https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/microsoft-exec-called-ai-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-history-court-records-showContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/microsoft-exec-called-ai-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-history-court-records-showhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/microsoft-exec-called-ai-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-history-court-records-show#u76615Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:46:17 +0000Unredacted court filings reveal a Microsoft director privately described AI training on scraped content as the "largest theft of labor in human history." This admission surfaces amid ongoing legal disputes over the use of news content to train large language models. The New York Times alleges that both Microsoft and OpenAI were aware that using this content constituted theft and posed an existential threat to publishers. News outlets argue these internal admissions could undermine the copyright defenses currently used by the AI companies.Why it mattersThe dispute centers on whether s