TNB Tech Minute: Top OpenAI and Microsoft Staff Knew Scraping News Websites was an ‘Existential Threat’
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What legal filings reveal that OpenAI and Microsoft knowingly scraped news sites despite calling it an existential threat?
I'm Danny Lewis for The Wall Street Journal. A newly unsealed legal filing says top staff at OpenAI and Microsoft knew that scraping news websites to train their AI models could eventually damage or destroy those publications, and then did it anyway. The filing is part of a copyright lawsuit against the tech companies brought by The New York Times and several other large newspapers. It cites internal company documents as well as testimony from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and comments by OpenAI executives calling the move an existential threat to media outlets. The tech companies have argued that their actions constituted fair use. News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, has content deals with OpenAI and Meta.
Two News Corp subsidiaries have sued another AI company, Perplexity. Elsewhere in AI, the journal exclusively reports that independent security researchers used Anthropic's Claude software to hack into OpenAI's systems.
How did independent security researchers use Anthropic’s Claude to hack OpenAI, and what bounty did OpenAI award?
The team quickly reported their findings to the ChatGPT maker, which paid them a $6,500 bounty as part of a bug hunting program. OpenAI says the vulnerabilities the researchers used to gain access to an employee's ChatGPT account have since been patched. An Anthropic spokesman declined to comment. And Coinbase Global says it has sought approval to list perpetual futures tied to individual large-cap U.S.
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When does Coinbase expect regulatory approval and a launch for its new perpetual futures contracts?
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6 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:31
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What legal filings reveal that OpenAI and Microsoft knowingly scraped news sites despite calling it an existential threat?
0:31–1:27
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How did independent security researchers use Anthropic’s Claude to hack OpenAI, and what bounty did OpenAI award?
1:27–1:49
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What is Coinbase’s proposal to list perpetual futures tied to large‑cap U.S. stocks like Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla?
1:49–2:11
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When does Coinbase expect regulatory approval and a launch for its new perpetual futures contracts?
2:11–2:27
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What promotions and market‑prediction tools does the episode highlight in its closing segment?
2:27–2:45
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