Anthropic signs first news content licensing deal with AP

According to Adweek, Anthropic has signed its first content licensing agreement with the Associated Press. Claude can now display real-time election data from the AP during the US midterm election night, citing sources. Financial terms and duration remain undisclosed. Previously, Anthropic rejected such collaborations, viewing web scraping as fair use; some publishers blocked their crawlers in response. OpenAI has already reached similar agreements with over a dozen media organizations, and the Associated Press is one of Google's earliest partners alongside OpenAI.