23 verified, source-linked AI implementations documented between 2015–2026.
Nearly 40 reporters use the Manosphere Report tool daily; provided early signals on shifting conservative media sentiment
AI-hallucinated quote attributed to Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre published as direct speech — NYT reporter used an AI tool to locate Poilievre's recent public remarks while reporting on the 2025 Canadian federal election; AI tool returned a hallucinated transcription of a March speech including a fabricated quote rendered as a direct verbatim statement; published in April 2025; error flagged by reader Iris via the reporter's Bluesky post on April 15, 2026 after she searched the speeches and could not find the remark; correction/editors' note added more than two weeks after publication (May 10, 2026); Times explained AI provided 'links to a video of a speech and purported transcribed quotes' that were in fact AI-generated summaries rendered as transcript; NYT subsequently banned AI use for freelancers (May 13, 2026)
Analysis of hundreds of hours of video impossible without AI
AI-powered investigative document analysis tool
NYT's first AI-focused content licensing agreement, signed while NYT continues lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft; Amazon licensed to (1) display real-time summaries and excerpts of Times content in Amazon products including Alexa, and (2) train Amazon's proprietary foundation models on Times archives; deal covers NYT plus NYT Cooking and The Athletic; agreement valued at $20-25 million annually; represents NYT's shift toward selective AI platform partnerships after aggressive IP litigation
Copyright lawsuit against Perplexity AI (filed December 5, 2025, US District Court Southern District of New York); Times alleges Perplexity unlawfully scraped its stories, videos, podcasts and other content in real time to train AI models and power the Comet browser; alleges infringement at two stages: (1) scraping the website including real-time crawling to feed the Claude chatbot and Comet browser; (2) output of Perplexity products often reproducing Times articles verbatim; Perplexity moved to dismiss in March 2026, arguing user prompts are the proximate cause of any reproduced content; distinct from NYT's earlier $1 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft (Dec 2023); part of wave of US publisher Perplexity suits alongside Chicago Tribune (Dec 15, 2025) and CNN (May 28, 2026)
Copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft (The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation et al, Case No. 1:2023cv11195, filed Dec. 27, 2023, US District Court SDNY); landmark first major newspaper copyright suit against an AI company; claims OpenAI unlawfully used millions of NYT articles to train ChatGPT without authorization or compensation; exhibits show ChatGPT able to reproduce NYT articles verbatim, potentially displacing subscriptions and licensing revenue; joined by co-plaintiffs New York Daily News and Center for Investigative Reporting; demands more than $1 billion in damages and destruction of all datasets and AI models trained on NYT content; OpenAI moved to dismiss; federal judge rejected OpenAI's motion to dismiss (March 2025), allowing main copyright infringement claims to proceed; case still in active litigation/discovery as of June 2026; distinct from NYT's subsequent Perplexity copyright lawsuit (Dec. 5, 2025) and NYT/Amazon content licensing deal (May 2025)
"Editor" AI tool – semantic tagging and NER for real-time research and fact-checking (events, people, locations, dates)
Multi-country consortium: also Norway, Denmark and New Zealand.
The New York Times is one of 182 organizations in United States documented in the index, which holds 363 cases from the country. Its work spans 10 function types, including Audience Engagement & Community, documented across 41 organizations worldwide.