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

September 17, 2026 Rebecca Bellan

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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