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The Google TV level is getting a bunch of caller features via a package update. The biggest news present is apt a caller integration of YouTube Shorts. The level will soon show a statement of personalized Shorts straight connected nan location page.
In different words, nan short-form vertical video format continues to move disconnected of phones and onto bigger screens. Disney+ precocious sewage successful connected this inclination pinch nan preamble of an in-house vertical video platform. Google has moreover seemingly near nan doorway unfastened to merge different platforms, arsenic nan announcement says this characteristic is "starting pinch YouTube Shorts." Time will show if TikTok and Instagram Reels extremity up connected Google TV-enabled devices.
The level is besides adding immoderate generative AI features because, well, it's 2026 and nary instrumentality is safe. The AI image generator Nano Banana is now disposable connected nan Google TV platform, allowing users to "make nan room laugh" by adding "twists to immoderate photo."
The institution is bringing nan video-generation instrumentality Veo to nan platform. This lets group make videos via prompts. You cognize nan drill. Google gives an illustration of a personification asking for a video of their grandfather performing a creation successful space.
This update besides brings immoderate smaller features. Google Gemini has been integrated into nan Photos app, allowing for prompt-based queries. That app has besides received nan AI editing suite Google Photos Remix.
YouTube Shorts integration doesn't travel until this summer, but everything other is already available. Most of these devices only activity pinch Gemini-enabled devices.
