Amazon licensing deal with NYT worth $25m a year

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1. https://www.ajunews.com/view/20250731101348220 – Please view link – unable to able to access data
2. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/new-york-times-amazon-sign-ai-licensing-deal-2025-05-29/ – The New York Times (NYT) has entered into its first licensing agreement involving generative artificial intelligence by partnering with Amazon. Under this multi-year deal, Amazon will have access to NYT’s editorial content, including articles from The Times, NYT Cooking, and The Athletic, for use in its AI products such as Alexa. The agreement allows Amazon to display summaries and excerpts of NYT content and use it to train its proprietary AI models. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. This collaboration comes amid industry-wide efforts to secure high-quality data sources for training large-language models, especially as many AI developers, like OpenAI, face lawsuits over unauthorized data usage. Notably, NYT sued Microsoft and OpenAI in 2023 for allegedly using its content without permission, incurring $4.4 million in litigation costs in early 2025. The partnership with Amazon is seen as an opportunity for NYT to widen its audience reach. The publisher, which recently won four Pulitzer Prizes and surpassed expectations for digital subscriber growth in the first quarter, joins other media outlets such as Financial Times and Reuters that have also entered AI content licensing agreements. ([reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/new-york-times-amazon-sign-ai-licensing-deal-2025-05-29/?utm_source=openai))
3. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/nyt-amazon-ai-licensing-deal – The New York Times has entered into a multiyear AI licensing agreement with Amazon, marking its first such deal with an AI company. Under the agreement, Amazon will gain access to editorial content from the New York Times, including material from its cooking app and sports platform, The Athletic, for integration into Amazon-owned products and AI experiences. The deal does not cover content from Wirecutter, the Times’ consumer recommendation site, due to an existing relationship between Amazon and Wirecutter. This move reflects a broader trend in the media industry as news organizations seek partnerships with AI companies to monetize content, while simultaneously pursuing legal actions against others. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/nyt-amazon-ai-licensing-deal?utm_source=openai))
4. https://www.ft.com/content/bc73404e-6f01-4b9e-9563-1a5f055d2c98 – The New York Times (NYT) has signed its first licensing agreement with a technology company, allowing Amazon to use its editorial content, including news stories and cooking recipes, to train Amazon’s proprietary AI models and integrate content with products like Alexa. This move aligns with the NYT’s policy advocating that quality journalism should be compensated. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement comes amidst the NYT’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, filed in 2023, accusing them of extensive copyright infringement for using millions of NYT articles to train models like ChatGPT. While Amazon’s AI lags behind OpenAI’s in technical performance, it focuses on lower costs and has invested $8 billion in AI startup Anthropic. The deal appears as a commercial safeguard and a strategic positioning amid media concerns that AI models exploit journalistic content without compensation. Other media companies, such as News Corp and Axel Springer, have also entered into similar agreements with AI companies. Meanwhile, the industry faces rising concerns over job displacement due to AI, highlighted by Business Insider’s announcement of significant job cuts while adopting AI-driven strategies. NYT shares rose following the Amazon deal announcement, continuing an 8% gain this year. ([ft.com](https://www.ft.com/content/bc73404e-6f01-4b9e-9563-1a5f055d2c98?utm_source=openai))
5. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/amazon-ai-new-york-times-alexa.html – The New York Times and Amazon agreed to a deal allowing it to use the newspaper’s content across its artificial intelligence platforms. The deal allows “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.” A growing number of news organizations have inked licensing deals with AI product makers. ([cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/amazon-ai-new-york-times-alexa.html?utm_source=openai))
6. https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/the-new-york-times-and-amazon-ink-ai-licensing-deal/ – Nearly two years after suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, The New York Times has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon to train the tech giant’s AI platforms. The agreement will “bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” the outlet said in a statement. That includes content like news articles, material from NYT Cooking, a site dedicated to food and recipes, and The Athletic, its sports-focused site. The company also noted that Amazon’s use of The Times’s editorial content could extend to Alexa software on its smart speakers. “Whenever it makes sense within the consumer experience on Amazon’s products, they will provide direct links to Times products, where readers can get the full Times experience,” Danielle Rhoades Ha, a New York Times spokesperson, told TechCrunch. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it’s the first of such agreements for Amazon. OpenAI has signed multiple similar deals with publishers, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, NewsCorp, Axel Springer, and more. This is also the first time The Times is agreeing to a generative AI-focused licensing arrangement, and it comes after the outlet accused OpenAI and Microsoft of using millions of articles published by The Times to train their AI models without consent or compensation. “We have a long-standing approach to ensure that our work is valued appropriately, whether through commercial deals or through the enforcement of our intellectual property rights,” the spokesperson said. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/the-new-york-times-and-amazon-ink-ai-licensing-deal/?utm_source=openai))
7. https://www.ainews.com/p/the-new-york-times-signs-ai-licensing-deal-with-amazon – The deal, announced Thursday, allows Amazon to use Times content across a range of consumer experiences, including its AI-powered voice assistant Alexa. Amazon will also be able to use the publication’s journalism to help train its AI models. Under the agreement, Amazon can incorporate summaries and short excerpts from The Times, The Athletic, and NYT Cooking into its products. Financial terms were not disclosed. The partnership comes as generative AI companies face increasing legal pressure over the use of copyrighted news content without permission. In late 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of illegally using millions of its articles to train AI systems while cutting into subscription, advertising, and licensing revenue. A Strategic Shift Toward Compensation This agreement signals a strategic shift toward compensation over confrontation—at least with Amazon. Meredith Kopit Levien, CEO of The New York Times Company, told staff the deal reflects the company’s broader philosophy. “The deal is consistent with our long-held principle that high-quality journalism is worth paying for,” Levien said. ([ainews.com](https://www.ainews.com/p/the-new-york-times-signs-ai-licensing-deal-with-amazon?utm_source=openai))