The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information – technology that now competes with the Times...

US newspaper alleges tech companies took ‘free-ride’ on millions of articles to help build generative AI chatbots...

The New York Times (NYT) is suing Microsoft (MSFT) and OpenAI — in which Microsoft holds a 49% stake — for copyright infringement over allegations that the artificial intelligence firm was using the newspaper's articles to train its large language model. D.A. Davidson Managing Director Gil Luria joins Yahoo Finance to weigh in on the importance of this case for the future of AI, commenting on Microsoft's strengths in the AI race. "The way generative AI works by training on existing data and generating new, creative content and text is something that intellectual property's legal framework has not had to deal with," Luria explains. "We're going to have to litigate and get the ruling from the court. So this is a very important case that I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't go all the way to the United States Supreme Court." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live...

The New York Times alleges that Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have unlawfully used the newspaper’s work to create artificial-intelligence products that compete with the Times...