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LawsuitSony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell file copyright lawsuit against Anthropic
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic, alleging the company used copyrighted song lyrics to train its Claude models without permission. It's the latest in a wave of copyright litigation targeting AI labs over training data sourcing.
ResearchAnthropic researcher previews early work on self-improving AI systems
An Anthropic researcher shared early findings on models that can iteratively improve their own performance, offering a glimpse at research the company is exploring around AI systems that refine themselves over successive training runs.
BusinessOpen-weight AI labs become Silicon Valley's hottest acquisition targets
Startups building open-weight AI models are increasingly drawing acquisition interest from larger tech companies, as buyers look to secure both talent and openly-licensed model weights rather than building everything from scratch.
BusinessSenior Meta executive departs for OpenAI amid scrutiny in India
A senior Meta executive has left to join OpenAI, part of a broader pattern of AI talent movement between major labs, reported alongside growing regulatory scrutiny Meta is facing in the Indian market.
SafetyOpenAI, Anthropic and Google join 100+ companies calling for AI-powered cyber defense
In a joint open letter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and over a hundred other companies and organizations called for a coordinated push to put AI-driven defensive tools in the hands of the teams protecting critical infrastructure, warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks are set to become far more common and sophisticated.
ProductOpenAI begins testing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has started showing advertisements to ChatGPT users on its free and lower-cost Go plan in India, a notable shift for a product that has so far relied entirely on subscriptions and API revenue.
BusinessGoogle's Gemini brand still hasn't clicked with mainstream users, report finds
Despite Gemini's technical progress, reporting suggests the brand still struggles for mainstream recognition compared to ChatGPT — a challenge the piece frames as symptomatic of a wider naming and positioning problem across the AI industry, not just at Google.
BusinessNvidia reportedly nears a deal to acquire Hugging Face
Nvidia is reported to be closing in on an acquisition of Hugging Face, the widely-used open-source model hosting and machine learning community platform, which would deepen Nvidia's reach into the AI developer tooling stack.
InfrastructureAmazon triples its Nvidia chip order as AI infrastructure demand surges
Amazon has reportedly tripled the size of its Nvidia chip order, citing surging demand for AI compute — another data point in the ongoing infrastructure buildout underpinning the current generation of AI products.
SecurityOpenAI publishes its official report on the Hugging Face security breach
OpenAI released an official report detailing a security breach connected to Hugging Face, outlining what happened and the steps taken in response — part of a broader industry conversation about securing the AI supply chain.