Anthropic reaches first news content licensing deal with the Associated Press

According to reports, Anthropic has reached its first content licensing agreement with a news organization. The partner is the Associated Press (AP). Under the deal, Claude will display AP's real-time election results and attribute sources during the US midterm elections on the night of the vote. Adweek cited unnamed sources stating that financial terms and the duration of the agreement remain undisclosed. Anthropic previously refused such collaborations, arguing that its scraping activities fell under fair use; publishers blocked its crawlers in response. OpenAI already has more than ten similar agreements.