OpenAI and Microsoft filed cross-motions for summary judgment on September 4, 2026, in the consolidated multidistrict copyright proceeding No. 25-md-3143, pending before Judge Sidney H. Stein in the Southern District of New York. The consolidated plaintiffs include The New York Times Company, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, Ziff Davis publications including CNET and PCMag, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and The Intercept, together claiming unauthorized copying of millions of articles to train and operate AI products. OpenAI's motion argues that AI training and its Browse web-browsing feature constitute fair use under 17 U.S.C. §107 and that articles accessed before publishers blocked OpenAI's crawler were impliedly licensed under doctrine from Field v. Google. The company contends that verbatim reproduction by its systems occurs in fewer than 0.00012 percent of sampled conversations and that affected publishers' revenues have risen during the period at issue. Judge Stein had issued a show-cause order on September 4 asking why the case should not be stayed pending resolution of the summary-judgment motions, a question that remains unresolved.