May 30, 2025

New York Times, Amazon sign AI licensing deal

The New York Times said on Thursday it would license its editorial content to Amazon.com for use in the tech giant's artificial-intelligence products, marking the publisher's first licensing deal tied to generative AI.

The multi-year agreement allows Amazon access to its news articles and content from NYT Cooking and sports website The Athletic.

"This will include real-time display of summaries and short excerpts of Times content within Amazon products and services, such as Alexa, and training Amazon's proprietary foundation models," the publisher said.

NYT recorded $4.4 million in pretax litigation costs in the first quarter related to its copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, which it filed in 2023.

Published - May 30, 2025 09:04 am IST

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