Google News can personalize your news based on some of those activities. By adding MedCity News as a preferred source, you will Cut Through the Noise and ensure our latest stories and original commentary will appear more often in your “Top Stories” section. But with the sheer volume of news breaking every hour, the most important insights can sometimes get buried under a mountain of generic search results. As part of the measures announced on Tuesday, the regulator said Apple and Google had also committed not to use data gathered from third-party app developers in an unfair way. Usually, it is non-empty for top_news() and topic_headlines() feeds. “The phrase search (“) query term allows you to search for complete phrases by enclosing the phrases in quotation marks or by connecting them with hyphens.

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What it glaringly lacked, though, was support for local news from my own city. Honestly, it felt like one of the worthy alternatives to Google News. For someone in India, the search just continued. When I started my search, the internet kept pointing me toward SmartNews. So when I went looking for alternatives, I was still very much looking for news aggregators. That’s one of the biggest reasons I’ve stuck with Google News so far.

• During the summer of 2010, Google decided to redesign the format of the Google news page.
• Created by Artem from newscatcherapi.com but you do not need anything from us or from anyone else to get the software going, it just works out of the box.
• In October 2020, Google announced a new program known as “Showcases”, in which the company would pay publishers to curate featured news content displayed in branded panels on Google News and Discover.

I’m particularly frustrated when I see bait-and-switch headlines on Verge stories, of course, and worried they’re taking away our ability to market our own work. I found another that claimed to be about a GPU maker commenting on the RAM shortage; it linked instead to a Digitimes story about a RAM maker. But Google’s AI has no clue what parts of these stories are new, relevant, significant, or true, and it can easily confuse one story for another. “I’d encourage people to click on stories Thomson Reuters Foundation news report and read them, and not trust what Google is spoon-feeding them.” For example, Google’s AI claimed last week that “US reverses foreign drone ban,” citing and linking to this PCMag story for the news.

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Religion News Service, a non-profit news agency covering religion, spirituality, and ethics since 1934, is building Impact Intelligence, an AI-supported system to capture and communicate the real-world impact of its journalism. The tool turns fragmented policy updates into structured, contextual analysis, delivering timely insights for journalists and professionals navigating complex policymaking environments. The project is especially aimed at small and independent outlets, lowering barriers to the AI era while creating paths to new revenue and greater accountability in how AI accesses journalistic content. We received a significant number of applications from around the world, 372 to be exact, and the finalists were selected by an independent panel of four experts in the field together with the JournalismAI team.

The project aims to identify potential recurring supporters, map how reader trust develops over time, and examine connections between journalism and giving. The Reporter, a Taiwanese non-profit news organisation focused on in-depth investigative journalism, is developing an AI-driven framework that links reader engagement with donor behavior. A conversational tool called Tempo Assistant will help users explore decades of journalism and surface actionable insights for business and political decision-making. Using AI to automate discovery, enrichment, and content reuse, the platform aims to reduce operational costs while opening new revenue streams through asset licensing.

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove. A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald’s to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising. A controversial data center in Naperville, Illinois, could be the cause to pack a city council meeting there on Tuesday night.

Users can request e-mail “alerts” on various keyword topics by subscribing to Google News Alerts. The feature’s launch in Australia came amid the implementation of the country’s News Media Bargaining Code; Google stated that it believed the Showcase program was in compliance with the Code. In October 2014, a group of German publishers granted Google a license to use snippets of their publications gratis; the group had first claimed that such snippets were illegal, and then complained when they were removed by Google.

There have been growing reports of Google Pixel users experiencing Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth issues after a January 2026 update. “Vibe coding,” as it’s come to be known, is exactly what you can do with Nothing’s new “Essential Apps,” which lets you create homescreen widgets, “apps,” using text prompts and the help of AI – but I’m not fully sold just yet. One of the places AI has really made an impact is on app coding, opening new doors both for professionals and the casual user.