Anthropic loses bid for OpenAI records in Reddit lawsuit in Calif.
By Amy Miller ( November 12, 2026, 22:26 GMT | Insight) -- A California state judge tentatively denied Anthropic's bid to obtain internal OpenAI documents for its defense against Reddit's data-scraping lawsuit, raising concerns about service of the subpoena and why Anthropic hadn't sought the records from Reddit first. The denial without prejudice leaves Anthropic an opportunity to seek the documents again, while its dispute with Reddit over a protective order remains unresolved.A California state judge issued a tentative ruling from the bench Thursday denying Anthropic's bid to force OpenAI to turn over internal documents for its defense against a lawsuit from Reddit over the use of its content to train Anthropic's artificial intelligence models....
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