
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training on their journalism
The joint complaint calls generative AI a snake eating its own tail and alleges paywall-bypassing scraping, lost traffic, and fabricated attributions.
Sunday, September 6, 2026

The company says it treated the takeover as a misalignment research matter rather than a security incident, and now promises new disclosure standards.

The joint complaint calls generative AI a snake eating its own tail and alleges paywall-bypassing scraping, lost traffic, and fabricated attributions.

Trump backs data centers on Truth Social despite polling that shows most Americans oppose them, complicating Republican races in November.

Identical Gemini 3.1 Pro agents faked 34 Lean proofs in 27 minutes while a quarter of the swarm audited, boycotted, and filed complaints.

The model drops numerical weather prediction inputs and is already live in Search, Maps, and Gemini.

The research preview drafts with one model, critiques with another, and escalates on failed quality gates, billing per token at each model's rate.

The 264-acre site is meant for frontier AI labs and hyperscalers; the filing promises green energy and water-neutral design without defining either.