New York Times Strikes First-Ever AI Licensing Deal With Amazon (AMZN)

We recently published a list of 10 AI Stocks Gaining Wall Street’s Attention. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) stands against other AI stocks that are gaining Wall Street’s attention.

On May 29, Reuters reported that The New York Times has allowed Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) to use its editorial content for artificial intelligence products such as Alexa. The move marks the publisher’s first licensing deal tied to generative AI.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is an American technology company offering e-commerce, cloud computing, and other services, including digital streaming and artificial intelligence solutions.

New York Times Strikes First-Ever AI Licensing Deal With Amazon (AMZN)

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The multi-year agreement will allow Amazon to use news articles from The Times, along with content from NYT Cooking and sports website 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.”

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With companies such as OpenAI increasingly facing legal scrutiny pertaining to data usage, the move marks a step forward for Amazon as it secures access to high-quality content for improving its large language models.

Emarketer analyst Max Willens also approved the move, stating that the NYT’s deal with Amazon “creates a valuable opportunity to market the Times to people who do not yet subscribe. “

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