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The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their journalism without permission to train AI models, joining a growing wave of media organizations pursuing copyright claims against the AI firms. The suits come as OpenAI continues rolling out its GPT-6 Astra model. The litigation adds to mounting legal pressure on OpenAI and Microsoft from publishers over AI training data, part of a broader industry-wide reckoning over intellectual property rights in the generative AI era.