In this episode, host Crypto Wires delivers a packed hour covering the intersection of technology, corporate power, and political philosophy. The show opens with a deep dive into the unsealed filings from the New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, which reveal that a top Microsoft executive privately described OpenAI's AI training practices as "theft" — calling it "the largest theft of labour in human history." The documents expose how OpenAI employees allegedly built paywall bypassing tools targeting the New York Times, stripped copyright notices from training data, and assembled datasets containing over 91,000 copies of NYT-published works. Despite these admissions, courts and the Trump administration have largely sided with AI companies on fair use grounds. Crypto Wires questions the trustworthiness of major AI platfor ...