US tech giant Amazon is paying the New York Times between $20 to $25 million a year to use the paper’s content to train its AI models, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The multi-year agreement, signed in May, gives Amazon access to the American newspaper’s core news coverage, as well as its cooking and sports platforms. While the partnership was publicly announced at the time, the financial terms were not disclosed.
Under the deal, Amazon can use the licensed material to improve its AI models and incorporate summaries and excerpts from NYT content into products and services such as its Alexa virtual…
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