NotebookLM’s latest update goes beyond simple summaries: it now lets you create custom reports.

Previously, the tool was limited to automatically generating briefing documents or study guides.

With this release, you can choose from a wider range of formats, including blog posts, case studies, research papers, and even training manuals, or design your own.

The real shift is about control and relevance.

You can now set the objective, audience, and tone of your report, while NotebookLM dynamically suggests formats that fit your sources. That means you can get documents closer to what you actually need, whether it’s a strategic brief for leadership, a policy memo, or an explanatory article.

This week, we’ll show you how to use it to create a Strategic Report on AI’s impact on white-collar workers, one of the urgent issues on leadership agendas.

Let’s try it on a real use case: produce a decision-grade AI Workforce Report with NotebookLM

With this workflow, NotebookLM serves as a junior analyst who can source credible insights and create a strong formal report with a clear action plan.

Step 1: Upload and Discover credible sources

Start with trusted files, such as internal PDFs, board memos, and market scans. Then we'll use Discover to add 2023–2025 reports from credible outlets (McKinsey, WEF, OECD, PwC, IBM, HBR, journals).

"Find recent (2023–2025) research, consulting reports, and industry articles on AI’s impact on white-collar jobs. Prioritize insights on professional services, finance, and technology sectors. Look for evidence on job categories at risk, skills in rising demand, and corporate approaches to upskilling or workforce transition."

Target 8–12 sources, include 1–2 contrarian views, and quick-screen for date, author, and methods.

Step 2: Create a Strategic Brief for leadership

Click Create report → Create your own.

Paste a clear description:

"Generate a formal report with an action plan on AI’s impact on white-collar workers, emphasizing implications for talent strategy. Highlight three priority areas: job categories at risk, emerging high-value skills, and recommended upskilling/reskilling investments for companies in professional services, finance, and technology."

Step 3: Refine in Google Docs

When you're happy with the report NotebookLM generates, copy it to Docs to polish the language, add company data, and insert any charts you may need.

Step 4: Add an Action Layer

Leaders want owners, budgets, and timelines.

You can add a one-page Action Plan: 5 initiatives, accountable leads, budget range, and 30-60-90 milestones.

You can also include a Role-Impact matrix, Skill Map, and or a Budget/ROI review.

Step 5: Repurpose for other audiences

Reformat the same report into:

• Board one-pager with risks, opportunities, and KPIs.
• Function playbooks (Finance, IT, HR, Legal).
• Optional employee FAQ to address job security and reskilling.

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Every week, I report on the top updates to your favorite AI tools.

This week, it's definitely the era of agents:

Gamma 3.0 Is Now Your AI Design Agent

Gamma just launched 3.0, reframing itself from “AI slides” into a full visual storytelling platform. What makes it special:

• AI design partner. Meet Gamma Agent: instantly turns rough ideas into polished communication. It can research with citations, restyle designs, visualize links/screenshots, and even critique and improve your work.  
• Automated creativity. The new Gamma API connects with Zapier, Make, or your own apps. Automate at scale: investor decks personalized per prospect, Zoom transcripts into meeting recaps, lesson plans into 60+ languages.  
• Smart visuals. Expanded layouts, diagrams, and themes mean presentations stop looking cookie-cutter. With Smart Diagrams, you just write ideas and Gamma diagrams them for you. (McKinsey, watch out!)

With this evolution, Gamma creates an AI partner that can design for you, rather than just a website for better PowerPoints.

If it's up to their team (​which presented to members before​), you don’t just make decks anymore: you make gammas.

​Try Gamma 3.0's Design Agent​

Google adds Gemini and Agentic Browsing to Chrome

Gemini is now integrated into Chrome for Mac & Windows (in the U.S., for English users) to help with summarization across tabs, context-aware help, and tighter integration with Google apps like Calendar, Drive, Maps, and YouTube.

Gemini can already assist you in understanding complex pages, and agentic capabilities (tasks that act on behalf of the user) are coming soon.

The way Google talks about agents in Chrome reminds me of ChatGPT Agent: "You tell Gemini in Chrome what you want to get done, and it acts on web pages on your behalf." But instead of a virtual computer, the agent does it directly in your own browser.

​Discover Chrome with Gemini​ >>>

Microsoft adds AI Agents inside Teams, Channels & SharePoint

Speaking of agents: new AI agents are being rolled out in Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage to help with summarizing conversations, assigning tasks, automating agendas, and keeping workflows moving.

A “Facilitator” agent helps with meeting agendas/notes; “Channel Agents” monitor channels, pull updates, and check status; community agents in Viva Engage help tidy up responses and knowledge sharing.

And as we would expect from Microsoft, it's all built with enterprise-grade security and compliance in mind.

​Read more about Microsoft Agents​ >>>

Notion 3.0: a team of AI Agents that actually do work

Notion just rebuilt its AI around Agents that can take multi-step actions across your workspace: create and update pages and databases, pull context from your connected tools, and run longer tasks end-to-end.

They pull context from Notion plus tools like Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, and even the web, all guided by editable memory pages you control.

Today you get a personal Agent; soon, teams will be able to spin up custom ones that run on schedules or triggers (think weekly status posts, IT triage, or feedback digests).

​Check out Notion Agents​ >>>

Exclusive for PRO Members: Unlocking Google NotebookLM’s New Video Overviews

This Thursday, our founder, Daan van Rossum, will showcase a breakthrough feature in Google’s NotebookLM: Video Overviews and how you can use it to transform static documents into narrated, professional-quality training and explainer videos in minutes.

If you’ve been wondering:

• How can I onboard employees faster without repeating myself?
• What’s the easiest way to turn client reports or proposals into something they’ll actually watch?
• How do I make sure my strategy updates and memos get understood across the team?
• Can I create customer- or partner-facing explainers without a video team?

This session is for you.

To ensure global access, this session will run twice:

🌏 APAC / EU timezone: 4 pm Singapore/ 9 am London/ 10 am Amsterdam

🌍 EU / AM timezone: 4 pm London/5 pm Amsterdam / 8 am Pacific Time / 11 am Eastern Time

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