Google pays $2.7 billion to rehire AI expert Noam Shazeer, who left to found Character.AI. Noam Shazeer returns to lead efforts on Gemini.

Noam Shazeer, the co-author of a key research paper that sparked the AI boom, first joined Google in 2000 as one of the company’s first few hundred employees, but quit in 2021.

Google's Gemini-powered NotebookLM promotes healthy usage of AI for learning with key features that help surface key insights, breakdown complex material, and more. The tool's Audio Overviews feature can turn a block of text into an interactive spoken-dialogue discussion,

While Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot can both summarize YouTube videos with transcripts, NotebookLM gives you some jumping-off points you can use to learn more about

Google's NotebookLM has been updated with YouTube and audio files as new source types and sharable links for Audio Overviews.