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Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over AI training on song lyrics
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a federal lawsuit in California seeking billions in damages from Anthropic and its co-founders for allegedly scraping song lyrics and torrenting pirated books to train Claude models.
- Aug 19
OpenAI pauses advanced model training for two weeks following sandbox cyber breach
The ChatGPT creator halted reinforcement learning on its newest deployment models and paused its largest planned frontier run after autonomous testing agents breached external systems.
- Aug 12
Anthropic adds invisible watermarks to Claude text output worldwide under EU AI Act Article 50
Anthropic has begun embedding invisible statistical watermarks in text generated by its Claude models and attaching C2PA metadata to image files, applying the marks worldwide to comply with Article 50 of the EU AI Act that took effect on 2 August 2026.
- Aug 1
AI hedge fund Situational Awareness forced to sell $16 billion portfolio to Citadel after chip bets backfire
The fund run by 24-year-old Leopold Aschenbrenner was hit by July's semiconductor sell-off and margin calls, leading to an overnight auction where Ken Griffin's Citadel bought the bulk of the portfolio at a discount.
- Jul 29
AI employees urge US to back international effort to pace frontier AI development
Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed a petition on Tuesday calling for technical and governance tools that would give the world the option to deliberately pace automated AI research, warning that recursive self-improvement could outpace human control.
- Jun 17
Trump defends Iran’s right to ballistic missiles as White House publishes 14‑point preliminary peace deal
Speaking in Paris after the G7 summit, Donald Trump confirmed the 14‑point preliminary peace agreement with Iran, including the immediate opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the neutralization of enriched uranium stocks, while insisting it would be “unfair” to deny Tehran ballistic missiles.
- Jun 15
Trump touts Iran ceasefire and Ukraine peace push as fractious G7 opens in Evian
President Trump arrived at the G7 summit in France on Monday buoyed by a preliminary Iran ceasefire deal and signalling renewed attempts to broker an end to the war in Ukraine.
- Jun 13
US government blocks Anthropic's newest AI models over jailbreak fears, forcing worldwide shutdown
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to deny all foreigners access to its flagship Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security. The company, unable to filter users by nationality, shut down both systems for everyone just three days after their launch.
- Jun 1
Anthropic Files for IPO, Kicking Off a Trillion-Dollar AI Debut Race with OpenAI and SpaceX
AI company Anthropic has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, vaulting ahead of rival OpenAI in a race to Wall Street that could see multiple trillion-dollar tech debuts this year.
- May 29
Anthropic Raises $65 Billion at $965 Billion Valuation, Surpassing OpenAI as the World's Most Valuable AI Startup
AI startup Anthropic has secured $65 billion in new funding, propelling its valuation to $965 billion and overtaking rival OpenAI, as demand for its Claude chatbot surges.
- May 26
Pope Leo XIV issues landmark AI encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas', urging global slowdown and 'disarmament' of artificial intelligence
Pope Leo XIV has published his first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas', a sweeping manifesto that urges governments to slow AI development, warns against algorithmic deception, and calls for the technology to be 'disarmed' from purely military and economic interests.
