Anthropic Signs First Content Licensing Deal for AP Election Data
Summary
Anthropic signed its first content licensing deal, a data and content agreement with the Associated Press completed just before the midterm elections, according to two people familiar with the matter. Anthropic declined to comment and the AP offered no on-record comment; financial terms and duration were not disclosed. The deal gives Claude attributed, real-time AP election data, which the company had lacked while publishers blocked its crawlers.
Key Points
- OpenAI has signed more than a dozen publisher licensing deals, including with Axel Springer and News Corp, ADWEEK reports.
- Anthropic prepares to go public in a matter of weeks, ADWEEK reports.
- The AP was the first publisher to sign licensing agreements with both Google and OpenAI, ADWEEK reports.