• September 18, 2026
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.