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- The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging the companies trained their AI models on the newspapers' journalism.
- OpenAI and Microsoft are identified as funders of The Seattle Times, creating a direct financial entanglement between defendants and a plaintiff in the case.
Why it matters: The suit adds another front in publishers' legal battle with AI companies over training data, but the funding relationship—The Seattle Times receives money from both defendants it is now suing—gives this case an unusual conflict-of-interest wrinkle that other publisher lawsuits lack.
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