The Wikimedia Foundation announced on October 30, 2026, that it has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for leave to file an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief in In re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation, the consolidation of 12 lawsuits against OpenAI whose best-known member is The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft. The Foundation's filing, dated October 29, 2026, and addressed to Judge Sidney H. Stein, is a letter motion for…