Microsoft Exec Called AI Scraping “the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” — Unsealed Filings Rock the NYT Lawsuit
Newly unsealed filings in the NYT’s copyright lawsuit reveal a Microsoft exec privately called AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history,” Copilot cut NYT click-through rates by up to 93%, and OpenAI leadership admitted its chatbots pose an “existential threat” to publishers.
Microsoft’s In-House MAI Models Quietly Take Over Excel and Outlook — Is OpenAI Being Phased Out?
Microsoft has begun routing tens of thousands of Excel and Outlook AI prompts away from OpenAI to its in-house MAI models, cutting costs by up to 89%. Its first cybersecurity AI, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, beats Anthropic and Google on the CyberGym benchmark at half the price. The Microsoft-OpenAI relationship enters a new phase of coopetition.
