Newly unsealed court filings reveal Microsoft privately labeled OpenAI's data scraping practices as "theft" before publicly criticizing them, while both companies simultaneously scraped paywalled New York Times content to build training datasets. The internal warnings also highlighted concerns that such practices would devastate publishers.
Background
Microsoft invested $13 billion in OpenAI but has faced growing tensions over data usage rights and AI training practices. The New York Times has been at the center of copyright disputes with AI companies.
- Source
- TechCrunch
- Published
- Sep 18, 2026 at 03:46 AM
- Score
- 8.0 / 10