy.

2 – Multiple Versions Feature Scales Everything ⤴️

The new Multiple Versions capability lets you create unlimited variations from single uploads. Previously, as an example, you could only create a single Deep Dive Audio Overview per notebook. 

Now? It’s unlimited. 

Same docs. Different audiences. Different languages. Different emphasis.

Upload all your important docs once then generate unlimited personalized videos for marketing, sales, engineering, international teams. Twenty versions from one session. 

The updated Studio UI lets you toggle sources on and off. Marketing needs 12 of your 20 docs? Sales needs 18? Click and generate the Video Overview using ONLY those docs most relevant for those audiences. 

chef’s kiss

Try This:

Transform your onboarding materials into department-specific versions. Generate Spanish, French, German versions for international teams. Test with native speakers.

3 – Multitasking Support Amplifies Learning💡

The new Multitasking feature lets you watch Video Overviews while accessing study guides, FAQs, and mind maps simultaneously.

For lifelong learners who lean heavily on visuals, NotebookLM’s viral Audio Overviews might not have done it for y’all. With the video overviews, though? 

Wowzers. 

Now there’s bespoke visuals to go along with the audio narration, but you can also continue working with other elements of your notebook AT THE SAME TIME. 

Different learning styles get supported without separate content creation.

Now you can actually take advantage of the whole buffet vs eating one food at a time. It’s kinda like eating peanut butter and jelly separately. The multitasking makes it better, together. 

Try This:

Upload case studies and success stories. Generate Video Overviews for three industry verticals. Then, create an FAQ and Timeline in NotebookLM’s updated Studio and read along while tuning into the Video Overview.

Or, while watching, ask NotebookLM clarifying questions about the video without stopping. 

New learning unlocked. 

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