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17 SEP 2026 · Hacker News · 52 pts · 14 comments ↗

Internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents reveal that the companies view AI scraping of news content as a "doom loop" that threatens their own models and the entire web, with Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht describing it as the "largest theft of labor in human history." The documents show that the companies anticipated and attempted to hide the extent of their content scraping, with Microsoft even creating a filter to limit the visibility of training data. AI summary

16 JUN 2026 · Podcast · Dwarkesh Podcast

In this episode, Ada Palmer discusses Niccolò Machiavelli as a deeply patriotic and misunderstood thinker, focusing on the historical context of his work, especially The Prince. They explore Machiavelli's diplomatic career, his views on pow…