New York Times Wants Access to Top OpenAI Executives’ Documents

The New York Times Co. wants to subject OpenAI Inc.'s CEO Sam Altman, as well as other top executives, to discovery in its copyright lawsuit against the tech company.

In a redacted letter addressed to Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wong on Monday, the newspaper requested setting up a conference to discuss adding 17 “high-level employees” to the discovery process, including Altman, company president Greg Brockman and chief technology officer Mira Murati, who have access to “documents central to the issue of the case.”

Those “issues” span topics like licensing negotiations with the New York Times to technical subjects like “retrieval ...