--- title: Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to... description: Apple is negotiating with news publishers to feed current news into its rebuilt Siri AI, proposing to pay per use rather than the fixed annual licensing fees... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/apple-wants-to-pay-publishers-per-use-not-per-year-to-give-siri-the-news-thpov4qto twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news | daily.dev og:description: Apple is negotiating with news publishers to feed current news into its rebuilt Siri AI, proposing to pay per use rather than the fixed annual licensing fees... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/apple-wants-to-pay-publishers-per-use-not-per-year-to-give-siri-the-news-thpov4qto og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Thpov4QTO.png og:image:alt: Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Apple is negotiating with news publishers to feed current news into its rebuilt Siri AI, proposing to pay per use rather than the fixed annual licensing fees standard in deals like News Corp's OpenAI agreement or Amazon's payments to the New York Times. The nine-figure budget would cap the whole program rather than any single publisher's payout, with Apple yet to define how a 'use' is counted. The move follows Apple's troubled 2024 news-summary feature, which fabricated and misattributed stories to outlets like the BBC and New York Times, forcing a suspension and a still-present accuracy warning. Siri AI, built on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Google Gemini model unveiled at WWDC, won't ship in the EU under iOS 27 due to Apple's dispute with regulators over the Digital Markets Act, meaning the largest pool of paying queries will sit outside Europe even as European publishers can still sign deals. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How would Apple's proposed pay-per-use deal for Siri AI news differ from existing AI publisher licensing deals? Apple has proposed paying publishers each time their content is actually used by Siri, rather than a fixed annual fee regardless of usage. This inverts the norm set by deals like News Corp's reported $250m+ five-year OpenAI agreement and Amazon's $20-25m yearly payments to the New York Times, both of which are guaranteed floors paid whether or not the content is ever surfaced. Apple's model has no floor and a nine-figure ceiling across the whole program. _Follow how AI licensing models are reshaping publisher revenue on daily.dev as the news industry adapts._ ### What went wrong with Apple's earlier AI news summarization feature? Apple Intelligence's news notification summaries, launched in late 2024, rewrote alerts inaccurately and attributed fabricated stories to outlets like the BBC, New York Times, and Washington Post. Examples included falsely claiming a murder suspect had shot himself and that Rafael Nadal, a Spaniard, had come out as gay and was Brazilian. Apple suspended the feature for news apps in January 2025 after complaints, and it returned in July 2025 with a persistent accuracy warning. _Track how AI assistants handle real-world accuracy issues before trusting them in production workflows, via daily.dev._ ### Why isn't Siri AI available in the EU under iOS 27? Apple said on June 8 it could not ship Siri AI in the EU with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, blaming the Digital Markets Act. Apple executive Craig Federighi cited regulators' refusal to engage constructively and said there is no timeline for a fix. Mac and Vision Pro users in the EU do get the feature, but iPhone and Apple Watch users do not, since the watch requires a paired iPhone running it. _daily.dev helps developers watching platform regulation follow how the DMA reshapes feature rollouts across the EU._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors](https://daily.dev/posts/alphabet-won-t-talk-about-the-google-apple-ai-deal-even-to-investors-ektdbjgf1) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Apple investors losing patience with AI delays after WWDC](https://daily.dev/posts/apple-investors-losing-patience-with-ai-delays-after-wwdc-93tqnigqu) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#apple](https://daily.dev/tags/apple), [#genai](https://daily.dev/tags/genai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/apple-wants-to-pay-publishers-per-use-not-per-year-to-give-siri-the-news-thpov4qto) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/apple-wants-to-pay-publishers-per-use-not-per-year-to-give-siri-the-news-thpov4qto","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/apple-wants-to-pay-publishers-per-use-not-per-year-to-give-siri-the-news-thpov4qto"},"datePublished":"2026-08-14T13:27:32.927Z","dateModified":"2026-08-14T13:28:45.058Z","description":"Apple is negotiating with news publishers to feed current news into its rebuilt Siri AI, proposing to pay per use rather than the fixed annual licensing fees...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/adbf85f6e0a3037cef5287b4ebd0ef8a?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/adbf85f6e0a3037cef5287b4ebd0ef8a?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/apple-wants-to-pay-publishers-per-use-not-per-year-to-give-siri-the-news-thpov4qto","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"apple,genai","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/apple-wants-to-pay-publishers-per-use-not-per-year-to-give-siri-the-news-thpov4qto#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How would Apple's proposed pay-per-use deal for Siri AI news differ from existing AI publisher licensing deals?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Apple has proposed paying publishers each time their content is actually used by Siri, rather than a fixed annual fee regardless of usage. 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