Apple negotiates news content payments for AI-powered Siri

Apple is negotiating new multi-year agreements with news publishers to integrate their journalistic content into an upcoming, AI-powered version of Siri. The company is reportedly discussing a potential budget in the nine-figure range to facilitate these deals.

Unlike the fixed-fee licensing models adopted by companies such as OpenAI, Apple is exploring a variable compensation model. Under this proposed system, payments to media outlets would be linked to the actual usage of their specific content when Siri provides news and updated information to users.

This initiative is part of a broader effort to upgrade Siri into a more advanced assistant capable of handling queries that require real-time, accurate information. Securing access to up-to-date, copyrighted news content remains a primary challenge for developers of AI assistants.