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New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement

27Dec

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World

New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement

Updated Dec. 27, 2023 2:19 pm ETThe New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement, touching off a legal fight over generative-AI technologies with far-reaching implications for the future of the news publishing business.In a complaint filed Wednesday, the Times said the technology companies exploited its content without permission to create their AI products, including OpenAI’s humanlike chatbot ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. The tools were trained on millions of pieces of Times content, the suit said, and draw on that material to serve up answers to users’ prompts. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

27Dec

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Technology

New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement

Updated Dec. 27, 2023 12:21 pm ETThe New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement, touching off a legal fight over generative-AI technologies with far-reaching implications for the future of the news publishing business.In a complaint filed Wednesday, the Times said the technology companies exploited its content without permission to create their AI products, including OpenAI’s humanlike chatbot ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. The tools were trained on millions of pieces of Times content, the suit said, and draw on that material to serve up answers to users’ prompts. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Activist ValueAct Builds Stake in Disney

16Nov

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Money

Activist ValueAct Builds Stake in Disney

Updated Nov. 15, 2023 4:21 pm ETWalt Disney has attracted the interest of another activist investor that believes the company is undervalued, with ValueAct Capital accumulating a stake in the entertainment giant’s stock and initiating dialogue with its board. ValueAct, an activist fund based in San Francisco with investments in information technology, energy, financials and media, has taken a “sizable” but so far undisclosed stake in Disney that makes it one of the fund’s biggest holdings, according to people familiar with the matter. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

15Nov

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World

Activist ValueAct Builds Stake in Disney

Updated Nov. 15, 2023 4:21 pm ETDisney has attracted the interest of another activist investor that believes the company is undervalued, with ValueAct Capital accumulating a stake in the entertainment giant’s stock and initiating dialogue with its board. ValueAct, an activist fund based in San Francisco with investments in information technology, energy, financials and media, has taken a “sizable” but so far undisclosed stake in Disney that makes it one of the fund’s biggest holdings, according to people familiar with the matter. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

7Nov

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World

E-Travel Dreams and the New York Times

James Freeman is assistant editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page and author of the weekday Best of the Web column. He is the co-author of "Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi," recognized as a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Financial Times Business Book of the Month. He is a contributor to the Fox News Channel and a host of "Deep Dive" on Fox Nation. Before joining the Journal in September 2007, James served as investor advocate at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he encouraged the transformation of financial reporting technology to benefit individual investors. He is a graduate of Yale.Follow James on Twitter @FreemanWSJ

The Arab Oil Embargo and Bad Energy Policy's 50th Birthday

21Oct

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Business

The Arab Oil Embargo and Bad Energy Policy's 50th Birthday

America got cleaner air and in every other way a straight line to today’s EV boondoggle.

New York Times Earnings: Publisher Adds 180,000 Digital Subscribers

8Aug

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New York Times Earnings: Publisher Adds 180,000 Digital Subscribers

Revenue per digital user grew on a yearly basis, and the publisher also saw a larger-than-expected increase in digital-advertising revenue.

He Pushed the New York Times to Buy Wordle. Now He Has to Make Sports Work.

9Jul

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World

He Pushed the New York Times to Buy Wordle. Now He Has to Make Sports Work.

David Perpich, cousin of Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, was an architect of the subscriber bundle of games, a cooking app, the Wirecutter and sports-media site the Athletic.