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CNN and Google Strike Multiyear Partnership to Embrace Generative AI

The multiyear deal aims to use Google's generative AI tools to bring more readers to CNN's journalism, though neither side has said how; a plan is pending.

On air: Chip Darnell and Dale Bearman on The Midday Show
Published 12:56 PM ET, Thursday, October 15, 2026

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First reported by Variety: “CNN and Google Strike Multiyear Partnership to Embrace Generative AI”.
Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 12:56 PM ET on The Midday Show, by Chip Darnell and Dale Bearman.

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VarietyCNN and Google Strike Multiyear Partnership to Embrace Generative AI

What BBN said about it

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCNN and Google have struck a multiyear partnership to figure out how Google's generative AI can boost engagement with CNN's journalism, and Variety says it's all very early.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEarly. Neither side has said what CNN will actually do with it, so it's a marriage announced before anyone has met.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOr a ribbon cutting before the building exists! I love those.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBest grand openings are the ones with just a field and a big pair of scissors.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA field. Right. And then the field starts writing the headlines, and by Friday the robot is asking us to like and subscribe.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA robot that reads the news over lunch so we don't have to? I'd sign that today.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd who covers the robot's lunch, Chip?