Jul 3, 2026 – 5.00amUS tech titan Microsoft has inked the first deal of its kind in Australia, paying a media company to access news articles that will inform its Copilot artificial intelligence platform, in a multimillion-dollar boost for local journalism.Microsoft, which has a market capitalisation of $US2.85 trillion ($4.1 trillion), has agreed a one-year pilot deal with Australian media group Nine Entertainment to reference content from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times and WA Today. Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles