News Corp has signed a multi-year global deal that will allow OpenAI to use its current and archived content in products like ChatGPT . News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson described the deal as “the beginning of a beautiful friendship” months after he said he preferred to “woo” the tech company rather than sue it like The New York Times has done. The deal covers content from The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily, FN, and the New York Post in the US; The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun in the UK; and The Australian, news.

com.au, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail, The Advertiser, and the Herald Sun in Australia. The Wall Street Journal has put a value on the deal of more than $250m over five years.

It “does not include access to content from any of News Corp’s other businesses” which could mean the likes of book publisher Harper Collins and Sky News in Australia. As well as the ability to use News Corp content in answers to users and in training OpenAI products, the publisher will also give its “journalistic expertise” to the tech company “to help ensure the highest journalism standards are present” in its products. Thomson said: “We believe an historic agreement will set new standards for veracity, for virtue and for value in the digital age.

” He described OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his team as “principled partners...

who understand the commercial and social significance of journalists .