Google TV Gets ‘News Briefs’ Experiment

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Google detailed a new experiment for Google TV users in the US this week, powered by both Gemini models and human evaluation.

Called News Briefs, the feature is designed to deliver concise, narrated overviews and related videos of top news stories. Given we just had an inauguration, I have a hunch on the type of news stories users might see to start, but hopefully feeds are tweakable and you can adjust for things you don’t care about.

Here’s what Google says about how it works.

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.

If you’re in the experiment, these News Briefs will appear on your For You page. Should you wish to provide feedback on the feature directly to Google, you can do so here.

// Google

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Ken says:

January 23, 2025 at 1:00 pm

For God's sake! I don't want to see news when I launch my Google TV. It's bad enough the YouTube news carousal pushes nothing but videos of Trump's crazy every hour or the fires in LA for the last two weeks. We need a way to toggle or opt out of news content in Google TV otherwise people are just going to be more anxious when we all go to TV to escape shit. What is the point of having a platform like Google TV where we customize what services we want if the tech companies just push crap down to us that we don't want.