Connected TV World Summit 2026 in London, cable heavyweight Liberty Global presented the next phase of traditional pay TV’s battle for eyeballs, which hinges on AI-powered search and discovery. Portraying the company’s partly in-house Super Search technology, Chris Van der Linde, Director of Entertainment Platforms, outlined how Liberty Global is weaving large language models (LLMs) into its TV discovery stack. But unlike some of the industry’s more ambitious AI experiments, the operator is deliberately keeping the chatbot out of the living room. Instead of allowing an LLM to generate answers directly—à la conversational interfaces being trialed elsewhere—the AI interprets viewer intent. Super Search is powered by Google’s Gemini AI models, in a project launched onto Horizon TV set tops in…