Each morning, you can brew your coffee, brush your teeth — and read your Google AI briefing.
Google Labs announced a new AI productivity tool on Tuesday, titled CC. Built with Gemini, CC prepares a morning rundown of priorities based on the user’s Gmail, Calendar, and Drive. Google users can also email CC at any time to perform tasks such as setting reminders, scheduling events, or summarizing emails.
CC comes from Google Labs, the division of Google that started “Project Tailwind” in 2022. That later produced NotebookLM, Google’s AI research tool that was a breakout hit.
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After a few hours on the waitlist, I was approved to receive my own CC briefing. At 5:18 a.m. the following morning, “Your Day Ahead” hit my inbox, with Google AI celebrating the coming weekend. Here’s what it had:
- A “top of mind” section about coming deadlines that required my attention, sourced to my emails. The tasks also included estimates of the time required, which were generally accurate.
- Offers from Southwest Airlines, Qdoba, and T-Mobile that were set to expire in the coming days.
- A list of Broadway shows that were closing soon.
- A link to my LinkedIn “Year in Review.”
- A reminder of a Partiful invitation on my Calendar.
- Some kind words from Google AI, reminding me that it’s “almost the weekend” and wishing me a “productive day.”
I get dozens of newsletters. I emailed back: “Hey CC, can you pick out the four most important stories in all the unread newsletters in my inbox that I should read?”
My CC said that it “couldn’t find many newsletters from today,” only finding one from CNN that it said it was “unable to pull a full summary” of. That was odd: There were also two unread New York Times newsletters, one from New York magazine, and one from GQ.
It did pull four articles from yesterday’s newsletters, though, offering me three Vanity Fair stories and one from The Atlantic.
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I decided to try a simpler task. Sometimes Letterboxd will send out free or discounted movie tickets, but the offers get stuck in my “promotions” folder. Were there any offers I should know about?
My CC responded with five different discounts for movies like “No Other Choice” and “The Voice of Hind Rajab.” I wouldn’t know those offers existed if I hadn’t asked!
For me, that’s the real promise of Google’s CC: To go through the endless promotional emails and decide what you should know. It’s a deals magnet, without having to rummage through the spam folder.
I’m sure CC would be a great enterprise workplace tool, but it’s not yet allowed. The waitlist is open to Google users in the United States and Canada who are 18 years old or older who use a personal email. No enterprise accounts are permitted.
If you want to give Google’s CC tool a try, you can join the wait list here.
