Meta Brings Live News Into Meta AI With New Publisher Deals
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Key Facts
- Meta AI will draw on content from brands such as CNN, Fox News, Le Monde, People and USA Today
- Answers on current events, culture and lifestyle will now include headlines and links back to publisher sites
- Meta says it plans to add more partners as competition among AI assistants accelerates
Meta is upgrading Meta AI so that users who ask about news inside Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp see answers powered by professional reporting rather than only static training data. When someone types a question about a breaking story or a trending topic, the assistant will be able to surface short summaries together with links that take people straight to articles on partner sites.
The initial group of publishers spans large American networks, European newspapers and outlets that speak to different political audiences. Meta presents this mix as a way to widen the range of perspectives available inside Meta AI and to make responses more current and reliable when events are moving quickly.
With this step, Meta joins other large technology firms that are racing to sign content agreements so their assistants can respond with live information drawn from trusted newsrooms. The company says it will keep expanding the list of partners and will test more features on top of these feeds as competition grows with rivals such as OpenAI and Google, which have already announced their own deals with media groups.
