Overview
- Meta and News Corp confirmed a multi-year agreement, with neither company disclosing official financial terms.
- The Wall Street Journal reports a three-year arrangement paying up to $50 million annually for content from U.S. and U.K. News Corp outlets.
- The license enables Meta to use verified real-time and archival journalism in chatbot responses and for training its AI models.
- News Corp CEO Robert Thomson outlined a "woo and a sue" approach to AI companies and said additional negotiations are well advanced.
- The agreement builds on Meta’s recent publisher deals and follows News Corp’s 2024 OpenAI license as the company also pursues litigation against scrapers such as Perplexity.