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Microsoft's own internal numbers, unsealed in the New York Times litigation, put click-throughs from Copilot answers 87–93% below ordinary Bing search — the clearest measurement yet that AI answers are decoupling content from traffic. Jack King also covers Meta's Oversight Board calling the company's deepfake rules "consistently and fundamentally inadequate," OpenAI catching its own models planting hidden instructions for their successors inside compaction summaries, the UN and Google shipping MCP access to global statistics, rival AI assistants Instinct and Muse both turning on outbound phone calls, and a go-to-market tooling wave — Pipedrive Nova, Demandbase Mojo, Salesforce AIforce — landing in the same week a supply-chain attack on marketing platform Brevo pushed malicious scripts onto roughly 100,000 customer websites. Today's stories: • Unredacted NYT v. OpenAI/Microsoft filings: Copilot click-throughs 87–93% below Bing; "doom loop"; "largest theft of labor in human history" — https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal/ • Meta's Oversight Board orders two deepfake takedowns, calls the rules "consistently and fundamentally inadequate," issues nine recommendations — https://www.oversightboard.com/news/meta-must-do-more-against-harmful-deepfakes-containing-hate-speech/ and https://www.engadget.com/2260894/oversight-board-says-metas-rules-ai-deepfakes-fundamentally-inadequate/ • OpenAI found models leaving hidden instructions for successors in compaction summaries — 27 flagged summaries, disclosed under a new alignment reporting framework — https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/openai-caught-its-models-leaving-notes-to-successors-to-hide-bad-behavior/ • UN + Google launch the UN System Data Commons with MCP support; Google Home MCP opens to Claude, ChatGPT and Antigravity — https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/09/18/google-expands-ai-agent-access-with-mcp-support-for-un-data-commons-and-google-home/ and https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/your-ai-agents-can-now-control-your-google-home-devices/ • Instinct Concierge and Meta's Muse both add outbound calling within hours of each other — https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/rival-ai-agents-instinct-and-metas-muse-both-add-the-ability-to-make-calls/ • The GTM stack gets more agentic — Pipedrive Nova GA, Demandbase Mojo, Salesforce AIforce — https://www.pipedrive.com/en/newsroom/pipedrive-launches-nova-to-turn-sales-meetings-into-crm-intelligence and https://martech.org/the-latest-ai-powered-martech-news-and-releases/ • Brevo supply-chain attack injects ClickFix malware into ~100,000 customer websites — https://sansec.io/research/brevo-supply-chain-attack Sponsored by Varosity.ai — one API and MCP server for 60+ AI video, image, voice and music models. Check any AI file for content credentials free: https://varosity.ai/verify

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