Google Is Quietly Buying Code from Play Store Developers to Train AI (404media.co) AI

404 Media reports that Google is inviting some Google Play app developers to join a “confidential content offer pilot” that would pay them for access to their app codebases and archived projects to help improve Google’s developer tools and AI products, while keeping developers’ IP and retaining non-exclusive licensing.

June 03, 2026 01:20 Source: Hacker News