Amazon × The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company entered its first AI licensing deal with Amazon, allowing its content to be used for training models and in products like Alexa. [42, 46] While financial terms were not officially disclosed, The Wall Street Journal later reported the deal is valued at $20 million to $25 million per year. [55, 59] This move is significant given the Times' ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. [42]
The asset
A multi-year licensing agreement for editorial content from The New York Times, NYT Cooking, and The Athletic to be used in Amazon products like Alexa and for training its proprietary AI models.
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- news publishing
- Modalities
- text
- Jurisdiction
- US
What it means if you hold data
This is a landmark deal where a major publisher, while actively litigating against one AI giant for unlicensed use, signs a lucrative licensing agreement with another. The reported price provides a rare public benchmark for the value of premium news archives for both AI training and product integration.