By Jess Jones If you can’t beat them, join them. That’s what content providers including news publications are currently doing as they battle to protect their business models from big tech’s artificial intelligence (AI) exploits, such as OpenAI. Today, the Financial Times (FT) sealed a licensing deal with OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT, which will allow users of the AI chatbot to access summaries, quotes and links to FT articles. Although the value and terms of the deal are confidential, OpenAI is reportedly offeringnews organisations as much as $5m per year to license their copyrighted …