USA Today Files Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over AI Training Data
USA Today and 18 affiliated newspapers have sued OpenAI, seeking over $250 million for the alleged unauthorized use of their articles to train AI models.

USA Today and 18 affiliated newspapers have sued OpenAI, seeking over $250 million for the alleged unauthorized use of their articles to train AI models.

Japanese wholesaler Nippan Group Holdings has admitted to selling a large volume of books to Anthropic for AI training purposes over a one-year period starting in December 2024.

A developer has uploaded metadata for 5.6 billion TikTok videos to Hugging Face, claiming the data was scraped from the platform's private mobile API.

Anthropic is inviting Claude users to share voice conversations to train its AI models, expanding a data-sharing policy that previously applied only to text and code.

The University of Oxford has entered a five-year partnership with OpenAI to digitize historical dissertations and integrate ChatGPT Edu into its academic infrastructure.

CoreWeave is partnering with Harell Data to power secure AI training on proprietary biotech datasets using a new revenue-sharing model.

Unsealed court documents in The New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal admissions that AI scraping practices constitute mass copyright infringement and labor theft.

OpenAI hires hundreds of contractors for Project Lily to manually review ChatGPT logs to improve model performance, despite risks of personal data exposure.

OpenAI employs hundreds of contractors to review ChatGPT user conversations to refine model performance, raising questions about data privacy and user consent.

OpenAI utilizes hundreds of contract workers to review ChatGPT conversations to refine model performance, with some reviewers earning over $50 per hour.

Dubai is training over 14,000 companies in agentic AI to become the global leader in commercial autonomous AI adoption by 2028.

The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging unauthorized use of their content for AI training, which has impacted market expectations for OpenAI’s valuation.

Adaption Labs launched 'Invent a Dataset' to generate AI training data from task descriptions, integrating it with the AutoScientist optimization tool.

AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly reached a valuation of $3.2 billion, becoming the fastest unicorn in Y Combinator's history.
