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The CEO of the generative-A.I. app Perplexity—which received a cease-and-desist letter from the Times last month asking it to stop using NYT prose for data-training purposes—offered to help the paper ensure that “essential coverage is available to all during the election” and requested that Sulzberger message him.

In the meantime, as Sulzberger himself noted, the strike is likely to continue through the election, and the workers have been shouted out by fellow union ringleaders, like Association of Flight Attendants President Sara Nelson, as well as local politicians, like NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and New York state Sen. Jessica Ramos.

Sulzberger wrote that “it is troubling that the Tech Guild would try to block this public service at such a consequential moment for our country,” that he is “sorry that this action by the Tech Guild was designed to put all of this work at risk,” and that the company had “robust plans in place to ensure that our essential journalism reaches our readers.”

Sulzberger has said quite definitively that he doesn’t think that’s something the Times should be doing.

“I see no lack of passionate, morally confident actors sounding the alarm,” Sulzberger said in a speech this past spring.