Getty Images struck a multi-year deal to surface its licensed photo and video libraries within ChatGPT’s search and discovery features. The integration brings high-quality visuals into AI responses by leveraging Getty’s content across OpenAI’s interface.

• Getty Images signed a multi-year deal letting ChatGPT pull licensed photos and videos into its search/discovery results instead of generic or unlicensed images.
• Getty's CEO frames it as making AI search "more useful and more trustworthy" by illustrating answers with real, professionally shot content.
• Getty brings a huge pool to draw from: three brands (Getty Images, iStock, Unsplash), ~600,000 contributors, coverage of 160,000+ live events yearly, and a historical archive dating back to early photography.

Apple is partnering with Google temporarily to address immediate AI needs while preparing to produce its own AI-focused server chips by late 2026. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo highlights that this collaboration is aimed at managing expectations and enhancing Apple's AI capabilities amid growing competition in the field.

• Apple's Google AI partnership is a stopgap, not a long-term strategy—Kuo frames it as buying time while Apple builds its own AI infrastructure
• Apple plans mass production of in-house AI server chips by H2 2026, with new data centers coming online in 2027
• Google's Gemini will power a more personalized Siri launching later this year, confirming the partnership's immediate practical impact
• Even a fully delivered version of Apple's original AI plans may already lag behind competitors due to how fast cloud-based AI has advanced

Apple is set to enhance Siri with Gemini, allowing for independent finetuning and improved emotional support responses. The partnership with Google will ensure that user data remains private, and the Gemini-powered Siri aims to provide more accurate answers and better handle complex queries. A gradual rollout of these features is expected, with some launching this spring.

• Apple can independently fine-tune Gemini rather than using Google's stock model, keeping responses on-brand and keeping user data off Google's servers via on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute.
• The upgraded Siri will give direct answers instead of link lists, handle emotionally sensitive conversations with more nuance, and merge command-based and AI-based query processing to better infer ambiguous user intent.
• Rollout is staggered: some features arrive as soon as this spring, while more advanced capabilities like conversation memory and calendar-based proactive suggestions are expected to debut at WWDC in June.