USA Today Co. sues OpenAI for over $250M over AI training copyright
USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) and 19 of its newspapers sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court on October 8, 2026, alleging hundreds of thousands of articles were copied without permission to train ChatGPT. The 79-page complaint seeks over $250 million in damages plus the destruction of models and datasets containing the content — the largest publisher copyright case against an AI lab to date.