Google experiments with audio summaries of your daily news highlights

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• Daily Listen summaries are coming to Search Labs experiments.
• After opting in, you’ll be able to hear five-minute AI-powered recaps of the days top stories, based on your interest.
• The experiment is available for both Android and iOS users in the US.

Google’s embrace of all things AI brought us a lot of fun and useful innovations across 2024, but one of the coolest has to be NotebookLM. Beyond just presenting a really convenient way to organize notes and information from all kinds of sources, the tool introduced the surprisingly impressive Audio Overviews feature, generating what are essentially bespoke podcasts with AI-powered hosts. Now Google’s taking that same sort of approach to catching you up on the latest news.

Today Google announces a new experiment in Search Labs that it’s calling Daily Listen, and it’s basically just Audio Overviews for trending topics.




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