Meta approaches media companies about AI content-licensing deals

The overtures mark a shift in the Facebook parent’s relationships with news outlets and other publishers

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Meta Platforms has held discussions in recent months with a number of media companies, including Axel Springer, Fox Corp. and News Corp, about licensing their articles for use in its artificial-intelligence tools.

Meta, parent of Facebook and Instagram, offers a range of AI-powered products, including a variety of chatbots. Its conversations with media companies have focused on licensing news and other content for use across those products, according to people familiar with the matter.  

It is a shift for the social-media giant, which in recent years lessened its focus on paying for and surfacing news content.

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