In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.
The New York Times Company and Amazon have announced a multi-year licensing agreement that will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences. This broadens the companies' existing relationship, and will bring additional value to Amazon customers and bring Times journalism to wider audiences.
With this new agreement, Amazon is licensing editorial content from The New York Times, NYT Cooking and The Athletic for AI-related uses. 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 collabor