📝 TL;DR Meta just cut multiple AI licensing deals with big-name news publishers so its AI assistant can answer news questions using their content in close to real time. This is a big shift in how news gets distributed and how AI gets its information. 🧠 Overview Meta has signed a wave of commercial agreements with news organizations including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, and Le Monde. These deals let Meta AI pull in and link to fresh articles when users ask news-related questions. It is another sign that AI assistants are becoming a primary gateway to information, not just a fun add-on. 📜 The Announcement On December 5, 2025, Meta confirmed it has struck several AI data and content licensing agreements with multiple news publishers. The goal is to feed Meta AI with timely, trusted reporting so it can respond to user questions with current information and links to original stories. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Meta says more partnerships and features are coming as it races to boost engagement with its AI products. ⚙️ How It Works → Meta AI plugs into publisher content - When a user asks a news-related question, Meta AI can now pull from the partnered outlets, summarize key points, and surface links back to their articles. That makes the chatbot feel more like a live news briefing than a static encyclopedia. → Real-time style updates for users - Instead of relying only on older training data, Meta can now serve fresher information via these feeds. It is a move to keep its answers relevant as news changes hour by hour. → Publishers get paid and amplified - Rather than scraping content and hoping no one complains, Meta is paying for structured access. In return, publishers get licensing revenue and prominent placement inside one of the most widely used consumer AI systems. → More deals are likely coming - Meta has signaled this is only the start. Expect more verticals, more regions, and more niche outlets to be added as competition in AI assistants heats up.

Within the SAME chatgpt/claude/deepseek conversation, run these prompts in this exact order: Prompt #1: Based on everything you know about me, what is the fastest way for me to make <INCOME GOAL>? Limit to 1 offer and 1 channel. Prompt #2: Who is the #1 person I should learn from to succeed? Prompt #3: Pretend you are that person. Create a simple 90-day action plan that needs <$1,000 upfront and has a 95% chance of success. List the top 3 risks.

I’ve been experimenting with AI voice agents for client workflows, some DIY telephony + LLM setups, and I’ve also been trying out platforms like Feather to see how differently they handle real calls. A few things stood out: People respond way more on calls than email Follow-ups finally happen without manual chasing Lead qualification moves much faster That said, results still depend a lot on the flow design and the stability of the stack. Curious if anyone here is using voice agents in their operations. What’s actually working for you, and what’s still messy?

Please see an update for me this morning in the comments. This disaster is going to make me a much better founder. I got up at 3:45 AM today to begin rebuilding my company. Original post follows: I’m standing here writing this in tears, and I want to give a very sobering warning to anyone who is considering upgrading from ChatGPT plus to a business Team’s account on ChatGPT. There is a a glitch that was unknown to me before I started this process, but is apparently well known in the open AI developer community that all of your data is deleted when you migrate it and you can’t get it back. Everything I’ve been building for months is just …. Gone. Other than what I had saved and backed up in my personal files, my entire ChatGPT history has been zeroed out, and it really hurts because this was like my external brain for both home and my business that I’m building. Open AI acknowledged that their company documentation failed to include a warning that all of my personal data would be deleted and everything that I have been working on since day one in my accounts has been deleted, and there’s nothing I can do to get it back even though I followed their exact instructions on merging my personal and business accounts, to the letter. I just paid $618 to upgrade my account to two seats on a business plan and merged the data from my personal account to my business plan. Within a minute or two of that transaction going through as I was following the step-by-step worksheet that ChatGPT itself printed out for me. My accounts froze, and I had to log out. I logged back in everything was blank. When I used my previous emails that I had my accounts tied to to log back in ChatGPT opened free tier accounts using my business email that I just paid $618 to open my business account on. I’ve escalated this to ChatGPT Support and they were extremely unhelpful. Basically they said sorry it’s a known issue and there’s nothing we can do. I was planning on shipping a product today using the ChatGPT business plan because it offers a secure link so that I’m not sending out raw proprietary JSON code.