1. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic, Alleging It Pirated Works to Train Claude Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other music publishers have sued Anthropic, the AI laboratory behind the Claude model family, alleging it illegally obtained copyrighted material for

2. Tracer.AI Copyright Notice Filed for Microsoft Takes Luanti Off Google Play Luanti’s Android app is no longer available through Google Play after Tracer.AI filed a copyright notice on Microsoft’s behalf alleging infringement of Minecraft assets.

3. Debian Votes Neither to Ban Nor Endorse Generative AI: Contributors Must Still Understand, Review and Test Outputs Debian has adopted a position on the “responsible use of generative AI,” setting common expectations for AI-assisted work across the volunteer-run software project.

In Brief

• OpenAI addresses Cursor after its acquisition by SpaceX OpenAI published a decision concerning Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX; the supplied item gives no further details.

• Proposed US chip tariffs could extend to servers and other downstream products The Trump administration is reportedly considering semiconductor tariffs that could cover products containing chips, although the framework remains subject to change. The Computer and Communications Industry Association estimates such tariffs could delay or cancel about 20 percent of planned US data-center projects through 2030.

• Unclaimed dependencies in AI documentation exposed a corporate supply-chain risk Researchers found 120 websites whose llms.txt documentation referenced unregistered packages or domains; after registering some names, they received callbacks from dozens of companies. Process records indicated that coding agents including Claude, Codex, and Hermes had executed the proof-of-concept code.

• Lawsuit alleges xAI trained Grok with child sexual abuse material A plaintiff alleges that xAI used both historical abuse images depicting her and AI-generated derivatives to train Grok, and stored generated outputs for further training. The allegations have not been adjudicated.

• Meta tests robots for hands-on data-center maintenance Meta is testing robots from several vendors to plug in cables, restart servers, and perform other physical maintenance, according to current and former workers cited by WIRED. Meta declined to discuss the tests but said it continues investing in training and hiring data-center workers.

• Meta closes recording-light loophole in its AI glasses Meta says an upcoming update will stop the glasses’ camera when their recording indicator is covered, closing a workaround that allowed users to conceal the light after recording began. European regulators are separately examining the glasses’ privacy risks.

• Greg Brockman reportedly takes control of OpenAI’s day-to-day operations The Verge reports that OpenAI president and cofounder Greg Brockman now oversees the company’s consumer, enterprise, Codex, and infrastructure operations following several senior departures. CEO Sam Altman remains focused on company-wide strategy and preparations for a potential IPO.

• AI companies warn organizations to prepare for cyberattacks within months OpenAI, Anthropic, and more than 100 other organizations signed a letter calling for cybersecurity to become an immediate leadership priority and for governments to provide defensive AI to critical services. The letter reportedly contains no specific commitments, deadlines, or investments.

• Cara enlists a former scraper to build an artist-protection tool A student who scraped a reported 12-terabyte archive of artwork from Cara deleted the dataset and is now collaborating with the artist-focused platform on an open-source protection tool. Cara also faced two subsequent scrapes involving millions of links and 123,000 downloaded images.

• Nvidia expands its AI infrastructure push beyond GPUs Nvidia is rolling out its Vera Rubin architecture with specialized CPU, inference, storage, and networking components designed to coordinate large-scale AI workloads. Nvidia storage executive Jason Hardy said the Vera CPU produced improvements of up to threefold in some data-handling operations.

• Study examines ChatGPT paired with critical-thinking training A randomized study involving more than 1,000 students examined how ChatGPT and critical-thinking instruction affected originality and performance on a real university assignment. The supplied summary does not report the measured results.

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