{
  "id": 14763937,
  "title": "Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/google-says-it-has-400-publications-in-its-news-ai-pilot-which-tests",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-15T18:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/googles-news-ai-pilot-expands-to-over-400-publications-including-u-s-local-news-outlets/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}