OpenAI’s deals with publishers could spell trouble for rivals

OpenAI’s legal battle with The New York Times over data to train its AI models might still be brewing. But OpenAI’s forging ahead on deals with other publishers, including some of France’s and Spain’s largest news publishers. OpenAI on Wednesday announced that it signed contracts with Le Monde and Prisa Media to bring French and … Read more

Facebook will remove its News tab, and stop paying publishers for news

Facebook’s News tab launched in 2019 with millions of dollars in content deals for publishers (a reported $10 million for the Wall Street Journal, $20 million for the New York Times, and $3 million for CNN), but in April it’s going away for good. Meta says it will “deprecate” Facebook News in the US and … Read more

AI models don’t need publishers’ data

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images DAVOS, Switzerland — Sam Altman said he was ‘surprised’ by the New York Times’ lawsuit against his company OpenAI, saying its artificial intelligence models didn’t need to train on the … Read more

Meghan Markle ‘humiliation’ as publishers want to see ‘content’ of memoir

Meghan Markle ‘humiliation’ as publishers want to see ‘content’ of memoir Meghan Markle is seemingly struggling to sell her memoir to publishers, says an expert. Neil Sean on his YouTube channel touches upon how the Duchess of Sussex is being scrutinised for the content of her alleged book. He claimed: “A few publishers did show … Read more

Google expands its AI Search to younger users, offers publishers a new tool

Google Google has been trying to leverage its undisputed lead in the search engine space to develop AI models that have as much success, including a generative AI-supported Search (SGE) and its Google Bard AI chatbot.  Also: How to use Google Bard Now, Google is adding new features that will optimize processes for early testers … Read more