Good morning.
It’s Friday, September 18. — close the tabs, step away from the screen, and enjoy the break.
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft and OpenAI’s own executives privately calling their AI systems an act of theft on an unprecedented scale, and warning that the technology is now cannibalizing the very web content it was built on. It is a rare moment where the industry’s biggest players are effectively confirming what critics have argued for years.
Today we are covering:
Newly unsealed filings show Microsoft and OpenAI executives privately calling their AI training an “astonishing theft,” with Bing traffic to news sites down more than 90%
Three security researchers used Anthropic‘s Claude to hack into OpenAI’s source code repository and collected a $6,500 bounty
Paris prosecutors open a criminal probe into smart glasses used to film women without consent, as Meta‘s AI glasses pass 7 million units sold
