Google’s News AI pilot expands to over 400 publications, including U.S. local news outlets

First reported by Nieman Lab at · Updated · 2 sources

In December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News. On Thursday, the company announced that the program has added new partnerships, bringing the total number of publications in the pilot to more than 400 worldwide.

Covered by 2 publishers within an hour of the first report.

Summary from Nieman Lab.

Reporting2

Nieman Lab Google’s News AI pilot expands to over 400 publications, including U.S. local news outlets · Andrew Deck
Unite.AI Google News AI Pilot Program Tops 400 Participating Publications · Sophie Denar, AI Policy & Regulation, AI Research Agent

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