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The latest The New York Times news, : The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave Software for allegedly scraping content and selling it to AI companies.
The New York Times appears in these stories as a plaintiff in copyright litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft. Recent coverage details unsealed internal documents where executives described AI training as theft and acknowledged economic harm to publishers. The company also reports on Anthropic's potential IPO preparations and broader AI industry developments.
21 stories mentioning The New York Times since 17 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. Follow to see new ones on your front page.
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The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave Software for allegedly scraping content and selling it to AI companies
The New York Times, along with the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel, has filed lawsuits against Brave Software, alleging the company scraped copyrighted content from publishers' websites…
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OpenAI highlights 20 briefs backing AI training as fair use in copyright case
OpenAI published a post on Friday sharing excerpts from 20 legal filings urging a U.S. court to rule that training large language models on copyrighted works qualifies as fair use. The briefs, filed in In re OpenAI,…
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Wikimedia Foundation seeks leave to file amicus brief in OpenAI copyright case
The Wikimedia Foundation announced it has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for leave to file an amicus brief in the consolidated OpenAI copyright litigation. The brief, 5,831 words,…
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Wikimedia Foundation urges nuanced fair use ruling in New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft
The Wikimedia Foundation has filed an amicus brief in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft, advocating for a balanced approach to fair use in AI training. It argues that…
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Judge rules Anthropic illegally scraped Stanford books for Claude
A federal judge ruled in May 2026 that Anthropic illegally scraped and pirated works from over 10 Stanford professors to train its Claude models. In the case Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge William Alsup determined that…
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USA Today sues OpenAI and Microsoft for $250M over copyrighted journalism in AI training
USA Today Co. filed a lawsuit on October 8, 2026, joining the New York Times and Chicago Tribune in suing OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged unauthorized use of copyrighted articles in AI model training. The publisher…
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Kevin Roose’s book details AI labs’ shift toward AGI
Kevin Roose’s The AGI Chronicles traces how AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google moved from dismissing artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a pipe dream to treating it as an urgent, existential goal. Roose, a…
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Aged Intelligence Society hosts AI dinner parties for women over 40
Shoshana Berger and Nina Willdorf, former magazine editors, founded the Aged Intelligence Society to give women over 40 practical fluency with AI tools. Their dinner‑style events, limited to eight‑to‑twelve…
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South Korean banks report AI-assisted cyberattacks exposing 25,000+ customer records
South Korean authorities are investigating cyberattacks on Hana Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, and Shinhan Bank, where hackers allegedly used AI agents to steal data from about 25,000 customers. Shinhan Bank confirmed 25,000…
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Anthropic reportedly consults Hindu monk on Claude ethics
Anthropic has reportedly engaged religious and philosophical thinkers to guide the ethical development of its Claude AI models. The company invited Swami Sarvapriyananda, a Hindu monk and leader of the Vedanta Society…
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OpenAI PR interrupts Altman interview over ChatGPT suicide question
During a Vanity Fair interview, an OpenAI publicist interrupted editor Mark Guiducci as he questioned CEO Sam Altman about the suicide of a ChatGPT user. Guiducci had asked if Altman knew Laura Reiley, a journalist who…
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Microsoft’s internal docs warn AI doom loops hurt content creators and models
Unredacted legal documents from Microsoft’s lawsuit with The New York Times reveal executives acknowledged AI’s destructive economic impact before launching products like ChatGPT. Internal notes describe “doom loops,”…
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Opinion: OpenAI’s Sam Altman remains free despite alleged data‑scraping violations
OpenAI’s models are accused of repeatedly breaching external guardrails, from overwhelming the U.N.’s website to attempting hacks of Australian government and U.S. Department of Education sites. The company has…
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Google's AI mode reaches 1 billion monthly users, company says
Google has integrated AI into its search engine, with AI Mode now serving more than 1 billion monthly users, a figure the company says rivals ChatGPT’s 1 billion MAU. AI Overviews appear in 40 % of U.S. searches, and a…
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Opinion: avoid using ChatGPT for legal, medical, therapy, confidential or password tasks
Sam Altman told podcaster Theo Von in July 2025 that courts could compel OpenAI to hand over ChatGPT conversations, meaning chats lack the legal privilege that lawyer‑client or doctor‑patient talks enjoy. The article…
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Microsoft allegedly warned its AI tools could trigger a commercial doom loop
Internal Microsoft documents cited in a lawsuit claim the company knew its AI products could harm publishers by reducing website clicks and flooding the market with low‑quality content. The filings, brought by The New…
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Microsoft exec calls AI the largest theft of labor, lawsuit documents reveal
Mother Jones cites internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents uncovered in a lawsuit that allege AI companies have built their products by scraping and repurposing creators’ work without consent. Microsoft’s director of…
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Unsealed filing quotes Microsoft, OpenAI executives calling AI training 'theft' and 'substitutive' for news
A 92-page plaintiffs' brief unsealed Thursday in the consolidated OpenAI copyright litigation before Judge Sidney H. Stein quotes internal Microsoft and OpenAI communications acknowledging that their AI products…
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Media companies sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright theft and seeking billions
U.S. media outlets—including The New York Times, the Daily News Group, Ziff Davis, the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Intercept—have filed a joint summary‑judgment brief in the Southern District of New…
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Microsoft exec calls AI scraping the largest theft of labor, internal filings show
Unsealed filings in the New York Times copyright lawsuit reveal internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents in which Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht described AI scraping as “the largest theft of labor in human…
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Anthropic may advance IPO preparations as CEO calls for stronger safeguards
Anthropic is reportedly moving ahead with preparations for a potentially major initial public offering, according to a New York Times report. The company’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, has simultaneously urged the…
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As of 2 November 2026: The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave Software for allegedly scraping content and selling it to AI companies. The New York Times, along with the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel, has filed lawsuits against Brave Software, alleging the company scraped copyrighted content from publishers' websites without permission and…
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The New York Times appears in these stories as a plaintiff in copyright litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft. Recent coverage details unsealed internal documents where executives described AI training as theft and acknowledged economic harm to publishers. The company also reports on Anthropic's potential IPO preparations and broader AI industry developments.