Sony Music and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped from the material used to train the AI firm's models. Source
Vijay Pande, who left Andreessen Horowitz's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to launch VZVC, an AI-native investment fund, said the biology sector is shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one. Mr Pande argued that open, shared datasets rather than proprietary ones will ultimately enable AI to transform medicine, though clinical trials remain brutally expensive. Source
A legal dispute over prediction markets, including Kalshi and Polymarket, has escalated into a nationwide political battle involving the Trump administration, the president's son, and nearly every state attorney general. The clash threatens the future of platforms that allow users to wager on political and other outcomes. Source
Meta has agreed to a $17.1 billion settlement with state attorneys general following months of negotiations. The company's new top lawyer brought the settlement offer as the social media giant faced mounting legal losses. Source
Musicians and independent creators are hunting for AI-generated music fraudsters on the internet as audio-focused generative tools have become more sophisticated. While some creators openly disclose their use of AI, others deny using the technology while releasing algorithmically derived content based on human artists' work. Source