Seattle Times and Newsday join the training-data litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft
TechCrunch·medium signal
TechCrunch reported on 2026-09-05 that both papers filed against OpenAI and Microsoft over use of their journalism in training data, adding two regional US publishers to a docket that has so far been dominated by national outlets. The signal for builders is the widening class of plaintiff rather than any new legal theory, since regional dailies joining changes the economics of settlement more than it changes the argument.