On July 9, 2026, major news organizations including The New York Times and Daily News filed a motion asking a federal judge to sanction OpenAI for allegedly concealing evidence in an ongoing copyright lawsuit. The plaintiffs contend OpenAI hid datasets and ChatGPT logs that could show how the system trained on copyrighted news articles without permission. The case is part of a broader legal battle over whether AI companies can use published works to train models under fair-use protections, a question with major implications for the news industry.
