Artificial intelligence company OpenAI is based in San Francisco and registered under the laws of Delaware.

A copyright lawsuit filed against OpenAI in Ontario by news media organizations should be heard in the United States instead because the company does not conduct business in the province, lawyers for the artificial-intelligence giant argued at a court hearing Wednesday.

Canada’s major news organizations, including The Globe and Mail and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, sued OpenAI last November for allegedly violating copyright law by scraping proprietary news content without consent or payment to train its models, such as those that power ChatGPT.

Lawyers for OpenAI said that the Ontario court does not have jurisdiction because none of the corporate entities named as defe

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