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NotebookLM, Google’s AI note-taking app, can now summarize and help you dig deeper into YouTube videos. The new capability works by analyzing the text in a YouTube video’s transcript, including autogenerated ones.
Once you add a YouTube link to NotebookLM, it will use AI to provide a brief summary of key topics discussed in the transcript. You can then click on these topics to get more detailed information as well as ask questions. (If you’re struggling to come up with something to ask, NotebookLM will suggest some questions.)
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When I dropped in The Verge’s iPhone 16 Pro review, NotebookLM generated topics discussed in the video like “Apple Intelligence,” “iPhone 16 Pro Camera,” and “Photo…