A New York State court has rejected Toronto AI startup Cohere’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by several U.S. publishers and the Toronto Star over alleged copyright and trademark infringement.

A coalition of major publishers, including Toronto Star Newspapers, Forbes Media, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Vox Media and Politico, took the Toronto- and San Francisco-based company to court in February 2025 for allegedly using the publishers’ content without consent to train its large AI language models, including Command, which Cohere promotes as a “knowledge assistant” and tool for accessing news.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

Cohere filed a dismissal motion in May and argued that it is only directly liable for generating “substitutive summaries” of the publishers’ wo

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