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NotebookLM adding ‘featured notebooks’ from publications, authors

JUL 14 – Google's new Featured notebooks highlight expert content from partners like The Economist and The Atlantic, leveraging over 140,000 public notebooks created since last month.

  • Google began rolling out featured notebooks on July 16, 2025, for NotebookLM desktop users, showcasing curated content from various experts.
  • This rollout follows last month's launch of a public notebooks feature that allowed users to share their notebooks, generating over 140,000 public notebooks in four weeks.
  • The featured notebooks encompass a wide variety of subjects such as scientific explorations, historical studies, Shakespearean literature, and practical lifestyle tips, developed in collaboration with writers and publications like The Economist and The Atlantic.
  • Steven Johnson, NotebookLM’s editorial director, explained that the notebooks offer new users an example of the product’s potential benefits and provide insight into a future where users can access thousands of expertly curated notebooks on a wide range of topics.
  • Google plans to expand the collection in the coming months, enhancing NotebookLM’s role as an AI-powered tool for research, note-taking, and exploring topics with cited answers.
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Google has added a new Featured Notebooks feature to its NotebookLM AI tool, designed to help users delve deeper into their research by offering collections ranging from scientific explorations to travel guides.

Google is expanding its AI tool NotebookLM with a new function: Curated notebooks from experts in different fields. The Featured Notebooks are created in collaboration with renowned authors, researchers, publications and non-profit organizations worldwide. The first lineup covers eight different topics. These include longevity tips from best-selling author Eric Topol, expert analyses for the year 2025 from The Economists "The World Ahead" report…

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www.blog.google broke the news in on Monday, July 14, 2025.
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