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OpenAI accuses New York Times of destroying employee questions to AI tools

By Amy Miller ( July 31, 2025, 00:54 GMT | Insight) -- OpenAI is accusing the New York Times of destroying evidence that its employees used artificial intelligence tools for business purposes, according to filings in consolidated US litigation over training large language models with copyrighted materials. OpenAI is asking for more time to question witnesses about the alleged evidence destruction and any remaining logs of employees’ prompts to its AI tools. OpenAI is accusing The New York Times of destroying evidence that its employees used artificial intelligence tools for business purposes, according to filings in consolidated US litigation over using copyrighted works to train large language models....

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