Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker said Reuters' AI licensing deals cover the text archive only, not the live news file, images, video or audio, so the largest news wire is not, by its own account, selling news video for AI training.
archive text only; no video
Dated 12 May 2026Source checked 21 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 29 Oct 2026Basis: reported
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In the source's own words
“It’s the archive, it’s not the images, it’s not the video, it’s not the audio, it really is not ‘just’, but it’s the text.”
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It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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