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Google has started to rollout a feature it announced at CES.
Called "News Briefs", it is designed to present an summarised overview of top news stories from the day.
Google announced a flurry of new smart home products in late summer last year, including a new Google Nest Thermostat and new Google TV Streamer. And it is the latter that is getting a new feature soon – it might even have arrived on your device already, in fact.
The experimental feature is called "News Briefs" and is powered by Gemini. It was unveiled during Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month and, as reported by 9to5Google, it's now starting to roll out to some Google TV products.
What is Google News Briefs?
News Briefs is designed to pull together major news stories that happen throughout any given day, with Gemini summarising the story. It also offers video sources – predominantly YouTube – around the topic.
According to Google's support page: "Using Gemini models and human evaluation, News Briefs presents overviews of the top news stories, and surfaces related YouTube videos from trusted news sources for you to learn more.
"Briefs are updated with top stories throughout the day so you can easily keep up with the latest news."
What's interesting is that this roll out comes just a few days after Apple confirmed that it is temporarily pulling its Notification Summary feature for news and entertainment apps, which is also in the business of summarising.
The Notification Summary feature on iPhone and iPad uses Apple Intelligence to summarise various notifications for individual apps. For news, there were instances where headlines were summarised incorrectly and news outlets criticised the feature for spreading what could be considered misinformation.
The report on 9to5Google said the Google TV News Briefs feature won't be widely available to begin with, though if you are one of the ones in the US who is getting it, you'll find it in the "For You" page of Google TV.
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