NYT signs AI content deal with Amazon

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1. https://winbuzzer.com/2025/05/29/new-york-times-announces-amazon-ai-content-licensing-deal-while-lawsuits-with-openai-and-microsoft-continues-xcxwbn/ – Please view link – unable to able to access data
2. https://www.ft.com/content/bc73404e-6f01-4b9e-9563-1a5f055d2c98 – The New York Times has entered into its first licensing agreement with Amazon, allowing the tech giant to use its editorial content, including news articles and recipes, to train Amazon’s 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 OpenAI. 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.
3. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/new-york-times-amazon-sign-ai-licensing-deal-2025-05-29/ – The New York Times 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.
4. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/nyt-amazon-ai-licensing-deal – The New York Times has signed a multiyear AI licensing deal with Amazon, marking its first such agreement with an AI company. Announced on Thursday, the partnership allows Amazon to use editorial content from the NYT, including articles from its main news site, the NYT Cooking app, and The Athletic sports platform, for various AI-related applications on Amazon-owned products and services. However, the deal notably excludes content from Wirecutter, NYT’s consumer recommendation site, due to an existing relationship between Amazon and Wirecutter. This agreement reflects a broader trend in the media industry, where news organizations are increasingly engaging in licensing partnerships with AI firms while also pursuing legal options against others to safeguard their content.
5. https://apnews.com/article/cc19ef2cf3f23343738e892b60d6d7a6 – A U.S. District Court judge has allowed a lawsuit filed by The New York Times and other newspapers against OpenAI and Microsoft to proceed. The lawsuit alleges that the companies used their articles to train AI chatbots without permission. The judge dismissed some claims but permitted the majority of the case to continue, potentially leading to a jury trial. OpenAI and Microsoft have not commented on the decision. The Times argues that the use of its content without compensation threatens its ability to provide its services.
6. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-copyright-lawsuits-authors-new-york-times-consolidated-manhattan-2025-04-03/ – A U.S. judicial panel has consolidated multiple high-profile copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft into a single case to be heard in Manhattan federal court. The decision combines cases originally filed in California by authors such as Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman with lawsuits from The New York Times and authors including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, and George R.R. Martin. These cases allege that OpenAI and Microsoft used copyrighted materials without permission to train AI systems, a charge the companies deny by invoking the ‘fair use’ doctrine. OpenAI had sought to consolidate the cases in California, but the panel opted for New York, where U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein already presides over several related cases. The litigation is part of a broader wave of legal challenges from copyright owners against technology firms like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta. While OpenAI maintains its practices are legal and innovation-driven, the plaintiffs aim to prove that their intellectual property was unlawfully exploited. The panel believes consolidation will enhance efficiency and convenience for all parties involved.
7. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/27/tech/new-york-times-sues-openai-microsoft/index.html/ – The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with instant access to information — technology that now competes with the Times. The complaint is the latest in a string of lawsuits that seek to limit the use of alleged scraping of wide swaths of content from across the internet — without compensation — to train so-called large language artificial intelligence models. Actors, writers, journalists and other creative types who post their works on the internet fear that AI will learn from their material and provide competitive chatbots and other sources of information without proper compensation. But the Times’ suit is the first among major news publishers to take on OpenAI and Microsoft, the most recognizable AI brands. In a complaint filed Wednesday, the Times said that Microsoft and OpenAI’s “unlawful use of The Times’s work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service.” The paper noted that OpenAI and Microsoft used other sources in its “widescale copying,” but “they gave Times content particular emphasis” seeking “to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment.” Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit. The Times, in its complaint, said that it objected when it discovered months ago that its work had been used to train the companies’ large language models. Starting in April, the Times said it began negotiating with OpenAI and Microsoft to receive fair compensation and set terms of an agreement. But the Times alleges it has been unable to reach a resolution with the companies. Microsoft and OpenAI claim that the Times’ works are considered “fair use,” which gives them the ability to use copyrighted material for a “transformative purpose,” the complaint states. “There is nothing ‘transformative’ about using The Times’s content without payment to create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it,” the Times said in its complaint.