Amazon has agreed to pay The New York Times between $20 million and $25 million annually under a multiyear agreement that allows Amazon to use content from the Times’s news, cooking, and sports sections, including The Athletic, to train its AI models and enhance Alexa features. This deal, announced in May and recently detailed by The Wall Street Journal, represents about 1% of the Times’s expected 2024 revenue. It marks the Times’s first AI content licensing partnership with a tech giant amid its ongoing copyright litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft over unauthorized AI training
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