Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news
Alexandra Bruell reported the talks for the Wall Street Journal on 12 August, citing people familiar with the matter.
Apple has approached publishers over recent months. The content would give Siri AI access to current news and information, the kind that changes hour by hour.
Apple declined to comment to the Journal. It did not respond to TechCrunch either.
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Apple has proposed variable compensation. Publishers would receive payment when their content is used, rather than a fixed licensing fee.
That inverts the norm. Standard deals between large AI companies and news organisations set guaranteed fees tied to broad access, the Journal reports.
The scale of the difference is easy to see in the deals already signed. News Corp’s agreement with OpenAI was reported by Variety as potentially worth more than $250m over five years.
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