Amazon AI maintain New York Times brings the paper’s content material to Alexa

The New York Times on Thursday struck a deal with Amazon permitting it to make use of the storied information group’s content material throughout its artificial intelligence platforms.

The multi-year deal “will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” the Times mentioned in a liberate. The settlement additionally comprises content material from the newspaper’s different houses like NYT Cooking and The Athletic.

“This will include 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,” the Times mentioned.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI in 2023 for copyright infringement, accusing the firms of abusing the newspaper’s highbrow belongings to coach huge language fashions.

Both Microsoft and OpenAI sought unsuccessfully to have the case thrown out. Other information publications have joined the Times in suing Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright violations, together with the New York Daily News and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

A rising selection of information retailers have opted to strike licensing offers with tech firms relatively than pursue litigation.

Amazon has introduced a flurry of generative AI merchandise during the last a number of months because it appears to be like to stay alongside of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Google and others.

Amazon introduced Alexa+, a brand new model of its decade-plus previous voice assistant embedded with generative AI in February. Other merchandise come with its personal set of Nova fashions, Trainium chips, a buying groceries chatbot, and a market for third-party fashions known as Bedrock.

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