{"id":343,"date":"2025-05-29T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/?p=343"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:06:00","slug":"new-york-times-agrees-to-license-its-material-for-amazons-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/new-york-times-agrees-to-license-its-material-for-amazons-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times agrees to license its material for Amazon&#039;s AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times announced Thursday it would partner with Amazon and allow the company to use its content as part of its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The multiyear licensing agreement will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences and &#8220;broadens the companies&#8217; existing relationship, and will bring additional value to Amazon customers and bring Times journalism to wider audiences,&#8221; they said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will allow Amazon to use editorial content from The New York Times, NYT Cooking and The Athletic for AI-related uses, including a real-time display of summaries and short excerpts of Times content within Amazon products and services, such as Alexa, and training for Amazon\u2019s proprietary foundation models.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The collaboration will make The New York Times\u2019s original content more accessible to customers across Amazon products and services, including direct links to Times products, and underscores the companies\u2019 shared commitment to serving customers with global news and perspectives within Amazon\u2019s AI products,&#8221; the Times said in announcing the deal. <\/p>\n<p>The partnership comes as the Times is <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/ap\/ap-business\/ap-judge-allows-newspaper-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-to-proceed-2\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/ap\/ap-business\/ap-judge-allows-newspaper-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-to-proceed-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">locked in litigation<\/a> with OpenAI over what the news outlet says is copyright infringement the tech company is engaged in through its use of Times content in ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>In March, a judge ruled the Times case against OpenAI can proceed while dismissing smaller elements of the newspaper&#8217;s copyright suit. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon was founded by billionaire tech tycoon Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, one of the Times&#8217;s top business competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times announced Thursday it would partner with Amazon and allow the company to use its content as part of its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The multiyear licensing agreement will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences and &#8220;broadens the companies&#8217; existing relationship, and will bring additional value to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calib.pw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}