Tags
Two judges to one, the D.C. Circuit backed the Department of War's exclusion of Claude, imposed after Anthropic refused to relax limits on lethal autonomous warfare and domestic surveillance. The dissent reads that law as aimed at covert subversion.
"We'll likely ignore their concerns and release anyway," OpenAI policy director Jack Clark said of artists in May 2020 testimony. It surfaced in unsealed Authors Guild filings, beside a 2019 note about training GPT-3 on "pirated stuff".
British Columbia's attorney general sued OpenAI over threats made on ChatGPT before the Tumbler Ridge shooting. She says the chats triggered an internal review, were never reported to the RCMP, and OpenAI refuses to share them.
Four people who pay for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini are suing Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI, arguing a deal to slow AI down cuts the value of the subscriptions they bought. They want a nationwide class behind them.
Behind closed doors, a judge opened the sealed Apple settlement, and OpenAI's lawyers still won't see a page. Judge Mark Pittman found nothing in it relevant to the antitrust claim from Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI.
A Microsoft director called scraping "astonishing theft" Brent Hecht's words sit in documents unsealed in the New York Times copyright case, and Microsoft now says the line reflects one employee's view.
"What Anthropic's client allowed shows nothing about what Meta's did," its lawyers told the court, and Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson agreed, blocking publishers' subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic over torrent client settings.
A fourth AI hacking incident involving an early version of Claude slipped past Anthropic's earlier review and was disclosed only on September 9, per Reuters.
OpenAI asked Judge Sidney Stein to end the Authors Guild case without a trial, arguing ChatGPT's alleged regurgitation rate is 0.00007% and the longest excerpt its critics forced out was 1,899 words of A Game of Thrones.
20x more usage is the pitch on Anthropic's $200 Claude Max plan, and an expanded class action filed Tuesday says the weekly cap sitting on top of that multiplier wasn't spelled out at signup.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg that Anthropic and the government were "in tune together". A day later, the Pentagon's Emil Michael posted that Anthropic "is still a designated supply chain risk".
Writer Beware reports that authors say their publishers claimed incorrect shares of their payouts from Anthropic's approved $1.5 billion book settlement, with notices going out about the disputed allocations.
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, Reuters reports, three days after Washington backed OpenAI in the New York Times case.
Thirty new lawsuits over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting claim OpenAI's own safety staff pushed to alert police eight months early and were overruled. OpenAI's chief strategy officer calls that "absolutely false".
"US Government backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case," Reuters reported on September 2, putting Washington behind the lab against the newspaper's claims, though the report doesn't say what the government filed.
Courts have accepted device-return windows of sometimes only hours, a trade-secret attorney said, which undercuts OpenAI's new claim that Apple gave departing staff no time and so failed to protect its own secrets.
Apple says a former engineer used a confidential circuit schematic at OpenAI, then sent instructions to destroy evidence after learning of Apple’s probe. A Mac mini synced the file to his MacBook.
A new class-action lawsuit claims Anthropic's $200-a-month Max 20x plan only delivers 6–8 times Pro tier usage instead of the promised 20 times. Subscribers are demanding restitution over hidden rate limits.
The US Marshals Service quietly sold the Anthropic shares forfeited by Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh to existing investors last year, per Business Insider, and FTX victims still haven't received the proceeds.
"One of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history": that's how Sony Music and Warner Chappell describe Anthropic's training data in a suit naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally.
