USA TODAY Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Used Copyrighted News Content Without Authorization to Train GPT Models

USA TODAY and its affiliated newspaper entities sued OpenAI in federal court in New York on October 8, 2026, alleging that it used hundreds of thousands of copyrighted articles without authorization to train GPT models and repackaged its news content in chatbot responses as a substitute for the original articles, seeking more than $250 million in damages.