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TechCrunch Minute: OpenAI’s media deal rush continues with FT deal


OpenAI has landed a new content deal with the FT. But instead of being a merely simple deal in which OpenAI gets words, and FT gets money.

But instead of being a merely simple deal in which OpenAI gets words, and FT gets money, the two are teaming up a bit more deeply. If that happens other AI companies that might want to follow in their footsteps could find the same path that the OpenAIs of the world already hiked steeper, and more expensive. It’s a weird and irksome situation in which you want to see fair payment for materials used, but also ensure that we don’t hand the future of AI to a bunch of already wealthy companies.

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