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The New York Times

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272 articles decelerating

A December 2025 lawsuit against Perplexity extended The New York Times’ push to assert copyright control over AI use of its reporting.

Who they are

The New York Times appears in this coverage both as a major news publisher producing consequential reporting on technology companies and as a media company defending that reporting’s value. Its stories surface in coverage of Apple, Google, Uber, Threads, TikTok and AI, while its own corporate actions are especially prominent in disputes over generative-AI training and use of publisher content.

The recent arc

The recent coverage shifted decisively toward AI-era copyright enforcement. The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December 2023, alleging the companies trained on millions of its articles; OpenAI’s January 2024 response argued training was fair use and challenged the paper’s examples. By December 2025, the Times had also sued Perplexity, alleging continued use of its content despite repeated demands, while a federal judge ordered OpenAI to produce 20 million anonymized ChatGPT logs in the broader litigation.

The tension

The central tension is between the Times’ role as a producer of valuable original reporting and AI companies’ claims that model training and outputs can be lawful or technically exceptional. That conflict now spans OpenAI, Microsoft and Perplexity, and sits alongside scrutiny of the paper’s own digital practices: an analysis of an NYT article described 422 network requests, 49MB transferred and a sprawling programmatic ad auction as “hostile architecture.”

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, the Times’ litigation will help test whether major publishers can set enforceable limits or secure compensation for AI systems’ use of newsroom archives. The outcome is uncertain, but the expansion from OpenAI and Microsoft to Perplexity shows that the issue is not confined to model training alone; it also reaches AI products that retrieve, summarize or otherwise rely on reporting.

The New York Times has appeared in 272 articles since 2015-02. Coverage peaked in 2024Q3 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside NYT, Facebook, Twitter, Google.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-02-19
New York Times 2 related

Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025

The New York Times revealed in December that the ride-hailing giant approved drivers with many types of criminal convictions, including violent felonies.

2025-12-05
New York Times 19 related

The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months

Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.

2025-12-04
Reuters 6 related

A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and other news outlets

OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times …

2025-06-06
Reuters 17 related

OpenAI appeals a court order in The New York Times case requiring it to keep ChatGPT outputs indefinitely, saying it conflicts with its user privacy commitments

OpenAI is appealing an order in a copyright case brought by the New York Times that requires it to preserve ChatGPT output data indefinitely …

2023-12-27
New York Times 8 related

The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue

Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

2022-12-02
Bloomberg 13 related

In his NYT interview, SBF gave few straight answers while admitting to gross errors, denying claims of fraud, and claiming he “didn't knowingly commingle funds”

You hold customers' funds and don't do ANYTHING with them except hold them. When your customers ask for them back you give it to them - immediately. https://twitter.com/... @cmsintern : Intern notes f...

2022-07-31
Mashable

Crypto network Helium claimed for years that Lime is a client, which Lime calls “a false claim”; source: Lime is preparing to send a cease and desist to Helium

Matt Binder / Mashable : Tweets: @ahcastor , @mattbinder , @thestalwart , @katebevan , @carnage4life , @can , @dcseifert , @kwerb , @chafkin , @mattbinder , @mattbinder , @timfernholz , and @silverma...

2019-05-10
CNBC 7 related

Facebook isn't a monopoly in advertising, so breaking it up would be illogical and ineffective; it would also be expensive and discouraging to entrepreneurs

- Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues in an op-ed for The New York Times on Thursday that Facebook should be broken up under antitrust laws.

2019-05-05
Motherboard 1 related

Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T hit with class action lawsuits for selling customer location data

The lawsuits come after a Motherboard investigation showed AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile sold phone location data that ended up with bounty hunters, and The New York Times covered an instance of Verizon ...

2019-05-02
OurPact 12 related

OurPact says Apple's MDM comments are misleading, compares Apple's claims in defense of removing apps that use MDM with quotes from Apple's documentation

Apple Removed OurPact From the App Store.  Here's What You Need to Know.  —  On Saturday, April 27th, The New York Times exposed …

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TEXXR tracks 58 tech news articles mentioning The New York Times, dating back to July 2015. The biggest stories include Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times' main account after Elon Musk... and Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New.... Frequently covered alongside NYT, The New York Times', New York Times, Wordle, and Times.

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