The New York Times has struck a licensing deal with Amazon, allowing the tech giant to use their content for AI.
Under the new agreement, Amazon licenses editorial content from The New York Times, NYT Cooking, and The Athletic to create summaries within Amazon products. This content is used to train Amazon's AI models.
“The collaboration will make The New York Times' original content more accessible to customers across Amazon products and services, including direct links to Times products, and underscores the companies’ shared commitment to serving customers with global news and perspectives within Amazon’s AI products,” The New York Times said in a press release.
The agreement follows the newspaper's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023, which alleged that the companies had used millions of articles to train their AI without permission or compensation. OpenAI and Microsoft denied these claims.
The New York Times CEO said the deal is consistent with the company’s principle that high-quality journalism is worth paying for in a memo for staff.
“It aligns with our deliberate approach to ensuring that our work is valued appropriately, whether through commercial deals or through the enforcement of our intellectual property rights,” she said.
A Times spokesperson told CNN that users will be provided with links to the newspapers' products “whenever it made sense” and that all articles used will be properly attributed in a way that maintains the paper’s journalistic integrity.
“We believe this approach helps address concerns about potential misrepresentation while making quality journalism more accessible in emerging AI experiences,” the spokesperson said.
The deal's financial terms have not been disclosed.
The Times isn't the first paper to strike a deal with a tech company as The Washington Post, Guardian Media Group, Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, Axios, Reuters, Hearst and the Financial Times all have licensing deals with AI companies.
