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Google Flash News "Play Me the News" changed - March 26. 2024

NaeemMoose
Community Member

I used to have automation on my Pixel devices that would run the flash news briefing via the "Play the news" command via my morning alarm. It stopped working today and even the command no longer plays flash news and just performs a Google search for news.  

Currently via Google Home, you can still access the custom news sources and modify the order and sources. However I am unable to get my assistant to play the news from those sources ie: The Economist (Intelligence, world in brief etc.) and Bloomberg. 

It seems like the assistant behaviour has changed or an update has been made. But would appreciate it if this feature returned. 

I reached out to the support team and they linked this support: https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7073476

But still unable to debug.

Please fix, I don't want to move to Spotify or the subpar fruit device to get my podcasts/flash briefing.

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BWL
Community Member

Exact same issue for me.  Started on March 24, 2024.  In addition, asking Google Home to play a specific podcast in my news feed comes up with the same error.  e.g. "Hey Google, play the Intelligence by The Economist podcast".  Google will respond: "Alright, playing the Intelligence by The Economist podcast from Google Podcasts, episode <etc. etc.>".  Then the playback will fail: "Sorry something went wrong.  When you're ready, give it another try.".

NaeemMoose
Community Member

It worked today. But I didn't do anything. So not sure why it worked.