Welcome back! Apple wants to pay publishers every time Siri borrows their words, the first AI company to offer paying by the use instead of a flat fee. Google halved the price of its newest model, OpenAI's revenue chief walked out days after its COO, and Amazon started training AI on Twitch streamers unless they dig into settings and switch it off.
In today's Generative AI Newsletter:
Apple: Why will it pay every time you ask Siri?
Google: What did it just cut in half?
OpenAI: Who walked out days before the IPO?
Amazon: What is it taking from Twitch by default?
Apple will pay the news every time Siri uses it
Apple is in talks to pay publishers for the content that will feed its new Siri, and the way it wants to pay is the real story. Instead of a flat licensing fee, Apple has floated paying each time Siri actually uses a publisher's work.
That pay-as-you-go model breaks the industry norm, where an AI company hands over one fixed sum for broad access to an archive. OpenAI's deal with News Corp was $250 million over five years. Apple would rather meter it.
The budget under discussion runs into nine figures, per the Wall Street Journal, and Apple has been reaching out to publishers for months.
It's a different posture from the rest of the field, which mostly trains on scraped work and settles the lawsuits later. Apple is offering to pay by the use before anyone sues.
The new Siri lands later this year. If it leans on the news as much as Apple expects, the meter starts running then.
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Google cut its newest model's price in half
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on Wednesday, three weeks after the last one, and cut the price in half to launch it.
The new Flash runs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output, an introductory rate that holds through the end of the year. It's built for coding and agent work, the lane Grok 4.6 and GPT-5.6 are fighting over.
The gains are real on the coding tests. On one long-horizon software benchmark it climbed from 49% to 65%, and Google claims it now beats Claude on business tasks.
It's the second cheap-model price move this week. Grok undercut the field on Tuesday by keeping its rate low, and Google just halved its own. The tier most people actually build on keeps getting cheaper.
It's live in the Gemini API and Spark now.
OpenAI lost its revenue chief days after its COO
OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, is leaving after less than a year, the company said Wednesday, days after its longtime COO announced his own exit.
Dresser came over from Salesforce in December, where she'd spent 14 years and run Slack. Her job was to build the enterprise sales machine OpenAI needs to fight Anthropic for big customers.
She's leaving to pursue other things. Brad Lightcap, the COO of eight years, said Tuesday he's going too.
OpenAI already named a replacement. Dali Rajic, who ran operations at the security firm Wiz, takes over the sales rebuild.
Two of the people closest to the revenue walked in the same week OpenAI is lining up one of the biggest IPOs in tech. Nobody there has explained why.
Amazon will train AI on your Twitch unless you stop it
Amazon is going to train its AI on Twitch streamers' videos, and everyone is opted in unless they go turn it off.
Twitch belongs to Amazon, and those streams are a goldmine, thousands of hours of people talking to a camera, the exact audio and video a model wants. So the setting defaults to on.
When streamers asked why it wasn't opt-in, Twitch's product chief admitted the reason on a livestream. If it were opt-in, nobody would.
He also couldn't say whether Amazon had already used anyone's streams, because he didn't know what the company had trained on.
To opt out you open channel settings, go to security and privacy and switch off the generative AI toggle. It's not in the obvious place, which is probably the point.
Top 5 tools of the week
Consensus searches 250 million peer-reviewed papers and shows how much of the research actually agrees, instead of the first convincing abstract.
Quadratic is a spreadsheet where the AI writes Python and SQL you can open and read in any cell.
Glide turns the messy spreadsheet your team already runs on into a working app.
Google AI Studio is the free playground for Gemini with all the dials the app hides, plus a button that hands you the API code.
Beautiful.ai is a deck builder that makes you approve the outline before it generates a single slide.
Everything else you shouldn't miss
Anthropic is weighing its biggest check ever: it's in talks to buy Israeli startup Decart for $6 billion, for real-time video generation and a stack that makes its chips run cheaper.
OpenAI is testing a 14x speed boost: a preview Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster, open to a handful of API customers first.
ChatGPT will open your Google Drive files inside itself: you can now work on a Doc, Sheet or Slide side by side without switching tabs, live for Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise.
Grok tops the field on reading documents: Databricks says it leads on document understanding and data reasoning.
The White House wants open models in its oversight net: the plan folds open models into the framework once they hit the frontier, with pre-release testing and the big labs as formal partners.
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