Anthropic beat the Pentagon on Thursday and was sued on Friday
A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to strip Anthropic of its 'supply chain risk' label as unlawful retaliation, and a day later Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued the company over lyrics, seeking up to $150,000 for every work.
A judge ordered the Pentagon to drop its Anthropic blacklisting US District Judge Rita Lin ruled on Thursday evening that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk was unlawful First Amendment retaliation for the company’s public criticism, was “arbitrary and capricious”, and was made “based on a desire to make a public example” of it. Lin vacated the designation and barred the Pentagon from enforcing it. The dispute began when Anthropic would not drop terms barring the use of Claude for mass surveillance of Americans or for autonomous weapons; a separate, narrower Anthropic case over a different Pentagon rule is still pending in the federal appeals court in Washington. Source
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic on Friday The two publishers filed late on Friday in the Northern District of California, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and accusing Anthropic of a “brazen campaign” of torrenting, scraping and downloading copyrighted work to train Claude, with “Eye of the Tiger”, “Uptown Funk” and Taylor Swift’s “Paper Rings” among the songs listed in the complaint. They want a jury trial and up to $150,000 for each work infringed plus $25,000 for each removal of copyright management information; Anthropic says it disagrees with the claims and will defend itself in court. Source
OpenAI is cutting Cursor off from its models on 12 November OpenAI said on Saturday it is winding down the contract that supplies its models to the coding tool, now owned by SpaceX, because it cannot be confident SpaceX will honour its terms of service, citing past contract violations by Musk-owned companies. Cursor’s Michael Truell put OpenAI’s share of Cursor user traffic at about 5 per cent and said the two sides are talking. Source
Nvidia paused its revenue-sharing financing deals with AI clouds The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Nvidia has stepped back from part of a July programme offering credit support to cloud providers in exchange for a share of their revenue, on concerns it would draw antitrust scrutiny and after would-be partners objected to how much control it wanted. Nvidia has disclosed roughly $36bn of commitments tied to the scheme and says the business model behind it “is still in place and continues to evolve due to high demand”. Source
A White House draft order for an AI self-regulator has stalled The Information reported on Friday that an executive order circulated inside the Trump administration in recent weeks would set up a public-private organisation to supervise the release of frontier models, and that work on it has stopped. It would go considerably further than June’s cybersecurity order, which asked for voluntary pre-release access and explicitly ruled out any licensing or pre-clearance requirement. Source
Marvell’s stock fell 6% despite its $12.2bn Google chip deal Marvell reported Q2 earnings on Friday and the stock dropped about 6 per cent, even with the custom AI chip agreement behind Google’s new warrant over 58.97 million shares at $206.58 each — a deal the company values at as much as $120bn in potential sales, running to fiscal 2033. Chief executive Matt Murphy said Google revenue through fiscal 2028 was already inside existing forecasts and would not contribute much until fiscal 2029. Source
Two flaws let anyone root a Unitree G1 humanoid over Bluetooth Researcher Olivier Laflamme published two root remote-code-execution chains on Thursday, CVE-2026-76639 and CVE-2026-76640, the second of which needs only Bluetooth range and no pairing to reach root on the robot’s locomotion computer. He says the chain is potentially wormable — a compromised G1 could pass the exploit to other robots nearby — and that Unitree fixed a related cloud ownership check in July. Source
More than 80 UK performers want voice cloning made illegal Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville, Matt Lucas, Luke Evans and Siobhán McSweeney are among the signatories to an open letter published on Friday by the campaign Save Our Voices Now, which is also running a Gov.uk petition to make ownership of your own voice a statutory right. Founder Peter Caulfield says three seconds of audio is now enough to clone a voice “without your knowledge”. Source
OpenAI retired the DALL·E GPT inside ChatGPT on Sunday The standalone tool is gone and images left inside it go with it, so anything worth keeping had to be downloaded first; user-made GPTs with image generation switched on are unaffected. OpenAI retired the DALL·E API for developers earlier this year and now points everyone at ChatGPT Images. Source