Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training on their journalism

DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-08

The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their journalism was copied without permission to train AI systems — extending the copyright litigation wave to local newspapers, with potential implications for licensing and training-data boundaries.

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