Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI strikes content deal with the Financial Times

Company still faces several accusations from publishers that it broke copyright laws, including a December lawsuit from the New York Times

The deal with the Financial Times, which is owned by Japanese media company Nikkei, marks OpenAI’s first with a major UK news publisher

OpenAI, the parent of ChatGPT, will begin using attributed content from the Financial Times, incorporating summaries, quotes and links from the newspaper into its chatbot’s responses.

The companies did not disclose financial terms of the new partnership.

It’s the latest media licensing deal from OpenAI, which has come under fire for using news articles and other material from publishers to train its flagship artificial intelligence product. The deal with the Financial Times, which is owned ...