Partnership2025-10-01confirmed
Apple × News Corp
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson confirmed a "significant" partnership with Apple at The Times Tech Summit in London in October 2025. [19] Specific financial terms and the exact scope of the content usage were not disclosed. [19]
Price paid
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Not disclosed
Losing bid
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Per unit
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no meaningful ratio
The asset
A partnership to license content for use in Apple's AI development.
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- News publishing
- Modalities
- text
What it means if you hold data
This deal brings another major technology company, Apple, formally into the content licensing space, partnering with one of the world's largest media conglomerates. It underscores the high value placed on premium news archives for training generative AI.