📝 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.

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Give yourself credit for every step you took this year. Not the perfect ones. The honest ones. The ones that taught you something real. Growth often shows up as a shift in how you think, not just what you achieve.

I call it the upgrade tax. You can feel it before every big announcement, the tool gets a bit slow, a bit buggy, things are not broke... but not right. I'm already starting to see it as I work in my favorite local coffee shop this morning. Well, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, issued an internal code red because rival systems like Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude are rapidly closing the quality gap and, in some benchmarks, surpassing ChatGPT. In response, OpenAI is shifting people and priorities to a companywide sprint to make ChatGPT faster, more reliable, and more personalized, while even delaying other product launches and ad plans with the promise of rolling out ChatGPT 5.2 on TUESDAY. Yes, in just a few days... For me personally, I would prefer they take a bit more time and ensure everything is working... Right? And I'm not alone. X(twitter) is blowing up with the gossip. While I'm not usually an alarmist... this makes me nervous and so I'm making a plan. My clients deserve to understand what is happening and need a plan to keep things moving. Here's what I am doing to prepare: 1. Choose a number 2 platform if ChatGPT is your go to. Most people choose Claude or Gemini. For me I have a workspace account in Google, so I will be using Gemini. 2. Make an announcement to all my CustomGPT customers just letting them know that any issues with the GPTs will be temporary. I will be moving my most popular ones into my pickaxe account to keep everything up and running if things go bad. (Not an absolute must, but its been on my to do list, so lets go!) 3. If you are a tool creator, have a plan. What does this mean? So if you are selling on pickaxe (or another builder platform), test a backup platform. This is a great practice anyway since they all go down from time to time. If one goes down you will always know your plan. (And another big pro of building on Pickaxe! The option to change models if one goes down.) I am excited to see what they bring and nervous about the rush. And overall I'm hearing great things about this upgrade.