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Amazon Agrees to Pay $20–25 Million Annually to License The New York Times Content for AI

The agreement channels Times journalism into Amazon’s AI models for real-time Alexa summaries as a benchmark for news compensation

The New York Times building in Manhattan, left, and Amazon headquarters in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photos / Kurt Schlosser)
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Overview

  • Financial details disclosed this week show Amazon will pay The New York Times between $20 million and $25 million annually under the multi-year pact.
  • The agreement grants Amazon rights to use content from the Times’s core news coverage, NYT Cooking and The Athletic for AI training.
  • Amazon plans to incorporate the licensed material into its proprietary foundation models and deliver real-time article summaries via Alexa.
  • The annual payment equals almost 1 percent of the Times’s 2024 operating budget, highlighting the growing financial value of news content for AI systems.
  • The deal sets a precedent as the Times’s first AI licensing agreement and coincides with its ongoing copyright litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft.