
notebooklm-py-14fdf563·5 events·first seen Aliases: notebooklm-py, NotebookLM
SurfSense is an open-source Python project positioning itself as a NotebookLM alternative, enabling research across live web sources including Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Google Search, and Maps. It exposes functionality through a platform UI, API, or MCP server. The project has accumulated 15,456 GitHub stars with modest daily momentum (+35 today).
Google has rebranded its AI-powered research and note-taking product NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, aligning it with the Gemini product family. The announcement was made via the Google blog and generated moderate discussion on Hacker News. The rename signals deeper integration of the product into Google's Gemini ecosystem rather than treating it as a standalone experimental tool.
Researchers introduce X+Slides, a benchmark for evaluating LLM-based slide deck generation that incorporates target audience as a first-class evaluation dimension. Built on 113 topics and seven presentation scenes, it uses 8,133 source-grounded probes and four metrics covering audience coverage, domain coverage, efficiency, and correctness. Experiments on DeepPresenter, SlideTailor, and NotebookLM reveal that current systems recover substantial but incomplete audience-essential information, with NotebookLM achieving the highest audience coverage of 0.853 at the tested threshold.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 (a safety-guardrailed model) and Claude Mythos 5 (same underlying model with safeguards removed, for vetted cyberdefense/infrastructure users via Project Glasswing with US government collaboration), both priced at $10/$50 per million tokens. Apple released five new Apple Foundation Models (AFM 3) spanning on-device and cloud tiers, built with Google and Nvidia infrastructure. Additional headlines cover Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate (70+ languages, real-time), OpenAI's confidential SEC IPO filing, a NotebookLM upgrade to Gemini 3.5, and Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark for code-quality evaluation where Claude Opus 4.8 leads at 34.3%.
An unofficial Python library provides programmatic access to Google NotebookLM's features, including capabilities not exposed in the web UI. The library supports CLI usage and integration with AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw. With 14,260 total stars and 182 added today, it signals meaningful community interest in automating and extending NotebookLM workflows.