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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

2024-12-16
New York Times 1 related

A profile of US ride-hailing startup Empower, which does 100K rides per week in DC despite refusing to register with the city's Department of For-Hire Vehicles

Drivers for the ride-hailing company Empower protest outside a City Council meeting in Washington, D.C.Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times

2024-03-28
New York Times 1 related

At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China

Jacob Helberg, a senior adviser to Palantir, is organizing a conference for tech leaders and Washington lawmakers on May 1.Jason Andrew for The New York Times X: @ainowinstitute , @thekenyeung , and @...

2024-03-08
Semafor 113 related

The US House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, after TikTok's campaign reportedly enraged legislators

Semafor Signals  —  Insights from The New York Times, Financial Times, and CNN  —  The News

2023-05-21
New York Times

The US could be on the cusp of a chipmaking boom, with 50+ projects announced since the CHIPS Act, but officials worry the industry could face a worker shortage

Madeleine Ngo / New York Times : LinkedIn: Anthony Johnson and Bridget Altenburg Tweets: @congressmanraja , @rweingarten , @nytimesbusiness , and @crampell LinkedIn: Anthony Johnson : The New York Ti...

2023-04-24
BBC 45 related

Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay

Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.

2023-03-30
@oliverdarcy

The New York Times says it isn't planning to pay for Twitter verification and, as a rule, won't reimburse reporters for verification of personal accounts

New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification: “We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts,” a spokesperson tell...

2022-11-22
New York Times 6 related

An investigation reveals how online US sports betting grew so big, so fast and what the consequences are likely to be for public health, taxpayers, and others

The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers …

2022-09-10
Protocol 11 related

The White House unveils six proposals for tech policy reform aimed at competition, algorithms, and safety on social platforms, and suggests Section 230 changes

for a Good Reason Alfonso Maruccia / TechSpot : White House consults experts, lays down a six-point plan to increase Big Tech accountability GovTech : White House Outlines Guiding Principles for Big T...

2020-11-25
New York Times 18 related

Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently

Good morning!  This Wednesday, markets are booming … Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1437: new Honor phones to struggle for chips, UK government accused of blocking FOI, Covid's smart muta...

2020-08-21
Wall Street Journal 23 related

A trade body representing NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and other publishers asks Apple for improved deal terms for digital subscriptions sold through the App Store

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are among companies seeking more favorable terms in Apple's app store

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Quarterly Coverage

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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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2025Q4consumer -50pts; regulation +50pts

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