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The Verge AI·Terrence O’Brien·Sep 6, 2026, 11:36 PM

Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft for Infringement

Original title:Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement

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Legal pressure from journalism against foundational AI providers continues to widen. The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their journalism was incorporated into training corpora without consent and reproduced in model outputs. The action follows earlier suits by The New York Times and nearly 400 regional publications, highlighting ongoing scrutiny over the ingestion of protected media archives.

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As regional newspapers join national outlets in challenging unauthorized data ingestion, this filing highlights the media industry's expanding collective legal front against AI labs.

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