OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

Multiple news organizations including The New York Times and Daily News have asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, alleging the company hid evidence critical to a copyright infringement trial over how it built its AI technologies using millions of news articles. The plaintiffs claim OpenAI made misrepresentations for two years about its ability to search for copyrighted content in its training datasets and logs. An OpenAI employee's deposition revealed the company could access training data, contradicting earlier claims that searching was infeasible.

Source: Ars Technica | 2026-07-09