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Product news: Gemini adds selective video analysis, opening a new route to checkable lecture search

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Google announced agentic video understanding on September 1, allowing supported Gemini models to inspect selected moments rather than process a recording only at a fixed rate. The API capability could support lecture search and teacher education, provided returned moments remain checkable. OpenAI's education partnerships and Anthropic's browser tools show parallel interest in assisted workflows, but finding a relevant clip is different from interpreting teaching or measuring learning.