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New York Times v. Microsoft Litigation

The court case involving the New York Times and Microsoft that led to OpenAI's preservation order

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Jan 24, 2026
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What legal or regulatory obligations require OpenAI to keep deleted conversation data?

in the copyright litigation is the clearest legal instrument forcing to hold deleted ChatGPT conversations beyond the company’s usual 30‑day deletion window, and OpenAI’s own contracts and privacy sta...

Feb 5, 2026

What exactly did the New York Times preservation order require OpenAI to retain, and how long did it last?

The preservation order directed to "preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going‑forward basis" — in plain terms, to stop deleting output logs (including chats...