Apple is negotiating payments to news publishers for content to train its overhauled Siri, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, a rare licensing move while Google faces lawsuits and the French press complaint over AI summaries.
News publishers are fighting over how tech companies use their journalism to generate AI answers, which they say displaces traffic and revenue. In France the Alliance de la presse d'information générale, representing nearly 300 daily newspapers, stands against Google, which gave commitments to the competition authority in 2022.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Apple is negotiating payments to news publishers for content to improve its overhauled AI assistant. Such licensing deals remain rare, while rivals face lawsuits and regulatory complaints over their use of publishers' material.
The Alliance de la presse d'information générale, which represents nearly 300 French dailies, said on Tuesday it had filed a complaint with the competition authority over Google's AI-generated summaries. It wants the regulator to make Google honour the commitments it gave in 2022.