Gemini Notebook Now Gives You Free Access to Hundreds of Textbooks 📚

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Gemini Notebook now gives students free access to hundreds of textbooks from publishers and educational libraries, including OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, and S Chand Publishing. In today’s issue, we’ll share how to add these books as sources and use Gemini Notebook to turn them into study guides, practice quizzes, flashcards, and other learning materials.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Google Expands AI Search Ads Globally

• Gemini Now Lets You Generate and Edit Documents Directly in Chats

• AI Tutorial: Study Smarter with Gemini Notebook and Hundreds of Free Textbooks

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

GOOGLE

Google Expands AI Search Ads Globally

Google is bringing ads in its AI-powered Search experiences to new countries, betting that generative AI can open up new revenue opportunities even as growth in its core search advertising business slows.

Details:

• Google is scaling ads in AI Mode to 10 new countries (including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, and Singapore), with plans to launch in Brazil, Mexico, and the UK later this year.

• In the US, Google is also launching what it calls “multi-turn ads,” allowing ads to appear directly within follow-up queries in AI Mode when a search or conversation has “commercial relevance.”

• Alphabet reported $127.6 billion in revenue for the third quarter, up 25% year over year. However, Google Search revenue grew 12%, down from 17% in the previous quarter and 19% in the first quarter.

• According to Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler, search ad revenue growth slowed in the third quarter of 2026 because user queries are migrating to AI Overviews and AI Mode, which suffer from “lower monetization.”

Despite that, Schindler said he felt “very good about our trajectory” with an AI-focused version of the search engine.

Source

TOGETHER WITH ATLASSIAN

State of Product reveals what AI still hasn’t solved

80% of product professionals say AI helps them ship faster, but customers aren’t seeing value any sooner. Atlassian’s State of Product 2027 explores the gains AI is delivering and the challenges that remain, from decision-making that hasn’t kept pace to gut instinct overriding customer evidence.

Read the report

GOOGLE

Gemini Now Lets You Generate and Edit Documents Directly in Chats

Google has expanded Gemini’s file creation capabilities, allowing users to generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly inside Gemini chats.

Details:

• Files can be expanded into a full-screen editing view, where users can highlight specific sections of a document and ask Gemini questions or request edits. For example, selecting a table and asking Gemini to turn it into a graph.

• PDF previews and editing are supported on both web and mobile. Other file formats are currently limited to the web version.

• The feature is now available to all Gemini users.

Google had already introduced the ability to generate and download files through Gemini earlier this year, but now you can tweak those files without leaving the Gemini app.

Source

AI Tutorial

Study Smarter with Gemini Notebook and Hundreds of Free Textbooks

1. Go to Gemini Notebook and create a new notebook or open an existing one.

2. Select Add sources inside your notebook.

3. Select Textbooks to see the available catalog. You can search by topic, level, and country.

4. Select one or more textbooks and click Add to sources.

5. Once added, you can start asking questions. Every answer is grounded directly in your textbooks, with inline citations and direct links back to the original source.

6. You can also create additional study materials, such as study guides, practice quizzes, and flashcards.

AI Tools to check out

🎬 Pika H3 Flex: a new video model built for professional iteration and experimentation, letting creators refine characters, camera movements, voices, and more with greater precision.

🖥️ Arc: AI assistant app that works on the screen you're already on.

🗣️ Empacer: Voice-first assistant for small business owners.

✅ Bond: an AI chief of staff for executives that connects to your tools, learns how your company works, and turns scattered tasks into a self-managing to-do list that always knows what you need to do next.

AI Findings/Resources

🍷 Shopify CEO turned his wine cellar into an AI rack and uses it to find his most stressful meeting

🚚 Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo

🔓 The AI bubble could expose your deepest secrets

🤔 Why isn’t China’s AI and tech boom saving its stock markets?

💡 AI literacy is no longer enough for business. Here is what is

The latest in AI and Tech

Google launches AI certificate program for healthcare professionals

Google has introduced a four-course certificate designed to help doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals use digital skills to reduce administrative work and spend more time with patients. The program covers effective prompting, patient communication, administrative tasks and continuous learning.

Canva introduces Brush, an AI model built for design editing

Canva has introduced Brush, its first vision language model for design, which can understand layouts, layers and visual styles to edit individual elements or entire multi-page projects while keeping every design editable. It is available to Canva Pro subscribers, with broader access planned.

Cursor warns up to 5,000 users may have installed malicious Claude Code extension

The company says a modified version of the Claude Code extension was available on its marketplace for several hours on Thursday, potentially exposing around 5,000 users to malicious code that collected information such as usernames, device details, home directory paths and public IP addresses. The company has removed the extension and says it verified that no other marketplace extensions were tampered with.

Meta expands parental alerts for teens searching self-harm content

The company will notify parents when their teenagers search for terms related to self-harm on Facebook, expanding alerts previously introduced on Instagram. The notifications will also cover conversations about self-harm with Meta AI across Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.

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