Microsoft's own numbers show Copilot cut news click-throughs by up to 94%. Its own documents call the result a doom loop.

Microsoft and OpenAI executives privately warned that AI products built on scraped news content would create a “doom loop” and could destroy the publishers that supply it, a court filing in the US ...

While AI optimization for Google Ads is gaining attention, Microsoft also began offering its AI ad optimization feature, "AI Max for Search," as an open pilot in May 2026 for Bing and Copilot. This ...

Internal remarks by a Microsoft executive have surfaced in the NYT copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. This ...

Takeaways Up Front 1. A Microsoft director privately called AI training on scraped content "the largest theft of labor in ...

So there’s a lot of talk about artificial intelligence this week and right in the middle of it some files from a New York ...

Microsoft and OpenAI workers privately shared concerns that their use of millions of news articles to develop AI bots could ...

AI training data controversy intensifies as court filings reveal internal debates and legal battles over copyright and paywalled content.

NYT and countless other publications impacted by AI scraping and dropping click-throughs, but Trump seems to support it.

Microsoft Bing is also asking some searchers to verify they are human before showing them search results. Google is doing this a lot, in various forms, and now Bing was spotted doing this.

News organizations have expressed their frustration over the practices of Microsoft and OpenAI regarding the use of journalistic content for training ...

Newly revealed court documents suggest OpenAI and Microsoft recognized that AI training practices could use copyrighted news content and harm publishers.