"FT chose to shape how ChatGPT answers finance questions instead of fighting it in court."

"Specialist business and finance reporting sold for 25 times what a general news deal fetches."

"Meta is buying back the news it walked away from, and News Corp is selling the same archive twice."

"A US court set a per-book price floor of roughly $3,000 for using a copyrighted title in training data."

"OpenAI is paying Oracle more per year for one cloud contract than the whole global SEO tools market earns."

"Amazon put up to $25B behind Claude, giving Bedrock the money to become the second serious answer engine."

"AP set the template every news licensing deal since has followed."

"OpenAI is licensing Investopedia, Verywell and Better Homes & Gardens content into ChatGPT answers. The how-to and reviews queries your clients used to win in Google now surface a Dotdash-sourced answer inside the chat, with attribution instead of a click."

"ChatGPT Search needs political reporting readers already trust, WaPo supplies it."

"Reddit turned its forum archive into a $60M-a-year training-data product."

"Amazon is paying the NYT to train Alexa and Bedrock on its archive."

"OpenAI bought the show that covers it instead of licensing coverage from anyone else."

"Getty sued OpenAI in the UK, then signed a deal to appear inside ChatGPT."

"Semrush now runs inside ChatGPT, so the audit happens where your client is already asking questions."

"OpenAI now buys GPU capacity from more than one cloud, so a single outage cannot take ChatGPT down."

"Anthropic signed a 20-year power lease worth $19B — buying compute like a utility, not a cloud."

"Perplexity pays publishers a cut of ad revenue each time it cites them."

"The first deal where an AI company paid the contributors whose work trained the model."

"A major studio decided licensing its catalogue pays better than suing the models trained on it."

"Microsoft locked in a big-five trade publisher at roughly $2,500 per title before OpenAI got there."

"Academic journals became the source layer under any answer a doctor, lawyer, or engineer will trust."

"A major left-leaning European title is willing to appear as a ChatGPT source."

"Australia's news bargaining law pushed Copilot into paying for local news coverage."

"Shutterstock now runs a standing licensed training-data product for multiple AI labs at once."