The SPUR coalition now has 80 members, after The New York Times, Funke, The Economist and 40 others joined. The goal: common rules for AI content deals, before the AI companies just write those rules themselves. (Charlotte Tobitt, Press Gazette)
- The New York Times, which sued OpenAI in 2023 and Perplexity in 2025, has joined SPUR, a coalition of over 80 news organizations trying to set common standards for AI content licensing before AI companies dictate the terms themselves.
- SPUR has released an open-source content telemetry standard designed to track how AI scrapers retrieve, use, cite, and display publisher content, giving publishers a baseline for licensing negotiations.
- The coalition includes a mix of publishers that are suing AI companies, doing deals with them, or both, which raises real questions about whether common standards are achievable or just a coordinated seat at a table that tech companies still control.
