NYT v. OpenAI: Microsoft 'theft of labor' memo unsealed in court filings

A federal court unsealed summary-judgment filings in The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. They include a Microsoft director's memo calling AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history" and Satya Nadella's testimony that paywalled content should be licensed.

• Microsoft director Brent Hecht called AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history"
• His slides said Copilot's answer engine cut nytimes.com click-throughs by up to 93%
• The brief counts over 91,692 copies of plaintiffs' articles in OpenAI datasets
• Nadella testified that "anything that is paywalled should be licensed"