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Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training on their journalism
2026-09-05
TechCrunch reported on September 5, 2026 that the Seattle Times and Newsday filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their journalism without permission to train AI models, joining the existing wave of news organizations pursuing similar claims.
Significance 2: A routine addition to an already large, ongoing wave of publisher copyright lawsuits against OpenAI/Microsoft — adds legal-exposure context but no new legal theory or escalation beyond existing precedent.
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- press Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft retrieved 2026-09-06