The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit
2026-09-02 · The Verge
The Trump administration has jumped into the ring to back OpenAI against The New York Times' copyright lawsuit, because apparently the government now moonlights as legal counsel for AI companies. The DOJ is arguing in favor of the company that scraped billions of dollars worth of journalism to train its models. Nothing says 'America First' like siding with a tech giant over the free press.