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AI Training Copyright Litigation

MICROSOFT CORP · 2026-09-18 · Importance 34 · Surprise 42

The New York Times alleged in an unsealed court filing that OpenAI used millions of news articles to train artificial-intelligence models without authorization. The allegations characterize the conduct as large-scale theft and reportedly include concerns privately expressed by Microsoft and OpenAI workers. The matter creates potential copyright, licensing, and litigation exposure for Microsoft through its strategic relationship with OpenAI, although no damages amount or court ruling was reported in the digest.