News Corp CEO Robert Thomson blasted AI companies for spending billions on super chips and data centers while shortchanging newsrooms and other content creators — calling it a “fundamental miscalculation.”

Speaking Tuesday at The Times Tech Summit in London , Thomson said AI businesses need to invest more in “editorial content,” calling it “the essence of AI.”

“If you’re not spending billions of dollars on the content, but you are spending billions of dollars on the infrastructure, then you’re making a fundamental miscalculation about the value of what you’re doing,” said Thomson. 3

News Corp is the parent company of The Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London and HarperCollins.

Thomson explained that AI businesses “need news to remain and keep the AI engines fresh. A

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