Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training
First seen · 9/6/2026, 06:49 AMLatest activity · 9/6/2026, 06:49 AM
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their reported journalism was scraped and used without authorization to train artificial intelligence models. The legal action broadens the front of media litigation from national publications to prominent regional newspapers, sustaining long-term pressure on major frontier model developers regarding the unlicensed ingestion of copyrighted editorial archives.
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