Eight newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday, Nov. 26 against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the tech giants of violating copyright law by stealing the news publishers’ content to build and operate the large language models that power their artificial intelligence applications.

The newspapers are the Los Angeles Daily News , The San Diego Union-Tribune , Boston Herald , Hartford Courant , The Morning Call , the Boulder Daily Camera , the Daily Press and The Virginian-Pilot .

The plaintiffs in the 119-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said they are seeking “in excess of $10 billion” in damages.

“OpenAI pays for its chips. It pays for its computers. It pays its programmers. But it

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