The New York Times Company has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon for use in the tech giant’s artificial intelligence platforms, the company said on Thursday. The agreement “will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” the news organization said in a statement. Besides news articles, the agreement also encompasses material from NYT Cooking, The Times’s food and recipe site, and The Athletic, which focuses on sports. This is the first instance of The Times agreeing to a licensing arrangement with a focus on generative A.I. technology. In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, for copyright infringement, accusing the tech companies of using millions of articles published by The Times to train automated chatbots without any kind of compensation. OpenAI and Microsoft have rejected those accusations. Financial terms of the licensing deal with Amazon were not disclosed. “The deal is consistent with our long-held principle that high-quality journalism is worth paying for,” Meredith Kopit Levien, the chief executive of The Times, said in a note to 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.”

Full report : NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon’s AI platforms and to bring the NYT’s “content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences.”