Microsoft Corp. reached a deal with News Corp.’s HarperCollins that will allow the software company to use nonfiction titles from the book publisher to train its artificial intelligence models, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has reportedly inked a deal with News Corp's (NASDAQ:NWS) HarperCollins to train its artificial intelligence models with the publisher's nonfiction titles, according to Bloomberg.

The HarperCollins publishing company made a deal with an unnamed company, and now it wants authors to license their books to train AI.

A new licensing agreement between HarperCollins and an undisclosed AI company will “allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models to improve model quality and performance,