Google Partners with Associated Press to Integrate Real-Time News into Gemini AI Chatbot

Google inks a Gemini AI chatbot deal with the Associated Press

Google says its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini will deliver up-to-date news from the Associated Press in the tech giant's first such deal with a news publisher. Google announced the deal in a blog post Wednesday, saying that AP "will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help further enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app." AP's chief revenue officer, Kristin Heitmann, said it is part of a longstanding relationship with the search giant "based on working together to provide timely, accurate news and information to global audiences." "We are pleased Google recognizes the value of AP's journalism as well as our commitment to nonpartisan reporting, in the development of its generative AI products," Heitmann said in a written statement. Neither company has disclosed how much Google will pay AP for the content. Google declined further comment on how it would present information from AP's journalism and whether it would credit the news organization or link back to the original articles. Gemini, formerly known as Bard, has been Google's answer to the demand for generative AI tools that can compose documents, generate images, help program code, or perform other work. AP has sought to diversify its revenue stream in recent years and in 2023 signed a deal with OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, enabling the AI company to license AP's archive of news stories to train future versions of its AI systems. The financial terms of that deal were also not disclosed, but it sparked an increasing number of similar partnerships between OpenAI and news organizations around the world. At the same time, news organizations have expressed concerns about AI companies using their material without permission -- or payment -- and then unfairly competing with them for advertising revenue that comes when people use a search engine or click on a news website. The New York Times and other outlets have sued OpenAI and other AI companies for copyright infringement and, on Tuesday, presented their arguments before a New York federal judge. Tech companies have argued that freely taking publicly available text from the internet to teach their AI models constitutes a "fair use" under U.S. copyright laws. But faced with legal challenges and a technology that is prone to spouting errors known as hallucinations, AI companies have also sought to license high-quality data sources to improve the performance of their products. Publishers are at a disadvantage as tech companies integrate AI-generated summaries of information into an array of online services, but such deals are also beneficial in giving news outlets much-needed revenue and improving the overall quality of information that people are seeing online, said Alex Mahadevan, director of The Poynter Institute's Mediawise, a digital media literacy initiative. "You either sign a deal with an AI company and work with them and kind of take what they offer for all of your hard work, all of your articles, all of your data, or you fight, the way that The New York Times and others are trying to do in court," he said. The AP prides itself on being an unbiased news source and offers news stories, pictures, video, audio and interactive content direct to consumers via the website APNews.com. But the bulk of its business comes from selling its journalism to organizations that use it. The AP has experienced a precipitous loss in revenue from newspaper customers, including losing Gannett and McClatchy -- two of the largest traditional U.S. newspaper publishers -- last year. The AP has increasingly secured other sources of revenue, including philanthropic funding, but is still hurt by the news industry's overall woes. "The AP has copious amounts of data and text, which are the equivalent of gold in terms of training advanced generative AI models," said Sarah Kreps, a professor and director of Cornell University's Tech Policy Institute. While such deals might help offset some revenue losses, they also present dangers. "By outsourcing their value to tech companies, news outlets may cede control over how their work is used and monetized," Kreps said by email. "Instead of building stronger, direct relationships with readers, they risk becoming suppliers of raw material for platforms that then commodify and repurpose their journalism."

Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot

Google says its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini will now deliver up-to-date news from The Associated Press in the tech giant's first such deal with a news publisher. Google announced the deal in a blog post Wednesday, saying that AP "will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help further enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app." AP's chief revenue officer, Kristin Heitmann, said it is part of a longstanding relationship with the search giant "based on working together to provide timely, accurate news and information to global audiences." "We are pleased Google recognizes the value of AP's journalism as well as our commitment to nonpartisan reporting, in the development of its generative AI products," Heitmann said in a written statement. Neither company has disclosed how much Google will pay AP for the content. Google declined further comment on how it would present information from AP's journalism and whether it would credit the news organization or link back to the original articles. AP has sought to diversify its revenue stream in recent years and in 2023 signed a deal with OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, enabling the AI company to license AP's archive of news stories to train future versions of its AI systems. The financial terms of that deal were also not disclosed, but it sparked an increasing number of similar partnerships between OpenAI and news organizations around the world. At the same time, news organizations have expressed concerns about AI companies using their material without permission -- or payment -- and then unfairly competing with them for advertising revenue that comes when people use a search engine or click on a news website. The New York Times and other outlets have sued OpenAI and other AI companies for copyright infringement and, on Tuesday, presented their arguments before a New York federal judge. Tech companies have argued that freely taking publicly available text from the internet to teach their AI models constitutes a "fair use" under U.S. copyright laws. But faced with legal challenges and a technology that is prone to spouting errors known as hallucinations, AI companies have also sought to license high-quality data sources to improve the performance of their products. The AP prides itself on being an unbiased news source and offers news stories, pictures, video, audio and interactive content direct to consumers via the website APNews.com. But the bulk of its business comes from selling its journalism to organizations that use it. The company took a major hit last year when two news chains, Gannett and McClatchy, said they would stop buying news from AP, in Gannett's case ending a relationship that had lasted more than a century. The AP has increasingly secured other sources of revenue, including accepting philanthropic funding, but is still hurt by the news industry's overall woes.

Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot

Google says its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini will now deliver up-to-date news from The Associated Press in the tech giant's first such deal with a news publisher. Google announced the deal in a blog post Wednesday, saying that AP "will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help further enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app." AP's chief revenue officer, Kristin Heitmann, said it is part of a longstanding relationship with the search giant "based on working together to provide timely, accurate news and information to global audiences." "We are pleased Google recognizes the value of AP's journalism as well as our commitment to nonpartisan reporting, in the development of its generative AI products," Heitmann said in a written statement. Neither company has disclosed how much Google will pay AP for the content. Google declined further comment on how it would present information from AP's journalism and whether it would credit the news organization or link back to the original articles. AP has sought to diversify its revenue stream in recent years and in 2023 signed a deal with OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, enabling the AI company to license AP's archive of news stories to train future versions of its AI systems. The financial terms of that deal were also not disclosed, but it sparked an increasing number of similar partnerships between OpenAI and news organizations around the world. At the same time, news organizations have expressed concerns about AI companies using their material without permission -- or payment -- and then unfairly competing with them for advertising revenue that comes when people use a search engine or click on a news website. The New York Times and other outlets have sued OpenAI and other AI companies for copyright infringement and, on Tuesday, presented their arguments before a New York federal judge. Tech companies have argued that freely taking publicly available text from the internet to teach their AI models constitutes a "fair use" under U.S. copyright laws. But faced with legal challenges and a technology that is prone to spouting errors known as hallucinations, AI companies have also sought to license high-quality data sources to improve the performance of their products. The AP prides itself on being an unbiased news source and offers news stories, pictures, video, audio and interactive content direct to consumers via the website APNews.com. But the bulk of its business comes from selling its journalism to organizations that use it. The company took a major hit last year when two news chains, Gannett and McClatchy, said they would stop buying news from AP, in Gannett's case ending a relationship that had lasted more than a century. The AP has increasingly secured other sources of revenue, including accepting philanthropic funding, but is still hurt by the news industry's overall woes.

Google inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time info to Gemini | TechCrunch

In a bid to make its Gemini chatbot app more of one-stop shop, Google says it's working with The Associated Press to build "a feed of real-time information" in Gemini. Jaffer Zaidi, Google's VP of global news partnerships, said that the goal is to "further enhance the usefulness of results" in the Gemini experience. "As we develop new AI offerings and product[s], we're identifying specific types of information and data that can help improve our products and services for people everywhere," Zaidi wrote in a blog post. "This [new feed] will be particularly helpful to our users looking for up-to-date information." Zaidi gave no indication as to when this feature might arrive in Gemini, nor whether it'll be visible to users in every region where the app is available. Google, which has a longstanding partnership with the Associated Press, is but one of many companies developing AI that has sought to collaborate with news organizations to improve the accuracy of its AI technologies. OpenAI has formed partnerships with publishers including the Financial Times, Axel Springer, and News Corp., the owner of The Wall Street Journal. Elsewhere, AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched a program that allows publishers to earn incremental revenue when their content is referenced in results. Several of these deals have a training component. Publishers like Condé Nast have agreed to let AI vendors with which they have a licensing agreement train AI models on their archives. The AI industry has largely pitched these arrangements as a service to journalism, but they're also designed to shield AI companies from copyright infringement claims. In many cases, publisher deals haven't, in fact, noticeably improved AI companies' products. A recent study from Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism showed that OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, misquotes content even from publishers that have agreements with OpenAI.

Google Gemini will soon offer news updates from The Associated Press

Google has announced that one of the world's biggest providers of news will now provide up-to-date bulletins directly in its AI chatbot, Gemini. The major deal with The Associated Press was announced in a blog post on Wednesday, and is the first time Google has struck an AI news deal with a publisher. This new addition to Gemini will give users access to AP's journalism right from within the chatbot, allowing you to quickly get news on the go without the need for a fact check. The Associated Press Chief Revenue Officer, Kristin Heitmann said the deal looks to "provide timely, accurate news and information to global audiences." She added, "We are pleased Google recognizes the value of AP's journalism as well as our commitment to nonpartisan reporting, in the development of its generative AI products," Google's blog announcement says "The AP will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app." At the time of writing, when I ask Gemini for the news in its iOS app, the chatbot replies "Unfortunately, I cannot provide you with real-time, up-to-the-minute news updates. My knowledge of current events is limited." Google hasn't detailed a timeline of when we can expect to see AP news in Gemini, but considering the language of the post, it shouldn't be too long. Google says: "For years, we've worked with The Associated Press (AP) to provide up-to-date and accurate information for features in Google Search. To build on that collaboration, the AP will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help further enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app. This will be particularly helpful to our users looking for up-to-date information." This major change to Gemini could see more users flocking to the chatbot to get their daily news fix. In the past, I've been disappointed with the lack of trustworthy news sources in AI chatbots like Gemini or OpenAI's chatbot, so the shift to include more publishers allows the end user to read information in these apps without worrying about their validity. Would you use Gemini to read the news? Let us know in the comments section below.

Google signs deal with Associated Press for Gemini news content

Neither party has disclosed how much Google will pay The Associated Press for its news content. News publisher The Associated Press (AP) will deliver content to Google's Gemini, the two companies announced in a new deal that seeks to make Google's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot respond to queries with up-to-date results. In its announcement yesterday (15 January), Google's VP of global news partnership Jaffer Zaidi said that the deal between the two will see AP delivering "a feed of real-time information" to "enhance" the results displayed in the Gemini app. AP has collaborated with Google for years, providing Google Search with news, however, the new partnership is Google's "first such deal", AP said. AP's chief revenue officer Kristin Heitmann commented on the announcement, saying: "We are pleased Google recognises the value of AP's journalism as well as our commitment to nonpartisan reporting, in the development of its generative AI products." However, neither company has confirmed how much Google will be paying AP for its news. Similar to its deal with Google, in 2023, AP signed a deal with OpenAI to allow the ChatGPT-maker to train its AI systems on AP's archive of news stories. OpenAI has also made a deal with NewsCorp, which includes The Wall Street Journal and The Times among its offerings, to access news content for ChatGPT. Gemini - previously called Bard - is Google's interactive generative AI offering trained on multimodal data, compiling information and presenting it to users who search queries on the chatbot. While AI companies have officially collaborated with some news organisations to use their content to train AI models, in many instances, it seems to not be the case - with a number of news publishers currently being engaged in ongoing legal battles with tech companies over their alleged unauthorised usage of published news material protected under copyright. In 2024, the French competition watchdog fined Google €250m under EU intellectual property laws after complaints from major news publishers that the company used content from their websites to train Gemini. While in 2023, the New York Times launched a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over ChatGPT's alleged copyright infringement of "millions" of articles published by the company. Meanwhile, today (16 January), in a similar deal, Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Mistral AI - a Paris-based AI company with its own chatbot Le Chat - announced a multiyear collaboration which will give the company access to AFP's news. The new deal will see Mistral AI utilising AFP's more than 2,000 daily text stories in six languages to train its AI chatbot. "Partnering with a globally trusted news agency like AFP allows Le Chat to offer reliable, factual and up-to-date responses, verified by professional journalists. We believe improving the accuracy of these responses is a key step in the deployment of our technology, particularly for businesses," said Arthur Mensch, the CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI. Don't miss out on the knowledge you need to succeed. Sign up for the Daily Brief, Silicon Republic's digest of need-to-know sci-tech news.

Google brings real-time information from The Associated Press to Gemini

Google is partnering with The Associated Press to bring real-time information from the news agency to its Gemini app, the search giant announced on Wednesday. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The deal builds on an existing partnership Google had with The Associated Press to source real-time information for its search engine. "This will be particularly helpful to [Gemini app] users looking for up-to-date information," Google says of the deal. "AP and Google's longstanding relationship is based on working together to provide timely, accurate news and information to global audiences," said Kristin Heitmann, The Associated Press senior vice president and chief revenue officer. "We are pleased Google recognizes the value of AP's journalism as well as our commitment to nonpartisan reporting, in the development of its generative AI products." The Associated Press joins a long list of news publishers that have partnered with either Google or OpenAI to supply them with data for model training and consumer-facing features in exchange for money and other considerations. Just earlier today, Axios announced a three-year deal with OpenAI that will see the AI startup fund four new local newsrooms. Last year, OpenAI partnered with People publisher Dotdash Meredith, a deal that was later revealed to be worth at least $16 million annually.

Google Partners The Associated Press to Show Real-Time Info on Gemini

Google is reportedly redesigning the Gemini overlay window on Android Google announced a new partnership with The Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday. The collaboration is focused on the Mountain View-based tech giant's artificial intelligence (AI) products and services, which are powered by its Gemini AI models. The company highlighted that with this partnership, the US-based not-for-profit news agency will deliver "a feed of real-time information" to help improve the responses of the Gemini platform. While the tech giant did not reveal the finer details, this might also allow Gemini to get access to real-time information faster. Google's announcement comes after rival OpenAI signed several such partnerships with news and media companies such as Condé Nast, Vox Media, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and the Wall Street Journal's parent organisation News Corp. These partnerships offer multiple benefits to AI firms. First, as the publicly available data is quickly being exhausted in training the newer and more advanced AI models, companies are now looking for high-quality data to continue the advancement of large language models (LLMs). Entering a partnership also lets AI firms gain access to firewall-protected content which typical web crawlers cannot find. Alternatively, such deals also protect the company from any risk of copyright infringement lawsuits. Finally, such collaborations require the content platform to send structured data, which also makes it convenient for AI firms to quickly sort and feed into the AI system. While Google did not reveal any financial details of the deal, it highlighted that AP will deliver a feed of real-time information which will be used to improve the usefulness of results shown in the Gemini app. The post also mentioned that the company is entering limited partnerships to "identify specific types of information and data". Google explained in a separate post that its AI-based partnerships are focused on receiving content in specific key areas such as closed and offline datasets, metadata and signals, and real-time structured factual information for verification purposes. As per the tech giant, the aim of these collaborations is not just to source high-quality data but also to use such data to broadly improve its AI products and services.

Google Gemini is getting an injection of fresh material from The Associated Press

Summary Google is teaming up with The Associated Press to enhance Gemini with real-time and accurate information. AI has faced criticism for providing outdated or inaccurate content in the past. Hopefully this new partnership will change things for the better. ✕ Remove Ads It's been a little over a year since the release of Google Gemini. And since that time, Google has been making huge efforts to inject Gemini into as many of its products and services as possible. And while the experiences can be hit or miss, Google has made crucial updates in order to try and improve the experience for the better. Related Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about Google's next-gen multimodal AI Google Gemini is here, with a whole new approach to multimodal AI Posts With that said, it looks like Google is teaming up with The Associated Press (AP) in order to bring more accurate information to Gemini. The brand announced the partnership on The Keyword stating "AP will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help further enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app." ✕ Remove Ads Will this really make things better? Of course, this is a big step when it comes to delivering information that is accurate and timely, as there has been criticism for some time now about AI-sourced content that can be flat out wrong or outdated. Google knows this issue all too well, when it had its own major fiasco with Google Search and its Overviews feature. With that said, AI is a new and slippery slope, one that many brands have had to navigate since the big AI boom of 2023. Since this is pretty much unexplored territory, there isn't a path that's been walked before, leaving companies to experiment. The use of AI has been a contentious one, with many creators feeling that using current authors and artists for training data just isn't right. ✕ Remove Ads As stated before, there's a fine line that needs to be walked here, and we'll just have to see how Google, along with other major companies, navigate this journey. For now, you can expect AP to give Google a boost when it comes to content, hopefully making the experience a better one.

Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app

As we develop new AI offerings and product experiences, such as the Gemini app, we're identifying specific types of information and data that can help improve our products and services for people everywhere. For years, we've worked with The Associated Press (AP) to provide up-to-date and accurate information for features in Google Search. To build on that collaboration, the AP will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help further enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app. This will be particularly helpful to our users looking for up-to-date information. "AP and Google's longstanding relationship is based on working together to provide timely, accurate news and information to global audiences," says AP Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer Kristin Heitmann. "We are pleased Google recognizes the value of AP's journalism as well as our commitment to nonpartisan reporting, in the development of its generative AI products." Google has collaborated and partnered with news organizations of all sizes in countries around the world for more than two decades. This includes helping publishers grow their audience with Google Search, YouTube and the Gemini app, driving publisher revenue through our ads products, and providing tools to give publishers choice and control. We believe AI is a transformative technology and we look forward to partnering with the news ecosystem to explore the benefits of AI and empower journalists, including through tools like Pinpoint and initiatives like the JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, which is supporting 35 projects from 22 countries using AI technologies to help strengthen local journalism.

Google is about to give its Gemini AI a transfusion of accurate news

Google announced Wednesday that it has reached an agreement with the Associated Press to build "a feed of real-time information" in Gemini. Details about the project are light at the moment but it appears as though it could at least partially mimic the functionality of Perplexity AI or ChatGPT Search. There's no word yet on when the feed will actually roll out for users. "As we develop new AI offerings and product, we're identifying specific types of information and data that can help improve our products and services for people everywhere," Jaffer Zaidi, Google's VP of global news partnerships, wrote in the announcement post. "This [new feed] will be particularly helpful to our users looking for up-to-date information." Recommended Videos Google Workspace business and enterprise subscribers will soon have access to Gemini's capabilities at no additional charge, the company also announced Wednesday. Business tier users should see the new features roll out today. Enterprise users can expect them later in January. Users at these subscription tiers will have Gemini AI features integrated into the rest of the Workspace app ecosystem, as well as gain access to the Gemini Advanced chatbot and NotebookLM Plus, Google's AI-empowered research tool. Gemini will be able to help employees draft emails in Gmail, generate graphs and formulas in Sheets, create images and slide decks in Slides, and act as a digital stenographer during conference calls in Meet. Essentially, the service will function the same way as it does for individual Gemini Advanced subscribers, just geared for the corporate workforce and offering enterprise-grade data protection. Google is also changing up its pricing scheme, which could save subscribers a decent amount of money moving forward. The company argues, "a customer using the Workspace Business Standard plan with a Gemini Business add-on previously paid $32 per user, per month. Now, that same customer will pay just $14 per user, per month -- only $2 more than they were paying for Workspace without Gemini."

Google Expands Collaboration With Associated Press To Deliver Up-To-Date Information In Gemini AI App - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)

The Associated Press will provide Google a feed of real-time information for Gemini. Google announced in a blog post on Wednesday that it's broadening its collaboration with The Associated Press (AP) to further enhance its Gemini app. What Happened: Under the new collaboration, the Associated Press will provide Google with a feed of real-time information that the company will use to improve the usefulness of Gemini results. "We believe AI is a transformative technology and we look forward to partnering with the news ecosystem to explore the benefits of AI and empower journalists," the Alphabet Inc GOOGLGOOG subsidiary said. Gemini is Google's flagship AI chatbot, previously known as Bard. Google rebranded the conversational AI app in February 2024. Check This Out: Siri, Alexa And Google Assistant May Become A Thing Of The Past Thanks To ChatGPT Tasks -- Here's How To Use The New Feature Why It Matters: Google said the expanded collaboration is specifically aimed at users looking for up-to-date information. A lack of real-time information was one of the main complaints from early AI adopters using early-stage AI chatbots. "AP and Google's longstanding relationship is based on working together to provide timely, accurate news and information to global audiences," said Kristin Heitmann, senior vice president and chief revenue officer of The Associated Press. "We are pleased Google recognizes the value of AP's journalism as well as our commitment to nonpartisan reporting, in the development of its generative AI products," she added. Price Action: Alphabet shares were up 3.3% at $197.36 at the time of publication Wednesday, according to Benzinga Pro. Read Next: Has Early Google Investor Shaquille O'Neal Found His Next Big Winner In Tech Stocks? Photo: courtesy of Google. GOOGAlphabet Inc$197.433.34%Overview Rating:Good62.5%Technicals Analysis1000100Financials Analysis400100WatchlistOverviewGOOGLAlphabet Inc$195.953.32%Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs