Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time

Anthropic signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher, partnering with the Associated Press to let Claude display live AP election results with source attribution on election night ahead of the US midterm elections, Adweek reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. Financial terms and the agreement's length were not disclosed. The deal reverses Anthropic's prior position that scraping publisher content is legally permissible under fair use, a stance rival OpenAI has already abandoned through more than a dozen deals including with Axel Springer, News Corp. and The Atlantic; publishers had been blocking Anthropic's crawlers to force negotiations.

Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time Anthropic signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher just ahead of the US midterm elections. The partner is the Associated Press AP , according to Adweek https://www.adweek.com/media/anthropic-licensing-deal-ap-election/ , citing two people familiar with the matter. The deal let the chatbot Claude show live AP election results on election night, complete with source attribution. Financial terms and the length of the agreement weren't disclosed. Until now, Anthropic had rejected these kinds of partnerships, arguing that scraping publisher content is legally permissible under fair use. Rival OpenAI already has more than a dozen such deals, including with Axel Springer, News Corp., and The Atlantic. Without access to current publisher data, though, Claude was severely limited on time-sensitive queries. Publishers have been deliberately blocking Anthropic's crawlers to force the company to the negotiating table. AP was also the first licensing partner for both Google and OpenAI. Anthropic is close to going public. AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now Adweek https://www.adweek.com/media/anthropic-licensing-deal-ap-election/