The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that millions of its articles were used without permission to train AI models and that products like ChatGPT could reproduce portions of articles nearly verbatim, competing with its journalism. It sought billions of dollars in damages. The first copyright suit against AI companies by a major news organization, it became a defining legal battle over training data and fair use in generative AI.