Amazon has agreed to pay The New York Times between $20 million and $25 million a year under a multi-year licensing agreement that lets the tech company train its artificial-intelligence models on a broad range of Times content, including news articles, NYT Cooking recipes and material from The Athletic, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal, the first AI-related licensing pact for the Times and Amazon’s inaugural agreement with a major publisher, amounts to roughly 1% of the newspaper company’s 2024 revenue. Amazon plans to incorporate Times material into services such as Alexa, while the pact gives the publisher a dependable new revenue stream as media outlets seek compensation for the use of their work in generative-AI products. The disclosure offers a rare glimpse into the pricing of news content for AI purposes and comes as publishers strike or pursue similar arrangements. The Times is simultaneously suing OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged unauthorized use of its articles, underscoring the legal and commercial uncertainty that still surrounds the fast-growing generative-AI sector.