A Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history', Anthropic says Claude 'leads' 26 percent of its AI R&D work, and the FAA says laser strikes on aircraft fell again
Summary
Newly unsealed documents in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal concerns that AI training constitutes a "theft of labor," including details on bypassing paywalls. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei discusses AI safety, noting that its model Claude now leads 26% of the company’s R&D work and proposing new metrics to track automation levels. The episode also covers FAA statistics showing a 24% drop in laser strikes on aircraft this year, though thousands of incidents remain.
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OpenAI and Microsoft internal docs on web scraping
Anthropic AI safety metrics and Claude usage stats
Faa reports decline in laser strikes on aircraft
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