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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

TechCrunch 17 September 2026 2h ago
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
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Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
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