Anthropic Reaches First News Content Licensing Agreement with AP, Claude to Display Election Results in Real Time
Anthropic has reached its first content licensing agreement with the Associated Press (AP), under which the Claude chatbot can display AP election results data in real time and cite the source on the night of the U.S. midterm elections. The two parties did not disclose the financial terms or the duration of the agreement. Previously, Anthropic had consistently declined such partnerships, arguing that crawling news content falls under the fair use principle, while OpenAI has already reached similar agreements with more than a dozen media organizations.
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According to Adweek, citing two people familiar with the matter, Anthropic's partner this time is the Associated Press (AP). Under the agreement, the Claude chatbot can display AP's election results data in real time on the night of the U.S. midterm elections and cite the source of the information. The two sides did not disclose the financial terms or the duration of the agreement.
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By contrast, competitor OpenAI has already reached similar agreements with more than a dozen media organizations, with partners including Axel Springer, News Corp. and The Atlantic, among others.
However, because it cannot obtain the latest content provided by news publishers, Claude is greatly limited in answering time-sensitive questions. To force Anthropic to come to the negotiating table, some publishers had previously proactively blocked the company's web crawlers to prevent them from scraping website content.
It is worth noting that the Associated Press was also among the first media organizations to reach content licensing partnerships with Google and OpenAI.