Google signs agreement with AP to deliver updated news through its Gemini AI chatbot

In the tech giant’s first such deal with a news publisher, Google has announced a deal where its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini will deliver up-to-date news from The Associated Press. Announcing about the deal in a blog post, Google said that AP will now deliver a feed of real-time news and 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 of the companies disclosed how much Google will pay AP for the content. Google also did not 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.

Google 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 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. It sparked an increasing number of similar partnerships between OpenAI and news organizations around the world for enabling AI-powered news.