Factiva Smart Summary infuses generative AI, heralding a new era for business research

Dow Jones announces GenAI content licensing agreements with thousands of sources worldwide. 


Dow Jones announced the launch of Factiva Smart Summary on 13 November 2024. Through Factiva Smart Summary, new GenAI capabilities enable corporations to retrieve concise, informative summaries that streamline research and decision-making. The outputs are fully transparent and traceable, drawing on thousands of trusted news sources that Dow Jones has licensed for specific GenAI uses. 

As part of its commitment to the responsible use of AI, Dow Jones is building the world’s premiere collection of full-text news articles permissioned for use with GenAI tools and applications, with licensing agreements spanning nearly 4,000 sources, 160+ countries and 29 languages–including The Associated Press, AWP Finanznachrichten AG, News Corp Australia, News UK and The Washington Post alongside Dow Jones’s leading news brands The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily, Financial News, Private Equity News and Dow Jones Newswires.

“This launch of Factiva Smart Summary harnesses recent advancements in GenAI technology to deliver reliable insights for decision-making, while upholding journalistic integrity,” said Almar Latour, CEO of Dow Jones and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal. “As a leader in business intelligence, we’re dedicated to building responsibly and safeguarding publisher value.”

Factiva Smart Summary, engineered with Google’s Gemini models on Google Cloud, joins Dow Jones’s growing suite of AI-powered products designed to enhance and streamline decision-making. This initiative is the latest in a series of GenAI partnerships as Dow Jones continues to roll out this new technology throughout the company and to the benefit of its customers and readers. Recent developments include:

  • Factiva Feed for GenAIand Dow Jones Newswires GenAI Feed which provide enterprises and financial firms with licensed, copyright-compliant full-text content to power custom generative AI applications such as chatbots, article and portfolio summarization, newsletter creation and research efficiency.
  • Dow Jones Integrity Check, an automated research platform that harnesses leading-edge generative and entity resolution AI technologies from Xapien, enabling organizations to build an investigative due diligence report on companies and individuals in as little as five minutes.
  • RiskCenter Advanced Screening and Monitoring (ASAM), powered by natural language processing technology from Ripjar,enables faster, more efficient high-volume screening for financial crime and third-party risk management.

Factiva Smart Summary is now available to all subscribers starting today. For more information please visit the Factiva website.   

The full press release is here.