Students edition
This week: free tools that summarise and quiz you on your material, and new rules your programme will soon have to follow.
NotebookLM gets smarter: your own study material, now with charts and practice questions
Google's study tool can now reason better, and build schedules and presentations from your own material.
Google has given NotebookLM a big upgrade. The tool can now reason better, run code in a safe environment, and create charts, spreadsheets and presentations. You load in your own reader or notes, and every answer comes only from that material. The tool is free to use worldwide, with a usage limit.
Background for subscribersLoad the reader or notes for one subject into a NotebookLM notebook. Ask it a few exam-style questions and check the source it points to for each answer. That way you know for sure it's correct and not made up. Then turn it into an audio overview to go over on the move. Remember: a summary is a hook to hang things on, not a replacement for your textbook. You only really remember material once you've worked through it yourself.
Gemma 4 runs free and private on your own laptop
Google released Gemma 4 12B, an AI model that runs locally on an ordinary laptop with 16 GB of memory. It works with text, images and speech, and needs no internet. Because it runs on your own device, your data doesn't go to the cloud.
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