Apple reportedly in talks to pay publishers for Siri news content

Apple is reportedly considering a nine-figure budget to pay news publishers so Siri can surface current news, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Why it matters: This would put Apple alongside OpenAI and Google, which have pursued similar publisher licensing deals to feed their AI assistants timely, sourced information, an implicit acknowledgment that LLM-based assistants need paid, curated data feeds to be reliable on current events rather than relying on stale training data or unlicensed scraping.