OpenAI faces lawsuit over copyrighted news content and unveils new AI inference chip

U.S. newspaper publishers representing nearly 400 titles have filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp., alleging that the companies used their protected articles to train and power products such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation. The complaint states the firms “systematically and deliberately stole press articles protected by copyright” and seeks an injunction, damages and a share of the billions of dollars in revenue generated from the AI services.

Separately, OpenAI announced its first custom processor, the Jalapeño chip, developed with Broadcom. Designed for inference rather than model training, the chip aims to speed up and lower the cost of generating responses from already‑trained AI systems. OpenAI says early tests show better performance‑per‑watt than existing GPUs, and the first deployments are planned for late 2026.