You.com, an AI-powered productivity engine founded by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, today announced a partnership with The German Press Agency (dpa), Germany’s largest news agency, to enhance news discovery and curation with AI for editors and journalists worldwide.
“We’re excited to partner with dpa, a true innovator in the news world since 1949”
Key features of the partnership include:
- Agentic AI News Discovery: Newsrooms that use dpa’s wire service will have access to an agentic discovery feature. This capability will allow editors to quickly obtain AI-generated summaries relevant to their queries. These summaries will provide citations to related articles and draw from dpa’s entire database, including the latest updates. Users of dpa-Select will also be able to access agentic discovery capabilities to search and summarize across the latest developments in politics, business, and other news in real-time.
- Agentic AI Content Curation: News editors will receive curated press briefings consisting of summaries, for different departments, featuring relevant stories of varied lengths with accompanying images for easy processing.
“We’re excited to partner with dpa, a true innovator in the news world since 1949,” said Richard Socher, founder and CEO of You.com. “Our AI technology aims to amplify what newsrooms already do well — delivering timely and accurate news. Through our private data retrieval augmented generation capabilities, we’re helping media organizations who rely on dpa access and process news even faster. This means they can continue to offer trustworthy content to their global audience, now with enhanced speed and efficiency. We’re looking forward to seeing how this collaboration can further empower newsrooms and enrich the news experience everywhere.”
“dpa-News is becoming a modern, AI-supported response engine. This is ideal for newsrooms that need to work more efficiently in the face of transformation pressure and large volumes of information. As Germany’s largest news agency, we are demonstrating that we focus on the needs of our customers. Together, we are working to ensure that generative AI supports and enriches verified and factual journalism. In you.com, we have found an excellent and trustworthy partner for this,” said Peter Kropsch, CEO of dpa.
As part of this collaboration, dpa will gain access to You.com’s Team Plan, enabling them to utilize AI agents for research, analysis, complex problem-solving, and content creation. Additionally, dpa will have the capability to develop and share custom AI agents tailored to their specific needs.