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Claude counts as a supply chain risk, a D.C. Circuit majority ruled, because its built-in limits stopped it from doing tasks for government users. One judge dissented, saying the law was written for covert bad actors.
Four people paying for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini sued in federal court on Friday, arguing that Amodei's call to pace the frontier and the quick yeses from Musk, Altman and Hassabis amount to an illegal deal between rivals.
Anthropic compared its usage-limit disclosures to a product label you turn over before buying, arguing to dismiss an earlier version of the Claude Max suit. It became a class action Tuesday, per The Verge.
Around half a million writers were reported eligible for at least $3,000 from Anthropic's approved $1.5 billion book settlement, per TechCrunch, and their publishers are now filing claims on those same allocations.
A day after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Axios that Anthropic is "back on the right side," Pentagon official Emil Michael posted on X that the company is still a designated Supply Chain Risk.
Ask for a birthday banner with a fast blue hedgehog and Claude's published system prompt has it name Sonic, decline, and offer a skateboarding axolotl instead. The same section bars lyrics and book passages in any amount.
“zlibrary my beloved” appears in Anthropic staff chats cited by music publishers, Ars Technica reports. The publishers say it supports their claim that Anthropic torrented books containing song lyrics.
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon violated the First Amendment by labeling Anthropic a supply chain threat to make an example of it. The blacklist stays active after March negotiations over autonomous weapons failed.
Existing Anthropic shareholders bought the stock the US Marshals seized from Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh, Business Insider reports, and FTX victims haven't seen the proceeds. PitchBook values it at $2.62 billion now.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell are asking up to $150,000 for each of "tens of thousands" of compositions they say trained Claude, and the 48-page complaint names Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as defendants too.
A San Francisco judge found the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic "based on a desire to make a public example" of it, and ruled the designation illegal. A second suit in D.C. keeps it technically in force.
Round Hill's CEO told Reuters he's taking both suits to trial rather than settling for anything that leaves songwriters undercompensated. The Anthropic complaint says at least 500 of its songs trained Claude.
Court filings in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC include an internal memo, Exhibit 21, describing Project Panama as "our work to destructively scan all the books in the world." The memo says the code name was chosen because "we don't want it to be known that we're working on this."
A class action filed June 14 in the Northern District of California claims Anthropic's Max 5x and 20x tiers actually deliver about 3.5x and 6-8x of Pro. Those are the plaintiff's figures, unproven, and Anthropic has never published exact numbers.
Federal judge Rita F. Lin said the Trump administration hasn't shown enough evidence to "really justify" its ban on federal use of Anthropic's technology, per Bloomberg. She called the argument that Anthropic's criticism of the DoD justifies the ban "really troubling."
University of Tennessee Research Foundation has sued Anthropic for infringing patents on neuroscience-inspired neural network tech, per Reuters. It's a separate case from the copyright suit whose $1.5B settlement got court approval on July 20.
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement on July 20 over claims it trained Claude on pirated books. Per the AP, the deal covers nearly half a million books, with authors getting about $3,000 each.
A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors, per Reuters: $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 titles. Anthropic settled to avoid a jury trial over downloading books from pirate sites.
Abnormal's founder says he learned of Anthropic's July 1 trademark lawsuit from a reporter, despite being a major client. Abnormal argues it was founded in 2018, three years before Anthropic, and that Anthropic holds no trademark for the cybersecurity space.
Over 100 authors, including Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, are suing Anthropic for $75 million. They allege the company used 500 pirated books to train Claude and are seeking $150,000 per title. The plaintiffs opted out of a prior settlement that paid roughly $3,000 per work. They now claim Anthropic is liable for both downloading and distributing their books.
