diff --git a/Lib/test/libregrtest/pgo.py b/Lib/test/libregrtest/pgo.py
index f762345c88cde3..04803ddf64453c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/libregrtest/pgo.py
+++ b/Lib/test/libregrtest/pgo.py
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
     'test_datetime',
     'test_decimal',
     'test_difflib',
-    'test_embed',
     'test_float',
     'test_fstring',
     'test_functools',
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-02-04-12-30-43.gh-issue-129660.SitXa7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-02-04-12-30-43.gh-issue-129660.SitXa7.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..945f91be63809a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-02-04-12-30-43.gh-issue-129660.SitXa7.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Drop ``test_embed`` from PGO training, whose contribution in recent
+versions is considered to be ignorable.