The Associated Press will license its U.S. election data to OpenAI starting this year and running through the 2028 U.S. elections, giving ChatGPT and other OpenAI services access to AP's vote counts across local, state, and national races. The agreement expands a relationship that began nearly three years ago, when the two companies struck a two-year content-licensing deal to use AP stories to help train OpenAI's models. AP already supplies its vote counts to several broadcast partners, including CNN and Fox News, and recently struck a similar deal with prediction market Kalshi in March. The new partnership lands as OpenAI looks to improve the reliability of election information ChatGPT surfaces, with the company saying it will rely on AP vote-count data this fall for elections in the U.S. and Brazil, and on the nonprofit Democracy Works to help users find where to vote.
