Anthropic signs first news licensing deal with AP
Anthropic has entered its first content licensing agreement with the Associated Press (AP), marking a significant shift in its previous stance on data usage. According to Adweek, which cited two people familiar with the matter, the deal allows the company’s chatbot, Claude, to display live AP election results during the upcoming US midterm elections. The arrangement includes source attribution,…
Key points
- Anthropic signed its first licensing deal with the Associated Press (AP).
- The deal allows Claude to show live AP election results with source attribution.
- Anthropic previously rejected such deals, relying on fair use arguments for scraping.
This move reverses Anthropic’s earlier position, which relied on the legal argument that scraping publisher content falls under fair use. The company had previously rejected such partnerships, a stance that left Claude limited in handling time-sensitive queries, especially as publishers began blocking Anthropic’s crawlers to force negotiations. The AP is notable for being the first licensing partner for both Google and OpenAI as well.
Rival OpenAI already maintains more than a dozen similar deals with major publishers, including Axel Springer, News Corp., and The Atlantic. This new agreement comes as Anthropic is reportedly close to going public, suggesting a strategic move to secure reliable, real-time information sources before a major corporate transition.
Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time
The Decoder · 5 November 2026
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