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Google is currently testing AI-powered article overviews on some news publications on Google News.

Now, this is basically, I think, every news publication's worst nightmare, but in this case, many of them are opting into this. And I think the reason behind it shows some interesting psychology and an interesting

state of online news today and also the way these AI companies are pitching to make

this seem like a more attractive offer.

So we're going to get into all of that on the show today.

But before we do, I wanted to mention if you've ever wanted to try all of the

different AI models I talk about on the show today, we're going to be talking about Gemini a lot. Make sure to go check out AIbox.a.I. That's my own startup where you can get access to over 40 of the top AI models and compare all of them side by side. So you can get Gemini or GROC or Claude or Open AIs chat chp-t to all answer the same question.

You can compare them side by side inside of the chat and you can switch between all of them while you're having the same chat conversation. You might want chat GopT to analyze something for you and then you get Claude to go and rewrite it in a way that has a better tone like Claude does. Or get Grock to say something unhinged. There's a lot of options. You also have image generators, a ton of great ones in there, including opening eyes image generator and AI audio with 11 lab. So go check it out. I'll link in the description, AIbox.a. All right, let's talk about what's going on with Google. So Google has their new AI powered article overviews. And what I will say is this is only on participating

publications. So the news companies that are doing this with opening out or with Google have opted

into this. The news publishers that are currently working on this, there's Der Spiegel,

right, out of Germany. There's El Pai Foha, Infobar, Compas. So, you know, right off the bat, these are a bunch of big journals, but in other countries. Then we have over here in, you know, English-speaking places, the Guardian, the Times of India, the Washington Examiner, and the Washington Post. There's a bunch of others, but those are kind of some of the main ones. What I think is interesting here, if this isn't just English, this is going on in a whole bunch of different countries. The purpose of this new, it's called a commercial partnership, but it's essentially to, quote unquote, explore how AI can drive more engaged audiences. This is what Google said in their most recent blog post. So for me, what's interesting here is the way that they're kind of pitching this in their blog post to the world, but also you can imagine this is how

they're pitching it directly to these news organizations is this is going to drive more engaged

audiences. And so part of this is essentially that the company is going to work with these publishers.

They're going to experiment with some new features in Google News. And one of those is this AI-powered article overview. So the way Google pitches this is they say that users are going to get more context before they click through to read the article, right? So you can get this whole overview. It gives you an idea of what the article is about before you click on it. I think what that also could mean is that you're going to get fewer clicks on news articles, right?

Because if I could just get the whole, you know, overview right there, and I don't feel like

there's any details in that overview that I need to see like an infographic or like a detailed

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