( July 16, 2026, 9:18 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — For two years, OpenAI entities misled plaintiffs and the court about the ability to search training data and ChatGPT outputs for plaintiffs’ copyrighted material and destroyed other evidence, the reality of which came to light only during a court-ordered second deposition of the defendants’ corporate representative, news plaintiffs say in asking the federal judge in New York overseeing multidistrict copyright litigation to impose sanctions....