Suno launches its v6 AI music model family, now trained exclusively on licensed music from major partners like Warner Music Group and BMG, but the company still faces active lawsuits from Sony and Universal Music Group amid ongoing legal battles over AI and copyright.
An Anthropic researcher resigns and warns that AI could kill humanity this decade, while a senior colleague puts the odds above 10% and admits no control plan exists — as music AI startup Suno launches licensed v6 models in partnership with major labels.
The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly using their journalism without permission to train AI models, warning that generative AI risks destroying the very news organizations whose content it consumes — a striking legal battle made more complex by Microsoft's prior funding of Seattle Times journalism projects.
Nvidia is reportedly set to acquire AI hub Hugging Face for $13 billion, while Anthropic simultaneously secures a $45 billion data center deal and faces a major copyright lawsuit from Sony Music and Warner Chappell over alleged unauthorized use of music to train its Claude AI model.
Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, alleging the AI giant illegally torrented thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude AI, with internal messages showing employees and co-founders knowingly embracing piracy — including co-founder Dario Amodei allegedly approving torrenting to avoid a 'legal slog' — while Claude continues reproducing lyrics and generating music that directly competes with human artists.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, accusing the AI company of illegally torrenting and scraping millions of copyrighted songs and sheet music to train its Claude AI model in what they call a 'brazen campaign' of piracy.
The Motion Picture Association strikes its first-ever copyright deal with an AI company, reaching a landmark agreement with ByteDance to enforce stronger intellectual property protections in its AI video tool Seedance and image tool Seedream, following allegations that the tools were trained on copyrighted material and generating unauthorized content featuring characters like SpongeBob SquarePants and scenes from Stranger Things.
Apple seeks a preliminary injunction against OpenAI over alleged stolen trade secrets involving two former employees, but OpenAI fights back by releasing text messages and emails it claims prove its innocence, as the high-stakes legal battle threatens to delay OpenAI's AI hardware launch and shake investor confidence ahead of its IPO.
Google's Flow Sessions program unveils short films blending real actors with AI-generated worlds, revealing both the creative acceleration AI offers filmmakers and the ethical tensions surrounding non-consenting artists whose work may have trained the models powering it.
A German court rules that AI music giant Suno illegally trained its models on copyrighted music without licenses, ordering the company—which generates 7 million songs daily—to disclose revenues and pay damages in a landmark case with sweeping global implications for the AI music industry.