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Thomson Reuters boss says AI licensing deals only involve archive text

Thomson Reuters boss says AI licensing deals only involve archive text

Published by Sam Flores

Steve Hasker, president and CEO, Thomson Reuters, speaking at the Truth Tellers Summit in London on Wednesday 6 May 2026. Picture: Reuters/Chris J Ratcliffe Thomson Reuters president and CEO Steve Hasker has set out the three key ingredients the news agency and business information giant has looked for when it comes to agreeing licensing deals with AI companies. Hasker told the Truth Tellers Summit in London last week that 175-year-old Reuters has focused its deals on its text archive, while setting them at the “highest price” possible and keeping them brief in length so they will need to be renegotiated. He said generative and agentic AI feels like it will be “more transformational and more disruptive” than the arrival of the internet, Google and social media. “And so I think that the opportunities and the risks could be, and likely will be, even bigger as newsgatherers license or don’t license their content,” he said. Hasker said Reuters has “taken a cautious approach with that in mind”. “We have done a select number of deals. I …

Thomson Reuters reports fourth-quarter revenue rise

Thomson Reuters reports fourth-quarter revenue rise

Published by Sam Flores

Feb 5 : Thomson Reuters reported higher fourth quarter revenue on Thursday, boosted by its legal, tax and accounting and corporates businesses, as investors assess the impact of artificial intelligence companies moving into its key markets. The Toronto-based content and technology company also forecast its full-year 2026 revenue would rise by between 7.5 per cent and 8 per cent. Wall Street is forecasting revenue growth of 7.7 per cent for the year, LSEG data shows. Thomson Reuters raised its annualized dividend by 10 per cent to $2.62 per common share and said fourth quarter revenue rose 5 per cent to $2 billion, matching expectations in LSEG estimates. Its earnings per share were $1.07, slightly ahead of Wall Street expectations of $1.06 per share excluding items. “We are seeing tangible benefits from our continued investments in AI,” said Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker. “We will continue to scale our agentic capabilities to deliver greater speed, clarity, and confidence for our customers – further demonstrating the value of professional‑grade tools built on quality content and deep subject‑matter …

DC Thomson reports flat revenue but growing profit

DC Thomson reports flat revenue but growing profit

Published by Sam Flores

Outside of DC Thomson office in Dundee. Picture: Shutterstock/Antoni M Lubek Subscriptions, advertising and cloud services revenues grew at Scotland-based media business DC Thomson in the year to 31 March 2025. The business reported level like-for-like revenues compared to the previous year at around £134m, citing “challenging market conditions”. In total its results, filed at Companies House in December, cited revenues of £184m, up from £154m, when including new income from its investment portfolio and pension assets. DC Thomson publishes newspaper titles including The Press and Journal, The Courier and The Sunday Post, magazine brands like Beano, Puzzler and Stylist, runs local radio stations, has a newspaper printing business, and cloud services company Brightsolid. Pre-tax profits were £31m. In the previous year, DC Thomson reported pre-tax profits of £94m of which £92m was attributed to valuation gains on its financial assets, leaving £1.8m in profit from the core businesses. The equivalent valuation gains last year were £14.5m. The total group assets from the investment portfolio were slightly down at £1.1bn. The company said it is …