Google is putting a chatbot inside Discover, the feed of recommended articles that already knows what you search, watch, and click. The new feature, rolling out in the coming days, lets you open a chat interface from the three-dot menu and simply describe what you want to see — no more hoping the algorithm eventually figures out you don’t care about celebrity gossip or fantasy football.
The chatbot confirms your choices and lays out the content it will prioritize, and if it misses the mark, you can add more context before hitting “Refresh your feed.” Google says the AI will “remember” those preferences for future visits. That’s a meaningful shift from the current system, which relies on passive signals gleaned from your activity across Google’s search engine and apps. Now you get to negotiate directly with the algorithm.
This puts Google in line with a broader industry trend. YouTube, Instagram, Bluesky, and X have all rolled out AI-assisted feed customization in some form over the past year. The difference here is scale: Discover reaches billions of Android and iOS users, many of whom will see this feature without ever asking for it. For Google, it’s also a way to make Discover feel less like a black box and more like a product you can steer.
Google announced a couple of other changes alongside the Discover update. The Google News app on Android is getting personalized daily audio briefings. And Preferred Sources — the feature that lets you boost outlets you trust across Search’s top stories, AI Overviews, and AI Mode — is adding an interactive button publishers can embed on their own sites. Readers click it and the source gets added to their list without leaving the page. It’s a small change, but it removes a real point of friction, and it signals Google is serious about giving users more explicit control over what surfaces in AI-generated summaries. Whether people actually take the time to describe their ideal feed remains an open question — most users never touch settings menus at all.
