The New York Times

“I walked out of this thing, we all got we all got duped by everybody”

“There's a New York Times article that basically provider AIs and payer AIs are fighting”

“AI companies claim to be close to recursive self-improvement, where AI systems themselves do the work of building the next, more powerful generation. ... He proposes to ban recursive self-improvement and to let companies ask Congress for narrow exceptions once they can show that those are safe.”

“New York Times - Used as the case study for how content owners will selectively grant data feeds to companies that pay fairly”

“New York Times Co. shares are down 15% since late last week”

“attracting acquisition interest from Sony Pictures, A24, and The New York Times Company in a deal expected to value it at more than $300 million.”

“The Department of Justice's statement supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in the New York Times' copyright infringement lawsuit surprised the Copyright and Trademark offices, sources told Axios.”

“New York Times — Cited for excellent 3D investigative reconstruction of the Surfside collapse and for publishing Alina Chan's op-eds on COVID origins, plus Martin Fackler's 20-year Tokyo bureau reporting on Fukushima.”

“A ruling in favor of the Times could wreak havoc on the lucrative business models underpinning the AI industry.”

“The DOJ's brief backing OpenAI against the NYT explicitly argued that restricting fair-use training "could undermine national security" — a novel legal argument that ties IP policy directly to AI competitiveness/security narratives.”

“The DOJ argued "training AI models on copyrighted works is protected by fair use and restricting it could undermine national security," citing Trump's AI executive orders.”

“You don't have to talk to those guys. And you can go and talk to a David Senra. You can go and talk to Joe Rogan or name your guy. And it's, you can say what you need to say in an environment that's not like a struggle session in Maoist China. [00:30:23]”

“New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill found AI-generated biographies of herself and other journalists all over Amazon.”

“I've talked to editors at these legacy publications who have explicitly told me that they are trying to be more stylish... I believe that the New York Times newsletters now allows their writers to write in the first person — before it was unthinkable.”

“Polish used to be a very good proxy for how much work you put into it... That is becoming less and less true because very soon, if you fine-tune some open source model, you could build like the New York Times house style bot.”

“The New York Times games-only product. So no news from the New York Times. It has a million paying subscribers at $5 a month. $60 million in ARR.”

“New York Times columnist Brian X. Chen argues that the search giant is starting to win the AI race, citing Gemini's rapid growth to 900 million regular users, Google's ability to make money from AI through advertising, and the company's plan to weave Gemini into Search, Gmail, Docs, Maps, Android, and eventually Apple's Siri.”

“The New York Times is a technology company now because like most of what they do, like most of the revenue comes from the games.”

“The New York Times has adapted to that in an interesting way. — Marc Andreessen”