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Briefly
- The New York Times has signed a multi -year contract with Amazon, licensing its news, cooking and sports content for use in Alex and Amazon’s AI training models.
- The agreement indicates the first licensing contract directed at AI, even while still suing Openi and Microsoft for allegedly using its content without approval.
- Financial conditions have not been published, and the job comes while Amazon expands Alex+ and enhances its efforts on AI.
New York Times He signed his first licensing contract with the focus on generative artificial intelligence, allowing Amazon access to news, recipes and sports reporting for use on his AI platforms, including Alex and his ownership models of machine learning.
Announced on Thursday, perennial agreement Includes material from the leading news of the title, Enjoy cookingand Athletic.
The agreement allows for a show of abstracts and passages in real time on Amazon devices and services, and allows Amazon to use content to help train their foundations models.
“This is aligned with our intentional approach to ensuring that our work is assessed appropriately, by commercial contracts or the implementation of our intellectual ownership rights,” Meredith Kopit Levien, Executive Director The Diccutation of the Acceur of the Exit. New York Timeshe said in a note to the staff.
The financial conditions of the Agreement were not published, and no company publicly distributed details about the scope or the duration of the use of content.
The deal indicates a significant moment for the media industry as publishers including Time They respond to the increase in the generative AI.
New York Times and Ai
In December 2023, New York Times filed for copyright lawsuit Against technological giants of Openi and Microsoft, accusing them Using articles on millions of times without permission to train their AI models.
“Openii and Microsoft built a job worth tens of billions of dollars by taking the combined works of humanity without approval” New York Times he said in the litigation.
In April, American District Judge Sidney Stein He ruled that The lawsuit could continue, denying Openi and Microsoft’s proposals to reject key demands, including those related to the violation of direct and contributions of copyright.
Amazon’s AI race
For Amazon, an agreement with the media platform supports its wider effort to catch in the AI race.
Earlier his month, a company began to introduce Alexa+The generative version of his assistant to AI, over 100,000 early users.
The system, which partly powered by Anthropic’s Claude AI, is designed to be more talkative and more conscious, and soon will be the Curhed Times journalism as part of its offer.
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