NYT Signs Generative AI Content Deal With Amazon

The New York Times has signed its first generative AI-focused multi-year licensing agreement with Amazon, granting the tech giant access to its editorial content—including news articles, NYT Cooking, and The Athletic—for use in Amazon’s artificial intelligence platforms like Alexa. The deal allows Amazon to display real-time summaries, excerpts, and to use the content for training proprietary AI models, though financial terms remain undisclosed. The agreement comes as The New York Times is engaged in ongoing legal disputes with companies like OpenAI and Microsoft over unauthorized use of its content for AI training. This development reflects a broader industry trend, with publishers increasingly pursuing licensing agreements to monetize content and address concerns over copyright and fair compensation. Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien stressed that the arrangement reinforces the principle that high-quality journalism should be compensated, whether through commercial partnerships or legal actions. The move signals a shift in media strategy in response to the rise of AI technologies.