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Google has introduced podcast-style news audio briefings.
You can choose which news sources you want to use.
Briefings are around 15 minutes long.
If you want to stay on top of the daily news but don't have time to read, Google has a new way to keep you updated.
Starting Thursday, you can listen to an AI-generated audio news roundup of news that's important to you through the Google News app. The audio isn't just text-to-speech, but a podcast-style discussion between two hosts. I don't have the feature yet, but it sounds a lot like the feature that lets you turn your Google searches into a podcast.
The interface has traditional media player controls like play and pause, and you can skip forward and backward or change your playback speed.
Also: You can turn your Google search into a podcast now - here's how
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