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Google pitches media outlets on AI that could help produce news
Google has a complicated relationship with the news industry. As the company rapidly grew through the first two decades of the 2000s, it gobbled up huge portions of the advertising industry, decimating the news business globally. Local and regional papers that had relied on classified and local ads for decades saw their revenue crater, and thousands of them have shut down in the United States alone, leaving many towns without a news source beyond social media. Larger outlets pivoted toward online subscriptions, trying to avoid relying on an increasingly small share of the advertising market.