Karen Weise and Mike IsaacUpdated Sep 3, 2026 – 1.09pm, first published at 6.58amSeattle | The Trump administration has made an extraordinary intervention in a legal battle between The New York Times and OpenAI, siding with the $US852 billion ($1.2 trillion) artificial intelligence group to reject the newspaper’s claim of copyright infringement.The Justice Department told a US federal court that it was in the national interest for the judge to find that OpenAI did not violate copyright law when it used articles by the newspaper and other publishers to develop artificial intelligence systems.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
White House says national security beats copyright in OpenAI v NYT case
The Justice Department has told a court to reject The New York Times’ claim that it is illegal to train AI models on proprietary content.
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