Google claims to be collaborating with The Associated Press to create ‘a feed of real-time information’ in Gemini, an attempt to make the chatbot app more of a one-stop shop.

The objective is to ‘further enhance the usefulness of results’ in the Gemini experience, according to Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s VP of global news partnerships.

‘We’re identifying specific types of information and data that can help improve our products and services for people everywhere as we develop new AI offerings and product[s],’ Zaidi wrote in a blog post. ‘This [new feed] will be especially useful for our users who are searching for the most recent information.’

Zaidi did not specify when this functionality might be added to Gemini or whether users in all regions where the app is accessible would be able to see it.

One of the numerous AI development businesses that has attempted to work with news organizations to increase the accuracy of its AI technology is Google, which has a long-standing cooperation with The Associated Press.

The Financial Times, Axel Springer, and News Corp., the company that owns The Wall Street Journal, are among the publishers with which OpenAI has partnered. Perplexity, a search engine driven by artificial intelligence, has also introduced a scheme that enables publishers to receive extra money when their material appears in search results.

A training component is included in a number of these agreements. Publishers with licensing agreements with AI suppliers, such as Condé Nast, have consented to allow AI models to be trained on their archives. These agreements are intended to protect AI businesses from copyright infringement charges, but the AI sector has mostly marketed them as a service to journalism.

In many instances, publisher agreements haven’t actually made AI businesses’ products any better. Even content from publishers who have agreements with OpenAI is misquoted by ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot, according to a new study from Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.

In any case, the severe situation facing the journalism industry is probably going to force more outlets to make whatever agreements they can.