(By You Yunting) The New York Times v. OpenAI and Microsoft—a landmark case in artificial intelligence—has seen one more dramatic twist. In the pretrial proceedings in the consolidated cases, the defendants accused The New York Times of laundering evidence: a paper cited by the plaintiff’s expert was allegedly funded by The Times’ own law firm and the funding was never disclosed to the court. The story has drawn renewed media attention. Today, we will examine whether this evidence-laundering will materially affect the lawsuit — and what the consequences would be if similar conduct occurred in China.