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'' NEWS ORGANIZATIONS HAVE WAVERED on how to contend with the rapid emergence of A.I. technology, elements of which have been developed by software programs that ingest the content of millions of online news stories.''

THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon for use in the tech giant's artificial intelligence platforms - the company said on Thursday.

The multiyear agreement '' will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,'' the news organization said in a statement. Besides news articles, the agreement encompasses material from NYT Cooking, The Time's food and recipe site, and  The Athletic, which focuses on sports.

This is The Times's first licensing arrangement with a focus on generative A.I. technology.

In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, for copyright infringement, accusing the tech company of using millions of articles published by The Times to train automated chatbots without any kind of compensation. OpenAI and Microsoft have rejected those accusations.

Financial terms of the licensing deal with Amazon were not disclosed : 

'' The deal is consistent with our long held principle that high-quality journalism is worth paying for,'' Meredith Kopit Levien, the chief executive of The Times, said in a note to the staff.

'' It aligns with our deliberate approach to ensuring that our work is valued appropriately, whether through commercial deals or through the enforcement of our intellectual property rights.''

Amazon's use of editorial content from The Times could extend to the Alexa software found on its smart speakers. In some instances, excerpts from Times reporting will include attribution and link back to The Time's website.

Material from The Times will also be used to train Amazon's proprietary A.I. models, the company said.

Amazon declined to comment beyond what was in the statement issued by The Times.

News organisations have wavered on how to contend with the rapid emergence of A.I. technology, elements of which have been developed by software programs that ingest the content of millions of online news stories

Even as The Times pursued litigation against OpenAI, other news outlets - including Axel Springer,  Conde Nast and News Corp - entered into licensing agreements to receive revenue in exchange for the use of their materials.

The Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, agreed to deal with OpenAI in April.

Amazon itself has been playing a bit of catch-up in the A.I. race.

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, kicking off A.I. boom, Amazon was caught flat-footed, much like Google, Meta and Apple.

Chatbots like ChatGPT are driven by what scientists call neural networks, mathematical systems that can learn skills by analyzing huge amounts of digital data. 

By pinpointing patterns in vast troves of Wikipedia articles, news stories, and chat logs, for instance, these systems can learn to generate human-like text on their own, including poems, term papers and computer programs.

Like Google, Microsoft and Meta, Amazon had the computing power needed for the task.

As the world's largest cloud computing company, it ran a vast network of data centers filled with specialised computer chips used to train A.I. systems.

But it lacked some of the talent needed to build the most sophisticated systems, and the company had not prioritized the technology to the degree of OpenAI and Microsoft.

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