Welcome to your weekly Brew & AI
Each week, I’ll share one blog, one tool, and one tip to make sense of AI - no jargon, no hype, just simple insights you can actually use.
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☕ AI in the news
This week’s been all Google, even Sundar Pichai couldn’t contain his excitement.
Gemini 3: Google just dropped Gemini 3, and it feels like the moment someone spiked their cold brew with rocket fuel.
Early testers say it crushes coding tasks, handles longer contexts without melting down, and finally looks like a model built by a trillion-dollar company that remembered it’s… Google.
For a company accused of sleepwalking through the AI race, this is their I’ve had enough, watch this moment.
NanoBanana: Google quietly rolled out Nano Banana Pro, a lightweight image-generation model now wired directly into Google Photos.
Tap Help me edit, type what you want, and boom - Nano Banana turns your pic into a Renaissance painting, a mosaic, or whatever your creative caffeine rush demands.
It’s hilariously named, but deadly serious: Google just turned advanced image generation into a one-tap everyday feature.
Have a look at some of the best use cases - directly from Google itself. And if you’re on X, give me a shout, I share a lot more content and tips there.
☕ Tool of the week
Continuing with the Google theme, here’s what I feel is their most underrated tool.
NotebookLM: Think of NotebookLM as your personal research barista - it takes your raw ingredients (documents, PDFs, articles, notes) and expertly extracts the essential insights you need.
Instead of drowning in information, you get a concentrated brew of understanding.
You can now interact with your research materials by asking questions, generating summaries, and uncovering connections that would take hours to find manually. Perfect for professionals who need to absorb and act on information quickly without losing the nuance.
I personally use NotebookLM to summarise long youtube tutorials/podcasts, by asking it to condense down the insights, and ask it follow up questions to help me build projects.
All other tools here
☕ Tip of the week
Here’s a tip to get you started on NotebookLM immediately.
Use NotebookLM and consolidate all your information in the most easy-to consume manner
Drag in (or link) your PDFs, slide decks, articles, Google Docs - basically everything you’d otherwise skim through for work, research or personal learning
Name that notebook by topic (e.g., “PM interview prep”, “Q4 marketing strategy”, “Machine learning crash course”)
Once your sources are in, ask NotebookLM questions as if you were the barista asking:
“Show me the key themes from this deck”
“What are three counter-arguments in this article?”
“Summarise this 100-page PDF in five bullet points”
Ask NotebookLM to build a deck for you, or generate an interactive quiz, or even turn it in to a podcast
NotebookLM becomes your “coffee station” of insight: you pour in raw sources, it helps brew clarity. It saves you time rifling through documents manually. It compiles and synthesises across varied formats (PDFs + slides + docs)
It’s especially useful when prepping for something high-stakes (interview prep, product deep-dives, report builds) - you quickly get what matters and what to do next.
More tips here
💛 P.S.
That’s it for this week’s brew. We’ll soon be moving to tutorials and more practical content, I’m also exploring converting the blogs to short-form video content, so stay tuned.
I’d love to hear what you think - what you liked, what could be better, or what you’d love to see next.
Just hit reply - I read every message over my morning coffee ☕.
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