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NEW NotebookLM AI Agent!

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast · 2026-06-21 · 12 min
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NotebookLM’s New Update + My Free “Instant Research Engine” Agent OS SetupThis episode covers a new NotebookLM update with three major changes: an improved chat experience with added sources and over 100 curated software skills for deeper research, new visualization for data including PDFs, images, and Excel sheets, and an agentic research companion that helps start notebooks from loose ideas and questions. It then demonstrates an “agentic operating system” built around NotebookLM to better organize notebooks, chat with source-trained notebooks, run fast or deep agentic research with citations, and generate assets in a studio such as presentations, podcasts, videos, mind maps, infographics, and flashcards in parallel. The script argues this system offers better organization, more recent cited answers, model flexibility via MCP, and can be built for free, with an optional packaged version in the AI Profit Boardroom.
✨ Episode Outline — click any point to jump to it in the episode
Problem solved
NotebookLM is messy to manage; a layered Agent OS turns it into an organized instant research engine.
Benefits
  • Better chat with pluggable sources and 100+ curated skills
  • Visualize PDFs, images, and Excel data
  • Agentic research companion guides from loose ideas
  • One-click library view of all notebooks and assets
  • Cited answers from latest few-days news
Use cases
  • Feed a pile of links to generate research reports, podcasts, videos free
  • Ask one question, get cited answers on June 2026 releases (GLM 5.2, Cohere North Mini)
  • Chat with a notebook custom-trained on your Agent OS sources
  • Generate slide decks, infographics, flashcards, mind maps in Studio
KPIs / results
  • 100+ curated software skills
  • Free setup
Tools / build
  • NotebookLM
  • Agent OS dashboard
  • MCP connector
  • AI Profit Boardroom community
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00:00
NotebookLM Update Overview
00:51
Agent OS Dashboard Tour
  • Agent OS dashboard tour for managing notebooks
01:24
Why Build a Layered System
  • Why build a layered, model-agnostic system
02:01
Instant Research Engine Demo
  • Instant research engine demo with cited answers
04:09
Library Research Chat Studio Workflow
  • Library, research, chat, and studio workflow
05:25
Generating Assets in Studio
  • Generating slide decks, videos, infographics in Studio
06:19
Research Report Example
  • Research report example
07:42
Parallel Agents Background Work
  • Parallel agents doing background work
08:37
Free Setup Options
  • Free setup options
09:37
Output Quality Examples
  • Output quality examples
10:48
Join AI Profit Boardroom
  • Join AI Profit Boardroom
11:41
Community Support and Wrap Up
  • Community support and wrap up
So we have a brand new update from NotebookLM where there's three big changes to NotebookLM itself, which is a powerful free research engine that we can use, for example, as an AI agent for creating all sorts of research reports. It can create videos, podcasts, etc. I'm going to show you the new setup here that's just come out recently. So first of all, you get a better chat experience. You can actually plug in sources, as you can see, and you can add your own sources as well. And it's got over 100 curated software skills, so you can get better, deeper research and more complex analysis. So that's the first big update. And then number two is that you can visualize data, PDFs, images, and Excel sheets as well. And then finally, there's an agentic research companion, which means you can now start a notebook by entering your loose ideas and questions into the chat. Then NotebookLM will guide you through it. Now, what we've actually set up with our agentic operating system, and if you don't have something like this set up, I definitely recommend it, because you can basically manage Notebook in a more powerful way, where you can segment everything. You can see your library of all the notebooks you've got set up. You can do more research inside this section and ask it questions. You can chat with your notebooks as well. So if we go to the chat here, we can actually speak to our notebook directly. And then also we have a studio here where we can generate anything from that particular notebook. So that could be like a presentation, audio view, video, mind map, infographic, flashcards, etc. Now, we've used an MCP to connect these. And the thing that I would say here is like, if you saw Fable 5 recently get taken down by Claude, then you know that it's much better to have a system where you can plug models in and out. And it doesn't really matter what happens next. So you have much more control over the system. So this is why we've set up this agent here. And then what we could do from here is we can take the assets that we generate with AI. So we've got, for example, the research reports, we have the slide decks, we have the videos and the podcasts and everything else, and even infographics. And bear in mind, like you can generate all of this for free using this setup. So let me guide you through it. This is something I call the instant research engine with Notebook LM, because basically you can have like a really well-researched report or podcast or video, whatever you want, and you can just feed it a pile of links, right? So this is powerful stuff. Now, the engine that powers it is Notebook LM. But as you can see, like Notebook LM is super messy itself. So if we go directly into Notebook LM, you can see that we've got notebooks all over the place. We don't know which ones have videos generated. We can't see everything that was generated. And there's no real library there of everything that we've created. That's why you want something like this, where you can see everything you've built in one click glance, and then you can get access to it straight away, right? Saves a lot of time. It's a lot more efficient. And then if you need to go through some of your notebooks here, it's much easier to see it this way than it is to look at it like with a big grid, and then you have to look through the whole list. You could do the list setup here as well. But again, like you don't really know what you've created or what's set up or, you know, what each one of these is about. It's much easier to organize it like this, as you can see. So we can ask it one question, and then it can answer from every source with citations. And this is a really powerful research engine that we've set up. So for example, if we say, okay, you know, what's the one thing that a builder should know about the June 2026 release, then it comes up with answers and sources like you can see. So it comes up with, for example, the new Coher North Mini code update, the GLM 5.2 update, the new research from Hermes Agent, the new release. And so like in one single question, you can get the latest news. And it's really, really recent. Whereas for example, if you ask that same question inside Claude or something like that, it's usually quite outdated, and you'll find stuff from like two weeks ago or three weeks ago. This is all stuff within the last few days. So the way this works is like you can plug in your sources, the engine answers, and then you get cited answers, which makes it a much more powerful setup. So this is how it works. You can feed it like different ideas, different sources, et cetera. It can read through those, it connects, and then it can perform, right? And by perform, we mean like it can generate different assets. It could generate videos, or it can generate slide decks, or whatever you want. And then you can actually ask it and get cited answers as well. Now, how do you feed it? So you would just go inside the library here, and you can type in new notebook and go from there. How do you do the research? So you can select a notebook that you've created, go into the research section here and ask questions. Now you can switch between fast and deep. Deep is the research agent, where it can really look deeply and find relevant information in the news. Now inside the chat as well, you can speak to it. So this is kind of like a custom agent that's fully trained on the sources you've plugged in. So for example, this is about the agent operating system and the June releases, and then we can ask it questions and go from there, right? And you can see how it applies. The same for the research. So if we go inside this one, and then we go to research, we can ask it, and then we can get visuals as well. So you can see here, for example, we said, are you there? And this is custom trained on my agentic operating system. And then it has all the information about what we've done recently, what we've plugged into it, what we've used, etc, which is super powerful. So the library itself is great for getting research. The research section is good for going very, very deep on that research and getting cited sources. The chat is great for just asking it general questions. Like for example, if you need to learn something or if you need to like get, maybe like you generate some content, something like that. And then finally you have the studio as well. So based on this different stuff that we've plugged in here, we can, for example, say, okay, create an audio overview of the agentic operating system. And what that will actually do is generate a podcast about that particular topic. So if we've trained it to know everything about the agent operating system that we've built, which is this system we're using right now, then it can generate podcasts, it can generate videos, it can generate infographics on the spot using that particular example. So you can see in progress for the podcast that we've just generated, in progress for the infographic. And you can also generate multiple things at once. So you can have parallel agents working to create podcasts and infographics and videos and mind maps and everything else at one time. So you can see two examples right here that is pulling in. Now you can view those at any time, or you can click the pull option here and actually pull it into your library, as you can see here. So if we have a look at this one, for example, this is a research report we've generated with notebook.lem that's custom trained on my agent operating system, knows everything about my agent operating system. And then I can train my team, I can create content with it, I can generate social media posts, I can create videos and podcasts about the agent OS. I can even get the report and open up the research report. And this is just a beautifully organized research report, a full PDF, with seven pages of useful information about everything that we've plugged into it. Right? So it talks about the ecosystem, what we've used, how we set it up, the loops that we've plugged in, the models that we've used recently. Right? So you can see here, it's like, okay, here's three big breakthroughs in June. So for example, Hermes agent v0.17, that just came out, GLM 5.2, and Cohere North Mini Code, which is a new local model. And then we can see the actual benchmarks on this particular model. So this is about GLM 5.2. It talks about how big it is, how it performs on SWE, how the architecture works, how the system is set up for safety, and the same for North Mini Code, right? And it's generated all of the research, all of the content, all of the diagrams, all of the charts, etc. directly inside this setup, which is pretty powerful stuff. So it's really cool, as you can see. And then you can go back inside the chat, you can ask you questions, you could say, okay, what did we release in June? And then it will start thinking and come back to us in a second. And then whilst that's thinking, we can go off and do something else inside the agent operating system. So whilst this is working, we could go off into anti-gravity and start building something else out. We could go into Claude, we could go into paperclip, etc. So these agents also work in the background in parallel whilst you're doing something else, which is pretty amazing in itself. And then we've got the research reports. If we've generated, for example, that podcast, we can see what we're up to. So that's still in progress. But we have the infographic here. So this is the infographic. And you can see that's now plugged into our system. So we've got that infographic ready to go. So it's pretty amazing because you're essentially creating like a custom agent trained on all your sources. It can generate videos, infographics. It actually works very smooth to use. It can generate amazing research reports. It's just a full agent. Now, bear in mind as well, Notebook LM itself is free to use. The MCP is free to use. You could create your own agent operating system like this and build it for free with something like Claude or Hermes as well on free APIs. And then you're good to go as well. So you can make the whole ecosystem free if you want to as well. If you want to get our system, it's inside the AR Profit Boardroom, the agent OS. But if you want to build your own, you could do that too. And so the way that it works is like you feed it with your sources. So for example, we fed it with information about our agent OS system. Then it reads the sources. It connects to Notebook LM. It turns research into stuff you actually use. So for example, it could be like a podcast, could be slide decks, could be a flashcard guide if you're trying to learn something, a study guide, et cetera. And then you can ask it questions inside the chat as you saw before. And so you plug in your sources or information like we plugged in information about our agent operating system. That goes into the instant research engine. And then we get a podcast, we get a briefing document, a mind map, flashcards, et cetera, all inside one beautiful system, which is super powerful. And you can see the quality of this stuff. Like it looks super nice. This is an amazing infographic that we generated. And the reason that it looks so nice is because it's using Google and it's using Nano Banana 2 to generate the outputs. And they look absolutely amazing. Same for this slide deck. So you can see the full slide deck right here. It looks great. And the great thing about this is like before, you know, you'd have all your articles that you're researching in different places, notes everywhere, very hard to find and build everything together. Whereas with this system, you can add the sources, walk away, come back to a podcast, come back to an infographic, come back to videos, et cetera. And it's a really, really powerful system. You might also say, okay, this is too technical to set up, but you can see AI profit boarding members here are getting amazing results. So, you know, if they can do it and I can do it, then you can do it too. So the first thing you're going to see is a dashboard. Then we've got the studio for generating stuff and you've got the agentic agent as well for research too. So you get a research engine, podcasts whenever you need it, answers you actually trust because they're cited. You can generate social media content or content in minutes, not afternoons. And it's all inside one dashboard because it's organized inside the agent operating system. So if you want to get our setup, the agent operating system is inside the AI profit boardroom. It turns the notebook and research agent into part of one system so that this can also plug into your obsidian memory. You've got the full agent operating system zip file to install, the setup walkthrough, four weekly coaching calls, daily tutorials, a 30-day roadmap and 3,600 members with a member map and a 24-7 community, right? And again, if you're thinking this sounds technical or it's hard to set up, et cetera, it's pretty simple. Like you can see how many reviews and testimonials and wins we've got from people using stuff like this and particularly building their own agent operating system. So I'm not a coder. I'm not technical. They're not technical, but we can all build this together. And the great thing is when you have a community, you'll learn and you grow together instead of like kind of, you know, coding alone, which can get a bit boring and you need people on the journey. That's the sort of thing that I would say. That's the best thing about this. So feel free to join us inside here. Inside the community, we answer your questions. You can get help with support in real time. Inside the classroom, we get access to all my best trainings. If you want to get the agent operating system, we've got it over here. If you want to get a full training on how we use Notebook LM inside the agent OS, you can see that we've got a full tutorial and guide on it right there. Inside the calendar, you can jump a week coaching calls inside the map. We've got people you can connect with in your local area and city who are building with stuff like this, as you can see. And it's all inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Link in the comments description or go to the AI Profit Boardroom.com. Thanks for watching.