Overview

• Google rolled out eight featured notebooks on July 14, offering free, expert-curated content ranging from longevity advice to Shakespeare studies and Q1 earnings analysis.
• Featured notebooks are created in collaboration with partners such as Eric Topol, Jacqueline Nesi, The Economist, The Atlantic, Our World In Data and University of Oxford researchers.
• Each notebook leverages NotebookLM’s AI capabilities—source-grounded Q&A, audio overviews and mind maps—to help users explore curated materials without uploading their own sources.
• Since June’s introduction of public sharing, users have published over 140,000 notebooks, highlighting strong community engagement ahead of the featured release.
• Google confirmed plans to expand the featured library with additional collections from The Economist, The Atlantic and other partner organizations.