The New York Times has filed an amended complaint in its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, adjusting the legal strategy it first deployed when it filed the original case on December 27, 2023, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The updated filing modifies one claim against Microsoft and drops a separate claim against OpenAI.
What the lawsuit actually argues
The core allegation is straightforward: OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of Times articles without permission to train large language models, and those models now compete directly with the Times as an information source.
The newspaper is seeking billions in damages, citing lost subscription and advertising revenue as AI-powered tools increasingly serve as the first stop for information that readers might otherwise have paid to access.
