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3 September 2026

Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over journalism training data

First reported

Financial Times, The Guardian and 2 others ran this on , all on the same day.

  • The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming their reporting was used to train AI models without permission and is reproduced in responses.
  • The publishers seek destruction of copies of their work, training datasets, and any AI models containing their journalism, joining The New York Times and other outlets with similar claims.

Reported by The Verge, TechCrunch