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5–19 Septemberended

Seattle Times and Newsday lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft

On September 4, 2026, Seattle Times and Newsday filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement. The lawsuit claims that the companies used their articles without permission to train artificial intelligence models. On September 18, 2026, court documents revealed concerns from executives at both companies regarding the implications of training ChatGPT on millions of news articles.

  • 2 events
  • 7 sources
  • updated
Covered by 3 of 6 media groups
  • Budget not in the collected reports
  • Public money not in the collected reports
  • Media business 5 sources
  • Big capital not in the collected reports
  • Readers and grants 1 source
  • Undisclosed 1 source

Chronology

18 September

5 September

2 of 2 events

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