Google inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time information to Gemini

In an attempt to make his Gemini chatbot app more than a one-stop shop, Google says it’s working with The Associated Press to build “a real-time information feed” on Gemini.

Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s VP of global news partnerships, he said whose purpose is to “further increase the usefulness of the results” in the Gemini experience.

“As we develop new AI offerings and product(s), we identify 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 useful to our users who are looking for up-to-date information.”

Zaidi did not indicate when this feature could arrive in Gemini, nor if it will be visible to users in every region where the app is available.

Google, which has a long partnership along with The Associated Press, is just one of several companies developing AI that have sought to collaborate with news organizations to improve the accuracy of their AI technologies.

OpenAI has formed partnerships with publishers including Financial Times, Axel Springerand News Corp.the owner of the Wall Street Journal. Elsewhere, AI powered search engine Perplexity launched a program which allows publishers to earn incremental revenue when their content is referenced in the results.

Many of these deals have a training component. Publishers like it Condé Nast they have agreed to let AI vendors with whom they have a license agreement train AI models on their archives. The AI ​​industry has largely touted these arrangements as a service to journalism, but they are also designed to protect AI companies from claims of copyright infringement.

In many cases, the publisher’s business has not, in fact, significantly improved the products of the AI ​​companies. A recent study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University demonstrated that AI-powered OpenAI chatbot, ChatGPTmisquotes content even from publishers who have agreements with OpenAI.

Be that as it may, the the dire state of the news industry is likely to push more outlets to ensure what agreements they can