Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks throughout an Amazon Units launch occasion in New York Metropolis, U.S., February 26, 2025.
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The New York Times on Thursday struck a deal with Amazon permitting it to make use of the storied information group’s content material throughout its artificial intelligence platforms.
The multi-year deal “will convey Instances editorial content material to a wide range of Amazon buyer experiences,” the Instances stated in a launch. The settlement additionally contains content material from the newspaper’s different properties like NYT Cooking and The Athletic.
“It will embrace real-time show of summaries and brief excerpts of Instances content material inside Amazon services and products, equivalent to Alexa, and coaching Amazon’s proprietary basis fashions,” the Instances stated.
Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
The Instances sued Microsoft and OpenAI in 2023 for copyright infringement, accusing the businesses of abusing the newspaper’s mental property to coach giant language fashions.
Each Microsoft and OpenAI sought unsuccessfully to have the case thrown out. Different information publications have joined the Instances in suing Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright violations, together with the New York Each day Information and the Heart for Investigative Reporting.
A rising variety of information shops have opted to strike licensing offers with tech firms moderately than pursue litigation.
Amazon has launched a flurry of generative AI merchandise over the previous a number of months because it appears to be like to maintain up with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Google and others.
Amazon introduced Alexa+, a brand new model of its decade-plus outdated voice assistant embedded with generative AI in February. Different merchandise embrace its personal set of Nova fashions, Trainium chips, a procuring chatbot, and a market for third-party fashions referred to as Bedrock.
