• The New York Times CEO warned AI companies are using journalism without consent or compensation, calling it large-scale intellectual property theft.
• Management said the practice is siphoning audience and revenue, risking fewer journalists and weakening the economics of original reporting.
• The Times cited $2 billion in 2025 newsroom output costs, nearly 500,000 works published, operations in 155 countries.
• It said AI-driven search is cutting publisher traffic, citing research that clicks are 10x harder than a decade ago.
• The Times said its lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Perplexity have run 2.5 years, costing over $20 million.

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