Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training data
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-09-06
The Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest news organizations to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their journalism was used without permission to train AI models — expanding the growing wave of media copyright litigation against the companies.
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