HarperCollins Publishers has struck a licensing deal with an AI tech company and is now asking its authors to opt in. As 404 Media reports, the AI company will pay HarperCollins for access to select "backlist titles,

The Microsoft and HarperCollins strike a major AI licensing deal. Credit: Omer Taha Cetin / Anadolu / Microsoft has signed a licensing deal with HarperCollins to train its AI models. According to Bloomberg sources,

This week, HarperCollins became the first of the big trade publishers to agree to a licensing arrangement with a company developing artificial intelligence. It won’t be the last.