OpenAI Fails to Block AI Researcher From Seeing Files in NYT Row

A computer scientist hired by a group of newspapers as an expert witness can access confidential OpenAI Inc. documents produced in the copyright suit between the companies, even though he’s been hired by a rival AI company, a judge ruled.

OpenAI failed to show Theodora AI, the company New York Times Co. and Daily News LP expert Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates works for, is a “meaningful competitor” to the ChatGPT maker, Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang wrote in a Tuesday opinion in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The decision resolves one of several discovery disputes ...