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Artificial-intelligence company and defendant-side OpenAI entity context in The New York Times copyright litigation.

Identity: OpenAI, Private company, Company
People and links: litigation counterparty: The New York Times Company, Partner: UK Government, service provider: Ministry of Justice +1, No public contact coverage is recorded for this entry., OpenAI's Test: The Model-Backed Action a Business Can Accept, OpenAI to offer UK data residency in new government partnership +1

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OpenAI

Artificial-intelligence company and defendant-side OpenAI entity context in The New York Times copyright litigation.

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IdentityOpenAI, Private company, CompanyHigh confidence
People and linkslitigation counterparty: The New York Times Company, Partner: UK Government, service provider: Ministry of Justice +1, No public contact coverage is recorded for this entry., OpenAI's Test: The Model-Backed Action a Business Can Accept, OpenAI to offer UK data residency in new government partnership +1Medium confidence

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Display nameOpenAIHigh confidence
Legal typePrivate companyHigh confidence
Directory categoryCompanyHigh confidence
AliasesOpenAI Inc., OpenAI LLC, OpenAI OpCo LLC, OAI CorporationMedium confidence
Last updatedMay 29, 2026High confidence

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Geography scopeUnited States / United States / GlobalHigh confidence

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Service platformOpenAI United States Other infrastructure services · United States / United States / GlobalHigh confidence

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litigation counterpartyThe New York Times Company · The New York Times Company is connected to this record. · The Times complaint, public docket and OpenAI motion establish the parties' litigation relationship in the SDNY copyright action.High confidence
PartnerUK Government · UK Government is connected to this record. · OpenAI and the UK Government announced a strategic partnership in July 2025, and the October 2025 data-residency announcement built on that relationship.High confidence
service providerMinistry of Justice · Ministry of Justice is connected to this record. · OpenAI and GOV.UK say the Ministry of Justice agreement gives 2,500 civil servants access to ChatGPT Enterprise and makes the department first to benefit from UK data residency.High confidence
regulatorUSPTO · USPTO is connected to this record. · The GPT-5 trademark application places OpenAI OpCo, LLC's mark application inside the USPTO trademark examination and status system.High confidence
Coverage contextOpenAI's Test: The Model-Backed Action a Business Can Accept, OpenAI can give developers capable models, tool use, structured outputs and enterprise controls. The harder business question is whether these parts reduce the total cost of a repeatable business action once review, integration, error handling, privacy controls, latency, contingency plans and switching costs are counted.Medium confidence
Coverage contextOpenAI to offer UK data residency in new government partnership, OpenAI's UK data residency announcement is a public-sector adoption and control event, not just a product-region update. OpenAI said on 22 October 2025 that it had a new Ministry of Justice agreement and would introduce UK data residency on 24 October for eligible API Platform, ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu customers, with the Ministry of Justice first to benefit. The strategic point is that UK public-sector AI use now has a clearer data-location surface: customer content can be stored at rest in the UK, while procurement, governance, metadata handling and compute-location questions remain separate watchpoints. The public evidence supports the announcement, the MoJ rollout, DSIT partnership context and data-residency scope; it does not disclose commercial terms, infrastructure operators, audit rights or a UK-only inference guarantee.Medium confidence
Coverage contextOpenAI says The NYT "hacked" ChatGPT, launching a lawsuit, OpenAI's February 2024 court filing turned The New York Times copyright case into a fight over evidence construction, not only training data. The Times had sued Microsoft and OpenAI in December 2023, alleging that generative AI systems used Times journalism without permission and could reproduce or substitute for parts of its work. OpenAI's partial motion to dismiss answered with a narrower but volatile claim: the Times' examples did not show ordinary product use, because they allegedly required repeated attempts, article excerpts, a bug and prompts OpenAI said violated its terms. The legal signal is the pressure this dispute puts on three control surfaces at once: publisher licensing leverage, AI training defenses and the evidentiary methods used to prove model-output copying.Medium confidence

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Primary articleOpenAI's Test: The Model-Backed Action a Business Can AcceptHigh confidence
Primary articleOpenAI to offer UK data residency in new government partnershipHigh confidence
Primary articleOpenAI says The NYT "hacked" ChatGPT, launching a lawsuitHigh confidence
Primary articleOpenAI's test is the model-backed action a business can acceptHigh confidence

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