News Corp Just Called Itself an AI 'Input Company' — And Every Publisher Should Be Nervous
There’s a phrase that should keep every publisher up at night: “We’re essentially an input company.” That’s Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp — the Murdoch empire behind The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and The Times of London — casually redefining his company’s identity at a Morgan Stanley conference. He said it like it was obvious. And maybe that’s the scariest part. The Deal That Sparked It News Corp just signed a deal with Meta worth up to $50 million per year over at least three years. That’s roughly $150 million for the right to scrape WSJ, the Post, and other News Corp brands to train Meta’s AI models and power Meta AI chatbot responses. ...