Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other music publishers sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann for alleged intellectual property theft via downloading and scraping copyrighted works. The lawsuit was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and it follows Anthropic being ordered to pay $1.5 billion in the earlier Bartz case. The complaint expands on prior litigation by arguing Anthropic used thousands of copyrighted works to train Claude and by alleging illegal torrenting to obtain millions of books, including ones with lyrics and sheet music.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California over alleged use of copyrighted works. They are seeking up to $150,000 per work and up to $25,000 per instance where identifiable copyright data was stripped. If they win at the maximum amounts, damages could total several billion dollars, adding to Anthropic’s ongoing legal exposure following a $1.5 billion settlement.
OpenAI ended its partnership with AI coding startup Cursor and notified SpaceX that it will wind down Cursor’s access to its models after a change of control. The proposed shutoff date is November 12, 2026. Cursor will lose OpenAI model access for current use and future offerings, including Astra, unless the parties resolve the issue.
Harden was launched as a local security tool for AI coding agents that checks proposed tool calls. It is a free, local security tool. It adds a pre-execution safety check that uses the request and session context while keeping the repository and tool output on your machine.
Musicians are investigating people accused of making and passing off AI-generated music as if it were real human work. No specific numbers, dates, or benchmarks were provided in the excerpt. This scrutiny is pushing some creators to admit they used generative audio tools instead of denying it.
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