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  "title": "Seattle Times, Newsday Sue OpenAI, Microsoft, Alleging Copyright Infringement",
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        "title": "The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)",
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        "title": "Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft",
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