The AI data market, weekly

What an issue holds

• New prices: what labs and vendors paid, offered or listed data at, per hour, per image, per title or per company.
• Deals: licences disclosed that week, with their term and value where stated.
• Buyers: who opened, changed or closed a programme to buy data, and on what terms.
• Rulings: lawsuits filed and decided over training data, and what they mean for a holder.
• Nothing invented and nothing estimated by us: every line names the publication that stated it.

The latest in the record

What the next issue builds on: the newest licences and rulings in our datasets.

• 15 Oct 2026 · LicenceAxios, The Financial Times, Forbes, Post and Courier, Texas Tribune, Shaw Media, Oil City (publishers named in Google's October 2026 pilot update) to Google: Google's 15 October 2026 update to its News AI pilot says more than 400 publications now take part and names Axios, CNN, The Financial Times and Forbes (global outlets) and Post and Courier, Texas Tribune, Oil City News and Shaw Media (US local publishers) among its newest partners. Google pays participating publications for delivery and use of enhanced content to develop AI features such as article overviews on Google News publisher pages and audio briefings, with attribution and links. CNN's own announcement is held separately (2026-10-cnn-google).
• 15 Oct 2026 · LicenceCNN to Google: Expanded rights to CNN journalism for experimental AI features in Google products, under Google's news AI pilot; CNN did not name the products or say whether AI training rights are included.
• 12 Oct 2026 · LicenceReach plc (Mirror, Express, Daily Star, Manchester Evening News) to Google: Reach joins Google's news AI pilot, giving Google enhanced content rights to Reach's entire UK and Ireland portfolio; Google says it pays participating publications for the delivery and use of enhanced content to develop new AI features. Reach's CEO calls it a time-limited deal, and Digiday reported on 16 Oct 2026 that it understands the deal has a two-year time stamp.
• 15 Oct 2026 · CourtConsumentenbond v. Meta: privacy suit over AI camera glasses and AI training on the footage
• 13 Oct 2026 · CourtAnonymous Hawaii parent v. OpenAI: proposed class action over children's data used to train models
• 9 Oct 2026 · CourtTwo proposed class actions against Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics: delivery-robot face and hand scans retained for AI training (Illinois BIPA)