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Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
MSFT: OpenAI Inks Media Deal With Washington Post Amid Legal Heat
April 22 - Microsoft-backed OpenAI has reached a licensing agreement with The Washington Post to bring the newspaper's content to its ChatGPT platform. Under the partnership, ChatGPT will feature summaries, excerpts, and links to The Post's reporting in response to relevant user prompts. The move aims to increase access to trustworthy journalism within the AI chatbot, said OpenAI's Head of Media Partnerships, Varun Shetty. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 1 Warning Sign with MSFT. Peter Elkins-Williams, Head of Global Partnerships at The Washington Post, said the integration aligns with the paper's efforts to reach readers where they are, reinforcing its push for accessible, real-time news consumption. The deal adds to OpenAI's expanding list of media partners, which includes the Financial Times, Axel Springer, Le Monde, and Prisa Media. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), a major backer of OpenAI, is also named in the content integration initiative. However, OpenAI and Microsoft remain embroiled in a copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times (NYT) in December 2023, which alleges unauthorized use of its articles to train AI models. Both companies have denied wrongdoing. Additional lawsuits from authors and journalists over similar claims are ongoing in U.S. courts. This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
The Hill
22-04-2025
- Business
- The Hill
Washington Post inks deal with OpenAI
The Washington Post has struck a deal with OpenAI that will allow the artificial intelligence provider to use the outlet's journalism as part of its search function. As part of the deal, OpenAI's ChatGPT will display summaries, quotes and links to original reporting from the Post in response to relevant questions and prompts, the company said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. 'Ensuring ChatGPT users have our impactful reporting at their fingertips builds on our commitment to provide access where, how and when our audiences want it,' Peter Elkins-Williams, Head of Global Partnerships at the Post, said in a statement. The Post is among the largest of the more than a dozen news organizations OpenAI has partnered with in recent months as it looks to improve and expand its software, particularly for ChatGPT. The Post's move to get into business with OpenAI stands in contrast to The New York Times, its primary competitor, which sued the tech platform in 2023 over what the Times has argued in legal filings is the illegal use of its content by the company. Under billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, the Post has undergone a massive overhaul of its business and raised eyebrows with its retooled editorial strategy as President Trump enters a second term.
Washington Post
22-04-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
The Washington Post partners with OpenAI on search content
The Washington Post announced today a strategic partnership with OpenAI to make high-quality news more accessible in ChatGPT. As part of this partnership, ChatGPT will display summaries, quotes, and links to original reporting from The Post in response to relevant questions. This partnership reflects a shared commitment to making reliable, factual information easier to find and engage with, especially on complex or fast-moving topics, where timely, well-sourced reporting, like that of The Post, matters most. ChatGPT will highlight The Post's journalism across politics, global affairs, business, technology, and more, always with clear attribution and direct links to full articles so people can explore topics in greater depth and context. 'We're all in on meeting our audiences where they are,' said Peter Elkins-Williams, Head of Global Partnerships at The Washington Post. 'Ensuring ChatGPT users have our impactful reporting at their fingertips builds on our commitment to provide access where, how and when our audiences want it.' 'More than 500 million people use ChatGPT each week to get answers to all kinds of questions,' said Varun Shetty, Head of Media Partnerships at OpenAI. 'By investing in high-quality journalism by partners like The Washington Post, we're helping ensure our users get timely, trustworthy information when they need it.' This work follows similar partnerships OpenAI has formed with more than 20 news publishers, bringing its technology to over 160 outlets and hundreds of content brands across more than 20 languages. This partnership is the latest example of The Post's commitment to expanding the discoverability of its critical journalism through AI tools and resources. This past year, The Post launched generative AI experiments built by news for news, including Ask The Post AI and Climate Answers, created tools for its newsroom like Haystacker, and broadened its coverage accessibility for users through AI-powered summaries and audio. The Post continues to be LLM-agnostic as it embraces and builds its own range of AI-powered solutions for both its business and its users.
Washington Post
18-04-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Emily Echave Named Head of Global Platform Partnerships
Today, Peter Elkins-Williams, Head of Partnerships for The Washington Post, announced the elevation of Emily Echave to Head of Global Platform Partnerships. In this role, she will spearhead The Post's relationships with the world's largest technology companies, as the publication continues to innovate on the ways customers can access and engage with its storytelling. In his note to colleagues across The Post, Peter said, 'Emily has the unique ability to bring everyone to the table - our platform partners, colleagues from the Newsroom, engineers, marketers, and more - and ensure they're bought in and excited. She's already proven her ability to bring major initiatives to life, and I'm excited for her to take on this new leadership role.' Echave has worked across business development, partnerships, and other growth initiatives for the past three years, leading successful partnerships with companies like Google and the Google News Initiative, Verizon, and The Post's recently announced partnership with Amazon for Alexa+. Echave will continue to report directly to Elkins-Williams and serve on the Partnerships leadership team. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Georgetown University.
