USA Today parent sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, seeking $250m
What happened
On 9 October 2026, the parent company of USA Today, together with several of its local newspapers, sued OpenAI, alleging it copied hundreds of thousands of articles without authorisation to train AI models and seeking more than $250m in damages. The complaint says OpenAI's commercial success is built on copyright infringement at scale and that it never sought permission to use the content. The case is at the filing stage, with no reported response from the defendant or court ruling.
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- The Verge · AIUSA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters.
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