USA Today Becomes the Latest Publisher to Sue OpenAI
USA TODAY Co., formerly Gannett, and 13 affiliates have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court for more than $250 million, saying 19 of their newspapers were copied into ChatGPT’s training data and repackaged in GPT-5.6 summaries. We read the 79-page complaint: the WebText and C4 counts, the three claims, how the damages add up, the internal OpenAI quotes, how it fits the wider publisher fight, and what it means for businesses using AI.
