Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times
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Source: The Guardian TechnologySeptember 2, 2026
Summary
The Trump administration is backing OpenAI in a legal case where the New York Times and other news organizations accuse OpenAI and Microsoft of using millions of copyrighted newspaper articles without permission to train AI systems. The dispute centers on whether companies can use published content to train their AI models without paying creators or getting approval.
Classification
Attack SophisticationModerate
Impact (CIA+S)
integrity
AI Component TargetedTraining Data
Affected Vendors
OpenAIMicrosoft
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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/02/trump-new-york-times-lawsuit-ai
First tracked: September 2, 2026 at 08:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%