Googler Talks About The Changes Coming To Top Stories Carousel

Some of the highlights :

• Google is confident they can serve pages with good experience by relying on CWV so they can get rid of the AMP requirements from Top Stories Carousel
• AMP label is going away from the SERPs
• The ability to swipe between Top Stories Carousel in the expanded view is going away
• Signed Exchanges will allow privacy-preserving prefetching of resources so you can get your content prefetched by Google.

Requirements for inclusion in new Top Stories Carousel

• Content will need to follow Google New Policies
• Good page experience signals include CWV scores
• Top Stories will have more competition now that it’s opening up to more publishers
• Pages will need to have Articles Structured Data