Have Google TV at home, either through the Smart TV itself or a dongle like the new Chromecastallows you to fully access the playback of multimedia content or access the most popular streaming platforms. Google now also wants it to become the user information node with an experience based on the use of generative artificial intelligence.
It is already happening in the new Samsung Galaxy S25 that include an assistant on the lock screen to assist the user according to the context of using their mobile or simply give a daily summary of the topics that may interest you the most, such as the news of the day.
Access to information is more flexible and what the technology giant wants is for the user to have it available on the devices or accessories they use the most, and one of them is the Smart TV you have in the living room.
After making a previous announcement of the new “News Briefs” feature at CES in Las Vegas earlier this year, the technology giant has now announced that it will begin rolling out an experimental feature that is powered by generative artificial intelligence of Gemini.
The deployment of its AI seems to have no end and can even be enjoyed through a widget on Google Home to give text summaries of the situation of connected smart devices in the user’s smart home.
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“News Briefs” It is a feature designed to collect all the new news that arises throughout the day, and with the help of Gemini, its AI, Google TV will be in charge of making a summary of each of them as well as playing videos from them. sources that are related to the context of the news.
The video content offered by Google TV through this new function will be extracted mainly from YouTube. The technology giant has given several details about this new feature in the support page: “Using Gemini’s artificial intelligence models and human evaluation, News Briefs presents summaries of the most important news and plays those videos from trusted news sources so that the user has all the information at hand available.”
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The availability of News Brief at the moment it will not be general and Google’s idea is to deploy it to some Google TV users first in their country this week. This new AI-powered news experience will appear on the For You page of Google TV.