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Editorial Director, Gemini Notebook and Google Labs. Author of 14 books. Latest: The Infernal Machine. Speech inquiries email: wesn at leighbureau dot com

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1Sep 19, '25Uh, Matthew, I’d like to introduce you to a little app called @NotebookLM79.5×867k6.6k2492.1k
2Sep 29, '24Thanks @karpathy! We are loving your NotebookLM enthusiasm. We’re just getting started pushing the boundaries of AI user interfaces. So many cool things to build…32.7×356k2.3k76710
3Sep 26, '24How to do school with NotebookLM: 1. Record audio from class on your phone 2. Keep laptop closed. Just jot down short phrases to describe most important points 3. Upload audio and 32.3×352k2.5k3942.9k
4Sep 30, '24Using NotebookLM to remember everything you've read. On Hard Fork I talked about my collection of 8K quotes. I have them in a single notebook which effectively gives me a personali23.9×261k1.4k1272.1k
5Dec 19, '24All @notebooklm users can now join the conversation in Audio Overviews! Just choose "Interactive Mode" to try. I had the hosts discuss one of my books, then made a surprise guest a16×175k1k136427
6May 2, '25Last 5 weeks at @NotebookLM: + Mind Maps, magical tool for visualizing sources + Discover Sources, letting you assemble a knowledge base on any topic in seconds + Audio Overviews i13.7×149k59161155
7Oct 2, '24Much appreciated from the NotebookLM team @sama! Full circle in a way because it was my writing about GPT-3 that brought me to Google in the first place.12.9×141k1k37228
8Apr 27, '21One of the best tricks for thinking long-term is to ask yourself: if a newspaper came out once a century, what would the headline be? To me, the answer is clear: we doubled the len12.8×01.7k339132
9Dec 13, '24Major update rolling out today at NotebookLM: a completely new adaptive design; interact with the Audio Overview hosts; and NotebookLM Plus--our premium version with expanded featu11.2×122k1.3k188725
10Oct 2, '24Wow. Such a great case study in why we designed NotebookLM from the beginning around curated sources It's basically the foundation of the product: curate the information you need t11.1×121k79983504
11Feb 4, '21THREAD: If you had to pick one chart to represent the last hundred years or so of the modern age, what would it be? I think it would have to be this one, tracking the changes in gl10.8×01.2k38081
12Sep 11, '24Rolling out audio overviews at NotebookLM today. So excited for this one. Take any collection of sources and automatically generate a "deep dive" audio conversation. I created one 10.7×116k29352179
13Sep 30, '24Fact-checking based on trusted sources is one of NotebookLM's hidden superpowers. We're gonna make this more apparent in the product over time.10.0×109k956108467
14Nov 13, '25Two big steps towards our vision for @NotebookLM as the ultimate research platform: • Integrating Deep Research, with a set of only-at-Notebook features that let you explore the re9.6×105k1k124583
15Mar 27, '25Input: 8,000 quotes from books I've read + complete text of 7 books I've written. Output: @NotebookLM's new Mind Map, now live for all users. Takes 20 seconds to generate. Click on9.5×104k39238202
16Jul 14, '25For most users, @NotebookLM is a tool for understanding and exploring project-based information. But we also think it could be a distribution platform, amplifying expert knowledge.9.5×103k44964320
17Oct 1, '24The title really says it all. 🤯8.8×96k1282838
18May 25, '21You may know W. E. B. DuBois as the author of The Souls of Black Folk and the founder of the NAACP. But did you know he was also a data visualization pioneer and invented technique8.1×091726780
19Jul 16, '25We're rolling out @NotebookLM Featured Notebooks to the welcome screen of all users with a personal Google account over the next few days. But in the meantime, you can start explor7.7×84k57657334
20Jun 3, '25Public notebooks are one of those small step/giant leap features for @NotebookLM. You can now use the app as a publishing platform for all kinds of knowledge: + complete manuals fo7.3×80k66481328
21Feb 5, '24New at : curate notes and use Google's Gemini Pro model to instantly transform them into different formats. For example, a teacher collects notes (from readings/chat with AI/their 7.0×77k941134
22Nov 24, '24Watch this space.6.9×75k45221116
23Oct 3, '24How to Prompt NotebookLM's Interests One thing we hear constantly from users first experiencing Audio Overviews is how good the hosts are at uncovering the interesting bits from th6.7×74k766991k
24Oct 7, '24Ben Cohen on NotebookLM's audio overviews in @WSJ: "There have only been two times when I had my mind blown by AI. The first was ChatGPT. This was the second... One of the most com6.4×70k46455185
25Jan 16, '18In the @NYTmag, my new #longread arguing that the blockchain world is simultaneously filled with charlatans and scammers *and* constitutes the only viable hope we have right now of6.1×06462420
26May 6, '24People of NY/Bay Area/Seattle: I am headed your way to celebrate next week’s launch of my new book The Infernal Machine! May 14 6pm at Book Passage Corte Madera CA May 15 7pm at Bo6.1×66k2292630
27Nov 25, '24New feature now live at : "Convert notes to source." • Focus the AI on your sources and notes at the same time • Follow inline citations directly to relevant passages from your not5.3×58k50554218
28Jun 16, '25There’s a long, probing meditation from @billwasik on how AI might transform the work of writing and understanding history in the @NYTMag this weekend, with a prominent @NotebookLM5.2×56k19927210
29Mar 12, '25Small but significant new feature at @NotebookLM: when you save a chat response as a note, all inline citations are preserved in their original form, so you can always revisit key 5.1×56k2662259
30Jul 20, '22In a 2014 study, Stanford researchers found the simple act of taking a stroll doubled your capacity for creative thoughts. Other studies show regular walks increase connectivity in5.1×054012194
31Oct 18, '24The folks at the @Google Keyword asked me for my top tips in getting the most out of NotebookLM. If you're just starting out with the product, these should be helpful...5.0×54k38575299
32Sep 8, '25Huge upgrade to one of our most popular @NotebookLM features. You’ll see a significant boost in quality and sophistication with new Reports, even the old formats. Suggested formats4.7×51k49447125
33Nov 7, '24New NotebookLM front door is now live and looking sharp. Also with index view for the first time, along with sorting options...4.2×46k60145158
34Apr 10, '25All @NotebookLM users now have access to a major new feature: Discover Sources. Define a topic and notebook retrieves the ten most relevant web sources & annotates with summari4.1×45k765104332
35Jan 24, '25While we get ready to launch some exciting new features, we've introduced a bunch of smaller improvements over the past few weeks @NotebookLM. A few highlights: • Notes and noteboo3.9×42k3183855
36Jul 8, '21In the summer of 1695, British pirates committed a terrible series of crimes off the coast of Western India—acts that led to the first global manhunt and one of history's great dis3.8×037810875
37Dec 17, '24The new @notebooklm UI (expanded notes editor, adaptive 3-panel design, new "studio" panel) and our Plus features (custom chat modes, new sharing tools) are now live for 100% of us3.8×41k51762181
38Nov 11, '18Important, sobering thread.3.7×04121718
39Aug 5, '16Lidar is the new GPS. A thousand unanticipated uses will surface once it becomes a default sensor.3.7×03312150
40Dec 31, '24NotebookLM, conversation starter.3.6×39k2041640
41May 11, '17Extraordinary open letter from NYTimes editorial page. Imagine being the recipient.3.4×02991970
42Jun 11, '22“The narrative has been incubating for many years, but in recent days we are witnessing some extraordinary progress in treating and monitoring cancer.” An amazing few weeks in medi3.2×03868454
43Oct 10, '24We often talk about NotebookLM as a tool for understanding things. So it’s not surprising that people are using it to understand themselves.3.2×35k34931128
44Oct 16, '24Input: Jane Jacobs quotes and YouTube interview; handwritten outline; education standards doc. Output: high-quality, standards-aligned urban planning lesson plan. Plus audio overvi3.1×33k21741256
45Jan 31, '17This is the slow news that may matter as much in 2018 and 2020 as the split-second madness of the moment.3.0×02201780
46Nov 25, '24In other NotebookLM news -- we have a new account on X... Follow for latest product news, tips, and more!2.8×31k2811428
47Oct 21, '21In 1887, the physicist Charles Vernon Boys heated a lump of glass and fired it from a crossbow, creating a thin glass fiber 90 ft long. You're reading these words right now in part2.7×03657720
48Mar 20, '25From the very beginning of the @NotebookLM project we were inspired by @fortelabs “second brain” vision. This YouTube overview may be the best introduction to using Notebook that w2.7×29k33834165
49Oct 3, '24I’ll be sharing some cool (and useful!) NotebookLM workflows for educators and students in this event on Saturday! Sign up to attend virtually here:2.7×29k20029125
50Oct 29, '24Such a great way to use the product. If this sounds like it could be helpful in your firm, stay tuned for NotebookLM Business2.7×29k27120189
51Oct 5, '24Update: looks the NotebookLM demo will happen around 12:25-12:30 (EST) on the livestream. But some wonderful discussion of AI and education happening currently so folks should join2.7×29k1471880
52Oct 14, '25Nano-Banana images in @NotebookLM's Video Overviews are truly jaw-dropping. It's like having an expert illustrator on your team to bring your ideas to life. My favorite style: Pape2.6×29k34647243
53May 20, '25A lot of folks around the world got a serious productivity boost in the past 24 hours downloading the new @NotebookLM app. (Not sure what that other app is tho 😉) ⁦⁩2.5×27k3791737
54Dec 17, '24Yeah, today was a special moment for the @notebooklm team. Two years ago today we only had an internal prototype that like 30 people had used. A year ago we had just launched a US-2.4×26k3882137
55Apr 16, '25We put a playful nod to Google's early history in @NotebookLM's new Discover Sources feature: an "I'm feeling curious" button that generates a collection of helpful sources on a ra2.4×26k2343649
56Feb 4, '22In the late 70s, the Stanford professor Ronald Howard proposed a unit of measure for mortality risk: the “micromort," reflecting a one-in-one-million chance of dying. The COVID cri2.3×02317025
57Dec 21, '24Having @RichardDawkins declare that @notebooklm (and Gemini) passed the Turing Test was not something I had on my 2024 Bingo card.2.3×25k1822438
58Apr 2, '25As a longtime "tools for thought" user, I'd seen a lot of mind maps, but I'd never been a big believer. But in one inspired weekend of prototyping, @HcwXd completely changed my min2.3×25k26140155
59Sep 11, '18The more I researched FARSIGHTED, the more convinced I became that decision-making should be a core course in any high school curriculum. It’s an intellectually rich (and diverse) 2.3×02767028
60Jan 2, '25Best example I've seen of LLM's "understanding" a book is the experiment described in this essay where I gave Gemini my then-unpublished book and asked it to identify four key plac2.3×25k1932093
61Oct 14, '24Even before we launched Audio Overviews, switching to Gemini 1.5 in May was a huge boost for NotebookLM because of long-context, native citations, image support, factuality. Incred2.2×24k2491939
62Apr 16, '21The story behind humanity's greatest achievement: the doubling of life expectancy. Coming to @pbs (and bookstores) May 11.2.2×02295618
63Oct 17, '24Experiments are for proving hypotheses. Our hypothesis with NotebookLM was that powerful multimodal models like Gemini enabled a new kind of tool for understanding. With millions n2.1×23k3674881
64Dec 4, '16My op-ed today: Urban states are subsidizing rural states, but rural states get more power at the voting booth.2.1×01411120
65Oct 28, '24Google’s NotebookLM is one of the most powerful use cases for AI1.9×21k2562168
66Jul 29, '25Major launch day @NotebookLM. Video overviews plus a whole new UI for the studio panel.1.9×21k3363047
67Feb 15, '24"NotebookLM is...the best software ever created for leveraging AI in your creative work... It's the closest [software] yet to the vision of a true Second Brain I've been pursuing f1.9×20k2503037
68Nov 15, '21I love the idea of “decentralized autonomous organizations” in theory. We need more experiments in how we organize talent and creativity. But I wasn’t quite sure why we needed the 1.8×01743262
69Aug 7, '18My new book, FARSIGHTED (coming 9/4), examines life's most important decisions and asks how we can make them more effectively—drawing on lessons from cognitive science, military st1.7×02003611
70Dec 13, '24My new favorite work mode in the new flexible @notebooklm UI: source panel collapsed, chat and editable note expanded. Write, ask source-grounded questions, paste useful answers ba1.7×18k24216129
71Sep 9, '25Flashcards/Quizzes also launching @NotebookLM. What makes them extra powerful for learning is the "explain" button on every card. Get an answer wrong, and one click generates a det1.6×17k26828116
72Nov 17, '24One of our favorite unanticipated uses for NotebookLM has been RPG players and DMs using it for their games. (Though leave it to @emollick to figure out how do this with audio!) We1.5×17k1462478
73Dec 2, '24It's been a blast bringing @NotebookLM into the world with @raizamrtn for the past two years. Really looking forward to seeing what she cooks up next. Meanwhile, back at @notebookL1.5×17k2101322
74Jan 9, '21Interesting suggestion from @RoKhanna, moving the debate one layer down in the infrastructure. It's probably the most consequential intervention against Parler that could be made i1.5×0200521
75Jun 9, '22Even in a networked age, there is still something magical about the physical institution of a library. We create software tools to help us think or remember more effectively, but w1.5×0214399
76Apr 29, '25We've been dying to bring additional languages to @NotebookLM Audio Overviews since we launched last year. But we also wanted to ensure we had the quality and coverage the feature 1.5×16k2392412
77Feb 11, '17The Met releases 375,000 high-res images under Creative Commons Zero licensing. Great move. via @Verge1.5×0159710
78May 24, '24Meet Amadeo Polignani, a 24-year-old rookie cop who, in the final months of 1914, embarked on one of the most daring undercover operations in the history of the NYPD. This is his s1.4×16k5087020
79Nov 2, '25I’m finding that resizable panels are a big @NotebookLM improvement1.4×15k184928
80Jan 21, '17One thing the #WomensMarch makes clear: 2018 is going to be off the charts for engagement and turnout in a mid-term election.1.3×0134500
82Nov 21, '24I turned my latest book into an interactive text adventure with a 400-word prompt. As with NotebookLM’s audio overviews, it would have been impossible without long-context AI model1.2×14k20543124
83Dec 23, '21Operation Warp Speed took inspiration from the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program in developing the COVID vaccines, but they would have been better off modeling themselves on1.2×0163367
84Jan 22, '17AP/WashPo/USAToday all took strong journalistic positions tonight, calling a lie a lie. I truly have no idea how this is going to play out.1.2×0127520
85Dec 11, '21While writing Hamilton, @Lin_Manuel by mistake looped the wrong section of "Dear Theodosia"—accidentally discovering the melody that became the haunting "my father wasn't around" b1.2×0189219
87Dec 14, '21Not sure what the bigger flex is: having a Warhol original of you in your apartment, or propping it up on the radiator instead of hanging it on the wall. Either way: legend.1.1×0162263
88Nov 13, '21The most commercially successful board game of the 20th century—Monopoly—was originally created by a woman using the game medium to advance a progressive anti-capitalist message. A1.1×0116419
89Dec 4, '24We made a few extra AI podcasts this month. 😅1.1×11k1721021
90Oct 17, '21We’ve been celebrating the innovator’s mindset—moving fast and breaking things—but maybe one of the lessons we’ve learned is that you can’t live in a society where everything is co1.0×0148236
91Feb 10, '17Given the Flynn news, the next major unified action (perhaps the strike) should be laser-focused on full Russia disclosure (incl tax forms.)1.0×0115500
92Nov 13, '24Tomorrow @raiza_abubakar and I are going to be interviewed on the @GoogleDeepmind podcast, discussing all things NotebookLM. Any requests for what we should cover in the conversati1.0×11k153720
93Jun 24, '22If you look at the the history of ideas, the most powerful ones usually come out of the collision between different intellectual fields. The border *between* disciplines is where t1.0×01252212
94Nov 28, '21Four years ago, our youngest son suddenly began having grand mal seizures. It was terrifying for us as parents, but in a strange way it prepared us for one of the most vexing thing1.0×0133312
95Sep 8, '23How I came to write The Infernal Machine, my new book coming spring 2024: a true story of dynamite, terror, anarchism, and the rise of the modern detective...1.0×11k295101
96Oct 3, '24About to share some NotebookLM magic onstage at the Second Brain Summit organized by ⁦@fortelabs⁩!0.9×10k171926
97Oct 30, '24So cool to see NotebookLM included on the @TIME list of best inventions of 2024. As for the quote saying I’ve been fantasizing about it for 30 years: 1. I apparently have very nerd0.9×9.9k1912443
99Jun 29, '16Spent last two mornings working on new book with this as my view. (In Torla, Spain.) Breathtaking.0.8×0130140
100Sep 12, '22At last, photographic proof of Nixon's long-rumored White House meeting with Wes Anderson.0.8×0128162

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