Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
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Source: The Verge (AI)September 6, 2026
Summary
The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming the companies used their news articles as training data (material fed into an AI system to teach it) without permission and that OpenAI's models reproduce passages from their reporting. This is part of a larger trend, with other publishers like The New York Times and Merriam-Webster filing similar copyright infringement lawsuits against OpenAI.
Classification
Attack SophisticationModerate
Impact (CIA+S)
integrity
AI Component TargetedTraining Data
Affected Vendors
OpenAIMicrosoft
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990932/seattle-times-newsday-lawsuit-openai-microsoft
First tracked: September 6, 2026 at 08:01 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%