By Amanda Meade
Publication Date: 2026-03-04 03:12:00
News Corp’s global chief executive has described news organizations as a valuable “input” to artificial intelligence as the media empire signs an AI content licensing deal with Meta worth up to US$50 million (A$71 million) a year.
In an upbeat presentation, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s company, Robert Thomson, said the “trusted” breaking news and information in publications such as the Australian, the Times of London and Dow Jones would be “hard to beat” as an “input” to AI.
The meta deal, announced earlier this week by the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal and expected to last at least three years, will allow the parent company of Facebook and Instagram to tap News Corp’s content in the US and UK to train its artificial intelligence products.
Media outlets include the Journal and the New York Post. However, Australian mastheads, including the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun, are not part of the deal.
“We are essentially an input company,” Thomson told a…