Google is making a new deal with Australian Associated Press, using its content to train the search giant’s app, as its support for the news agency’s fact-checking unit lapses.

AAP says provision of its news content to Google “will help enhance the usefulness of results” displayed in the Gemini app. The deal follows Google’s financial help with training journalists and investment in digital innovation.

“This new partnership with AAP will help deliver a feed of real-time information to enhance responses in the Gemini app,” said ANZ head of news partnerships Nic Hopkins (pictured).

AAP chief executive Emma Cowdroy said the use of its journalism would be “a mechanism for ensuring timeliness and accuracy in the information that its products provide”.

News Corp already has a deal with developer OpenAI under which it will be paid for the use of its content to train its AI systems, Australian implications of which have been criticised by MEAA chief executive Erin Madeley, who said it would “effectively pull up the ladder on the next generation of workers”.

She was also critical of reports that journalists would do mandatory AI training including writing “in the style of somebody else” and using a sub-editing app.