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AI Powers Up Content, Research, and Browsing

NotebookLM’s new video feature leads a week full of smart, useful AI upgrades

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The DailyAi
August 03, 2025

In This Issue:

  • 💥 Big News: NotebookLM adds narrated video overviews, Microsoft brings AI to your tabs, and Runway supercharges video editing

  • ⚡ Rapid Recaps: See open-source challengers, mind-controlled tech, smarter spreadsheets, and AI-powered archaeology

  • ✨ Weekly Spotlight: Learn how to make cinematic videos using AI tools—even if you’re starting from scratch

  • 🔥 Hot Tools: Try 8 new standouts for video, design, automation, and audio editing

  • 🛠️ Deep Dives: Repurpose and schedule your content, write faster with AI, and build better websites

💥 Big News

NotebookLM Can Now Talk Through Your Notes (Literally)

NotebookLM just launched Video Overviews—a slick new way to turn dense topics into narrated slide decks, complete with AI-created visuals, diagrams, & quotes pulled straight from your docs. You can now direct the AI to focus on specific topics, learning goals, or audiences, making it easy to get a tailored visual summary. Alongside, the Studio panel now lets you create & store multiple outputs of each type—Audio Overviews, Mind Maps, Reports, & Videos—all in one notebook, streamlining note-taking for teams & solo pros alike.

Visual Explanations Unlocked

  • Narrated slides clarify data, processes & abstract concepts

  • Store custom outputs for different chapters, roles, or languages

  • Multitask with audio while reviewing mind maps or study guides

Bye-Bye, Tab Overload

Fed up with endless tabs & scattered research? Microsoft just unveiled Copilot Mode for Edge, an AI-powered browsing experience that transforms the classic tab grind. This opt-in mode brings a streamlined interface, chat-powered navigation, & multi-tab context awareness—helping you compare, decide, & act faster. You can even speak to Copilot, asking it to open tabs or summarize content, all while keeping privacy & control front & center. Available now for free on Windows & Mac.

Your Browser, Now With Brains

  • AI wrangles your open tabs for smarter comparisons

  • Voice navigation shaves clicks & typing from daily tasks

  • Dynamic pane keeps you focused without losing your spot

Video Editing, Now With Superpowers

Video pros & creators, take note: Runway’s new Aleph model is raising the bar for in-context video generation. Aleph lets you add, remove, or transform objects in footage, generate new camera angles, relight scenes, & even age or de-age characters—using just simple prompts or reference images. Style transfers, green-screening, & seamless shot continuations are now as easy as typing a request. Early access is rolling out to creative partners, with wider availability soon.

Aleph's “Style Transfer” Capabilities

Prompt to Pro-Grade

  • Edit video with text or images, no manual masking

  • Instantly swap styles, lighting, or even time of day

  • Generate new shots or angles to fill gaps in your story

⚡ Rapid Recaps

🔍 Z.ai Enters the Chat

Z.ai releases GLM-4.5, a 355 billion parameter model, challenging industry giants. Open-source accessibility offers developers new tools for innovation.

🧠 Small Brain, Big Flex from Sapient

Singapore's Sapient Intelligence unveils HRM, a new way AI infrastructure that aims to outperform LLM counterparts. Its efficiency hints at a shift towards smarter, not bigger, AI solutions.

🖐️ Meta’s Mind-Reading Wristband?!

Meta tests an AI-powered wristband decoding brain signals to control devices. This tech could redefine human-computer interaction.

📜 Google’s AI Digs Up Dead Languages

Google's Aeneas is restoring ancient texts with AI, preserving history. This tech aids researchers & historians in accessing lost knowledge.

📊 Shortcut for Excel

Fundamental Research Labs launches Shortcut, an AI for Excel that rivals top consultants. It automates complex tasks, freeing up analysts for strategic work.

✨ Weekly Spotlight

The Future of 3D Creation Is Here—And It’s Open Source

This week at WAIC 2025, Tencent launched Hunyuan3D World 1.0: a game-changing, open-source tool that lets you create fully interactive 360° worlds from a text prompt or a single image. Think: walk through immersive 3D scenes, export assets in .obj and .glb formats for Unity, Blender, or Unreal Engine, and customize terrain, sky, and objects separately—all free and running locally. No expensive software or experience needed!.

Just type your idea, and watch as a breathtaking 3D universe comes to life—ready for VR, gaming, or digital art applications.
Want to build your own worlds in seconds?

But that’s not all. They also announced expanded open-sourcing of Hunyuan-A13B, the world’s first 13B-level Mixture-of-Experts model optimized for agent tools and long-context tasks.

Tencent is pushing AI beyond text — bringing 3D world models and smarter agents that may unlock new ways to create and interact.

🔥 Hot Tools

🛠️ Deep Dives

1. Buffer: Social Media Content Made Easy

Why It’s Worth Your Time

  • Tailored social media content that fits platform limits & tones

  • Generate posts that match X’s character count or LinkedIn’s formality

  • Instant content ideas to overcome writer’s block fast

  • Repurpose existing posts into fresh formats for multiple channels

  • Summarize long-form content into concise social snippets

  • Edit with one click to rephrase, shorten, expand, or adjust tone

  • Schedule posts for all social media outlets

Pricing

  • Free Forever Plan: Connect up to 3 channels with 10 refillable scheduled posts each, 100 content ideas, 1 user, basic analytics, AI assistance, and customer support—no cost to get started.

  • Paid Plans (from $6/month): Schedule unlimited posts, access unlimited ideas, advanced analytics, hashtag tools, and an engagement inbox. The Team plan ($12/month) adds unlimited users, access levels, and content approval workflows. Both include a 14-day free trial.

2. Moonbeam: AI Assistant for Long-Form Writing

Why It’s Worth Your Time

  • Streamline long-form content with AI-assisted ideation, outlining & drafting

  • Use ‘Ask Luna’ for conversational AI support like ChatGPT within the platform

  • Generate content clusters to build topical authority from a single keyword

  • Create structured outlines to review & refine before final content generation

  • Collaborate in real time on higher-tier plans with multiple users & integrations

Pricing

  • Paid Plans (from $49/month): Get unlimited long-form writing, social posts, access to all AI tools, Boss Mode, Moonbeam Chat, Ask Luna, and a custom style generator for 1 user.

  • Team Plan ($99/month per seat): Designed for startups and enterprises—adds real-time collaboration, tool integrations, multiple users, and priority support. Contact sales to get started.

3. 10Web: AI-Powered WordPress Website Builder

Why It’s Worth Your Time

  • Automate website creation with AI that builds or clones sites without coding

  • Enjoy managed WordPress hosting on Google Cloud with Cloudflare Enterprise CDN

  • Boost site speed through automated PageSpeed optimization for SEO & UX

  • Customize with drag-and-drop Elementor builder plus WooCommerce support

  • Generate AI content for site copy and images from simple prompts

  • Protect sites via automated malware scanning, DDoS defense, & real-time backups

Pricing

  • Paid Plans (from $25/month): Build fast, secure websites with AI writing, image generation, free domain credit, and Google Cloud hosting for up to 10K visitors. All plans include Elementor-based editing, SEO tools, and 24/7 support.

  • Higher Tiers ($36–$55/month): Increase content limits (up to unlimited), handle more traffic (up to 100K visits), and get more SSD storage. The Ultimate plan includes VIP priority support and is built for high-performance, high-traffic websites.

⏭️ What’s Next

This week NotebookLM turned dense research into smart, narrated explainers. Edge and Runway introduced new creative workflows for teams and solo users.


Watch for our Tuesday deep-dive how-to and Thursday’s roundup of the next essential AI tools.

Stay ahead, stay curious. More breakthroughs coming next week!