Almost two years after the New York Times Openai and Microsoft had sued for copyright infringement, the New York Times agreed to licens its editorial content to Amazon to coach the AI platforms of the Tech giant.
The agreement will bring “Times editorial content into numerous Amazon customer experiences”, which Said outlet in an evidence. This includes content resembling news articles, material from NYT Cooking, a web site that deals with food and recipes, and the athlete, their sports -oriented website.
The company also found that Amazon could extend the Times's editorial content on Alexa software for its intelligent speakers.
The conditions of the deal haven’t been announced, but it surely is the primary of such agreements for Amazon. Openai has signed several similar offers with publishers, including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Newscorp, Axel Springer and more.
This can also be the primary time that the Times agreed to a generative AI-focused license agreement, and after the Outlet Openai and Microsoft, in 2023, after accusing the businesses, it involves using tens of millions of articles published by Times to coach his AI models without consent or compensation. Both Openai and Microsoft have rejected accusations of misconduct.
Techcrunch has contacted the New York Times to get more information.
