28 days ago · New York
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. The Verge is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to New York. The first report grouped here was at 18 Sept 2026, 21:07 UTC. The headline in use is “OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in…
Story timeline
Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.
- First reported by The Verge
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Reported by 1 outlet
- The Verge