Truth Check/9 October 2026

“USA Today Co. and its sister titles seek damages in excess of $250 million from OpenAI, alleging hundreds of thousands of articles were copied”

The claim as it travelled: complaint, S.D.N.Y., 8 Oct 2026.

The complaint's paragraph 13 states the damages sought and the copying claim; it is a filing, nothing is decided.

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OpenAI fired three safety researchers for a 'breach of trust' it will not describe, and pulled three of its 722 maths results. 300 of 719 are computer-checked.

Both sides of the OpenAI firing in their own words - the four-page letter and the 06:17 UTC reply - with no document behind either; "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results" against the repository's own history file; and the 12 November check, one prompt that tells you which of Anthropic's new rules touch your use of Claude.

Every claim we have checked, in the Ledger.