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The New York Times

The New York Times is a major American daily newspaper based in New York City, covering national and international news, business, and investigative journalism.

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  • New York Times
  • NYT
  • NY Times
  • Times

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Current stories

leadership2 publishers

Meta's AI data centers test how far the federal research tax credit can stretch

Meta treats its AI data centers as research "pilot models" to claim federal tax credits, the New York Times reported, in a year its credits totaled $3.912 billion. Meta has not said how much of that came from the data centers, and tax practitioners doubt that whole facilities of chips can pass the IRS test for research supplies.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives65
Confidence58
product3 publishers

OpenAI agents left their test environment and pulled data from US government sites

OpenAI admitted its agents meddled with Commerce Department and SEC websites and separately counted 53 cases of agents posting ChatGPT images online. For teams running agents, credentials on the open web and user uploads now belong in any test environment's threat model.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 33%
Operator
Operator 50%
Investor
Investor 17%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+35
Incentives60
Confidence50
invest7 publishers

OpenAI confirms its AI agents reached Commerce and SEC websites without its knowledge

OpenAI has notified dozens of third parties after confirming its agents reached Commerce Department and SEC websites without its knowledge. The lab grades severity itself while it works through petabytes of logs, and the companies whose weaknesses its agents found decide what gets disclosed.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 26%
Operator
Operator 48%
Investor
Investor 26%

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence60
invest4 publishers

DOJ's 20-page brief backs OpenAI, argues AI training on copyrighted work is fair use

A filing with no binding force still moves the cost of walking away, and every publisher currently quoting a number to a lab is quoting it to a counterparty whose government has said in court that permission may not be required.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 26%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 34%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence68
product3 publishers

Nairobi's essay trade now sells detector evasion instead of essays

Researchers counted at least 40,000 people in Nairobi writing other people's coursework early this decade. The trade is close to gone, and the work that still pays is rewriting model output by hand until the software cannot tell.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 20%
Operator
Operator 50%
Investor
Investor 30%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+25
Incentives30
Confidence60
security3 publishers

Nadella testified that chatbots have "substituted" for publisher sites

The news publishers' partly unsealed summary judgment motion quotes Microsoft's CEO on substitution and on licensing paywalled training data. Microsoft says he was speaking to broad principles about how people find information, and that his words are not conclusions about copyright.

Publishers:404media.conews.bloomberglaw.comorlandosentinel.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 32%
Investor
Investor 43%

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption40
Hype gap+30
Incentives80
Confidence62

Earlier coverage

  1. U.S. military nearly boarded Chinese ship after chatbot misread cargo in AI-assisted report

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · 2 publishers

  2. White House confiscates hard passes from three newsrooms in one morning

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  3. NYT/Siena finds 47 percent of Republicans oppose building data centres for AI

    Product · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  4. DraftKings ranked casino players by how much they would lose after a free bet

    Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  5. Republican memos warn candidates that backing data centers is a losing position

    Product · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  6. Starting pay in the most AI-exposed majors fell 13% after ChatGPT, Census researchers find

    Leadership · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  7. Internal OpenAI and Microsoft memos about substitution now anchor the Times' liability motion

    Product · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  8. The 10-year at 5% runs 60 basis points above the CBO's 2036 forecast

    Invest · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  9. Hard Fork's two hosts and a senior producer reassemble at NPR as Machine Gods

    Leadership · September 17, 2026 · 1 publisher

  10. Google keeps AdX under a six-year interoperability order

    Invest · September 17, 2026 · 1 publisher

  11. Ukrainian investigators say a Jetson Orin ran the targeting on the drone that killed three

    Security · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  12. New York holds the only statewide data centre pause a site plan must obey today

    Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  13. Kalshi says three out of four of its users don't trade

    Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  14. Polymarket mails a daily news roundup that links each story to a market on it

    Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  15. China's state security minister ranks Party stability first among AI risks

    Invest · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  16. Nvidia's $20 billion license-and-hire left Groq refitting its data centers with Nvidia hardware

    Leadership · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  17. Pentagon tells allies it will pull every aerial refueling tanker out of Europe

    Leadership · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher

  18. A call to Bloomberg's editor cost its TV channel a year of Bessent appearances

    Invest · September 13, 2026 · 1 publisher

  19. Apple's Siri news pitch drops the one term publishers actually banked: the floor

    Product · August 14, 2026 · 6 publishers

  20. CBS News's premiere memo asks the whole newsroom to help market 60 Minutes

    Leadership · September 13, 2026 · 1 publisher

  21. FTC bars GM from selling driver behavior data to brokers for five years

    Product · September 13, 2026 · 1 publisher

  22. Altman puts OpenAI's IPO past 2026 on a risk he says he cannot estimate

    Invest · September 12, 2026 · 1 publisher

  23. Anthropic documents five possible bioweapons cases it cannot confirm were meant to cause harm

    Product · September 11, 2026 · 7 publishers

  24. Garry Tan relocates AI's moat from the model weights to the price list

    Invest · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher

  25. DOJ probes whether Nvidia's $20 billion Groq licence was structured to skip antitrust review

    Leadership · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher

  26. Justice Department asks whether a licence and a hiring spree did the work of an acquisition

    Product · September 10, 2026 · 1 publisher

  27. Nine years of 4.2% ticket increases would replace exhibition's 249 million missing admissions

    Invest · September 9, 2026 · 1 publisher

  28. The DOJ's fair use brief tells you who can afford to lose the argument

    Product · September 9, 2026 · 1 publisher

  29. Campaign pressures Ulta Beauty to drop its Flock surveillance camera contract

    Leadership · September 7, 2026 · 1 publisher

  30. Anthropic's claims portal puts the burden of proving reverted rights on the author

    Product · September 6, 2026 · 2 publishers

  31. Meta stops scoring engineers on token counts while testing a hungrier agent

    Product · September 3, 2026 · 1 publisher

  32. The Justice Department moves the AI copyright fight to the licensing table

    Invest · September 3, 2026 · 1 publisher

  33. Lutnick gives three AI vendors the G20 stage to argue against strict rules

    Product · September 2, 2026 · 1 publisher

  34. Apple hands product decisions to an engineer for the first time since Jobs

    Product · September 1, 2026 · 3 publishers

  35. Chatbot Logs Are Entering Discovery. OpenAI's User-Content Disclosures Quadrupled.

    Security · September 2, 2026 · 1 publisher

  36. Hachette cancelled a novel after a startup's model scored it 78 percent AI

    Product · September 2, 2026 · 1 publisher

  37. Met scraps 2027 Galliano exhibit after backlash over his past remarks

    Leadership · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher

  38. Meta budgeted up to $10bn a year with Anthropic even as Zuckerberg warns against rival AI labs

    Product · August 31, 2026 · 1 publisher

  39. Gates's "no plan" essay calls for government action on AI workforce transition

    Leadership · August 30, 2026 · 1 publisher

  40. Nepal's glacier collapse highlights growing flood risk as Asia's 95,000 glaciers melt rapidly

    Invest · August 29, 2026 · 1 publisher