Two more major US media outlets have joined the long line of publishers suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The Seattle Times and Newsday filed their claims this week, adding to a growing list that already includes the New York Times.

Microsoft told The Verge that ‘virtually nobody’ was using its chatbot to pull NYT articles, pushing back on the scale of the issue. OpenAI has not commented on the new filings.

The settlement talks on the Anthropic side are also moving simultaneously, meaning the copyright landscape across all three frontier labs is now under active legal pressure in the same reporting cycle.