“In return, Axel Springer will receive payments of an unspecified size and frequency from OpenAI.”
OpenAI says fair use covers scraping, then pays Axel Springer anyway. ChatGPT gets summaries of Business Insider and Politico stories, including paywalled ones. Springer gets an undisclosed check while its readers get a reason to skip the paywall. Paying the publishers big enough to sue is cheaper than losing a lawsuit. Everyone smaller stays scraped for free.