AI News Tracker: CNN to allow Google to use its content to tain models

CNN partners with Google AI

News publishers have been trying to cope with falling referral-traffic from Google for a good few years now. The search engine giant prioritizes having Gemini answer the queries over linking to websites with that information, and it is an uphill battle for publications to stop AI companies from using copyrighted content to train their models. While lawsuits against Google, OpenAI and Claude—to name just three companies—have piled out over the years, other publications are taking a path of no resistance. This involves allowing Google to use their content to train AI models, in return for which Google pays them for participating.