US EditionAmazon AI Deal with New York Times Brings the Paper's Content to Alexa
- The New York Times and Amazon announced a multi-year AI licensing deal on February 26, 2025, to bring Times content to Amazon's AI platforms including Alexa.
- The agreement comes amid the Times' ongoing legal conflict with OpenAI and Microsoft over allegations that the companies used the newspaper's articles without permission to develop AI models since 2023.
- The deal covers editorial content, NYT Cooking, and The Athletic, allowing real-time display of summaries and excerpts and training Amazon's proprietary foundation models.
- The Times described the deal as bringing additional value and wider exposure to its journalism, while terms of the agreement remain undisclosed.
- This collaboration illustrates varied publisher responses to AI, with some opting for licensing deals like the Times and others pursuing litigation over copyright issues.
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New York Times Authorizes Amazon to Use Its Content to Train Generative AI
The New York Times changes course. More than a year after the decision to sue OpenAI, developer of ChatGpt, and Microsoft for copyright infringement, the U.S. newspaper has reached a multi-year agreement with Amazon to allow the tech giant to use its content to train models of generative artificial intelligence. A collaboration, says in a note to the employees Meredith Kopit Levien, CEO of the Times, is consistent with our principle that it is w…
New York Times Signs a Historic Deal with Amazon: Alexa Will Use the Contents of the American Newspaper
From Echo devices you will be able to listen and read extracts of the articles. The understanding arrives while the process of the Nyt against OpenAI and Microsoft is still ongoing
The New York Times Signs Agreement that Allows Amazon to Use Its Contents for AI
The New York Times announced on Thursday an agreement with Amazon so that the U.S. tech giant can use contents of the New York daily to develop models of generational artificial intelligence (AI). This association coincides with the judicial battle waged by the leading U.S. newspaper against OpenAI - creator of ChatGPT conversational robot-, which he accuses of having trained his AI models with articles from his archive without prior authorizati…
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