USA TODAY Co., Inc. and its affiliated newspaper entities sued OpenAI in federal court in New York on October 8, 2026, alleging the company trained its GPT models on hundreds of thousands of their copyrighted articles without authorization and repackaged their journalism in chatbot outputs that substitute for the originals. The suit seeks damages in excess of $250 million. The Filing and Requested Relief The case, USA Today Co., Inc. v. OpenAI Foundation, was filed in the U.S. District Court…