The New York Times just signed its first AI licensing deal: The Gray Lady is teaming up with Amazon to bring its stories to Alexa, marking the paper’s first AI collaboration. These kinds of deals happen all the time, but this one is notable because the New York Times has historically been pretty hostile to AI companies — its ongoing copyright lawsuit against OpenAI could even decide the fate of how startups train their models. The licensing announcement shows that AI really is going mainstream, with even the nation’s newspaper of record jumping on the bandwagon.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/amazon-ai-new-york-times-alexa.html