It seems that The New York Times Company (“The Times”) got fed up with the pace of its negotiations with Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of The Times’ content for training and running their LLMs. So much so that The Times filed a post-Christmas complaint against the two, likely knowing full well they’d lay waste to the winter vacations of hundreds of people working for OpenAI and Microsoft. It might be the most well-known AI-related case to date because the case isn’t a class action and the ...