Meta Platforms announced on Friday that its ai chatbot will use thomson reuters' content to provide real-time answers to users' questions about news and current affairs, marking the latest ai collaboration between a major technology company and a news publisher. Meta and thomson reuters, parent company of reuters, did not disclose the financial details of the partnership.

This arrangement would be reuters' first news trade in years. Following criticism from regulators and publishers over misinformation and disagreements over revenue sharing, Facebook's parent company has been reducing the news content in its services. The company's chatbot Meta AI can be used on services like Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram. The social media giant has not disclosed whether it plans to use reuters' content to train its large language models.