Google Tells News Publishers to Share Content for AI Training or Lose Fees

Google is asking news publishers who join a pilot program in which “AI-powered article overviews” are shared in Google News and the Gemini AI chatbot to also give the tech giant broad rights on how it uses their content, The Information reported Thursday (June 25), citing an unnamed source. Those rights could include allowing Google to use participating publishers’ content to train its artificial intelligence models, according to the report. Publishers who don’t agree to participate in the progr