In short
- The New York Times has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon, who likes to read his news, cooking and sports content for use in Alexa and Amazon’s AI training models.
- The agreement marks the first AI-oriented license agreement of the newspaper, even while it continues to sue OpenAI and Microsoft for the alleged use of the content without permission.
- Financial conditions have not been announced and the deal comes when Amazon expands Alexa+ and increases its AI efforts.
The New York Times has signed its very first content license deal aimed at generative artificial intelligence, granting Amazon access to news, recipes and sports reporting for use on its AI platforms, including Alexa and its own machine learning models.
Announced Thursday, the multi -year agreement Contains material from the flagship news operation of the title, NYT CookingAnd Athletics.
The deal ensures real -time display of summaries and excerpts on Amazon devices and services, and is able to use Amazon to use the content to train its foundation models.
“It corresponds to our intentional approach to ensure that our work is appreciated correctly, either by commercial deals or by maintaining our intellectual property rights,” Meredith Kopit Levien, Chief Executive of the New York Timessaid in a note to the staff.
The financial conditions of the Agreement have not been announced and neither of them have publicly shared details about the scope or the duration of the use of content.
The deal marks an important moment for the media industry as publishers, including the Time Responding to the rise of generative AI.
The New York Times and AI
In December 2023, the New York Times A lawsuit tightened Against Tech Giants OpenAi and Microsoft, who accused them of using millions of times without permission to train their AI models.
“Openai and Microsoft have built up a company with a value of dozens of billions of dollars by taking the combined works of humanity without taking permission” The New York Times said in the court case.
In April, the American district judge Sidney Stein that judged The lawsuit could continue and refuse the motions of OpenAi and Microsoft to reject important claims, including those with regard to direct and contributing infringement of copyright.
Amazon’s AI race
For Amazon, the agreement with the media platform supports its broader efforts to catch up with the AI race.
Earlier his month, the company Alexa+, a generative AI-driven version of its assistant, began to roll out for more than 100,000 early users.
The system, partially driven by Claude AI of Anthropic, is designed to be more conversation and more conscious, and will soon have a compound Times Journalism as part of its offer.
Decrypt has contacted both Amazon and The New York Times With requests for comments.
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