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Google says students in the U.S. and India can now add hundreds of textbooks from providers such as OpenStax, Open Textbook Library and S Chand Publishing into Gemini Notebook at no charge. Textbook content is used to ground answers with inline citations and links, and can be transformed into study guides, practice quizzes, flashcards and more via the notebook's 'Add sources' → 'Textbooks' catalog.
Google updated Gemini Notebook to let users iteratively shape Slide Decks and Video Overviews: the notebook now suggests topics from your sources, lets you steer content, visual style and format, and adds a "Review" toggle to inspect and edit outline/producer notes before rendering. Users can still skip review for quick output; the features are rolling out globally to all Gemini Notebook users over the coming week.
Apple told the European Commission it has agreed to make employment offers to certain Huxe AI employees and to receive a non-exclusive license to Huxe’s intellectual property, according to a regulatory filing. Huxe — a personalized audio startup whose founders worked on NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook) — announced it was shutting down on May 21; the filing does not say who accepted offers or what Apple plans to build.
A gifted 8th‑grade physical science teacher at Cedar Grove Middle School in Decatur, Georgia says they use interactive simulations in class and rely on Gemini and Gemini Notebook to review unit plans against standards and brainstorm new approaches, while modeling the tools openly to build students' digital literacy. The teacher emphasizes that technology supplements — rather than replaces — the human element in teaching.
A Chief Digital Officer and lecturer at Universiti Putra Malaysia replaced conventional coding exams for a data mining course with conversational assessments where students use Google Gemini in Colab to generate code and must verbally justify model choices; the instructor uses Gemini Canvas and Gemini Notebook to evaluate work at scale. The approach emphasizes students' judgment and troubleshooting over raw syntax skills.
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier multimodal model optimized for long-horizon reasoning and complex workflows. Argon is rolling out initially to trusted cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program, expands context length to 1 million tokens, reports leading benchmark performance across coding, finance, legal, and video understanding, and will be made more widely available after phased safety testing and engagement with U.S. government pre-release processes; Google also published introductory pricing.
Google is rolling out Skills — reusable, savable instruction templates that were already in Gemini Spark — directly into Gemini Chat globally, and will bring Skills to Google Workspace customers in the coming weeks. Skills now support attaching reference files (plain text, PDFs, images), stacking multiple skills, and will automatically replace users' Gems when Gems are deprecated (individual accounts Nov; Workspace business/enterprise/nonprofit March 2027; Workspace education June 2027); Opal 2 will also be turned down in November.
At the EDUCAUSE conference Google.org announced support for three higher-education initiatives: USU and APLU’s enhancement of the Urban Adult Learner Institute (integrating Grow with Google and AI lessons across 30 universities), a 15‑month USU project to collect and analyze 10 AI-enhanced community-based learning models, and Education Design Lab’s Reimagining Community Colleges work with a five-college cohort and a planned national competition in early 2027.
Google introduced two new Gemini 3.8 text‑to‑speech models—Flash TTS for highly expressive, character-driven voice design and Flash‑Lite TTS for cost‑efficient, high‑volume use—available across Google AI Studio, Gemini API/Enterprise, Gemini Notebook, and Google Vids. The models claim large voice coverage (2,000+ production voices, 100+ languages/dialects), generative voice creation from prompts, 30‑second voice replication with consent verification, SynthID watermarking and C2PA credentials, and features for long‑form and multi‑speaker scene staging.
A WIRED reporter used the Gemini platform and its Notebook/Gem features to build AI-driven 'clones' of editors at Condé Nast to simulate their preferences and feedback. The experiment produced plausible but imperfect personas, raised questions about usefulness and authenticity, and highlighted how workplace AI can change collaboration and privacy trade-offs.
Google promoted new tools for its Gemini Notebook aimed at helping users "supercharge" study sessions; the source shows the phrase "Supercharge your study sessions" alongside the Gemini Notebook logo and multiple notebook windows being used for studying. The brief source text does not include technical details or a release timeline.
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