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PublishedSeptember 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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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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